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Dateline: 2nd July, 2008
Tony Melody Veteran character actor Tony Melody has died at the age of 85. He had been suffering from cancer and died after a short illness. He had been in hospital for three weeks, and then a nursing home for five weeks. He began his career as a singer and sang with the Northern Dance Orchestra, but is probably best known as a TV comedy actor, who had appeared in Steptoe and Son and Last of the Summer Wine. However he played many straight TV roles in his career, including three series of Bergerac as the chief of police, All Creatures Great and Small, Rumpole, Hettie Wainthropp Investigates, Casualty, Heartbeat, Where the Heart Is, Dalziel and Pascoe and City Central II, as well as the soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale. His films included John Schlesinger's Yanks (with Richard Gere) and Little Lord Fauntleroy. He became soemthign of a star with children when he appeared in a McDonald's TV advertising campaign in 2002.
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