Editing Bill Maynard (section)

{{Short description|English comedian and actor (1928–2018)}}
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{{Infobox comedian
| name = Bill Maynard
| image = Bill Maynard actor portrait.jpg
| birth_name  = Walter Frederick George Williams
| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|10|08|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Heath End, Surrey]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|03|30|1928|10|08|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Leicestershire]], England<ref name=bbc />
| medium  = Actor, comedian
| genre   = Comedy, television
| notable_work  = [[#Television_and_filmography|See below]]
| active  = 1953–2018
| spouse  = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Muriel Linnett|1949|1983|end=died}}
* {{marriage|Tonia Bern|1989|1998|end=divorced}}<ref name="Where are they now?"/><ref>{{cite news|first=Dennis |last=Barker |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/mar/30/bill-maynard-obituary |title=Bill Maynard obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 March 2018 |access-date=17 May 2018}}</ref>
}}
|children=2; including [[Ryder (band)|Maynard Williams]]
}}

'''Walter Frederick George Williams''' (8 October 1928 &ndash; 30 March 2018),<ref>[https://news.sky.com/story/heartbeat-actor-bill-maynard-dies-after-fall-11309468 Heartbeat actor Bill Maynard dies after fall]</ref> better known by his stage name '''Bill Maynard''', was an English comedian and actor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee90a0c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008042817/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ee90a0c|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 October 2017|title=Bill Maynard|website=Bfi.org.uk|access-date=17 April 2018}}</ref> He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside [[Terry Scott]] in ''[[Great Scott – It's Maynard!]]'' (1955–56). In the 1970s and 1980s, he starred in the successful British sitcoms ''[[Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt]]'' and ''[[The Gaffer (TV series)|The Gaffer]]'' and appeared in five films in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' series]]. After a hiatus from television work in the late 1980s, Maynard starred as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running television series ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]'' from 1992 to 2000, reprising the character in the spin-off ''[[The Royal]]'' in 2003.