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Roger Davenport
Played by Ronnie Barker
Roger Davenport is the bachelor played by Ronnie Barker in The Two Ronnies’ party sketch Meeting the Girlfriend’s Father. He boasts to an old acquaintance about his young girlfriend, then hurriedly revises his claims when he suspects he is…
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Roger Davenport is the bachelor played by Ronnie Barker in The Two Ronnies’ party sketch Meeting the Girlfriend’s Father. He boasts to an old acquaintance about his young girlfriend, then hurriedly revises his claims when he suspects he is talking to her father.
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