John Challis is a skilled storyteller and actor. In the course of his extensive career, he has played everything from heavyweights in television drama to sitcom stars to pantomime performers to even a one-man show.
Among his works are Dixon of Dock Green from 1969, The Sweeney from 1975, Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, The Bill from 1988, My Family, Soldier Soldier from 1996, Heartbeat from 1998, The Green Green Grass from 2005 to 2009, Last of the Summer Wine from 2008, and Benidorm (2015-2018).
John Challis: Early Life, Age, Wiki, Parents, Ethnicity
On August 16, 1942, John Challis was born in England. He measures 6 feet 112 inches tall (1.87 meters).
He began his real estate agent training at the age of 18. He has had four marriages. In 1990, he married Carol Challis for the fourth time.
Book
The three autobiographies written by John Challis are titled “Wigmore Abbey: The Treasure of Mortimer,” “Being Boycie,” and “Boycie & Beyond.” He started his book tour in April 2012 at the Waterstones in Uxbridge to promote Being Boycie.
Career of John Challis
John Challis has always wanted to be an actor, but his parents have always pushed him to obtain a real career. He briefly held jobs carrying groceries and as a trainee estate agent.
He soon began performing, and in 1960, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his television debut in The Newcomers five years later. He later performed on a number of television programs. Following is a list of some of them:
- Coronation Street (1967-1977)
- Dracula, Beau Geste (1974)
- Doctor Who (The Seeds of Doom) (1976)
- Open All Hours (1976)
- Doctor Snuggles, Chance in a Million (1979)
- Bloomers, Citizen Smith (1979)
- Juliet Bravo (1985)
- In Sickness and in Health (1985)
- Ever Decreasing Circles (1987)
- Don’t Wait Up (1988)
- The New Statesman (1992)
- Last Of The Summer Wine (2008)
John was cast as Captain Peacock on February 19th, 2016, in the BBC adaptation of Are You Being Severed. He appeared in Benidorm as well.
House
In the year 2019, John was in the garden of the Herefordshire-based Grade I-listed Wigmore Abbey when he heard bangs and explosions. He made an attempt to douse the fire himself, but after failing, he dialed 999. The crew and six fire engines arrived to extinguish the blaze that had started in the barn and across the other side of the roadway.
John and his wife Carol purchased Wigmore Abbey in 1998, and since then, they have been renovating the historic £750,000 home.
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