Jug-eared Nicholas Smith was another of the Are You Being Served? Its alot mre riskier than American comedies... Penny Irving who played young Mr. Grace's first secretary is still alive also. also had a stage version, which ran at Blackpool's Winter Gardens Theatre in the Summer of 1976, and this supplied the basic idea for a movie spin-off in 1977. I believe Doremy Vernon, the Canteen Manageress is still alive as well. If just watched the last episode today.i loved them so much.my favourite show for years.the original cast were brilliant.grainger and Lucas were never replaced.i had a schoolboy crush on miss Brahms like thousands more.she was so sexy.and miss selfridge was another hottie!those were the days. Watching AYBS right now 8-17-2019 at 7.52 AM.on PBS WETA 26-2 in Maryland USA. But when Palestinian terrorists attacked and killed Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, the live Olympic feed was cancelled and the BBC showed Served instead. finished in April 1985, John found it difficult to get cast in anything else on TV or film, although he did have a cameo as himself in the movie The Tall Guy in 1989, and then there was the sequel series Grace and Favour which ran for two years too. Smith's daughter, Catherine Russell, an actress on another BBC show, Holby City, and his grandson, stand-up comic Sam Russell, both tweeted Monday about his passing Sunday in a hospital. I also like the sequel as well. In May 1995 he played Lancastrian comedian Frank Randle, who was well known in British films in the 1940s, in the BBC's Call Up the Stars, where current performers appeared as their predecessors (eg, Maureen Lipman appeared as Joyce Grenfell and Ronnie Corbett was Arthur Askey). Wendy was one of the few stars of Are You Being Served? Smith played Cuthbert "Jug Ears" Rumbold, the store's hapless, pompous, often clueless manager. RIP to all of you. TREVOR BANNISTER originally played Mr Lucas, who worked alongside JOHN INMAN’s camp Mr Humphries for seven years, until 1979. I really enjoyed watching it over and over and to read all bios on the actors and reading they have all passed away and it seemed like the whole crew was very close no matter what and it was a blast just to laugh again. This Southern Television sitcom saw John play Graham Jones, the male secretary to Rula Lenska's Joan Warner, the head of a multinational corporation. All this actors from Are you being served?, are like my family. More recently, he was the voice of the eccentric Reverend Clement Hedges in the Wallace & Gromit film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), a role he said was "great fun and completely mad.". “We came back down and we heard the jumping again. In 2001 he was admitted to Paddington St Mary's Hospital suffering from breathing difficulties and was in intensive care for three days. John had left the entirety of his estate (valued at over £2.8m) to his civil partner Ron, apart from a £5,000 bequest to the Entertainments Artistes Benevolent Fund. The main actors were so full of expression and talent. There were new characters too, including Young Mr Grace's grandson (also Young Mr Grace) played by Mathew Horne, Mr Conway played by Kayode Ewumi, and Miss Croft, played by Jorgie Porter. It's like watching a lot of ghosts playing together. KYM MARSH shocked viewers with an emotional account of her encounter with her late son’s ghost.
But that wasn't for want of trying - in 1977, while Are You Being Served?