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RIP Peter Vaughan...
« on: 06 December, 2016, 04:54:48 pm »
...or Grouty.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #1 on: 06 December, 2016, 05:27:20 pm »
...or Grouty.

I've just had a squint at his filmography on IMDB. Long, really long. He was only in four episodes of Porridge, and according to a report I read on the BBC website was a bit naffed off annoyed about only being known for being Grouty.
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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #2 on: 06 December, 2016, 05:33:34 pm »
3 episodes and the film. He was in the TV series of The Bourne Identity.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #3 on: 06 December, 2016, 06:35:36 pm »
Is it just me who remembers him mainly from being Shirley's dad in "Citizen Smith", then?
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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #4 on: 06 December, 2016, 08:05:17 pm »
I've seen him in lots of things and he's been great in them all.  I always think first of him as Tulkinghorn in Bleak House.

Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #5 on: 06 December, 2016, 09:46:24 pm »
Is it just me who remembers him mainly from being Shirley's dad in "Citizen Smith", then?

There's me as well, and I remember when Tony Steedman took over.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #6 on: 06 December, 2016, 10:32:56 pm »
I remember him in other stuff as well, but forever cemented in my mind as Grouty.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #7 on: 06 December, 2016, 11:08:00 pm »
Is it just me who remembers him mainly from being Shirley's dad in "Citizen Smith", then?

No. He was brilliant. That Christmas crib scene was a classic.
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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #8 on: 07 December, 2016, 03:17:35 am »
And of course Winston the Ogre in 'Time Bandits'.  I have unsuccessfully been trying to master the way he says "bloody prawns" for decades.
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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #9 on: 07 December, 2016, 08:53:16 am »
He must have done 'The Sweeney'. Surely. He did malice very well.
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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #10 on: 07 December, 2016, 02:11:46 pm »
He must have done 'The Sweeney'. Surely. He did malice very well.

He played a bad guy in Episode 9 of Season 2:

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Two young villains, Tyson and Jenner, working for gang boss Tony Kirby, are relieved of the spoils of their robbery by a mysterious gun-man, who shoots Jenner in the leg.


Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
John Thaw   ...   Det. Insp. Jack Regan
Dennis Waterman   ...   Det. Sgt. George Carter
Garfield Morgan   ...   Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins
Peter Vaughan   ...   Tony Kirby

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #11 on: 07 December, 2016, 03:16:57 pm »
I remember him in other stuff as well, but forever cemented in my mind as Grouty.

Same here.  "Genial" 'Arry Grout. 

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #12 on: 07 December, 2016, 04:25:02 pm »
For me, he will always be Mr Helpman.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #13 on: 07 December, 2016, 09:26:04 pm »
Looking at his Wiki entry,I was reminded of a TV series called "The Gold Robbers,in which Vaughan played a detective. I can remember watching that on black and white TV. Now feeling quite old.

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Re: RIP Peter Vaughan...
« Reply #14 on: 07 December, 2016, 10:38:51 pm »
I remember him playing The Chiropodist* in Lenny Henry's Coast to Coast.

*A gangster who cut his victims feet off.
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