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6 unusual facts about Rik Mayall


Don't let Devon go to waste

Various celebrities, including Phillipa Forrester, Rik Mayall and the late Keith Floyd, have publicly supported the campaign, with both Mayall and Floyd appearing in television adverts.

Jane Spencer

Jane Spencer is an American director who co-wrote and directed the film Little Noises, with lead actors Crispin Glover, Tatum O'Neal and Rik Mayall which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was screened at the Goteborg Film Festival (Sweden), Wine Valley Festival (USA) and was distributed in the USA (theatrical) and Europe.

Stuart Draper

He was well received for his role in the play Hot Mikado by the Bexley Times which wrote, "In a good cast, Stuart Draper shone brightest as the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, a blustering, avaricious coward in a pink suit who would have given Rik Mayall or Alexi Sayle a run for their money in the comedy stakes.".

Ted Walker

Walker also wrote plays for Shaun McLaughlin in BBC radio drama and adapted Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1995) for TVC (Television Cartoons)' animated production with a voice cast including Alan Bennett, Rik Mayall, Michael Palin and Michael Gambon.

The Bum Notes

Their music was used in the BBC sitcom Bottom, which was co-written and starred Edmondson along with co-star Rik Mayall.

Tony Fingleton

He remained in the USA after graduation and has become a screenwriter and movie producer, including the 1991 Rik Mayall film Drop Dead Fred.


Alec Bregonzi

Later on, Bregonzi worked with comedians Cannon and Ball, Kenny Everett, Hale and Pace, Little and Large, Kelly Monteith, and on half a dozen occasions in the television series The Two Ronnies (with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett) and Filthy Rich and Catflap (1987, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer).

Lady Marcia Fitzalan-Howard

Fitzalan acts in British TV and films; she is perhaps best known for her role opposite Rik Mayall as Sarah B'Stard in the ITV sitcom, The New Statesman.

Sally Ann Marsh

Sally Ann Marsh also voiced the character of Snow White, in the 2006 Picha production of Snow White: The Sequel alongside Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Rik Mayall as the Seven Dwarfs, Michael Kilgarriff as the Ogre, Shelley Blond as Cinderella, Lia Williams as Sleeping Beauty with Morwenna Banks as the Good Fairy and Simon Greenall as Prince Charming.


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