Stanley Meadows

Stanley Meadows (born 14 July 1931 in Stepney, London, England) is a retired British film and television actor.

Meadows was the son of a shopowner in Stepney Green. He won a scholarship to Forest School, in Epping Forest, and eventually graduated from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1955. After graduating he worked as a barman, storeman, waiter, and a shipping representative, while also performing in a variety of repertory companies. He worked with Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Harold Pinter and starred in a number of plays on ITV.

As his career developed further, Meadows made frequent appearances in British films and became something of a stalwart of British television series including Public Eye, Undermind, Randall and Hopkirk and Widows (Eddie Rawlins).