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The forty-year feud: As Likely Lads star Rodney Bewes dies at 79, how a rift with his more famous co-star lasted decades, cost him a fortune and is the reason repeats of legendary sitcom didn't appear for years
Of all the memorable TV sitcom theme songs over the years, it was the most melancholy, its words the most haunting: ‘Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me? What became of the people we used to be?’
Rodney Bewes, one half of the hit BBC show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, who died yesterday aged 79, asked himself those questions every day of his life for 40 years.
His acclaimed double act with co-star James Bolam had ended in an acrimonious telephone call in 1976, after an ill-judged joke sparked an almighty row between them.
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Rodney Bewes (second right), one half of the hit BBC show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, died yesterday aged 79. He is pictured with co-star James Bolam (second left), Janet Kelly (right) and Kate Story (left)
Bewes's acclaimed double act with Bolam had ended in an acrimonious telephone call in 1976, after an ill-judged joke sparked an almighty row between them
The two most famous on-screen pals in Britain were no longer on speaking terms — and, despite Bewes’s repeated pleas, there
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Rodney Bewes
British actor (1937–2017)
Rodney Bewes | |
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Rodney Bewes in 2004 | |
| Born | (1937-11-27)27 November 1937 Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 21 November 2017(2017-11-21) (aged 79) Cadgwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom |
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| Years active | 1952–2015 |
| Spouses | Sylvia N. Tebbitt (m. 1963, divorced)Daphne Black (m. 1973; died 2015) |
| Children | 4 |
Rodney Bewes (27 November 1937 – 21 November 2017)[2] was an English television actor and writer who portrayed Bob Ferris in the BBC television sitcom The Likely Lads (1964–66) and its colour sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74). Bewes' later career was of a much lower profile, but he continued to work as a stage actor.[3]
Early life
[edit]Bewes was born in Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire,[4] to Horace, an Eastern Electricity Board showroom clerk, and Bessie, who was a teacher of children with learning difficulties.[5] His family lived for a few years in the Crossflatts district of Bingley,[6] before they moved to Luton, where h