I didn't remember him either, which forced me to check him out. On his website he has this paragraph about his stint with Eastenders:
Television
Title; ‘Eastenders’
BBC 1
Character; One of Mo’s boys. Goes to the beauty salon to flirt with Minty’s girlfriend to make him jealous and appreciate what hes got but while hes there he gets a make over.
I just tried to figure that one out too, and I just don't know. From Wikipedia, he hooks up with Garry's mom Hazel in 2007. After that in 2008, he ends up with Heather. They don't mention anyone in between.
EastEnders star Leslie Grantham aims to be big in Bulgaria
By Richard Eden
August 30 2010
telelgraph.co.uk
Leslie Grantham, who played 'Dirty' Den Watts in EastEnders, is now appearing in a television series in Bulgaria. As "Dirty" Den Watts, Leslie Grantham was once watched in a Christmas Day episode of EastEnders by more than half the British population. Now, he is taking a road less travelled.
The 63-year-old actor is starring in a Bulgarian television programme, The English Neighbour, about a chemist who retires to a remote village in the east European state. "At first, I thought it was a British series being filmed in Bulgaria, but then they told me it was actually a Bulgarian series and I would be the only English person in it," says Grantham. "I start off subtitled and then I speak Bulgarian." He adds: "The English assume that any former Communist country must be a Third-World country. Yes, it's a developing nation, but it's also so peaceful here."
The actor is scathing about television back home. "TV used to be like newspapers," he says. "News was the main thing, especially on the BBC. There would be some light entertainment, but also a lot of serious stuff. Now it's all frivolous, celebrity lose weight, celebrity change your wardrobe ... " Grantham adds: "If you offer a starving man dog pooh, he's going to eat it. They've been told they should watch it and so they do; it's moving wallpaper for the eyes. We now have satellite TV – about 200 channels – but, as my wife says, 'all you look at is old movies and football'."
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If I was starving, I'd not eat dog poo! That's the problem with crap analogies... they go white and dusty...
Billy Murray reveals pain of being latest big screen vampire
Sep 5 2010
John Millar,
Sunday Mail
BILLY Murray has revealed how playing a big-screen vampire left him in agony. The former star of The Bill and EastEnders plays a 500-year-old blood-sucking villain in his new film Dead Cert. He explained how his fangs have been giving him gyp while the special red contact lenses have been torture too. And he still bears the scars of his horror movie debut when Hammer legend Peter Cushing sent him crashing across the room.
A faint scar on his left cheekbone is a lasting reminder of his time on the set of Corruption in 1986. He said: "Peter had been pushing me with one hand when we rehearsed but then when we filmed he used two hands and I went flying across the room and sliced my face open. The cut needed 15 stitches. Peter was mortified because he was such a gentle man. After that accident he sent me a Christmas card every year, right up until he died."
Billy has avoided horror movies until now. And the only reason he's appearing as a modern version of Dracula in Dead Cert is because the film is made by Black And Blue Films, who he is a partner in. The actor - best known as dodgy DS Don Beech in The Bill and crime boss Johnny Allen in EastEnders - said: "I am not a horror movie fan, they scare me. When I went to the premiere of Corruption, I walked out because I was too scared to watch it."
The 68-year-old's qualms about horror returned as soon as he stepped on set alongside Craig Fairbrass and Danny Dyer. One of the toughest things was coping with the vampire fangs which drip blood. They were made by a dentist - but were more of a mouthful than Billy ever imagined. He laughed: "It was almost impossible to talk with the teeth in, so for my dialogue scenes the bottom set of fangs are out. When I wore both sets of teeth they kept clicking together."
To complete the look, Billy had a set of piercing red contact lenses made - but he has very sensitive eyes. He said: "I found the lenses very painful to wear." Getting the red lenses reminded him of when he had a cataract removed. Billy said: "They do the procedure while you are awake. I was terrified when the surgeon explained exactly what she was going to do. She said that I'd see the hook coming into the white of the eye, then they'd get out the old lens and it would go blurry. Then I'd feel the doctor come back in and the hook would leave the new lens there. I was a bit scared by all that. But what a difference it made having the cataract removed because I was having difficulty watching TV."
Billy was talking to the Sunday Mail just after Dead Cert had a rave reception at the FrightFest horror film festival in London. It was great news for the production company, who have a host of films in the pipeline. But when they started working on the script of Dead Cert, in which Dracula and his vampire cohorts muscle into a gangster's patch, Billy put the brakes on the notion of him being anything other than a producer.
He said: "I had no intention of being in another of our films because it looks a bit like jobs for the boys. But the director and producer said that since day one they'd wanted me to play the Dracula role." Then the actor thought that it might be a great challenge to follow in the footsteps of the most famous screen vampire of them all, Christopher Lee. He said: "But at first I didn't realise what I'd taken on because I discovered that the fans of this sort of film really know their Dracula, so I had to get it right."
It is TV roles for which he has most famous but Billy has been in some memorable movies. He was in the gritty domestic dramas Up The Junction and Poor Cow as well as cult sensation, Performance, which marked Mick Jagger's big-screen debut. Billy talks about Performance with a sense of pride in being part of a classic. He said: "I had just left drama school but I knew it was going to be pretty special because it starred Mick Jagger." The film also cost him one of his favourite jackets, which he says Jagger finished up with. He said: "I wore my own jacket in the film and one day I had left it there and he got it. If he has still got it I'd like it back."
His long-running stint on The Bill - which has just been controversially axed by ITV - meant that Billy appeared in an iconic small-screen role as Don Beech. But he might have starred as an even more famous TV character Del Boy in Only Fools And Horses. Before David Jason got the part of the Peckham wheeler-dealer, Billy - dad of Hustle star Jaime Murray, right - had been in the frame to be Del Boy.
Billy, who went on to star opposite Jason in A Touch Of Frost, said: "I didn't know anything about it until a year later when they told me that they'd come to see me six times in a West End play. But it would have been an entirely different Del Boy. Although I have done comedy, I don't lean towards it. So if I had done it, the role would have been far more serious. But really Del Boy couldn't have been played by anybody else. David Jason was amazing."
Dead Cert is released on DVD by Momentum Pictures on September 27.
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He sounds like a right whinger! But he's suffering for his art I suppose...
I am watching Sean Slater on Law and Order: Los Angeles....a bad drug dealer of course. Accent not bad, but since I know he is not American, it sounds funny. Hopefully he is doing well.
According to Entertainment Weekly, he is going to be cast in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit". The caption under his pic says "Rob Kazinsky - Best known for the BBC soap EastEnders, he'll play the dwarf Fili." Also cast are Richard Armitage (BBC's Robin Hood) and Aidan Turner (Being Human)...Looks like I will be going to see it for just the eye candy!
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