Also great to read the comments by people with direct connections to the show. Don't have a favourite cast member or episode because it's too hard to just pick one! I have enjoyed reading everyone's comments and it's good to know this show is loved by people of all ethnicities. People are too serious and sensitive these days.ģ84 Marie from Canada: I always enjoyed watching this show when I was young and it's always been one of my favourites. However, watching it again now, I can truly appreciate the scripts. As a teenager, I couldn't grasp everything from the show. However they made a difference and salute them all.ģ85 Cheng from Penang, Malaysia: I watched this show in the 80s with my family every week. Remarks were universal where all walks of culture could understand and comprehend its jokes but am sad that some people of it is no more. One of the best comedies till today and nice to see so many remarks on his page. Jamila is still working and has just finished a stint on 'Hollyoaks'.ģ87 Nikki from Philly: Love this show.Glad it on the Internet!!!ģ86 jag from malaysia: Watched it when I was a kid growing up in 80s. My friends in India tell me that MYL is currently being telecast in India. Jamila and I had great respect for Vince Powell, Stuart Allen and Barry Evans.
Pity they couldn't have a new series with new actors.Fantastic show.ģ88 Reginald Massey FRSA from Llanidloes SY18 6JJ, Wales: I am the husband of Jamila Massey (Jamila Ranjha of MYL).
Todays producers are too smarty pants and can't see how great this kind of thing is!ģ89 Robert Romans from South Africa: Fantastic show, have watched the repeats on TV over the years. That ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba, so 70s, so good! These guys made a wonderful team & must have enjoyed themselves too.ģ90 Irving from Tottenham: I'm watching all 29 episodes, one by one. Also discovered that he was indeed an orphan as talked about in MYL episode. I was searching for the actors and discovered Jeremy Brown is no more.
I miss all of them.ģ91 Jayesh from India: Its one of the best show I've seen. Hats off to all the character whether dead or alive and i know. Ricardo Montez, who was born on September 20, 1923, died on October 26, aged 87.396 M.Zubair Afzali from Afghanistan: Mind your Language is the best comedy show i have ever seen, The original show was running even when i was not born but i really liked it, specially Jaun Cervantes.ģ95 Ester from India: MYL was just awesome.i loved the characted of Ali, Ranjeet and Givionni.actually I loved all of them.Mr Brown is just too cute, sad to hear that he is no more.whenever I feel bore I just watch them all over again.superb comedy how ever watchedģ94 suhaimi from kuantan malaysia: I really love the show.even now im still watching the show with my family.the cast was sooooo funny.each of them.Miss Coutney say.ENTER.ģ93 arooj fatima from pakistan: I love this show i never saw the original run sisnce i wasnt even born then but this is by far one of the best comedies and very very unique with memorable charactersģ92 Alo from India: I have really enjoyed watching the whole series of Mind Your Language. While filming Mamma Mia! in Greece in 2008, he celebrated his 85th birthday with a surprise party thrown for him by three of the films stars, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. But it was his portrayal of the cheerful Spanish bartender, Juan Cervantes, in Mind Your Language, that struck a chord with viewers.
Thereafter, he found most of his work in television shows, among them, The Saint (1962-69), Dont Drink the Water (1974-75), which exported Stephen Lewis On the Buses character, Blakey, to Spain, the John Mills sitcom, Young at Heart (1982) and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986-2004).
He made his first movie appearance in a Hammer film, Pirates of Blood River (1962), starring Christopher Lee. Montez, who was born Levy Attias in Gibraltar, came to London in the early sixties to try to pursue an acting career.
Although it was axed by Michael Grade, who was then London Weekend Televisions deputy controller of entertainment, for treating foreigners as stereotypes, it was sold to many other countries, including India, Pakistan, Kenya and Nigeria. Gibralter-born actor who played Juan Cervantes in Mind Your Language.įor more than 45 years, Ricardo Montez appeared in television series, most notably Mind Your Language (1977-79), an ITV comedy set in a school for foreign students learning English.