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John Lyons (actor)
British actor (b. 1943)
John Lyons (born 14 September 1943) is an English stage and screen actor. He played Detective Sergeant George Toolan in the long-running UK detective drama, A Touch of Frost (1992–2010) alongside David Jason.[1]
Early life
Lyons was born in Whitechapel in 1943, the son of a dock worker and an office cleaner, and the youngest of three children.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in , and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham.
Aged six, he would help the local milkman deliver milk to the neighbouring block of flats before school. Leaving school at fifteen, Lyons became a labourer for British Rail at Paddington Station. An aspiring footballer, every Sunday morning, he and several hundred others would play football on Hackney Marshes.
Aged 17, a member of his team happened to be a journalist who gave him a business card advertising a new drama school, East 15. Lyons attended the drama school for three years after being accepted after an audition.[2]
Career
Lyons' first acting job out of dra