I think both of us wouldnt have minded going under a bus, but they said, Well were not going to kill you off so weve agreed to have a sabbatical.. People always say how difficult it is for two actors to live together, and in many ways it is. He and Sheila Hancock married at Cirencester registry office on Christmas Eve. Subscribing to this website can be done in two ways. Kevin: I think that was huge and it was sprung on me rather that idea. The John Thaw magazine article comes from the British magazine, Woman's weekly dated 23rd November 1985. Morse was so important to me, I didnt want to go beyond that number, he said. Jace: The final shot of the series is Hathaway turning and walking away alone. Thaw was told to say he was 19 if anyone asked. His most famous roles on British TV were all as straight-talking, no-nonsense characters: Jack Regan, Inspector Morse and James Kavanagh. Were expecting quite a big bang, but we said to the stuntman, Look, well just watch you and as soon as you start to turn away from the blast, well go as well. Well, the blast went off (laughs), I think Id moved about a millimeter in my nose before the blast hit us and knocked us over. But, I think basically, hes as diligent and honest, and pretty much the same character as he was 30 years ago. Kevin: I think that was exactly it. Jace: And what is your fondest memory of John Thaw? At first, the four siblings would take it in turn to make daily phone calls and weekly 700-mile round trips to her home in Hexham. In a couple of years ITV would have said, 'Do one more and we'll set it in Lyme Regis', and trouble is I probably would have been tempted. 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Showcase yourself on IMDbPro Add to list More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Photos Known for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 8.5 TV Series Christine Chadwick 1986 6 eps And do you miss the city of dreaming spires now? Kevin: We were in the studio, and I think the whole day had sort of built towards it, again because for some of the crew it was 28 years of work, for me it was 30 years of work finishing. Madelaine Newton is a British actress best known for her portrayal of Dolly in 1970s BBC television drama When the Boat Comes In. I cant remember. I'm getting to the point where I have done it now. According to Kevin, Laurence is about as far removed from his former Morse buddy John Thaw - who died from cancer in 2002 aged just 60 - as it's possible to get. However, you have to make such scenes look convincing. I mean originally, I think, in 1988 after Id done two years in Morse and I thought, Ah! We don't live in each others pockets. Some 700,000 people suffer from dementia, and one in three people die with it. 'And, in this case, I was working with actresses who had reason to be anxious. Publicity Listings Im just turning over the page on a new chapter. Now, she is settled and calm, although she understands little of what goes on around her. Awards include C.B.E., a B.A.F.T.A Fellowship and in 1998 a Special Recognition Award. Hobson: Times passing. Browse more videos. It does resolve itself at the end of the films. I know you should never say never, but I dont think Ill be appearing as Lewis again, he said at the time. Theater of popular music. How to trick yourself slim: Top nutritionist reveals her tips including shrinking your cutlery, sniffing Head over heels for Kate! 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As I say, its always quite exciting when theres a stunt in in the middle of a shoot, we look forward to it. And though we were saddened when Inspector Morse died on screen and the show came to an end, we werent starved of new Oxford mysteries for long. But some had reservations, including Kevin Whately himself. But theyre good fun. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Has he reached the end of the road now? 'We're on the same wavelength, we often instinctively know how each other feels about something. It was something hed done with Dennis Waterman [in The Sweeney] and it meant we were always together, chewing the fat and maybe running scenes together. Met Sheila Hancock in 1969 when in the play 'What About Love'. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Morse, classic episodes were recently played daily on ITV, but Whately confesses he doesn't watch much television. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. Kevin: Yeah, I just thought that a woman would be more interesting and then maybe a Muslim as well because that was was starting to hit the headlines and I thought it would give us a lot of story potential story lines, but theyd already decided at ITV that they wanted a sort of young Morse prototype. Jace: But Inspector Lewis did work and the show ended up running for five more seasons before it was rumored that the sixth season would mark Lewiss retirement from the screen. He can remember my lines, lines that Ive long forgotten, and brings them up at the most inopportune moments. Taking Vitamin D each day could cut your chances of getting dementia, study claims. 