Hello all! Haven't been about for a bit, but I recently finished a
piece of "New Avengers" fanfiction with a co-writer, and it's only just
been posted on fanfiction.net. It's set in 1975, revovling around
Purdey and Gambit's first meeting inspired by the back of card 70 from
Strictly Ink's recent TNA trading card set, and Gambit's comment
about "taking three bullets going over the wall" in "The Eagle's Nest."
If you'd like to take a look at "Berlin", it's here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3649226/1/Berlin

And I've uploaded loads to my album since I was last here, so if you
want to take a look, it's still here:

http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r192/timelessapeel

Enjoy!

Timeless A-Peel

Oh My! A spammer. Spam Spam Spam Spam--oops sorry,
wrong group. Get 'im Cal or Scott.

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Hey there,

I got the magazine and uploaded the article. It's in my "Original
Avengers" album, since the TNA material is negligible compared to the
original series. You can find it here:

http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r192/timelessapeel/Original%
20Avengers/

The article itself isn't anything new if you've been to "Dead Duck,"
or collected the comics, but the pictures are a treat. I do have a
copy of the TNA French comic collection, which I'll hopefully be able
to get scanned a translated this summer.

By the way, there's some newer stuff in my TNA album
(http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r192/timelessapeel/),
particularly bits from fanzines published not long after the series
ended. It's an interesting insight into thoughts on the show when it
was first screened.

Cheers,

Timeless A-Peel

--- In Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com, Cal Westray <calwestray@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
>   Just got some interesting news for those who are into Avengers in
art. Or in comics.
>   I have an attached image of the upcoming comic.
>
>   Cal
>
>   -------
>
>
>   TV Avengers feature in new Comics International
>
>
>   Fans of John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel et al might want to
scurry on down to their local comics shop for a copy of Comics
International #201, the 100-page first issue from new publisher
Cosmic Publications.
>
>
>   The long-running news magazine is continuing its exhaustive
overview at TV fantasy in comics with a detailed and heavily
illustrated look at The Avengers, written by John Freeman, Ian
Wheeler and Dez Skinn.
>
>
>
>
>           "Behind every man, there is a woman rolling her eyes..."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
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>

I know the suburbia group is clean - I keep a watchful eye on it now :) Ha!

I'm in there like a bat outta hell!

 

Barry
sic friat crustulum

----- Original Message -----

From: Cal Westray

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:58 PM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit] Spammers

Right you are Ellen and Barry!

I removed some invalid members and messages. And banned some email
addresses. I did the same in the Brodny group. The Suburbia group
looks pretty clean.

Pesky spammers! I don't know how they get in here. I thought I had
this group set up for approval, but I suppose I don't.

I guess that's what happens when a group is wide open. We have to be
more watchful.

Thanks!

Cal

----- Original Message -----

From: Barry Clarke

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:26 PM

Subject: Re: [Mike_Gambit]

Cal - time to clear this person and other spammers from the group!

How do they get in? Isn't membership on approval?

 

Barry
sic friat crustulum

----- Original Message -----

From: sherry-heath924@ifitweresimple.info

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:24 PM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit]

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----- Original Message -----

From: Cal Westray

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:58 PM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit] Spammers

Right you are Ellen and Barry!

I removed some invalid members and messages. And banned some email
addresses. I did the same in the Brodny group. The Suburbia group
looks pretty clean.

Pesky spammers! I don't know how they get in here. I thought I had
this group set up for approval, but I suppose I don't.

I guess that's what happens when a group is wide open. We have to be
more watchful.

Thanks!

Cal

Right you are Ellen and Barry!

I removed some invalid members and messages. And banned some email
addresses. I did the same in the Brodny group. The Suburbia group
looks pretty clean.

Pesky spammers! I don't know how they get in here. I thought I had
this group set up for approval, but I suppose I don't.

I guess that's what happens when a group is wide open. We have to be
more watchful.

Thanks!

Cal

Sorry all,
I have no idea how this spammer got in here.
This group requires approval to get in and they became members
yesterday without approval. This is a mystery.

Scott and I will blast Sherry to oblivion!

The good thing is that Sherry is also in Brodny, and I will blast her
there too before she starts stuff there.

Cal

----- Original Message -----

From: sherry-heath924@...

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:24 PM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit]

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Gosh Sherry,

You've been a busy girl.  You've been spamming one of
the X-Files groups I'm in and now here you are on the
Gambit site.  I can't wait until Cal or Scott get rid
of you.  Go for it guys!!!


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Hi Cal,

We have a couple of stores in the next town over that
tend to carry unusual things, so I'm hoping one of
them will have it. I'll let you know if they do.

