(later in his career) advertising Bran Flakes as I did from the movie Zulu." From the 1970s to the 1990s, he played the role of Dave Harris, the part-owner and barman of the Winchester Club in ten series of the ITV hit drama Minder. He also appeared in bit parts in numerous British television shows in the 1970s and '80s, including Callan, The Professionals, Public Eye, Spindoe, Steptoe and Son, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Dixon of Dock Green, Man About the House, Softly, Softly and The Saint. He was a regular in two series of the ITV legal drama The Main Chance (1972, 1975). He played supporting roles in the cinema films Robbery (1967), and the criminal underworld film Get Carter (1971). During his career Edwards played a number of sinister characters, particularly that of 'Mr Dix', a schoolteacher in the early-1970s sitcom Please Sir!, and a menacing gamekeeper in ITV's Thriller (1973), and was often cast either as policemen or criminals. In 1985, he appeared in the rock music band Marillion's music video for its single release "Heart of Lothian", in which he played a barman, and starred in a popular TV commercial for McVitie's rich tea biscuits as "Jacko", saying, "Yeah, I'll make a statement. A drink's too wet without one!" Personal life His first wife was the actress Yootha Joyce, who also trained at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. They were married from 1956 to 1969. After their divorce, he married the former Benny Hill Show performer Christine Pilgrim, the marriage producing a son, Thomas (b. 1971). From the 1980s, he was married to Valerie Edwards. Edwards retained a lifelong interest in river boating, owning several vessels, and during the 1980s and 1990s he resided on a 40 ft-long canal boat converted into a houseboat, named "Winchester" after the fictional private members' bar that he had run in the Minder television series, which was permanently moored on the south bank of the River Thames, at Thames Ditton and Surbiton. Edwards retired from acting following the end of Minder in 1994, and in his final years divided his time between living in Spain and Scotland. Death Edwards died at his home in Santa Pola, Spain, on 23 May 2018 at the age of 87. Filmography Film Television References External links Interview with Glynn Edwards, minder.org, December 2007. 1931 births 2018 deaths English male film actors English male stage