Angus Deayton
Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You. He also played Victor Meldrew’s neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series One Foot in the Grave, and George Windsor in the final three series of Waterloo Road.
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Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You. He also played Victor Meldrew’s long-suffering neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series One Foot in the Grave, and George Windsor in the final three series of Waterloo Road. He is the youngest of three sons of a Prudential insurance brokermanager and a home economics school teacher. He showed early promise as a footballer, and had a trial with Crystal Palace. He read languages at New College, Oxford, where he was recruited into the Oxford Revue. This led to the creation of the parody band the Hee Bee Gee Bees in 1980, with the songs written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope.
Their best-selling single \”Meaningless Songs \” was a parody of the falsetto style of disco hits by the Bee Gees. He starred with Rowan Atkinson as a pool attendant and a man on a park bench in the Mr. Bean episode \”The Curse of Mr. Bean\” as one of the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem. In January 2006, he hosted an ITV quiz show based upon self-help videos called Self Help Yourself. He has also starred in the BBC comedy Nighty Night Night and in the film Fat Slags. He appeared in a cameo role as a hotel receptionist in the 2004 film Fatisty Slag. He presented a tribute to Radio Active and KYTV colleague and friend Geoffrey Perkins for BBC Radio 4 on 4 October 2008.
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