Bill Maynard, the British actor best known as playing eccentric poacher Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the British police series <em>Heartbeat</em>, has died. He was 89.
His daughter-in-law Jacqueline Reddin said he passed away while in hospital in Leicestershire, having recently broken his hip in a fall from a mobility scooter.
Maynard, whose real name was Walter Williams (taking his stage name from a billboard for Maynard's Wine Gums), first appear on British TV in 1953 in <em>Face the Music</em>, and would go on to star in shows such as <em>Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!</em>, <i>The Gaffer</i>, <i>In Sickness and In Heath </i>and ...
His daughter-in-law Jacqueline Reddin said he passed away while in hospital in Leicestershire, having recently broken his hip in a fall from a mobility scooter.
Maynard, whose real name was Walter Williams (taking his stage name from a billboard for Maynard's Wine Gums), first appear on British TV in 1953 in <em>Face the Music</em>, and would go on to star in shows such as <em>Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!</em>, <i>The Gaffer</i>, <i>In Sickness and In Heath </i>and ...
- 3/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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