I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
Thank you very much for the warm welcome folks,
If you click on to my sig it shows some of the films and tv shows I worked on over the years, and when I can I will add some pics.
If you want to ask questions about any of them please do.
Hi Spearhead,,
I'm still looking through some other threads to add some bits and pieces.
But I've had a few nice welcomes.
I'll add some Star Wars pics when I can.....
Looking back through my web site I noticed the first horror film I worked on was Quatermass and the Pit in 1967 at the old MGM Studios at Borehamwood Herts.
Soon afterwards it was onto The Devil Rides Out with a very young Patrick Mower..(Now in Emmerdale)
Hiya guys, I've been busy for a long time and now I can tell you a few tales about films from my past that I got to work on....
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON…Director John Landis…
Central Casting must have sent 200-300 people down to Piccadilly for a night shoot on this production.
None of us knew anything about the scenes we were going to be involved in so we just hung around coffee bars (Or other bars) chatting and having a night out in The West End.
About 1 o'clock in the morning the production team gathered us all together and told us the scenes they were about to do. (You ain’t gonna believe this).
A WEREWOLF is going to be running out of a cinema in Piccadilly Circus straight across Eros causing cars to crash and have people falling out of bus windows.
(I’m thinking this will do the tourist trade the world of good)
On a cue from the 1st A.D. the real police clear the roads of all late night Joe Public.
The Central Casting crowd are all given places to stand and out of the woodwork comes our buses and cars and stunt people. We’ve got permission to hold up traffic for half an hour and John Landis had multi camera crews covering every angle.
It was over as quickly as it began and as soon as the camera’s stopped rolling the wrecking crews were in there clearing the wrecked cars and sweeping the streets clean again. An hour later it was like we’d never been.
(See the film just to see this sequence)
Well done, John Landis…
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