Michael Sheard died yesterday at the age of 65. Anyone under the age of 30 will probably recognise the RADA-trained Aberdonian from his roles in The Empire Strikes Back and two Indiana Jones movies.
For those of us on the wrong side and living in the UK, though, he will forever be the scariest schoolteacher on the planet– Maurice Bronson, the bespectacled, be-wigged languages teacher at Grange Hill, and arch-enemy of artistic, chain-smoking rebel pupil Danny Kendall (who, after two years of running battles in the corridors, was to die in Bronson’s car when he blacked out at the wheel after stealing it).
They don’t make them like they used to…
Hey, I’m on 27 and I only recognised him as the teacher…This probably isn’t a good thing though?
I had a teacher who was worse than Mr Bronson… I do remember the show too!
Don’t suppose you know that the guy who played Danny Kendall is now the Communications Director at AOL.
@Jon: I didn’t know, but it doesn’t really surprise me… last I heard he’d been a journalist for the FT too…