I agree. He was an excellent actor and appeared to be a well dispositioned human being.

I agree.

I honestly wish he'd got more recognition. I'm a big fan of Nigel Hawthorne, and we even grew up in the same place, but I honestly think Paul Eddington was slightly the better actor at least in Yes (Prime) Minister. They both struggled for years but only Nigel Hawthorne got awards - every single time beating Paul Eddington at the BAFTAs and then getting an Oscar. But Jim Hacker showed far more range, was immersed and complex, showed development, and was never overdone or unconvincing, which I think was occasionally the case for Humphrey Appleby. We tend to assume that a more intelligent and 'proper' character must be the better performance, but this isn't true

@@chequereturned Andrew your analysis is very accurate & to the point.

didn't he always have bad health i read that he always had skin cancer.

@@alexlazebat839 Yes. he had a very slow growing form of skin cancer for over thirty years. There is a last interview with him on YT and it's heart breaking to see what it finally did to his skin. A very brave, dignified man and a fine actor.

Sketchskool

That was his very last interview and he died a few days later.

He was afflicted with the skin cancer that took him shortly thereafter, and it was heartbreaking to watch. Interestingly, not long after I saw that interview [on DVD, perhaps?], I came across an interview with Count Basie who said essentially the same thing, though he phrased it differently. Odd, that two very different talented men who brought joy to millions (and continue to do so) would express such a humble sentiment.

Once a quaker, always...

truly a wonderful man

Sooooorely missed.

I just wish she would shut up after asking a question and then talking over his answer. Incredibly rude and frustrating because you don’t get a full answer.

@@1701SPWell, they were great friends as well as costars, so it’s really the casual conversation of friends rather than a formal interview.

“The interviewer”? That’s Felicity freaking Kendal! Paul’s costar in The Good Life.

LOL I get that reference 😁

Reminds me of a chat show fronted by Kenneth Williams, when he interviewed his friend Barbara Windsor: it was like a closed conversation, with the audience as onlookers.

That's what it feels like. I don't mind too much.

Do you think she's as rude IRL - interrupting all the time ? - can't act as an interviewer !

@Ray Maybe that explains her lack of conversation skills ?

@@millomweb As mentioned in the caption and referred to in their initial greetings to one another, Felicity was standing in for Terry Wogan. She is an actress, not an interviewer. Why the BBC asked her to do this is unclear. Maybe simply because she is so cute. This interview took place less than 18 months after her older sister had died of cancer. That she may not have 'hung-around' for a drink and a chat with other cast members of TGL, she was 29 when it started airing in 1975. The others considerably older. PK: 35, RB: 41 and Paul was 46. Maybe she felt she needed to get away so as to give herself more time to rehearse her lines and be up-to-par with them, who knows? They were all jobbing actors. They do not live together.

Unforgivably indiscreet

It was Luke!

She was #1 and a superb woman and actress

Just one thing, I am not "sir Humpy". I am not sitting on a wall and neither am I grinding away on the furniture like a rabbit.

@@YesMinisterMuseum Yes Sir Humphrey, I stand humbly corrected

He could have said, "Well, if Sir Humphrey could assist me."

she was an excited fan--like a teenager, and beautiful with it

@@MrDaiseymay An excited fan? She'd already worked with him. She needs to shut up and stop playing with her hair.

A fine and beautiful actress but no chat show host.

She was not an interviewer, just filling in for the host who was absent.

asets12 Check out The Good Life.

Im probably late to the party here, but I skipped yes (prime) minister also... I have only recently watchrd all of it and strongly would advise you to watch it. It's really quite good and hilarious to boot!

@@irishprice5152 the key was Great

Yes.

Totally understandable.

You are not the only member of this club.

and doesn't she do it so well?

Really? I'm surprised. What part did he play?

@@ssbohio The character "Cobb"

Yet Paul never spoke poorly of Mrs. Thatcher in the interview. I miss the time when we could be civil with people we disagree with.

The Labour Party is a rose not a carnation.

He was originally diagnosed with it aged just 28. He knew.

Yes he kept it very quiet, a very select number knew about it.

Positive or negative?

How so?

hmmm you might be right actually

The interviewer is Felicity Kendall and actress who work with him and Briars on a popular show called the Good Life. She is wonderful, though interviewing not her thing.

A good interviewer knows when to SHUT UP.

Except she's a FRIEND and an actress, not an interviewer.

He really does look like him doesn’t he. Doing some digging, Master Cox is played by Kenneth Cope of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) fame. Jeffrey’s wife would never have allowed him to do television ;-)

It seems she was an emergency replacement for Terry Wogan. Of course she is not a professional interviewer.

as an interviewer, yes, as a friend in an conversation, I don't think so.

It’s her personality as well as her features. Also, she aged with admirable grace and beauty.

Probably playing to American viewers (if any).

PM of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...

@@thedukeofnuts And Scotland?

Rather like the hair's owner. ;-)

A new role for her and nervous people speak fast, show nervous habits and chime in too soon to ease their anxiety. An experienced interviewer relaxes the guest and does a bit of small talk and then start addressing questions. Like taking a penalty at Chelsea. Don't rush. Be composed and put the ball in the corner. Know your material and think through the dialogue, pick up any relevant or amusing point and follow up as an extra item to the script when apt. In 6 months she'd be good but even much better if she went 3 years backpacking and working in ad hoc temp jobs, inside and out, along the way would help a vital element of people to people roles. Understanding fully human nature. Going to a nice school, being with nice people, doing nice things, nice holidays, nice cars, looking nice and being nice is paper thin. Child star actors should do the same and add some colour and character to their presence than hanging on to youthful looks.

Funnily enough, in a "The Good Life" sketch, Jerry (played by Paul) asks Barbara (played by Felicity) to "stop doing that with your hair. It's … rather... sensual". Watch "The Wind Break" or something like that. :)

No. Felicity can do what she wants.

Yes. She does interrupt a lot and she seems to want to stay to her scripted questions instead of flowing with Paul's answers.

She could chase me around the bedroom....and I might let her catch me.

PE was married, and so was FC. Stop imagining what isn't there man.

This was on the 7:00 or 7:30 slot on BBC1, with a substitute interviewer (the usual one was Terry Wogan, who was a Radio 2 light-ent DJ). What do you expect?

@@anonUK This aired on Monday 13th January 1986 at 7.00pm on BBC One, Wogan was off on his post-Christmas, early new year break and Felicity was brought in for that week's guest host. Yes Prime Minister had started its first series the previous Thursday 9th January 1986 on BBC Two.

You are a truly sad individual then.