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No Credit for Mr.Bazzard (but i recognise him)

posted 12 years ago by LovelyLabrys
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It is quite a large part, so i assume that it must be an oversight. However, i am sure that i recognise him. I think that it may be the same guy that was in the drama about Corrie and also Secret Diary of a Call Girl (who married her friend)

"Never Eat More Than You Can Lift" - Miss Piggy.

[–] LovelyLabrys 12 years ago

Tis him. I found out in a round about way. He is called David Dawson, and this production is mentioned on his list of credits, even though it doesn't mention him here.

"Never Eat More Than You Can Lift" - Miss Piggy.

[–] shellieeyre 12 years ago

He was wonderful as Tony Warren in "The Road To Coronation Street" and very good in this too. "Oh, the excitement". Very droll.

Don't get arrested - even Seth knew that and he used to point at planes.

[–] mmcvey1 11 years ago

I'm so glad you provided this information. I thought he did a great job in the part, very entertaining. I hope they rectify this omission and list him as a cast member.

[–] minifie-1 12 years ago

He is credited in the cast for episode two but not in the overall cast list,possibly because he is only in the one episode and their overview is of players featured in both.

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[–] austendw 12 years ago

Yes. A very funny and beguiling performance.

Call me Ishmael...

[–] suky 12 years ago

I'm so glad someone answered this question. Thanks! Agreed, it was a very good performance. And I thought he looked familiar, but I'm not sure where I've seen him before, if at all. (Will check that out next.)

I can't believe the answer to this question was posted three months ago and the IMDb cast list still hasn't been updated. (It's especially confusing as I kept thinking I was missing something because he calls himself Dick Datchery; I don't remember hearing "Mr. Bazzard" referred to in the show. So I didn't even know who I was looking for in the credits.)

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[–] tearose312 12 years ago

I liked this performance a lot as well and am glad to have the actor's name -- as someone said, it's a bit confusing because he is both Bazzard and Datchery, right? Datchery is a mysterious character. The only other adaptation of Edwin Drood I had seen was the old film with Claude Rains as Jasper -- made by Universal Horror and made to look like a horror film of the 1930s. In that version Neville Landless disguises himself as Datchery, the actor plays both roles. As far as I know TCM has only shown the film once and I hope to see it again sometime. In that one, the Landless twins look Anglo Saxon, no hint of being half Ceylonese.

[–] austendw 12 years ago

Well I guess you could watch it, after a fashion, on You Tube. Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjvJYE0gpvI... etc.

In that one, the Landless twins look Anglo Saxon, no hint of being half Ceylonese.

I'm not sure I agree with you on that score. It's true that Douglass Montgomery and Valerie Hobson are pretty solidly Anglo-Saxon, but look again at how they have been made up. Montgomery was naturally blonde, yet look at his close-up at 48 seconds into part 2, and again at 01:48 etc, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKz06QEhkUQ&feature=relmfu

You'll note that he is given very dark hair, dark eyebrows, a generally dark foundation, tons of mascara and dark lipstick. In the second scene he's clearly a lot darker than Francis Sullivan. The make-up department is going out of its way to show him as heavily tanned. Of course, he could simply be an Anglo-Saxon, who has spent all his life in Ceylon, and is therefore simply tanned but I think there is some ambiguity here - as there is in Dicken's when the Landlesses are introduced as "both very dark, and very rich in colour".

And that's also true here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc0dkGXqKZ0&feature=relmfu at 11:02 Valerie Hobson as Helena Landless surely looks as dark as her brother; darker than all the other women in the scene, which very aptly conveys Dickens' description of her as being "of almost the gipsy type". Again, not impossible for an Anglo-Saxon brought up in the sub-continent, but could it mean more?

As a result, when Edwin Drood says to Neville Landless that "we English don't encourage fellows with dark skins to admire our girls," I don't think we can't be entirely sure that the implications regarding Ned's racial background don't have some basis in fact.

Call me Ishmael...

[–] tearose312 12 years ago

You could be right, I have only seen the old Edwin Drood once -- as far as I know TCM has only shown it once. I looked at the cast list -- Valerie Hobson was always one of those English rose types -- I would love to see it again. Maybe I should have said, in the old movie, the Landless twins were played by typical Anglo Saxon actors, not like the new series shown on PBS. As I have not read Edwin Drood, I am assuming the Landless twins were Ceylonese on their mother's side in the book? I didn't recall the line about fellows with dark skins, so you must be right that the Landless twins were not meant to be typical Anglo Saxons.

[–] friendofthebard 12 years ago

Thank you, LovelyLabrys. Like some others, I came here to try to find out the name of the actor who plays Bazzard.

David Dawson is also in an old episode of "Doc Martin." Really too bad he's not in the main cast list.

"Makeup is pointless!"

[–] embacal 11 years ago

I'm so glad you posted this information. I came here for information about Bazzard as well. He was the only bright spot in this dreary production.

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (5947) 4 years ago

Yes, that's the one. He's a fop, much like the character Russell Brand always plays.

Later shows up as Alfred the Great! Quite a different sort of character.