The character had a huge talent for football, though his struggling family could barely cover the cost of his school uniform. Grange Hill actor Nicholas Donnelly dies aged 83 | The Independent He also made an, erm, memorable appearance on Dancing on Ice in 2009. His boozing led to him being sacked from The Bill in 1998 after turning for work drunk and failing to learn his lines. _yts.push(["_trackPageview"]); Actor Andrew Lancel wrote on Twitter: "I was always a fan of Lee Whitlock since Shine on Harvey Moon. "There was even talk of me needing a blood transfusion, but thankfully I recovered.". Starting as DCI Jack Meadows, the bad-tempered character worked his way up to Superintendent byt the time the show finished in 2010. GRANGE Hill actor Nicholas Donnelly, who played Mr MacKenzie in the show, has died aged 83. Graham has also appeared in gangster horror film Evil Never Dies, Doctors and Holby City. George Rossi (far right) was a popular member of The Bill cast, Eric Richard, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Peter Ellis and Mark Wingett in The Bill, Trudie Goodwin was the longest serving cast member when she left in 2007, Christopher Ellison DCI Burnside in The Bill and spin-off Burnside, Jeff Stewart was a regular as Reg for years, The Bill starring Kevin Lloyd who plays DC Tosh Lines, DS Phil Hunter was played by EastEnders star Scott Maslen, Graham Cole played loveable PC Tony Stamp, Mark Wingett started playing PC Jim Carver in 1983, Sergeant Matthew Boyden screaming in terror, Original Grange Hill cast now - tragic death, arrest and very different careers, George Rossi dead: The Bill's DC Duncan Lennox dies at 61 as tributes pour in. More than 23 million are said to have watched the Christmas Day episode that year - in which Aidan tried to take his own life. yts.type = "text/javascript"; The class clown was at the centre of one of the most talked about storylines on Grange Hill when his character developed a dangerous heroin addiction in the mid-80s. Grange Hill ran for 30 years until 2008 and covered major issues from drug use to teen pregnancy, HIV and knife crime. One of the longest-standing characters, Mark Wingett started playing PC Jim Carver in 1983. Whitlock also appeared as Phil in Two Of Us, a 1987 LGBTQ+ BBC drama about a relationship between two schoolboys. She has four children and two of her sons have followed her into acting with roles in Dr Who and EastEnders. Published: Monday, 20th February 2023 at 4:36 pm, Grange Hill and Sweeney Todd star Lee Whitlock dies, aged 54. Afterwards she went on to land the role of Georgia Sharma in Emmerdale, appearing in the soap for four years from 2011 until 2015. In 1991, Simone, now 51, landed a role in the film Dirty Weekend, but it wasn't released until two years later because it was deemed too violent. When they told me that they weren't going to take up my contract any more, the shock was enormous and I just thought my whole life is going to fall away here "I thought, 'What will I do? At the age of 34, Amanda discovered she had breast cancer just days after welcoming her second son. "Terry had his own crosses to bear and he became gripped by a depression he never fully recovered from. And fantastic actor. After Grange Hill star Mark Farmer's death, other tragedies behind the
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