Double act habitual criminal", Fletcher (played by Ronnie Barker, already famous for his comedy partnership with Ronnie Corbett) and a young, naive, first-time prisoner, Lennie Godber. The two would bicker but endured a relationship of mutual respect. Barker also formed a partnership with David Jason in Open All Hours, with Jason playing Granville while Barker played Albert Arkwright. Many don't see this as a comedy duo, but the straight-man element coupled with Barker's funny-man antics on the show are still compressed into the script. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson combined their success in sitcoms ("The Young Ones") and as a double act
Harley Granville-Barker on handmade paper in a slipcase. Granville-Barker's most notable prose work is the "Prefaces to Shakespeare" written from 1927 to the end of his life in 1946. "Prefaces to Shakespeare" was considered the first major Shakespeare study to attend to the practical matters of staging. The prefaces were published in two hardback volumes in 1946 and 1947. In 1906, Granville-Barker met his first wife Lillah McCarthy while playing her opposite in "Man and Superman". After World War I, he divorced his first wife and married an American writer named Helen Huntington who disliked the stage, actors, and especially Shaw. He