History Creator / GordenKaye

His TV debut came when he played a railway guard in ''Champion House''. After appearing in ''Little Malcolm'', he was cast as Bernard Butler in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. He made frequent appearances in David Croft's sitcoms, with a guest role in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', three guest roles in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and a small recurring role in ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Croft tried to cast him in the lead role of ''Oh Happy Band!'', but Kaye was unavailable, and the role was given to Harry Worth. Kaye was later cast in the lead role of '''Allo 'Allo!'', which he stuck with for all 9 series and the two {{Clip Show}}s.

His TV debut came when he played a railway guard in ''Champion House''. After appearing in ''Little Malcolm'', he was cast as Bernard Butler in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. He made frequent appearances in David Croft's sitcoms, with a guest role in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', three guest roles in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and a small recurring role in ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Croft tried cast him in the lead role of ''Oh Happy Band!'', but Kaye was unavailable the role was given to Harry Worth, but Kaye was later cast in the lead role of '''Allo 'Allo!'', which he stuck with for all 9 series and the two {{Clip Show}}s.

Carmen Silvera, ( ), was a British actress best known for playing Edith Artois in ''Series/AlloAllo''.



She died at the age of .

!!Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:

* ''Series/AlloAllo'', 86 episodes (1982-94) -- Edith Artois
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Abbott family, clockwise from top to bottom - Sid, Sally, Jean, Mike.]]

->''"You know that generation gap they keep going on about? It's between his ears!"''
-->-- '''Sid Abbott''' complaining about his son, Mike.

''Bless This House'' is a {{Britcom}} that was produced by Creator/ThamesTelevision for Creator/{{ITV}} from 1971-76, starring Creator/SidJames as [[TheDanza Sid]] Abbott, a travelling stationary salesman and middle-aged family man desperate to find some peace and quiet in his home life. This is easier said than done, thanks to the presence of his son, Mike (Robin Stewart) - an unemployed art student drop-out - and his daughter, Sally (Creator/SallyGeeson) - who is growing up far too quickly for Sid's liking! Attempts to keep peace in the household from his wife, Jean (Diana Coupland), do far more harm than good, and the generation gap in the Abbott household quickly turns into a generation chasm!

Other recurring characters on the show were the Abbott's neighbours - Trevor and Betty Lewis (Anthony Jackson and Creator/PatsyRowlands). Trevor was Sid's best mate, while Jean and Betty would gang up on the two whenever they found themselves in trouble.

A NonSerialMovie came out between Series 2 and 3, notable for recasting Mike and Trevor (with Creator/RobinAskwith and Creator/PeterButterworth respectively) and featured a plot about Sid's cold war with his new neighbours, Ronald and Vera Baines (Creator/TerryScott and Creator/JuneWhitfield). Both Askwith and Whitfield played unrelated characters in the TV series.

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!! Bless These Tropes:

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* CreatorBacklash: While Creator/SidJames was initially pleased with the show, owing to its success in the ratings, he began to dislike working on it after the third series, as he believed the quality of the scripts was slowly getting worse. Despite secretly hoping that the series would be cancelled and allow him to move on, the show continued until his death in 1976.
* TheDanza: Creator/SidJames and Creator/SallyGeeson as Sid and Sally Abbott.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/SidJames and Robin Stewart had a rocky on-set relationship due to Stewart's lack of punctuality in learning his lines.
* TroubledProduction: The first seven episodes of Series 1 had to be filmed in black and white due to a colour technicians' strike at Creator/ThamesTelevision.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobinAskwith narrowly missed out on the role of Mike in favour of Robin Stewart. Askwith did however play Mike in TheMovie when Stewart was unavailable.
* YouLookFamiliar: Many actors would pop up again as different [[OneShotCharacter One-Shot Characters]] from time to time. The most notable was James Appleby, who played a policeman in "A Rolls by Any Other Name", a van driver in "It Comes to Us All in the End", another policeman in "Entente Not So Cordiale", a lorry driver in "A Beef in His Bonnet" and a third policeman in "Some Enchanted Evening".

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[[caption-width-right:186:"[[Series/AlloAllo You stupid woman!]]"]]

->''"It's hard to imagine life without [[Series/AlloAllo René]]. I'm from Yorkshire, and in rehearsals I would say in my own voice things like 'Oh 'eck!' - and that has got into the script. René actually says 'Oh 'eck!' because as in France, like Yorkshire, they don't pronounce their 'H's'."''

Gorden Kaye, born Gordon Irving Kaye, (7 April 1941 -- 23 January 2017), was a British actor best known for playing René Artois in ''Series/AlloAllo''.

His TV debut came when he played a railway guard in ''Champion House''. After appearing in ''Little Malcolm'', he was cast as Bernard Butler in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. He made frequent appearances in David Croft's sitcoms, with a guest role in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', three guest roles in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and a small recurring role in ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Croft tried cast him in the lead role of ''Oh Happy Band!'', but Kaye was unavailable the role so was given to Harry Worth. Luckily, Kaye was later cast in the lead role of '''Allo 'Allo!'', which he stuck with for all 9 series and the two {{Clip Show}}s.

He died at the age of 75.

!!Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Jabberwocky}}'' (1977) -- Sister Jessica
* ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' (1985) -- M.O.I. Lobby Porter

* ''Series/CoronationStreet'', 37 episodes (1969-70) -- Bernard Butler
* ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'', 7 episodes (1973-75) -- Gerry
* ''Series/TillDeathUsDoPart'', episode "TV Licence" (1974) -- Television Licence Inspector
* ''Series/{{Sykes}}'', episode "Bath" (1976) -- Mr. Macclesfield
* ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', episode "The Pay Off" (1977) -- Burly Soldier
* ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah'', 6 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"Pilot", "In Orbit", "To the Rescue", "Who Goes Home?", "The Housing Problem", "The Last Chance"[[/labelnote]] (1977-78) -- Nicky Manson
* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', 3 episodes:
** "Do You Take This Man?" (1978) -- Mr. Tomiades
** "Mrs Slocombe, Senior Person" (1979) -- Plastic Mac Customer
** "Closed Circuit" (1981) -- Mr. Fortescue
* ''{{Series/All Creatures Great and Small|1978}}'', episode "Pups, Pigs and Pickle" (1978) -- Kit Bilton
* ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'', episode "Higher Ground" (1979) -- Tom Clarke
* ''Series/CitizenSmith'', episode "The Party's Over" (1979) -- "His Man"
* ''Series/AlloAllo'', 87 episodes (1982-2007) -- René Artois
* ''Series/{{Minder}}'', episode "Get Daley" (1984) -- Sammy
* ''Series/PlayForToday'', episode "Rainy Day Women" (1984) -- Vicar
* ''Series/ScreenTwo'', episode "In the Secret State" (1985) -- Buff
* ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'', episode "The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression" (1990) -- Maynard Lavery
* ''Series/NoelsHouseParty'', 1 episode (1992) -- René Artois
* ''Series/ScreenOne'', episode "The Bullion Boys" (1993) -- Nickson

His TV debut came when he played a railway guard in ''Champion House''. After appearing in ''Little Malcolm'', he was cast as Bernard Butler in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. He made frequent appearances in David Croft's sitcoms, with a guest role in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', three guest roles in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' and a small recurring role in ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Croft tried cast him in the lead role of ''Oh Happy Band!'', but Kaye was unavailable the role was given to Harry Worth, but Kaye was later cast in the lead role of '''Allo 'Allo!'', which he stuck with for all 9 series and the two {{Clip Show}}s.