Fine time fontayne biography

Who is Fine Time Fontayne?

Ian Crossley, stage name 'Fine Time Fontayne' is an Englishcharacteractor and stage director, including a successfulproduction of SleepingBeauty at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Essex, UK, in December 2007 and January 2008.

Fontayne has played a variety of roles in many long-running BritishTVseries such as All CreaturesGreat and Small, CoronationStreet and Emmerdale, is a frequentvoice in BBCRadiodrama as well as a stageactor and director, and has appeared in filmsincluding 24 Hour PartyPeople and Butterfly Kiss.

During 2011 he played the role of Claudius in the touringNorthernBroadsidesproduction of Hamlet. He also appears in the 2002 radioseries "The LittleWorld of Don Camillo".

He has frequently appeared in pantomime at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, dominating the stage with his magnificent presence and his splendid voice.

Born

1951
South Yorkshire

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He started originate in caberet at a local tribe club gain somebody's support the clasp name "Ordinary Seaman Whittle" before stirring into repository theatre.

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Film roles include Butterfly Kiss, Girls' Night, Completely, Secret The public, The Pierce That Deal with Me contemporary Peterloo.

On stage, oversight appeared advocate productions allowance A Shades of night at description Derby Stem of description Toggle-Pushers take up Tool-Pullers, A Chorus signify Disapproval, Character, Aladdin, Kinfolk Values, Pecker Whittington title his Fantastic Cat, Lover and Juliet, Antony alight Cleopatra, Incomplete John, Description Merry Wives of Windsor and Medea.

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Fine Time Fontayne

English actor and theatre director

Ian Crossley (born 1951), better known by the stage name Fine Time Fontayne, is an English actor and stage director.

Early life

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Fontayne was born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) into a mining family.^[1] In the 1960s, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, where they ran a pub.^[2] He took his stage name when he began singing and playing at a local folk club in Yorkshire.^[3] He had previously called himself Ordinary Seaman Whittle.^[4] He started acting in the 1970s with the Crucible Vanguard Company.^[5]

Career

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In the early years of his career Fontayne worked in cabaret, community and repertory theatre, as well as the Red Ladder Theatre Company.^[1] He has played a variety of roles in many long-running British TV series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, Emmerdale as well as both Heartbeat playing the role of a journalist on the Ashfordly Gazette and The Royal in which he appeared as Nobby Jepson, an ex-coal miner turned "back setter," in the episode Consequences.

He is a frequent voice in BBC Radio dramas (including The Blackburn Files and Street and Lane