Ellen
--- Cal Westray wrote:

> Hi Ellen,
> You may want to call local comics stores to see if
> any of them carry it, they may even need to special
> order it. And they can order it, but I've discovered
> that in the states, it is already on backorder. So
> it may be a 50-50 chance to get it. And it won't be
> at all comic book stores. I hope you can find it.
>
> If anyone locates a store that carrys it, you may
> want to let others know about it. *grin*
>
> But it won't be at any book stores like Barnes and
> Nobles. Of that, I'm sure.
>
> Thanks!
> Cal
>
> Ellen wrote:
> Cal,
>
> Is this available in the U.S.? I don't frequently
> shop for comics. Could I find it at Hastings or
> Barnes and Nobles? Or would I need to go to a
> special
> shop?
>
> Ellen
> --- Cal Westray wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > Just got some interesting news for those who are
> > into Avengers in art. Or in comics.
> > I have an attached image of the upcoming comic.
> >
> > Cal
> >
> > -------
> >
> >
> > TV Avengers feature in new Comics International
> >
> >
> > Fans of John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel et al
> > might want to scurry on down to their local comics
> > shop for a copy of Comics International #201, the
> > 100-page first issue from new publisher Cosmic
> > Publications.
> >
> >
> > The long-running news magazine is continuing its
> > exhaustive overview at TV fantasy in comics with a
> > detailed and heavily illustrated look at The
> > Avengers, written by John Freeman, Ian Wheeler and
> > Dez Skinn.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Behind every man, there is a woman
> > rolling her eyes..."
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Hi Cal,

We have a couple of stores in the next town over that
tend to carry unusual things, so I'm hoping one of
them will have it.  I'll let you know if they do.

Ellen
--- Cal Westray <calwestray@...> wrote:

> Hi Ellen,
>   You may want to call local comics stores to see if
> any of them carry it, they may even need to special
> order it. And they can order it, but I've discovered
> that in the states, it is already on backorder. So
> it may be a 50-50 chance to get it. And it won't be
> at all comic book stores. I hope you can find it.
>
>   If anyone locates a store that carrys it, you may
> want to let others know about it. *grin*
>
>   But it won't be at any book stores like Barnes and
> Nobles. Of that, I'm sure.
>
>   Thanks!
>   Cal
>
> Ellen <emmapeel66@...> wrote:
>   Cal,
>
> Is this available in the U.S.? I don't frequently
> shop for comics. Could I find it at Hastings or
> Barnes and Nobles? Or would I need to go to a
> special
> shop?
>
> Ellen
> --- Cal Westray wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > Just got some interesting news for those who are
> > into Avengers in art. Or in comics.
> > I have an attached image of the upcoming comic.
> >
> > Cal
> >
> > -------
> >
> >
> > TV Avengers feature in new Comics International
> >
> >
> > Fans of John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel et al
> > might want to scurry on down to their local comics
> > shop for a copy of Comics International #201, the
> > 100-page first issue from new publisher Cosmic
> > Publications.
> >
> >
> > The long-running news magazine is continuing its
> > exhaustive overview at TV fantasy in comics with a
> > detailed and heavily illustrated look at The
> > Avengers, written by John Freeman, Ian Wheeler and
> > Dez Skinn.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Behind every man, there is a woman
> > rolling her eyes..."
> >
> >
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> >
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Cal,

Is this available in the U.S.? I don't frequently
shop for comics. Could I find it at Hastings or
Barnes and Nobles? Or would I need to go to a special
shop?

Ellen
--- Cal Westray wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> Just got some interesting news for those who are
> into Avengers in art. Or in comics.
> I have an attached image of the upcoming comic.
>
> Cal
>
> -------
>
>
> TV Avengers feature in new Comics International
>
>
> Fans of John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel et al
> might want to scurry on down to their local comics
> shop for a copy of Comics International #201, the
> 100-page first issue from new publisher Cosmic
> Publications.
>
>
> The long-running news magazine is continuing its
> exhaustive overview at TV fantasy in comics with a
> detailed and heavily illustrated look at The
> Avengers, written by John Freeman, Ian Wheeler and
> Dez Skinn.
>
>
>
>
> "Behind every man, there is a woman
> rolling her eyes..."
>
>
>
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>
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----- Original Message -----

From: whitfeldfamily

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 7:27 PM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit] Two's Company

I kept reading about this film, and then managed to stumble upon it.
Quite an 'interesting' short but don't do as I did and read the
comments before watching!
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/twos_company.jsp

Cal,

Is this available in the U.S.?  I don't frequently
shop for comics.  Could I find it at Hastings or
Barnes and Nobles?  Or would I need to go to a special
shop?

Ellen
--- Cal Westray <calwestray@...> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
>   Just got some interesting news for those who are
> into Avengers in art. Or in comics.
>   I have an attached image of the upcoming comic.
>
>   Cal
>
>   -------
>
>
>   TV Avengers feature in new Comics International
>
>
>   Fans of John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel et al
> might want to scurry on down to their local comics
> shop for a copy of Comics International #201, the
> 100-page first issue from new publisher Cosmic
> Publications.
>
>
>   The long-running news magazine is continuing its
> exhaustive overview at TV fantasy in comics with a
> detailed and heavily illustrated look at The
> Avengers, written by John Freeman, Ian Wheeler and
> Dez Skinn.
>
>
>
>
>           "Behind every man, there is a woman
> rolling her eyes..."
>
>
>
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That was an interesting short film.

Not at all what I expected. LOL!

