I might be remembering wrongly because I couldn't find any on youtube or any references on Google, but didn't Rowan Atkinson appear in a series of Amstrad CPC ads in the 80s?
Did he? I'd love to see them if true!
I'm 99% sure it was definitely Rowan Atkinson - he even did his glasses with his elbows up using his hands as glasses
sure it was not a Sony advert?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewvb6nAAO9o
I grew up in New Zealand and the ad would have been between 1984 and 1987.
Quote from: zhulien on 12:34, 20 January 23I'm 99% sure it was definitely Rowan Atkinson - he even did his glasses with his elbows up using his hands as glasses
He did something like this in it
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-girl-making-fake-glasses-hands-smiling-image65737544
(unless it wasn't an Amstrad ad, but I am still pretty sure it was)
Quote from: zhulien on 17:46, 20 January 23I grew up in New Zealand and the ad would have been between 1984 and 1987.
I don't remember ever seeing Amstrad adverts on TV down here (although I suppose that doesn't necessarily mean there weren't any).
Maybe some lucky Amstrad owner can buy his car?
https://www.drive.com.au/news/rowan-atkinson-lancia-delta-integrale-auction/
Ah but it's not the mini...
Those Rowan Atkinson Amstrad ads definitely played on TV in New Zealand in the 1980s.
As mentioned, he did the hands-as-goggles thing, and as he did so he said "Biggles".
That's all I got.
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1993-lancia-a-f-integrale-evo-2-rec12124-1-stoneleigh-0223?el=19649&pn=1&pp=100
Sold for: £87,750
I may be misremembering, but Rowan Atkinson appeared in a number of Amstrad CPC commercials in the 1980s, despite my inability to find any references to him on YouTube or Google. (https://pettihome.shop/products/tappeto-cucina-passatoia-cucina-farfalle-a-metraggio-3-84-al-metro)