Gordon Rollings, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gordon Rollings

British actor

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1926

Place of Birth: Batley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1985

Profession: actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Gordon Rollings

  • Gordon Charles Rollings (17 April 1926 – 7 June 1985) was an English actor who mainly appeared on television, but also appeared on-stage and in feature films.
  • He was born in Batley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1926 and started his career in radio in Israel.
  • It was in Palestine while serving for the British Army as part of the Palestine Mandate that he was shot by a sniper of the Stern Gang.
  • He later trained as a clown in Paris, appearing in the Medrano Circus.Rollings made an uncredited screen appearance in the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.
  • He played the man in the pub who is shocked to find that Ringo has thrown a dart into his lunch.
  • Director Richard Lester later used him in both Superman films he directed: in the first, he plays a fisherman who is stunned to see General Zod walking on water and in the second, he appears as a pedestrian in a flat cap who upsets a display of toy penguins that triggers the slapstick chaos in the opening credits scene. After a number of small parts in TV shows such as Z-Cars in the early 1960s, on 21 April 1964, he was the first presenter of BBC 2's daily programme for young children, Play School, alongside Virginia Stride.
  • In the same year he played the character of Charlie Moffitt in Coronation Street.
  • He was a storyteller in Jackanory in 1966-67, reading among others, the story of Worzel Gummidge.
  • (Rollings would later appear in a 1981 episode of the televised series of Worzel Gummidge).
  • He later narrated The Herbs, and as the character Arkwright with his small dog, Tonto, in the adverts for John Smith's Bitter.

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