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Stephen (1) Lewis

STEPHEN (1) LEWIS

  
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Stephen Lewis (credited early in his career as Stephen Cato), actor and playwright, born 17 December 1926; died 12 August 2015. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake in the LWT sitcom and film versions of On the Buses, appearing for the length of the series, (along with Bob Grant and Anna Karen), Clem "Smiler" Hemmingway in Last of the Summer Wine, and Harry Lambert in BBC Television's Oh, Doctor Beeching!.

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         Sparrers Cant Sing

Sparrers Cant Sing

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To claim that he alone wrote Sparrers Cant Sing is slightly misleading: Littlewoods productions always involved the actors improvising around a theme, but Lewis certainly came up with the idea and created most of the dialogue in this colourful and character-rich look at East End life in the 1960s, complete with crooks, spivs, corner-boys and streetwalkers. Much of it was in Cockney rhyming slang, London Yiddish and Romany cant. And when it came to writing a more structured screenplay for the movie, billed as Sparrows Cant Sing, Lewis did a fine job, though it proved incomprehensible to American audiences and was released in the US with subtitles.

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comedy

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