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Trevor Gordon Bannister (14 August 193414 April 2011) was a British actor. He was best known for having played the womanising and wisecracking junior salesman Mr Lucas in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010.
In 1972, he appeared as the weak-bladdered producer of a local theatre company in Steptoe and Son, Episode 2 series 7 – "A Star is Born". He played Peter Pitt in the 1988 BBC sitcom Wyatt's Watchdogs. Other TV appearances include Keeping Up Appearances as the kitchen salesman, and he also appeared in Call Earnshaw, Gideon's Way, The Saint, The Tomorrow People, Only on Sunday and The Avengers. Bannister played three different characters in the ITV soap Coronation Street. From 2001, he played a recurring character (The Golf Captain) in Last of the Summer Wine. He became a series regular in 2009, coinciding with the 30th series. Finally receiving a name ("Toby Mulbery-Smith"), he moved next door to Barry and Glenda (Mike Grady and Sarah Thomas), and befriended Morton (Christopher Beeny).
Although Bannister appeared in a few films including Reach for the Sky (1956), Au Pair Girls (1972) and the film version of Are You Being Served? (1977), he worked mostly in the theatre, with credits including Billy Liar and the farce Move Over, Mrs Markham. Bannister also performed in Shakespeare and was a regular in pantomime for more than 35 years, nearly always playing the pantomime dame. In 2007, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Nocturne.
His final appearance was in the TV series New Tricks episode "Old Fossils" broadcast 4 July 2011.
Bannister died on 14 April 2011, aged 76, after a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey. Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine co-star Frank Thornton said that the last event Bannister attended was Thornton's 90th birthday on 15 January 2011, three months before Bannister died.
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| Episode: "Billy Liar" |
| Episode: "The Five Whistles" |
| 4 episodes |
| 2 episodes |
| Episode: "The Human Element" |
| Episode: "The Case of Big Ben Lewis" |
| Episode: "The Man Who Won the Pools" |
| Episode: "It's Never the Same" |
| Episode: "Laura" |
| Episode: "Undercurrent" |
| Episode: "A Joker for Your Button Hole" |
| Episode: "Celebration" |
| Episode: "The Ring" |
| Episode: "The Surgery" |
| Episode: "One" |
| Episode: "One Good Turn" |
| Episode: "The Imposter" |
| All 6 episodes |
| Episode: "Miss Letitia" |
| Episode: "The Lifer" |
| Episode: "Tickets Please" |
| All 6 episodes |
| Episode: "The Black Witch" |
| Episode: "The Reluctant Witness" |
| 2 episodes |
| Episode: "Best Out of Three" |
| Episode: "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" |
| Episode: "It Pays to Pick Brains" |
| Episode: "O-Goshi" |
| Episode: "A Big Hand for a Little Lady" |
| Episode: "Something Nasty in the Nursery" |
| Episode: "Gentle Persuasion" |
| Episode: "Travelling Light" |
| Episode: "The Climber" |
| Episode: "In Bulk" |
| Episode: "A Girl to Warm Your Feet On" |
| Episode: "Rogues' Gallery: The Tale of Lancelot Wishart" |
| Episode: "Guilty" |
| Episode: "Cross That Palm When We Come to It" |
| 4 episodes |
| Episode: "Zombie" |
| All 3 episodes |
| Episode: "Thanks for the Memory" |
| Episode: "Portrait of Brenda" |
| Episode: "Critical Path" |
| 2 episodes |
| Episode: "The Victims: A Degree of Stress" |
| All 21 episodes |
| Episode: "A Voyage Round My Father" |
| Episode: "Military Pickles" |
| Episode: "Public Enemy" |
| Episode: "The Man Who Came to Dinner" |
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| Episode: "A Star Is Born" |
| Episode: "The Sullens Sisters" |
| 48 episodes |
| Episode: "If You Could See What I Can See" |
| 4 Episodes: "Secret Weapon" |
| Episode: "Angel Gabriel Blue" |
| Season 1 Episode 1 Part 2 |
| 24 episodes |
| 5 episodes |
| Episode: "Midday Sun" |
| Episode: "Old Fossils" |
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