Biographies: Bill Owen - Actor

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A British actor, born in Acton, Middlesex, London, England, United Kingdom on March 14, 1914, as William John Owen Rowbotham and died in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom on July 12, 1999 from pancreatic cancer. Bill Owen married twice and had one child. His most notable works include Georgy Girl (1966), Last of the Summer Wine (1973-2008), Sherlock Holmes (1951), and Not So Dusty (1956). Born into a modest working-class family, he became famous for his working-class roles in film and television. Bill Owen was born to a tram driver father and a laundress mother. Bill had dreamed of becoming an actor since childhood, and worked several odd jobs as a young boy, including as a junior printer and a singer in a band. When he reached the legal age, he worked as a drummer in London nightclubs, toured music halls to pay for acting lessons, worked in the repertory theatre, and joined the Unit Theatre, but was conscripted into the Royal Army and was injured in an explosion during training. He continued his stage performances, achieved success in the West End theatre, wrote songs for singers, and participated in writing songs for musicals throughout his artistic career. Bill Owen began his film career after the end of World War II with The Way to the Stars (1945) and Perfect Strangers (1945). He also worked in the early stages of television experimentation, and his first major film role was in Daybreak (1948). He also starred in the early B-movie Carry on series, starting with Carry on Sergeant (1958) and Carry on Nurse (1949). Bill Owen died in 1999 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 85.

• 22 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham