Melvyn Hayes
Acting
Biography
Melvyn Hayes is an English actor, now best known for playing the effeminate Gunner "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. He has had a long and wide ranging career in movies and television, appearing in over 30 films and dozens of television programmes.
Born: January 11, 1935
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Dreamstone
The Dreamstone is a British animated television series that ran for 4 series of 13 episodes each between 1990 and 1995. The original concept and artwork were created by Michael Jupp who would later create another cartoon show Bimble's Bucket. The series was produced by FilmFair as a Central production for ITV. In 1996 Filmfair was bought from the Caspian Group by the Canadian company Cinar, then it became Cookie Jar Entertainment, but then it became part of DHX Media. This resulted in DHX's ownership of the first two series, while a company called Dreamstone Productions Ltd. retain the ownership of the third and fourth series. The Dreamstone is set in an alternative world called the 'Sleeping World,' and concerns itself principally with the struggle between good, and evil.
Little Dracula
Little Dracula is a British series of children's books and an American animated television series that originally aired on FOX. Little Dracula revolves around a green-skinned child vampire who aspires to be like his father, Big Dracula, yet also enjoys rock 'n roll and surfing.
The Human Jungle
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.
Not Going Out
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life.
Doctor Who: Shada
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra. A remounted version of the abandoned Fourth Doctor serial, rewritten to feature the Eighth Doctor and fit in with the Big Finish audio drama continuity.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Adventure in the Hopfields
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Filmography
as Myrtle
as Self
as Ernest Walker
as Wilkin (voice)
as Ambrose
as D.S. Quentin Courvoisier
as Self
as Frizz (voice)
as Sir Gordon
as Twicker
as Goober
as P.C. Dumpling
as Father Luther
as Skeleton
as Pietro
as Gunner Shorthouse
as Charwallah Charlie
as Nigel
as Bombardier 'Gloria' Beaumont
as Terry
as Bob Cratchit (voice)
as Porter (segment "Sloth")
as Albert
as First Entertainer
as Silly Workman
as Jerry
as Willy
as Bert Morgan
as Cryil
as Jean
as Artful Dodger
as Jimmy
as Cecil Biggs
as Daft Jamie
as Tommy
as Willem
as Kid in Johnnie's Gang (uncredited)
as Newsboy
as Young Victor
as Telegraph Boy
as Heckling Boy at Concert (uncredited)
as Frankie
as Sidney
as Ned Reilly
as Hotel Bellhop
as Blond Urchin (Uncredited)