Keeping Up Appearances Actors You May Not Know Passed Away
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Robert McBain was Richard's office mate
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Prolific character actor Robert McBain made brief appearances as one of Richard's co-workers in three Season 2 episodes of "Keeping Up Appearances." In each instance, McBain's character, who goes unnamed in two episodes but earned the surname "Frank" in his final turn, overheard the madness that spilled over from Richard's home life to his work. In "Problems with Relatives" and "Onslow's Birthday," Hyacinth repeatedly calls him to help with her family's eccentric behavior, while in "The Toy Store," it's Daddy, and specifically, his decision to run off to a toy store (and dress in an astronaut costume) that warranted a call.
McBain worked extensively in British theater while also appearing in numerous episodic series, including "Z Cars," "Upstairs, Downstairs," and "Fawlty Towers" (as a colleague of the deceased businessman in "The Kipper and the Corpse"), and "Maigret." He was also featured as a recurring character on the surreal children's series, "Little Big Time," which featured a long-running sketch about sentient machines in an alternate world, where McBain played the Deferential Gearbox.
Feature film appearances were fewer but included "A Fish Called Wanda" and the Agatha Christie mystery "Ordeal by Innocence" with Christopher Plummer. McBain closed his long career with a 2003 episode of the medical drama "Casualty." He died at the age of 72 on April 24, 2004.
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