PETER BOWLES : THEATRE AND TELEVISION ACTOR DIES

I WAS VERY SAD to hear that the actor Peter Bowles has passed away and already many fine and kind tributes now appearing on the news features and the net this afternoon. While reading them, and the credits to his very much loved appearances on BBC shows including 'To The Manor Born', I found myself thinking, surely somewhere #PeterCushing must have worked with him. What a fine casting PC and PB would have made to any play, film or theatre production.. and then, up it popped! Just the one. BBC 'Sherlock Holmes' 1968, 'The Naval Treaty' starring Cushing, Nigel Stock, Jane Lapotaire as Annie Harrison, Dennis Price as Lord Holdhurst . . and Peter Bowles as Joseph Harrison! 

 

WHAT AN EPISODE THAT would to been to have watched, but as with many things touched by the BBC from those times it appears all that remains of the episode is a few seconds clips, now probably locked in BBC vaults and a few black and white grainy screen captures, which ain't being shared with the public, anytime ....soon. Probably wiped, lost, sat on or used as a door stop? Who knows? What a pity, to have lost what was no doubt a real little gem of a production and today an actor of such a very rare quality . . If he could have read that evidence today, no doubt he would treated it with his trademark, 'sniff' and then passing, with just a beat, 'Hmm...' His timing was everything. A charming man, skilled and blessed with the art of economy and stillness on screen and stage. Peter Bowles : October 16th 1936 - March 17th 2022. - marcus

 

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