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Obituary: Bernard Archard
The actor Bernard Archard, who has died aged 91, established a forbidding presence as Lt Col Oreste Pinto, a character based on a real-life wartime counter-espionage interrogator, in the BBC televisio...
Keeping a cool Head
Typecast as a coffee-drinking yuppie, Anthony Head left the UK for America, where a role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer revived his career. Then came that role as the PM in Little Britain and a newfound ...
James Corden: The big time
A suspicion that has been buzzing for a little while became an official fact this week: James Corden is the hottest property in British television, says Robert Hanks. Gavin and Stacey, the romantic si...
'People really needed convincing that they wanted me'
We know him as Don Draper, the misogynistic, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Sixties advertising man at the centre of the brilliant TV show Mad Men. But it took Jon Hamm seven auditions to land the part ...
The poster boy for British TV talks...
Gosh. What a strange surprise. I had - hadn't we all? - thought Ricky Gervais would be something of an annoyance, muses Euan Ferguson. At best, a cocky man with, admittedly, much to be cocky about. At...
The fall and rise of the Baldwin dynasty
One is in celebrity rehab, another's an evangelical preacher. And the other two? They're in hit TV shows. Andrea Hubert celebrates the rise, fall and miraculous return of the Baldwin brothers...Audien...
Masi Oka- super Hiro
In Heroes, Masi Oka is an office worker who bends time and space. In real life, he's a computer genius who creates special effects for Georges Lucas and Clooney. He could be the biggest geek on earth....