Robert McBain
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Robert McBain was an English
actor
, photographer and artist
.
He was born Robert Digby Bosher, in Wembley
, Middlesex
. His mother was Iris Rousham (who was sometimes called Barbara or Peggy) and his biological father was John Bosher.
Stage appearances:
McBain appeared in many television programmes including: -
He also started in feature films such as: -
He had his eldest son, Angus, with his first wife, Ann Clark, and two more children, Jon and Hannah, during his 11-year marriage to actress Patricia Brake.
In 1979, Bob married Maggie Henderson and they worked together many times over their 25 years of marriage; both in the West End and writing and performing many recitals.
Throughout his life, he developed his talents in photography and art, exhibiting his photographs in 1997 and, inspired by Matisse and Degas, he studied life-drawing and painting in the studio of Bobby Gill for over ten years.
McBain also had an interest in social history
, taking a course in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College and researching and writing his one-man show, The secret Lives of Arthur J. Munby, which he last performed in November 2003.
Bob died in Charing Cross Hospital
on 24 April 2004 after a brief illness.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, photographer and artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
.
He was born Robert Digby Bosher, in Wembley
Wembley
Wembley is an area of northwest London, England, and part of the London Borough of Brent. It is home to the famous Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena...
, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
. His mother was Iris Rousham (who was sometimes called Barbara or Peggy) and his biological father was John Bosher.
Stage appearances:
- Julius Caesar at the Royal Court;
- Jingo with the Royal Shakespeare Company;
- St Joan at the Old Vic
- Tom Stoppard's Dirty Linen at the Arts Theatre.
- Gonzalo in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe (2000),
- Chebutykin in The Three Sisters at the Orange Tree Richmond (2002).
McBain appeared in many television programmes including: -
- Z-CarsZ-CarsZ-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
- Upstairs, DownstairsUpstairs, DownstairsUpstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...
- Fawlty TowersFawlty TowersFawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced . The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters...
(1979) - The ProfessionalsThe Professionals (TV series)The Professionals was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1981. It starred Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins and Gordon...
- CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
(2003)
He also started in feature films such as: -
- Breakout
- Bullseye
- A Fish Called Wanda.
He had his eldest son, Angus, with his first wife, Ann Clark, and two more children, Jon and Hannah, during his 11-year marriage to actress Patricia Brake.
In 1979, Bob married Maggie Henderson and they worked together many times over their 25 years of marriage; both in the West End and writing and performing many recitals.
Throughout his life, he developed his talents in photography and art, exhibiting his photographs in 1997 and, inspired by Matisse and Degas, he studied life-drawing and painting in the studio of Bobby Gill for over ten years.
McBain also had an interest in social history
Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...
, taking a course in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College and researching and writing his one-man show, The secret Lives of Arthur J. Munby, which he last performed in November 2003.
Bob died in Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital is a general, acute hospital located in London, United Kingdom and established in 1818. It is located several miles to the west of the city centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham....
on 24 April 2004 after a brief illness.