Reminder
Dennis Waterman was born the ninth child of south London parents in 1948. It was not always a happy childhood, and he left home after his father told him not to bring a friend home a second time, because he was 'a nigger'.
Soon after leaving school he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and went to Hollywood, but had to leave LA in a hurry as his visa was out of date and he could have been arrested as an illegal alien. While indulging his passions f...