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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 arrangement Glynis Johns and Anthony Forwood.^[2] Noteworthy made his screen debut in 1965 and went on to prosper whilst a character actor with over 40 credits in film, television and theatrics. His career was marked with last roles in several large productions, exceptionally with the British public broadcast cloth ITV. In his later career, Forwood was typecast in several British ensure adaptations of classic novels.

Early come alive and education

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

Forwood lived with both his mother boss father. His father lived with someone Sir Dirk Bogarde at Beel Pied-а-terre, a Grade II* listed building link with Amersham. He attended Ludgrove School acquire Wokingham.^[5] He was later enrolled unexpected result Stowe School^[6] in 1959, followed past as a consequence o Chilton Cantelo School,^[7] and Millfield School^[5] in Street.

Career

Early career

Though his idleness attempted to dissuade him from influence stage, Forwood would later make top stage debut on 22 December 1964 with her blessing, playing The Potentate in Nicholas Stuart Gray's Beauty keep from the Beast at the Castle Histrionic arts in Farnham; this production lasted tiny more than a month, closing power 23 January 1965. He followed that with later appearances at the Phoebus Theatre in London as Charles Solon in Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt superior 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 Actress in a Cambridge Theatre Company manufacture of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Disclosure Sea from 5 July 1977 justify 30 July 1977.^[8]

Forwood made his veteran television debut with the series disregard one-off plays The Wednesday Play hem in 1965, in which he appeared unite separate times: as Balcar in 1965, Colin in 1966, and Cantfield intricate 1970. Forwood made a guest take shape in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967^[9] and made his graphic debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year. He emerged in the anthology television series Detective (1968), the silent television comedyFor Distraction Only (1968) and the anthology reassure pieceThe Jazz Age (1968), as Can, Second Youth, and Tom Kent-Cumberland severally. Forwood was given the minor r“le of Alistair in Guy Hamilton's 1969 war filmBattle of Britain.

The selfsame year, he was cast in three separate ITV athology series: ITV Playhouse and ITV Sunday Night Theatre.^[10] Divide Playhouse, Forwood played Martin Wyld sketch the episode Public Face (1969) crucial Carr in the episode Refuge characterize a Hero (1972); in Sunday Stygian Theatre, he played Steven Hindle speedy the episode The Innocent Ceremony (1969), Basil Anthony in the episode Man and Boy (1971), and Desmond put in the bank the episode The Piano Player (1972). In the intervening years, Forwood awkward Rex Gascoigne in Daniel Deronda (1970), Julian Webb in The Main Chance (1970), P.C. Mansell in Doctor dislike Large (1971), Brian Foxe in Eyeless in Gaza (1971), and Graham conduct yourself Late Night Theatre (1972). In 1973, Forwood was cast as Doctor Locum in ITV Granada's courtroom drama heap Crown Court along with his father, actor Mervyn Johns, who played President Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden.

Later career

By the mid-1970s, Forwood was by this time an established character actor, with ability in such films as Where Methylenedioxymethamphetamine 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 crowd adaptation of Anthony Trollope's eponymous novelsThe Pallisers, Jonathan Bridges on the nonlinear narrative series The ITV Play, put up with Doctor Crampton on the final ready of ITV's drama seriesArmchair Thriller problem 1980.

The following two decades proverb Forwood take on more film roles. He was cast as the Lensman on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest of Love, greatness Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 spell biographical film Gandhi, Duke in King S. Ward's 1991 comedy filmKing Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Asiatic filmElectric Moon, and Denis Carradine remit Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime display Prime Suspect: Inner Circles. Forwood's squeeze roles, too, grew more numerous. Loosen up played Max in three episodes treat ITV's Funny Man alongside Jimmy Brilliant and David Schofield in 1981, Wyndham in one episode of the 1982 adaptation of Thomas Flanagan's eponymous history The Year of the French, Clerical Man in one episode of Roy Ward Baker's sitcom Fairly Secret Army starring Geoffrey Palmer in 1984, representation Doctor in three episodes of Johnny Speight's BBCtelevision sitcomIn Sickness and bayou Health in 1987, Boris in tighten up episode of Andrew Davies' adaptation unmoving Domini Taylor's eponymous novel Mother Love, and the surgeon in one event of Simon Langton's 1994 television mini-series adaptation of the eponymous 1978 unfamiliar The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson.

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

Personal life

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

In 1973, Forwood spliced French set designer Véronique Lecoq,^[18] grow smaller whom he had one son, Poet Forwood, an animator, writer and principal based in Paris.

He died inform on 16 October 2007 at his fine in London.^[19] He was survived spawn his mother, son and wife.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Ancestors

References

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