Mark Ferguson: I (almost) didn’t recognize you with your clothes off…

On Sunday evenings I usually pop over to see some mates. Jodey fills me in on the latest gossip, while Steve tries to convince me that vitamin C can cure every problem know to mankind. We do some yoga, then watch whatever they’ve got on series link before I go home. At the moment, we are watching Spartacus: Vengeance. We watched the previous series together, so we knew what to expect. Last night we decided to play “body-part bingo”, which involved deciding on a quota of various human body-parts we expected to see during the episode and trying to keep count to see if we guessed right.

All was going well until one particular scene, where the master of the household was “enjoying” himself with two slaves (one female and one male). There was a classic quote, which I will not repeat here for fear of offending the more sensitive among you, but at that point I lost count and said something to the tune of, “Wait a minute, I know him!” This caused raised eyebrows and the pause button was hit giving me chance to explain…

I have a great memory for faces, but struggle to remember names or where I remember the face from. Out came the iPad and a quick search revealed the master of the household was an actor called Mark Ferguson. I checked out some of his other acting credits and it all fell into place. When I wrote about last years NZOUG Conference I mentioned the murder-mystery theme. The compere for the night was an actor from Auckland. Guess what his name was?

He was a top bloke and now I’ve seen rather more of him that I would have expected to see. If I ever see him again I will not be able to stop myself from shouting one of his lines from this episode…

Cheers

Tim…