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{{short description|British actor (1943–2014)}}
{{other people|Sam Kelly}}
{{EngvarB|date=June 2014}}
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name = Roger Michael Kelly
| image = Sam Kelly Allo Allo portrait.jpg
| caption = Sam Kelly
| occupation = Actor
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|12|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|06|14|1943|12|19|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Esher]], [[Surrey]], England
| years_active = 1967–2014
| domestic_partner = Grace Pieniazek (died 2009)
| education = [[Liverpool Collegiate School]]<br/>[[Liverpool Cathedral]]
| alma_mater = [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]]
}}

'''Roger Michael Kelly''' (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/06-2005/20-questions-withsam-kelly_23740.html |title=20 Questions With...Sam Kelly |publisher=Whats on Stage |date=20 June 2005 |access-date=10 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112011900/http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/06-2005/20-questions-withsam-kelly_23740.html |archive-date=12 January 2014 }}</ref> known by the stage name '''Sam Kelly''', was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as [[Captain Hans Geering]] in ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'', [[Warren (Porridge)|Warren]] in ''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]'', Sam in ''[[On the Up]]'', and Ted Liversidge in ''[[Barbara (TV series)|Barbara]]''.

==Early life==
Kelly was born in [[Salford]], [[Lancashire]] on 19 December 1943 and abandoned; he was adopted by a couple who moved to Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/15/sam-kelly|title=Sam Kelly obituary|author=Michael Coveney|website=The Guardian|date=15 June 2014|access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref> There he attended the [[Liverpool Collegiate School]] and was a chorister at [[Liverpool Cathedral]], where he showed early acting talent by reciting monologues. He worked for three years in the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]] in [[Liverpool]] before training as an actor at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]]. After graduating in 1967, he appeared in repertory theatres around the UK.<ref name=Porridge>{{cite book|year=2001|author1=Richard Webster |author2=Dick Clement |author3=Ian la Frenais |isbn=978-0-7472-3294-0|title=Porridge The Inside Story|publisher=Headline Book Publishing}}</ref>

==Career==
His early roles included playing a film director in ''[[Tiffany Jones (film)|Tiffany Jones]]'' (1973) and appearances in two of the later ''[[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, ''[[Carry On Dick]]'' (1974) and ''[[Carry On Behind]]'' (1975). He then had a significant role in the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]'' as the affable and high spirited Slade Prison inmate [[Warren (Porridge)|Bunny Warren]] who relies on fellow prisoners to read his letters from home and blames his incarceration on his inability to read.<ref name=Porridge /><ref name=PorridgeOrg>http://www.porridge.org.uk/john-dair.html John Dair at Porridge The Unofficial Home Page. Retrieved 8 May 2012</ref> In the sitcom ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' he played German officer [[Captain Hans Geering]], leaving after the third series (something he later said that he regretted doing). He played the law-stationer Mr. Snagsby in the 1985 BBC adaptation of ''[[Bleak House]]''. In ''[[On the Up]]'' he played [[Dennis Waterman]]'s chauffeur and he appeared in ''[[We'll Think of Something]]'' as Les Brooks. From 1990 to 1992, he co-starred in the comedy television series ''[[Haggard (TV series)|Haggard]]''. In 1994, he appeared as Mr. Mould, the undertaker, in the BBC mini-series ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit (1994 TV series)|Martin Chuzzlewit]]''. From 1999 to 2003, he played Barbara's husband Ted in the British sitcom ''[[Barbara (TV series)|Barbara]]''.

In 1996, Kelly appeared at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in [[Helen Edmundson]]'s adaptation of [[Leo Tolstoy]]'s ''[[War and Peace]]''. He played Bernard in ''[[Holding On (TV series)|Holding On]]'' (1997) and [[Carl Langbehn]] in the five-part television drama ''[[Christabel (1988 TV drama)|Christabel]]'' (1988). He appeared in ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Down Among the Dead Men" as Jack Fothergill in 2006 and as the eccentric impoverished ghostwriter, Majors, in the ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'' episode "Second Time Around".

Kelly went on to play Sir Joseph Porter in ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'' with the new [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] in 2002,<ref>[http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/Inside_doyly_carte/recent_history.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050907045150/http://www.doylycarte.org.uk/Inside_doyly_carte/recent_history.htm |date=7 September 2005 }}</ref> having taken the role of Monsieur Jourdain "as a kind of Baroque Blackadder" in the 1912 version of Strauss's ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' with [[Scottish Opera]] at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival.<ref>Raymond Monelle. Report from Edinburgh Festival Theatre, August 20, 1997. ''[[Opera (British magazine)|Opera]]'', 1997 Annual Festival Issue, p127.</ref>
In 1998, Kelly appeared as George Spelvin in a concert version of ''[[Strike Up the Band (musical)|Strike Up the Band]]'' at the Barbican in London and also was seen in an episode of the first series of ''[[Cold Feet]]'', playing Algernon Gifford.

On radio, he played the part of Carter Brandon in the [[BBC Radio 4]] series of the continuing adventures of Uncle Mort and Carter Brandon in ''Uncle Mort's South Country'' and ''Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe''. These were written by [[Peter Tinniswood]].

