Creator / Richard O'Callaghan

"I loved making Carry On Loving - Bertie Muffett is a wonderful innocent. The fact that he goes off to meet a girl carrying a bag full of model aeroplanes made out of milk bottle tops was inspired comedy. When I opened the bag on set the first day, I found that the props men had actually made about ten of these models - I nearly died laughing. He wasn't supposed to go to those lengths for realism!"

Richard O'Callaghan, born Richard Brooke, (7 March 1940), is a British character actor best known for starring in two early seventies Carry On films.

He was the son of actress Patricia Hayes. His first role on TV was on an episode of Out of the Unknown and since then he has made many more assorted roles, most notably in two episodes of Red Dwarf.

O'Callaghan's best-known roles were his in the Carry On... Series, playing the romantic lead roles once filled by Jim Dale - the shy Bertram Muffett in Carry On Loving and the upper-class Lewis Boggs in Carry On at Your Convenience. He was dropped from the series following At Your Convenience as Peter Rogers didn't think he could convincingly play roles that weren't similar to Bertram Muffett.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• Carry On Loving (1970) — Bertram Muffett
• Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) — Lewis Boggs
• Watership Down (1978) — Dandelion
• Dangerous Beauty (1998) — Zealot

Series

• Out of the Unknown, episode "Stranger in the Family" (1965) — Boy
• Z Cars, episode "Celebration" (1965) — Jim Blackitt
• Play for Today, 3 episodes:
  • "Hot Fat" (1974) — Tortoiseshell
  • "Come the Revolution" (1977) — Mike
  • "Name for the Day" (1980) — Clive
• ScreenPlay, 2 episodes^{show list} "Paying Guests - Part 1", "Paying Guests - Part 2" (1986) — Mr. Bullingdon
• Jackanory, 4 episodes (1989) — Sir Walter Raleigh
• Harry Enfield and Chums, 1 episode (1994) — Launderette
• CASUAL+Y, 3 episodes:
  • "That Way Lies Ruin" (1996) — Joe Preston
  • "When Love Came to Town" (2008) — Eddie Morris
  • "The Quiet Man" (2014) — Rob Cornwall
• Testament: The Bible in Animation, episode "Joseph" (1996) — Juda/Baker
• The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, 2 episodes (1997) — Mr. Fitzpatrick
• Midsomer Murders, episode "Bantling Boy" (2005) — Trevor Machin
• Heartbeat, episode "Rustlers and Hustlers" (2005) — Ringer Redknapp
• Dalziel and Pascoe, 4 episodes^{show list} "Demons on Our Shoulders: Part 1", "Demons on Our Shoulders: Part 2", "Project Aphrodite: Part 1", "Project Aphrodite: Part 2" (2007) — Aidan Scarman
• New Tricks, episode "Loyalties and Royalties" (2008) — Will Carter
• Red Dwarf, 2 episodes:
  • "Back to Earth - Part 3" — The Creator (2009)
  • "The Beginning" — Hogey the Rougey (2012)

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