Gareth Irvin Hale is an

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comedian and actor, who is best known as one half of the comedy duo

Hale and Pace Hale and Pace were an English comedy double-act that performed in clubs and on radio and television in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s. The duo was made up of Gareth Hale and Norman Pace, with the ''Hale and Pace'' television show r ...

, with his friend and comic partner

Norman Pace Norman John Pace (born 17 February 1953 in Dudley, Worcestershire) is an English actor and comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace with his friend and comic partner Gareth Hale. Both former teachers, they fronted seve ...

Biography

Hale and his comedy partners were both former teachers, their comedy partnership has fronted several television programmes, most notably ''

'', ''Pushing Up Daisies'', ''h&p@bbc'' and ''Jobs for the Boys''. As straight actors they played the title roles in the 1993 ITV dramatisation of ''

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'' and made a guest appearance together in ''

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'', a 1989 ''

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'' serial. Hale was a regular on the Channel 5

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'', playing Doug MacKenzie (2003–2005) and appeared in the 2004 "Parenthood" episode of the medical drama series ''

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'' as a parent of a child with

Down syndrome Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual dis ...

. In 2007 Hale and Pace appeared in the Christmas special of '' Extras'', called "The Extra Special Series Finale", playing themselves. In 2008, Hale joined the cast of ''

The Royal ''The Royal'' is a British period medical drama, produced by Yorkshire Television (later part of ITV Studios), and broadcast on ITV1 from 2003 until its cancellation in 2011. The series is set in the 1960s and focuses on the lives of the st ...

'' in the role of the head porter, and in late 2009 he played Scrooge in an adaptation of

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' ''

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''. In 2015 Hale appeared as Commissioner Busby in the BBC TV series ''

Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English author G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuiti ...

'' (episode 3.15 "The Owl of Minerva"). In April 2015 Hale became the station voice of Sam FM, a music based radio station covering Southern England. In 2015 he made a guest appearance as Teddy Arseholes in an episode of the BBC comedy series ''Cradle to Grave'' based on the autobiography of

Danny Baker Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television. Baker was born in Deptford to a working-class fam ...

, ''Going to Sea in a Sieve''. In 2018 Hale appeared in the comedy TV series ''

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'' with Norman Pace. In 2021, Hale plays Grandpa Maury in

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series Goldies Oldies.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hale, Gareth Living people Alumni of the University of Greenwich English male comedians English male soap opera actors People from Hedon Year of birth missing (living people)