Lewis collins actor biography

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    My tribute to him

    I first met Lewis when I served as a sergeant with 10 Para Recruit Training Wing. It was either Nov 78 or Feb 79 as neither of us could remember. Lew had came to do his Parachute Regiment recruit selection. I was one of his Selection and Training Instructors.

    His course ran for three weekends at the Finchley drill hall and then a fortnight straight off at St Martins Plain Folkestone Camp. It was not a holiday camp that was for sure.

    This course saw one of the coldest winters. I had known in my 5 years on training wing. it was very much the survival of the strongest and the fittest both physically and mentally.

    At the time Lewis did his selection we started with about persons.. At the end of the course we had about 40 left of which about 25/30 passed. Lewis being one of them. He got no favours from the staff and the pressure on him was more than others due to his fame. He passed on his own merit.

    Lewis had a great trainer to thank Colour Sgt John Newm

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    Having felt for some time that there just wasn't enough acting work in the U.K., Lewis decided to base his career in the United States in order to capitalise on his exposure there through Jack the Ripper. But despite the success of the show, he had only one starring rôle there in , in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He came close to landing another coveted rôle, that of Simon Templar in a new production of The Saint but narrowly missed getting the part. So he decided to pursue one of his other ambitions and enrolled on a two-year course at UCLA studying film direction, which meant that, apart from a cameo appearance in A Ghost in Monte Carlo filmed at the end of , he was pretty much absent from the screen for the duration of his studies. But he found being out of the limelight a little frustrating, saying "I feel like an artist who doesn't get his work seen."66

    He returned to British television in as a murder victim in an episode of Cluedo which was i

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    Lewis Collins

    English actor (–)

    For other people named Lewis Collins, see Lewis Collins (disambiguation).

    Lewis Collins (27 May – 27 November )[1][2] was an English actor, best known for his career-defining role playing 'Bodie' in the late s – early s British television series The Professionals.[1][3]

    Early life

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    Collins was born in Bidston, Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire.[1] At the age of two he won 'The Most Beautiful Baby in Liverpool' contest.[4] He was educated at Gautby Road Primary School, Grange School in Birkenhead[1] and the Birkenhead Institute School.[5]

    When he was 13 years of age, his father Bill, a jazz dance band leader, bought him a drum kit.[6][7] His first gig was playing with his father's grupp, and he also joined a group of older school pupils to struktur a grupp called The Renegades at the början of the Merseybeat music scene in Liv