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Dateline: 8th April, 2007
George Sewell (1924 - 2007) Actor George Sewell died last week at the age of 82. He had been suffering from cancer. Born in Hoxton in London's East End, he left school at the age of 14 and did a whole host of jobs, including being a steward on cruise ships, before meeting Dudley Sutton and a group of actors in a West End pub in 1959. Sutton suggested he should audition of Joan Littlewood, which he did and was cast in the musical Fings Ain't What They Used to Be in the West End. Littlewood cast him as a policeman, foreshadowing the rest of his career in which he mainly played either policemen or villains. He went on the play in Oh What a Lovely War. Although he did return to the stage occasionally (most recently with Lionel Blair in the 2002 touring production of Who Killed Agatha Christie?), most of his career has been in film and TV. In film he appeared in the classic thriller Get Carter as Con McCarty, Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life and Sparrows Can't Sing. His TV career included long-running roles in UFO, The Detectives, Z Cars, Doctor Who and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He also played in numerous Wednesday Plays and had roles in many long-running series, such as The Bill, Casualty, Heartbeat, The Sweeney, Minder and Tales of the Unexpected. He leaves a wife and a daughter. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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