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GRAHAM HOADLY - BIOGRAPHY
Graham is currently playing Bert Barry in the National Tour of 42ND STREET, which ends at Wimbledon in November.
Graham created the roles of the Commentator and Phillips in
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG - currently holding the record for the longest running Musical at the London Palladium.
Other West End roles include Lumley Lancaster in MR
CINDERS (Fortune); Roscoe Dexter in SINGIN'
IN THE RAIN (London Palladium); Francis in ELEGIES
(Criterion) and Abe Greenbaum in SOME LIKE IT HOT
(Prince Edward).
Following CHITTY, Graham played "Fingers"
McFidget in THE BURGLAR'S OPERA for Opera della
Luna. Other roles for the same company include Baron Zeta THE MERRY WIDOW; Pooh-Bah THE MIKADO;
Dick Deadeye (and Sir Joseph Porter's Aunt!) HMS PINAFORE
on tour and for the Covent Garden Festival.
Last Christmas he played Ugly Sister in CINDERELLA starring Patrick Duffy and Susan Hampshire at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking.
Recent Pantomime appearances include Sarah the
Cook in Roy Hudd's DICK WHITTINGTON at the Watford
Palace, following his great success at the same theatre the
previous year as Widow Twankey in ALADDIN.
Graham has appeared in National Tours of CRAZY FOR
YOU; JOSEPH; SINGIN' IN THE RAIN;
CLUEDO; SALAD DAYS; JUST
A VERSE AND CHORUS and many others, also frequently
playing in Repertory all over the country. Most recently at the Derby
Plahouse, for Karen Louise Hebden's production of Stephen
Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS. He last appeared
at Derby in 1982 when he played the Tinman in The Wizard of
Oz.
Fringe work includes THE CHAIRS and McCorquodale
in FUNERAL GAMES. At the King's Head, Graham
co-devised and appeared in the critically acclaimed MEET
ME AT THE GATE, a tribute to the Gate revues of the
1930s. He also alternated with Lily Savage in the role of
Roscoe, the drag queen in ELEGIES there, prior
to its West End run.
Film and TV credits include Jimmy in BLUNT, with Anthony
Hopkins and Ian Richardson, FLYWHEEL as Boss Plunkett , THE SNOW WHITE FILES as Baptiste and SIGHTINGS
as Jack the Ripper!
A frequent radio broadcaster, Graham was one of the four
regulars in the award-winning BBC comedy series FLYWHEEL
SHYSTER AND FLYWHEEL and recently recorded a pilot
of THE ADVENTURES OF SEXTON BLAKE playing the
villain Totween Kemmle. This Christmas he can be heard as Gino in A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE to be broadcast on BBC Radio, in which he will be reunited with his former FLYWHEEL colleagues.
Graham also performs regularly in Cabaret and Music Hall
all over the world, regularly appearing with the Concordia
Theatre Company on the QE2 for Cunard. He has compèred
several Variety Tours, and was a popular Chairman at the former
Players' Theatre in London.
August 2007
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