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Jul 11, 2002 · Billy Bunter actor dies. British actor Gerald Campion, who was best known as the rotund Billy Bunter, has died at the age of 81. Campion had to wait until his 30s before he found fame, when he took the role of the greedy schoolboy character in the 1950s BBC series. He starred in the series set in Greyfriars public school from 1953 until 1961 ...
Gerald Theron Campion (23 April 1921 – 9 July 2002) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his role as Billy Bunter in a 1950s television adaptation ( Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School) of books by Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton). [1]
William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. The character has appeared in novels, on television, in stage ...
4 days ago · Advertisement. Billy Bunter star dies aged 81. Actor Gerald Campion, who for nearly a decade brought the original telly tubby Billy Bunter to life, has died at the age of 81, it emerged today. The ...
A recent obituary of Michael Bond, author of the Paddington Bear books, disclosed that as a boy he read Billy Bunter stories with a torch under his bedcovers. ... The first hardback, Billy Bunter ...
Jul 12, 2002 · Gerald Campion, who has died aged 81, played Billy Bunter in the BBC's early television series about the Fat Owl of the Remove and his antics at Greyfriars; that Campion played the part for 10 ...
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Jul 10, 2002 · Billy Bunter star dies aged 81. 10 July 2002 • 11:05pm . Gerald Campion, the actor who played Billy Bunter for nearly a decade, has died aged 81.
