RADA-Trained actor: Started out in Variety, as panto Babe : Child
support in Mancunian Films : Teenage Variety Formby impersonator, tap dancer, and comic
foil : Post-RAF National Service: Variety and Northcountry Clubs, leading into to acting,
in Repertory Theatre/Stage Musicals/Films/TV/Radio.
Many solo TV appearances in 6Os and 7Os, doing Formby; mainly for BBC Television.
RECENT WORK
Production |
Medium |
Role |
| Down To Earth |
BBC TV Drama |
Devonian Bingo
Caller |
| The People's
Poll |
UKTV Fifties |
Bank Manager |
| The Plot To
Kill Hitler |
Discovery
Channel TV and DVD |
Churchill |
| Churchill: The
Hollywood Years |
Big Screen |
Old Churchill |
| The Way We
Live Now |
BBC TV |
The Great
Karlini |
| The Sins
(Drama) |
BBC TV |
Priest |
| Morocco
(Seminar) |
US Expeditions |
Churchill |
| One-Man Show |
Stage |
Impressionist |
STAGEWORK
Various continuing performances with RADA GRADUATES
REP (fringe venues):
Ragdale: principal, Ronnie Fraser-type character role, in Che Walker’s new play Dance
For Me,
performed at RADA, in August, 2003. Directed by Che Walker.
Mr. Bolton, in ‘Sweet Panic’ - Captain Shotover, in ‘Heartbreak House’
Chrysale, in ‘The Sisterhood’ - Old Bellair, in ‘The Man of
Mode’
Baylor, in ‘A Lie of the Mind’ - Stephen, in ‘Dealer’s Choice’
Tom Wheatley, in ‘The Mortal Ash’.
All directed by Lloyd Trott, Senior Tutor, RADA.
Post-National Service: (as Formby/Frank Randle/Robb Wilton): Caroll Levis; Don Ellis work;
Jimmy Brennan work; Old Time Music Hall, with Billy Matchett & Kitty Gillow,
Gerry McCauliffe & Dita Jeavons; Northern Clubs.
ONE-MAN VARIETY SHOW
Leeds City Varieties - October 1998
Bristol Hippodrome - September 1997
COMMERCIALS
Mad-As-A-Fish Broadband - Churchill with Harry
Enfield - Director: Harry Enfield
Cherokee Jeep (Athens) - Churchill (principal role)
British Rail Excursions - Churchill, on train - (main) - Dir:
Pot Noodle - Commercial Pub character - (2nd featured) - Dir:
Kentucky Fried Chicken - Big Game Hunter - (main) - Dir:
Pretty Polly Bra - Einstein - (2nd featured) - Dir: Frank Budgeon
AXA INSURANCE - Soccer Man - (main) - Dir:
IAN SAUCE Spain - (main) - Dir: Xviar Renato
World of Music Comic - for German TV - (main) - Dir:
Network First - Blink Productions - Mr. Gaskell’s Fan - Dir:
House of Love - for German TV - Singing Barman - (3rd featured) - Dir:
Cadbury’s Roses - UK TV - The Bouncer - (2nd principal) Dir:
PHOTO SHOOTS & MODELLING
BBC Television - Heroes of History, poster -
Churchill
BBC Television - The Food Programme - Regular portrait shot
PROMOTIONAL SHORTS
Ronan Keating/ MTV - Comic Agent - (One-on-One) -
Dir: John Clements
Tate Gallery/Chanl 4 - Bookie at Racetrack - (main) - Dir:
Channel 4 RACING - Tic-Tac Man - (main) - Dir: Adam Adams
POP VIDEOS
Black Grape -Title: ‘Kelly’s Heroes’
- Undertaker (featured principal)
SOLO CAMEOS IN TV COMEDY SHOWS:
THE FAST SHOW - Christoph Vasiectomy - Dir: Mark
Mylod
LENNY HENRY SHOW - Jewish Tailor, with Lenny - Dir: Marcus Mortimer
FRANK SKINNER SHOW - Bud Flanagan with Frank - Dir: Marcus Mortimer
VOICE-OVERS:
Churchill in Radio 4 Promo Trailer for BBC
TV documentary 'Dunkirk'
Pot Noodle - Linkage bullets, in Lancs Accent
One Tel - Bullseye-style commentator
Cyber Media Video - Cyber Springs - ‘Jimmy Stewart’-style Narrator
(Gerry does numerous famous ‘voices’ from the 1930s and 1940s,
including Variety, and ‘Talkies’ stars, along with leading politicians of the
day).
