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What's happened to the actors who played the five?


Anyone know of anything that happened to the five? Why is there no web-sites on them today? if there is please leave a link

Thanks!

Warner Classic Man

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Marcus Harris quit acting after the famous five series. He lives near Oxford today and runs an office in Reading.

Gary Russell lives east of London and is a member of the Dr. Who staff, he directed the english radio play of Dr. Who. He's the only one to have a website but it's momentarily offline. http://www.gary.dircon.co.uk/gaz.htm

Jennifer Thanisch is married, has two children and lives somewhere near Sussex. Her husband is a teacher. She quit acting after famous five and lives very reclusively and refuses to go to fan meetings.

Michele Gallagher is believed to live in Germany today. Her whereabouts is unknown and Marcus Harris talked to her the last time back in 1999.

Here's some info on the others too:

Timmy died after the first season and the producers managed to get a double dog and didn't tell the children. Only later they learned that Timmy has died of cancer.

Sue Best died in 2002.

Michael Hinz had a long and successful TV career and plays act now in theater plays. He's always touring.

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Thanks for the info! It would be great if they gave the show a dvd release, just for us grown up children!

Warner Classic

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hi lobotomykid
may i ask you where you got your information regarding these details of the famous five characters, toddy included.
i have found no reference to any of this on the net and was wondering about the accuracy as i'm in the process of putting together a fan site myself.
thanks a lot
zentaochi

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That's a fantastic idea. It's one of those shows everybody of a certain age remembers watching. Lobotomykid's info is very detailed. How DO you know so much about the cast?

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Sad to hear about Sue Best's death, any details of what she died of and how old she was?

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Michele Gallagher is believed to live in Germany today.


Any idea whether this is Michelle Gallager's Facebook page?
Note the spelling of "Gallager" and the fact that it's a German Facebook page.

http://de.facebook.com/people/Michelle_Gallager/698304047

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There's a pic of Gary Russell here (I assume it's the same one!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gary_Russell.jpg

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Have a look at you tube. Several copies of the opening titles have been put up in different languages. Great to hear it in German! The comments to each are even more interesting though. One guy says he knew Michelle Gallagher well and that she died about 5 years ago after what was described as quite a tragic life. Tried to verify this elsewhere on the net without success.

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I heard that Michele Gallagher died.

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Gary Russell went on to become script editor of some episodes of Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who.

Its that man again!!

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Michelle Gallagher's IMDB bio says she committed suicide in 2000. :(

Here's a recent radio interview with the three surviving lead actors:

http://www.sunshinehospitalradio.co.uk/famous5reunited.htm

Perhaps out of tact they don't mention what became of Michelle.

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yeah its on her imdb profile it said she committed Suicide :(

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Is there any other confirmation of her death other than some comment on Youtube and her IMDB profile? It seems very vague and as we all know IMDB content is used created/submitted and thus is not infallible.

The BFI website has her listed under some roles as late as 2009, though I supposed they could be mistaken....

Here's a link to BFI's profile page on her -

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba4048c34






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The details are sketchy, but Michele Gallagher's Famous Five co-stars Gary Russell and Marcus Harris have both said she is deceased. However, they seem reluctant to publicly discuss any specific details of her death.

http://tinyurl.com/nza93of
http://tinyurl.com/7ua8jv3 (article in German - apparently the TV show was very popular in Germany)

A few other people who say they were close to her, have posted online that she died in January 2001 (not 2000 as stated in her IMDb profile):
http://tinyurl.com/3n2bq5f
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZN-9HQ4

It would seem the BFI has confused the late Famous Five actress with another actress who happens to share the same name: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1733520

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