From: starbugaboo@NOSPAMyahoo.com   
      
   Gavin wrote:   
   >   
   > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:45:31 GMT, Steve B    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >I obviously have a North American perspective on this so maybe I'm   
   > >missing something, but the only thing I've seen Mark Williams in other   
   > >than a few travel/documentary type shows are bit parts in "101   
   > >Dalmations" and "Harry Potter".  Seems like he might have had a few   
   > >days to squeeze in a RD cameo, at least.   
   >   
   > He was in The Fast Show, which was massive in the mid-90s. It had the   
   > same buzz at the time as Little Britain did recently -- a very clever   
   > alternative comedy sketch show, cooler than Red Dwarf would ever be.   
      
   Cheesy Peas!   
      
   > He also did lots of other bits and pieces on British TV. Honestly, Red   
   > Dwarf was the *tiniest* job on his resume.   
   >   
   > Then by the late 90s he had broken into American-funded feature films.   
   > This is often the point when an actor feels he is "too big" for small   
   > walk-on television parts. His television work beyond this point was   
   > mostly Fast Show spinoffs, and other shows made by his Fast Show   
   > colleagues.   
      
   Then he did The Strangerers. What an awful show that was... my husband   
   and I could only get through a few episodes and then had to stop for   
   fear that our brains would explode.   
      
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