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Lewis Collins RIP

BowieAddick
BowieAddick Posts: 1,192
in Not Sports Related
So sad apparently after a five year battle with cancer
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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Shame.
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Just seen this on the news Bowie. Very very sad.

    Loved The Professionals and Who Dares Wins.

    I met him about 20 years ago in The Crown pub in Sundridge Park as he was doing something at The Churchill theatre and staying nearby.

    I was meeting my mate Bob (son of a former director of the Addicks who lived just down the road). He introduced me to 'Lou' and we had a few beers. When he went to the toilet about an hour later I said to Bob that I was sure I recognised him from somewhere.

    "It's bloody Lewis Collins you twat!" was the reply. Ever so slightly embarrassing.

    He hadn't once mentioned anything about acting at all, was just a really nice unassuming guy who was whiling away a few hours. We went on to have a proper session.

    RIP Lewis

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    awful news , RIP
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,738
    I used to love the professionals when i was a kid and Bodie was always my favourite. Used to like The Cuckoo Waltz also. RIP Lewis Collins
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    RIP Lewis, very sad news.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,738
    Not many people i know remember this.

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Bedsaddick said:

    Not many people i know remember this.

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    You're keeping the wrong company.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,738
    edited November 2013
    No I'm just an old git!
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    My old boss played golf with him in Sundays so. I assume he lived somewhere near Leatherhead. RIP.
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  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    RIP Lewis!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    Bloody hell. RIP Lewis Collins.

    PS I used to love Diane Keen.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    I was only watching The Professionals the other day on ITV4 I think.
    Sad news. Remember watching it as a kid and wanting desperately to be him.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    masicat said:

    My old boss played golf with him in Sundays so. I assume he lived somewhere near Leatherhead. RIP.

    Los Angeles apparently.....

  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Well done Lewis for entertaining us, and being a nice bloke. RIP.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    He was in 10 Para and transferred to TA SAS didnt make it but didnt want to retun to Paras. Didnt take himself to seriously .

    RIP

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Bloody hell!

    Loved The Professionals.

    RIP
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I enjoyed the Professionals too, it wasn't everyone’s cup of tea and was often unfairly compared to The Sweeney which was just coming to its end when CI5 hit the screens. It was made Brian Clements so it had that strange feel to it that many of his productions, like The Avengers did. Like a very small cast in each episode, hardly anything shot in highly populated areas and most of the location stuff filmed in disused warehouses and airfields etc. Even when they were dealing with dodgy Left or Right factions who were demonstrating, the number in the crowd was always small.

    Martin Shaw regretted signing such a long contract and tried to get out of it ut couldn't. He ended up hating the show but never once let his acting skills slip; he is a fine actor as his longevity has proven. Poor Collins got a bit typecast in the hard man roll and didn't get the work that Shaw did.

    Great parody The Bullsh1tters, written by and staring Keith Allen and Peter Richardson as Bonehead and Foyle; and with Robbie Coltrane as their tough Scottish boss, Jackson.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Sad news - I loved The Professionals as a kid and have caught the odd repeat on ITV4 recently. Shame that Martin Shaw blocked the showing of repeats for so long (he disliked the series & wanted to be known as a "serious" actor)

    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    RIP

    Another childhood memory

    The Cuckoo Waltz, blimey Beds that must of been dragged from the deep recesses of your memory banks and yes I do remember that as well.
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  • fossdeneboy
    fossdeneboy Posts: 403
    Bedsaddick said:

    Not many people i know remember this.

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    I can remember this comedy , I have not checked wiki but I think he had connections to a manchester pop group in the sixties-RIP Lewis Collins
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    I seem to remember Lewis Collins playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin of Sherwood - is this right? the only reason this sticks in my mind is because I'm sure Martin Shaw had a cameo in an episode as a beggar or something and Collins smirkingly refers to him as a "Professional". How we all briefly smiled.

    Maybe I dreamt this?

    Either way,
    RIP Lewis Collins.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Another falls to cancer .. RIP
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    A-R-T-H-U-R Member
    8:02PM in Not Sports Related
    Nearly bought a motorcycle off him.
    Top man, based on 20 mins of face to face chat and hours watching the Professionals.
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  • Arry Addick
    Arry Addick Posts: 1,168
    edited November 2013
    Sad news, R.I.P. Mr Collins.
  • SE7toSG3
    SE7toSG3 Posts: 3,140
    The Professionalls was part of my youth and Lewis Collins was always the one I tried to play when playing 37 or 45 at school. RIP
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    edited November 2013
    Thanks AFKA
    Sorry I'm too stupid to read all the way down the page!
    PS It was a really nice Triumph Bonneville!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,053
    Really sad news. Loved The Professionals when I was growing up & often sit and watch the ITV4 re-runs, even though I vividly remember every line. He & Shaw were a great pairing. I do remember The Cuckoo Waltz too.

    Lovely to hear that Lewis was a very down to earth & unassuming guy too. Rest in Peace Mr Collins.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Shame. When I was a kid, he was the man. It appears he was a good bloke by all accounts.

    RIP.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    very sad news! RIP lewis

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