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William Russell "Ross" Davidson (25 August 1949 – 16 October 2006) was a British actor best known for his role as Andy O'Brien in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. ==Career== Davidson started his working life as a physical education teacher in Scotland in the early 1970s. He also played water polo at international level for Scotland and left teaching to run a pub and disco in Glasgow, but furthered his ambitions to act by attending night classes. He made his screen acting début on television in ''A Degree of Uncertainty'' (1979), a BBC ''Play for Today'' set in a Scottish university, then appeared as a kilted dancer in ''Stanley Baxter on Television'' (1979). He also had small parts as a mime troupe member in The Comedy of Errors ("BBC Television Shakespeare", 1983) and a photographer in ''Widows II'' (1985), as well as appearing in the film ''The Pirates of Penzance'' (1983) and the Monty Python short ''The Crimson Permanent Assurance'' (1983). In Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, he was seen in commercials for products ranging from chewing gum to beer. In 1985, he became one of the original cast of BBC's flagship soap opera ''EastEnders''. He played the altruistic nurse Andy O'Brien for 18 months, after which his screen alter-ego went down in history for being the first main character to be killed off, dying in a road accident in August 1986. Just before leaving EastEnders, Davidson recorded a pop single, "Jigsaw Puzzle", that failed to chart. He then returned to acting in stage plays (he had previously appeared in ''Guys and Dolls'' at the National Theatre) and returned to the small-screen in 1987 as a television presenter. He presented the BBC lunchtime magazine show ''Daytime Live'' (1987–88) and the sports challenge series ''Run the Gauntlet'' (1989–90). He later returned to acting and went on to star in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Brookside''; the Welsh soap ''Pobol Y Cwm'' and he also played the role of Peter O'Dell in the Scottish soap ''Take the High Road'' for three years. More recently he starred as Andy Morgan in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' from 1999 - 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ross Davidson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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