Talk:Peter Bowles

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"Bowles also played the smarmy Meres in the spin off movie of the Thames Television series Callan" Based on research in IMDb, I believe Bowles played Meres in the "prequel" to the series and the spin-off movie had Peter Egan as Meres (with Anthony Valentine playing Meres in the main series). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.163.138.12 (talk) 02:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that was a lot of work

I've heavily altered the article all the way through, occasionally in a substantive way but mostly to conform with standard WP linking, which meant removing a lot of redundant metatext. What remains was plainly originally written as a kind of resume/CV for Mr Bowles, but I don't know how many of the trivial theatre notices to remove; though doubtless the best answer is "a lot". Perhaps 'Channel 4 Films' should be substituted with FilmFour, and I can't place who and what 'Hutchinson' and 'The Beau' are. Harfarhs (talk) 22:31, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

And I deleted the rest! 86.182.99.242 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 00:14, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Does that help or hinder the availability of information? 2.31.166.186 (talk) 05:09, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Engineer?

If his father had been a chauffeur, how did he manage the enormous jump to 'engineer' during WWII?

I was not aware that engineering was an inherited gene rather than a learned skill. 2.31.166.186 (talk) 05:10, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

If it is meant that he was 'manpowered' (as the expression was then) and sent to the Rolls Royce factory to build engines, it is far more likely that he was employed as a fitter, i.e. an assembler of engines, not a professional designer of engines. 121.44.86.246 (talk) 07:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Because no engineer had a working-class father? This smacks of irresponsible poppycock. Judge a man on his own merits - his father's profession is irrelevant. 2.31.166.186 (talk) 05:11, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Despite what many think, engineering is a profession just like medicine, etc. Would one expect a chauffeur to leave their job and take a position as a medical doctor without any obvious lengthy period of training? The same holds true of an engineer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.131.187 (talk) 23:13, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Name and place of birth

The FreeBMD entry for Bowles here shows he had a middle initial J and that his birth was registered in Kensington. I wonder if there are any secondary sources to back this up. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:54, 17 March 2022 (UTC)