- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Wallace Bottomley
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- John Noakes was born on March 6, 1934 in Shelf, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Redcap (1964), Camera Three (1955) and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau (1965). He was married to Victoria Fenez. He died on May 28, 2017 in Palma, Majorca, Spain.
- SpouseVictoria Fenez(1963 - May 28, 2017) (his death, 1 child)
- On Blue Peter, he played a slightly larger-than-life, more daring version of himself. He knew when to ham things up. On the often-repeated clip when Lulu the baby elephant appeared on Blue Peter, he said "Ouch! Get off me foot!" - Lulu hadn't in fact trodden on his foot, but John pretended she had because he knew this would get laughs.
- After his parents divorced when he was nine years old and his mother re-married, he became estranged from his father; at the age of 17 he changed his surname from Bottomley to Noakes, the surname of his new stepfather. He left home at age 16 to join the RAF as a mechanic. Later he worked at Heathrow as an aircraft fitter for BOAC.
- "Get Down Shep" - his boisterous dog usually accompanied him on TV
- "At this level, the plinth on which Nelson stands overhangs the column. I found myself literally hanging from the ladder with nothing at all beneath me." - narration on Blue Peter report when he climbed up Nelson's Column in 1977 without any safety harness, in order to help clean pigeon droppings off the statue of Nelson
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