John Smethurst was an English television and film comic actor.
13 Facts About Jack Smethurst
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Jack Smethurst was best known for his role as Eddie Booth in the British television sitcom Love Thy Neighbour.
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Jack Smethurst was born on 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester.
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Jack Smethurst performed national service in the Royal Air Force and trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Jack Smethurst made his film debut in 1958's Carry On Sergeant.
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Jack Smethurst reprised his role as Eddie Booth for the 1979 sequel Love Thy Neighbour in Australia.
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Jack Smethurst made a guest appearance as Davenport in Britain's longest-running television sitcom Last of the Summer Wine in 1997.
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Jack Smethurst played four different characters in Coronation Street: a brewery drayman in 1961, and in January 1967 Percy Bridge, who tried to con Elsie Tanner.
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Jack Smethurst starred in Vince Powell's seven-part BBC Radio 2 slice-of-life sitcom A Proper Charlie in 1984, as factory worker Charlie Garside.
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Jack Smethurst worked on stage in Australia when he appeared in the play Run for Your Wife during 1987 and 1988, and the production toured the country.
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Jack Smethurst appeared in a production of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in 1999.
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The couple had four children including Adam Jack Smethurst, who became an actor.
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Jack Smethurst died at his home in Chorleywood on 16 February 2022, aged 89.