Andrew O'Connor (actor)
British comedian, actor and magician
Andrew Mark O'Connor (born 23 March 1963 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire) is an English actor, comedian, magician, and television producer.
Career
Television
Although O'Connor enjoyed a short stint as a child actor, appearing as Tom Brill in the BBC mini-series The Canal Children in 1976, he made his mark as a children's magician, and won the Magic Circle's Young Magician of the Year prize in 1981. After appearing in a number of variety shows on television, he was invited to join the cast of London Weekend Television's Copy Cats, a showcase featuring impressionists such as Bobby Davro and Gary Wilmot, in 1985. A second series, without Wilmot, followed in 1986. O'Connor received a writing credit for each series. His own children's show, Andrew O'Connor's Joke Machine, soon followed, in which he told jokes, and performed magic tricks and invited children to do the same.
In 1986, O'Connor began appearing in ITV's popular Saturday morning children's series No. 73. Shortly afterwards, he switched to the BBC to launch another Saturday morning children's series, On the Waterfront, alongside fellow ex-No. 73 host Kate Copstick.
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