Dennis Waterman: An actor and singer whose career spanned more than six １０年間s
Dennis Waterman was a familiar 直面する on British television for more than six １０年間s.
From 堅い 警官，（賞などを）獲得する George Carter in The Sweeney to good-hearted 探偵，刑事 sergeant Gerry Standing in New Tricks, he was known for playing 活動／戦闘-packed characters who had more than 会合，会うs the 注目する，もくろむ.
Not one to 焦点（を合わせる） on a 選び出す／独身 役割, Waterman was also an 遂行するd singer, 行う／開催する／段階 actor and film 星／主役にする.
Born in 1948 in Clapham, south-west London, as the youngest of nine children, he was surrounded by arts at a young age thanks to his older sister Joy, who ran her own amateur 劇のs society and encouraged the 残り／休憩（する） of the Waterman children to join.
His mother also dabbled in music by playing the piano in a way which Waterman once 述べるd as an “East End 膝s-up 職業”.
Waterman joined the Corona Theatre School in 1959 に引き続いて a suggestion from another one of his sisters and soon got work in the 産業.
His film debut （機の）カム in 1960 in the Night Train For Inverness. Also at the age of 12, Waterman was 招待するd to join the 王室の Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He followed with the television series Just William, and spent a year in the West End playing Winthrop Parroo in The Music Man.
At 16, he starred on the West End in Carving A Statue, which 示すd the beginning of a 記録，記録的な／記録するing career and a three-year 約束／交戦 at the 王室の 法廷，裁判所.
During that time, his versatility as an actor was stretched in 生産／産物s 範囲ing from Edward 社債’s Saved, through to Twelfth Night and Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance.
その上の stints on television and in the theatre led to him 上陸 a 役割 in Nell Dunn’s Up The Junction in 1967, playing Pete, a man from his native Clapham, who 会合，会うs an upper class girl from Chelsea, west London, and begins dating her.
Waterman became a 世帯 指名する after playing the 役割 of DS George Carter in 罪，犯罪 series The Sweeney, in which he co-starred with John 雪解け. The 世界的な popul arity led to two film box office 粉砕するs, Sweeney I and Sweeney II.
He later 反映するd 情愛深く on his time in the show, 明言する／公表するing in his Life And Times 文書の: “We knew we were doing something really やめる special and very different from British television.
“There was no worry then, which I think was a help. There was no 広大な／多数の／重要な panic about whether it was going to be a success in the ratings.
“We just knew we had very good scripts, we had 広大な／多数の／重要な directors, and we thought we weren’t that shabby. John [雪解け] and I were 広大な／多数の／重要な mates and, it sounds horrible, but it was just a joy to go to work every day.”
His Sweeney success was later topped with 批判的に acclaimed television series The Minder, where Waterman played 護衛, or “minder”, Terry McCann for 10 years from 1979. He 論証するd his 声の talents by singing the 主題 song, I Could Be So Good for You, which 頂点（に達する）d at number three in the UK charts in 1980.
His passion for singing led Waterman to 解放（する） music with 記録，記録的な／記録する companies EMI and DJM.
He 解放（する）d three albums ? 負かす／撃墜する 勝利，勝つd Of Angels, Waterman and So Good For You ? in the 1970s and 1980s and 成し遂げるd around the UK on a 小旅行する, dubbed Friends On 小旅行する, with Sheena Easton and Gerard Kenny.
Echoing the success of Sweeney, Minder was adapted into a film based on the TV series する権利を与えるd Minder On The Orient 表明する, which was broadcast on Christmas Day in 1985.
After leaving Minder, Waterman returned to the 行う／開催する／段階 for several years, starring in shows 含むing Jeffrey Bernard in Unwell in Australia, Ireland and the UK, and My Fair Lady in the West End.
In the latter part of his career, he played Gerry Standing in the show New Tricks from 2003 to 2014.
Afterwards he 半分-retired, splitting his time between his homes in Berkshire and Spain. His final film 役割 was in the Australian comedy 演劇 Never Too Late in 2020.
Waterman is 生き残るd by his wife, Pam, and two daughters, Julia and Hannah, who were born に引き続いて his marriag e to actress Patricia Maynard.
