Actors Who Hated Each other

[christoph404]

Richard Harris came to loathe Marlon Brando when they worked together on "Mutiny On The Bounty". Apparently Harris had become fed up with Brando's antics on the film and when his exasperation boiled over into open dissent Brando had said to Harris, "There's one thing you need to remember and that is Im the star of this film", or words to that effect. Harris bore the grudge forever, he openly and frequently made fun of Brando's acting style and when he appeared on Parkinson in the 70s took the opportunity to reveal to us all that Brando's thoughtfull gazes off into the distance as he delivered lines were nothing more than Brando looking for the idiot boards to read his lines from, and that Brando would often bring his hand to his forehead during a scene in order to read lines that were written on the palm of his hand! It may or may not be true but Harris often liked to debunk Brando's method style with such stories.

[Tonch]

In his excellent but all too brief autobiography "Flashback - An Actor's Life", former Please Sir!/Fenn Street Gang actor David Barry recounts the mounting animosity which developed between himself and actor Dave King. It culminated in a heated confrontation which almost came to blows apparently

[taffy1967]

Brothers Mike & Berny Winters broke up and never worked together again. Although they did make their peace prior to Bernie's death.



Is it true that George Lazenby and Diana Rigg didn't get on during the filming of the 1969 James Bond film 'On Her Majesties Secret Service'? I've heard something about Diana Rigg eating lots of garlic, which didn't agree with Lazenby?

[billy bentley]

I've heard that Brando and Sinatra did not get along on "Guys & Dolls" - hardly suprising " He can't sing vs. He can't act". Also didn't Sinatra lobby to hard for the lead in "On The Waterfront" ? Also heard that Henry Fonda loathed Charles Laughton, but not sure if this was because Laughton was a homosexual or an Englishman in Hollywood hiding during WW2 ? For the record, I am huge fan of both Brando and Laughton's acting, but that doesn't mean they had no faults - like the rest of us they had faults a plenty !

[wadsy]

Bette Davis & Errol Flynn . While making "The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex".



Davis had wanted Laurence Olivier as Essex & resented Flynn's presence so



much that in a scene where Elizabeth has to slap Essex Davis really let fly & Flynn



reportedly almost retaliated.

[GRAEME]

name='billy bentley']I've heard that Brando and Sinatra did not get along on "Guys & Dolls" - hardly suprising " He can't sing vs. He can't act".

Sinatra could act.

[christoph404]

name='taffy1967']Brothers Mike & Berny Winters broke up and never worked together again. Although they did make their peace prior to Bernie's death.



Is it true that George Lazenby and Diana Rigg didn't get on during the filming of the 1969 James Bond film 'On Her Majesties Secret Service'? I've heard something about Diana Rigg eating lots of garlic, which didn't agree with Lazenby?

I think Lazenby was not quite as unpopular as the press of the time liked to make out. Rigg tells a different story regarding the garlic eating, apparently she got on quite well with Lazenby and during a lunch break at Pinewood had playfully and jokingly shouted across to Lazenby, " George Im eating Garlic, I hope you are too!" The press translated that jokey remark into something spiteful because they were out to get poor George.

[Gerald Lovell]

I remember reading (in William Hartnell's biography by his granddaughter perhaps?) that Hartnell and Bernard Lee hated each other with a vengeance. It seems both were up for the part of Sergeant Paine in The Third Man, which Lee of course got. Hartnell and Lee liked the sauce and encountered each other in a pub when they were both sozzled. They ended up grappling with each other on the floor of the pub like 5 year olds fighting in a school playground.

[Film Man]

Richard Todd told me that Laurence Harvey was a right pain to work with...They hardly spoke between takes on The Long short and tall! In Mag Men/flying machines, Sarah Miles wouldn't work with Stuart Whitman...she spoke to the director during later close up scenes.

Film Man

[CaptainWaggett]

name='woodsy']Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, although I think that spilled over into their private lives as well.



Came to a head when they were touring Australia together with a stage version of Steptoe & Son. Corbett is onstage waiting for WB to appear for his cue, while he's actually round someone's house, having a cup of tea! Couldn't bear to be on stage with him.



