Tobaco Baron Grouty...

[MacV2]

...Has sadly been stubbed out...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38234753

No I dont watch GOT so I had no idea he was in that...


Poridge on the other hand you can still see every day on Sky somewhere.

I do remember him in 'Our Freinds in the North' playing a laid off Miner at the height of the strikes...brill series...


RIP Grouty...

[BigVeeGrin]

I'd forgotten both Our Friends in the North and him in it. Agree, totally ace telly. Great character in Porridge

[Wicky]

He also featured in the 1993 Merchant Ivory movie adapatation of the novel Remains of the Day as Anthony Hopkins's dad.

[MacV2]

Filmography

Vaughan appeared in the following films & TV...
The 39 Steps (1959)
Sapphire (1959)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Make Mine Mink (1960)
Two Living, One Dead (1961)
The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
I Thank a Fool (1962)
The Devil's Agent (1962)
The Punch and Judy Man (1963)
The Victors (1963)
Smokescreen (1964)
Fanatic (1965)
Rotten to the Core (1965)
The Naked Runner (1967)
The Man Outside (1967)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
Hammerhead (1968)
A Twist of Sand (1968)
Alfred the Great (1969)
Eyewitness (1970)
Taste of Excitement (1970)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Pied Piper (1972)
Savage Messiah (1972)
A Warning to the Curious (1972)
The Return (1973)
The Blockhouse (1973)
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Malachi's Cove (1973)
Symptoms (1974)
11 Harrowhouse (1974)
Intimate Reflections (1975)
Valentino (1977)
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Porridge (1979)
Time Bandits (1981)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
The Razor's Edge (1984)
Forbidden (1984)
Brazil (1985)
Sins (1986) (TV miniseries)
Monte Carlo (1986) (TV miniseries)
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Coast to Coast (1987)
Countdown to War (1989)
King of the Wind (1990)
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Fatherland (1994)
The Secret Agent (1996)
The Crucible (1996)
Face (1997)
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
The Good Son (1998)
Les misérables (1998)
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
Kiss Kiss (2000)
Canone inverso – Making Love (2000)
Hotel Splendide (2000)
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
The Mother (2003)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
Care (2006)
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Is Anybody There? (2008)
Doc Martin (2011)
Albatross (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011–2015)


Just a few then Add all that to War service in the royal signal corp's...Busy man.

A good innings...

Chalk another one up for Death in 2016 now he's had a busy year.

[sirch345]

I remember Peter Vaughan as Grouty in Porridge very well here's a little video clip of him:-


I never knew he had been in so many things Mac.

RIP Peter Vaughan,

Chris.