1967

HALF A SIXPENCE…Director George Sidney…

I meet Tommy Steel. He was discovered singing in the 2I’s Coffee bar in the fifties... A good old Cockney Geezer… Shepperton Studios.

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT…Director…Roy Ward Baker…MGM Studios
My first horror film.. I was to work with this director many more times.
Cast Inc…James Donald…Barbara Shelley…
Quatermass and the Pit
All we had to do was walk around the tube station as if we were Zombies..
My wife said ''No change there then''

THE MAGNIFICENT TWO… Director Cliff Owen…Pinewood Studios

Cast: Eric Morecombe …Ernie Wise…
Filmed for a couple of days in Black Park. Met Phil the Arab...

TWO A PENNY…Director…James F Collier…
Cast Inc…Cliff Richard…Ann Holloway…

BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN…Michael Caine in his third outing as Harry Palmer.
Directed by Ken Russell. A week of nights at Pinewood...

CARRY ON.. FOLLOW THAT CAMEL..Pinewood Studios...Director Gerald Thomas....
  My first Carry On film and had a week or more as a Legionair trapped in the desert of Pinewood studios. A new member of the cast for this one was the great Phil Silvers from Bilko fame.
Always hard not to laugh at the jokes and cast while we're doing a take and a pleasure to be a small part of it....
This sure beats working at the timber firm......

THE PRISONER…Cult TV series with Patrick McGoohan... I worked on about six episodes. (A day here a day there)

THE CHAMPIONS…Made at A.B.P.C. Studios Elstree... The Lovely Alexandra Bastedo.
I worked on six–eight episodes...
While on this job I got to meet one of the guest actors for this episode,Mike Pratt..
A couple of years later I was to work with him for a full years on the show Randall and Hopkirk ..

The Champions
That's me, second from the left, in an episode called 'Twelve Hours'

THE AVENGERS & THE SAINT…Same Studios…Worked odd days...

MAN IN A SUITCASE… Richard Bradford. Made at Pinewood. Worked on two episodes.
One with a young Donald Sutherland...

Man in a Suitcase

ENEMY OF THE WORLD…(Doctor Who, with Patrick Troughton) Lime Grove BBC...

A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD…Director…C. Pennington-Richards…Pinewood…
Cast Inc…Barry Ingham…Peter Blythe…
Spent a few days romping around Sherwood Forest (Black Park) throwing custard pies at the bad guys.. (Don’t ask me why)

THE SAINT...Episode title....Legacy for the Saint.....


This was made at Elstree Studios on a nearby location...
I look so young and thin back then dressed up as a security guard (r) about to be kidnapped and bundled into the back of a waiting van. I was very new in the biz at this time....  

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