William (Beauty and the Beast)
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| Character | |
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| Name: | William |
| Occupation: | cook |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
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William is the cook who lives Below in Beauty and the Beast (TV).
from Reflection's #3, artist is Ellen Sider
Con Attendee
The character was portrayed by Ritch Brinkley. Brinkley was a con attendee at: Celebration of Life Cruise | Fan-Out | Great Expectations | TunnelCon
Proposal and Marriage to a Fan
In November 1992, Brinkley married a Beauty and the Beast fan.
Kathi Edrington a B&B fan on a B&B USA cruise, entered a "writing a story on a post card" competition, and won. Her prize was to have guest Ritch Brinkley who played William the cook, to read her story. He fell for her, and they started dating and married. Ritch proposed to her at a B&B convention even! [1]
from issue #3, poem by Ritch Brinkley, about the courtship, printed in TunnelCon III (1994)
from issue #3, Ritch Brinkely and his wife, art by Sandy Chandler Shelton, printed in TunnelCon III (1994)
The Actor and the Character, Crossing Boundaries
a poem written and read at TunnelCon by Brinkley as William, printed in TunnelTalk v.1 n.6 (August 1990), reprinted in Tunnelcon #2 (1992)
Ritch Brinkley was a delightful surprise for most of us — we were thinking of the often-gruff William — a warm, outgoing man with a knack for storytelling that charms your socks right off. At the banquet, he read aloud the poem... and was dressed in as close an approximation of his costume on the show as he could devise (he had said earlier in the day that he felt he owed that to us—what a doll!) [2]
Sample Fanart
1991
from Within the Crystal Rose #3, artist is Paula Ollie
from Within the Crystal Rose #3, artist is Phyllis Berwick
1994
from What Light Through Yonder Window #1, artist Lynette Combs
References
- ^ from Chatterbox (June 1998)
- ^ from a con report by Barbara Storey in Tunneltalk (August 1990)