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BBCTV actor Ray Brooks, who starred in some of the most famous programs in the UK in a career spread for five decades, is 86 years old.
Brooks narrated the classic 1970s Children’s show Mr. Ben and played the role of a scum in the 1960s BBC drama Kathy Come Home.
He also acted in the 1980s Primatime programs, in which he played a loving wicked gambler robbing box and running wildeen as a comic lead Max Wilde.
Brooks also became one of the few actors appearing in both Coronation Street and East Anders. He played the role of Norman Philips in the ITV soap in the 1960s, and arrived at Albert Square 40 years later to portray Macker, who maligned his wife Polyn Fouler.
He died on Saturday after a minor illness, his family told the BBC.
In a statement, the actor’s sons Will and Tom said that his father thought he is the best known for Mr. Ben, “continuously asking people to call them a catchfrease such as by Magic!”.
“Although only 13 episodes were made, he was repeated twice a year for 21 years,” he said.
The list of TV shows in which Brooks appeared in the 1960s and 1970s, reading the biggest hit of the British small screen era.
These included Danger Man, Dock Green’s Dixon, Emergency-Word 10, Avengers, Randel and Hopkirk (deceased) and roles in Jade cars.
He also had the success of many films in the 1965 film The Nock … and How to Gate It, which won the Palame D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
He also killed Water, Georgio played at Carry in Carrie abroad in 1972, and also Dellks and Cyberman in 1966, who Dr. Delks invasion Earth: 2150 AD.
Brooks also enjoyed the performance at the theater, with Alan Aykeboran’s absent friend Richard Bryers, Peter Bowls and Felida Law. He also acted with Felicity Kendall at Tom Stopard’s Razal.
His most acclaimed role came in his career early when he played Reg in a gritty BBC TV Play Kathy Home, which increased Britain’s lack of residence in the late 1960s.
Directed by Kane elasticity and filmed in a documentary style, it followed the struggle of a young couple with being homeless. It is regularly quoted as one of the most influential TV broadcasting of all time.
But certainly the biggest mainstream successes of Brooks came in the 1980s, with two gradual primetime leading roles.
In the big thing, his character Robbie Box wants to make a living poker and bet on horses and dogs – while Sharon is trying to keep his relationship with his partner played by Duce together.
Fast-Talking became one of TV’s most loving working working characters in the era of London Dale Boy Trotter and Arthur Daily
Duw appeared in an episode of Running Wilde, the next big hit of Brooks – where he switched the channels for ITV for a prior teddy boy, which was going through a middle -life crisis.
During his career, his infallible voice saw him many roles as a narrator, including the show Mr. Ben, Picwick Papers, and 30 episodes, which reads the stories to the young audience in Jacnory.
He also voiced thousands of advertisements for companies including Guinness, Whiska, Marmite and R Whites Lemonade.
However, his sons said that Brooks “closed the headlines” in real life.
He said: “He had three true love family [he also had a daughter Emma, who died in 2003]Fulham Football Club, and spending time in bright, where he was born.
He was one of the fans of Celebrity Fulham, who fought against the proposed merger of the club with QPR in the 1980s – and the son recalled that Brooks also wore a “Sev Fulham” badge during an interview on Vogan at that time.
The family revealed that he had spent the last few years to live with dementia, but died peacefully on Saturday with his family on Saturday.
