In her first newspaper interview, Ramsey agrees there was a kind of sisterhood among the mostly female cast – which includes Wendy Craig, Amanda Holden and Downton Abbey actors Clare Higgins, who plays kindly Miss Cackle, and Raquel Cassidy as the strict Miss Hardbroom.
An exaggerated doctrine of Original Sin, as used for a starting point for spirituality, plays kindly into the hands of empire builders, slave-masters, etc.
So will models playing kindly doctors, their wise faces wrinkled in all the right places.
Jesper Christensen plays the kindly Dane who runs the local photography studio.
A seemingly mild-mannered presence to Farage's mania, who could have played a kindly friend of the family in an ITV drama, Titford retired at the age of 59 to embark on a life of golf and a spot of fishing, but instead found himself playing a big part in popularising UKIP as the anti-EU party during the 1990s and 2000s – "spreading Frinton's worldview," as the Guardian put it in 2001.
(Nominees Lemmon, MacLaine and Jack Kruschen, who played the kindly Dr. Dreyfuss, Baxter's long-suffering neighbor, were overlooked).
In 1975, he undertook what he called a "labour of love", playing the kindly, conscience-stricken General Lord Fairfax in Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's film Winstanley, about the tragic fate of the leader of the Diggers in the English civil war.
LIKE a character actor who takes roles as a serial killer after years of playing the kindly uncle, civic boosters here are trying to shed the cardigan sweater and the sensible shoes.
That same year he played the kindly Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's resplendent film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" and the mad scientist Durand Durand in Roger Vadim's "Barbarella," a science-fiction fantasy set in the far future, in which he tries to make the comely astronaut Barbarella (Jane Fonda) die of pleasure.
Wu looked less like a theologian than like an actor who'd play the kindly father in a Chinese soap opera: in his mid-fifties, he had a large, handsome face, a perfect pair of dimples in his cheeks, and a resonant voice that sounded somehow familiar.
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Fr Flynn, a kindly young priest at a US Catholic school in 1964.
