Giovanni Philip William "Joe" Melia (23 January 1935,

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– 20 October 2012,

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) was a British actor. Educated at the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School and

Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to the university between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the oldest of ...

, where he read English, he first came to notice in Peter Nichols’s '' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' (Glasgow Citizens, 1967).

Selected filmography

Film

Television

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Obituary
The Guardian, 7 November 2012 * 1935 births 2012 deaths Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge People educated at City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English people of Italian descent Actors from the London Borough of Camden People from Camden Town {{england-actor-stub