Edward Judd (1932-2009)

[Mark O]

Lovely Norma........

[cornershop15]

I found this earlier. Edward and Norma, who was filming U.F.O. around this time,

are pictured with daughter Deborah, our fellow-member, and their Yorkshire Terriers:





Nice photo. This is part of an article I'm considering posting (which thread though?),

which is about various celebrities who all lived in Wimbledon at the time. It's titled

'Village with an all-star cast' and among the Judds' neighbours were Dilys Laye,

June Whitfield, Kathleen Harrison and Barry Foster.



Let me know if you're interested in the complete article, which I think you'll have

to save to your computers in order to read the text and enlarge all the photos.

[Freddy]

Will be worth reading, perhaps make a separate thread, would you happen to have Ollie as well, I know James Hunt lived there as well.



Freddy

[Mark O]

aaw, that's a really lovely Autumnel photo there Cornershop, you really are an asset to Britmovie, and yes, I would like to see the full article please, funnily enough I went through Wimbledon this weekend on my way to Thames Ditton on a Train, next time I'll think of Norma and Edward as I pass through or maybe even stop of at Wimbledon and have a look round.

[cornershop15]

Apart from the stars I mentioned earlier, the others featured were Kate O'Mara and her sister Belinda Carroll, Veronica Hurst, Laurence Payne (then starring in Sexton Blake), and continuity announcer Sylvia Peters. Dilys Laye was still married to Garfield Morgan at this time (1969).



I'll leave it to Joe the local pub's 'cocktail barman' to answer Freddy's question:

"We get Oliver Reed, the film star, in here very often - he lives round the corner". I bet Joe looked at him a different way when Women In Love came out shortly afterwards!



Joe also adds: "Mrs. Thursday drops in now and again. She's a poppet" An allusion to Kathleen Harrison's TV character. Apparently, the Judd's bought their house from Kathleen's daughter just after Deborah was born.



I'll try and find or maybe create a suitable thread so you can see what else is there, including more from Joe, the cocktail barman (bet he was a character)!

[Steve Crook]

name='Mark O']aaw, that's a really lovely Autumnel photo there Cornershop, you really are an asset to Britmovie, and yes, I would like to see the full article please, funnily enough I went through Wimbledon this weekend on my way to Thames Ditton on a Train, next time I'll think of Norma and Edward as I pass through or maybe even stop of at Wimbledon and have a look round.

Wimbledon Village is different to Wimbledon. It is next to Wimbledon but it's isolated from it up on the hill. The village does retain a very nice village atmosphere and there are some lovely houses there, especially alongside the common.



From Wimbledon station get a cab or a bus up the hill and have a wander around.



Steve

[Mark O]

name='Steve Crook']



From Wimbledon station get a cab or a bus up the hill and have a wander around.



Steve

I'll probably do just that within the next couple of months Steve as I want to visit nearby Putney Vale Cemetary as some of my favourites are interned there, I feel a bit of a connection with the area as my Grandmother on Dad's side came from Mitcham in Edwardian times when it was a Surrey Village.

[Steve Crook]

name='Mark O']I'll probably do just that within the next couple of months Steve as I want to visit nearby Putney Vale Cemetary as some of my favourites are interned there, I feel a bit of a connection with the area as my Grandmother on Dad's side came from Mitcham in Edwardian times when it was a Surrey Village.

When my Grandad moved from Wimbledon to Morden in the 1930s his friends asked him why he was moving out to the country



Since then, London has spread out to join us here in Morden, and has gone some way beyond us. Although we're still "borderline" in some ways. Our postal address is Morden, Surrey and the post code starts SM4 - but we're in a London Borough.



BTW my Grandad bought that house as a new house in the 1930s, and then I bought it from him. As I'm named after him there's only ever been a Stephen Crook on the deeds



My great grandparents and my great-great grandparents are all buried in Wimbledon cemetery - the "dead centre of Wimbledon"



My grandparents brought up my Dad and his two sisters here in Morden through the war and then all of us grandchildren would often come and visit. So when I bought the house I knew it's complete history very well.



