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'''Gavin Richards''' (born 3 July 1946) is an English actor. He is best known for playing [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]] in the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' from 1987 to 1989, and [[Terry Raymond]] in the [[BBC]] soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' between 1996 and 2002.
'''Gavin Richards''' (born 3 July 1946) is an English actor. He is best known for playing [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]] in the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' from 1987 to 1989 and [[Terry Raymond]] in the [[BBC]] soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' between 1996 and 2002.


==Early life==
==Early life==
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==Career==
==Career==
Richards has worked as an actor, director and writer in theatre, television and film for over forty years. He is most familiar for his portrayal of [[Terry Raymond]] in the [[BBC]] TV series ''[[EastEnders]]'', appearing in over 300 episodes. He also played [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]] in the TV comedy hit ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' in which he appears in over thirty episodes.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/ |title = 'Allo 'Allo!|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> His television credits also include roles in ''[[Coronation Street]]'', ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' (where he had a minor role in series 4/5 and 7 in the BBC series, as general manager Harold Fox, aka ''The Smiling Viper''), ''[[The Bill]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'', ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'', ''[[A Touch of Frost]]'', ''[[Between the Lines (TV series)|Between the Lines]]'' and ''Pie in the Sky''. He co starred with [[Robert Powell]] in ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]'', with [[Leigh Lawson]] in ''[[Kinsey (TV series)|Kinsey]]'', [[Michael Kitchen]] in ''[[The Reporters (film)|The Reporters]]'' and with [[Rowan Atkinson]] in ''Full Throttle''. He also starred in the series ''Annie's Bar'', ''Driving Ambition'', ''[[Hardwicke House]]'', ''[[Mike & Angelo]]'' and many other programmes. He has appeared in films, amongst others, with [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[Being Human (1994 film)|Being Human]]'', with [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Glenda Jackson]] in [[Michael Apted]]'s ''Triple Echo'', and in the [[New Zealand]] film ''Savage Play''.
Richards has worked as an actor, director and writer in theatre, television and film for over forty years. He is most familiar for his portrayal of [[Terry Raymond]] in the [[BBC]] TV series ''[[EastEnders]]'', appearing in over 300 episodes. He also played [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]] in the TV comedy hit ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' in which he appears in over thirty episodes.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/ |title = 'Allo 'Allo!|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> His television credits also include roles in ''[[Coronation Street]]'', ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' (where he had a minor role in series 4/5 and 7 in the BBC series, as general manager Harold Fox, aka ''The Smiling Viper''), ''[[The Bill]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'', ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'', ''[[Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector Morse]]'', ''[[A Touch of Frost]]'', ''[[Between the Lines (TV series)|Between the Lines]]'' and ''Pie in the Sky''. He co starred with [[Robert Powell]] in ''[[Hannay (TV series)|Hannay]]'', with [[Leigh Lawson]] in ''[[Kinsey (TV series)|Kinsey]]'', [[Michael Kitchen]] in ''The Reporters'' and with [[Rowan Atkinson]] in ''Full Throttle''. He also starred in the series ''Annie's Bar'', ''Driving Ambition'', ''[[Hardwicke House]]'', ''[[Mike & Angelo]]'' and many other programmes. He has appeared in films, amongst others, with [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[Being Human (1994 film)|Being Human]]'', with [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Glenda Jackson]] in [[Michael Apted]]'s ''Triple Echo'', and in the [[New Zealand]] film ''Savage Play''.


