Ross Davidson Meaning Of Life Eastenders 1987 Vintage Press Photo

CHAU3972  This is a vintage 1987 large 8" x 6" original press photo for Ross Davidson who was best known as Andy O'Brien in Eastenders (& was the Crimson Permanent Assurance Company in the 1983 Monty Python film The Meaning Of Life) with further reverse press notations for full authenticity and is in great condition.  Reverse states on the press notes "former Eastenders star" so this press souvenir was after the death of his character (and the first character in Eastenders from its launch to have a screen death)

He made his screen acting debut on television in A Degree of Uncertainty (1979), a BBC Play for Today set in a Scottish university, then appeared as a kilted dancer in Stanley Baxter on Television (1979). He also had small parts as a member of a mime troupe in The Comedy of Errors ("BBC Television Shakespeare", 1983) and a photographer in Widows II (1985), as well as appearing in the film The Pirates of Penzance (1983) and the Monty Python short The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983), made to accompany the group's feature The Meaning of Life. In Spain, the Netherlands and Germany he was seen in commercials for products ranging from chewing gum to beer. In 1985 he became one of the original cast of the BBC's flagship soap opera EastEnders. He played the altruistic nurse Andy O'Brien for 18 months, after which his screen alter-ego was the first main character to be killed off, dying in a road accident in August 1986.