{"id":7358,"date":"2025-01-18T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:11:22","slug":"bunny-may-was-off-to-a-good-start-with-enid-blyton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/bunny-may-was-off-to-a-good-start-with-enid-blyton\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny May was off to a Good Start with Enid Blyton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bunny May was born\u00a0&#8216;Bernard Lawrence May&#8217; in 1940 in <strong>Blackpool<\/strong>. He was an actor, perhaps best known for EastEnders (1985), Up Pompeii! (1969), Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em (1973) and for\u00a0the first episode of Going Straight (1985) (see full episode below). He was also in Coronation Street from September to October 1963 and played Ethel Tyson&#8217;s nephew Jim Pickup.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career as a teenager on BBC children&#8217;s television in the early to mid-1950s, but later moved into adult roles in series such as Emergency-Ward 10, The Chem. Lab. Mystery, The Liver Birds, Crown Court, Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em, A Sharp Intake of Breath, Shine on Harvey Moon, Duty Free, London&#8217;s Burning, The Bill, Birds of a Feather and Wing and a Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>On the big screen, he had roles in The Wind of Change, Catch Me a Spy and a small part for Hitchcock in his 1972 film Frenzy.\u00a0Stage roles include productions of The Seven Year Itch, Macbeth, The Winter&#8217;s Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Boy Friend, Billy Liar, A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, Spring 1600, Big Bad Mouse, A Talent to Amuse, On Your Toes and Singin&#8217; in the Rain.<\/p>\n<p>He married Susan Gayford and retired from acting to run a car-rental business. He passed away on 30 November 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7361\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7361\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Enid-Blyton-Bunny-May.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1344\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ENID BLYTON with Bunny May who played Noddy in the first stage production of &#8216;Noddy In Toyland&#8217; in 1955<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Going Straight - S1 E1 Going Home\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nqBMN0ALERM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunny May was born\u00a0&#8216;Bernard Lawrence May&#8217; in 1940 in Blackpool. He was an actor, perhaps best known for EastEnders (1985), Up Pompeii! (1969), Some Mothers Do &#8216;Ave &#8216;Em (1973) and for\u00a0the first episode of Going Straight (1985) (see full episode below). He was also in Coronation Street from September to October 1963 and played Ethel Tyson&#8217;s nephew Jim Pickup. He began his career as a teenager on BBC children&#8217;s television in the early to mid-1950s, but later moved into adult roles in series such as Emergency-Ward 10, The Chem. Lab. 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