- Vivian MacKerrell
Vivian Alan J. MacKerrell (
May 23 ,1944 -March 1995) was a British actor of the 1960s, who shared a house withfilm director Bruce Robinson , director of "Withnail & I ". He was reputedly the major basis for Withnail, a memorable character ofBritish cinema . MacKerrell's only notable acting part came in 1971's "Edna, the Inebriate Woman ", since his career was curtailed by a premature death from throat cancer. Robinson once attributed this to his imbibing of lighter fluid [http://www.richard-e-grant.com/Articles/FilmFourWebsite-Dec2002.html] . This is portrayed in a notorious scene from "Withnail & I"; MacKerrell was reputedly unable to see for days after the incident.External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533427/ Vivian MacKerrell at IMDb]
* [http://www.richard-e-grant.com/Articles/FilmFourWebsite-Dec2002.html Mark Morris, "The Real Withnail" (2002)]Persondata
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