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Guinness - Mr Pastry
Marvellous Mr Pastry clowns about in suitably silly style in this acrobatic mid-fifties advert for Guinness.
Overview
Marvellous slapstick clown Mr Pastry (Richard Hearne) - no stranger to acrobatics - is seen performing some rather unlikely stage stunts in this cheerful 1950s advert for the beautiful black stuff, which invited viewers to “have a Guinness when you’re tired”. A popular performer on stage and screen, best known as moustachioed bumbler Mr Pastry, Hearne was - so legend had it – once lined up for the plum part of Dr Who (number three). Apparently, he intended to play the role as Pastry, but the BBC had other ideas - and the gig went instead to Jon Pertwee.
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