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Paul's friend and director of "The Camomile Lawn" started "Playhouse Theatre" and asked Paul to do a play called "Tartuft?" Most of the cast from "The Camomile Lawn were in it including Felicity Kendal. She's the only reason I mention this. The BBC asked Paul to do a series called "The Riff Raff Element but Paul declines due to his passion to do theatre as long as he can. He does a play in Islington called "No Man's Land" another phenominal sucess of course. Paul gets sick on stage and the tabloids start circling like buzzards on a gut-wagon and start harassing the Eddingtons at their home. Paul wanted to do a play with Richard Briers and they did. The play was called "Home" A play about two old men who chew the fat until two younger women show up. At this time Gemma gets married to an actor named Andy Greenhowdge. Paul notices a lump under the jaw and has to get more radiation therapy. The wedding is his last public appearence with hair. Paul just does a Kojak and is done with it. The tabloids go ballistic. Two weeks after the closing of "Home" Paul celebrates 50 years of acting. Paul gets turned down for a TV show because of his appearence. skin is noticably darker. Thus ends Paul Eddingtons career in television. The last thing Paul says was referring to a question a journalist asked him about what he would consider a suitable epitath for himself. Paul thought later on this question and came up with.... "He did very little harm". So ends Paul Eddington's story and before the ink dried on the label of his biography on tape, So did his life. Thank you Paul Eddington for giving us the best years of "The Good Life". And to quote Barbara Good on the final show, "It's a good life!" |
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It has been announced in London that one of Britain's best-known television actors, Paul Eddington has died. He was 68. Mr. Eddington was best known for his role as a politician in the satirical television series 'Yes Minister', and it's sequel, 'Yes Prime Minister'. He died at his home in London after a long illness. Fame came late to Paul Eddington. He had been a jobbing actor for 30 years, in every- thing from provincial rep to 'Dixon Of Dock Green' on television. His stage career included the first production of Alan Bennett's 'Fourty Years On', opposite Sir John Gielgud. Seventeen years later he took the lead himself in a revival. By then he had starred in 'The Good Life' opposite Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith and was recognised as one of Britain's finest comic actors. Later he shone in the witty political satire of 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister', playing Bertie Wooster to the Jeeves of Nigel Hawthorne's civil servant, Sir Humphrey. Mrs. Thatcher was a fan, though Paul Eddington's own political views were rather different from hers. He was a Quaker and a Pacafist. Actors, he maintained,needed considerable courage. It was a quality which served him well when he fell ill. He continued to act even when undergoing radiotherapy and worrying that he looked grotesque. He appeared as Shakespeare's Justice Shallow on BBC television only last month. |
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