As a director and actor in the theatre, Richards is famous for adapting the work of [[Dario Fo]] into the English language in his own West End hit production of ''[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]'' ([[Wyndham's Theatre]], 1980) for which he was nominated for an [[Olivier Award]]. He also starred in the production for [[Channel 4]] TV in the UK. Richards played Face in [[Griff Rhys Jones]]'s production of ''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]'' at the [[Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith]] and toured in the lead role in [[Jack Shepherd (actor)|Jack Shepard]]'s ''Comic Cuts''. He worked as a guest artist on the [[BBC]]/SPP TV co production of ''[[Kidnapped (2005 mini series)|Kidnapped]]'', and the [[TVNZ]] production of ''[[The Lost Children (TV series)|The Lost Children]]'', both shot entirely in [[New Zealand]]. Richards has performed at the [[London Palladium]] in the stage production of '''Allo 'Allo'', which also toured New Zealand and Australia.
As a director and actor in the theatre, Richards is famous for adapting the work of [[Dario Fo]] into the English language in his own West End hit production of ''[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]'' ([[Wyndham's Theatre]], 1980) for which he was nominated for an [[Olivier Award]]. He also starred in the production for [[Channel 4]] TV in the UK. Richards played Face in [[Griff Rhys Jones]]'s production of ''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]'' at the [[Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith]] and toured in the lead role in [[Jack Shepherd (actor)|Jack Shepard]]'s ''Comic Cuts''. He worked as a guest artist on the [[BBC]]/SPP TV co production of ''[[Kidnapped (2005 mini series)|Kidnapped]]'', and the [[TVNZ]] production of ''[[The Lost Children (TV series)|The Lost Children]]'', both shot entirely in [[New Zealand]]. Richards has performed at the [[London Palladium]] in the stage production of '''Allo 'Allo'', which also toured New Zealand and Australia.
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Theatre South also produced ''War Child'', written and directed by Richards. Dedicated to [[War Child (charity)|War Child Australia]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.warchild.org.au/ | title=War Child Australia}}</ref> part of the international relief and development agency working for the rehabilitation of child soldiers, the show featured a cast of 9- to 18-year-olds from Marlborough, plus a full professional crew, and was received enthusiastically by audiences over its eight-day run, winning a local community award.<ref>[http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/content/docs/community/TrustPower_Award_Results_2007-ljo1.pdf Trustpower Malrborough District Community Awards 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015043942/http://marlborough.govt.nz/content/docs/community/TrustPower_Award_Results_2007-ljo1.pdf |date=15 October 2008 }}</ref>
Theatre South also produced ''War Child'', written and directed by Richards. Dedicated to [[War Child (charity)|War Child Australia]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.warchild.org.au/ | title=War Child Australia}}</ref> part of the international relief and development agency working for the rehabilitation of child soldiers, the show featured a cast of 9- to 18-year-olds from Marlborough, plus a full professional crew, and was received enthusiastically by audiences over its eight-day run, winning a local community award.<ref>[http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/content/docs/community/TrustPower_Award_Results_2007-ljo1.pdf Trustpower Malrborough District Community Awards 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015043942/http://marlborough.govt.nz/content/docs/community/TrustPower_Award_Results_2007-ljo1.pdf |date=15 October 2008 }}</ref>


Richards has also appeared as Patrick in Tony McCaffrey's (A Different Light Company) production of ''The Night Season'' by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, at the University Theatre, [[Christchurch]] and as Claudius in both ''[[Hamlet]]'' and ''Rosencranz & Guildenstern'' for the Court Theatre, Christchurch, in April 2006. In 2007 he appeared as Creon in [[Tolis Papazoglou|Tolis Papazoglou's]] production of ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', at Studio 77 in [[Wellington]].
Richards has also appeared as Patrick in Tony McCaffrey's (A Different Light Company) production of ''The Night Season'' by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, at the University Theatre, [[Christchurch]] and as Claudius in both ''[[Hamlet]]'' and ''Rosencranz & Guildenstern'' for the Court Theatre, Christchurch, in April 2006. In 2007 he appeared as Creon in Tolis Papazoglou's production of ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'', at Studio 77 in [[Wellington]].