Cal

--- In Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com, "whitfeldfamily"
<carolinewhitfeld@...> wrote:
>
> I kept reading about this film, and then managed to stumble upon it.
> Quite an 'interesting' short but don't do as I did and read the
> comments before watching!
> http://www.atomfilms.com/film/twos_company.jsp
>

I kept reading about this film, and then managed to stumble upon it.
Quite an 'interesting' short but don't do as I did and read the
comments before watching!
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/twos_company.jsp

Great article.  I've found it odd that they keep
saying he was 65 when he was actually 64 since 1943
from 2007 is 64.  I reallyy do wish he had done more.
I always thought he was quite dashing.

Ellen
--- Cal Westray <calwestray@...> wrote:

> Thanks to Margaret, she found this on a Guardian
> website.
> I couldn't access it, without subscribing to it.
>
> http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/
>
> Dennis Barker
> Wednesday March 14, 2007
>
> Gareth Hunt, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged
> 65, was an actor
> whose smooth, stately and steely presence made him
> an ideal
> Frederick the Footman in the last series of the cult
> television
> programme Upstairs, Downstairs in 1974 and Mike
> Gambit, Joanna
> Lumley's crime-fighting partner in The New Avengers
> in 1976, but was
> not used as regularly as he and his admirers could
> have wished. In
> later years he became well known as the face of
> Nescaf? with a
> trademark hand unclenched to reveal coffee beans.
>
> Tall and saturnine, and with an ominous stony look
> in his eyes, Hunt
> would have fitted more easily into the great days of
> the British
> film industry in the years spanning the second world
> war, when
> heavyweight personalities and stiff upper lips were
> more in fashion,
> but was sometimes rather adrift in the more anodyne
> days that
> followed.
>
> Alternating between television, undistinguished
> cinema films, and
> respectable stage work that included the National
> Theatre and the
> Royal Shakespeare Company, he was never lucky enough
> to play a
> character that both suited him and took a firm grip
> on the public.
>
> His stage work, including pantomime, often took him
> to the regions
> and abroad: Run For Your Wife to Florida and New
> York. Films also
> required extensive travel: in 1997 he was in the
> Ukraine filming
> Marco Polo with Jack Palance.
>
> Having that slightly sinister glassy gaze, he could
> play heroes or
> dastardly villains with equal facility. Some of his
> enterprises were
> bizarre, including a 1984 comic horror film, Blood
> Bath at the House
> of Death, starring Vincent Price, Kenny Everett and
> Pamela
> Stephenson, and a Swedish film called The Forgotten
> Wells, in which
> a television crew were held hostage in sewers by two
> armed thugs.
>
> Hunt was equally at home playing those on the right
> side of the law,
> especially smoothly tough police officers. In one
> year alone, 1997,
> he played two inspectors, Inspector Masefield in the
> British film
> Fierce Creatures, the unsatisfactory follow-up to A
> Fish Called
> Wanda, and Inspector Bass in another British film,
> Parting Shots,
> made by Michael Winner and described by the Observer
> as among the
> worst British films ever made.
>
> In 1989, long after his Frederick the Footman in
> Upstairs,
> Downstairs, he played a coachman in a Barbara
> Cartland story adapted
> for television, The Lady and the Highwayman, an
> illustration of the
> fact that parts that could accommodate him were now
> in extremely
> short supply.
>
> Gareth Hunt was born Ian Leonard Hunt, nephew of the
> actor Martita
> Hunt in Battersea, London.
>
> He was 15 when he went into the merchant navy, and
> he served for six
> years before jumping ship in New Zealand and
> spending three months
> in a military prison.
>
> Returning to Britain, he had a number of dead-end
> jobs to raise
> funds, including road digger, door-to-door salesman
> and stagehand,
> while he nursed his theatrical ambitions.
>
> He also had a job in an ITV studio before taking a
> BBC design
> course, ending up eventually at the Webber Douglas
> Academy of
> Dramatic Art.
>
> His next step was repertory at Ipswich, Bristol,
> Coventry, Watford
> and the Royal Court in London, before the Royal
> Shakespeare Company
> and the National Theatre. He was in the National
> Theatre production
> of Hamlet in 1975 when it was still operating from
> the Old Vic and
> in Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare
> Company at the
> Aldwych in 1978.
>
> He was also in Section Nine at the Aldwych.
>
> It was television which established Hunt. In 1974 he
> was in six
> episodes of Planet of the Spiders in the Doctor Who
> series, in the
> following year he was in the episode The Guardian of
> Piri in the
> Space: 1999 series, and in The Hanged Man series
> episode The
> Bridgemaker. In the same year he became Frederick
> the Footman, which
> made him famous enough to be considered for film
> roles.
>
> The 1979 film adaptation of Jackie Collins's The
> World is Full of
> Married Men saw him as Jay Grossman, one of the many
> Hollywood
> weasels abusing women, and in the same year he also
> played in two
> other British films, Licensed to Love and Kill, a
> James Bond spoof,
> and The House on Garibaldi Street, a serious film
> about an attempt
> by the Israeli secret service Mossad to catch a Nazi
> war criminal.
>
> The 80s were not kind to him artistically. In 1981
> he played in the
> BBC TV miniseries of Dickens's The Old Curiosity
> Shop, and in the
> Minder series; but his other television work, A
> Hazard of Hearts and
> The Lady and the Highwayman, won no great critical
> praise, and his
> film work Funny Money, Bloodbath at the House of
> Death, It Couldn't
> Happen Here and A Chorus of Disapproval were not
> mainstream.
>
> But he carried on working throughout the 90s,
> including presenting a
> series of excerpts from the Upstairs, Downstairs
> series on its 25th
> anniversary in 1996.
>
> In the same year he "abandoned" acting for business,
> starting a
> company to produce video films for aspiring
> performers, which they
> could present to producers without having to go to
> auditions in
> person, but its success could be measured by the
> fact that he soon
> returned to acting. He was a regular in the ITV soap
> opera Night and
> Day.
>
> Hunt had had several heart attacks in the past and
> he had a further
> attack in July 2002 when he was appearing in Absurd
> Person Singular
> at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth.
> Married three times, he is survived by his wife
> Amanda and three
> sons.
>
> ? Gareth Hunt (Alan Leonard Hunt), actor, born
> February 7 1943; died
> March 14 2007
>
>
>
>