CHURCHILL
(Appearance, Voice and
Speech-Writing ability)
Hermes Pensions Management
function at Cabinet War Rooms, London
Cadbury/Schweppes/Trebor Sales Seminar, at Hotel Metropole, Birmingham NEC
Farnborough Air Function, at Cabinet War Rooms, London
Former Goldman Sachs executive's 50th Birthday Party at Blenheim Palace
10th Anniversary Celebrations at Best Western Churchill Hotel, Dover
Royal Albert Hall - International Pharmaceuticals
Four Seasons Hotels - Underground War Cabinet Rooms
Museum of Steam - Swindon, Wiltshire
Sainsburys’ Board - Underground War Cabinet Rooms
Big Screen Production - Churchill:The Hollywood Years
Japanese Television - Churchill’s London - Film
Netherlands Television - Wilhelmina - Film - Role:Churchill
Time-Life Millennium World Launch - PA - Grosvenor House
Volkswagen Million-Millionth Beetle Expo - Berlin
Public Records Office Internet Launch - Central London
Imperial War Museum - Battle of Britain Expo - Museum HQ
Yorkshire Cable TV New Studio Launch - Sheffield
Reform Club & Restaurant - Official Opening - Manchester
CAPTAIN MAINWARING
(New)
Cadbury/Schweppes/Trebor Sales
Seminar, at Hotel Metropole, Birmingham NEC
PAST PREPARATORY
WORK
Comedy Anthology Tour (with veteran comedy
scriptwriter, Vince Powell)
Norman Wisdom Keep Fit Video - Devised, wrote and filmed pilot - Summer 1998
Norman Wisdom Travelogue Video - Devised and Scripted by Gerry George
(The above two, are in association with Johnny Mans, of Johnny Mans Productions,
but have been abandoned due to lack of financial backing)
MEDIA AND PROMOTION SKILLS
From 1965 until 1981 - although he continued to
entertain in theatres, such as Salford Victoria, Stockport Davenport, and all the Northern
Clubs - he also served a journalistic apprenticeship, and subsequently worked as a
newspaperman, on a veritable litany of newspapers, before returning to Showbusiness –
on a full-time basis – in January 1981.
These skills complimented his stage background, because – where possible – he
concentrated on writing stage crits, reviews, and wrote and edited a
‘stage-page’ and gossip column, on several provincial evenings, before joining
Mirror Group Newspapers; eventually becoming a district news editor, and graduate-entrant
trainer, on their sister-paper,
The Sunday Independent, in the Westcountry.
This experience enhanced his ability, on leaving the Press, to promote shows, such as
‘Turned Out Nice Again’ - for the star, Alan Randall, and the writer/director,
Vince Powell - the promotion and publicity for which, he handled, with noted success, in
1992,
throughout its equally successful 56-date tour.
He has just finished two books - one focussing on his boyhood film and stage connection
with the zany, toothless Lancashire comedian Frank Randle - which has been adapted for the
big screen by Joe Fisher, and is due to go into production next Summer, directed by David
Yates.
Gerry writes at length, about Randle, on the Pride of Manchester website, along with
further Forties reminiscences of another childhood hero, George Formby.
The URL for these sites is: http://www.prideofmanchester.com/movies/MancunianFilms.htm
http://www.prideofmanchester.com/music/GeorgeFormby.htm
He also writes: ‘Gerry George’s Memories Pages’ - a nostalgic look at BBC
television of the 195Os, through the eyes of an early teenager - on the BBC TV Whirligig
site.
To date, Gerry has published eleven lengthy chapters on this site, beginning with the
opening of the BBC's Holme Moss Transmitter, on October 12,1951. In addition, Gerry writes
sidelines on the panel game ‘What’s My Line ?’, and ‘Café
Continental’, the popular TV cabaret show,
which starred Helen Cordet, and Piere Auguste.
Main site: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/index.htm
Gerry George's pages: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/memories.htm
His writings on the: ' What's My Line?' page:
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/quiz/whatsmyline.htm
Credits page: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/credits.htm
Gerry George
25 Ellis Court;
125 Greatdown Road,
London, W7 1AR
Tel: +44 (0) 208 578 4731:
FAX: + +44 (0) 208 578 4145 Mobile: 07956 183888
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