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Article: TERENCE ALEXANDER
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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Actor who played the lovable rogue Charlie Hungerford in
'Bergerac'
The role of Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac came to Terence
Alexander after a screen career of playing villains and charmers.
The shady, cigar-puffing tax exile who had made his fortune as a
scrap dealer in the North of England was the ex-father-in-law of the
Jersey Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac (John Nettles), who had a
gammy left leg and a drink problem.
The policeman's marriage to Hungerford's spoiled-rotten daughter
Deborah had only recently ended when the programme began in 1981,
but the two men's paths continued to cross. Hungerford seemed to
become entangled in every case that Bergerac tackled - which might
have had ...