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John Campbell Wells[1] (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. [2] Early life. The son of a cleric, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [2] Career.
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Jan 12, 1998 · John Wells, the satirist and comic actor who co-authored the "Dear Bill" letters in Private Eye, died from cancer yesterday, at the age of 61.
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John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s...
Wells was one of the group of satirists who made their names in British TV in the 1960s. He was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye, which Peel read regularly, and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Peel had John Wells as a guest on the Night Ride programme of 06 November 1968, when Wells criticised the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson, accusing him of indifference to the suffering caused by the civil war in Nigeria; pictures of starving children in the rebel province of Biafra were at the time unavoidable, both in newspapers and on TV. Wilson, notoriously sensitive to media criticism (especially from the staff of Private Eye, whom he regarded as a bunch of snobbish ex-public schoolboys), demanded an apology from the BBC, which Peel was obliged, much to his displeasure, to read out on the following programme. (According to Ken Garner, Wells's critical comments earned Peel and Radio 1 controller Robin Scott(2) "an official dressing down by Sir David Hunt, High Commissioner for Nigeria")
The Herald reports the death of John Wells, who co-wrote the Dear Bill letters and portrayed Denis Thatcher in a play and TV show. He was a former schoolmaster, a cabaret artist and a translator of opera and plays.
John Wells. Actor: Casino Royale. John Wells was born on 17 November 1936 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Casino Royale (1967), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). He was married to Teresa Chancellor.
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John Wells was born on 17 November 1936 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Casino Royale (1967), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). He was married to Teresa Chancellor. He died on 11 January 1998 in Sussex, England, UK.
Jan 11, 1998 · Satirist John Wells, best known for his caricatures of Denis Thatcher, has died from cancer at the age of 61. Mr Wells, who co-wrote Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters and also portrayed...
