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Though he had a long and varied career on stage and screen, Peter Bowles achieved his greatest popular success on mainstream TV as the debonair nouveau riche tycoon Richard De Vere, head of a supermarket and catering chain, forever matching wits with Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) in To the Manor Born (1979). From then on, the London-born actor's stock-in-trade tended to be charming, likeable rogues, rakish lotharios and flamboyant or snobbish posh types. While on screen the very ideal of style and cultivation, Bowles himself came from a relatively humble working class background, the son of Herbert Reginald Bowles (valet, chauffeur and, eventually, butler to English aristocracy) and Scottish-born Sarah Jane Harrison (who worked as a nanny for the Duke of Argyll). His parents met while employed by the family of Lord Beaverbrook. Both worked hard to send their 16 year-old son to drama school at RADA, his mother even taking on night time work at a hospital to pay for his fees. Considered a bright youngster, Bowles graduated with ease. Having made his theatrical debut at the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre in 1953, he joined the Old Vic company three years later to play small parts in Shakespearean plays.
Considered by casting directors to be either too tall or 'too swarthy' to play Englishmen on screen, Bowles spent much of the 60s as a minor TV villain, essaying an assortment of shady characters with names like Borowitsch, Mendez, Butros or Gamal. By the time he hit the jackpot with To the Manor Born, Bowles was in his 40s. At last, he was wisely employed on television, generally cast as characters who would walk that fine line between elegant heroics and raffish villainy. From the early 70s, he starred or co-starred in more than a few series, some dramas, some comedies, most of them gems: Napoleon and Love (1974) (as Murat), the hospital sitcom Only When I Laugh (1979) (Archie Glover), The Bounder (1982) (roguish ex-convict Howard Booth, a part specially written for Bowles by Eric Chappell), The Irish R.M. (1983) (Major Sinclair Yeates), Lytton's Diary (1985) (a series Bowles himself created, playing Fleet Street gossip columnist Neville Lytton) and Perfect Scoundrels (1990) (very much in character as the consummate grifter Guy Buchanan). He also played the ambitious Guthrie Featherstone Q.C. in 17 instalments of Rumpole of the Bailey (1978). His final recurring role of note was as the Duke of Wellington in the popular period drama Victoria (2016).
An intelligent and versatile actor, Bowles disliked being labeled as a sitcom star and latterly lamented the fact that major classical roles on stage had eluded him, saying "... the classics are done by the big companies or by the directors from the big companies and for reasons best known to them I have never been asked." If not Shakespeare or Chekhov, Bowles nonetheless headlined in a number of prestigious plays, many of them produced by Peter Hall (including The Browning Version, Sleuth and Wait Until Dark). He also played the bogus Major Angus Pollock in a 1993 revival of Terence Rattigan 's Separate Tables, Professor Higgins in Pygmalion at the Chichester Festival Theatre and (in a special performance) George MacDonald Fraser 's colourful arch cad Harry Flashman.
Bowles was married for more than sixty years to the former actress Susan Bennett with whom he had three children. The iconic actor passed away from cancer on March 17 2022 at the age of 85.- Richard Elkins was born on 3 June 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Tick, Tick, Tick (1970), Number One (1969) and Black Chariot (1971). He died on 17 March 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Oksana Shvets was born on 10 February 1955 in Ukraine. She was an actress, known for Vozvrashchenie Mukhtara (2003), Nasledniki (1976) and Tayna «Svtatogo Patrika» (2006). She died on 17 March 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Natalya Nazarova was born on 28 June 1949 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]. She was an actress, known for A Slave of Love (1976), Molodaya zhena (1979) and A Little Doll (1988). She died on 17 March 2022 in Russia.
- Tadao Satô was born on 6 October 1930 in Niigata, Niigata, Japan. He was an actor and writer, known for Bantsuma - Bando Tsumasaburo no shogai (1988), Zodiac Killers (1991) and Mr. Rookie (2002). He was married to Hisako Satô. He died on 17 March 2022.
- Jeanette Kelly died on 17 March 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Bobby Nalzaro was married to Cecil Nalzaro. He died on 17 March 2022 in Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.
- Sergey Sorogin was born on 19 September 1980. He was an actor, known for Na vsekh shirotakh (2009). He died on 17 March 2022.
- Siegfried Steiger was born on 15 December 1929 in Bad Brambach, Germany. He was married to Ute Steiger. He died on 17 March 2022 in Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Pascual Condito was born on 18 August 1948 in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for Bombón: El Perro (2004), Matar a Videla (2009) and El frasco (2008). He was married to Silvia López. He died on 17 March 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Artem Datsyshyn was born on 26 January 1979 in Kherson, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for La dame aux camélias (2017). He died on 17 March 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- PFK CJ was born on 16 August 2001. He was an actor, known for PFK CJ feat. Luh Street: LongLiveDeyDey (2020). He died on 17 March 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Goonew was an actor, known for Goonew: On the Run (2017), Goonew: Honda (2017) and Goonew: Bag (2017). He died on 17 March 2022 in Maryland, USA.
- GuwapDaWiz was an actor, known for Z Bo feat. GuwapDaWiz & HBG Doom: Rotation (2021). He died on 17 March 2022 in Miramar, Florida, USA.
- Michelle Sapene was born in 1981 in Venezuela. She died on 17 March 2022 in Miami, Florida, USA.
- Domenico Demarco was born on 1 December 1936 in Caserta, Campania, Italy. He died on 17 March 2022 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.