Fine Time Fontayne
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Ian Crossley (born 1951), better known by the stage name Fine Time Fontayne, is an English actor and stage director.
Early life
Fontayne was born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) into a mining family.[1] In the 1960s, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, where they ran a pub.[2] He took his stage name when he began singing and playing at a local folk club in Yorkshire.[3] He had previously called himself Ordinary Seaman Whittle.[4] He started acting in the 1970s with the Crucible Vanguard Company.[5]
Career
In the early years of his career Fontayne worked in cabaret, community and repertory theatre, and in the Red Ladder Theatre Company.[1] He played roles in long-running British TV series including All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and Heartbeat.
He is a frequent voice in BBC Radio dramas (including The Blackburn Files, 20th Century Vampire and Street and Lane) and has appeared in films including 24 Hour Party People and Butterfly Kiss.[6][7]
Fontayne appeared in the 2002 radio series The Little World of Don Camillo. He directed a successful production of Sleeping Beauty at the Mercury Theatre, Essex in December 2007 and January 2008.[8] In February 2020, Fontayne portrayed the role of Ned Wainwright in the BBC soap opera Doctors.[9]
Fontayne was a regular feature in the Oldham Coliseum Theatre's annual pantomime, co-writing and performing as the pantomime dame in productions of Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, and Mother Goose.
In 2023, he appeared as Joseph Broadbent in Shane Meadows' period drama The Gallows Pole.[10]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Crossing the Picket Line" (PDF). Marxism Today. Communist Party of Great Britain. June 1985. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fine Time Fontayne comes to Hepworth". Huddersfield Examiner. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In the name of success!". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fine Time Fontayne biography". Townsend Productions. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fontayne CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ The Blackburn Files Script error: No such module "webarchive". at radiolistings.co.uk
- ^ Review of Fontayne's production of The Sleeping Beauty, The Stage
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Writer: Katharine Way; Director: Nimer Rashed; Producer: Gail Evans (18 February 2020). "I Can See Clearly Now". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Gallows Pole: Release date, cast and news for Shane Meadows drama". Radio Times. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
External links
Review of Hamlet with Fine Time Fontayne:
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