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Tony Capstick

Tony Capstick, on the right, "on duty" in Last of the Summer Wine.

Tony Capstick (27 July 1944 - 23 October 2003) was born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, and was a presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield for more than thirty years.

Outside Sheffield, he is perhaps better known as one of the policemen in the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

A regular performer on folk circuits, in 1981 he reached number 3 in the UK singles chart with "The Sheffield Grinder" / "Capstick Comes Home". As a comedian he had an eight-part television series, Capstick's Capers, on Channel 4 in 1983.

Capstick was also a prolific bit-part actor, with a career including minor roles in the soap operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street.

His career at Radio Sheffield came to an end in January 2003, when he was dismissed for an alleged drop in quality. He continued to write a regular column in a local weekly newspaper, the Rotherham Advertiser, but his mood and health never recovered from the sacking.

In January 2005, an newly-landscaped area in Swinton Bridge, South Yorkshire, where Capstick grew up, was re-named "Cappo's Corner" as a tribute.

External links

Capstick Comes Home (http://tonycapstick.com/) - Tribute site

Obituaries

Daily Telegraph, 29/10/2003 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F10%2F29%2Fdb2902.xml)

Some or all material in this page has been adapted from the Tony Capstick entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Capstick), or others, in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia.