Out and About June 2022 -issue198
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Welcome to the June 2022 edition Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca the weather is now in the 30's and summer is here! Enjoy reading our articles and finding out more about what is going on in Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
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58 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA CELEBRITY PROFILE<br />
Dennis Waterman (24<br />
February 1948 – 8 May <strong>2022</strong>)<br />
died at the age of 74. The actor<br />
was best known for his roles<br />
in New Tricks, Minder <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Sweeney’s, <strong>and</strong> was a popular<br />
household name in Britain.<br />
He died peacefully on Sunday<br />
afternoon (May 8) with his wife<br />
Pam at his side in Spain of lung<br />
cancer. The news is a huge loss<br />
to the British entertainment<br />
industry, with the Claphamborn<br />
actor having enjoyed<br />
a successful career<br />
spanning back to the<br />
1960s. As the youngest<br />
of nine children to<br />
Rose Juliana (née<br />
Saunders) <strong>and</strong> Harry<br />
Frank Waterman from<br />
Clapham, London. The<br />
family, which included<br />
siblings Ken, Peter, Stella,<br />
Norma, <strong>and</strong> Myrna, lived<br />
at 2 Elms Road, Clapham<br />
Common South Side, Harry<br />
Waterman was a ticket collector<br />
for British Railways. Two older<br />
sisters, Joy <strong>and</strong> Vera, had already<br />
left home by the time Dennis<br />
was born, <strong>and</strong> another brother,<br />
Allen, had died as a young child.<br />
Dennis was an English actor<br />
<strong>and</strong> singer. He was best known<br />
for his tough-guy leading roles<br />
in television series including<br />
The Sweeney, Minder <strong>and</strong> New<br />
Tricks, Waterman’s acting career<br />
spanned 60 years, starting with<br />
his childhood roles in film <strong>and</strong><br />
theatre, <strong>and</strong> adult roles in film,<br />
television <strong>and</strong> West End theatre.<br />
He was known for the range of<br />
roles he played, including drama<br />
(Up the Junction), horror (Scars<br />
DENNIS WATERMAN<br />
of Dracula), adventure (Colditz),<br />
comedy (Fair Exchange),<br />
comedy-drama (Minder),<br />
musical (Windy City) <strong>and</strong> sport<br />
(The World Cup: A Captain’s<br />
Tale). He appeared in 29 films,<br />
the last being released in 2020.<br />
Boxing was a big<br />
part of Waterman’s childhood.<br />
His father had been an amateur<br />
boxer <strong>and</strong> made all of his sons’<br />
box.<br />
Waterman was educated<br />
at the Granard Primary<br />
School, a state primary school<br />
on the Ashburton Estate in<br />
Putney, South-West London,<br />
followed by Corona Stage<br />
School, an independent<br />
school at Ravenscourt Park in<br />
Hammersmith in West London.<br />
Waterman’s acting career<br />
began in childhood. His first<br />
role was in Night Train for<br />
Inverness (1960). He appeared<br />
in two small stage roles for the<br />
Royal Shakespeare Company’s<br />
1960 season. In 1961, at the<br />
age of 13, he played the part of<br />
Winthrop Paroo in the Adelphi<br />
Theatre production of The Music<br />
Man. A year later, he starred<br />
as William Brown in the BBC<br />
TV series William based on the<br />
Just William books. Waterman<br />
played the role of Oliver<br />
Twist in the production of<br />
the Lionel Bart musical<br />
Oliver! Staged at the<br />
Mermaid Theatre,<br />
London, in the early<br />
1960s, <strong>and</strong> appeared<br />
on the cast recording<br />
released in 1961.<br />
Waterman was a series<br />
regular in the 1962 CBS<br />
comedy Fair Exchange,<br />
playing teenager Neville<br />
Finch. In 1963, he took<br />
a “starring” role in the<br />
Children’s Film Foundation<br />
film Go Kart Go.<br />
In the early 1970s, Waterman<br />
appeared in the BBC television<br />
series Colditz as a young<br />
Gestapo officer. He played the<br />
brother of a victim of Count<br />
Dracula (Christopher Lee) in the<br />
Hammer film Scars of Dracula<br />
(1970), <strong>and</strong> the boyfriend of<br />
Susan George in Fright (1971).<br />
He appeared alongside Richard<br />
Harris <strong>and</strong> John Huston in a<br />
Hollywood western, Man in<br />
the Wilderness (1971). He was<br />
a member of the company of<br />
actors who featured in The<br />
Sextet (1972), a BBC 2 series<br />
which included the Dennis<br />
Potter drama Follow the Yellow