Steve

[billy farmer]

Here are some screencaps of Edward Judd as Chief Superintendent Arnold in the 2 part TV-Mini Series Jack The Ripper (1988).

[cornershop15]

I did see that Jack the Ripper mini-series, starring Michael Caine*, when it was broadcast, but can't remember Edward - or anything else!



I have become obsessed with The Day the Earth Caught Fire for most of this month, after seeing the

film for the first time. I did a lot of nice screencaps of Edward, and the other stars, and look forward to

posting a selection of them here and elsewhere once I've sorted out the chronological order. This was

also the first time I have seen Gene Anderson, Edward's first wife. She played May, landlady of the pub

Ed and fellow-journalist Leo McKern frequent. Here they all are with Janet Munro (Gene's on the right):

Apart from the orange/red-tinted scene at the end, Gene wasn't seen that much unfortunatelly, but I like the moment she has a go at 'husband' Reginald Beckwith: "How I got from manageress to a mean old bastard like you, I'll never know!" Presumably, the hot atmosphere was responsible for her sudden outburst.



They reminded me a bit of George and Mildred and I'd like to have seen them in some kind of spin-off film, or even sitcom. Unbelievably though, both stars died four years after the film was made, and within two months of each other: Gene on 5th May 1965 (just after I was born) and Reg on the 26th June, aged 34 and 56 respectively. As a lot of you will know, Janet Munro also died young.



This is all so tragic. Wheras I'm (unhappily) quite used to actors dying from heart attacks at around the same age as Reginald Beckwith was, I find the manner of Gene's ridiculously premature death really shocking. Poor Edward was left a widower at just 32. I only became aware of this depressing information last year, probably following his own death, after looking at his IMDb profile. I've just browsed that list of credits again to try and work out how the loss of his wife affected his career.



Before watching the film, I'd only ever seen him as a supporting actor on TV and the occasional film so I was pleasantly surprised to see how charismatic he was as a leading man in The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Just a year after that terrible sadness in his life, Edward was the star of a TV series called Intrigue, co-starring Caroline Mortimer. The bad news gets worse as I've discovered all 13 episodes are "missing". Unbearable.

Struggling to stay positive, I hope to post a few more images from The Day the Earth Caught Fire

later in the week, but I'll include this early close-up for now as the rest will be in black-and-white:

By the way, I saw Edward's second wife, Norma Ronald, in a larger-than-usual role in UFO last week, in an episode called The Responsibility Seat. I would say she is more familiar to me as the blonde receptionist in that series than brunette secretary Miss Lingard in The Power Game, a few years earlier. The murky black-and-white picture quality doesn't help in the latter, though I did enjoy a couple of Norma's scenes with boss Patrick Wymark. I think one of them was the final moments of Series 1 or 2 when they share a bottle of champagne.



*Michael Caine can (just about) be seen as an uncredited Policeman giving directions to Edward in The Day the Earth Caught Fire. The two were best friends in real-life, which is nice to know

[billy farmer]

A screencap of Edward Judd as Barrymore in the 1983 TV Movie The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

[Rennie]

Two or three years back, there was a very long ongoing discussion as to whether or not Edward Judd was still with us. If members recollect, a nursing home carer posted to say he was in her nursing home. Another member confirmed this. However nothing really concrete was ever proved.



I note in the Britmovies 'Actors', it is inferred that he was not with us now.



I've tried to find the original thread, but seems long gone.



Can anyone shed any morelight on the matter?

[DB7]

name='Rennie' timestamp='1284800435' post='475307']

Can anyone shed any morelight on the matter?

I've merged your post with the obituary.

[Dame Starry]

Edward Judd Thread

[billy farmer]

A TV Times listing from October 12th 1978.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times article about Edward Judd from the March 3rd - 9th 1979 issue of TV Times.