Mike Kinsey

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Mike Kinsey (born 1939) is an English actor turned politician.

Kinsey is best known for playing the part of Gunner 'Nosher' Evans in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum . [1] Amongst other roles, he has also played a reporter in the 1976 drama Nightmare for a Nightingale and a farmer in Dangerfield in 1997. [2]

In May 2002, he was elected as a Labour Party councillor in the ward of Greenhill in the London Borough of Harrow. [3] He stood down from Greenhill at the 2006 local elections. [4]

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References

  1. "BFI Screenonline: It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974-81) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  2. "Mike Kinsey". BFI. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020.
  3. "Election results for Greenhill, 2 May 2002". moderngov.harrow.gov.uk. 1 January 2004.
  4. "Councillor Mike Kinsey". moderngov.harrow.gov.uk. 1 January 2004.