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(born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, best known for his role as Officer Crabtree in the long-running

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''.

Biography

Early life

Bostrom was born in

Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon. In the 2021 census its population was 78,125, making it the second-largest town in Warwickshire. It is the main settlement within the larger Borough of Rugby whi ...

and attended

Lawrence Sheriff School Lawrence Sheriff School is a boys' grammar school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School. Lawrence Sheriff School was founded in 1878, in order to continue Sheriff's ...

, where he was a contemporary with Kevin Warwick. He graduated from

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. In 1977 he performed at the

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as part of Durham University Sensible Thespians (DUST). Besides his television career, he acted on the stage regularly, also being a trained

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. He lived in

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for a long time.

Professional career

Bostrom had a small role in ''

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'' in 1984. Bostrom had a recurrent character in ''

'', first appearing midway through the second series and remaining until the show's finale. Officer Crabtree was played as an hopeless British undercover officer, disguised constantly as a French local policeman during the

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. Much of the character's humour derived from his supposed inability to pronounce French words correctly in conversation, which, on an English-language television programme, was represented by ludicrous exaggeration and mispronunciation of ordinary English words. For example, "Good morning" would be pronounced as "Good moaning", "I was just passing round the corner" would be "I was just pissing roond the corner", and famously, "The bombers were being chased by fighters when they dropped their bombs on the London docks" became "The bummers were being chased by farters when they drooped their bums on the London dicks'. Bostrom actually speaks fluent French. Prior to this he appeared in Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie's 1983 sketch show pilot 'The Crystal Cube' which was not commissioned for a series. In 2005, Bostrom guest-starred in '' Dead Man Walking'', an

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based on the television series '' Sapphire and Steel''. From December 2007 to January 2008, he continued his pantomime run when he appeared in a production as an ugly sister in ''Cinderella'' in Middlesbrough. On 8 January 2008, he appeared in an episode of '' Big Brother's Big Mouth'' on E4. He discussed events in the house after introducing the show in the familiar character of Officer Crabtree. On 3 March 2010 he appeared as a vicar in the

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daytime

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'' doctors'' and again in ''doctors'' (17:163) on 25 January 2016 as sommelier Murray Bathurst. Bostrom appeared (alongside fellow '' 'Allo 'Allo!'' alumnus

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) in the BBC radio dramatisation of '' The Good Soldier Švejk'' by Jaroslav Hašek in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler. In November 2012, Bostrom appeared in ''

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'' as a newspaper editor. In 2017, he appeared in the BBC series ''

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'' as Richie Queenan in episode 5.12 "The Theatre of the Invisible" In 2017 he appeared on a celebrity edition of ''

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''. In October 2018 he reprised his role from '''Allo 'Allo!'' in the book ''Good Moaning France: Officer Crabtree's Fronch Phrose Berk'', in which he attempts to teach others to 'spook the Fronch longwodge'.

References

External links

Official website
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