The horrible thing that happened to Lewis Collins in the last moments of his life
Lewis Collins was an English film and theatre actor. His career-defining role was playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s – early 1980s British television series The Professionals. Collins was born in Bidston, Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside. At the age of two, he won the 'The Most Beautiful Baby in Liverpool' contest.
When he was 13 years of age his father Bill, a jazz dance band leader, bought him a drum kit. His first gig was playing with his father's band, and he also joined a group of older school pupils to form a band called The Renegades at the start of the Merseybeat music scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s.
