Take A Letter Mr Jones: The Japanese Contract
08:30 am - 09:00 am, Thursday, May 7 on Talking Pictures TV (82)
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The Japanese Contract
Season 1, Episode 4
Joan hosts a dinner party for Japanese businessmen she hopes to make a deal with, but her grasp of their culture is not as correct as she thinks it is
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Comedy
Movie/Drama
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Did You Know..
John Inman
(Actor)
.. Graham Jones
Born:
June 28, 1935
in
Preston
Best Known For:
Playing Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?
Early-life:
Frederick John Inman was born in Preston on June 28, 1935. At the age of 12, he moved with his parents to Blackpool, where his mother ran a boarding house, while his father owned a hairdressing business. At the age of 13, John made his stage debut in a melodrama entitled Freda in the Pavilion on Blackpool's South Pier. After leaving school, John worked for two years at a gentlemen's outfitters in Blackpool. At the age of 17, he moved to London to work for retailer Austin Reed in Regent Street. Four years later, he became a scenic artist with Kenneth Kendall's touring company at a theatre in Crewe. John made his West End debut as an actor in the 1960s when he starred in Ann Veronica.
Career:
In 1970, Inman made his TV debut in the sitcom Two in Clover. In 1972, he landed the role that made him famous, playing camp menswear assistant Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served? The show ran for 10 series until 1985 and was also popular in the United States. He played Mr Humphries in a short-lived Australian version of Are You Being Served? His other TV credits include the sitcoms Odd Man Out and Take a Letter, Mr Jones. He reprised the role of Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served? spin-off Grace and Favour. Inman appeared in more than 40 pantomimes. He died on March 8, 2007, at the age of 71.
Quote:
'I'm free.'
Trivia:
Inman was an accomplished golfer.
Rula Lenska
(Actor)
.. Joan Warner
Born:
September 30, 1947
in
St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Best Known For:
Playing Coronation Street's Claudia Colby.
Early-life:
Countess Roza-Marie Leopoldyna Lubienska was born in 1947 in Huntingdonshire to Major Count Ludwik Lubienski, the chief of the Polish military mission in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Her mother was the former Countess Elzbieta Tyszkiewicz. The family moved to the United Kingdom in 1946. Aspiring actress Roza-Marie changed her name to Rula Lenska, and appeared in early 1970s projects including Peter Sellers comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles, TV series Special Branch and Edward the Seventh.
Career:
After appearing in Confessions of a Pop Performer and Space: 1999, she became a mainstream British star in 1976 series Rock Follies. Despite having little fame in North America, her appearance on shampoo commercials helped make her a cult star, largely thanks to chat show host Johnny Carson who used the ads as a running gag. Rula has been a TV regular in Britain for decades, starring in Minder, Boon, Casualty, Return of the Saint and Robin of Sherwood. She's also no stranger to soapland, having starred in Doctors and EastEnders. From 2009 to 2011 she played Coronation Street's Claudia Colby, leaving the role for the stage show Calendar Girls.
Quote:
'I don't like getting older. It's not so much the looks changing, it's that your body doesn't obey you in the same way.'
Trivia:
On stage, Lenska has also appeared in The Vagina Monologues and 84 Charing Cross Road.
