1. Gordon Irving Kaye, known professionally as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor.
16 Facts About Gorden Kaye
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Harold Gorden Kaye was a lorry driver in the ARP during the Second World War, and at other times worked as an engineering operative in a tractor factory.
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Gorden Kaye worked in hospital radio in Huddersfield, and worked in textile mills, a wine factory, and a tractor factory.
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Gorden Kaye had appeared in a radio play directed by Alan Ayckbourn and in a television play from Manchester.
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Gorden Kaye appeared in the 1978 comedy short The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, starring Leonard Rossiter, and featured as Dines in the feature film version of Porridge alongside Ronnie Barker.
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Gorden Kaye appeared in the TV show about a Yorkshire vet, All Creatures Great and Small and in the private detective series Shoestring.
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In 1981, Gorden Kaye appeared as Frank Broadhurst in the children's drama serial Codename Icarus.
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Gorden Kaye played Dr Grant in a television adaptation of Mansfield Park and Lymoges, Duke of Austria in the 1984 BBC production of King John by Shakespeare.
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Gorden Kaye toured in the National Theatre production of As You Like It, as Touchstone.
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In 1990, Gorden Kaye played the fictional local television presenter Maynard Lavery in an edition of Last of the Summer Wine.
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In 1995 Gorden Kaye played Monsieur Pamplemousse in a BBC Radio three-part adaption of Michael Bond's 1990 novel Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates.
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Gorden Kaye accepted and appeared in all 85 episodes and 1,200 performances of the stage version.
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Gorden Kaye admitted spending three or four evenings with male prostitutes from a Soho club, later saying it was a "silly thing to do".
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Gorden Kaye suffered serious life-threatening head injuries in a car accident while driving his Honda CRX, during the Burns' Day Storm in London on 25 January 1990.
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Gorden Kaye was rescued by the police and taken to Charing Cross Hospital.
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Gorden Kaye suffered from dementia and spent the last two years of his life in a care home in Knaresborough, where he died, on 23 January 2017, aged 75.