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
Kipper ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English "kippian", to spawn. The word has various possible parallels, such as Icelandic "kippa" which means "to pull, snatch" and the Germanic word "kippen" which means "to tilt, to incline". Similarly, the Middle English "kipe" denotes a basket used to catch fish. Another theory traces the word kipper to the "kip", or small beak, that male salmon develop during the breeding season. As a verb, "kippering" ("to kipper") means to preserve by rubbing with salt or other spices before drying in the open air or in smoke. Originally applied to