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RIP - Hugh Cecil

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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Mar 6, 2004, 10:27:53 AM3/6/04
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From the AMC/Rambler list I belong to (hence the automotive focus of the
below), and of obvious relevance to this group. - Gwen

> Long time AMCer Hugh Cecil has died
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> I just got back from two weeks on the left coast and I received a note from
> Hugh Cecil's wife in England that he has passed away as of Feb. 11, 2004 at
> age 90 and she asked me to pass on the information to every one here. Hugh
> was well known to those of us who have been involved with AMC cars for a long
> time, as he attended several of the major AMC National meets over the years,
> including 1986 in Minneapolis , the Nashville AMO meet and Zinn's 1994
> National that up to that point was the biggest AMC meet. Hugh owned the
> flying Matador used in the James Bond movie "Man with the Golden Gun" along
> with several other AMC cars of the 60's. Hugh was a magician , did Punch and
> Judy shows for children ( The puppets that keep hitting each other) and was a
> charter actor for movies and TV in England. He did mostly bit part character
> acting , but was most notable in the cult classic "Rocky Horror Picture
> Show", a children movie called the "The Witches" along with some PBS shows a
> few of may have seen , notability Dr Who (4 episodes) , Blake's 7 (one
> episode) and the BBC series "Dad's Army" about the British home guard army in
> WW II that was redone as "1941" in an Americanized version . The are several
> tribunes to Hugh who's real name was Alfred Cecil Ware on the cosmo web site
> for "Rocky Horror Picture Show" along with several others web sites. I
> understand several of the major AMC clubs will be do articles on his death. I
> considered Hugh a good friend of mind and he stayed here with the Peoria ,
> Illinois AMC people a couple of times. thanks Larry R. Daum mr...@elmnet.net

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Douglas North

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Mar 6, 2004, 2:16:33 PM3/6/04
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>notability Dr Who (4 episodes)

This isn't listed on his IMDB resume. Anyone have any idea which DW
episodes he was in? Maybe he was an Ice Warrior or something.

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