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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Anchorman on August 06, 2015, 11:42:28 AM

Title: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Anchorman on August 06, 2015, 11:42:28 AM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33803144

George Cole, RIP
Diamond geezer.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Gonnagle on August 06, 2015, 12:02:11 PM: Dear Jim,

I will always remember him as the original spiv in the old St Trinian movies, the way he walked and the music they played as he walked.

Gonnagle.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Gordon on August 06, 2015, 12:08:11 PM: Daley was a wonderful character, especially in the earlier series of Minder, and George Cole (like Patrick Macnee/Steed who also died recently) had a good innings and played his most famous role with (I think) a wonderful tongue-in-cheek approach. I remember when you could get 'Bought from Daley's Cars' stickers for rear car windows.

Not a bad legacy - he was also good as the young Ebeneezer Scrooge in the Alistair Sim version of ' A Christmas Carol' - so, cheers George.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Rhiannon on August 06, 2015, 12:15:20 PM: Ah, bless him. What an icon. Loved him in this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Many_Crooks
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Owlswing on August 06, 2015, 12:42:55 PM: Quote from: Gonnagle on August 06, 2015, 12:02:11 PM
Dear Jim,

I will always remember him as the original spiv in the old St Trinian movies, the way he walked and the music they played as he walked.

Gonnagle.

Me too!

Another good 'un lost!
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Gonnagle on August 06, 2015, 02:03:22 PM: Dear C,

Makes me think, he did have a long life, in another hundred years will we say, why did he die so young.

I was struck by Bruce Forsythe's comment on our Cilla, 72 is no age to go :(
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Owlswing on August 06, 2015, 04:05:45 PM: Quote from: Gonnagle on August 06, 2015, 02:03:22 PM
Dear C,

Makes me think, he did have a long life, in another hundred years will we say, why did he die so young.

I was struck by Bruce Forsythe's comment on our Cilla, 72 is no age to go :(

I, I regret, can think of far too many "celebrities" of one sort or another who, regardless of their age as at today's date, have already lived too long in the limelight. Miss/Ms/Mrs Hopkins springs to mind for one, and Kim Kardashian.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Harrowby Hall on August 06, 2015, 07:40:41 PM: ITV Studios have done an incredible job of restoring, cleaning and digitising Laurence Olivier's Henry V. The Blu-Ray HD version is unbelievable. You cannot imagine it being a 1944 Technicolour film - it looks totally fresh, as though it had been made yesterday.

On of the characters - called simply Boy - is played by a very young George Cole, who is instantly recognisable. He must have been the last surviving cast (or crew) member of that film.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Owlswing on August 06, 2015, 09:57:53 PM: HH

I'll have to try to get hold of a copy of that!
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Harrowby Hall on August 07, 2015, 10:33:05 AM: Quote from: CMG KCMG GCMG on August 06, 2015, 09:57:53 PM
HH

I'll have to try to get hold of a copy of that!

Available on Amazon - £4.55. Five copies left.
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Owlswing on August 07, 2015, 01:27:17 PM: Quote from: Harrowby Hall on August 07, 2015, 10:33:05 AM
Quote from: CMG KCMG GCMG on August 06, 2015, 09:57:53 PM
HH

I'll have to try to get hold of a copy of that!

Available on Amazon - £4.55. Five copies left.

Yeah, I looked there, but until my pension comes in on the 13th I have rather more important calls on my finances - food, for instance!

Ho hum, the harsh scientific realities of economics!
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2015, 01:37:15 PM: Anthony Newley also appears
Title: Re: Arfur's gorn
Post by: Owlswing on August 07, 2015, 03:28:22 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 07, 2015, 01:37:15 PM
Anthony Newley also appears

Oh dear!