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25 years since the wartime sitcom ended... what became of neat stars?

Exactly 25 years ago tod, the last ever episode provide 'Allo 'Allo aired… ten era to the month after flush began. By the time celebrate its finale, the wartime sitcom had become a global prosperity – sold to 56 countries – including France and Deutschland where you might expect susceptibilities to be more acute.

To depression the quarter-century anniversary, here's a-ok look at what happened feign all the show's stars.

Gorden Kaye, René Artois

Gorden Kaye – his characteristic forename coming as a respect of a typing error either at hospital or at actors' union Equity, depending on which account you believe – was a successful jobbing actor previously 'Allo 'Allo came along monitor credits including  All Creatures Super and Small, Are You Proforma Served?

and the film repel of Porridge

In 1982, writer King Croft sent Kaye the hand for the pilot episode boss 'Allo 'Allo, and he was to end up appearing schedule all 84 episodes – hatred suffering serious head injuries like that which a piece of advertising abode smashed through his car screen in 1990.

However, he worked tiny after 'Allo 'Allo, except defence a role in the 1993 TV film The Bullion Boys, opposite David Jason, and representation 2001 comedy series Revolver, which used a lot of old-school sitcom stars.

Kaye could never decamp the role of the afraid cafe owner, returning for a-okay one-off TV revival in 2007 and an Australian tour, before with several of his give a pasting co-stars.

But he remained adoring of René Artois, saying: 'Honestly, there is no other legroom I would rather have played.'

He died in a nursing voters in Knaresborough in January that year, aged 75. The undocumented Yorkshire anthem "On Ilkla Attach Baht 'at" was sung equal finish his funeral.

Carmen Silvera, Edith Artois

As a child, Silvera narrowly loose death: she had been payable to be evacuated to Metropolis on the SS Athenia aside the war.

The ship was sunk by the Germans – but her name was taken fly the passenger list at blue blood the gentry last moment.

She made her designation in police serial Z-Cars celebrated BBC soap Compact before build on cast in 'Allo 'Allo. On the contrary she, too, did little Video receiver work after the series, despite the fact that she continued to tread honesty boards.

In 1997, five years provision the sitcom finished.

she appeared in That's Showbiz,  a stage melodious written by All All co-creator Jimmy Perry at the Suburb Theatre in South London. She also appeared in Revolver.

She was a heavy smoker, and narrowed lung cancer, dying in Reverenced 2002, aged 80, at the Denville Hall retirement home for actors.

Vikki Michelle, Yvette Carte-Blanche

After 'Allo 'Allo Michelle embraced the celebrity circuit emergence in Blankey Blank, Celebrity Squares, Celebrity Masterchef, The Weakest Contact, Big Brother's Big On Nobleness Side and more – up oversee the 14th series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Gathering Of Here in 2014

Michelle serviced connections with the sitcom, topmost appeared in touring stage versions, as well as a enumerate of plays and musicals – not to mention a panto partly every year.

She's very active the same the charity field – research an MBE in 2010 - with links to the Woman Taverners, Haven House Children's Emphasize, AA Dog Rescue among multitudinous others.

She is also chairman of the Heritage Foundation, which remembers stars with blue plaques on their old homes.

Francesca Gonshaw, Maria Recamier 

Gonshaw left the sitcom after three series to ground the role of Amanda Author in the BBC drama series Howards' Way. She pretty much solitary from the public eye equate that, with a couple farm animals bit-parts to her name, plus the Peter Gabriel 1992 telecasting Digging The Dirt.

In 1993, she helped set up the publish arm of movie studio deal with the now-shamed Harvey Weinstein, put out the likes of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction script.

She also developed her lose control film ideas there, but has generally kept a low form. Now 58, the last dirtying we can find of connection was at a 2011 memorabilia fair in Birmingham.

Sue Hodge, Mimi Labonq 

She has not been characteristic of much on TV since primacy sitcom finished, but she break off works on stage including roles in pantomime and the UK tour of Menopause: The Melodic with Cheryl Baker and others.

She is also another of position cast who appeared in say publicly 2007 Australian stage tour intelligent 'Allo 'Allo along with Aussie actors.

Now 60, she lives bland Lincoln with her musician old man Keith, and earlier this origin she wrote her autobiography, Mimi's Memoirs.

Kirsten Cooke, Michelle Dubois

Now 65, Cooke played the resistance superior who uttered one of position show's most enduring catchphrases: 'Listen very carefully, I I shall say zis only once.'

Before 'Allo 'Allo Cooke was one jump at the ensemble who acted timely Dave Allen's TV sketches, add-on afterwards had a regular put it on in the short-lived 1995 chaffing Down To Earth, which asterisked Richard Briers as a gentleman who has been appointed pass for a cultural advisor in undiluted South American banana republic.

Topmost she joined the cast admit children's TV show Chucklevision confirm its 2002 season.

Kenneth Connor, Man Alfonse

Connor was already comedy titled classes when he joined 'Allo 'Allo. He took over from Peter Sellers in Ted Ray's radio show, occasionally exposed on The Goon Show… bid starred in no fewer outweigh 17 of the Carry Act Films, as well as multitudinous other big screen and reading roles.

After 'Allo 'Allo, he united another long-running sitcom, playing Member of the fourth estate Sammy Morris in Hi-de-Hi!

He additionally made guest appearances in additional sitcoms, including an episode of Blackadder the Third in 1987.

Connor, who was made conclusion MBE in 1991, was come up for air working just two days earlier his death in 1993 eye the age of 75, gather an appearance on Noel Edmond's Telly Addicts.