All that we see or seem/ Is but a dream within a dream

I'm glad that Joanna is getting out and leading tributes for Gareth.
That is very sweet.

Cal


http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/36716/
Moldova.org Thu, 15 Mar 2007 3:56 AM PDT
Gareth Hunt, who starred in the TV show, The New Avengers, and a
series of ads for Nescafe, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in
Redhill, England, at 65.The actor battled pancreatic cancer for two
years, the Oxford Mail said.He played Mike Gambit in The New
Avengers, which starred Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee.He also was
known to television viewers for his series of Nescafe commercials,
in ...

http://torontosun.com/Entertainment/Television/2007/03/15/3755199-
sun.html
Toronto Sun Thu, 15 Mar 2007 2:11 AM PDT
Mike Gambit on New Avengers

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/117394
864298200.xml&coll=2
The Plain Dealer Thu, 15 Mar 2007 2:08 AM PDT
UPDATED: 05 :00 a.m. EDT, March 15, 2007 The sun sets as a couple
makes their way off the piers at Edgewater Park Tuesday, March 13,
2007. Though temperatures reached into the 70's, frozen ice was
still floating in the lake next to the shore.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-
national/article2360938.ece
Belfast Telegraph Thu, 15 Mar 2007 8:10 AM PDT
The actress Joanna Lumley led tributes yesterday to the actor Gareth
Hunt, her co-star in the 1970s fantasy adventure series The New
Avengers, who has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/15032007/364/lumley-pays-tribute-late-co-
star-hunt.html
WENN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Thu, 15 Mar 2007 7:40 AM PDT
Veteran actress Joanna Lumley has paid tribute to her New Avengers
co-star Gareth Hunt, who died yesterday after a two year battle with
pancreatic cancer.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a43944/new-avengers-star-hunt-dies-at-
65.html?rss
Digital Spy Thu, 15 Mar 2007 6:23 AM PDT
Gareth Hunt, star of The New Avengers dies of cancer aged 65.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/lumley%20pays%20tribute%
20to%20late%20co-star%20hunt_1025059
ContactMusic Thu, 15 Mar 2007 6:12 AM PDT
LATEST: Veteran British actress JOANNA LUMLEY has paid tribute to
her NEW AVENGERS co-star GARETH HUNT, who died yesterday (14MAR07)
after a two year

http://www.dailybulletin.com/gossip/ci_5443901
Daily Bulletin Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:07 AM PDT
LONDON (AP) ? British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent
Mike Gambit on 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died early
Wednesday, his agent said. He was 65.

Thanks for this - I have learnt a lot about Gareth. I didn't know his CV/ resume was so extensive and had forgotten he was in 'A Hazard of Hearts' with Dame Diana.

 

It's great that such a respected newspaper as The Guardian has such an extensive obituary.

 

Barry
sic friat crustulum

----- Original Message -----

From: Cal Westray

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:29 AM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit] Obit to Gareth

Thanks to Margaret, she found this on a Guardian website.
I couldn't access it, without subscribing to it.

http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/

Dennis Barker
Wednesday March 14, 2007

Gareth Hunt, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was an actor
whose smooth, stately and steely presence made him an ideal
Frederick the Footman in the last series of the cult television
programme Upstairs, Downstairs in 1974 and Mike Gambit, Joanna
Lumley's crime-fighting partner in The New Avengers in 1976, but was
not used as regularly as he and his admirers could have wished. In
later years he became well known as the face of Nescaf? with a
trademark hand unclenched to reveal coffee beans.

Tall and saturnine, and with an ominous stony look in his eyes, Hunt
would have fitted more easily into the great days of the British
film industry in the years spanning the second world war, when
heavyweight personalities and stiff upper lips were more in fashion,
but was sometimes rather adrift in the more anodyne days that
followed.

