Kevin Whately

format_quote John had a wonderful sense of humor which is belied sometimes by journalists' impression of him as irascible. He loathed the whole celebrity circuit. In between takes he was like an Irish storyteller in a bar - he wouldn't tell jokes, just stories and you would find yourself rolling around and crying with laughter. He was a wonderful mimic, particularly of people on the set rather than famous people. (On John Thaw)

stars  Children, with Madelaine Newton: Catherine Whately ("Kitty"), born in 1983 and Kieran, born in 1985. Whately appeared as Kevin's on-screen daughter in the series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" (1983) for the first two seasons.

stars  Studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

stars  His brother, Frank, is a Drama lecturer at a London university.

stars  He plays guitar and listens to Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.

stars  He told Colin Dexter that he would like to have played cricket professionally for England if he had not become an actor, so Dexter devised the storyline for "Inspector Morse: Deceived by Flight (#3.3)" (1989) in which Sergeant Lewis has to go undercover in a cricket team to investigate drug smuggling.