Fine time fontayne biography of william hill

English actor and theatre director

Ian Crossley (born 1951), better known by the stage name Fine Time Fontayne, is an English actor and stage director.

Early life

Fontayne was born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire) into a mining family.^[1] In the 1960s, he moved with his parents and brothers to Sheffield, where they ran a pub.^[2] He took his stage name when he began singing and playing at a local folk club in Yorkshire.^[3] He had previously called himself Ordinary Seaman Whittle.^[4] He started acting in the 1970s with the Crucible Vanguard Company.^[5]

Career

In the early years of his career Fontayne worked in cabaret, community and repertory theatre, as well as the Red Ladder Theatre Company.^[1] He has played a variety of roles in many long-running British TV series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Coronation Street, Emmerdale as well as both Heartbe