Freddie Fletcher
Grimethorpe born Freddie Fletcher is an actor who is best known for his role as Jud Casper, the bullying brother in Ken Loach's classic 1969 film Kes. Prior to the film, Fletcher had no acting experience and was working as a painter and decorator but, after the film proved a success, Fletcher secured a number of TV roles, most notably as layabout Raymond Shepherd, one of Diana Dors's wayward sons in the popular comedy series Queenie's Castle. Roles in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, All Creatures Great and Small, Children's Ward and Heartbeat followed, along with four Play for Today's, Jack Rosenthal's Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. and the 1974 film Juggernaut. His last acting role was as Judd the barman in the 1996 movie When Saturday Comes. The film, about Sheffield United, starred Sean Bean who recommended him for the part. Fletcher still lives in Grimethorpe with his wife, Joy, who was Willowgarth School's non-teaching Head of Year.
Kes
as JudBullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother,...
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Juggernaut
as 2nd Radio OfficerA terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs...
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When Saturday Comes
as JuddJimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working...
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Red Shift
as RandalThree men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from...
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Brothers in Trouble
as RedwayAmir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send...
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Keep an Eye on Albert
as JimPubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But...
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Nearly a Happy Ending
as TimA play by Victoria Wood. Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months....
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The Nature of the Beast
as Ned CowardA boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his...
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Shut Down
as BernieDuring Wakes Week in the Potteries, the factory is deserted except for three electricians on an...
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Steps Back
as Gerry's MateWhen Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they...
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All Creatures Great and Small
as Bob DerrickAll Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British...
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Peak Practice
as George MiltonPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Heartbeat
as Sam CarverSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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G.B.H.
as Poacher VicGBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of...
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Clouds of Glory
as Tom HutchinsonDramatization by Melvyn Bragg and Ken Russell of the lives of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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Queenie's Castle
as Raymond Herbert ShepherdThe lives and, often illegal, activities of the residents of a tower block in early 1970s Leeds,...
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