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- Roger_Tonge abstract "Roger Tonge (30 January 1946 – 26 February 1981) was a British actor.He was born Anthony Roger Tonge in Birmingham where he attended Lordswood Technical Grammar School. He was working as an £8-a-week post office clerk and performing in amateur dramatics in the evenings when he landed the role of Sandy Richardson, the motel owner's son in the ATV soap opera, Crossroads, a role he would play for 17 years. He played the disabled son of Meg Richardson, played by the actress Noele Gordon, in the much-maligned soap opera.But it was the actor's fight against an incurable cancer that resulted in his departure from the programme before the programme was cancelled. During Tonge's tenure in the series, his character became a wheelchair user after a car crash, and in a case of life imitating art, Tonge became one too through illness. Tonge became the first disabled actor in a soap; however, it was something he always played down and his illness was never talked about. In an on screen interview with Angela Rippon as part of a show looking at TV Soap Operas in 1981, Tonge claimed that viewers were often astonished to encounter him off-screen and discover he did not use a wheelchair or crutches; this despite him being a wheelchair user at that time. The claim was not challenged on air.His inroad to an acting career seems like something from a story book; in 1964, when Tonge dropped in at ATV during his lunch break to enquire about acting parts, a cleaner, presuming he had an audition for Crossroads, sent him to a production meeting. He arrived just as Production Manager Margaret French was leaving. She handed him a script and invited him to return for an audition. Reg Watson, the Producer, had already interviewed hundreds of young hopefuls for the part of Sandy, but without finding what the show was looking for. Eventually when Tonge and another hopeful were shortlisted for the part, both interviewees were asked to act out their reaction to their pet dog being run over. Tonge produced the best woeful response and the part became his.The show was criticised heavily by the critics and Tonge along with many other members of the cast were part of their target. He was reported as having laughed off their jibes, by saying "I'm allergic to criticism".Although he was a regular in the soap opera, Tonge found time to appear on other television programmes, including Z-Cars, Nearest and Dearest and 'Detective'. He was also in the film Catch Me Going Back.".
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- Roger_Tonge deathDate "1981-02-26".
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- Roger_Tonge birthDate "1946-01-30".
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- Roger_Tonge yearsactive "1964".
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- Roger_Tonge comment "Roger Tonge (30 January 1946 – 26 February 1981) was a British actor.He was born Anthony Roger Tonge in Birmingham where he attended Lordswood Technical Grammar School. He was working as an £8-a-week post office clerk and performing in amateur dramatics in the evenings when he landed the role of Sandy Richardson, the motel owner's son in the ATV soap opera, Crossroads, a role he would play for 17 years.".
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