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Published 16:43 8 Nov 2022 GMT
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Star: Owen played the nomadic Tom Simmonite in the popular and long-running BBC sitcom for 10 years from 2000. Pictured with Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton[/caption]
Owen began his career in acting after leaving school, and his father was instrumental in landing him his first job as an assistant stage manager at the Leatherhead theatre in Surrey. After spending 12 months there he moved on to take up a similar job at the Westminster theatre.
After four years working in television, Owen returned to repertory theatre in Sidmouth, Devon, and continued to work and direct in theatre.
Owen was chosen to play Compo’s long-lost son just days after the death of his father in July 1999 from cancer.
Then, the actor was chosen to play Compo's long-lost son Tom in Last Of The Summer Wine, just days after his father Bill's death from cancer in July 1999.Previously describing how he secured the role, he said the first he knew of writer Roy Clarke's search was when he received a phone call from the show's producer, Alan Bell.
"It was two or three days after Dad had died," he said back in 2000.
"Obviously my mind was on other things, like organising the funeral, and it hadn't occurred to me at all that I would be approached to play Compo's long-lost son.
"Alan suggested the idea to me and I thought about it for two seconds before saying yes."
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