In 2008, Theatre South produced Peter Quilter's '[[Glorious!]]' and Chris Bond's version of Dracula. In 2009 Gavin was diagnosed with [[myasthenia gravis]] and following an extended period of illness, began work on a book of poetry entitled ''200 Weeks'' published by Muswell Press<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.muswell-press.co.uk/ |title = Muswell Press &#124; A proudly independent publisher of great books, both fiction and non-fiction}}</ref> in January 2015.
In 2008, Theatre South produced Peter Quilter's '[[Glorious!]]' and Chris Bond's version of Dracula. In 2009 Gavin was diagnosed with [[myasthenia gravis]] and following an extended period of illness, began work on a book of poetry entitled ''200 Weeks'' published by Muswell Press<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.muswell-press.co.uk/ |title = Muswell Press &#124; A proudly independent publisher of great books, both fiction and non-fiction}}</ref> in January 2015.
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|1978 || "[[Z-Cars]]" || Major Philpot
|1978 || "[[Z-Cars]]" || Major Philpot
|-
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|1982 || "[[Oi for England]]" || The Man
|1982 || "Oi for England" || The Man
|-
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|1983 || "[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]" || Maniac
|1983 || "[[Accidental Death of an Anarchist]]" || Maniac
|-
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|1984 || "[[Driving Ambition]]" || Ken Lark
|1984 || "Driving Ambition" || Ken Lark
|-
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|1985 || "[[Titus Andronicus]]" || Lucius
|1985 || "[[Titus Andronicus]]" || Lucius
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|1987 || "[[Hardwicke House]]" || Dick Flashman / Mr. Flashman
|1987 || "[[Hardwicke House]]" || Dick Flashman / Mr. Flashman
|-
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|1987 || "[[Bust (TV series)|Bust]]" || Alan Hardy
|1987 || "Bust" || Alan Hardy
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|1987 to 1989 || ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' || [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]]
|1987 to 1989 || ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' || [[Captain Alberto Bertorelli]]
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|1994 || "[[Lovejoy]]" || Oliver Jeffries
|1994 || "[[Lovejoy]]" || Oliver Jeffries
|-
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|1995 || "[[Full Throttle (TV series)|Full Throttle]]" || W.O Bentley
|1995 || "Full Throttle" || W.O Bentley
|-
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|1995 || "[[Pie in the Sky (TV series)|Pie in the Sky]]" || Fisher's Assistant
|1995 || "[[Pie in the Sky (TV series)|Pie in the Sky]]" || Fisher's Assistant
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|1992–1995 || "[[The Bill]]" || Ken Mackie / Det. Supt. Wells / Terry Ford
|1992–1995 || "[[The Bill]]" || Ken Mackie / Det. Supt. Wells / Terry Ford
|-
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|1996 || "[[Annie's Bar]]" || Nick Buckley
|1996 || "Annie's Bar" || Nick Buckley
|-
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|1996 || '[[The Upper Hand]]" || Charlie Bennett
|1996 || '[[The Upper Hand]]" || Charlie Bennett
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|1997 || "[[The Locksmith (TV series)|The Locksmith]]" || Max Parker
|1997 || "[[The Locksmith (TV series)|The Locksmith]]" || Max Parker
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|1998 || "[[The Prince of Hearts]]" || Chief Superintendent
|1998 || "The Prince of Hearts" || Chief Superintendent
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|1996 to 2002 || ''[[EastEnders]]'' || [[Terry Raymond]]
|1996 to 2002 || ''[[EastEnders]]'' || [[Terry Raymond]]
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|1972 || "[[Triple Echo]]" || Stan
|1972 || "[[Triple Echo]]" || Stan
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|1982 || "[[Crystal Gazing]]" || Neil Holt
|1982 || "Crystal Gazing" || Neil Holt
|-
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|1988 || "[[Whoops Apocalypse (film)|Whoops Apocalypse]]" || Donald
|1988 || "[[Whoops Apocalypse (film)|Whoops Apocalypse]]" || Donald

Revision as of 23:58, 28 June 2024

Gavin Richards
Richards in May 2014
Born (1946-07-03) 3 July 1946 (age 78)
Tufnell Park, London, England
Alma materBristol Old Vic Theatre School
OccupationActor
Years active1966–present
SpouseTamara Henry
Children3

Gavin Richards (born 3 July 1946) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Captain Alberto Bertorelli in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! from 1987 to 1989 and Terry Raymond in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 1996 and 2002.

Early life

Gavin Richards was born in Tufnell Park, north London. His mother was Margaret Richards, who worked for many years as an assistant to Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont, the British theatrical producer at H M Tennent Limited. She went on to become secretary to Roy Strong at the Victoria & Albert Museum and later worked for the Greater London Arts Association. His father was music critic Denby Richards, who wrote for the Hampstead and Highgate Express, the early British version of Music and Musicians and later became emeritus editor of Britain's oldest classical music magazine, Musical Opinion.