Alternating between television, undistinguished cinema films, and
respectable stage work that included the National Theatre and the
Royal Shakespeare Company, he was never lucky enough to play a
character that both suited him and took a firm grip on the public.

His stage work, including pantomime, often took him to the regions
and abroad: Run For Your Wife to Florida and New York. Films also
required extensive travel: in 1997 he was in the Ukraine filming
Marco Polo with Jack Palance.

Having that slightly sinister glassy gaze, he could play heroes or
dastardly villains with equal facility. Some of his enterprises were
bizarre, including a 1984 comic horror film, Blood Bath at the House
of Death, starring Vincent Price, Kenny Everett and Pamela
Stephenson, and a Swedish film called The Forgotten Wells, in which
a television crew were held hostage in sewers by two armed thugs.

Hunt was equally at home playing those on the right side of the law,
especially smoothly tough police officers. In one year alone, 1997,
he played two inspectors, Inspector Masefield in the British film
Fierce Creatures, the unsatisfactory follow-up to A Fish Called
Wanda, and Inspector Bass in another British film, Parting Shots,
made by Michael Winner and described by the Observer as among the
worst British films ever made.

In 1989, long after his Frederick the Footman in Upstairs,
Downstairs, he played a coachman in a Barbara Cartland story adapted
for television, The Lady and the Highwayman, an illustration of the
fact that parts that could accommodate him were now in extremely
short supply.

Gareth Hunt was born Ian Leonard Hunt, nephew of the actor Martita
Hunt in Battersea, London.

He was 15 when he went into the merchant navy, and he served for six
years before jumping ship in New Zealand and spending three months
in a military prison.

Returning to Britain, he had a number of dead-end jobs to raise
funds, including road digger, door-to-door salesman and stagehand,
while he nursed his theatrical ambitions.

He also had a job in an ITV studio before taking a BBC design
course, ending up eventually at the Webber Douglas Academy of
Dramatic Art.

His next step was repertory at Ipswich, Bristol, Coventry, Watford
and the Royal Court in London, before the Royal Shakespeare Company
and the National Theatre. He was in the National Theatre production
of Hamlet in 1975 when it was still operating from the Old Vic and
in Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Aldwych in 1978.

He was also in Section Nine at the Aldwych.

It was television which established Hunt. In 1974 he was in six
episodes of Planet of the Spiders in the Doctor Who series, in the
following year he was in the episode The Guardian of Piri in the
Space: 1999 series, and in The Hanged Man series episode The
Bridgemaker. In the same year he became Frederick the Footman, which
made him famous enough to be considered for film roles.

The 1979 film adaptation of Jackie Collins's The World is Full of
Married Men saw him as Jay Grossman, one of the many Hollywood
weasels abusing women, and in the same year he also played in two
other British films, Licensed to Love and Kill, a James Bond spoof,
and The House on Garibaldi Street, a serious film about an attempt
by the Israeli secret service Mossad to catch a Nazi war criminal.

The 80s were not kind to him artistically. In 1981 he played in the
BBC TV miniseries of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and in the
Minder series; but his other television work, A Hazard of Hearts and
The Lady and the Highwayman, won no great critical praise, and his
film work Funny Money, Bloodbath at the House of Death, It Couldn't
Happen Here and A Chorus of Disapproval were not mainstream.

But he carried on working throughout the 90s, including presenting a
series of excerpts from the Upstairs, Downstairs series on its 25th
anniversary in 1996.

In the same year he "abandoned" acting for business, starting a
company to produce video films for aspiring performers, which they
could present to producers without having to go to auditions in
person, but its success could be measured by the fact that he soon
returned to acting. He was a regular in the ITV soap opera Night and
Day.

Hunt had had several heart attacks in the past and he had a further
attack in July 2002 when he was appearing in Absurd Person Singular
at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth.
Married three times, he is survived by his wife Amanda and three
sons.

? Gareth Hunt (Alan Leonard Hunt), actor, born February 7 1943; died
March 14 2007

----- Original Message -----

From: Cal Westray

To: Mike_Gambit@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:29 AM

Subject: [Mike_Gambit] Obit to Gareth

Thanks to Margaret, she found this on a Guardian website.
I couldn't access it, without subscribing to it.

http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/

Dennis Barker
Wednesday March 14, 2007

Gareth Hunt, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was an actor
whose smooth, stately and steely presence made him an ideal
Frederick the Footman in the last series of the cult television
programme Upstairs, Downstairs in 1974 and Mike Gambit, Joanna
Lumley's crime-fighting partner in The New Avengers in 1976, but was
not used as regularly as he and his admirers could have wished. In
later years he became well known as the face of Nescaf? with a
trademark hand unclenched to reveal coffee beans.

Tall and saturnine, and with an ominous stony look in his eyes, Hunt
would have fitted more easily into the great days of the British
film industry in the years spanning the second world war, when
heavyweight personalities and stiff upper lips were more in fashion,
but was sometimes rather adrift in the more anodyne days that
followed.

Alternating between television, undistinguished cinema films, and
respectable stage work that included the National Theatre and the
Royal Shakespeare Company, he was never lucky enough to play a
character that both suited him and took a firm grip on the public.

