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Post by ltd on Nov 5, 2023 17:03:15 GMT
Last thing I saw him in was Seven, but even that was a quite a while back. Seems to have worked steadily up until his death though. Only seen the first of the Shaft films.
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Post by ltd on Nov 1, 2023 22:24:26 GMT
But more than that, and personally to me, he was a guitarist in Bristol band The Blue Aeroplanes in the 90s, defining the sound of their best two albums, Swagger and Beatsongs. Bury Your Love Like Treasure was a song of theirs I remember liking.
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Post by ltd on Nov 1, 2023 12:32:58 GMT
Unfortunately my dad’s sister had the ultimate cruise horror she was a regular cruise goer for about fifteen her and her in laws would go on one every year but one year there was a lot of problems sickness on board, could go on day trips due to port issues and luggage was either stolen or lost. The cruise operator gave them a free cruise as compensation this ship caught fire had total power loss and some crew and the captain abandoned ship leaving the passengers with just a few crew to help them, my aunt got a compensation payout and the cruise company paid for her to have therapy for years unsurprisingly she never went on a boat ship or ferry again. Now this is exactly the sort of thing I'd be afraid of. Sounds like one of Uncle Albert's terrifying yarns from Only Fools and Horses.
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Post by ltd on Nov 1, 2023 8:46:08 GMT
Not my sort of thing really. Don't like the idea of being cooped up on a boat for long periods. Worried about catching legionnaire's disease, or food poisoning. Not too mention that annoying couple who you just can't seem to shake off for the whole voyage! I was going to say the ghastly people but thought that might have been snobbish of me - reading the other posts it seems my first instinct wasn't far wrong.
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Post by ltd on Oct 31, 2023 20:16:12 GMT
Not my sort of thing really. Don't like the idea of being cooped up on a boat for long periods. Worried about catching legionnaire's disease, or food poisoning.
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Post by ltd on Oct 22, 2023 16:53:01 GMT
Or Jim Bergerac coyote hereby invited round to the next Bergerac fan convention in the rusty old red phone box at the bottom of the garden at jno Towers. I watched all the Bergeracs a few years ago and rather enjoyed them. The series has perhaps garnered a reputation as a cosy crime show, but it could be very hard edged at times - I remember a couple of episodes with people blasted at close range by automatic gunfire. The episode with Ian "Stevo" Redford as a mercenary seeking revenge on an arms supplier for the death of his family is one that sticks in the mind as quite uncompromising. Could be educational as well, especially about the various fiddles that went on in the Channel Islands. I remember one centred on the "Sark lark" - companies registered on the island with non-executive directors drawn from the rustic populace, paid a bung to put their names to various pieces of dodgy paperwork.
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Post by ltd on Oct 22, 2023 8:20:30 GMT
In loads of stuff, and as Billy says very versatile. I remember he being really good opposite Warren Clarke in Nice Work.
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Post by ltd on Oct 14, 2023 9:36:20 GMT
It is great to Meic getting an official credit and by this time Chisholm and him were right up there as the captains of sub-plot. There's some great trademark sarcasm from Chisholm in this episode - the line about taking Arthur and Terry for a ride in his police car with the flashing lights made me smile.
I like how the two councillors, one from each party, are so similar to each other. You can't tell which is Labour and which is Conservative. The one without the 'tache reminded me of Satan's Landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraaten so possibly he's the right winger of the two. Anway, you get the impression the elected members of whatever political stripe have the borough nicely carved up between them, regardless of ideology. The last thing they want is an outsider rocking the boat. Although as Julie says Arthur would of course be highly amenable to a deal or two.
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Post by ltd on Sept 28, 2023 14:46:23 GMT
A absolute giant - I'm not a big fan of Layer Cake but his gangland boss was the best thing in it by a country mile. Funny and intimidating at the same time. Very much in the Tommy Hanbury mould.
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Post by ltd on Sept 27, 2023 12:51:40 GMT
Again, not a film for which he's well remembered (or would probably want to be), but Mosquito Squadron is a guilty pleasure especially on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Post by ltd on Sept 26, 2023 12:33:32 GMT
Sad to hear , he was an integral part of pop culture TV and Film over the last several decades. RIP Sir One of those actors who defines cult. Pllayed memorably against type as the manic perv dentist in Michael Winner's Dirty Weekend. Probably not how he'd like to be best remembered, but he is very good in it.
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Post by ltd on Sept 13, 2023 18:33:49 GMT
Remember her also as the DHSS supremo in Boys From the Black Stuff - a tyrannical old bat at work, but with a grim home life. Almost the complete opposite of Mrs Boswell of course, but an undeniably powerful performance from Jean Boht to elicit sympathy for such an unlikeable character.
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Post by ltd on Sept 9, 2023 16:13:30 GMT
Very sad to hear, he was slightly before my time but I remember his Christmas shows and his impression of Harold Wilson. I only wish we had impersonators of his calibre now. This genre hasn't been very well represented in the modern era. Rory Bremner and Alastair McGowan were on the radio this morning paying tribute - they both said he was a genuinely nice bloke as well as a pioneer in their particular field. There's no denying his popularity in his heyday, to the extent that some of his subjects actually started playing up to the caricature e.g. Dennis Healey. Plus he was more like Harold Wilson than Wilson himself.
