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| | Bill Owen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Owen's character is a scruffy working-class pensioner, often made use of by the characters played by Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, Michael Aldridge and Frank Thornton for dirty jobs, stunts and escapades, while his indomitably docile friend Peter Sallis follows and watches with a smirk. |
 | | Bill Rowbotham (March 14, 1914- July 12, 1999), better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. |
 | | The series, starting in 1972, is today the world's longest-running comedy series, and Owen became an icon, a darling of its audience and central to its success and episodes for 27 years, right till his death. |
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