One Foot in the Grave: Rearranging the Dust
8:15 pm - 8:55 pm, Friday, December 26 on U&Yesterday (27)
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Rearranging the Dust
Season 5, Episode 4
Victor gets held up on a visit to the solicitor, where close encounters with a pigeon, a pair of underpants and some human remains on the window sill ignite his already very short fuse. Comedy, guest starring Antony Sher, with Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie
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Cast & Crew
Richard Wilson
(Actor)
.. Victor Meldrew
Annette Crosbie
(Actor)
.. Margaret Meldrew
Antony Sher
(Actor)
.. Mr Prothrow
Damaris Hayman
(Actor)
.. Receptionist
Valerie Minifie
(Actor)
.. Woman
Laura Cox
(Actor)
.. Woman
Susan Belbin
(Producer)
David Renwick
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Richard Wilson
(Actor)
.. Victor Meldrew
Born:
July 09, 1937
in
Greenock, Renfrewshire
Best Known For:
His role as acerbic pensioner Victor Meldrew.
Early-life:
Iain Richard Wilson was born on July 9, 1936, in Greenock, Renfrewshire. He has an older sister called Moira. His father worked in the shipyards and was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Wilson claims to have been teased at school due to his slight frame. On leaving school, Wilson became a hospital laboratory technician, did National Service and eventually got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) at the age of 27. After graduating, he concentrated largely on theatre work.
Career:
Wilson has film credits, sitcoms and top dramas to his name. Only When I Laugh, Tutti Frutti and A Passage to India are among them, but it is probably for the character of Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave that he will be best remembered. The series was written with him in mind by David Renwick, though Wilson turned it down at first, believing he was too young to play a retired man. Luckily, he changed his mind and a TV legend was born. Since then he's appeared in such projects as Born and Bred, Doctor Who, and he had a regular role in BBC hit Merlin. Away from the small screen, he continues to direct plays and was awarded an OBE in 1994.
Quote:
"I do find it quite easy to get angry, especially after a hard day. In public, you have to try and rein in your temper because people try and goad you into it."
Trivia:
He lent his voice to a character in the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet.
Annette Crosbie
(Actor)
.. Margaret Meldrew
Born:
February 12, 1934
in
Gorebridge, near Edinburgh
Best Known For:
Playing Victor Meldrew's wife in One Foot in the Grave.
Early-life:
Born on February 12, 1934, in Gorebridge, outside Edinburgh. Her parents were strict Calvinists and did not believe in lavishing affection on their only child. She had little self-confidence and as a youngster her only friend was a Staffordshire bull terrier called Dougal. Her mother was a talented musician and wanted Crosbie to be a music teacher, but she became an actress against both her parents' wishes. "You'd have thought I'd announced I wanted to go on the streets," she remarks about their reaction to her career choice.
Career:
After gaining experience with various repertory companies, Crosbie left Scotland at the age of 17 for a scholarship at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school. On graduating, she worked in London's West End. Her film debut came in 1959's The Bridal Path. She later had acclaimed TV roles in The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Edward the King. More recently she has starred in One Foot in the Grave, Doctor Finlay, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Calendar Girls, Quite Ugly One Morning, New Tricks, Doctor Who and Little Dorrit.
Quote:
"You don't really want to know about me. My dogs are far more interesting."
Trivia:
Crosbie was awarded an OBE in 1998 and works tirelessly for animal rights.
Antony Sher
(Actor)
.. Mr Prothrow
Born:
June 14, 1949
in
Cape Town, South Africa
Best Known For:
His award-winning stage work.
Early-life:
Born in Cape Town in 1949. He has said he felt like an outsider growing up in South Africa, due to his sexuality. At school, he showed a talent for art, but gravitated towards drama after discovering that acting helped him to overcome his shyness. After completing his compulsory national service, Antony moved to London in 1968 to study acting but was rejected by the Central School of Speech and Drama and Rada, where he was advised to try a different career. However, this only made him more determined to succeed.
Career:
Antony got his break at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the early 1970s, where his contemporaries included Julie Walters and Jonathan Pryce, and landed the role of Ringo Starr in Willy Russell's John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert. TV fame came in 1981 when he played the lead in the series The History Man, and he has gone to appear in the likes of The Jury, God on Trial, and The Shadow Line as well as movies such as The Wind in the Willows and Three and Out. However, his best-known work has been on the stage, and he won the prestigious Olivier Award for Richard III in 1985 and then again for Stanley in 1997. He was knighted in 2001, and in recent years has also returned to his first love, painting.
Quote:
"I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate."
Trivia:
Sher is the author of several books.
Damaris Hayman
(Actor)
.. Receptionist
Valerie Minifie
(Actor)
.. Woman
Laura Cox
(Actor)
.. Woman
Susan Belbin
(Producer)
David Renwick
(Writer)
