Trevor Bannister - wikipedia Trevor Bannister Trevor Bannister Trevor Bannister as Mr. Lucas in Are You Being Served ? Trevor Gordon Bannister ( 1934 - 08 - 14 ) 14 August 1934 Durrington, Wiltshire, England 14 April 2011 ( 2011 - 04 - 14 ) ( aged 76 ) Thames Ditton, Surrey, England Cause of death Heart attack Occupation Actor Years active 1960 -- 2011 Television The War of Darkie Pilbeam The Dustbinmen Are You Being Served ? Last of the Summer Wine Spouse ( s ) Kathleen Cravos ( m. 1959 -- ?, divorced ) Pamela Carson ( m. 1982 -- 2011, his death ) Children Jeremy Bannister Simon Bannister Timothy Bannister Trevor Gordon Bannister ( 14 August 1934 -- 14 April 2011 ) was an English actor best known for having played the womanising junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served ? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the long - running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010. Contents 1 Career 2 Family 3 Death 4 References 5 External links Career In 1960 Bannister appeared on stage at the Cambridge Theatre in London in Billy Liar, which starred Albert Finney. He starred as Darkie Pilbeam, a wartime spiv, in the 1968 television series The War of Darkie Pilbeam, and from 1969 to 1970 he appeared as `` Heavy Breathing '' in Jack Rosenthal 's sitcom, The Dustbinmen. Shortly afterwards, he was asked to play Mr. Lucas in a Comedy Playhouse pilot called Are You Being Served ? and took the part in the series. It was originally intended as a vehicle for him as the average man caught up in the store full of odd characters and baroque customs but, as it developed into more of an ensemble piece, he found his role being greatly reduced as other characters came to the top. He left the role in 1980, as filming for the show clashed with a lengthy tour for a play. In 1972 he appeared as the weak bladdered Producer of a local theatre company in Steptoe and Son, Episode 2 series 7 -- `` A Star is Born ''. He played Peter Pitt in the 1988 BBC sitcom Wyatt 's Watchdogs. Other TV appearances include Keeping Up Appearances as the kitchen shop salesman, and also appeared in Call Earnshaw, Gideon 's Way, The Saint, The Tomorrow People, Only on Sunday and The Avengers. Bannister played three different characters in the ITV soap Coronation Street. From 2001 he played a recurring character ( The Golf Captain ) in Last of the Summer Wine. becoming a regular in the 30th series in 2009, finally receiving a name ( `` Toby Mulbery - Smith '' ), moving next door to Barry and Glenda ( Mike Grady and Sarah Thomas ) and befriending Morton ( Christopher Beeny ). Although Bannister appeared in a few films including Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ), Au Pair Girls ( 1972 ) and the 1977 film version of Are You Being Served ?, he worked mostly in the theatre, with credits including Billy Liar and the farce Move Over, Mrs Markham. Bannister also performed in Shakespeare and was a regular in pantomime for more than 35 years, nearly always playing the dame. In 2007, he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure, Nocturne. His last appearance was in the TV series New Tricks episode `` Old Fossils '' broadcast 4 July 2011. Family Bannister was the youngest of three siblings. His first marriage was to actress Kathleen Cravos in 1959. They had three sons together -- Jeremy, Simon and Timothy -- and divorced. He married Pamela Carson in 1982 and lived with her in Surrey at the time of his death. Death Bannister died on 14 April 2011, at the age of 76, after a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey. Are You Being Served ? and Last of the Summer Wine co-star Frank Thornton said that the last event Bannister attended was Thornton 's 90th birthday on 15 January 2011, three months before Bannister died. He was survived by his second wife, Pam, all of his sons and his brother John. References Jump up ^ `` Index entry ''. FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 17 April 2011. ^ Jump up to : Hayward, Anthony ( 17 April 2011 ). `` Trevor Bannister obituary ''. The Guardian. London. ^ Jump up to : Webber, Richard ( 29 September 2007 ). `` What happened to... ? Mr Lucas from Are You Being Served ? ''. Daily Express. Jump up ^ `` Obituary : Trevor Bannister, actor ''. Jump up ^ Oonagh Jaquest ( December 2003 ). `` Dame Academy : 35 Years of fellers in frocks ''. BBC. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 2006 - 02 - 18. Jump up ^ `` Are You Being Served ? star Trevor Bannister dies at 76 ''. BBC. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 04 - 15. Jump up ^ Corey Ross ( 29 March 2010 ). `` Diamond anniversary for theatre loving couple ''. Salisbury Journal. salisburyjournal.co.uk. Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 27. External links Trevor Bannister on IMDb Obituary in The Telegraph VIAF : 94344616 LCCN : no99051165 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trevor_Bannister&oldid=784131730 '' Categories : 1934 births 2011 deaths English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors Male actors from Wiltshire Pantomime dames 20th - century English male actors 21st - century English male actors Hidden categories : Use British English from October 2012 Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards Use dmy dates from October 2012 Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Nederlands Polski Português Edit links This page was last edited on 6 June 2017, at 16 : 57. 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Question: who played mr lucas on are you being served
Answer: Trevor Gordon Bannister