20 Years On, Clare Holman Still Delivers Sass and Science. Jace: And that final episode of Lewis features, as you mentioned earlier, a quite spectacular explosion, which is a real rarity for the show. And actors tend to be very gung-ho and foolish, so when they were setting that up, were very aware as well that special effects boys, we call them special defects, tend to overpower these explosions, make them much bigger than theyre meant to be, and thats what happened (laughs) in that shot. But in 1990, six years after marrying the actor, she too made an appearance on the detective show - as Morse's on-screen love interest Beryl Newsome. We were back on the moving train.. Jace: Now, I cant think about the the Goodbye Sir scene in Morse, The Remorseful Day without a tear springing to my eye. They asked me for two or three years whether Id consider spinning Lewis off. 3 years ago. She really hates it, but it didnt bother me. Lewis: Well, I havent really got anybody. She was the first person her son had ever known to suffer from. I decided boozing wasn't good for me and particularly some mornings if you had too much the night before. Published: 23:30 GMT, 3 October 2014 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 3 October 2014, Despite reservations Kevin has returned for another series, here he is pictured with Laurence Fox. Lewis: Yeah I know. Ill bet there are about 100 actors in Britain who could have played my part if they had been lucky enough to get it. "She was all over him like a rash," Whately laughs. His younger brother, Ray, was born November 15, 1944. Jace: Youve been very outspoken about your desire for a break from Lewis. Jace: Did you ever anticipate that Lewis would run quite this long? And when I got the the pilot script I had to phone her up and say, Maureen, there aint a job for you here. And it took a bit of adapting too, because he was very much in mourning throughout the first 6 or 7 films, and its very difficult to energize anything when youre being down beat and slightly depressed it makes the job more difficult. When we said we needed some time away it threw ITV into a panic because I think they were worried it wouldnt come back. Princess Diana's nieces Lady Eliza and Amelia share Fabulous in fuchsia! He was the working class boy from Manchester whose intensity and natural honesty made him British television's most bankable actor. "He always seemed grown up to me. Kevin: Id been asked to come down from the Northeast. As he returns to our TV screens in The Children, an ITV1 three-part drama that revolves around the death of his character's stepdaughter, he is bringing back to mind the occasion when he thought one of his children was about to die. A 16-year-old has been "seriously injured" - police say. Comedy: Kevin with the cast of Auf Weidersehen Pet. We really have finished. Sheila sometimes goes to the theatre with friends because I am working, and I go to things that would bore her. As her aggression mounted, she was admitted to hospital, and finally transferred into a private care home in west London. In a recent telephone interview, Whately said he became involved with Inspector Morse after colleagues urged him to portray Inspector Lewis, a younger man on television than he was in the Colin Dexter novels on which the series was based. Id done quite a lot location stuff, but not much studio. Jace: Now, do people assume that you either love crime dramas or instinctively know whodunit because of your work as Robbie Lewis? Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James, with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The Masterpiece Trust, created to help ensure the series' future. I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles and the maitre d knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadnt booked. Kevin: Yikes. Kevin: I think hes pretty much the same character. But again, a very loyal friend, hugely talented. Laurence Fox and Kevin Whately were among actors who attended the Oxford author's memorial service in 2018. A pure, pure luck if We know of screen chemistry where the actors dont get on. In one of them he appeared as Mistress Quickly in "Henry V.". If you fundamentally disagree, then when the initial romance goes, you've nothing to replace it with. Report. Kevin said he thought they would film more in 2014 and there are the remaining episodes of the current series to enjoy. Playing next. Im very reticent to change a character once its established. In 2006, ITV announced that Kevin Whately would get his own spinoff as Detective Inspector Lewis. (2001). 'It was, unquestionably, one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. It was a really great thing of him, because I didnt have any status in those days, and I was so inexperienced. The pair may have had somewhat of a frosty relationship on-screen as DS James Hathaway and DI Robert Lewis. 'The writer, Lucy Gannon, has the knack of writing about subjects that people are talking about, in this case the pain inflicted on children when parents break up. He would needle away until he found your Achilles Heel and then play on that with with 30 or 40 people at once. I go to a lot of Police functions and I have some close friends who are policemen. I used to do both, but I've not yet managed to kick the smoking. It's his first grandchild and the instinctive love that he feels for Ivy has shocked him. Whately, who is happily now spending time with a new granddaughter, gardening, and working on charity activities for disabled children and Alzheimers disease, said he would start pestering his agent again from Christmas onwards about new work. I thought, Well, were doing 3 films here, and I recognized it was a great script and that John had a magnificent voice, but thats all I remember thinking about it. Jace: Now, Clare Holman joined the Morse universe in 1995 at the start of the specials as pathologist Laura Hobson. Priorities change. Ive been very lucky working with John Thaw and then Laurence, and I adored both of them, I thought they were great fun to work with, and the chemistry worked both times. "The pub after work was a job information exchange. 