Michael Medwin
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Michael Medwin OBE |
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| Born |
Michael Hugh Medwin 18 July 1923 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor, film producer |
| Years active | 1940–present |
| Spouse(s) | Sunny Sheila Back (1960-1971; divorced) |
Michael Hugh Medwin OBE (born 18 July 1923) is an English actor and film producer.
Medwin was born in London. He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940.
Medwin's West End theatre credits include Man and Superman, The Rivals, Love for Love, Duckers and Lovers, Alfie, , and What the Butler Saw. At the National Theatre he played a season which included Weapons of Happiness (Ralph Makepeace), Volpone (Corvino) and The Madras House. He appeared in Black Ball Game at the Lyric Hammersmith. He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of Noises Off in the early 1980s.
He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series Shoestring, and playing Scrooge's nephew Fred in the musical film version of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge, as well as for his role in The Army Game, a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass, he took the theme tune from The Army Game into the UK Singles Chart in 1958, where it peaked at number 5.
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