1979
QUADROPHENIA
Director:
Franc Roddam
Writers:
Dave Humphries
(screenplay) and
Martin Stellman
(screenplay) ...
Cast
Phil Daniels ... Jimmy
Leslie Ash ... Steph
Philip Davis ... Chalky
Mark Wingett ... Dave
Sting ... Ace Face
Ray Winstone ... Kevin
(as Raymond Winstone)
Garry Cooper ... Peter
Gary Shail ... Spider
Toyah Willcox ... Monkey
Trevor Laird ... Ferdy
Kate Williams ... Mother
Michael Elphick ...
Father
Kim Neve ... Yvonne
Benjamin Whitrow ... Mr.
Fulford
Daniel Peacock ... Danny
About
thirty of the boys were
bussed down to Brighton
dressed as policemen.
We were going to recreate
the Mod’s and
Rocker’s scenes of
the early 60s.
Mobs coming up from
London to fight on the
beeches.
(I used to do that twenty
years before, only at
Bognor Regis, not
Brighton.)
When I think how stupid I
was in the late 50s early
60s to travel all that
way to get into a punch
up I might as well stayed
at home and had a row
with the geezer next
door. (Saves time)
This time it was
different as I was
dressed as a copper. (You
do stand out a bit)
We told all the kids that
this was only acting and
we would be using rubber
bricks and rubber sticks.
(I forgot about the
latecomers.)
After two days filming we
all had a few bruises but
were well paid for our
trouble and headed back
to London. (It became a
cult film)
TINKER,
TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY…Sir
Alec
Guinness…Director
John Irvin…
A couple of nights
filming in Black Park
near Pinewood
Studios…
Running and chasing
around the woods until
the sun came up.
Not the best thing to do
after you’ve had a
swift half in the
Pinewood Bar earlier in
the evening. (Also being
nearly 40 years old
didn’t help)
POTTER
Only had one days work on
this and it was great to
work with Mr Arthur Lowe.
CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT…
John
Hurt…BBCTV…
The BBC phone me up one
day and ask me what
I’m like at boxing.
I tell them
‘’No
good’’
They say ‘’What
about shadow
boxing’’ and
they tell me all they
want someone to shadow
box so they can see the
shadow on the wall.
(Now I know a bit about
casting shadows on walls.
Remember the Viking?)
They gave me the day to
work some time in winter.
About a week later they
phone again and ask me if
I could bring a boxing
friend along with me on
the day of filming. (A
friend to shadow box???).
I got hold of Ronnie
Woods and he was glad of
a days work.
On the day of filming
Mossy gave me and Ronnie
a lift to the location
which was at
Greenwich…
There must have been two
hundred Supporting
Artists on the call that
day, most of them dressed
as Russian peasants. They
were here to see a BOXING
MATCH…
It was snowing and
freezing cold and Aitch
and his mate are going to
box for for the hoards.
They were all dressed up
in bundles of ragged
clothes and were as warm
as toast. Ronnie and I
were stripped to the
waist and had very long
beards stuck to our gobs.
I had a word to the
powers that be and got an
increase in our
contract.(Also a bottle
of brandy for the corner
bucket).
THAT’S ME IN
THE RED TROUSERS GETTING
ON TOP, BUT NOT FOR LONG.
I SLIPPED…
After a
few rounds and a few nips
of the Amoss and Andy we
were really beginning to
enjoy the day. John Hurt
was doing the real
business of acting some
way from us and I
don’t think I said a
word to him all day..
We finished the fight
(And the brandy) and
headed back home to
Islington to have a
proper drink in the local
pub…
We had a few bruises but
it wasn’t till the
next day that they hurt.
I’ve stayed friends
with Ronnie over the
years because he is one
nice man.
Cheers Ron…
A
MAN CALLED INTREPID
Director:
Peter Carter
Writers:
David Ambrose (writer)
William Blinn (writer)
Cast
David Niven ... Sir
William Stephenson
Michael York ... Evan
Michaelian
Barbara Hershey ...
Madelaine
Paul Harding ... Colonel
Juergen
Flora Robson ... Sister
Luke
Peter Gilmore ... Gubbins
Renée Asherson ... Mrs.
Wainwright
Nigel Stock ... Winston
Churchill
Ferdy Mayne ... Alexander
Korda
Gayle Hunnicutt ...
Cynthia
Shirley Steedman ... Anna
Belinda Mayne ... Deidra,
girl on steps
Larry Reynolds ... Nils
Bohr
Joseph Golland ... Albert
Einstein
Chris Wiggins ...
