Absolutely perfect casting as Gladstone!
Too bad he's not more recognised in the US for the fabulous actor he is.
I only ever saw him in one other thing... Eastenders or something... Forgot what it was. But he was fun as Gladstone, no doubt about that.
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It basically gets down to this: you either get busy living, or get busy dying.
He's hilarious!
"We gave our dog a bad name... Colin! Terrible name! You have no idea how many people are called Colin.
We'd go to the park and shout "Come here Colin", and fifeteen people would turn 'round"
The way he says it, it's GOLD!
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Aww I loved Gladstone, and I still love Rudolph in Eastenders, he's just adorable and I love his accent so much!
shareWhen he was interviewed on the Jonathan Ross radio show, he said he made his own waistcoats :)
shareWow! I wasn't aware just what a busy actor he was! When I saw him in "Thin Blue Line", I could only think of him as the test proctor in Mr. Bean who calmly told the class to "Please stop writing." (**Mr. Bean squiggles**) "Would you please stop writing?" (**squiggle squiggle**) "WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP WRITING!!" (**Mr. Bean jumps and flings his pencil across the room**) Brilliant. :)
shareHe has been in many programs, the most famous (or perhaps infamous) being Love Thy Neighbour, where played Bill Reynolds in over 50 episodes (not 2 as IMDB incorrectly states). It was a woeful 'sitcom', whose 'humour' was derived from the fact that people made racist remarks to, or about, Rudolph Walker.
Anyone who tries to defend it hasn't watched it recently; I have and I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes.
I remember watching Love Thy Neighbour back in the mid 70s as a kid, and even I thought it was appalling and overtly racist. I doubt very much if it would ever be aired on terrestrial tv again.
Anyway, Rudolph Walker was brilliant in TBL, so laid-back, full of wisdom & insight and totally hilarious
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"haven't seen the show for sometime, but I remember the Rudolph Walker charactor just as racist as the Jack Smethurst charactor and Rudolph used to always come up trumps in the end. Apparantly at the time alot of black people thought it was the funniest thing on television. "
You raise an interesting point. I can't recall what racist incidents came from Walker during the show; I only remember some of things Jack said. Now for me tihs is interesting in that I would sometimes expect racism to be a one-way thing (ie from white person to black person). But it's rare to hear it the other way, and even when it does occur it doesn't quite have the same shocking effect.
It begs the question therefore, if a black person hurls racist abuse at a white person is it racism or a form of justification?
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He said things like honky and snowflake. He also came out ahead of the white.guy in almost every episode.
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