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Psybbo | 20:05 Sat 08th Mar 2014 | ChatterBank
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Sad to say. Sandy I wonder if you knew him?
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I didn't really know him but we had a few drink one afternoon in the Club Bar on University Road. The bar was nearly empty after the lunchtime drinkers left but as the day wore on the people who came in sort of gravitated around him. He had loads of yarns and was, as they say great craic.
17:44 Sun 09th Mar 2014
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do you mean the actor, he of Z cars.
20:06 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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i gather he died today, good actor.
20:08 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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He was also a zoo keeper in a prog that I can't remember the name of.
20:09 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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"In answer to the query on page 3 issue 817. The programme being filmed by the BBC was called One By One. The zoo keeper in question is James Ellis, best known for his part as Bert (Paddy) Lynch in Z Cars. Other locations included Chester Zoo and Knowsley Safari Park."
20:10 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Oh, i used to love One by One :-(
20:12 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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I am sorry to hear he has died, I remember him in both those programmes. May he rest in peace.
20:12 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Another name from my childhood has sadly passed away.
In terms of recognisabke, on-screen British TV coppers he was second only to Dixon of Dock Green IMHO.

RIP.
20:13 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Z cars was required viewing, we watched it avidly, loved Brian Blessed and James Ellis, didn't they drive Ford Anglias ?
20:14 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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in the programme...
20:15 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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He appeared in a lot more than I realised, Only Fools and Horses, In Sickness and in Health and with Kenneth Branagh in 'Too Soon To Talk to Billy' trilogy
20:15 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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I think they did drive them and Collin Welland was in it too.
20:16 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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i remember Colin Welland, another good actor
20:16 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Yes Emmie, loved Stratford Johns in that too I hope my memory is serving me right
20:17 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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James Ellis would probably want to be remembered primarily as a director and secondly as a poet but I'm sure that most people ('of a certain age') will still remember him best as Bert Lynch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d7f3h
20:17 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Yes he was along with Frank Windsor, they were in the follow on Softly Softly.
20:18 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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always remember him from Z cars,
20:23 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Anyone remember D C Lockhart. Whose side kick was Johnny Briggs aka Mike Baldwin. Gawd I'm showing my age.
20:24 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, they were fine actors, and a very good programme, alongside Softly Softly.
20:24 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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emmie Don't think they did. I think they had the bigger Fords (Zephyr/Zodiac). I'm not even sure if this was the 'meaning of 'Z' cars either!!
20:25 Sat 08th Mar 2014
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could be, it was a while back, and the memory is not what is was, sorry what was i saying... x
20:27 Sat 08th Mar 2014

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