I always remember him being on after Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em when Frank is in his angel costume suspended beneath the rescue helicopter as the end credits roll. Then close up of Mike Yarwood in the same outfit doing his Frank impression and saying he'd come back down to watch the show. To my young eyes a seamless piece of television.
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Post by ltd on Sept 6, 2023 18:58:28 GMT
I remember her vividly as Irene Adler too - made quite an impression on my teenaged self. Such a glamourous lady.
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Post by ltd on Aug 29, 2023 5:57:22 GMT
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Post by ltd on Aug 10, 2023 6:13:00 GMT
I remember her appearing in an episode of Special Branch and was quite surprised to see her in a straight role - just always associated her with One Foot in the Grave, but she seems to have had an extensive career before, and since.
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Post by ltd on Aug 8, 2023 5:29:36 GMT
Of course, some of the key men at Euston Films watched the French Connection when planning for the Sweeney, and so Friedkin's famous Direction of the film influenced what they were trying to achieve in the TV series. Also an influence on Gangsters, although I think it's fair to say The Sweeney came closer to matching the spirit of Friedkin's original. To Live and Die in LA is my favourite film of his.
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Post by ltd on Jul 27, 2023 13:29:37 GMT
Not a fan of Morrisey but I agree 100% on that above. Can't stand the bloke, but he's not wrong. I don't suppose it'll do any good mind.
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Post by ltd on Jul 24, 2023 17:09:39 GMT
Poor George. Bowel cancer's a right b*st*rd. Respect to him for carrying on working through it all.
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Post by ltd on Jun 28, 2023 9:44:46 GMT
Very varied career, didn't seem precious at all about his work. The last thing I saw him in was We're Doomed, the TV film about Dad's Army in which he played John Le Mesurier/Sergeant Wilson. That must have been a while ago as John Sessions who was Arthur Lowe/Captain Mainwaring died a couple of years back.
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Post by ltd on Jun 19, 2023 16:25:36 GMT
An English rose.
Her scene with Roger Moore in North Sea Hijack is funny.
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Post by ltd on Jun 15, 2023 13:04:22 GMT
I thought she was great in the adaptation of Le Carre's A Murder of Quality. Her Ailsa Brimley was a solid, practical foil to Denholm Elliot's intellectual Smiley. I'd loved to have seen more of them together as a kind Holmes and Watson style crime fighting team.
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Post by ltd on Jun 14, 2023 18:49:49 GMT
I saw it when it first came out. I like monster movies and there were a few around that time like Virus (was it?) with Jamie Lee Curtis, and that one with the weird insect people in the underground and Deep Blue Sea and stuff, and IIRC Deep Rising was the best one. A lot of fun. Silly but good fun. And it's got maybe a nod to HP Lovecraft in the climactic end fight. It is great fun, and miles better than Underwater. Shame there wasn't a sequel.
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Post by ltd on Jun 13, 2023 9:04:00 GMT
Veteran US character actor killed in motorbike accident.
www.BBC.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65886521Maybe not a household name but contributed some noteworthy performances in his career. Excellent in Prince of the City and hilarious as the manic ex-con in Things to Do in Denver... Deep Rising was a rare leading role and is a highly entertaining creature feature.
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Post by ltd on Jun 5, 2023 17:11:25 GMT
Thought he was good as Peter Fonda's henchman in The Limey. Enjoyed Vanishing Point when I saw it last year.
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Post by ltd on May 27, 2023 16:03:26 GMT
Very good review geoff but I would disagree with your final point. I've always considered the slow motion ending together with the music was a view of Terry remembering the time he had spent with Peter, how he'd enjoyed having him around and possibly thinking about how different the past 10 or 12 years could have been. I think it could also be interpreted as a kind of fantasy sequence - a different life for Terry where he's a happy family man, rather than the edgier existence he actually has, courtesy of Arthur.
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Post by ltd on May 25, 2023 11:28:31 GMT
Always admired her tenacity - tough as old boots and didn't give up easily.
The Motorhead song "I'll Be Your Sister" was written with her in mind, but for whatever reason it didn't pan out, which is a shame. I'm sure she'd have more than done it justice.
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Post by ltd on May 23, 2023 9:46:26 GMT
He was great in Rome, single handedly responsible for introducing non-British audiences to the word "cack"?
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Post by ltd on May 19, 2023 18:18:59 GMT
I'm currently watching Fringe where he plays the faintly sinister FBI boss. An eccentric performance in many ways, all the more so for him underplaying it - quite a contrast to Aussie actor John Noble who's well over the top as the resident mad scientist.
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Post by ltd on May 13, 2023 6:13:42 GMT
Just finished watching the last film in the Circles of Deceit series and he turns up in that as an army general giving the Controller a hard time at a committee meeting. His saturnine looks remind me a bit of Vincent Price, I can see why he was such good casting as the Demon Headmaster.
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