'Geraldine Somerville, who plays Sue, had a tiny baby at the time and the very last thing she wanted to do was a sex scene.'. But the new series focuses more on Lewis and his sidekick Hathaway, but inevitably refers to one of Britain's most cherished characters. That's one reason why I'm happy to be doing a series. Some 35 years after her supposed suicide, Joanna Lumleys character, 60s rock chick Esme Ford, returns to Oxford to try and reunite her band. 1984 In the play 'Pygmalion' with Peter O'Tole playing Doolittle. Carrying Lewis as its lead opposite Laurence Fox's Hathaway has made him realise exactly how hard Thaw worked. Kevin Whately's message of support to St John's Hospice. I was just going to add Clare to that list. Then, the Monday following the films premiere, actor Sir Michael Gambon who plays powerful Prime Minister Winston Churchill and powerful wizard Albus Dumbledore, sits down with us here onMASTERPIECEStudio. And he and Dennis had shared a caravan. And and what have you learned from each of them? Kevin Whately How tall, Weight & Measurements At 70 years of age. When I saw him (Morse) dead I had a mental flashback of the fifteen years that we had been doing it. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains. Of course I'd get worried if the scripts stopped coming through the letter box. "It is full of ghosts, of course it is," Whately says. Me, not so much. I was enjoying the retirement, he sighs. 'To this day, we don't know what stopped him - we thought we were going to lose him, he seemed so oblivious to the traffic. Kevin Whately chooses his words carefully. "What puzzles me is that I'm much older than John was when he started filming Morse, but I still don't feel grown up. Kevin: But a difficult job really coming in for 2 or 3 days on each film and trying to make a character sparky and original, and she did a great job. Well, actually Ive been a lot of a fool. He said that in the early part of this century, he was again asked to portray Lewis in a spin-off series, opposite CS James, the character portrayed by Laurence Fox. "This is about my mum, not about me; it is her that has suffered. Kevin, who has a son and daughter to wife . My name was above the title. Simon Callow and Helen Baxendale also guest starred in this 2009 episode. Jace: What was the final scene that you shot for the series and and what went through your head when they said, Thats a wrap for Kevin Whately?. Although audiences will no doubt clamor for more, Kevin Whately is gladly saying farewell to Inspector Robbie Lewis, the character he has been playing for almost 30 years on the public. Housman, but I can't do crosswords. I think it wouldve been difficult to kill him off in the same way as we did with Morse. "I don't want to make out I am some kind of victim of this, that would be pathetic," he insists. Wed just sit in our little caravan and chew the fat. Kevin agreed but only because he didnt think it would last. He died in 2004. During the progression of Alzheimer's disease, plaques of protein start to form around bran cells. 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Laurence and I see each other regularly now and talk on the phone, and its never goodbye, so in that way its not a sad occasion at all, I dont think. His first great success, though, was as Detective Inspector Regan in The Sweeney (1974). I never feel that that its goodbye to anyone. Maureen who played my wife originally had been at drama school with me, so we were old friends. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Jackie Collins taught me everything I know. In 1980 he met his wife when they were performing in a production of 'A Nightingale in Berkley Square'. Laurence and I have decided we dont want to do it. "Endeavour was Morse's first name," he says softly. And, with its marital bust-ups, unhappy children and blazing rows, it may prove particularly difficult for parents to watch. He describes his mother, a grammar school teacher who was widowed at the age of 42, as a "fiercely independent woman" who became angry as her memory began to fail seven years ago. Their TV profiles started to change when Kevin found fame as Neville Hope in comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, in the Eighties, and shifted further when he starred as Sergeant Lewis in ITV's Morse. Smoking and drinking is a mugs game. Kevin Whately height is 180 cm . Kevin, from Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland, has played Lewis on and off for 26 years, first as the sidekick to the late John Thaw in Inspector Morse and, since 2006, in his own spin-off in which Lewis is boss to Laurence Foxs DS Hathaway. No. Now married to Lord Freddie Windsor and best known as Peep Shows Big Suze, Sophie starred in the 2006 pilot of Lewis as Regan Peverill, an American maths student found shot dead while participating in a sleep study. He died at 61 and he always looked 80, he said, from the the minute he left RADA. Butso to have a 60 year old sidekick wouldve been slightly odd, I think, and it gave it a nice counterpoint, as you said, to to have a younger Geordie. [1][2] Since 1984 she has been married to actor Kevin Whately, known for his role as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in both Inspector Morse and its spin-off Lewis. Jace: Do you think that those changes making him a younger Geordie cop is one reason why his and Morses partnership worked so well on television? He says: "At first she would forget where she had left the car was, or she would lose her house keys. 