Fine Time Fontayne

Fine Time Fontayne
Born Ian Crossley
1951 (age 63–64)
Wombwell, South Yorkshire, England
Occupation Actor, theatre director

Ian Crossley (born 1951), better known by the stage name Fine Time Fontayne, is an English actor and stage director.

Early life

Fontayne was born in Wombwell, South Yorkshire. In the 1960s, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, where they ran a pub.[1] He took his stage name when he began singing and playing at a local folk club in Yorkshire.[2] He started acting in the 1970s with the Crucible Vanguard Company.[3]

Career

Fontayne has played a variety of roles in many long-running British TV series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, and Emmerdale. He is a frequent voice in BBC Radio drama (including The Blackburn Files and Street and Lane) and has appeared in films including 24 Hour Party People and Butterfly Kiss.[4][5]

Fontayne appeared in the 2002 radio series The Little World of Don Camillo. He directed a successful production of Sleeping Beauty at the Mercury Theatre, Essex in December 2007 and January 2008.[6] In 2011, he played Claudius in the touring Northern Broadsides production of Hamlet. He has frequently appeared in pantomime at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fine Time Fontayne comes to Hepworth". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "In the name of success!". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Fine Time Fontayne biography". Townsend Productions. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Fontayne CV". Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  5. ↑ The Blackburn Files at radiolistings.co.uk
  6. ↑ Review of Fontayne's production of The Sleeping Beauty, The Stage

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