In 2013, he was Eric in the Sky Living Sitcom The Spa for one series. In 2009, he featured in the BBC drama Waterloo Road as a Security Guard, Dave Miller, a love interest for Steph Haydock, played by former real life wife, Denise Welch. In 2003 he was in BBC drama Murder in Mind. Healy appeared in the film Purely Belter and Coronation Street as Paul Jones, the father of barman Sean Tully. He appeared in Phoenix Nights and then played Jackie Elliot in the West End musical Billy Elliot. In the early days he appeared in a Minder episode, played Barney Bodger, the blundering handyman in the Children’s ITV series Tickle on the Tum, appeared as a cockney ex-pat in the BBC series Boys From The Bush and played a binman in Common as Muck. He struck fame when he played Dennis Patterson in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and is still a firm favourite. Healy was a welder in a factory and served part-time in the 4th Battalion the Parachute Regiment (Territorial Army) before embarking on his acting career. Here we follow their career paths from their early days to where they are now. The Geordie-themed TV classic, Auf Wiedershen, Pet aired for the first time on Friday, Novem(Image: Newcastle Chronicle) Some of the action was filmed on Tyneside - although nearly all of the first series was shot in Germany and at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, in Hertfordshire. The TV-viewing nation would quickly take them to their hearts. The other major characters were Barry, Wayne, Bomber and Moxie, played by Timothy Spall, Gary Holton, Pat Roach and Christopher Fairbank. Read more: Where are Byker Grove cast now? From pop careers to Strictly win and quitting Fifty ShadesĬentral to the group’s on-screen shenanigans were a trio of Geordies - bricklayers Dennis, Oz and Neville - brilliantly played by the relatively unknown Tim Healy, Jimmy Nail and Kevin Whately. But it was the ITV series one, set in Dusseldorf, which best captured the imagination of the TV public. There would be a further three series - and a TV special - over the following three decades. They were living in a hut on a German building site as they escaped unemployment in early-80s Thatcherite Britain. ![]() ![]() It featured three Geordies, a Brummie, Cockney, Bristolian and a Scouser. ![]() Next year will mark an incredible 40 years since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet first burst onto our TV screens.
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