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BOON, ERIC

Roles: Shorty in Constable and Second in Regardless

Born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, in 1920, Eric Boon reigned as British lightweight boxing champion between 1938–44. Just eighteen when crowned champion, Boon served in the RAF during the war and went on to box in Canada, Australia and America before retiring from the ring.

He made a handful of television and film appearances, including playing Clinker in 1944’s Champagne Charlie. He died in 1981, aged sixty-one.

BOOSEY, BILL

Played by Sid James

Bill ‘Rattlesnake’ Boosey leads the expedition into the African jungle in Up the Jungle. Not the bravest of men: upon hearing the drums of the infamous Nosha tribe reverberating around the jungle, he wants to head back, but Lady Bagley’s and Professor Tinkle’s insistence leaves him little option but to continue. When he later finds himself in the hands of the all-female Lubidubies tribe, he’s soon glad he continued with the expedition.

BOROUGH COUNTY HOSPITAL

The setting for Doctor , where the likes of Doctor Tinkle and Doctor Kilmore are employed.

BOROUGH COUNTY TIMES

A newspaper in Again Doctor carrying news of the mayhem Dr Nookey causes at the Long Hampton Hospital.

BORTHWICK HECK

A firm of estate agents based in Chiswick, London, whose ‘For Sale’ board is seen in Constable outside a property in Church Road where the criminals involved in a wages snatch dump their car.

BOTTOMLEY, MRS

An unseen character in Constable, Mrs Bottomley, who’s referred to as living at number twenty-four, asks the police to call around because she’s concerned about suspicious activities in the rear of her premises. Mentioned by Sergeant Wilkins, who asks one of the policemen to investigate.

BOURNE AND JONES

A milliner’s shop in Screaming! .

BOWLER

Played by Edmund Pegge

Seen in the opening scenes of Follow That Camel bowling to Captain Bagshaw at the cricket match.

BOY

Played by Larry Dann

In Teacher the bespectacled, sallow-faced boy puts his hand up in class because he’s desperate to use the loo, just when Alistair Grigg and Felicity Wheeler, two important visitors at the school, have popped in to the class to observe. He’s later seen pounding away at the drum in the school play.

BOY LOVER

Played by Mike Grady

For the ‘Boy Lover’ in Loving, see ‘Girl Lover’.

BRACKNELL, DAVID

Assistant Director on Follow That Camel , Loving , Henry , At Your Convenience , Abroad and Dick

David Bracknell has been working as an assistant director since the early 1960s, with credits including The Boys, Serena, A Shot in the Dark, Funeral in Berlin, Lust for a Vampire, Bless This House, Swallows and Amazons, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Murrow.

BRADLEY, C.

The unseen Second Assistant Purser on the Happy Wanderer in Cruising. His name is seen on the crew list.

BRADLEY, JOSIE

Role: Pianist in Loving

Josie Bradley’s other work includes an appearance as Freda in the 1947 film, The Mysterious Mr Nicholson , and Mildred Knottage in a 1969 episode of the television series Detective.

BRAGG, ERNIE

Played by Bernard Bresslaw

One of Sid Carter’s gang in Matron, the gormless Ernie Bragg was born on top of the number seventy-three bus in the middle of Brixton High Street.

BRAGG, ERNIE

Played by Jack Douglas

An electrician who holidays with his friend, Fred Ramsden, in Behind. When their respective wives decide on a break in a health farm, Fred persuades the easily-led Ernie to accompany him to the Riverside Caravan Site under the guise of a fishing trip. What Fred hopes they will catch, though, is a couple of birds – and not the feathery kind! They’re out of luck, although not through lack of trying, which is just as well because their wives eventually turn up at the camp site. Although they’d sent a telegram to inform their husbands of their arrival, the message never reached Fred and Ernie.

BRAGG, VERA

Played by Patricia Franklin

When her husband, Ernie, heads off in a caravan to the Riverside Caravan Site with his close friend, Fred Ramsden, Vera opts for a health farm with Fred’s wife, Sylvia. They eventually surprise their husbands by turning up at the caravan site unannounced. They had sent a telegram informing their husbands of their impending arrival, but the message never reached Fred and Ernie.

BRAKES, DAWN

Played by Margaret Nolan

The former Miss Dairy Queen is one of the contestants in the Miss Fircombe beauty contest in Girls. First seen sharing the same train compartment as Peter Potter, who’s also travelling to Fircombe to organise publicity for the event; just before the train moves out of the station the carriage jolts forward and Peter accidentally rips Dawn’s skimpy top, revealing her ample bosom, much to his fiancée’s disgust. A model by profession, she poses for dirty mags, and asks Lawrence, the rather green local photographer, to take some snaps of her naked on the beach.

BRAMBELL, WILFRID

Role: Mr Pullen in Again Doctor

Wilfrid Brambell, born in Dublin in 1912, will forever be remembered for his fine portrayal of Albert Steptoe in fifty-nine episodes of BBC’s classic sitcom. Brambell’s father worked in a brewery while his mother was an opera singer. His first performance was as a two-year-old entertaining wounded troops during the Great War.

Upon leaving school he worked as a cub reporter for The Irish Times during the day and part-time actor at the Abbey Theatre in the evenings. He later took the plunge and turned professional after securing a job at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.

During the Second World War he toured with ENSA, and afterwards appeared in numerous reps including Bristol, Bromley and Chesterfield, before working in the West End and on Broadway.

His television work included Life with the Lyons, the 1950s sci-fi series, The Quatermass Experiment and No Fixed Abode, while his film credits include The 39 Steps, The Three Lives of Thomasina, A Hard Day’s Night, Where the Bullets Fly and Holiday on the Buses.

He died in 1985.

BRAY, HENRY

Played by Brian Oulton

Bray is rather ostentatious with his claims of grandeur. During his stay at the Haven Hospital in Nurse, he tells fellow patients a pack of lies, such as owning a house on the expensive west side of the Common. It’s only when his wife, Rhoda, visits that we learn the truth, although Henry is constantly trying to shut her up in case she’s overheard.

BRAY, KEN

Stills Cameraman on England and Emmannuelle

Ken Bray’s other credits as a stills cameraman include the 1978 film, The Playbirds.

BRAY, RHODA

Played by Hilda Fenemore

Seen in Nurse, Rhoda visits her husband, Henry, while he’s recuperating at Haven Hospital, but spends the entire visiting period embarrassing her beloved who’s trying to make out he’s something he isn’t.

BRAYSHAW, DEBORAH

Role: French Buxom Blonde in Emmannuelle

An occasional actress during the 1970s, she was seen playing a technician in an episode of Doctor Who , as well as an episode of Special Branch. On the big screen, she appeared as a go-cart girl in Confessions from a Holiday Camp.

BREGONZI, ALEC

Role: 1st Storeman in Sergeant . (Note: Also played a Beach Photographer in At Your Convenience but the scene was cut.)