Match the famous artists to the pictures they created and this original Mackay oil landscape of the Provence region in France could be yours. continued from page 7 plays on television and a radio play in blank verse about my father dying which, I thought, was perhaps the best of the whole lot,' says Mackay. 'Writing is wonderful, of course, but I would still prefer to be a painter. The traumas of writing are far worse.' Mackay's career as an actor has been richly varied. He was the beachcomber in the acclaimed British film Local Hero and, more recently, played a dissolute priest in the film W ater with Michael Caine. On TV he was the lighthouse keeper in Fraggle Rock and played a Scottish tycoon in the series The Foundation. But he knows that the general public continues to see him straight-backed, pedantic and eternally uniformed. 'My popular image, of course, is Mr Mackay in Porridge. I owe a great deal to that popularity and it would be stupid to duck that.' Mr Ordway, the character he plays in Mann's Best Friends, was a Metropolitan Water Board inspector until redundancy caught up with him. 'Ordway is pernickety, fussy, correct, very establishment-minded - and absolutely useless,' Stewart Knowles says Fulton Mackay.
How to enter Here's how you can win Fulton Mackay's painting. Listed right are the titles of six famous paintings and the names of six artists. All you have to do is match each title with the correct artist and write your answers on a postcard. For example, if you think that 1 'Water-lilies' was painted by Auguste Renoir write A beside 1 on the card, and so on. Then add your name and address and send it to TVTimes Painting Competition, PO Box 40, Market Harborough, Leics LE 16 9NJ, to arrive not later than Friday 26 April 1985. The first correct entry examined after the closing date will be awarded the painting.
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1 Water-lilies 2 The Sunflowers 3 The Fifer 4 Dancer on the Stage 5 The Card Players 6 Le Moulin de la Galette
John Thaw teams up with real-life wife Sheila Hancock, and Reece Dinsdale, in a later episode __ of ITV's new Friday series 'Home to Roost'.
Artists A Auguste Renoir B Claude Monet C Edgar Degas 0 Paul Cezanne E Vincent Van Gogh F Edouard Manet This competition is open to anyone resident in the UK aged 18 and over, except employees and their families of Independent Television Publications Ltd and TVTimes printers. No correspondence can be entered into and no entry returned No cash substitute for prize. The decision of the editor of TVTimes is final. Winner will be notified by post as soon as possible after the closing date. The result will be published in TVTimes
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`Redcap' (1964) was Thaw's first major TV chance. 'The Sweeney' (above, with Dennis W aterman) made him famous. Right: 1980, in costume drama, with Charlotte Cornwell, in 'Drake's Venture'.