Malcolm McFee

Malcolm McFee
Malcolm McFee
Born 16 August 1949(1949-08-16)
Forest Gate, London, England
Died 18 November 2001(2001-11-18) (aged 52)
Braintree, Essex, England
Occupation Actor
Years active 1967–2001

Malcolm McFee (born Malcolm Raymond McFee on 16 August 1949 in Forest Gate in London – died 18 November 2001 in Braintree in Essex) was an English actor best known for his role as Peter Craven in the TV series Please Sir!, the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series The Fenn Street Gang.

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Career

Malcolm McFee made his first appearance on television in 1967. In 1968 he began a three-season stint in the London Weekend Television situation comedy series Please Sir! playing the part of smooth wide-boy[1] Peter Craven. He continued the role into the 1971 feature film comedy version, also called Please Sir!. McFee had made his film debut in the 1969 satirical anti-war musical Oh! What a Lovely War.

The Please Sir! TV series spawned a comedy sequel called The Fenn Street Gang which ran from 1971 to 1973. McFee was unavailable for season one as he was appearing in the West End play “Forget-Me-Not-Lane”[2] and the part of Craven was played for that season by Leon Vitali. McFee returned for seasons two and three. He appeared on television many times in the 1970’s but was not seen again until 1993.

After turning to the stage McFee made a career as an actor and director, working as a theatre director in small theatres in Greater London and the provinces.

His last TV role was in an episode of the long-running Thames Television police drama series The Bill[3] in 1997.

Apart from Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang, Malcolm McFee appeared in the following television programmes:[4]

Years Programme Episode
1967 Associated-Rediffusion's drama series Sanctuary Sisters & Brothers (Season 1, Episode 5)[5]
1968 BBC children’s drama series Ramshackle Road[6] Not known
1969 Long-running BBC police drama series Z Cars Sunday... Sunday... Parts 1 and 2 (Season 6, Episodes 210 & 211)[7]
1970 BBC anthology drama series Play For Today I Can't See My Little Willie, by Douglas Livingstone[8] (Season 1, Play Number 6)
1971 BBC2's historical drama series Elizabeth R Episode 5, The Enterprise of England[9][10]
1971 Thames Television’s detective anthology series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes The Case of Laker, Absconded (Season 1, Episode 13)[11]
1973 Thames Television’s situation comedy series Bless This House A Girl's Worst Friend is Her Father (Season 3, Episode 12)[12]
1976 Yorkshire Television’s drama series Hadleigh Recurring character in Season 4 but episodes not known[13]
1978 ITV family comedy The Chiffy Kids Jam Session (Season 2, Episode 5)[14]
1978 Euston Films’ police drama series for ITV The Sweeney Messenger of the Gods (Season 4, Episode 1)[15]
1979 BBC Schools programme Everyday Maths Ten Per Cent Per Ted (Season 2, Episode 1)[16]
1979 BBC children’s comedy adventure series Graham's Gang Mildred's Party (Season 2, Episode 3)[17]
1993 Thames Television’s crime drama series The Bill The Hard Sell (Season 9, Episode 135)[18]
1996 Alomo Productions’ BBC situation comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart It Ain't Necessarily So (Season 3, Episode 1)[19][20]
1997 BBC police drama spoof The Detectives Mine's a Large One (Season 5, Episode 6)[21]
1997 Alomo Productions’ BBC situation comedy series Birds of a Feather Relative Strangers (Season 7, Episode 4)[22]
1997 The Bill (2nd appearance) Playing with Fire (Season 13, Episode 81, playing a different character to 1993 episode)[23]

McFee also appeared as a guest on This is Your Life John Alderton in 1974, and presented three episodes of BBC pre-school programme "You and Me" in 1978.[24]

Personal life

From 1960 to 1965 Malcolm McFee attended Plaistow County Grammar School, which had previously produced film actor Terence Stamp. He was briefly the drummer in a band called The Abstracts with some schoolfriends before devoting himself to acting.

In 1971 he married Margaret Kearnan, and they had a daughter, Victoria, in 1980.[25]

McFee died suddenly on 18 November 2001 at the age of 52 at his home in Braintree in Essex, shortly before he was due to appear as a Dame in a pantomime of Beauty and the Beast at the Elgiva Theatre in Chesham. He had been suffering from cancer.[26] McFee had been raising money for the Oncology Department of Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford in Essex as a "Thank you" for the treatment he received from them. David Barry and Penny Spencer, who both appeared with McFee in "Please Sir!", attended his funeral.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Please Sir! / The Fenn Street Gang". Television Heaven. http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/pleasesir.htm. Retrieved 8 October 2011. 
  2. ^ Daily Mirror, 07 August 1971
  3. ^ "Malcolm McFee Biography". tv.com uk. http://www.tv.com/people/malcolm-mcfee/. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
  4. ^ "Filmography by type for Malcolm McFee". Internet Movie Database (“IMDb”). http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568849/filmotype. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 
  5. ^ "Sanctuary, Sisters & Brothers". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694012/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  6. ^ "Ramshackle Road". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499074/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  7. ^ "Z-Cars". missing-episodes.com. http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/zcars.htm. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 
  8. ^ "Play for Today, I Can’t See My Little Willie". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498405/. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 
  9. ^ "Elizabeth R". BFI. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/7220. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  10. ^ "Cast Elizabeth R: The Enterprise of England". BFI. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/196923?view=cast. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  11. ^ "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Case of Laker, Absconded". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0687028/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  12. ^ "Bless This House, Episode Guide". The British Comedy Guide. http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/bless_this_house/episodes/3/12/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  13. ^ "Full cast and crew for “Hadleigh”". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159167/fullcredits#cast. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  14. ^ "The Chiffy Kids, Jam Session". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238947/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  15. ^ "The Sweeney, Messenger of the Gods". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0714447/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  16. ^ "Everyday Maths, Ten Per Cent Per Ted". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013015/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  17. ^ "Graham’s Gang, Mildred’s Party". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0941579/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  18. ^ "The Bill, The Hard Sell". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0850819/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  19. ^ "Goodnight Sweetheart". BFI. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/22808. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  20. ^ "Cast, Goodnight Sweetheart, It Ain’t Necessarily So". BFI. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/540962?view=cast. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  21. ^ "The Detectives, Mine’s a Large One". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0558927/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  22. ^ "Birds of a Feather, Relative Strangers". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526307/. Retrieved 15 November 2011. 
  23. ^ "The Bill, Playing with Fire". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0525571/. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  24. ^ "You and Me". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397225/combined. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  25. ^ "Malcolm McFee". Freebase. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/malcolm_mcfee. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
  26. ^ "Biography for Malcolm McFee". Internet movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm05688949/bio. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
  27. ^ "Please Sir Classic TV Show, Please Sir Fan Tributes, Item 5 by Victoria McFee". Classic Telly. http://www.classictelly.com/programme.php?Programme=Please_Sir. Retrieved 09 November 2011. 

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