'How much can business take?' ", He consulted John's widow, the actress Sheila Hancock, before taking on the Lewis project. We were welcomed very much when we first went there, and then the colleges realized that we were causing a lot of traffic jams (laughs) and they werent so keen on the tourists in academe, so we werent so welcome for a while. ', Peak Practice: Kevin with Amanda Burton and Simon Sheppard. Special thanks to Barrett Brountas and Nathan Tobey. 'His death has left television with a major problem - they simply haven't found anybody to take his place.'. He sighs. He does end up with a new wife, . Kevin: I thought the the whole thing it couldve become a bit soapy so in the end I said, Look weve done enough of this Will they? In this episode, Kevin Whately reminisces about playing Robbie Lewis for the past 30 years, and recalls the dramatic series finalebombs, goodbyes, and all. So why was being grilled about her books on Mastermind so Why should I be asked to tip when I shop online? The 61-year-old has played the loveable policeman Robbie Lewis for more than quarter of a century but announced last year he would be taking time out from the successful detective show. He said: Im not driven by acting any more. When do the clocks change in 2023? 'Well, he was a great friend and, as an actor, unique and, it seems, pretty much irreplaceable. He began at the age of eleven performing in school plays. Educated at Green Edge Junior School and Ducie Secondary Technical School. what was the louvre before it was a museum. You would be surprised how many people don't drink now. Having hit 65, I dont want to work myself to death, which I think is what John Thaw did. Mariella Frostrup: I was widely mocked for putting sex with my husband in the diary. I didnt want him to die. Kevin: It was. The hardest thing and Laurence and I both feel this is that the guest actors do all the acting, he says. His wife is Madelaine Newton (m. 1984) Kevin Whately income His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2021. It fitted the bill and Laurence was great. Jace: Looking back, how has Robbie Lewis evolved since you first started playing him 30 years ago? Jace: Now, looking back at the pilot, what was it like to film the first episode of Lewis, which was filled with so many winks at Morse? And why do you think these series hold such a fascination for viewers? It was my first summer at home since I did Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 1982. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. John Thaw portrayed Inspector Morse. When he died at the age of 60, the BBC website was inundated with tributes from the viewing public. Kevin: Yeah. I was once told I wouldn't come into my own until I was in my forties - and it has been quite true. Kevin Whately in Lewis and his current co-star Laurence Fox . Organize, controle, distribua e mea todo o seu contedo digital. And it was so big it actually a piece of shrapnel, a piece of balsa wood actually cut Laurences face. He lived quietly in an 18th century manor house in Wiltshire, England. Over the last 30 years hes rarely been off our screens, starring in the likes of Peak Practice, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Joe Maddisons War, which was written specifically for him. Whately is best known for his roles as Neville "Nev" Hope in the British comedy-drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse from 1987-2000 and Lewis from 2006-2015, his role as Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, although he has appeared in . Despite reservations Kevin has returned for another series, here he is pictured with Laurence Fox Try as he might, Kevin Whately can't escape from Inspector Robert Lewis. You stop worrying about tomorrow or wondering where we go next. But because they were clever with introducing Laurences character, Hathaway, it took off immediately, so then we were back on a moving train, and 10 years later we were still going. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. I learned everything from John. But he never f***ed up on camera, never ever.". Kevin: Yeah Michael Chris, a dresser at at one of the costumiers in London, searched for 3 days to find that same shirt. Something went wrong, please try again later. Kevin Whately is no exception. National World - Other Local Sites. I suppose I learned about being a father from my own dad. Jace: And it was his decision that you two share a caravan to sort of initiate that bonding process, correct? What was it like shooting that particular scene in which Lewis says goodbye to his mentor? I loved him. Age is the greatest risk factor; one in 50 people aged between 65 and 70 have dementia, compared with one in 5 above the age of 80. who died from throat cancer in 2002. The former Morse star admits to being 'very fortunate', having been with actress wife Madelaine Newton for 29 years. He said he would like to pick and choose more. Couple find note in chimney that reveals their 290,000 house was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago. 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