- Richard Wilson, One Foot in the Grave, TV, 1990-2001. The third hit show that Ronnie Baker bypassed made a surprise star out of Wilson at age 54. He had kept refusing it, feeling too young to play a grumpy 60-year-old! The retired pensioner Victor Meldrew was then offered to grumpy Northern comic Les Dawson and the suave Sachs (Manuel in Fawlty Towers). As Meldrew would say and (too) often did: “I don’t believe it!”
Birth year: 1930Death year: 2016Other name: Casting Calls: 1