“Nah, it can’t be him! Can it?” we said, watching telly the other night as a familiar face from yesteryear reared his crinkly head in a lead role in hit US ‘dramady’ series Ugly Betty.
After an absence of far too many years than I can be bothered to think about, Alan Dale is back on British screens. As Jim Robinson in Neighbours, he was as nondescript a character as you could wish for, typically sporting a lemon-yellow short-sleeved shirt and a tufty peninsula of hair at the front of his head around which baldness gradually crept, leaving it isolated in a sea of exposed and slightly freckly cranium.
An entirely unremarkable actor, his star was in its descendency even he ungracefully bowed out of the show in the early ‘90s after having an hilarious on-screen heart attack (in which his heart appeared to be located somewhere in his right armpit).
Despite his poor acting (or biological freakishness) however, he appears to have done very well for himself indeed lately. The stone has well and truly rolled away from the tomb of his career and his profile has been resurrected with considerable aplomb. I can only assume He must have either given a blinder of an audition or slept with the producer.
The island of hair has been slicked back and the summer print shirt has been replaced with an Armani suit though the trademark scowl remains the same. Watch out for wobbly-faced Harold turning up in ER, or Madge landing a part in Sex & The City...
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