A Quote by Roger Allam

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

Roger Allam

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Roger Allam
English - Actor
Born: October 26, 1953

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