michael_churchill wrote: ↑06 Jan 2025, 15:40
The late Donald Sutherland studied in London from 1957 to 1960 at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. When he dropped out he became a member of Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland, where his room-mate was Michael Sheard, best known as Mr. Bronson in "Grange Hill".
I saw this in a YouTube video, but it does appear to be true!...
Michael Sheard has also played Adolf Hitler 5 times on TV and in movies, perhaps most famously in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".
In the first series of the Doctor Who revival, the family of Billie Piper's character, the Tylers, were named by Russell T. Davies after his neighbour in Swansea, Bonnie Tyler.
Source: "My 80s" on "Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies", BBC Radio 2, 12 April 2025.
Victor Tourjansky was an extra in three consecutive James Bond films, as an in-joke. Victor was actually an Italian assistant director who worked as a location assistant on the James Bond Films. In each case he appeared as a "Man with Wine" reacting to the event that was happening nearby, in scenes filmed in Italy - after his first appearance went down well, he was put in the next two as well. In "The Spy Who Loved Me", he's on the beach in Sardinia as the Lotus Esprit submarine emerges from the sea. In "Moonraker", he's at a bar in St. Mark's Square, Venice as Bond drives past in the Q-branch gondola / hovercraft. In "For Your Eyes Only", he's at an outdoor restaurant in Cortina as Bond skis through pursued by motorbikes.
michael_churchill wrote: ↑06 Jan 2025, 15:40
The late Donald Sutherland studied in London from 1957 to 1960 at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. When he dropped out he became a member of Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland, where his room-mate was Michael Sheard, best known as Mr. Bronson in "Grange Hill".
Donald Sutherland appeared with my distant relative Sir John Standing in "The Eagle Has Landed", which was filmed within walking distance of where I now live!
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The "shortcut" from Goodge Street to Russell Square imvolves running through Senate House, which was used as the location of Bertie Wooster's New York apartment in the 1990s series "Jeeves and Wooster" starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
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Three facts about the 2006 James Bond film "Casino Royale"...
Richard Branson has a cameo in "Casino Royale", being screened by the TSA at Miami International Airport. That scene was cut from the version shown on-board by British Airways.
The actress Tsai Chin appeared in two James Bond films, 39 years apart. She was the Chinese girl at Sean Connery's "death" in the pre-titles scene of "You Only Live Twice", then in "Casino Royale" she played Madame Wu, seen in the poker game on Le Chiffre's yacht then one of the contestants at the final game at Casino Royale.
An even larger gap... Diane Hartford, who was married to Huntington Hartford, who owned the Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, was one of the other players sat at the table during the poker game between James Bond and Alex Dimitrios, when Bond wins Dimitrios' Aston Martin DB5. When "Thunderball" was filmed there, she was the girl that Sean Connery briefly dances with when being chased by Viona Volpe.