Nasty encounters?

[Captain Casper]

name='deckard']hello all , In the course of some of the work I have done I've met quite a few well known faces in me time, will list them and what my opinions of them were, sometime soon- ahem , of course if anyone's interested! Having said that the most obnoxious of them all has to be Steve McFadden....y'know him from the equally obnoxious "Eastenders"......he was surly and arrogant and a few other things too, which I won't mention here due to the liable laws!!!! Ta ta for now , Decks.

He looks like an uncooked sausage.

[Mark O]

Without wishing to divert the thread, who is the Irish chap I'm thinking of from 'Cockleshell heroes', I haven't seen the Movie for Yonks, but I recall they had to trek in some strange Country dressed in Nazi uniform amd try not to get caught, when he was asked what the Uniform was he said "the Irish Salvation Army"!...........sadly his character is gunned down shortly after

[Marky B]

name='batman']What on Earth has he got to be arrogant about? He's a fat whiskery bloke who can't act. Somehow, the fact that he is like that doesn't surprise me.



Bats.

Whose acting range goes from whispering "We gotta talk" to whispering "We gotta talk".

In fact,why in Fun Fun Fun Square do characters whisper to each other when there is nobody else around?

Ta Ta

Marky B

[Steve Crook]

name='Mark O']Without wishing to divert the thread, who is the Irish chap I'm thinking of from 'Cockleshell heroes', I haven't seen the Movie for Yonks, but I recall they had to trek in some strange Country dressed in Nazi uniform amd try not to get caught, when he was asked what the Uniform was he said "the Irish Salvation Army"!...........sadly his character is gunned down shortly after

I think that's Marine Cooney played by John Fabian.

The sequence you're thinking of is when they're dropped in Scotland by parachute - in German uniform, without any money or papers, and have to make their way back to Portsmouth, the police having been notified to watch out for them



No marines get killed on that exercise, although quite a few get arrested.



But Marine Cooney is one of the first to be caught on the real mission.



Steve

[Mark O]

Thank you for the info Steve..........that's the trouble when you haven't seem a Film for a long time, the memory plays tricks on you!

[HayleyG]

Anyone remember Albert Tatlock from Coronation Street? Met him back in the early 70's he was doing a guest appearance at Butlins. My brother asked for his autograph and he said no. Us kids called him a miserable B*****d which he took offence to. Often wondered why he was there in the first place, wasn't pleasant to anyone so I guess it was just for the money. Certainly wasn't for his charm and happy go lucky nature the grumpy old git.

[ShirlGirl]

I probably shouldn't put her in "nasty encounters", but I was SO disillusioned with Margaret Rutherford when I was a waitress in London and I served her. She didn't exactly snap her fingers at me, but she had that sort of an attitude. I hoped for eye contact and a smile but got neither - she never looked at me once, but nor did she look around her. She was by herself and read a newspaper all the time. Perhaps she was tired of being recognised everywhere she went and simply wanted to avoid any conversation. She left without looking at anyone and believe it or not, no-one seemed to notice her!

[AdrianTurner]

Here's a little story from my BFI days which might amuse some of you. I got to know Ann Todd slightly and she let me know she really wanted to see Madeleine again. It was quite a rarity though I knew the BFI had a print so I arranged a screening for her. It was not at the NFT but at the Archive's screening room at 81 Dean Street, a small little preview theatre with, obviously, first-rate projection but little in the way of comfort. There was, for instance, no Royal Circle. So came the morning and this Rolls-Royce shows up and out steps Ann Todd and Anna Neagle both dressed up to the nines as if it was a Leicester Square premiere. Well, when these two ladies took their seats, La Todd looked so humiliated and embarrassed I twas terrified they might have flounced out. But they stayed and they loved the movie. To describe them as terrible snobs, arrogant, living in the past, yes all that's all accurate. But a intensely cherishable as well, possibly a bit sad, and a slice of Sunset Boulevard right in the middle of Soho.

[ShirlGirl]

Great story!