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Casualty’s Derek Thompson’s only interview as he quits show after 38 years: ‘I don’t see myself as a legend’
Derek Thompson teases whether Charlie Fairhead will survive the brutal knife attack, how he met his wife on Casualty and the heart-stopping moment Kate Winslet starred in the hospital drama
After 38 years of playing nurse Charlie Fairhead, Casualty ’s longest-running star, Derek Thompson, is bidding an emotional farewell to the hit medical drama, after his shock stabbing by a patient. With viewers waiting to find out whether Charlie survives, the 75-year-old actor – the only remaining member of the original cast of the drama, which began on 6 September 1986 – says his final scenes mark the end of an era. In Blue Lights , I play a retired police officer, Robin Graham, whose past – and conscience – catch up with him when a trainee solicitor decides to investigate a decade-old case.”
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