Shaun Williamson In 2009, Williamson toured the UK playing habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher in a stage version of the classic TV comedy "Porridge". The script had been newly written by the series' co-authors, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. In 2012, he toured in a stage revival of the Ealing Studios film "The Ladykillers". He also played the roles of Baron Bomburst and Lord Scrumptious in the UK tour production of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". In 2007, he appeared in the British film "Daylight Robbery" where he played the role of a police chief. He also appeared, alongside Stephen Merchant, in
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). He read history at Jesus College, Oxford and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of Warwick, England. Skidelsky's parents, Boris Skidelsky and Galia Sapelkin, were British subjects of Russian ancestry, Jewish on his father's side and Christian on his mother's. His father worked for the family firm, L. S. Skidelsky, which leased the Mulin coalmine from the Chinese government.