1. Gerald Robert Flood was a British actor of stage and television.
11 Facts About Gerald Flood
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Gerald Flood served as a wireless operator in the RAF during World War II, and worked as a filing clerk before becoming an actor.
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Gerald Flood joined the Farnham Repertory Company after the war.
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Gerald Flood came to national prominence whilst starring alongside Patrick Allen and Sam Kydd in the Morocco-based police series, Crane, which ran from 1963 to 1965 on ITV.
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In June 1967 Gerald Flood took over from Donald Sinden the role of Robert Danvers in the hit comedy There's a Girl in My Soup, at The Globe Theatre in London's West End, which he played until December 1968.
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Gerald Flood appeared in a number of other television roles over the years.
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Gerald Flood starred as spy Peregrine Smith in The Rat Catchers.
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Gerald Flood portrayed Sir Richard Flashman in the BBC's popular 1971 television serial Tom Brown's Schooldays and was in Bachelor Father.
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Gerald Flood appeared in Steptoe and Son, Raffles, Crown Court, Two in Clover, 'The Madras House and Comedy Playhouse.
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Gerald Flood died from a heart attack on 12 April 1989, nine days before his 62nd birthday.
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Gerald Flood was on the sleeper train which came off the rails at Morpeth, Northumberland on 24 June 1984.