Richards attended the Burleigh Road School in Tufnell Park and later the Quintin Grammar School in St John's Wood (now the Quintin Kynaston Community Academy). He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1964 to 1966.

He began his professional career with five years in repertory theatres in Leicester, Manchester, Bolton and Liverpool.

Career

Richards has worked as an actor, director and writer in theatre, television and film for over forty years. He is most familiar for his portrayal of Terry Raymond in the BBC TV series EastEnders, appearing in over 300 episodes. He also played Captain Alberto Bertorelli in the TV comedy hit 'Allo 'Allo! in which he appears in over thirty episodes.[1] His television credits also include roles in Coronation Street, Hi-de-Hi! (where he had a minor role in series 4/5 and 7 in the BBC series, as general manager Harold Fox, aka The Smiling Viper), The Bill, Lovejoy, Minder, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Between the Lines and Pie in the Sky. He co starred with Robert Powell in Hannay, with Leigh Lawson in Kinsey, Michael Kitchen in The Reporters and with Rowan Atkinson in Full Throttle. He also starred in the series Annie's Bar, Driving Ambition, Hardwicke House, Mike & Angelo and many other programmes. He has appeared in films, amongst others, with Robin Williams in Being Human, with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson in Michael Apted's Triple Echo, and in the New Zealand film Savage Play.

As a director and actor in the theatre, Richards is famous for adapting the work of Dario Fo into the English language in his own West End hit production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Wyndham's Theatre, 1980) for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award. He also starred in the production for Channel 4 TV in the UK. Richards played Face in Griff Rhys Jones's production of The Alchemist at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and toured in the lead role in Jack Shepard's Comic Cuts. He worked as a guest artist on the BBC/SPP TV co production of Kidnapped, and the TVNZ production of The Lost Children, both shot entirely in New Zealand. Richards has performed at the London Palladium in the stage production of 'Allo 'Allo, which also toured New Zealand and Australia.

He directed Shane Connaughton's first play, Jenny at the Roundhouse, London, in 1969. In the 1970s he performed throughout Europe and Scandinavia with Ken Campbell's Roadshow, before becoming a founder member of the 7:84 Theatre Company and artistic director of the Belt & Braces Theatre Company, touring Britain for over twelve years in political rock musicals.[2] Belt & Braces also produced Brecht's Mother Courage. As well as his own work, Richards' collaborations with writers John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Adrian Mitchell, Trevor Griffiths and John McGrath were seen regularly at the Edinburgh Festival and transferred to London on several occasions.

Richards's political activism was illustrated when he appeared in separately distributed media (mainly VHS tapes) titled "The Miners’ Campaign Tapes" made by independent filmmakers which were sponsored by the NUM.[3] The tapes gave an alternative view of the UK miners' strike (1984–85) to those presented by the mainstream media at the time.[4]

In 1987 he played "Brian" in the British Gas Public Information Film about the dangers of a gas leak.[5] In the early 1990s, together with Tamara Henry, Richards presented Richard Sparks's comedy The Crimson Lizard in New Zealand, with himself, Annie Whittle and Lloyd Scott, at the Court Theatre, Christchurch and the Fortune Theatre, Dunedin. The production was then remounted in the UK at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

Richards and Henry then went on to form their own theatre company, Theatre South,[6] which toured a New Zealand version of The Drawer Boy, by Michael Healey, to audiences at the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin, the Court Theatre in Christchurch, Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North and at Downstage in Wellington. The production also played in Blenheim, Invercargill, Whangārei, Tauranga and Hamilton. Theatre South is the only professional theatre company in Malrborough. Past productions include a schools' workshop production, The Hole in the Sky, and Tittle Tattle 1 & 2 by 'Emmerdale' TV script writer Lesley Clare O'Neill (December 2005 and October 2006).

