This led to what became his best-known comedy role, as Jeremy Brown in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79, 1986), which was a humorous look at an evening class tutor teaching English to foreign students. He wrote to London Weekend Television, "and told them. Įvans also did some theatre work, but this did not prove financially worthwhile, and he spent several spells claiming benefits. Although the film was successful, Evans decided not to appear in the sequels, but he starred in the similarly themed Under the Doctor the same year. Unlike in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, in which the viewer partakes in Jamie's thoughts, Evans's character breaks the fourth wall throughout the film. In 1976, he had the lead role in Stanley Long's sex comedy Adventures of a Taxi Driver. In 1971, Evans played the character of Eli Frome in Pete Walker's low-budget thriller Die Screaming, Marianne, alongside Susan George. However, in a 1977 interview he stated that he had been "incredibly stupid" to turn the series down. Work on the "Doctor" series was extremely intense and left him no time to take on other roles he therefore declined to appear in the later sequels. Evans enjoyed working with his fellow actors George Layton, Geoffrey Davies, Robin Nedwell and Richard O'Sullivan, and he later described these as the best years of his life. Following the show's success he starred in the sequel to the series, Doctor at Large (1971). Evans starred as the young student doctor Michael Upton, to whom Evans felt he bore no similarities. His first significant television role was in the sitcom Doctor in the House (1969–70), based on Richard Gordon's series of novels, which had already been turned into a feature film series. In 1969, Evans appeared alongside Roddy McDowall in an episode of the series Journey to the Unknown entitled "The Killing Bottle", as a man planning to murder his brother for the inheritance. He worked with Donner again in 1969 in the historical epic Alfred the Great. The film saw the beginning of a long-lasting friendship between Barry Evans and the director, Clive Donner, whom Evans regarded as one of his best friends. The film was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the Festival was cancelled that year. The soundtrack mainly contained songs performed by The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic. Jamie McGregor speaks his thoughts out loud. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush represented a breakthrough in a number of technical features: the script, the photography and the filming techniques. Photoplay magazine called Evans a "bright and exciting new actor", and The Sunday Telegraph described his screen debut as "brilliant". One of his first film credits was the lead role in Clive Donner's film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) where he was cast as Jamie McGregor, a teenager who finds it difficult to lose his virginity. Evans attended the Italia Conti Academy and later won a John Gielgud Scholarship to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He briefly lived in Yalding before moving to London. His acting ability was recognised at an early age and he often played the leading roles in school plays. Born in Guildford, Surrey, and orphaned as a baby, Evans was educated at the orphanage boarding schools run by the Shaftesbury Homes, first at Fortescue House School in Twickenham in a Dr Barnardo's Home, and then at Bisley Boys' School in Bisley, Surrey.
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