Martin Wimbush was a British actor known for his roles in film, television, and theatre.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Wimbush trained at the

Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music school, music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz al ...

between 1967 and 1969, and then worked extensively in regional theatre, before going into television and then later into film.

Career

His television appearances include '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1975), '' The Glittering Prizes'' (1976), '' Happy Ever After'' (1976), ''

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'' (1981), '' Educating Marmalade'' (1982), '' No Problem!'' (1983), ''

Terry and June ''Terry and June'' is a BBC television sitcom, broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987. The show was largely a reworking of '' Happy Ever After'', and starred Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a middle-aged, middle-class suburban couple, Terry and J ...

'' (1983), '' Boon'' (1986), ''

Lovejoy ''Lovejoy'' is a British television comedy-drama mystery fiction, mystery series, based on the Lovejoy (novel series), novels by John Grant (Lovejoy), John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six ser ...

'' (1993), ''

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'' (1993), '' Then Churchill Said to Me'' (1993), ''

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'' (1995), ''

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'' (1997), '' Vanity Fair'' (1998), ''

Randall and Hopkirk ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and prod ...

'' (2000), '' Micawber'' (2001), '' The Iron Duke'' (2002), ''

The Lost Prince ''The Lost Prince'' is a 2003 British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John had epileptic seizures and an autism-like developme ...

'' (2003), ''

Born and Bred ''Born and Bred'' is a British light-hearted 1950s-set medical drama series aired on BBC One which ran from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005. It was created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery. Initially the cast was led by James Bolam and Mic ...

'' (2003), ''

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'' (2007), ''

Garrow's Law ''Garrow's Law'' is a British period legal drama about the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow. The series debuted on 1 November 2009 on BBC One and BBC HD television. A second series was announced on 7 July 2010 and was broadcast from 14 Novem ...

'' (2009), ''

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'' (2010), and '' Hustle'' (2012).Wimbush
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Wimbush appeared in the films ''

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'' (1992), '' Gangster No. 1'' (2000), '' Mean Machine'' (2001), ''

Bridget Jones's Diary ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Fielding, which was itself a loose ...

'' (2001), ''

Ali G Indahouse ''Ali G Indahouse'' is a 2002 comedy film written by Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer, directed by Mark Mylod, and starring Baron Cohen as Ali G, the character he originally played on the Channel 4 comedy series '' The 11 O'Clock Show'' and ''D ...

'' (2002), ''

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'' (2004), '' The Iron Lady'' (2012), and ''

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'' (2012). His stage appearances included The Rev. Mr. Crisparkle in ''

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'' at the

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(1987), Dr Mandril in '' City of Angels'' at the

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(1993), Parchester in ''

Me and My Girl ''Me and My Girl'' is a musical with music by Noel Gay and its original book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose. The story, set in the late 1930s, tells of an unapologetically unrefined Cockney gentleman named Bill Snibson, wh ...

'' at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (2001), Alderman Fitzwarren in ''

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'' at the Civic Theatre in

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(2002), Baron Hardup in ''

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'' at the

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(2004), Brassett in ''

Charley's Aunt ''Charley's Aunt'' is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter's aunt. The complications of the plot in ...

'' at the

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(2004), and Rupert Matthew in '' Moonshadow'' at Jerwood Space (2005).Wimbush's profile
on

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Personal life

Wimbush lived in Wandsworth London, and Rye East Sussex. He died on 1 December 2024 from motor neurone disease.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Wimbush's profile on Actors and Writers London website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wimbush, Martin 1949 births 2024 deaths English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors Living people Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Male actors from London Deaths from motor neuron disease