His stage work, including pantomime, often took him to the regions
and abroad: Run For Your Wife to Florida and New York. Films also
required extensive travel: in 1997 he was in the Ukraine filming
Marco Polo with Jack Palance.

Having that slightly sinister glassy gaze, he could play heroes or
dastardly villains with equal facility. Some of his enterprises were
bizarre, including a 1984 comic horror film, Blood Bath at the House
of Death, starring Vincent Price, Kenny Everett and Pamela
Stephenson, and a Swedish film called The Forgotten Wells, in which
a television crew were held hostage in sewers by two armed thugs.

Hunt was equally at home playing those on the right side of the law,
especially smoothly tough police officers. In one year alone, 1997,
he played two inspectors, Inspector Masefield in the British film
Fierce Creatures, the unsatisfactory follow-up to A Fish Called
Wanda, and Inspector Bass in another British film, Parting Shots,
made by Michael Winner and described by the Observer as among the
worst British films ever made.

In 1989, long after his Frederick the Footman in Upstairs,
Downstairs, he played a coachman in a Barbara Cartland story adapted
for television, The Lady and the Highwayman, an illustration of the
fact that parts that could accommodate him were now in extremely
short supply.

Gareth Hunt was born Ian Leonard Hunt, nephew of the actor Martita
Hunt in Battersea, London.

He was 15 when he went into the merchant navy, and he served for six
years before jumping ship in New Zealand and spending three months
in a military prison.

Returning to Britain, he had a number of dead-end jobs to raise
funds, including road digger, door-to-door salesman and stagehand,
while he nursed his theatrical ambitions.

He also had a job in an ITV studio before taking a BBC design
course, ending up eventually at the Webber Douglas Academy of
Dramatic Art.

His next step was repertory at Ipswich, Bristol, Coventry, Watford
and the Royal Court in London, before the Royal Shakespeare Company
and the National Theatre. He was in the National Theatre production
of Hamlet in 1975 when it was still operating from the Old Vic and
in Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Aldwych in 1978.

He was also in Section Nine at the Aldwych.

It was television which established Hunt. In 1974 he was in six
episodes of Planet of the Spiders in the Doctor Who series, in the
following year he was in the episode The Guardian of Piri in the
Space: 1999 series, and in The Hanged Man series episode The
Bridgemaker. In the same year he became Frederick the Footman, which
made him famous enough to be considered for film roles.

The 1979 film adaptation of Jackie Collins's The World is Full of
Married Men saw him as Jay Grossman, one of the many Hollywood
weasels abusing women, and in the same year he also played in two
other British films, Licensed to Love and Kill, a James Bond spoof,
and The House on Garibaldi Street, a serious film about an attempt
by the Israeli secret service Mossad to catch a Nazi war criminal.

The 80s were not kind to him artistically. In 1981 he played in the
BBC TV miniseries of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and in the
Minder series; but his other television work, A Hazard of Hearts and
The Lady and the Highwayman, won no great critical praise, and his
film work Funny Money, Bloodbath at the House of Death, It Couldn't
Happen Here and A Chorus of Disapproval were not mainstream.

But he carried on working throughout the 90s, including presenting a
series of excerpts from the Upstairs, Downstairs series on its 25th
anniversary in 1996.

In the same year he "abandoned" acting for business, starting a
company to produce video films for aspiring performers, which they
could present to producers without having to go to auditions in
person, but its success could be measured by the fact that he soon
returned to acting. He was a regular in the ITV soap opera Night and
Day.

Hunt had had several heart attacks in the past and he had a further
attack in July 2002 when he was appearing in Absurd Person Singular
at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth.
Married three times, he is survived by his wife Amanda and three
sons.

? Gareth Hunt (Alan Leonard Hunt), actor, born February 7 1943; died
March 14 2007

Thanks to Margaret, she found this on a Guardian website.
I couldn't access it, without subscribing to it.

http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/

Dennis Barker
Wednesday March 14, 2007

Gareth Hunt, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was an actor
whose smooth, stately and steely presence made him an ideal
Frederick the Footman in the last series of the cult television
programme Upstairs, Downstairs in 1974 and Mike Gambit, Joanna
Lumley's crime-fighting partner in The New Avengers in 1976, but was
not used as regularly as he and his admirers could have wished. In
later years he became well known as the face of Nescaf? with a
trademark hand unclenched to reveal coffee beans.

Tall and saturnine, and with an ominous stony look in his eyes, Hunt
would have fitted more easily into the great days of the British
film industry in the years spanning the second world war, when
heavyweight personalities and stiff upper lips were more in fashion,
but was sometimes rather adrift in the more anodyne days that
followed.

Alternating between television, undistinguished cinema films, and
respectable stage work that included the National Theatre and the
Royal Shakespeare Company, he was never lucky enough to play a
character that both suited him and took a firm grip on the public.

His stage work, including pantomime, often took him to the regions
and abroad: Run For Your Wife to Florida and New York. Films also
required extensive travel: in 1997 he was in the Ukraine filming
Marco Polo with Jack Palance.

