Kenneth MacDonald (20 November 1950 – 5 August 2001) was an English actor who was best known for the parts of Gunner Nobby Clark in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Mike Fisher in Only Fools and Horses. He was born in Manchester. To the son of Scottish heavyweight wrestling champion Bill Mcdonald, who died of kidney failure when Mike was 13.
<p>Ken left school at eighteen to help support his mother emily. He took a job at a Kellog's cornflakes factory. During night shifts he used to perform Hamlet and other Shakespeare plays that he had learned at school, earning him the nickname Hamlet.
<p>A year later he moved to London and joined the National Youth Theatre. He got a couple of small television parts, Softly, Softly and Z cars.
<p>Ken met his wife Sheila while he was appearing in panto in Crewe in 1976. She was the costume designer at the time.
<p>When he landed the part in 1983, it was assumed to be a one episode role. But he landed the role on a permanent basis.
<p>His first television role was...
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