John Challis

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John Spurley Challis (born 16 August 1942) is an English actor best known for his appearance in the long-running BBC television comedy series Only Fools and Horses and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass.

Since 2015, he has appeared on "Monty Staines" from the seventh series onwards in the hit ITV comedy Benidorm, before becoming a regular on series ten in 2018.

Early life

In Clifton, Bristol, England, John Spurley Challis was born on August 16, 1942. When he was a child, his family moved to Southeast London as a young boy. After the family moved to Surrey, he grew up in Epsom. Challis attended the state boarding Ottershaw School near Woking, Surrey. Alec, a civil servant with the Admiralty who became secretary to the energy minister, was his father; he was a strict disciplinarian. Joan (née Harden), a former ambulance driver who appeared in amateur dramas and taught drama in schools, was his mother.

He started off as a trainee estate agent before "running away with the Argyle Theatre for Youth."

Personal life and death

Challis was married four times. Carol Robertson, his first wife, was a stage manager. Debbie Arnold and Sabina Franklyn, the actresses' second and third wives, were his second and third wives. He married Carol Davies in Brighton in 1995 and purchased the Abbot's Lodgings at Wigmore Abbey Grange, Adforton, Herefordshire, which they then restored. There were no children in Challis.

Challis was a member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. He was a Arsenal supporter. Challis wrote two volumes of autobiography, Being Boycie and Boycie & Beyond. He wrote Wigmore Abbey: The Treasure of Mortimer, a memoir about the restoration of his house's gardens in 2016.

Challis also served as a patron and ardent supporter of "The Rose Theatre" in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Following Challis' death, the corporation paid a special tribute to him.

Challis became friends with American actor and singer Ice-T, who exchanged gifts but never met in person, according to them.

Challis died of cancer in his sleep on September 17, 2021, when he was 79. In 2019, he had been diagnosed with the disease for the first time.

Sir David Jason and Sue Holderness, as well as Ice-T, Paul Chuckle, Piers Morgan, and Sheila Ferguson, co-stars, were paid tribute to each of his fellow actors and comedians, including Sir David Jason and Sue Holderness, as well as Ice-T, Piers Morgan and Sheila Ferguson.

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Career

Challis, who stood 6 foot 1 inch (1.85 m) tall, was often typecast as doctors, soldiers, and police officers when doing television work. In 1967, he appeared on television for the first time in the BBC soap opera The Newcomers. He would reprise his role in Coronation Street as Detective Sergeant Norman Phillips from 1975 to 1977, another early television appearance, also in 1967, was as a thief who stole Ena Sharples' handbag; later in the series as Detective Sergeant Norman Phillips. He appeared in the gangster drama Big Breadwinner Hog in 1969, and Challis made regular appearances in Z-Cars between 1971 and 1975 as Sergeant Culshaw.

When taking a break from acting, Challis' experience with working at a garden center was chronicled in this book.

Challis was born Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce's character in Only Fools and Horses (1981—2003), his most well-known role. Sullivan has also created Challis, The Green Green Grass, in 2005 and 2009. The Green Green Grass outdoor scenes were shot at his then-home in Wigmore Abbey, surrounding fields, and local villages.

Dixon of Dock Green, Thriller, Doctor Who, The Seeds of Doom), Dr. Watson, Brumba, Bonnet Bravo, Ever Decreasing Circles, Dr. Benidorm, and Heartbeat are among his television appearances. During his appearance in a 1997 Channel 4 mockumentary "Decline," Noel Edmonds tricked Clive Anderson that he had been shot by him. In 2006, he appeared in BBC's The Impressionists as the stationmaster at the Gare Saint Lazare. "Is Jeremy Quite Safe" in the 2008 episode "Is Jeremy Quite Safe?" He appeared on Last of the Summer Wine as a former jewel robber with fanciful tales about his exploits in the South of France. He narrated Strippers: Cars for Cash, the National Geographic Channel series.

He appeared as an interrogator in the play Rules of Asylum by James Follett, which was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1973. He appeared in Getting Nowhere Fast from 2001 to 2004. He also played Dibden Purlew in Getting Nowhere Fast.

He became Serbia's highest civilian, where Only Fools and Horses is extremely popular. Challis produced Boycie in Belgrade in 2020, an investigation into why the show was so popular in the Balkan region.

Challis appeared on several television shows, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s and the National Theatre. In Portrait of a Queen, a King's first appearance in London's West End, he appeared in Portrait of a Queen, which appeared at the Valiant Theatre in 1965. In Sam Walters' production of Václav Havel's The Memorandum, he appeared in 1977 and 1977, playing a leading role at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. With Tom Stoppard's involvement in Cahoot's Macbeth, he went on tour of the United States in 1979.

Frank Finlay's on the National Theatre featured performances of On the Razzle (1979) and The Rivals (1983), as well as Laughter (1981), as well as On the Razzle (1979), with Michael Hordern (1983). In a 1993 tour with the National, he appeared alongside Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Waller, and Christopher Villiers in a Joe Orton production of Entertaining Mr Sloane. In Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking, Time and Time Again and How the Other Half Loves, as well as the National Theatre's own production of Boycie and Marlene, he appeared alongside Sue Holderness ('Marlene' in Only Fools and Horses).

He appeared in Richard III and A Midsummer Night's Dream as an established Shakespeare actor in 1995, he appeared in Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and in 2000, he appeared in Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

He appeared in pantomime performances in which he mainly played the roguish or wicked parts, such as Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Plaza Theatre, Nottingham, which he reprised in 2018. In winter 2011, he appeared in pantomime at Weston Playhouse, as King Rat in Aladdin and as King Rat in Dick Whittington at the Plaza in 2013 and 2014. Challis appeared in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Live Tour in 2013 as the narrator. He began a theatre tour in 2014 titled Only Fools and Boycie, which chronicled his life before, during, and after his time as Boycie.

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