Meet Compo's stunt double

[YEP Digital]

You might not recognise him at first but it's odds on you will have seen Ken Hastwell on your television screen more than once.

Click on the link for full interview:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Last-of-the-Summer-Wine.5997098.jp

 

[maltrab]

Great Story

 

[barmpot]

I can recall seeing that photograph -I think it was in one of the books.

I believe in the very early days Bill Owen did most of his own stunts - certainly when filming in the River Wharfe for the canoe sequence (either series 1 or 2) Peter Sallis nearly drowned but he got out by stepping on Bill Owen's head!

However you can clearly see it is a double for some shots such as on horseback much later on...