PLAYING HOOKY

MARION McMULLEN LOOKS BACK AT THE STARS WHO PUT THEIR HAND UP TO PLAY PETER PAN’S NEMESIS

2003

BUFFY The Vampire Slayer actor Anthony Head swapped vampires for swashbuckling fun as Captain Hook in the Savoy Theatre’s Peter Pan production in London. He also appeared as the Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates Of Penzance that year.

1993

BRIAN BLESSED was the loudest pirate on board when he and singer Toyah Wilcox appeared together as Captain Hook and Peter Pan at the Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.

1976

AMERICAN movie star Danny Kaye played both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in the TV movie Peter Pan, which saw Mia Farrow as Peter and Britain’s Sir John Gielgud as the narrator. Future Only Fools And Horses star Nicholas Lyndhurst appeared as Tootles.

2009

HAPPY Days star Henry Winkler first found TV fame as the Fonz but got to play the baddie when he appeared as Captain Hook in the Liverpool Empire’s Peter Pan panto. It saw Les Dennis as the Dame and Natasha Hamilton in the title role.

2003

FORMER Stars In Their Eyes host Matthew Kelly was dodging the tick-tocking crocodile in his search for Peter Pan in Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s pantomime.

1987

LOOKING for a nice little earner? Minder star George Cole switched from Arthur Daley to the wicked pirate when he joined singer Lulu for a production of Peter Pan at the Cambridge Theatre in London.

2005

ACTOR Peter Blake had played a self-aggrandising fop before as Kirk St Moritz in sitcom Dear John, so he was perfectly cast as Hook at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

1973

WE’RE not joking. Irish comedian Dave Allen revealed a talent for acting when he joined long-time family friend Maggie Smith in the London Coliseum’s Peter Pan.

2003

OH, YES he is. EastEnders Steve McFadden is best known as Phil Mitchell on the BBC soap, but has played Captain Hook several times over the years including in the pantomime Peter Pan at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking, Surrey.