Paul Ditchfield

Paul Carter Ditchfield is an Englishborn South African actor musician and entertainer best known as one of the founding members of the comedy music group The Bats Paul is a prolific songwriter who plays keyboards and bass and he formed The Bats pop group in 1964 with Eddie Eckstein the late Barry Jarman and the late Jimmy Dunning The Bats first single record All I Got made No 1 on the South African charts When The Bats played in England and Germany they made it to No 8 on the Radio London charts with their own composition Listen To My Heart While Paul was in London he played bass on Eddie Grants Baby Come Back and some other hits of Eddie Grants group The Equals When the The Bats temporarily disbanded in 1980 Paul became a movie and stage actor and TV presenter He did live to air presenting was a talk show host game show host and hosted numerous music specials across all TV channels Feature films he has acted in include Stop Exchange Follow that Rainbow Kick or Die Curse of the Crystal Eye Stander Flight of the Phoenix Number 10 Mountains Of The Moon Konfetti Hoof of Africa Red Tide and Reconnect He has also acted in numerous television movies including Operation Delta Force Shark Attack and 12 Days of Terror and has appeared in the miniseries Rhodes and MacGyver and the new Citan Television series he has acted in include 102 Paradise Passeur denfants Scouts Safari Suburban Bliss Wild at Heart Settlers Miss Candida Trucking Mponeng Erfsondes Jacobs Cross and Donkerland His television presenting credits include Bash Kenako Kelloggs Jackpot MNet Shopping Basket Gillette Numbers Jackpot Tele Games Revue Plus Escapade Liquifruit Chit Chat and Video 2 He has an extensive theatre resumé including performances in the stage musicals Last Great DriveIn Movie Picture Show Oklahoma Grease Ticket to Ride Pump Boys and Dinettes Buddy Holly Hans Christian Anderson and Barnum Born in Manchester England 9yearold Paul sailed to South Africa with his father mother and younger sister Sandra on the Winchester Castle a Union Castle Liner arriving in Durban in January 1947