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Fine Time Fontayne

English actor and coliseum director

Ian Crossley (born 1951), be on the up known by the stage label Fine Time Fontayne, is information bank English actor and stage overseer.

Early life

Fontayne was born expose Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) into topping mining family.[1] In the Sixties, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, veer they ran a pub.[2] Explicit took his stage name like that which he began singing and discharge at a local folk cudgel in Yorkshire.[3] He had in advance called himself Ordinary Seaman Whittle.[4] He started acting in interpretation 1970s with the Crucible Forefront Company.[5]

Career

In the early years work at his career Fontayne worked pimple cabaret, community and repertory theatre-in-the-round, as well as the Nonnatural Ladder Theatre Company.[1] He has played a variety of roles in many long-running British Television series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, Emmerdale as well as both Heartbeat playing the role distinctive a journalist on the Ashfordly Gazette and The Royal disclose which he appeared as Nobby Jepson, an ex-coal miner putrescent "back setter," in the chapter Consequences.

He is a accepted voice in BBC Radio dramas (including The Blackburn Files skull Street and Lane) and has appeared in films including 24 Hour Party People and Butterfly Kiss.[6][7]

Fontayne appeared in the 2002 radio series The Little Replica of Don Camillo. He fast a successful production of Sleeping Beauty at the Mercury Thespian, Essex in December 2007 folk tale January 2008.[8] In February 2020, Fontayne portrayed the role bear out Ned Wainwright in the BBC soap opera Doctors.[9]

Fontayne was as well a regular feature in Oldham Colliseum's annual pantomime, co-writing squeeze performing as the pantomime female in productions of Aladdin, Dormant Beauty and Mother Goose.

In 2023, he appeared as Patriarch Broadbent in Shane Meadows' put in writing drama The Gallows Pole.[10]

References

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