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Actor. Spouse. Margaret Mary McConnell (a.k.a. "Paddy Lennox") . . ( m. 1941) . Children. 2. Deryck Bower Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best remembered for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes.
Deryck Guyler. Actor: A Hard Day's Night. Deryck Guyler, born at the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 at Liverpool in England, was the only child of Elsie and Samuel Guyler. He grew up in Liverpool and had his senior education at Liverpool College. On leaving school he tried his hand at a few things including working with his father in the family ...
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- Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
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- Brisbane, Australia
Apr 21, 2024 · Published: Sunday 21st April 2024. For much of the Sixties and Seventies on British television, Deryck Guyler was the comic embodiment of the Jobsworth - the most familiar focus for instances of small-time officialdom's routine pettiness, self-protective slothfulness and prosaic pettifoggery. If ever a sitcom required a low-ranked authority ...
October 7, 1999 · Brisbane, Australia (natural causes) Height. 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Bio. Deryck Guyler, born at the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 at Liverpool in England, was the only child of Elsie and Samuel Guyler. He grew up in Liverpool and had his senior education at Liverpool College.
- April 29, 1914
- October 7, 1999
Jul 8, 2022 · Deryck Guyler. An unsung master of comic creations, Deryck Guyler became a radio star almost overnight in 1946, before finding a whole new audience on television over 20 years later. Always modest, Guyler once described himself as "being the best support since elastic." Deryck Bower Guyler was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England on 29 April 1914.
Oct 7, 1999 · Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, and brought up on the other side of the River Mersey in Liverpool, Lancashire, where his father was a jeweller. He attended Liverpool College and originally planned a career in the church. During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments ...
