Andrew Sachs: Yu-Lung/Various (b. 1930-)
Starting his career as an assistant stage manager at Bexhill, he is
undoubtedly best known as the incompetent Spanish waiter Manuel in the
classic BBC situation comedy Fawlty Towers. He had appeared in several of
Brian Rix’s small screen farces Dial RIX as well as the original production
of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus with Alec Guinness. He has starred in such
sitcoms as Dead Ernest, There Comes A Time… and Every Silver Lining. Other
comic turns have included Took and Co (1977) with Barry Took, the film
version of Are You Being Served? (1977), History of the World Part 1 (1981)
for Mel Brooks and Eric Sykes’s It’s Your Move (1982). The King of the
Voiceover, his masterpiece must be the Radio 4 series The Jewish Journey.
In 2000 he gave one of his finest acting performances as a Holocaust
survivor in Silent Witness.
Anyway, to try to fill in one of your gaps - I'm certain Yu-Lung was played by the also superb Andrew Sachs (Manuel from Fawlty Towers). I always thought it was him and then it was confirmed in a magazine article about him a few years back. He's currently in a BBC Radio 4 comedy called Man of Soup and he sounds very similar in that."
Andrew Sachs will always be remembered for his role as Manuel the insane Spanish waiter (from 'Barthelona') in the British comedy TV show "Fawlty Towers". Apart from this, he has also appeared in the movies "Are You Being Served?", "Revenge of the Pink Panther", and countless TV shows, including "Jack of Hearts" and "That Peter Kay Thing".
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