- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGordon Irving Kaye
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Gorden Kaye was born on April 7, 1941 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), Brazil (1985) and Born and Bred (1978). He died on January 23, 2017 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- On 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), his character René always called Edith (Carmen Silvera) "you stupid woman" but in real-life, the actors were best friends.
- He had a dent in his forehead that was caused when a plank of wood went through his car window during an exceptionally severe gale in January 1990. He recovered from the accident, but he could not ever remember anything about it afterwards.
- The creators of 'Allo 'Allo had initially planned to have the character of René speak like Jacques Clouseau, but decided in the end to make his French accent less impenetrable so audiences would more quickly 'get the joke'.
- He suffered from dementia and lived in a care home for the last two years of his life.
- Gorden Kaye with an E is attributed to a spelling mistake in a hospital. According to his autobiography 'Rene and Me', he looked at the information index at the end of his bed, and it read 'Gorden' with an E.
- It's the sign of a misspelt youth. [Joking about the unusual spelling of his first name]
- It's hard to imagine life without René. I'm from Yorkshire, and in rehearsals I would say in my own voice things like "oh 'eck!" - and that has got into the script. René actually says "oh 'eck!" because as in France, like Yorkshire, they don't pronounce their "H's".
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