I was very sad to hear of Andrew Sachs passing. He felt like part of the family!
RIP.
Sachs was a Jewish refugee. He wouldn't have been here, to contribute to our country, if we had turned away him & those like him, the way The Daily Mail wanted us to. Here's a headline from 1938, the year he arrived in the UK as a refugee:
Here's the same newspaper, reporting on his death, 78 years later:
Plus ca change.
A huge shame!
Didnt appreciate that he was older than Cleese.
I'll admit for knowing him from Fawlty Towers & voice overs for much of the last decade, but other work I've never been familiar with.
Anyway here's an old interview with him that perhaps you've never seen (I certainly wasnt alive)
Qe?
I trust we all made some basil soup in his memory! And yes, the DM headline is beyond ironic.
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