| 词条 | John Challis |
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| name = John Challis | image = John Challis.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Challis pictured in Shrewsbury, November 2007. | birth_name = John Spurley Challis | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|8|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1964–present | spouse = Jean Robertson (1966) (divorced) Debbie Arnold (1981–1985) (divorced) Sabina Franklyn (1987–1988) (divorced) Carol A Davies (1995–present) |residence = Hereford, England }} John Spurley Challis[1] (born 16 August 1942) is an English actor best known for portraying Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce 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 made guest appearances as "Monty Staines" from the seventh series onwards in the hit ITV comedy Benidorm, later becoming a regular from series 10 in 2018. BiographyHis father James Alec, from Sheffield, was a civil servant. An only child, Challis was born in Bristol but when he was one year old, the family moved to south east London.[2] Challis attended the state boarding Ottershaw School near Woking, Surrey. Upon leaving school he worked as a trainee estate agent before becoming a professional actor. An early television role, in 1969, was in the controversial gangster drama Big Breadwinner Hog, and between 1971 and 1975 he made regular appearances in Z-Cars as Sergeant Culshaw.[3] He played Herman Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce for many years in Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} His other television appearances include Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Doctor Who (The Seeds of Doom), Dracula, Beau Geste, Juliet Bravo, Coronation Street, Bloomers, Citizen Smith, Ever Decreasing Circles, Doctor Snuggles, Chance in a Million, The Bill, One Foot in the Grave, Open All Hours, The New Statesman, Don't Wait Up, Soldier Soldier, Brass Eye, My Family, In Sickness and in Health, Last Of The Summer Wine, and Heartbeat. The outdoor scenes of The Green Green Grass were filmed at his then home, surrounding fields and local villages. Four series were broadcast by BBC One from 2005–2009. In the 2008 series of Last of the Summer Wine he guest-starred as a fake jewel thief, trying to impress the ladies. Challis appeared on the Channel 4 mockumentary television programme Brass Eye, where he was tricked into believing Clive Anderson had been shot by Noel Edmonds. On BBC radio, he played an interrogator in the play Rules of Asylum by James Follett, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1973. He also played Dibden Purlew in Getting Nowhere Fast from 2001 to 2004. Challis has had a number of stage roles. He starred in pantomime at the Plaza Theatre in Stockport as Captain Hook in Peter Pan, a role he reprised in 2018 at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham. He also appeared in pantomime at Weston Playhouse in winter 2011–12 playing Ebenezer in Aladdin and as King Rat in Dick Whittington at the Plaza Theatre in Stockport over Christmas 2013 and New Year 2014. In 2006 he took a cameo role in BBC's The Impressionists as Station Master Garre Saint Lézasr. He appeared alongside Christmas enthusiasts Paul Toole and Chris Elliott in the Channel 4 documentary King Of Christmas Lights, which aired on 19 December 2011, switching on the Christmas lights at Manning Close in Wells, Somerset, on 30 November.{{cn|date=December 2013}} He also flicked the switch in Weston Super Mare on 1 December 2011. In 2013 Challis occasionally contributed to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Live Tour as the narrator. Challis has written two volumes of autobiography, Being Boycie and Boycie & Beyond.[4] From April 2012 he embarked on a book tour to promote Being Boycie, starting at Waterstones in Uxbridge, and the same year became the narrator of the National Geographic Channel series Strippers: Cars for Cash. In 2014, Challis began a theatre tour of his one-man show titled Only Fools and Boycie, which charted his life before, during and after his time as 'Boycie'. In February 2016 Challis performed An Evening With John Challis in Derby.{{cn|date=September 2016}} On 19 February 2016 Challis was cast in the role of Captain Peacock taking over the role originally played by Frank Thornton in a remake of Are You Being Served?[5] The episode aired on BBC in August 2016.[6] He also has starred in Benidorm.[7] Personal lifeChallis is currently married to his fourth wife Carol. They married in 1995 in Brighton[8] and live in the former grange house of Wigmore Abbey, Wigmore, Herefordshire. Challis has no children. Challis is a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.[9] He is an Arsenal supporter.[10] References1. ^Being Boycie (2011) - p 9 2. ^Being Boycie (2011) - p 9 3. ^{{cite book |last=Challis |first=John |date=2011 |title=Being Boycie |url= |location= |publisher=Wigmore Books Ltd |pages=250 |isbn=0956906109 |accessdate= }} 4. ^{{cite news | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9584902/Boycie-and-Beyond-by-John-Challis-review.html | title= Boycie & Beyond by John Challis: review | publisher=The Daily Telegraph | first=Martin | last=Chilton | date=6 October 2012 | accessdate=9 September 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3453796/BAZ-BAMIGBOYE-Stars-say-m-free-remake-TV-classic-Served.html|title=Stars say 'Im Free for remake of TV classic Are You Being Served?|publisher=Daily Mail|date=19 February 2016|accessdate=19 February 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/08/28/are-you-being-served-made-mrs-browns-boys-look-like-wodehouse--r/|title=Are You Being Served? made Mrs Brown's Boys look like Wodehouse – review|publisher=}} 7. ^https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/voices/opinions/john-challis/2018/01/29/john-challis-were-back-as-benidorm-hits-10th-series/ 8. ^England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 - April, May, June quarter 1995 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2015/09/30/star-boycie-gets-prickly-with-bird-charity-over-hedeghogs/|title=Star 'Boycie' gets prickly with bird charity over hedeghogs « Shropshire Star|publisher=}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/only-fools-horses-boycie-john-6594197|title='I'm on my fourth wife... not counting Marlene'|publisher=Birmingham Mail|date=26 January 2014|accessdate=12 March 2019}} External links
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