Don Maclean
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Don Maclean (born 11 March 1944 in Birmingham) is an English actor and comedian, who hosted the BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze, and Jan Hunt in the 1970s. As a child he had attended Clifton Road School, in Balsall Heath.
Maclean usually performed a live routine or routines with Glaze in front of a studio audience of children and a filmed insert with Glaze, in the style of a silent comedy film. Live routines would almost always work in the 'joke' where an exasperated Glaze would exclaim 'Maclean!' to which Maclean would answer 'Yes I am, I had a bath this morning!'.
Early in his career, Maclean was a comedy compere of the BBC Television Series The Black and White Minstrel Show. He also appeared in Crossroads and Carry On Columbus. From 1990 to 2006 he presented "Good Morning Sunday", a religious programme on BBC Radio 2 (he is a devout Roman Catholic), but he has now been replaced on that show by Aled Jones. He also hosted the panel games The Clever Dick-Athlon (1988-90), First Letter First (1993) and Are You Sitting Comfortably (1993-6), all for Radio 2.
2007/2008 He is currently touring in the play There's No Place Like a Home with Gorden Kaye.
