| Programme: |
An Actor's Life For Me |
| Broadcast: |
1991 (BBC) |
| Episodes: |
6 (1 series) |
| Starring: |
John Gordon-Sinclair, Gina McKee, Victor Spinetti |
| Written by: |
Paul Mayhew-Archer |
| Directed by: |
Bryan Izzard |
| Production: |
British Broadcasting Corporation  |
| Synopsis: |
A struggling actor, Robert Neilson (John Gordon-Sinclair) gets
himself into various scrapes as he takes often humiliating
jobs (e.g. the classic play "Strap up your Jocks") in his
attempts to get his career off the ground. Victor Spinetti
plays the agent trying to get it all together, and Gina McKee
is his long-suffering girlfriend, Susan.
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| BSG Review: |
This is a highly underrated sitcom. Extraordinarily never
repeated after its original broadcast in 1991 it is full of
laugh out loud moments in the true tradition of British farce
sitcoms. Similar in style and feel to the other much underrated
and non-repeated sitcom "Joking Apart".
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| Notes: |
Following this series, Paul Mayhew-Archer went on to write
Nelson's Column, also starring John Gordon-Sinclair.
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