Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs ( born April 7, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German - British actor.
Sachs was born in Berlin as Andreas Siegfried Sachs. His family fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
Sachs is known for his role as Manuel, the Spanish waiter in the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979 ) and is now from time to time heard as the narrator of television and radio documentaries and audio books. He is married to Melody Lang, who appeared in an episode of Fawlty Towers, in Basil the Rat, as Mrs. Taylor. His stepson is John Sachs, a former Capital Radio DJ and Gladiators commentator ( a game show of the 1990s ). Today Andrews brother Thomas Sachs lives in Toronto.
From 1984 to 1986 Sachs played the Father Brown, in a BBC radio series, based on the stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Sachs said all the voices in the English version by Jan Švankmajer's film Faust.
Sachs also appeared in many children's programs on television, as William 's Wish Wellingtons, Star Hill Ponies and AlfTales. He was also the narrator in several television documentaries, among others, the ... from Hell series of ITV and the Eyewitness videos.
2002 and 2004 he played Dr. John Watson in two seasons of new Sherlock Holmes stories for BBC Radio 4, in which Clive Merrison took over the role of the famous detective. These consequences were sent as The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and are available on CD and MC.
On April 9, 2006, Sachs appeared in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the classic The Code of the Woosters as Jeeves with Marcus Brigstocke as Bertie Wooster on.
He also had guest appearances in at least two "unusual" BBC series. In a role that was related to his work in Fawlty Towers, he was the hotel manager in the film from 1977 Are You Being Served?. Later he was Skagra in the audio version of the Doctor Who story Shada, which was produced by Big Finish Productions.
Andrew Sachs has released four singles as Manuel. The first was in 1977 Manuel's Good Food Guide, in a photo envelope with Manuel on the cover. Andrew Sachs helped when he wrote or adapted the lyrics. The second single was 1979 O Cheryl with the Ode to England on the B-side. It was recorded under the name of Manuel and Los Por Favors. The texts were written by Andrew Sachs and B. Wade.
In 1981 Manuel a cover version of Joe Dolce's UK number one hit Shaddap You Face under the same title. On the flip side, Waiter, there 's a Flea was in my Soup. Andrew Sachs also translated into Spanish Shaddap You Face, but at first could not publish this version because it Joe Dolce threatened legal consequences. When it was ultimately still published, it came only at number 138 on the British charts.
Joe Dolce once remarked that Manuel's cover version was the third best for him, namely by Aboriginal version (which he wrote with the help of a tribal elder Aboriginal ) and an Italian version that Joe Dolce for "out of this world" - " not of this world holds. "
Caused in October 2008 as obscene perceived calls the presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Sachs extensive media coverage and led to the Estimation of the presenters, a public debate, the Prime Minister Brown also intervened, and an Ofcom investigation.