John Biggins is an actor in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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Biggins became a professional actor in 1983. Since then, he has worked consistently on stage, television and radio.

A regular in Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair's BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 sitcom Lead Balloon

Lead Balloon

Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and...

- as neighbour 'Clive Gray' - Biggins has appeared in many popular TV series, including Eastenders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

, Heartbeat, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

, Two Pints of Lager

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and initially revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings, played by Ralf Little , Sheridan Smith , Will Mellor , Natalie Casey and...

, The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

, The Thick Of It

The Thick of It

The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed fourteen half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's...

, The Vice

The Vice (TV series)

The Vice is an ITV police drama about the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad. It ran for five short series between 1999 and 2003. It tells the story of the London Metropolitan police forces vice squad, where prostitution, underage sex, and other such organized crime are regular occurrences...

 and Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

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Biggins has been a regular in a number of other television series, including Pobol y Cwm

Pobol y Cwm

Pobol y Cwm is a Welsh-language television soap opera which has been produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television and later transferred to the Welsh-language station S4C when it...

, City Central, The Armando Iannucci Shows

The Armando Iannucci Shows

The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes directed by Armando Iannucci and written by Iannucci with Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil. It was shown on UK's Channel 4 from September to October 2001...

, and Breakfast Serials

Breakfast Serials

Breakfast Serials was a twenty-five minute anthology series for children that aired on BBC ONE for one series in 1990. It was produced and co-written by Russell T Davies, and edited by Edward Pugh...

. On stage, Biggins has toured extensively with Hull Truck and appeared at many regional repertory theatres, as well as in London.

A six month contract in 2009/2010 with the BBC Radio Drama

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

 Company saw Biggins appearing in a variety of guises in many radio dramas and comedy shows, notably Plantaganet, Bullitt, Fair Stood The Wind For France, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Honourable Schoolboy and Roald Dahl's "Matilda".

Biggins has worked as a theatre critic and scriptwriter, having written scripts for BBC television and radio, as well as the Children's Channel on cable/Sky.

Biggins lives in London, where he sings tenor with the chamber choir Collegium Musicum of London, a choral group which performs a varied repertoire of work in London venues.

Sources

• http://uk-tv-guide.com/celebrity/John+Biggins/17631/
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081814/
• http://www.film.com/movies/before-you-go/14705277/
• http://www.screened.com/john-biggins/14-49989/

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