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| | The Avengers Forever: John Bluthal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | John Bluthal was born in Poland in 1929, and raised in Australia, but is one of the unsung heroes of British comedy, ever-present in the 60s and happily still active today. |
| | Bluthal was in all of these, and The Melting Pot (BBC, 1975), a reputedly dodgy series with Milligan browned up as an illegal immigrant, and Bluthal as an Orthodox Jew; the first episode of this was the only one ever to be broadcast. |
| | Bluthal was in this, too, in probably the funniest scene, near the start as a blind beggar with a "minkey", actually the lookout man for a gang of robbers, who keeps the demoted, on-the-beat Clouseau distracted: "You see, I am a musician, and the monkey is a businessman...". |
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