Colin Campbell(1937-2018)

He had drama lessons as a child and at 12 did a season at the Old Vic, In 1955 he did his national service in the Royal Signals where he took up boxing as a light welter weight and is still a member of the Amateur Boxing Association.By the time of being demobbed he'd lost his theatre contacts and was too old for juvenile roles and too young for 25 year olds so spent time in factories, and drove lorries., 1962 Arnold Wesker asked him to play Charlie Wingate in Chips With Everything, which he eventually left to take the part of Rita Tuhingham's husband in the film Leather Boys.