Bernard Gallagher was born on September 26, 1929 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He was an actor, known for Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. He went on to act and direct at repertory theatres in northern England and Scotland before joining the Royal Court company in 1966 and taking small roles in John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance and Joe Orton’s The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp. He died on November 27, 2016 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. In the Scottish soap Take the High Road (1981-89), he played the unscrupulous Lord Strathmorris. He was married to Sylvia Vickers. Bernard Gallagher (26 September 1929 - 27 November 2016) was an English actor known for his portrayal of Ewart Plimmer on Casualty from 1986 to 1988. Find out more Bernard Gallagher was born on September 26, 1929 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Bernard Gallagher (born Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK) is the British actor who played Bill Molesley in Downton Abbey. Behind the Scenes Both Gallagher and Downton co-star Hugh Bonneville were guest stars on the series Cadfael. One of four children of millworkers, Bernard Gallagher was born in Bradford on September 26 1929 and educated at St Bede’s Catholic grammar school and at Sheffield University, where he studied English. B ernard Gallagher, who has died aged 87, was a character actor with a strong physical resemblance to Bernard Cribbins, and was best known to television viewers as Ewart Plimmer… During a long association with the National Theatre, Gallagher enjoyed numerous small roles there and at other London theatres, while on radio he played Pope Paul VI in Roger Crane’s thriller The Last Confession (2008).In 1971, Bernard Gallagher married the actress Sylvia Vickers, who survives him with their son and daughter.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Plimmer describes himself as being “married to the job”, a fact that resulted in the destruction of his own marriage to Roz (Sonia Woolley). In later life, during the first four series of Downton Abbey (2010-13) Gallagher had a small role as Bill Molesley, widowed gardener, stalwart of the Downton village flower show and father of the footman Joseph (Kevin Doyle).
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Bernard Gallagher was born on September 26, 1929 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
Bernard Gallagher as Ewart Plimmer, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, in Casualty Bernard Gallagher as Jonathan Fry QC in Crown CourtBernard Gallagher (left) as Graham Watson, with Juliette Gruber as Jo Weston and Nick Berry as Nick Rowan in Heartbeat He had acted in the RAF and in 1956 was invited by an old RAF friend, Donald Sartain, to join his new theatre company at Lyme Regis, where he made his debut in Robert Morley’s comedy Hippo Dancing.
He was an actor, known for Casualty (1986), Moonfleet (1984) and A Brother's Tale (1983). He died on November 27, 2016 in Brighton, East Sussex, England.
After taking a diploma in education, he did his National Service in the RAF educational service, then taught English at a Birmingham technical college for a year. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. The stresses of the job led him to suffer two on-screen heart attacks, the second of which defied the efforts of Nurse Megan Roach (Brenda Fricker) to save him. He was an actor, known for Casualty (1986), Moonfleet (1984) and A Brother's Tale (1983).
He appeared as policemen in Coronation Street (1967 and 1974); The Sweeney (1975), Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em (1978) and Paula Milne’s Screen Two play Frankie and Johnnie (1986).