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Rodney Bewes (born 27 November 1938 born in Bingley, West Yorkshire) is a British television actor probably best known for playing the lovable Bob Ferris in the classic BBC sitcoms The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Bewes was raised mainly in Luton, and after intermittent schooling left home aged 15 for London. After several odd jobs he fell into RADA training and got his break in the early 1960s with appearances in shows such as Z Cars and Dixon of Dock Green, as well as the movie version of Billy Liar.

Inbetween his two stints as a 'Likely Lad' in the 1960s and 1970s, he also appeared in Man in a Suitcase, Father Dear Father and starred in his own ITV sitcom Albert, which he co-wrote.

Some of his later film and television roles include Jabberwocky
(1977), The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979), The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980) and the 1984 Doctor Who serial Resurrection of the Daleks. Bewes is also fondly remembered for playing straight man, 'Mr Rodney', to cheeky TV puppet Basil Brush in the late 1960s.

His autobiography, A Likely Story, was finally published in September 2005. Although born in the North of England, he now regards himself as a Londoner, albeit one with a slight Northern accent in his speech.

Such things matter massively in England, and some people were not happy with him being cast as a Newcastle lad in the The Likely Lads. However his charm and acting ability won viewers over. He revealed in the book, and also on Michael Parkinson's BBC Radio 2 show in 2005, that he has not spoken to his 'Likely Lads' co-star James Bolam for nearly 30 years.

A fanatic football supporter, he follows Chelsea F.C.

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