Grange Hill and Doctor Who star Stuart Organ left £230,000 in his will to wife Jean & family
GRANGE Hill star Stuart Organ left nearly a quarter-of-a-million pounds when he died, it’s been revealed.
The actor was the longest-serving cast member on the cult children’s TV school drama playing Mr Robson.
He died in February after a short illness aged 72.
Documents reveal Organ, of Glastonbury, Somerset, had £234,693 in his estate when he died.
He left a few thousand each to his nephew, niece and godchildren.
But he left the majority of his estate to wife Jean whom he married in 2002.
The couple had no children.
He will be best remembered for his 15-years on the BBC‘s Grange Hill where his character Peter Robson arrived as the head of PE in 1988.
He went on to take the headmaster role 10 years later.
The show was about life in a London comprehensive school and ran from 1978 to 2008.
It made headlines for tackling big issues such as racism, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness and HIV and Aids.
Organ, who started his acting career in Leeds in 1975, also appeared in the soap Brookside as well as Doctor Who.
He plied his trade in cartoons and video games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Organ will have been a familiar voice to London Underground passengers announcing stations, lines, late arrivals and telling users to mind the gap.
BACK TO SCHOOL
GRANGE Hill is one of Britain’s top TV shows – that kids used to race home from school to watch.
Many of today’s adults will remember the catchy theme tune and THAT sausage in the title credits – here’s a look back over the last 40 years.
When was Grange Hill on TV?
Grange Hill was a BBC children’s drama TV show.
The show began its run in 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended its run in September 2008.
It was created by Phil Redmond, who is also responsible for the Channel 4 soaps Brookside and Hollyoaks.
After 30 years, the show was cancelled in 2008 as it was felt by the BBC that the series had run its course.
Where was Grange Hill filmed?
Grange Hill was originally filmed at real schools in London.
The first of these was Kingsbury High School in North London, which was used as the Grange Hill setting for the first two series.
For series 3, in 1980, exterior filming moved to Willesden High School (now Capital City Academy) in Willesden Green, which was similar in looks to Kingsbury and was also situated in a residential area of the capital.
In 1981, Grange Hill moved to Holborn College (now Fulham Preparatory School) in Greyhound Road, Hammersmith – this was the longest serving of the “real schools”, remaining on screen until 1985.
Interior shots were filmed at the BBC Television Centre.
Production moved to BBC Elstree Centre in 1985 with an office block, Neptune House, used as the school.
In 2003 filming moved to Liverpool and continued until 2008.