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Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a retired British television actor.

Career

Jeavons' earliest television role was as Jules Neraud in an episode of the 1956 anthology series of teleplays ''Nom-de-Plume''. Broadcast live, it is unknown if any recordings of the production exist. He began an association with Dickens productions on

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Television in 1959 with ''

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'' as Richard Carstone, and '' Great Expectations'' (for the first time) as Herbert Pocket. The same year he played Prince Hal/Henry V in the BBC's ''The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff''. In 1963 he played the extremely reluctant hero Vadassy forced into espionage in '' Epitaph for a Spy'' for BBC Television. Jeavons portrayed Uriah Heep in the BBC's ''

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'' (1966). Only one episode featuring him (episode 11, "Umble Aspirations") is known to exist. He appeared in a host of 1960s and 1970s TV programmes including '' Doctor Who'' (in "

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"), ''

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'' as a murderous fashion designer, as the undertaker Shadrack in '' Billy Liar'' (1973), as businessman Leonard Gold in '' The Sweeney'' (in the 1978 episode "The Bigger They Are"), as shop owner Ellery in '' Shoestring'' in the episode "Where Was I?" (1980) and '' The Avengers'' (in " A Touch of Brimstone" and " The Winged Avenger"). Pete Stampede and Alan Hayes wrote of Jeavons in the latter series as "one of those under-rated, ever-present supporting actors who ''never'' turn in a bad performance." On children's TV, he hosted '' Play School'' for a time, and read "The Black Vicar" on '' Jackanory''. He also appeared in the 1981 Doctor Who spin-off ''

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'', and he narrated two BBC children's animated series, namely ''

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'' and ''Joe''. He appeared in the '' Play For Today'' production of David Edgar's play about British neo-Nazis, ''Destiny'' (1978). The same year he played the part of Mr Johnson, a schoolteacher, in

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's BBC supernatural drama ''Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man''. He appeared as Samson Brass in another BBC Dickens production, ''

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'' (1979), and in another version of '' Great Expectations'' (1981), this time as Wemmick. The same year he played a recurring UFO-obsessed character in the sci-fi comedy ''

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''. His most critically acclaimed role during this period was as the neglected and abused child, Donald, in

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's '' Blue Remembered Hills'' (1979). In the 1980s, he was involved with two dramatisations of Sherlock Holmes stories. He played "with chilling authority" in the words of writer

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, Professor Moriarty in ''

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'' (1982), and "with great panache"

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in the Granada Television series ''

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'' (featuring Jeremy Brett as Holmes). Producer Michael Cox of the Granada Television series stated frankly that they were given the best Lestrade of his generation. In the 1981 TV production of ''

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'', he portrayed Max Quordlepleen, an entertainer who hosts at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Jeavons was Briggs, the lawyer who halts the marriage between Jane and Rochester, in a BBC version of ''

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'' (1983). In 1984, he played the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in the "Prometheus Unbound" episode of

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's '' Sea of Faith'' for BBC. The following year he played

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in '' Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil''. He played the solicitor Vholes in another BBC adaptation of ''

'' in 1985. In 1986 he was seen in ''

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''. Jeavons featured in the 1990 television drama ''

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, as Tim Stamper, Tory Whip and ally of

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's Francis Urquhart. The character returned - promoted initially to Chief Whip, then to Party Chairman - in the 1993 sequel, ''

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''. Jeavons played Del Boy's lawyer, Solly Atwell, in ''

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''. He also played the role of

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in the 1992 television film ''

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''. Jeavons also appeared in many films over the years, often as priests or vicars. These included roles in ''

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'' (1961), ''

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'' (1967), ''

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'' (1968), '' The Oblong Box'' (1969), '' The Games'' (1970), ''

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'' (1970), '' Diagnosis: Murder'' (1975), '' Schizo'' (1976), '' The Island'' (1980), ''

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'' (1981), '' Absolute Beginners'' (1986) and ''

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'' (1991). Jeavons retired from acting in 1993; his final role was a

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of Tim Stamper in ''

''.

Personal life

Jeavons' elder son Barney managed the British rock band

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, and in 2007 Jeavons emerged from retirement, heavily bearded, to appear as the enigmatic General in Reuben's Rock video "Blood, Bunny, Larkhall". In a behind-the-scenes short, Jeavons explained briefly some of the highlights of his acting career. Barney Jeavons is the former Arts Centre Director of the West End Centre in

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. Aldershot Civic Society Meeting with Barney Jeavons from the West End Centre - 25 October 2016
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References

Bibliography

* ''Starring Sherlock Holmes'', David Stuart Davies; Titan Books 2001

External links

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