Theatre South also produced War Child, written and directed by Richards. Dedicated to War Child Australia,[7] part of the international relief and development agency working for the rehabilitation of child soldiers, the show featured a cast of 9- to 18-year-olds from Marlborough, plus a full professional crew, and was received enthusiastically by audiences over its eight-day run, winning a local community award.[8]

Richards has also appeared as Patrick in Tony McCaffrey's (A Different Light Company) production of The Night Season by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, at the University Theatre, Christchurch and as Claudius in both Hamlet and Rosencranz & Guildenstern for the Court Theatre, Christchurch, in April 2006. In 2007 he appeared as Creon in Tolis Papazoglou's production of Antigone, at Studio 77 in Wellington.

In 2008, Theatre South produced Peter Quilter's 'Glorious!' and Chris Bond's version of Dracula. In 2009 Gavin was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis and following an extended period of illness, began work on a book of poetry entitled 200 Weeks published by Muswell Press[9] in January 2015.

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role
1967 "Love Story" Jack
1972 "Play for Today" ('The Reporters') Des
1978 "Z-Cars" Major Philpot
1982 "Oi for England" The Man
1983 "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" Maniac
1984 "Driving Ambition" Ken Lark
1985 "Titus Andronicus" Lucius
1984 to 1986 Hi-de-Hi! Harold Fox
1986 "Ladies in Charge" Cosmo Keble
1986 "Call Me Mister" Miller
1986–1987 "C.A.T.S. Eyes" Maitland / Quist
1987 "Yesterday's Dreams" Mr. Fisher
1987 "Hardwicke House" Dick Flashman / Mr. Flashman
1987 "Bust" Alan Hardy
1987 to 1989 'Allo 'Allo! Captain Alberto Bertorelli
1988–1989 'Hannay" Count Otto Von Schwabing
1991 "T-Bag and the Rings of Olympus" Count Von Fledermause
1993 'Inspector Morse" Steven Trevors
1989–1993 "Mike & Angelo" Brett Douglas
1993 "Minder" Vic
1993 'A Touch of Frost" Les Wingham
1994 "Coronation Street" Alex Christie
1993–1994 "Between the Lines" Det. Supt. Tyler
1994 "Lovejoy" Oliver Jeffries
1995 "Full Throttle" W.O Bentley
1995 "Pie in the Sky" Fisher's Assistant
1992–1995 "The Bill" Ken Mackie / Det. Supt. Wells / Terry Ford
1996 "Annie's Bar" Nick Buckley
1996 'The Upper Hand" Charlie Bennett
1997 "Soldier Soldier" Al Springer
1997 "The Locksmith" Max Parker
1998 "The Prince of Hearts" Chief Superintendent
1996 to 2002 EastEnders Terry Raymond
2005 "Kidnapped" Captain Hoseason

Film

Year Title Role
1972 "Triple Echo" Stan
1982 "Crystal Gazing" Neil Holt
1988 "Whoops Apocalypse" Donald
1994 "Being Human" Da Cunha
1995 "Savage Play" Kim

Published works

  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Dario Fo, Gavin Richards, Gillian Hanna), 1973[10][11]
  • Weight (with David Bradford), 1973
  • England Expects, 1977 [12]
  • Die Kinder (based on a screenplay by Paula Milne), 1993 [13]
  • 200 Weeks, 2015

References

  1. ^ "'Allo 'Allo!". IMDb.
  2. ^ "Belt & Braces – Unfinished Histories".
  3. ^ "Miners' Campaign Tapes, The · British Universities Film & Video Council". bufvc.ac.uk.
  4. ^ "The Miners Campaign Tapes | Distribution". www2.bfi.org.uk.
  5. ^ "British Gas advert featuring Eastenders actor Gavin Richards, circa 1987 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. 24 July 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Theatre South - Home". Archived from the original on 26 May 2010.
  7. ^ "War Child Australia".
  8. ^ Trustpower Malrborough District Community Awards 2007 Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Muswell Press | A proudly independent publisher of great books, both fiction and non-fiction".
  10. ^ "Samuelfrench-london.co.uk".
  11. ^ Video on YouTube
  12. ^ Richards, Gavin (1977). England Expects: A Musical Entertainment for All Those Sick with Sacrifice. Journeyman Press. ISBN 0904526259.
  13. ^ Richards, Gavin (1990). Die Kinder/Based on a Screenplay by Paula Milne. BBC Books. ISBN 0563361042.
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