Heisenberg
Dressed as
a German (This is
worrying me a bit as
I’ve started asking
my vife where Is mine
dinner)
All I have to do in this
film is to tie Barbara
Hershey to a stake so she
can be shot by the firing
squad. She even refuses
the blindfold.
Still, it was a nice
sunny day for a firing.
FAWLTY
TOWERS…BBCTV…John
Cleese…Connie
Booth…Andrew
Sachs…Prunella
Scales.
Joe Santos and I booked
to do one day on location
and one day in the
studio…
On location we filmed the
exterior of the hotel.
Aitch and Joe loading a
huge basket Into the back
of a van and driving off.
A fortnight later in the
studio we enter and pick
up the basket which
contains a dead body.
(But we don’t know
that) .
I met John a few years
later and he ask how I
was doing. (Nice man).
THIS SEEMS
HEAVIER THAN USUAL! (Me
on the left)
Click on the
picture for
video clip!
DANGER
UXB…Anthony
Andrews…Director
Ferdinand Fairfax…
Odd days on this 13 part
series set in London in
the 40s.
A good visible show and
sometimes edge of seat
stuff…
TERRY
AND JUNE…BBCTV…Director
Peter Whitmore/David
Taylor…
Episodes…On The
Move…No
Councillor…
I get a call from
Peter’s office to
ask if I have a HGV
Licence for the episode
'On The Move'. I tell
them, no, but I know a
man that does. (
Ridgewell Hawkes).
We are going to be a
couple of removal men
when Terry Scott and June
Whitfield decide
it’s time to move
house. Our gaffer is
George A Cooper. (Fine
actor)
We all had
great fun filming the
exterior shots and when
it came to the studio
stuff we had rehearsed at
the Acton Hilton for a
week I was taken aback
when, in one scene in
front of the live
audience, I had to put
back a chair just as
Terry was about to sit
down. Perfect timing and
the audience applauded
and cheered.
I didn’t expect that
and it threw me for a
couple of seconds.
On another episode Peter
cast me as a goalkeeper
in a very funny sketch
and was one of the
funniest in the episode.
(Catch in on video)
Alas Terry has since
passed on but June
Whitfield has gone from
strength to strength.
Thanks Terry and June
cast and crew…
TARGET…Patrick
Mower…Director
Douglas
Camfield…BBCTV…
Nice to work with Patrick
and Douglas again..
I’m cast as a
detective and have to
drive a lorry. (This is a
first)
I don’t know if
I’m more nervous of
driving the lorry or
saying the words but
doing them at the same
time was really hard.
I ended up in Ealing
studios a fortnight later
dubbing my own voice.
Patrick can now (2003) be
seen in Emmerdale a few
nights a week…
Click on the
picture for a video clip
SHOESTRING…Trevor
Eve…BBCTV…
I’m off down to
Bristol and Western Super
Mare for ten days to work
on this.
I’m playing a baddie
and Christopher Biggins
is my boss.
Also in the cast are,
Toyah Wilcox, Chris
Jagger (Mick’s
brother) and Gary Holton.
Gary was to go on and
star in Auf Wiedersehen
Pet.
My main job on the show
was to look ugly and
hassle Gary and to make
his character behave
himself. A slap here and
a slap there.
In one night scene I
throw him off the pier
into the sea (Two takes)
at Weston-Super-Mare.
(We used stuntman Stuart
Fell for the shot)
A lot of the time I would
help the crew keep Joe
Public from staring down
the lens of the camera.
It was called public
liaison work. The BBC has
a policy that if someone
is in the way of the shot
the first words you say
is ‘’Excuse me
sir/madam’’…I
spent a lot of time on
the beach with those
lines.
Sadly Gary Holton died a
few years later and still
a very young man…
LES
DAWSON SHOW…Director
Peter
Whitmore…BBCTV…
It’s good to be
back…
GERTCHA
COMMERCIAL…Director
Hugh Hudson…Music
Chas and Dave…
All the boys on this one
and a great day just
sipping pints and singing
along to the playback of
Chas and Dave’s
famous song…
HERE’S A
PICTURE OF A JOB I WAS ON
BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER
WHAT IT WAS. THAT’S
ME ON THE LEFT AND JOE
SANTOS ON THE RIGHT.
I THINK THE GUY IN THE
MIDDLE WAS
"CAMP"
DAVID…
THOMAS
AND SARAH....BBC
Working again
with my old mate John
Cannon and both playing a
couple of odd job men.
This was a nice job to
work on with good cast
and crew...I like this
period stuff....
NEXT
- 1980
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