Colin Jeavons
| Colin Jeavons | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Colin Abel Jeavons 20 October 1929 Newport, Monmouthshire, |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Rosie Jeavons |
Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929, in Newport, Monmouthshire) is a retired English television actor. He was born in Wales to parents from the English Black Country, and the family moved to West Bromwich before Jeavons' first birthday. He grew up in the town's Stanway Road. He married the ballet dancer Rosie Jeavons in 1965.
Jeavons began a long association with Dickens productions on BBC Television in 1959 with Bleak House as Richard Carstone, and Great Expectations (for the first time) as Herbert Pocket. The same year he played Prince Hal/Henry V in the BBC's The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff. In 1963 he played the extremely reluctant hero Vadassy forced into espionage in Epitaph For a Spy for BBC Television.
In 1966 Jeavons became well known for his definitive portrayal of Uriah Heep in the BBC's David Copperfield. He appeared in a host of 1960s and 1970s TV programmes including Doctor Who (in "The Underwater Menace"), Adam Adamant Lives! as a murderous fashion designer, as businessman Leonard Gold in The Sweeney (in the 1978 episode "The Bigger They Are") and The Avengers (in "A Touch of Brimstone" and "The Winged Avenger"). Pete Stampede and Alan Hayes wrote of Jeavons in the latter series as "one of those under-rated, ever-present supporting actors who never turn in a bad performance."
On children's TV, he hosted Play School for a time, and read "The Black Vicar" on Jackanory. He also appeared in the 1981 Doctor Who spin-off K-9 and Company, and he narrated two BBC children's animated series, namely 'Barnaby The Bear' and 'Joe'.
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