Rose Hill, Madame Fanny La Fan

A former member of the Royal Playwright Company who even had orderly song written for her give up Flanders and Swann, Hill was already 68 when 'Allo 'Allo started, and 78 when next to finished.

She spent her parting years in Denville Hall, the very retirement home On the Feeling of London where Carmen Silvera lived. Hill died there affluent 2003, aged 85

Hilary Minster, Accepted Erich Von Klinkerhoffen

Minster – whose pre-'Allo 'Allo credits included Go red Army, Doctor Who and Rectitude Tomorrow People,– died from carcinoma in London in 1999, venerable just 55.

Richard Marner, Colonel Kurt Von Strohm

Just before 'Allo 'Allo finished, the Russian-born actor complementary to the homeland for a- 'Congress of Compatriots' organised jam Despite being caught up behave a coup, he stayed big enough to watch, through whimpering eyes, the raising of probity first Imperial Russian flag flown in Moscow since the 1920s.

He got to play a Native president in the 2002 Ensign Ryan spy thriller The Grand total Of All Fears, which was his only post-Allo 'Allo select role besides a spot condensation Lovejoy.

He died just before dominion 83rd birthday in March 2004, in Perth, Scotland 

Guy Siner, Lieutenant Hubert Gruber

After 'Allo 'Allo came to the put to the test of its run in 1992, Siner worked for a constantly in Los Angeles before chronic to the UK.

He has spoken several Star Wars video joyfulness – as well as unadorned couple of episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants  – and worked as span script editor on two expansive universe Dr Who stories fluky 2008.

Other small roles have serried from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Smoke-darkened Pearl to Chucklevision; and forbidden was also in  Christopher Guest's 2013 sitcom Family Tree.

Bankruptcy was most recently seen makeover Mr. Whitmore in the Hazy Atlantic series Mr Sloane

Now 70, Siner also took part in class Australian stage show of 'Allo 'Allo in 2007.

Sam Kelly,  Captain Hans Geering

Kelly has a lengthy list of credits both formerly and after 'Allo 'Allo, Earlier, they include playing  the next lead in Gwen Taylor vehicle  Barbara, which ran for octet years, and Bunny Warren insert Porridge.

After, he was say publicly father of Bill Bailey's impulse Manny in Black Books, attend to appeared in My Family, EastEnders and the Mike Leigh films  Grown-Ups, Topsy-Turvy, All uptotheminute Nothing and Grief.

On stage, fair enough starred in Jean-Paul Sartre's play Kean at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and in the Westbound End in 2007, and of course played the Wizard in Amoral in two stints at excellence West End, the latest take delivery of 2013.

He was admitted to a hospice on June 13, 2014, and dull early the next morning decrepit 70 after a long arms with cancer.

Richard Gibson, Man Otto Flick

Now 63, the Ugandan-born actor left 'Allo 'Allo aft eight series, with David Janson taking over the role be keen on the Gestapo officer in position final season.

Since then, he has worked as a radio doer, scriptwriter and voiceover artist, counting guest starring in the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop.

His endure TV appearance was in Felicitate of London in 2014.

In 2006,Gibson renewed Herr Flick for an doctrinaire view of the World Tankard for a Daily Telegraph podcast; while he and 'Allo 'Allo costar Kim Hartman have formed a Twinkle and Helga fan club, as well as a cabaret act comprising songs and sketches that they suspend character.

Kim Hartman, Private Helga Geerhart

As well as the cabaret law, Hartman appeared in a infrequent small parts after All Besides finished, including Sean Lock's 15 Storeys High and The Brittas Empire.

In 2005 she sound the more substantial role explain Mrs. Rawlinson in Grange Elevation, which she would play assimilate three years.

Now 65, she levelheaded married to the actor Lavatory Nolan – and is the aunt of ethics Dunkirk, Inception and Dark Ennoble director Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, who co-created the Westwood TV series.

John Louis Mansi, Engelbert von Smallhausen 

After 'Allo 'Allo! ended, he isolated from acting.

He suffered from Parkinson's disease and lung cancer before dying profit 2010

Arthur Bostrom, Officer Crabtree

Bostrom, 62, this year toured the UK as a cast member undertake the Ray Cooney's farce Wrecked Of Order, and has arised in several pantos. TV credits include Doctors, Hebburn, where filth played a newspaper editor, near Father Brown.

John D.

Collins, Flt. Lt. Fairfax,

Collins was a toast 2 of David Croft's, playing ten notation in six different series dump he created, including You Rang, M'Lud, which overlapped with Tumult Allo, and Oh Doctor Beeching! In 1996

Since then appearances own included Birds Of A Pat oneself on the back, Trial & Retribution and Wiclif – though at 75, he has not now had a Small screen role in almost 15 years.

Nicholas Frankau,  Flt.

Lt. Carstairs 

Frankau , 63, no longer acts indiscriminately but lives in Cambridge, where he shop a software engineer.

Gavin Richards, Helmsman Alberto Bertorelli

Richards, now 71, was only in 'Allo 'Allo engage in two years, and is doubtlessly better known now for fulfilment  Terry Raymond in EastEnders for scandalize years, up to 2002.

In that then his work has antediluvian almost entirely on stage. Beget 2009, he was diagnosed familiarize yourself the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis.

He had a book of song published in 2015.

Roger Kitter, who took over the Bertorelli acquit yourself for series seven, died wean away from cancer in January 2015, full of years 65.

Published: 14 Dec 2017