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Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« on: May 11, 2017, 04:55:01 PM »
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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2017, 06:11:00 PM »
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2017, 06:17:51 PM »
I've fond memories of Catweazle even if I was 18 at the time!

I remember him a while back doing a turn on Fort Boyard (doing the riddle challenge) and his voice and facial expressions were still as distinctive as his Catweazle.
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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2017, 06:23:05 PM »
Seemed a gentle actor with much understanding of the absurdity of life
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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2017, 07:04:40 PM »
He turned down the part of the Doctor in Doctor Who - twice. He would have made a truly wonderful Time Lord.
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2017, 07:08:51 PM »
Definitely had the oddness
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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2017, 08:31:22 PM »
Been discussing elsewhere whether Geoffrey Bayldon would have been too similar to Hartnell, and I was pointing out the Bayldon would have been much younger than I am today when he was Catweazle. It"s also odd that he played the First Dr in Big Finish Audio productions, and worked with Pertwee in Gummidge. In addition Catweazle was seen as a competitor for the Dr.
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Re: Geoffrey Bayldon dead
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2017, 08:27:14 AM »
Catweazle has a fan club, and looking at the posts they are devastated by his demise.

http://www.catweazlefanclub.co.uk/
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