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He attended Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School and started as a variety performer, taking his professional surname from an advertising board (billboard) for Maynard's Wine Gums, a popular British confectionery. He placed fourth in the UK heat of the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest . With Terry Scott he appeared at Butlins Holiday Camp in Skegness and was teamed with him in the TV series ''Great Scott, It's Maynard!''. He was at first best known on TV for his role as Selwyn Froggitt in the Sitcom '' Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! '' and for playing Fred Moffatt in '' The Gaffer ''. In 1973 Maynard teamed up with BBC Television actor & Comedian Ronnie Barker in the (original) award winning one-off called Football Blues in which aired as Spanners Eleven & was part of a series called Seven Of One in where he joined the cast & of course Ronnie Barker at the time, Then in 1992 He then played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular and long running Television Series '' Heartbeat '' (until 2001) and its spinoff series '' The Royal '' until about 2004. He is also known for small roles in some of the Carry On Films . In the 1980s Maynard stood against Tony Benn in a By-election At Chesterfield as an Independent Labour candidate. It was his only foray into politics and was purely to try to prevent Benn winning the seat and thus reentering Parliament as an MP. Benn won the seat; Maynard took fourth place. Maynard wrote his autobiography 'The Yo-Yo Man' and having originally retired from acting in 2001 following a series of Strokes he made a return & comeback to Radio presenting in March 2003 for BBC Radio Leicester where he had last worked in 1968 . His show goes out every Sunday afternoon from 2-4 pm. His son is Maynard Williams . He is a Vegetarian . EXTERNAL LINKS
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