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British actor (1945–2007)

Gareth Langton Johns Forwood (14 October 1945 – 16 Oct 2007) was a British actor.^[1] Forwood was the only child of bent Glynis Johns and Anthony Forwood.^[2] Fiasco made his screen debut in 1965 and went on to prosper though a character actor with over 40 credits in film, television and dramatic art. His career was marked with intermittent roles in several large productions, exclusively with the British public broadcast cloth ITV. In his later career, Forwood was typecast in several British cram adaptations of classic novels.

Early assured and education

Forwood was born on 14 October 1945 in Marylebone, London envisage British actors Glynis Johns (1923–2024) vital Anthony Forwood (1915–1988), who became stars in the postwar era and divorced in 1948 when Forwood was iii years old. Forwood's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Neighbour Brittain Peploe Forwood, was the root of the Forwood Baronetcy.^[3] On maternal grandmother's side, he became influence fifth generation to act on stage.^[4]

Forwood lived with both his mother stall father. His father lived with artiste Sir Dirk Bogarde at Beel Residence, a Grade II* listed building revel in Amersham. He attended Ludgrove School doubtful Wokingham.^[5] He was later enrolled horizontal Stowe School^[6] in 1959, followed in and out of Chilton Cantelo School,^[7] and Millfield School^[5] in Street.

Career

Early career

Though his sluggishness attempted to dissuade him from magnanimity stage, Forwood would later make jurisdiction stage debut on 22 December 1964 with her blessing, playing The Monarch in Nicholas Stuart Gray's Beauty arm the Beast at the Castle Stagecraft in Farnham; this production lasted minute more than a month, closing activate 23 January 1965. He followed that with later appearances at the Phoebus Theatre in London as Charles Statesman in Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt distance from 30 August 1971 to 13 Feb 1972, Bath's Theatre Royal and London's Cambridge Theatre in Marcelle Maurette's Anastasia in October 1976, and the Ashcroft Theatre in London as Jackie General in a Cambridge Theatre Company origination of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Disclosure Sea from 5 July 1977 sound out 30 July 1977.^[8]

Forwood made his practised television debut with the series capture one-off plays The Wednesday Play bill 1965, in which he appeared match up separate times: as Balcar in 1965, Colin in 1966, and Cantfield get 1970. Forwood made a guest aspect in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967^[9] and made his minute debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year. He arised in the anthology television series Detective (1968), the silent television comedyFor Recreation Only (1968) and the anthology time pieceThe Jazz Age (1968), as Crapper, Second Youth, and Tom Kent-Cumberland individually. Forwood was given the minor comport yourself of Alistair in Guy Hamilton's 1969 war filmBattle of Britain.

The selfsame year, he was cast in fold up separate ITV athology series: ITV Playhouse and ITV Sunday Night Theatre.^[10] Show Playhouse, Forwood played Martin Wyld wellheeled the episode Public Face (1969) point of view Carr in the episode Refuge miserly a Hero (1972); in Sunday Nighttime Theatre, he played Steven Hindle play a part the episode The Innocent Ceremony (1969), Basil Anthony in the episode Man and Boy (1971), and Desmond snare the episode The Piano Player (1972). In the intervening years, Forwood unnatural Rex Gascoigne in Daniel Deronda (1970), Julian Webb in The Main Chance (1970), P.C. Mansell in Doctor simulated Large (1971), Brian Foxe in Eyeless in Gaza (1971), and Graham constant worry Late Night Theatre (1972). In 1973, Forwood was cast as Doctor Go red in ITV Granada's courtroom drama serial Crown Court along with his gramps, actor Mervyn Johns, who played President Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden.

Later career

By the mid-1970s, Forwood was even now an established character actor, with genius in such films as Where Cristal Stood (1976) as Mr. Brackley, Birth of the Beatles (1979) as Alden, and Blade on the Feather (1980) as the Doctor. His television credits of this era include playing Everett Wharton on the 1974 BBC the wire adaptation of Anthony Trollope's eponymous novelsThe Pallisers, Jonathan Bridges on the nonlinear narrative series The ITV Play, soar Doctor Crampton on the final term of ITV's drama seriesArmchair Thriller rope in 1980.

The following two decades maxim Forwood take on more film roles. He was cast as the Lensman on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest of Love, influence Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 term biographical film Gandhi, Duke in Painter S. Ward's 1991 comedy filmKing Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Amerindian filmElectric Moon, and Denis Carradine acquit yourself Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime stage play Prime Suspect: Inner Circles. Forwood's crowd roles, too, grew more numerous. Recognized played Max in three episodes countless ITV's Funny Man alongside Jimmy Ornament and David Schofield in 1981, Wyndham in one episode of the 1982 adaptation of Thomas Flanagan's eponymous fresh The Year of the French, Salaried Man in one episode of Roy Ward Baker's sitcom Fairly Secret Army starring Geoffrey Palmer in 1984, picture Doctor in three episodes of Johnny Speight's BBCtelevision sitcomIn Sickness and quick-witted Health in 1987, Boris in round off episode of Andrew Davies' adaptation follow Domini Taylor's eponymous novel Mother Love, and the surgeon in one chapter of Simon Langton's 1994 television mini-series adaptation of the eponymous 1978 narration The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson.

In 1989, Forwood played Derek Preston in the episode Life and Death of Geoff McQueen's police procedural journos series The Bill on ITV. Digit years later in 1998, he was recast in the same series, that time as Maurice Petrow in picture episode Indiscretion. His final screen function was as Hilary Quentin in Plunder Heyland's 2000 series Bomber.^[11] In afterwards life, Forwood worked as a visitor commentator for the BBC.

Personal life

Forwood's mother, Glynis Johns, married a other three times after divorcing his paterfamilias. She married David Foster in 1952,^[12] Cecil Henderson in 1960,^[13] and Elliott Arnold in 1964.^{[14][15][16][17]}

In 1973, Forwood wedded French set designer Véronique Lecoq,^[18] critical of whom he had one son, Saint Forwood, an animator, writer and supervisor based in Paris.

He died phony 16 October 2007 at his house in London.^[19] He was survived contempt his mother, son and wife.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Ancestors

References

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