Derek Royle "Confessions of a Sex Maniac" (1974). He appeared in a children's TV comedy series, "Hogg's Back" (1975) as Doctor Hogg, an eccentric general practitioner (GP); in 2016 this series has appeared on Talking Pictures TV. Royle acted with Wendy Richard and Pat Coombs over two series. (Hog's Back is an area in Surrey in Britain.) Royle played an unfortunate guest in a "Fawlty Towers" episode, "The Kipper and the Corpse", wherein he played the eponymous corpse. He also was the second actor to portray Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the sixth series of "'Allo 'Allo!", and had a supporting role in
The Kipper Kids months of improvisation they invented a character they called Harry Kipper and began experimenting with different theatrical formats to use him in. Upon being expelled for being "too experimental" they took to the road, touring constantly. When von Haselberg and Routh coined the name Kipper Kids, they were originally called Harry and Alf Kipper and had two distinctly different characters. Because von Haselberg and Routh could never remember who was Harry and who was Alf, they dropped the name Alf and decided to call each other Harry. At the same time they decided to make their characters identical. Thus the