In 2004, he appeared in the ''[[EastEnders]]'' one-off episode ''Pat and Mo'' playing [[Stan Porter]], and he also appeared in the comedy series ''[[Black Books]]'' as the father of Manny. In 2006 he appeared as the villain Guy Carse in ''[[New Tricks]]''.

Kelly starred in [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s play ''Kean'' alongside [[Antony Sher]] at the [[Theatre Royal, Bath|Theatre Royal]], [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and in the West End in May 2007. In December 2007, a car struck and injured Kelly in the West End. He was due to have performed in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ("[[Midnight (Doctor Who)|Midnight]]") filmed that month, but the role was taken by [[David Troughton]] instead. Kelly though did act in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' audio dramas "[[The Holy Terror (audio drama)|The Holy Terror]]" and "Return to the Web Planet" by [[Big Finish Productions]].

In 2008, he guest starred in the ''[[Sapphire and Steel]]'' audio drama ''Remember Me''. In November 2008, he starred in the title role of Christopher Reason's radio dramatisation of [[Jaroslav Hašek]]'s ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'', broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]].

From May 2009, Kelly starred as the Wizard in the [[West End theatre|West End]] production of the musical ''[[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wickedthemusical.co.uk/cast/wickedCast_SAMKELLY.asp|title=Sam Kelly|publisher=Wicked!|access-date=2014-06-14|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515204644/http://www.wickedthemusical.co.uk/cast/wickedCast_SAMKELLY.asp|archive-date=15 May 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref> replacing [[Desmond Barrit]].<ref>[http://www.wickedthemusical.co.uk/newsletters/ozmopolitan_issue_newcast09.html Ozmopolitan e-newsletter] {{dead link|date=April 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> From 27 March 2010 he was succeeded by [[Clive Carter]].<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/136358-Lee-Mead-to-Join-Londons-Wicked-as-Fiyero-Principals-Confirmed Lee Mead to Join London's Wicked as Fiyero; Principals Confirmed] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131073750/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/136358-Lee-Mead-to-Join-Londons-Wicked-as-Fiyero-Principals-Confirmed |date=31 January 2010 }}</ref>

He worked with director [[Mike Leigh]] on several occasions, including ''[[Knock for Knock]]'' (1976), ''[[Grown-Ups]]'' (1980), ''[[Topsy-Turvy]]'' (1999), ''[[All or Nothing (film)|All or Nothing]]'' (2002), ''[[A Running Jump]]'' (2012) and on stage at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]] in ''Grief'' (September 2011).<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/8779692/Mike-Leigh-Profile-of-a-Playwright.html Mike Leigh: Profile of a Playwright, Daily Telegraph 22 September 2011.]</ref> His final film role was a cameo appearance in Leigh's ''[[Mr. Turner]]'' (2014).

Kelly's later roles were as the ARP warden in ''[[Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang]]'' (2010), and as the old boatman, John Merdell, in the ITV production of ''[[Dead Man's Folly]]'' in the final (2013) series of ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot|Agatha Christie’s Poirot]]'', the last episode of the series to be filmed.

On 23 July 2010, Kelly guest starred as Martin in the sitcom ''[[My Family]]'' in the episode ''Desperately Stalking Susan''. From October 2010 to February 2011 he starred in ''When We Are Married'' at London's [[Garrick Theatre]].

==Last years and death==
Kelly was in a long-term relationship with journalist and psychotherapist Grace Pieniazek until her death in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/15/sam-kelly|title=Sam Kelly obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 June 2014|access-date=16 June 2014|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|last2=Leigh|first2=Mike}}</ref>

Kelly returned to ''Wicked'' as the Wizard on 18 November 2013.<ref>{{cite web|author=BWW News Desk|url=http://westend.broadwayworld.com/article/Savannah-Stevenson-Jeremy-Taylor-More-Join-West-Ends-WICKED-in-November-20130701 |title=Savannah Stevenson, Jeremy Taylor & More Join West End's WICKED in November |publisher=Westend.broadwayworld.com|access-date=14 June 2014}}</ref> It was reported in January 2014 that Kelly had temporarily departed the production due to ill health,<ref name=Telg10900325/> and that his replacement from 17 February 2014 would be Martyn Ellis.

He was admitted to a [[hospice]] on 13 June 2014 and died early the next morning aged 70 after a long battle with cancer.<ref name=Telg10900325>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10900325/Allo-Allo-and-Porridge-actor-Sam-Kelly-dies-aged-70.html|title='Allo 'Allo and Porridge actor Sam Kelly dies aged 70|author=Oliver Duggan|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=2014-06-14 |access-date=2014-06-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27851420 |title=Allo Allo star Sam Kelly dies at 70 |publisher=BBC News|date=2014-06-14 |access-date=2014-06-14}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0446844|Sam Kelly}}

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[[Category:People educated at Liverpool Collegiate Institution]]
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[[Category:English male stage actors]]
[[Category:English male television actors]]
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