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Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing René Artois in the play version of '''Allo 'Allo'', as well as BBC Radio comedy, including ''Week Ending''. ==Early life and career== Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, he was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. Holland joined an amateur theatre company, and worked at a wine merchants and in the office of a manufacturing company before training at Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art and becoming a professional actor. His first stage appearance was at the Alexandra Theatre in 1967, in the Henry Cecil Leon play ''No Fear or Favour''. He appeared in an episode of ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Are You Being Served'', several episodes of ''Crossroads'' and as a soldier in an episode of ''Dad's Army'' and ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum''. He broke through to public fame in the role of Spike Dixon, the camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in ''Hi-de-Hi!''. He later appeared in ''Russ Abbot's Madhouse''. David Croft used three main ''Hi-de-Hi!'' actors (Paul Shane, Holland, and Su Pollard) in similar roles in a later Croft/Perry sitcom, ''You Rang, M'Lord?'' (1988–1993), and again in ''Oh, Doctor Beeching!'' (1995–1997), this time co-written with Richard Spendlove. In 2011 he appeared in ''Coronation Street'' as Clive Drinkwater. In 2012 he was cast in the film version of Ray Cooney's farce ''Run for Your Wife''. In 2013, he débuted his short one-man play, ''….And this is my friend Mr Laurel'', based on the life of Stan Laurel, at the Camden Fringe festival. This was taken on tour of the UK in 2014-2015. 〔''http://www.jeffreyholland.co.uk/Jeffrey_Holland/Mr_Laurel.html Jeffrey Holland/Mr Laurel'' at ''jeffreyholland.co.uk'': retrieved 3 March 2015〕 The play was devised by Holland and written by Gail Louw. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeffrey Holland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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