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Vale: Lucky Grills

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Veteran TV actor Lucky Grills has passed away.

Grills was 79 years old.

Best known for his role as 1970s television detective Bluey he won new fans when the show was celebrated as ‘Bargearse’ in the D Generation’s Late Show.

Grills did two gigs back to back yesterday said fellow entertainer Danny McMaster.

“But he went to bed and just didn’t wake up.” Grills was also a regular on the Mike Walsh Show during the 1970s.

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  1. No words can even begin to describe what a wonderful man my father was. So talented, funny & giving. He was an exceptional father & my life will never be the same without him…miss you each & every day dad xx

  2. In the last couple of years of Lucky’s life, I had the good fortune of bumping into him quite often at the local shops where he lived. Many times you would find him telling a joke or a tale as you would enter the Post Office or he would have a few people huddled around him on the walkway. He was very well liked. He was an exceptionally kind, polite and giving man. He was never annoyed by those who would stop him and talk about the many roles he played on Australian television.

  3. I’ve only just heard of the sad passing of Lucky Grills. He gained cult status in Liverpool, England in the late 1970’s with Bluey. It appeared in a late night slot on Granada TV and word rapidly spread around the local pubs. People would say ‘have you seen that Aussie cop show with the little fat bloke who runs about and beats up mercenaries?’ . The continuity was also a talking point especially how he’d get into a car wearing a checked suit only to emerge from it moments later in a navy blue one. All of these comments were made without malice because the apparent good humour of Lucky shone through the whole show. Word of this phenomenom finally came to the ears of a Radio Merseyside presenter called Billy Butler who began to talk about it on his show and Bluey took off in a big way, I even purchased a t-shirt with a picture of Lucky in shirt sleeves and shoulder holster from a local shop! Eventually the radio station payed for Mr. Grills to come over and he made several personal appearances at a venue outside the city centre called the Montrose Club and it was there we discovered his talent as an exceptional stand up comic, which endeared him even more to us. The gag of his that I’ll always remember being ‘my whole family have always been in showbusiness even me dad was a dancer, he danced at the end of a rope!’.
    So long Lucky, you brightened up a lot of people’s lives.

    Richard Helm.

  4. I first met Lucky Grills on the set of A Country Practice. I was a lowly extra, but he was very approachable and friendly. Later we worked together on P&O Fairstar. A friendship grew and we toured together in 2005 for a five week period. He was always considerate and I’m going to miss him heaps. He did say in conversation with me once that a nursing home wasn’t the way he wanted to go. He went exactly as he wanted…. did a gig, came home and went to bed and didn’t wake up.
    For Maria and his family it will be hard; for us,his fellow entertainers, we’ll miss you.

    Hank Koopman

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