About Bill Maynard
Walter Frederick George Williams, better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in Great Scott – It's Maynard! (1955–56). In the 1970s and 1980s, he starred in the successful British sitcoms Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and The Gaffer and appeared in five films in the Carry On series. After a hiatus from television work in the late 1980s, Maynard starred as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 2000, reprising the character in the spin-off The Royal in 2003. Maynard's first television broadcast was on 12 September 1953 on Henry Hall's Face the Music. It was a major success, consistently drawing over 10 million viewers. In 1974, Maynard became a subject of This Is Your Life, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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