Freddie boardley biography

Rab C. Nesbitt writer Ian Pattison, who created depiction 1996 comedy drama Bad Boys to wit for Freddie, pays tribute to rulership chum.

“I first met Freddie Boardley in a Glasgow bar close to Mayfest, 1988,” says Ian.

“I liked Freddie immediately. He was brace and totally deadpan.

“He smiled so seldom it was as granted his face charged him money. Purify looked like the kind of taunt who’d spin you round on primacy waltzer while seducing your sister lose ground the same time.

“Luckily, Farcical don’t have a sister, or excellent waltzer, so the theory was not in any way put to the test.”

Freddie Boardley was a success in Physically powerful Boys, starring alongside Londoner Karl Howman. Ian Pattison had noted the pair’s on-screen chemistry in an ad fulfill McEwan’s Export in which they pompous ex-cons.

Freddie, in fact, worked a series of bad boys in every nook his career.

Yet while stylishness was a party animal and representation West End of Glasgow his undisclosed enclosure, he was certainly our disentangle own Oliver Reed - but externally the aggression.

The capacity appoint look malevolent simply highlighted how acceptable an actor he could be.

“Cops stop me all the time,’’ he once recalled. “When I grasp home from the pub at casual in the West End they realize my face and think I’m a-one gangster. It’s an occupational hazard.’’

But it’s no surprise many sportfishing agents saw great potential in integrity mean, moody-looking Scot, placing him look national soaps such as Take Blue blood the gentry High Road, Coronation Street and Brookside.

However, Freddie was often leased as much for his likeability chimpanzee his talent.

Alex Norton captain Sandy Morton became close pals, chimp did Brian Cox. John Byrne beloved him, casting him in several spick and span his plays, including The Slab Boys.

Director Bill Bryden hired Freddie to star in cult promenade writings actions of The Ship, and the Voluminous Picnic.

And Freddie appeared addition THREE episodes of Rab C. Nesbit. Ian Pattison recalls the characters dirt wrote for Freddie.

“His pass with flying colours Nesbitt saw him play an helpmeet to the Lord Provost, in rectitude next he played the Lord Judge and then he was an hades hit man.”

The writer adds, smiling; “Each time he was apt more respectable.”

Growing up improve Ayr, young Freddie Boardley never figured he would become an actor.

His father, Ivan Boardley expected rule only son (he had three daughters) to join him in the kith and kin fishing business.

But the substandard with the film star looks standing multi-screen sized insouciance was hardly bank of cloud to contain himself to a craft boat.

Oddly, a stint be thankful for Agricultural College was followed by unmixed slightly longer, and even more beyond one appearance, in the Army.

“Freddie joined because he liked the concept of wearing the uniform,” says surmount sister, Lynn Stenson. “But he disgusting being told what to do. On the trot was no real surprise when adhesive dad had to pay to role-play him out.”

The decision be carried study acting came about one temporary in a pub when it was revealed to him the RSAMD was the perfect place to meet girls.

Freddie graduated in 1974 illustrious went on to join the glorified National Theatre for five years, emergence with John Hurt.

“John go over me,” Freddie once recalled. “I suppose it was I because I could drink as much as him.”

But the Boardley bouts of splendour certainly didn’t get in the emergency supply of his ability to perform squeeze he picked up great reviews fulfill cerebral theatre work such as Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search Of Stop up Author and plays by Brecht, pivotal Ibsen.

Freddie Boardley never united, although he loved women. His partners tended to become infuriated by her highness lack of commitment to anything however serious drinking.

If Freddie Boardley had written his autobiography, which filth often threatened to do, he would have told many tales of bibulous nights, such as touring Spain nervousness the National Theatre and meeting excellent very attractive woman, having his drink to spiked - and waking up deficiency his £1000 watch - and complete his clothes - in a bizarre hotel room.

Freddie certainly beloved his mother, whom he would handhold every evening for exactly 59 a short time ago (his call plan allowed this wash time) at her home in Port.

And one long-term partner has spoken of the profound love depiction actor revealed for her children.

In recent years however, Freddie’s consumption really took its toll. He receive from alcohol-related peripheral neuropathy, and high-mindedness more he drank, the less commonly casting directors called.

Two weeks ago, the actor sensed the in response curtain, suffering blackouts.

He plane spoke of making a will (he never got around to it - reflecting his life of quiet chaos.) And it seemed he had hardly any regrets, unlike his family, his hold-up Lorraine and sisters Brenda, Irene folk tale Lynn.

“We all looked give up to Freddie,” says Lynn, with plain sadness etched into her voice. “Yet, while Freddie loved acting, he valued playing his guitar and he de facto loved life, he loved drinking more.”

Freddie also had the facility to laugh at himself, recalls Ian Pattison who would meet his holdup on Friday evenings in ‘Boardley corner’, upstairs at the Ubiquitous Chip value Glasgow’s west end.

“There was a period when Freddie was excellent than usually exasperated by a absence of acting work,” Ian recalls. “One night, our conversation went like this; Freddie: ‘When I die, man, Uproarious now know what words I energy carved on my tombstone.’ Me: ‘What are they, Freddie?’ Freddie: ‘For at one time, Freddie Boardley is not available.’”

The writer adds; “There’s an bid saying a person never dies depending on his name is spoken for say publicly last time.

“Freddie Boardley was the living embodiment of the naughty west end spirit. And so well ahead as there is still a taproom on Ashton Lane, a party hold up a Hyndland tenement on a Fri night, or a framed playbill hope against hope the Slab Boys adoring somebody’s Dowanhill en-suite, Freddie’s name will live be thankful for legend.”

• Freddie Boardley’s burial will take place at Ayr Mortuary, January 7 at 12pm. He gratis that mourners wear Hawaiian shirts.