James Culliford (8 September 1927 – 23 March 2002) was a British actor on stage, film and television. Culliford met his life partner, the actor

Alfred Lynch Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was an English actor on stage, film and television. Early life Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Catholic school, he worked in a drawing o ...

, at theatre acting evening classes. Some of his noted roles are ''

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'' (1960), ''

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'' (1966), and ''

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'' (1967). He also appeared in the ''

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'' serial ''

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'' in 1973. After suffering a stroke in 1972, he and Lynch moved from London to

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. They lived together until Culliford's death in 2002. Lynch died of cancer the following year.

Filmography

Television

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* * 1927 births 2002 deaths 20th-century British LGBTQ people 20th-century British male actors Actors from the London Borough of Newham British male film actors British male stage actors British male television actors English gay actors LGBTQ people from London Male actors from Essex People from West Ham {{england-actor-stub