Having that slightly sinister glassy gaze, he could play heroes or
dastardly villains with equal facility. Some of his enterprises were
bizarre, including a 1984 comic horror film, Blood Bath at the House
of Death, starring Vincent Price, Kenny Everett and Pamela
Stephenson, and a Swedish film called The Forgotten Wells, in which
a television crew were held hostage in sewers by two armed thugs.

Hunt was equally at home playing those on the right side of the law,
especially smoothly tough police officers. In one year alone, 1997,
he played two inspectors, Inspector Masefield in the British film
Fierce Creatures, the unsatisfactory follow-up to A Fish Called
Wanda, and Inspector Bass in another British film, Parting Shots,
made by Michael Winner and described by the Observer as among the
worst British films ever made.

In 1989, long after his Frederick the Footman in Upstairs,
Downstairs, he played a coachman in a Barbara Cartland story adapted
for television, The Lady and the Highwayman, an illustration of the
fact that parts that could accommodate him were now in extremely
short supply.

Gareth Hunt was born Ian Leonard Hunt, nephew of the actor Martita
Hunt in Battersea, London.

He was 15 when he went into the merchant navy, and he served for six
years before jumping ship in New Zealand and spending three months
in a military prison.

Returning to Britain, he had a number of dead-end jobs to raise
funds, including road digger, door-to-door salesman and stagehand,
while he nursed his theatrical ambitions.

He also had a job in an ITV studio before taking a BBC design
course, ending up eventually at the Webber Douglas Academy of
Dramatic Art.

His next step was repertory at Ipswich, Bristol, Coventry, Watford
and the Royal Court in London, before the Royal Shakespeare Company
and the National Theatre. He was in the National Theatre production
of Hamlet in 1975 when it was still operating from the Old Vic and
in Antony and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the
Aldwych in 1978.

He was also in Section Nine at the Aldwych.

It was television which established Hunt. In 1974 he was in six
episodes of Planet of the Spiders in the Doctor Who series, in the
following year he was in the episode The Guardian of Piri in the
Space: 1999 series, and in The Hanged Man series episode The
Bridgemaker. In the same year he became Frederick the Footman, which
made him famous enough to be considered for film roles.

The 1979 film adaptation of Jackie Collins's The World is Full of
Married Men saw him as Jay Grossman, one of the many Hollywood
weasels abusing women, and in the same year he also played in two
other British films, Licensed to Love and Kill, a James Bond spoof,
and The House on Garibaldi Street, a serious film about an attempt
by the Israeli secret service Mossad to catch a Nazi war criminal.

The 80s were not kind to him artistically. In 1981 he played in the
BBC TV miniseries of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, and in the
Minder series; but his other television work, A Hazard of Hearts and
The Lady and the Highwayman, won no great critical praise, and his
film work Funny Money, Bloodbath at the House of Death, It Couldn't
Happen Here and A Chorus of Disapproval were not mainstream.

But he carried on working throughout the 90s, including presenting a
series of excerpts from the Upstairs, Downstairs series on its 25th
anniversary in 1996.

In the same year he "abandoned" acting for business, starting a
company to produce video films for aspiring performers, which they
could present to producers without having to go to auditions in
person, but its success could be measured by the fact that he soon
returned to acting. He was a regular in the ITV soap opera Night and
Day.

Hunt had had several heart attacks in the past and he had a further
attack in July 2002 when he was appearing in Absurd Person Singular
at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth.
Married three times, he is survived by his wife Amanda and three
sons.

? Gareth Hunt (Alan Leonard Hunt), actor, born February 7 1943; died
March 14 2007

The movie he last appeared in should be out soon:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790741/
"The Riddle"
An ambitious London sports journalist, an enigmatic tramp and a
police press officer team up to solve a series of murders that
follow the discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Charles Dickens
in a present day Thames-side pub.

THE RIDDLE: Smart contemporary London mystery thriller with a
Dickensian twist. When the London landlady of a Thames-side pub is
murdered following her discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens
manuscript in her pub cellar, an unusual trio team up to
investigate. Mike (Vinnie Jones) is an ambitious tabloid sports
reporter determined to make a name for himself as an investigative
journalist. He is helped by Kate, a police press officer (Julie Cox)
and by an eccentric beach-combing tramp (Derek Jacobi) who stalks
the Thames foreshore at low tide. Together they track down the
manuscript and as they study it we are transported back into the
world of Charles Dickens (also played by Derek Jacobi). Mike becomes
obsessed with solving not just the modern murder, but also a century-
old killing described in the pages of the long lost book. Only when
they unlock the riddle of the manuscript are they able to solve the
present-day crime, facing opposition along the way from a greedy
detective (PH Moriarty), a self-important publisher (Vanessa
Redgrave) and a ruthless construction company boss (Jason Flemyng).
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New Avengers Gareth Hunt dies at 65
AAP via Yahoo!7 News Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:21 PM PDT
British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike Gambit on
the 1970s UK television spy series The New Avengers, is dead at 65.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.ht
ml?in_article_id=442249&in_page_id=1773&ito=1490
Daily Mail Wed, 14 Mar 2007 1:09 PM PDT
Gareth Hunt, the former New Avengers actor, has died at the age of
65, it was announced today. He had fought a two-year battle with
pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Surrey. His former co-star
Joanna Lumley, said the actor was a 'dear friend'

