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Post by LouP on Mar 30, 2024 12:47:14 GMT
Above is John Forgeham
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Post by LouP on Mar 31, 2024 12:30:00 GMT
I’m name dropping again. Lol.
This morning I watched “ Love Your Weekend” an absolute must. I record it. One of the guests was Derek Jacobi talking about his career. When my husband, Kevin, and I were at drama school Derek came to our local Rep, his first job after leaving Uni at Cambridge. He was spotted acting at Uni and offered a job at the Rep. Kevin often worked at the Rep from Drama school when they needed another man. Bit parts . He was once a fan bearer in Anthony and Cleopatra. Lol. He had to have full brown body make up and take it all off again at the end and he was just an “extra” . Cleopatra was Elizabeth Spriggs ! Derek Jacobi was Anthony and we got to know him as he was a contemporary, in the same boat, not the big star he is now. He was lovely amd seems the same now. Unassuming.
We used to go to the pub after the performances. Lovely memories but so long ago. The 1960s.
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Post by Charley Says... on Mar 31, 2024 13:20:57 GMT
All these anecdotes are wonderful LouP... And I've said it before and I regret not doing it with my dad as he had some brilliant stories from when he was younger... The kind of stories that he only let slip after a few drinks, you know the type... But when you're gone they are gone too, get them wrote down or sit with a voice recorder and leave the memories for your younger family and their future generations...
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Post by LouP on Mar 31, 2024 19:27:01 GMT
All these anecdotes are wonderful LouP... And I've said it before and I regret not doing it with my dad as he had some brilliant stories from when he was younger... The kind of stories that he only let slip after a few drinks, you know the type... But when you're gone they are gone too, get them wrote down or sit with a voice recorder and leave the memories for your younger family and their future generations... I’ve had that said to me before, Charley but my memories are all so disjointed that I fear a book would be all jumbled and not make a lot of sense. My family would just probably say” Derek who?” and even roll their eyes. Lol.
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Post by CAEF on Mar 31, 2024 20:28:42 GMT
According to Bill Podmore's Coronation Street book from c1990 Podders said that a placid man called Vic Stevenson who looked like Fred Gee from Coronation Street was always being harrassed in Salford and Manchester and his explanation of mistaken identity rarely washed with them.
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Post by LouP on Apr 1, 2024 0:22:34 GMT
Here’s another anecdote which came to me when I read you liked my stories, Charley. When I was at drama school in Birmingham, a provincial drama school, not the grand RADA, I was picked to go to the local TV studios in Birmingham, long gone, at Gosta Green. They were filming an episode of a drama series called Spycatcher. This was in the early 60s. I was an AFM. Assistant Floor Manager. A very grand title for a “DG”…. a general “Dog’s Body”. Lol. My duties were simply that of a call boy. When an actor was required on the studio floor I had to go and knock on their dressing room door and call them down to do their scene . The main actor in this was an actor who became quite well known called Bernard Archard. The Floor Manager would follow the script and tell me, the DG, who was needed and I would go and knock on their door to come down to the studio. That was the sum total of my job. Very lowly but as a drama student it was exciting to be in a television studio. We’d go for lunch to the cafe and mingle with the actors. Then it was even more exciting to see the episode on TV when it aired! My drama school got taken over by a University and is now one of the top drama schools in the country. Even more exciting was the time very recently when I was watching an old episode of Keeping Up Appearances with ‘Hyacinth Bouquet’, to see Bernard Archard in it. He was elderly by now. The scene was Hyacinth at a hotel. She went into the lounge and wanted to impress a couple sitting having coffee. The couple were played by Bernard Archard and Dinah Sheridan who tried to get away from the monstrous Hyacinth. This was made in the late 1990s . I think Dinah Sheridan was the main character in the 1950s film Genevieve. It all sounds very grand but at the time I was very lowly but nice to be in that atmosphere at the time. I am going to try and post a link to Bernard Archard whom you may or may not recognise. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Archard
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Post by LouP on Apr 1, 2024 0:48:41 GMT
Found this below about the episode of Keeping Up Appearance where Bernard Archard and Dinah Sheridan appeared.
///This is also the only episode that Elizabeth (Josephine Tewson) does not appear in. Guest starring Peter Cellier as Major Wilton-Smythe, Bernard Archard and Dinah Sheridan as the hotel guests, //
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Post by Charley Says... on Apr 1, 2024 6:25:51 GMT
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