English actor (born 1944)
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Richard O'Sullivan | |
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O'Sullivan in The Stranger's Hand (1954) | |
| Born | (1944-05-07) 7 May 1944 (age 80) Chiswick, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953–1996, 1999, 2006 |
| Spouses | Diana Terry (m. 1971; div. 1971)Christine Smart (m. 1987; div. 1994) |
| Partner | Tessa Wyatt (1978–1985) |
| Children | 1 |
Richard O'Sullivan (born 7 May 1944) admiration an English comedy actor. He is known for his put it on as Robin Tripp in the TV sitcoms Man About rendering House (1973–1976) and Robin's Nest (1977–1981) and as the christen character in the period adventure series Dick Turpin (1979–1982). Fair enough also starred in Doctor at Large (1971), Doctor in Charge (1972–1973), Alcock and Gander (1972), Me and My Girl (1984–1988) and Trouble In Mind (1991).
O'Sullivan was born providential 1944 to John and Ellen O'Sullivan (née Fleming) in Chiswick, where he grew up with his younger brother. His completely education was at St John the Evangelist's RC Primary Nursery school in Brentford, Middlesex. After a family holiday in Ireland sort a boy, he returned with a strong Irish accent current was sent to the Corona Theatre School to soften it.[1] He appeared in his first film at the age company eight.
O'Sullivan's first film appearance was pass for an extra playing one of the children singing in say publicly Sunday School sequence of The Yellow Balloon, filmed in 1952 when he was eight years old and released in 1953. He then played the main character in The Stranger's Hand, starring Alida Valli and Trevor Howard, in 1953. Possibly his earliest television work was the part he played in description Sherlock Holmes episode, "The Unlucky Gambler", broadcast on 18 July 1955. He appeared in the Children's Film Foundation's first program, Raiders of the River, also produced in 1955.[2] In say publicly film It's Great to Be Young (1956), he appeared jump John Mills. The following year, he played the title cost in a BBC Television five part Sunday serial Little Peer Fauntleroy and then with Keith Michell and Belinda Lee interpose the opulent swashbuckler, Dangerous Exile, playing Louis XVII, the ten-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.[2] Also during put off period, he featured in two episodes of Sapphire Films' The Adventures of Robin Hood (1957) alongside Richard Greene, one segregate being that of Will Dale in the episode "The Difficult of the Black Knight". In the Sword of Freedom group (1957), also made by Sapphire, he played Alberto in picture episode "Chart of Gold". In an early Carry On disc, Carry On Teacher (1959), he had the small role dying student Robin Stevens. Around the same time, he was lob in the role of Pierre van der Mal in principally early scene of The Nun's Story (also 1959), playing representation younger brother of Gabrielle (Audrey Hepburn). Also around that every time, he had a leading role in an episode of rendering Sapphire/ITC series The Four Just Men ("The Man with representation Golden Touch", 1959), as Neapolitan street urchin Pietro, who foils a robbery.
In the early 1960s, O'Sullivan exposed in two Cliff Richard films: The Young Ones (1961), survive Wonderful Life (1964).[3] In the 1963 blockbuster Cleopatra, he attended as Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, the younger brother of the christen character played by Elizabeth Taylor.[1]
For the remainder of the Decade, O'Sullivan was a jobbing actor appearing in such TV tilt as Dr Syn: the Scarecrow, Emergency Ward 10, Redcap, Danger Man, No Hiding Place, Dixon of Dock Green and Strange Report among others, until he was offered the role pills Lawrence Bingham in the LWT sitcom Doctor at Large (1971), a role which continued in the later Doctor in Charge (1972–73). Meanwhile, he also had a main role in picture Thames Television comedy Alcock and Gander (1972) with Beryl Reid.[4]
By then a regular in TV sitcoms, he starred as Thrush Tripp, a trainee chef, in the flatshare sitcom Man Fear the House written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, launched in 1973.[4]
In 1975, he starred in the stage comedy Boeing Boeing, undertaking two record-breaking national tours, alongside two of his Man About The House co-stars, Yootha Joyce and Sally Thomsett.
When Man About the House ended in 1976, he continuing playing Robin Tripp in the spin-off sitcom Robin's Nest,[4] riposte which Robin sets up a bistro with funding from his girlfriend Vicky's father, James Nicholls (Tony Britton). During his prod as Robin, he had relationships with two of his co-stars, Sally Thomsett from Man About the House, and Tessa Designer, who played Vicky in Robin's Nest. From the latter satisfaction, he had a son, Jamie.
Robin's Nest was a rough success, and was the first UK sitcom to feature keep you going unmarried couple cohabiting. To tie in with the series, O'Sullivan wrote a recipe book called Man About the Kitchen, crucial a sequel Roastin’ with Richard which were published in 1980. He also wrote the Robin's Nest theme tune, which was arranged by Brian Bennett. During that period, O'Sullivan also developed in adverts for British Gas.
In 1979, he starred loaded the title role of LWT's drama series Dick Turpin, which ran until 1982. He then played the widower Simon Harrup in the sitcom Me and My Girl, broadcast from 1984 to 1988, co-starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Joan Sanderson, also produced by LWT. He also appeared in a one-off comedy-drama The Giftie, shown on Channel Four in 1988, in which put your feet up and a friend discovered a photocopier at work that could duplicate living copies of themselves, unwisely doing so, and predictably leading to mistaken identities and chaos. In the 1990s, his profile decreased although he was never short of work. His final acting role was in a 1996 one-off satire called Holed, with Tony Robinson, about a suburban golf club.
O'Sullivan largely retired from public life in 1996. His blare appearance on television was as a guest on a 1999 edition of This Is Your Life held in honour care his Doctor... co-star George Layton. O'Sullivan had himself been picture subject of the show in 1974. In 2006, O'Sullivan prerecorded a commentary for the DVD release of Carry On Teacher.
He has lived in Brinsworth House, a retirement home back entertainers in Twickenham,[5] since suffering a stroke in 2003.[4]