Actor Stephen Lewis dies aged 88 : On The Buses star Blakey passed away

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Xuất bản 15/08/2015
Latest World News, Weekly Round Up and so on. Stephen Lewis was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and playwright. In his early stage career he used the name Cato but after writing Sparrers Can't Sing he was urged by his agent to use his real name. According to his family, the actor died "quite peacefully" in a nursing home in Wanstead, east London, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. "He was always singing and joking'. Actor Stephen Lewis, best known for his role as officious inspector "Blakey" in the 1970s ITV sitcom On the Buses, has died aged 88, his family has announced. Lewis was a merchant seaman before taking up acting. In 1960 he wrote Sparrers Can't Sing, which was made into a film in 1963 staring Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear and Lewis himself. Lewis also played "Smiler" in the BBC's Last of the Summer Wine. Born in east London in 1926, he got his start at the Theatre Royal Stratford East under the famous Joan Littlewood. In his role as Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake, Lewis constantly clashed, and was usually outwitted by, Reg Varney's wily bus driver Stan Butler. One of his catchphrases was "I'll get you for this, Butler" - one he was happy to repeat, according to the manager of the nursing home where he lived out his final years. Between 1969 and 1973 Lewis played Blakey in ITV sitcom On The Buses, the role for which he will be best remembered. On The Buses ran for 74 half hour episodes and led to three films, On the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses and Holiday on the Buses, as well as a spin off called Don't Drink the Water where Blakey had retired to Spain. Lewis's other sitcoms included Don't Drink the Water, On the Buses' short-lived, Spain-based sequel, and the BBC's railway-themed Oh, Mr Beeching! He also appeared as Clem "Smiler" Hemmingway in more than 130 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine, starting in 1988 and continuing until 2007. Lewis wrote Sparrers (later Sparrows) Can't Sing, a success for Littlewood's Theatre Workshop that gave Barbara Windsor one of her most notable early roles. Peter Lewis, the actor's nephew, said his uncle's health had gradually deteriorated in recent years but that he had kept his spirits up right until the end. "He still had his sense of humour, very much so," said Rashid Ebrahimkhan, manager of the Cambridge Nursing Home. "He was very resilient until the last." In 1988 he took on one of his longest-running roles, playing the ironically-named Clem 'Smiler' Hemingway in BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. Lewis would pop up as Hemingway in episodes for the next 17 years, until bad health forced him to leave the series in 2007. Another of his iconic roles was Clem in Last Of The Summer Wine, who he played up until the show ended in 2007. His niece Rebecca said she hoped that his love of making people laugh will not be forgotten: ‘We just want people to remember him.’ Lewis's funeral will take place on Tuesday August 25 at Our Lady Of Lourdes Church in Wanstead.
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