Extra, Extra, Read All About It! by Harry 'Aitch' Fielder

Author:Harry 'Aitch' Fielder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Film, television, extra work, blockbusters, actors, acting, how to act, background, soaps, comedy, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
ISBN: 9780993179617
Publisher: Amdrews UK Limited 2015
Published: 2015-07-23T00:00:00+00:00

1980

The Long Good Friday... Raise The Titanic... Hopscotch... Breaking Glass... Elephant Man... The Human Factor... Flash Gordon... Superman II... Rough Cut... Heaven’s Gate... Dying Day... Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde... Oliver Twist... The Chelsea Murders... Henry IV Part One/Two... Henry V... Hamlet... Love In A Cold Climate... The Borgias... Black Beauty... Meglos... Adelaide Bartlett... The Death List... Goodbye Darling... Born And Bred... The Buccaneers... I Woke Up One Morning... Thames Report... Country Man... The Gentle Touch... Billy... The Enigma Files... End Of Part One... Enemy At The Door... The Chinese Detective... Bergerac... A Walk In The Forest... McKenzie... Little And Large Show... Not The Nine O’Clock News... Alas Smith And Jones... Les Dawson Show.

In my opinion, the best ever British gangster film is The Long Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie and starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren and Derek Thompson. The story line is strong and the actors are all at their best, giving riveting performances in this very powerful film, shot mainly in-and-around the east-end of London before it was all redeveloped. I worked for a couple of days on this, but unfortunately I was only used for driving around in a police car and never got to see any of the real action of the film. I enjoyed working with Brian Hall again, whom, I had known for a good few years and we were good mates and we worked together many more times until his death from cancer in the ‘90s, sadly gone but not forgotten. Dave King, who played Parky in the film, I remember as a singer in the ‘50s and ‘60s and was in the charts in ‘56 with a song called ‘Memories Are Made Of This’. A lot of the boys got a lot of work out of this film but as I said, I only did a few days before I was off to pastures new.

A day’s filming on location at Borough market in London followed on the Ronald Neame directed Hopscotch starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson. It was a treat to see the Grumpy Old Man in person - I remembered him in the Elvis Presley film King Creole in 1958.

Oxford was my next exotic location as a load of us were bussed up to the place of the dreaming spires to work on Heaven‘s Gate, Michael Cimino’s star-studded but bleak anti-western film based on events in 1890’s Wyoming when a sheriff attempted to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle ranchers. There really was a good line up for this including Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Joseph Cotton and Jeff Bridges. It was just as well the weather was nice because there seemed to be even more waiting around than usual on this film. On the second day some of us had finished our work by lunchtime but had to wait till 6pm that evening to catch the coach back to London. So I thought I might as well pop into a local pub and have a swift half.

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