From the Leslie Phillips obit:
When his affair, while still married, with Caroline Mortimer became public, he was no longer deemed suitable as a clergyman, and was succeeded in later series by Donald Sinden.
So, err, no playing Desdemona while black then, eh? Because the actor is in fact the role……
1960s ITV was much more sensitive to what its advertisers thought.
He really was a class stage actor, though. Saw him in Passion Play many years ago.
Another hero bites the dust 🙁
I read the whole thing. I had no idea he worked so hard.
RIP old boy.
Leslie Philips (pronouns he, llo).