Deryck Guyler

Deryck Guyler was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, shorttempered middleaged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir and Sykes.

Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, and brought up on the other side of the River Mersey in Liverpool, Lancashire, where his father was a jeweller. He attended Liverpool College and originally planned a career in the church. During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association and then the BBCs Drama and Repertory company in Manchester.

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