REMEMBERING ROY CASTLE TODAY : To give full credit and accurate listing of Roy castle's
career, would take a FB page in it's own right! But in addition to his
many talents.. and before being a very familiar face on children's
television from 1972 -1993 on BBC TV's 'Record Breakers'.. #RoyCastle appeared with #PeterCushing in three films, '#AmicusFilms 'Dr Terror's House of Horrors' in 1966, '#DrWho
and the Daleks' in 1965 and Tyburn Films 'Legend of the Werewolf' in
1975. In all three he supplied, a little drama with a good spoonful of
comic relief. Although, Castle makes no mention of any of his film
appearances, '#CarryOn
Up The Khyber', 'The Plank' in his autobiography, it is for these films
and his tv appearances you would think he would mostly be remembered...
CASTLE WAS DIAGNOSED with lung cancer in March 1992, and was told that his
chances of recovery were slim and that it was unlikely that he would
live for more than six months. A non-smoker, he blamed his illness on
passive smoking during his years of playing the trumpet in smoky jazz
clubs. Castle carried out the high-profile Tour of Hope to raise funds
for the erection of the building that would become the #RoyCastleLungCancerFoundation,
which is the only British charity dedicated solely to defeating lung
cancer. By this stage, however, his condition was deteriorating and
recovery was looking highly unlikely.
HIS WIDOW FIONA worked with the charity after her husband's death, and campaigned for the #British smoking ban which came into effect in #NorthernIreland in 2004, Scotland in 2006 and England and #Wales in 2007, banning smoking in virtually all enclosed public places.
THE PCASUK SERIES of MAKING OF 'LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF' PART ONE RIGHT HERE!
Behind The Scenes Gallery of #DrWhoandtheDaleks : RIGHT HERE! FOR ME, of his screen performances, I'll take the 'Photographer' in Legend
of the Werewolf. Castle had played stooge for many years early in his
career on stage with British vaudeville stars Jimmy Clitheroe and Jimmy
James... and was very good at it. These skills he once again brought to
the Cushing / Werewolf scene.... classic! Missed and very much
remembered... Roy Castle, who died today in 1994 aged 62.
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