At one school where I worked, we had an actor who was a substitute Maths teacher. He came back from filming a pilot TV show hoping for a series, and ended up with an 11 season run The show was a French Resistance comedy called Allo Allo. Nick was one of the English airman being hidden by the resistance. He pretty much popped up once a show and said, "Oh, hello" in a very posh accent that was completely natural to him.
At the same school, for a while, there was a headteacher called Philip Lawrence. He was such a racist and sexist, and such a poor disciplinarian with the kids while compensating by bullying staff, I left teaching for a while so as to escape from him. He moved on to another school after 3 years, where he was murdered outside trying to break up a fight btween a pupil and another boy. Even he didn't deserve that.
On Friday while I was out shopping, I bumped into a retired former colleague from another school. His name is Bob Hope. And I am not joking.
Izzat the actor/math teacher Nick in that first photo? B/c it sure looks like Vincent.
ReplyDeleteToo bad about that other teacher though; he may have been a bastard but certainly didn't deserve to die that way.
It's strange but I left a school where the new headteacher wanted the children to be her best friends and gave no support to the staff... morale sunk to an all time low when the children knew they could get away with anything.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Philip Lawrence was the same.
Quite a lot of actors go into supply teaching and vice versa, quite a number of teachers join the acting profession
JoJo, I don't think he looks a bit like Vincent. Apart from anything else he's blond and Germanic-looking, and he says his R-sounds like a W - very upper class.
ReplyDeleteCourse he'd be much older now.