Nigel Rathbone
Acting
Biography
Nigel Rathbone is a British actor who is perhaps best known for playing Steve Forbes in thirty three episodes of the TV series The Gentle Touch (1980-1984) as well as his role as Arpad Laszlo in the BBC TV play She Loves Me (1979). He played Tim Barber in ten episodes of Look and Read (1967-2004) and he also starred alongside Bob Hoskins in the TV series Pennies from Heaven (1978-1979) in the episode "Painting the Clouds". He also made appearances in films such as No Blade of Grass (1970), The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) and Home Before Midnight (1979). During his life he also worked on TV commercials for Birds Eye Burgers.
Known For
Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Grange Hill
Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
The Gentle Touch
Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs. During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Pennies from Heaven
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.
No Blade of Grass
BBC production of the 1963 Broadway musical which was based on Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film "The Shop Around The Corner."
She Loves Me
John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, he learns about it, invades the Tower, and saves his pet.
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.