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How to put yourself off a favourite actor.

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Lonelymum · 14/01/2005 19:39

Go to one of their fan websites and read the obsessive drivel written by women who sound about 15 years old. That is what I have just done and it is cringe making. My current interest is 56 years old and surely can't be admired by teenagers, yet the comments he attracts are so immature. Perhaps I am getting old. I am only just 40 though!

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 19:59

Well, I believe he was once in the Professionals but now we are going a very long way back in time....

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Moomina · 15/01/2005 20:01

Edward Fox (was in Daniel Deronda, looking on BBC website!)

makealist · 15/01/2005 20:02

Is it David Suchet, he'd do it for me

Moomina · 15/01/2005 20:03

Surely not Gordon Jackson?
He was about 60 in The Professionals anyway!

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:05

No, I believe he had a one off guest appearance in the Professionals. When I said law, I didn't mean a lawyer as such.

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makealist · 15/01/2005 20:06

Well i know it's not him now but Lewis Collins yum, yum I forgot all about him.

Moomina · 15/01/2005 20:09

Was he also in The Bill?

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:10

Oh yes, Lewis Collins! What a god! Whatever happened to him? Actually this reminds me, I used to have a life size poster of Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager and in the end, I had to take it down because I became so self conscious of them watching me in the privacy of my own bedroom!

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TinyGang · 15/01/2005 20:10

Michael Kitchen? Policeman from 'Foyles War'. About the right age I think, stern and rather distinguished?

beansprout · 15/01/2005 20:11

I'm really lost!
I'll sit and moon over Colin Firth until I think of someone else.

beansprout · 15/01/2005 20:12

I'm currently celebrating 22 years of fancying Martin Shaw! And has he sent me card? Has he bugger. That's longer than a lot of marriages you know....

Mr Kitchen - v good guess. Is it?

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:16

Beansprout, I love your comment about MS! Brilliant!

These guys never appreciate all we do for them do they?

Oh and yes, TinyGang, you have guessed it. Mr Kitchen is the man for me. Put a whole new perspective on cleaning the kitchen floor yesterday!!!

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Amanda3266 · 15/01/2005 20:17

Tom Courtney?????

Amanda3266 · 15/01/2005 20:17

Ahhh! Mr Kitchen.

jane313 · 15/01/2005 20:18

He is lovely especially his voice. But he does eeem very short

beansprout · 15/01/2005 20:18

Hurrah!!! Can see what you see in him LM!

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:21

Thank you Beansprout but I would like to take this opportunity, having come out about him (at last I hear you cry!) to claim him for myself.

Yes, Jane, I do think he might be a little short for me (I am 5 feet, 8 inches and he can't be more) but as I said, it isn't just a physical thing. There is a wonderful charisma about him.
Won't go on as I don't want to sound like those awful screaming teenagers I deplored at the beginning of this thread.

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:22

OMG Do you suppose if he googled himself he might come across this thread about him? Should I leave contact details do you think?!

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TinyGang · 15/01/2005 20:24

Hooray! Nice choice Lonelymum - my dh loves Foyles War on a Sunday night and sulked for weeks when it finished.

Can't believe he attracts very young fans, but I bet he doesn't complain! Quite a fatherly figure in Foyle's War - perhaps that's the attraction to the young 'uns.

jane313 · 15/01/2005 20:25

I remember him in a sort of gritty drama series probably in the late seventies early eighties. He wore a long coat. I have never remembered the name of it. I enjoyed Chancer in the 80's as it had him and Clive Owen.

TinyGang · 15/01/2005 20:29

Oh - this is very sad - we were in the Hastings vicintity for a short break last year, and dh (being a fan) was doing 'Foyle' impressions all over the place. The things I have to live with...

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:31

Well, I first came across him when Iwas an English A level student in the early 80s and he was in King Lear - I remember his performance left a very strong impression on me. But most of the time between then and now, he has just been a name to me. Suddenly, he seems to be in everything and everything he is in seems good because of him.

I'm glad at least some of you don't think I am crazy to go for the older man. I think it has always been a tendency in me although in RL my dh is younger than me!

TinyGang, I have all but the most recent series of Foyle's War on DVD, (probably available on video too) if your dh can't bear life without it.

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makealist · 15/01/2005 20:32

Oh dear I had to google him as I wasn't sure who he was, not bad either. Well we should all have some nice dreams tonight with this lot fresh in our minds

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:32

Genuinely laughed out loud at your last post TingGang! Do give an example of a Foyle impression! I can't get my dh to watch the series although I know he will love the Spitfire shots. (Maybe not much of a reason to watch a detective series!)

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Lonelymum · 15/01/2005 20:33

Makealist, if you look at some of the websites, you will find a picture of him as a young man with curly hair and he is a dead ringer for David Essex!

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