Privacy is asked for at this very sad time. The Professionals was based around the adventures of a fictional crime fighting unit called CI5. The ITV show became huge hit in the late s and early s. Shaw, currently appearing in a West End production of 12 Angry Men, said he was saddened by the news of his co-star's death. I send my love and condolences to his family, and the great many who will miss him. Mr Clemens recalled Collins also undertook a lot of physical training for the role of Bodie.
It was the sort of thing you would expect a Marine to indulge in. He was a method actor in a sense. Lord Grade, who launched the programme in when he was director of programmes at London Weekend Television, told BBC Radio 4 the on-screen partnership of Collins and Shaw would "never be forgotten".
He got us into trouble one time where he had a few days off from filming where he went parachute jumping and broke his leg which held up the filming. In early , Collins was cast to play Earl Godwin in the historically based feature film production of , although in June it was reported that he had withdrawn from the production.
He married teacher Michelle Larrett in , and the couple went on to have their three sons. Daredevil: Collins vaulting a railing above the streets of London in He auditioned for James Bond, but was told he was 'too aggressive' for the part. Many of Collins's friends and former colleagues were quick to pay tribute to the actor. Sensitive side: Bodie often hid his intelligent side behind his macho image, enjoying English literature and playing the piano.
He was the year below me at drama school. A great actor and a lovely man. He was a true gent. Sending love to his family. Collins made his on-screen debut in in an episode of another famous police show, Z-Cars. The series ended in , and the year after viewers were treated to another famous Collins role - Captain Peter Skellen - in Who Dares Wins, which was loosely based on the Iranian Embassy siege in Collins returned to television screens in , when he appeared in an episode of The Bill.
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Professional: Lewis Collins as tough guy Bodie in the s show. Share this article Share. Hollywood calling: The actor was born in the Wirral but relocated to Los Angeles where he lived in this low-key house with his family Collins had another taste of on-screen policing when he played Dr Peter Alan, a research scientist in need of police protection, in a episode of The Bill.
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His fellow apprentice, Mike McCartney, had an older brother called Paul who was in a local band. The two hairdressers used to try to write songs on piano and guitar at the McCartney house, and one day in Mike urged his mate to audition as drummer for his brother and The Beatles, to replace Pete Best. Instead, he drifted from hairdressing into playing bass guitar for one-hit wonders The Mojos, before taking a job as a lorry driver, delivering crisps and lemonade.
One afternoon, sitting in a lorry cab with no heater and listening to a play on the radio, he decided to become an actor. Within a year he was at Lamda, a drama school in Hammersmith, London, where fellow student Patricia Hodge remembers his sheer physical presence. Playing Romeo in a fight scene one day, Collins bolted from the building, apparently stricken with stage fright — and then came racing back, panting and sweating as though he really had just fought off a gang of thugs.
That energy and urgency would leave him frustrated for much of his acting life. Stars of the Professionals: Shaw left to right , Gordon Jackson and Collins on the set of the series which first aired in They were hard-up newlyweds, he was the lodger who constantly tried to seduce his landlady. Meanwhile, Brian Clemens, principal screenwriter of the quirkily English spy series The Avengers, was trying to cast a more brutal, less eccentric follow-up, something with a sour punch to match the Seventies mood.
He hired Martin Shaw and tried him out alongside the golden-haired Anthony Andrews, later famous as Lord Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited — but the chemistry was missing. Then Clemens remembered a episode of The New Avengers, where Shaw played opposite a brooding actor who seemed to rub him up the wrong way. Deadly: During the hit TV show his character was licensed to use 'any means necessary', including beating his suspects to jelly and shooting to kill.
On-screen and off, they circled round each other, one snarl away from a punch-up. This was the tension the new show needed. The actor was Collins. He was called to audition for a bit-part, without realising the producers were sizing him up for a lead role, and was disconcerted by the way they stared at him.
Bristling and defensive, he looked ideal, and five days later he was filming the first episode. Budgets were tight and the actors sometimes had to rest in their cars on location. The Professionals ran for five series and made Collins a star and a national sex symbol. His character was foul-mouthed and sexist, with an explosive temper. Though only 5ft 11in, he could lift bigger men by the lapels and throw them across the room.
When one girlfriend tried to slap him, he dumped her in a horse trough. The hard punches and dockside language sparked controversy and calls for London Weekend Television to cancel the show. Career: The British actor also starred in a drama about serial killer Jack the Ripper.
One episode was shelved: The Klansman, where Bodie and Doyle fought white supremacists, revealed Bodie apparently had racist sympathies. After he was stabbed by a black gang member, Bodie was tended in hospital by a voluptuous Caribbean nurse, whose tender ministrations overcame his prejudices. By the end of the episode he was dating her. The right man at the wrong time, he would have been perfect for the modern Bond movies, as a tough but damaged Father: Collins had three sons, Oliver, Elliot and Cameron and was photographed picking one of his children up from a sports event in Los Angeles in
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