Editing Charlie Drake (section)

===Later career===
Drake turned to straight acting in the 1980s, winning acclaim for his role as [[Touchstone (As You Like It)|Touchstone]] in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[As You Like It]]'' (at the [[Ludlow]] Festival), and an award for his part in [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Caretaker (play)|The Caretaker]]'' at the [[Royal Exchange, Manchester]], along with [[Michael Angelis]]. Drake also starred as Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of ''[[Bleak House (1985 TV serial)|Bleak House]]'' (1985), and ''Filipina Dreamgirls'', a TV film for the BBC. His final appearances on stage were with [[Jim Davidson]] in ''Sinderella'', his adult adaptation of [[Cinderella]], as Baron Hard-on. A live recording of one of the dates on the tour of the pantomime was later adapted, and edited for video, and put out for sale nationwide.