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Bill Maynard
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Walter Frederick George Williams (born 8 October 1928 in Farnham, Surrey) more commonly known as Bill Maynard is a British comedian and actor.
He attended Kibworth Beauchamps Grammar School and started as a Variety performer, taking his professional surname from an advertising board (also known as a bill board) for Maynard's Fruit Gums, a popular British confectionery product. He then appeared at Butlins Holiday Camp, Skegness with Terry Scott and was teamed with him in a TV series called Great Scott, It's Maynard!.
He was at first best known on TV for his role as Selwyn Froggitt in the sitcom Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! and for playing Fred Moffatt in the underrated The Gaffer. He then played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular and long running television series Heartbeat and its spin-off series The Royal.
In the 1980s Maynard stood against Tony Benn in a by-election at Chesterfield as an Independent Labour candidate. It was his only foray into politics and was purely to try to prevent Benn winning the seat and thus re-entering Parliament as an MP. Benn won the seat; Maynard took fourth place.
Maynard wrote his Autobiography which was entitled "The Yo-Yo Man" and having retired from acting in 2001, following a series of strokes, he made a return to radio presenting in March 2003 for BBC Radio Leicester, where he had last worked in 1968. His show goes out ever Sunday afternoon from 2-4pm
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