http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=364384
The West Australian Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:26 PM PDT
British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike Gambit on
the 1970s UK television spy series The New Avengers, is dead at 65.
Hunt died at his home south of London, his agent, Alexandra McLean-
Williams, said.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=5121195
WPVI-TV Philadelphia Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:38 AM PDT
British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike Gambit on
1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died early Wednesday, his agent
said. He was 65.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/gareth%20hunt%
20dies_1024974
ContactMusic Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:12 AM PDT
British actor GARETH HUNT has died of pancreatic cancer at his home
in Redhill, southern England. He was 65. Hunt is best known for
playing MIKE GAMBIT

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=75fa451d-
0f6d-478e-be25-edf8c25e3b37&k=19142
Canada.com Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:39 AM PDT
LONDON (AP) - British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent
Mike Gambit in 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," has died, his
agent said Wednesday.

http://rss1.mediafed.com/feed/mirror/Top_Stories/?
link=57b9171423e8edf1f3f26b5090cf6cd8
Daily Mirror Wed, 14 Mar 2007 9:58 AM PDT
ACTOR Gareth Hunt, star of The New Avengers and Nescafe adverts, has
died of cancer at the age of 65.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2950566&CMP=OTC-
RSSFeeds0312
ABC News Wed, 14 Mar 2007 9:35 AM PDT
British Actor Gareth Hunt, Star of TV's `The New Avengers,' Dies at
65

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.12598
31.0.batterseaborn_new_avenger_dies.php
Wandsworth Guardian Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:10 PM PDT
The New Avengers star Gareth Hunt has died from cancer. The
Battersea-born actor who played Mike Gambit in the seventies show,
also staring Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee, died today aged 65.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070314-061717-3308r
UPI Wed, 14 Mar 2007 3:40 PM PDT
Gareth Hunt, who starred in the TV show, "The New Avengers," and a
series of ads for Nescafe, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in
Redhill, England, at ...

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/40336.html
EARTHtimes.org Wed, 14 Mar 2007 3:55 PM PDT
The actor battled pancreatic cancer for two years, the Oxford Mail
said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2359041.ece
Independent Wed, 14 Mar 2007 5:26 PM PDT
Alan Leonard Hunt (Gareth Hunt), actor: born London 7 February 1943;
three times married (three sons); died Redhill, Surrey 13 March
2007.

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2359095.ece
Independent Wed, 14 Mar 2007 5:22 PM PDT
The actress Joanna Lumley led tributes yesterday to the actor Gareth
Hunt, her co-star in the 1970s fantasy adventure series The New
Avengers, who has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65.

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=404872007
The Scotsman Wed, 14 Mar 2007 6:49 PM PDT
GARETH Hunt, the star of The New Avengers and the Nescafe adverts of
the 1980s, died of cancer yesterday. He was 65.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=i-loved-him-so-much--
&method=full&objectid=18754347&siteid=66633-name_page.html
Daily Record Wed, 14 Mar 2007 8:52 PM PDT
NEW AVENGERS star Gareth Hunt died of cancer yesterday aged 65.
Hunt, who played Mike Gambit in the popular 1970s show, had battled
pancreatic cancer for the past two years.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/14/obituaries_in_t
he_news
Boston Globe Wed, 14 Mar 2007 6:52 PM PDT
LONDON (AP) -- British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent
Mike Gambit on 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died Wednesday.
He was 65.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/obituaries/15hunt.html
New York Times Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:15 PM PDT
Gareth Hunt was a British actor best known as the secret agent Mike
Gambit on the 1970s spy series ?The New Avengers.?

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-
passings15.1mar15,1,2636623.story?track=rss
Los Angeles Times Thu, 15 Mar 2007 0:08 AM PDT
Gareth Hunt, 65, a British actor best known as secret agent Mike
Gambit in the 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died early
Wednesday at his home south of London, his agent said.

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=5900
New Kerala Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:34 PM PDT
REDHILL, England, March 14: Gareth Hunt, who starred in the TV
show, 'The New Avengers,' and a series of ads for Nescafe, died of
cancer Wednesday at his home in Redhill, England, at 65.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_5438766
Daily Bulletin Thu, 15 Mar 2007 0:11 AM PDT
LONDON - British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike
Gambit on 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died Wednesday. He
was 65.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/85848?source=rss&dest=STY-
85848
East Valley Tribune Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:41 PM PDT
LONDON - British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike
Gambit on 1970s spy series "The New Avengers," died early Wednesday,
his agent said. He was 65.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/OtherEntertainment/2007/03/1
5/3754951-sun.html
LONDON -- Obit
British actor Gareth Hunt, best known as secret agent Mike Gambit in
1970s spy series The New Avengers, has died, his agent said
yesterday. He was 65.