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For all fans of the TV series Z-Cars

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Frederick

Frederick Report 9 Mar 2014 22:43

Hi Sharron.

"One by One" filmed at Dudley Zoo.

F.

Sharron

Sharron Report 9 Mar 2014 21:58

I can remember him playing a zoo keeper in something but I can't remember what.

Linda

Linda Report 9 Mar 2014 15:42

I remember seeing him once on the London Tube reading his lines, I loved him in Z cars.


R.I.P. Jimmy <3 <3

Researching:
Wells Ealing and E/W Ilsley Webbs H/Wycombe Lambourns E/Ilsley Deacons E/Ilsley Cannings Derry

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 9 Mar 2014 15:25

Z-Cars actor James "Jimmy" Ellis has died at the age of 82 from a stroke in Lincoln Hospital early yesterday.

Belfast-born Ellis was best known for playing Bert Lynch in BBC police drama Z-Cars, which ran from 1962 to 1978.

He studied at Belfast's Methodist College, Queen's University and at the Bristol Old Vic before starting his acting career at Belfast's Group Theatre in 1952.

His career also saw him star in television series including Doctor Who, In Sickness And In Health, Ballykissangel and Only Fools And Horses.

He also played bullying father Norman Martin in the 1982 production of Too Soon To Talk To Billy - the first of a trio of Graham Reid plays focusing on working-class Ulster Protestants.

R.I.P. Jimmy <3

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"