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The third of four children, Clement Graham Crowden was born on St Andrew's Day in 1922. Progressing from spear carrier to assistant stage manager with occasional speaking roles, Crowden served a long apprenticeship with a succession of rep companies, discovering along the way that he was best suited to roles that called for an offbeat personality. Idiosyncratic actor of stage, television and film who had a 'quality of madness' and frequently stole the scene.
The family was respectable Scottish Presbyterian stock brought low by the Great War in which Crowden's father, a classics teacher, was injured beyond hope of recovery.
The Edinburgh doctor who delivered him was also called Andrew but his mother, a strong-willed woman whom Crowden …
Gaskell was then directing at the Royal Court where the commitment to new drama included the stage presentation of the wonderfully lunatic humour of N. F. Simpson.
Atkins was not encouraging. When not in demand as an actor he filled the gaps by working in an ice-cream factory, in a road the breakfast tray. He is well known for playing Dr J. G. "Jock" McCannon in the BBC comedy-drama series A Very Peculiar Practice, starring alongside Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn and Joanna Kanska. A Bristol Old Vic production of Major Barbara, in which he played Lomax, came to the Old Vic.
Crowden's abiding principle was to do only the work he wanted to do. Jonathan Miller cast him as Prospero at the Mermaid be-cause, he confessed, he preferred working with mad people.
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Crowden (r) turned down the role of the Doctor In 1974, Crowden refused the lead role in Doctor Who because he did not want to commit himself to one part, and Tom Baker … He is well known for playing Dr J. G. "Jock" McCannon in the BBC comedy-drama series A Very Peculiar Practice, starring alongside Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn and Joanna Kanska. He found his form when he teamed up with Lindsay Anderson to contribute memorably to the wild anarchy of Oh Lucky Man! As costume supervisor, Phyllida was invited by her future husband to measure his inside leg.
Crowden was educated to a low point (he failed all his exams) at the Edinburgh Academy. The third of four children, Clement Graham Crowden was born on St Andrew's Day in 1922.
Crowden himself called it "the quality of madness". Nevetheless, he later appeared in several episodes of the series, as Soldeed in The Horns of Nimon (1979). But by then Simpson had written One Way Pendulum with the part of Mr Groomkirby, the amateur lawyer who recreated the Old Bailey in his living room, tailormade for Crowden. Joining up with the Royal Scots Youth Battalion in 1940, his military career ended ingloriously less than a year later when he was shot by his own platoon sergeant. Restoration comedy gave him and his audiences particular delight. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric "offbeat" scientist, teacher and doctor characters. Nonetheless, Crowden persuaded Atkins to grant him a student contract which promised three shillings a performance rising to ten shillings if there was a line to be spoken. The Edinburgh doctor who delivered him was also called Andrew but his mother, a strong-willed woman whom Crowden treated with the utmost respect, resisted the omens. His dominance on stage and screen had much to do with his height (he was a little over 6ft 3in) but it was his eyes, crystal bright and alert, commanding attention, that gave the hint of something out of the ordinary about to happen.
Crowden himself called it "the quality of madness".
Less kindly, Rex Harrison declared that he was not going on stage "while that old barnstormer is stealing laughs", an ultimatum which led to a truncation of Crowden's role in the 1960 Royal Court production of Platonov.
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He was the father of Sarah Crowden and was a contender for the part of the Fourth Doctor.[2].
Leaving in 1940, he took advantage of family connections to find work in a tannery.
"You're too tall, too thin, you're not good-looking and you have a funny voice," he told Crowden. He died on October 19, 2010, aged 87, 'You're too tall, too thin, not good-looking and you have a funny voice', Disclaimer: These citations are created on-the-fly using primitive parsing techniques.
When asked for his epitaph, Crowden thought first of Lewis Casson's observation that "he looked funny even in serious roles" but eventually settled for his own verdict: "I've done very good work for very bad money.".
The grim farce that was set in train by this accident, with Crowden being rushed from one hospital to another in the hunt for a surgeon qualified to treat his internal injuries, left him with a view of life, hovering between hard reality and surreal fantasy, that coloured his acting career. He invited Crowden to help him to unravel A Resounding Tinkle, a first play which managed to encompass a sex change and elephants at the bottom of the garden. In 1952 he married Phyllida Hewat, who had a will to match his own, as he discovered on their first meeting. But the signs of a breakthrough were beginning to appear.
There followed seasons at the National Theatre, where he was the definitive First Player in Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the RSC and Chichester, where alongside Albert Finney and Derek Jacobi he triumphed as the Colonel in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. He is survived by his wife, Phyllida, and by three daughters and a son. Hence he turned down the offer of becoming the fourth Doctor after Jon Pertwee left Dr Who - "Working with a lot of Daleks didn't sound like much fun." A transfer to the Criterion brought renewed praise from the critics and the offer of more work at the Royal Court where he stayed for six productions. His love of the theatre eventually found a practical application after a chance encounter with another aspiring actor, later a Labour MP, Andrew Faulds, who introduced him to Robert Atkins, the straight-talking director of Shakespeare without frills. Crowden took part in a Sunday evening tryout but subsequently lost his role when A Resounding Tinkle was reduced to one act and presented in a double bill with The Hole. Crowden's breakthrough into movies was delayed by a succession of turkeys starting with Don't Bother to Knock (1961) which, as he loved to recall, led the critics to chorus "Don't bother to go".
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