They even travelled back to England on separate planes!

Galton and Simpson and indeed more or less everyone else who worked with them have long said this just isn't true. They weren't best mates and didn't socialise offset (but then nor did Lorre and Greenstreet who got on perfectly OK but just didn't have a lot in common) but the reason they didn't travel back from Oz together is that Corbett stayed on for some sight-seeing with his family.

[will.15]

name='wadsy']Bette Davis & Errol Flynn . While making "The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex".



Davis had wanted Laurence Olivier as Essex & resented Flynn's presence so



much that in a scene where Elizabeth has to slap Essex Davis really let fly & Flynn



reportedly almost retaliated.

Davis wanted to play Scarlett in Gone With the Wind. Warner Brothers wouldn't loan her out to Selznick except as a package deal with Flynn as Rhett. Selznick apparently agreed, but Davis refused to work with Flynn again and squashed the casting. Flynn was miffed because he wanted to do it.

[scenesixty]

name='Mr Sloane']Bette and Miriam Hopkins

Edward G and Miriam Hopkins

Edward G and George Raft ( over Marlene Dietrich)

Marlene Dietrich and Ray Milland.

Hopkins and Crawford couldn't stand each other-Crawford resented the fact that Hopkins' being the wife of studio exec got premium roles-while she had to wait to get a little higher in her craft! Apparently Hopkins' could be a right cow!

[cully]

Peter Sellers and Orson Welles. I don't know who instigated it but they would not be in the same room together when making Casino Royale.Several reasons given for the falling out here:



Casino Royale (1967) - Trivia

[Rowdon]

name='Tonch'] Little & Large are supposedly daggers drawn with one another nowadays.



Isn't comedy fun?

I didn't know Little and Large were in comedy.





... and of course this famous picture of Brando subtly gesturing at over-attentive fan James Dean.

[jacobean]

Ian Hendry and Michael Caine didn't get on during Get Carter according to Mike Hodges, although I think the dislike was mainly on Hendry's side. He resented Caine's success (his own career was on the wane during the early 1970's), particularly from his successful role in Alfie.



Re Joan Collins, if you read Roger Moore's autobiog, he mentions the Curtis/Collins feud. I think it went into irreparable decline when Curtis called her the 'c' word.



Re Accident, I read that story - you can really see the resentment between them - I don't think they were acting.



Peter Sellars didn't like John Cleese during the filming of the Magic Christian, although I think there are multiple instances of him taking a dislike to people, partly because of his apparent obsessive superstition.

[Moor Larkin]

Some of these relationships could be misconstrued. I once read that Sylvia Syms said of Patrick McGoohan, that he was an *awful man*....... But what might she have meant......



She appeared with him once, as his lover, in 1962 and then again in a 1965 Danger Man, when he made her promises about her husband that he could not keep.....

[charliekane]

Laurence Olivier seemingly didn't take to either Joan Fontaine in Rebecca or Marilyn in The Prince and the Showgirl - both probably because he wanted Vivien Leigh for both roles, so he took out his displeasure on his costars - and, in Marilyn's case, as she was actually producing the picture, he resented that as well.

[billy bentley]

Graeme, i did not mean to present "He can't act vs. He can't act" as my own opinion, but possibly the feelings of Sinatra and Brando. Personally I think Sinatra is probably the best of the popular singers who took on leading roles.

[Brief Encounter]

I guess there's a difference between on-set feuds of one film/production, and stars who had a long-running dislike of one another...



Like Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, who had the misfortune to be married as well as co-stars in fifteen films!



I always sense that the British film stars didn't have these kind of feuds with one another, and they were far too professional. Or is that just what they want us to believe?!

[EllyMack]

name='CaptainWaggett']Untried in what sense? Millsy had made c40 films by this time (rather more than Robert Donat who he replaced) and it certainly wasn't his first performance as a working class chappie or even his first Northerner.

My bad. I was under the impression that Mills was relatively unknown, but having looked at IMDB, I see I was completely wrong.