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2	[[caption-width-right:200:"[[Series/HiDeHi First rule of comedy: You must have reality]]"]]
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4	->''"There's an old saying in Yorkshire, you know: It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice."''
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6	Paul Shane, born George Frederick Speight, (19 June 1940 -- 16 May 2013), was a British actor best known for playing Ted Bovis in ''Series/HiDeHi''.
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8	After a career as a pub singer and a stand-up comic, he started to play small parts on TV in The70s. In May 1979, Jimmy Perry noticed him in an episode of ''Series/CoronationStreet'' and cast him as Ted Bovis in ''Hi-de-Hi!''. When the series ended in 1988, Perry cast him in his new series, ''Series/YouRangMLord'', alongside his ''HDH!'' co-stars, Creator/JeffreyHolland and Creator/SuPollard.
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10	During the run of ''M'Lord?'', he starred in the short-lived ''Very Big Very Soon'' as actor's agent Harry James. In the late '90s, he was once more reunited with Holland, Pollard, and David Croft (the producer and co-writer of ''HDH!'' and ''YRML?'') for one final {{Britcom}}, ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching'', where Shane played stationmaster Jack Skinner.
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12	He died at the age of 72.
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16	!!Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
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19	* ''Series/PlayForToday'', 4 episodes:
20	** "Sunset Across the Bay" (1975) -- Removal Man
21	** "Keep an Eye on Albert" (1975) -- Moffa
22	** "Vampires" (1979) -- Georgie
23	** "Buses" (1980) -- Clerk
24	* ''Series/CoronationStreet'', 3 episodes:
25	** 2 episodes (1977) -- Dave-the-Rave
26	** 1 episode (1979) -- Frank Roper
27	* ''Series/HiDeHi'', 58 episodes (1980-88) -- Ted Bovis
28	* ''Series/SuperGran'', episode "Supergran and the World's Worst Circus" (1986) -- Sid Scouse
29	* ''Series/YouRangMLord'', 26 episodes (1988-93) -- Alf Stokes
30	* ''Series/{{Woof}}'', episode "The Sure Thing" (1993) -- Honest Norman
31	* ''Series/{{Chucklevision}}'', episode "My Lucky Number's Nine" (1995) -- Perry Champagne
32	* ''Series/OhDoctorBeeching'', 20 episodes (1995-97) -- Jack Skinner
33	* ''WesternAnimation/HilltopHospital'', 52 episodes (1999-2001) -- The Teds
34	* ''Series/{{Doctors}}'', 4 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"A Life in the Day", "Loose Ends", "Twist of Fate", "To Have and to Hold"[[/labelnote]] (2000) -- Bill Joseph
35	* ''Series/HolbyCity'', 13 episodes (2000-03) -- Stan Ashleigh
36	* ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'', 8 episodes (2004) -- Solomon Dingle
37	* ''Series/ChildrenInNeed'', 1 episode (2007) -- Concierge
38	* ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'', episode "In the Public Interest" (2008) -- Diesel Bob

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