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Portrait of Brenda
Season 6, Episode 19
Simon Templar investigates a twisted tale of rock 'n' roll, meditation and murder. Anna Carteret and Trevor Bannister guest star, with Roger Moore
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Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Simon Templar
Anna Carteret
(Actor)
.. Diane Huntley
Ivor Dean
(Actor)
.. Chief Insp Teal
Anne De Vigier
(Actor)
.. Josephine
Trevor Bannister
(Actor)
.. Johnny Fox
John Gilling
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Simon Templar
Born:
October 14, 1927
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing James Bond for a record 12 years.
Early-life:
Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927, in Stockwell, London, the only child of a policeman. He originally wanted to be an artist, gaining experience as a tracer at an animated film company. After National Service spent in military intelligence, he worked as an extra in the films Perfect Strangers and Caesar and Cleopatra. The director Brian Desmond Hurst arranged for him to train at Rada, which helped get rid of his cockney accent.
Career:
Moore's first important film role came in the 1949 musical comedy Trottie True, but he supplemented his income by modelling. In 1953 he moved to the US, gaining a contract with MGM. He appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris before concentrating on TV work. Ivanhoe made him a star and he followed that with Maverick and The Alaskans. After moving back to the UK, Moore starred in The Saint and The Persuaders before becoming James Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die. He stuck with the role until 1985's A View to a Kill. Other films include Gold, The Wild Geese and The Cannonball Run, as well as plenty of comic turns as parodies of himself. He died on May 23, 2017 at the age of 89.
Quote:
'My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.'
Trivia:
Moore became a UNICEF ambassador in 1991.
Anna Carteret
(Actor)
.. Diane Huntley
Ivor Dean
(Actor)
.. Chief Insp Teal
Anne De Vigier
(Actor)
.. Josephine
Trevor Bannister
(Actor)
.. Johnny Fox
Born:
August 14, 1934
in
Durrington, Wiltshire
Best Known For:
Playing menswear assistant Mr Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served?
Early-life:
Trevor Gordon Bannister was born in Durrington, Wiltshire, on August 14, 1934. After leaving school at the age of 15, he joined a repertory theatre company in Folkstone and went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. After two years' national service in the army, he gained further repertory experience in Torquay, Bath, Bedford, Worthing, Wolverhampton, York and Birmingham. In 1960, he made his West End debut as Arthur Crabtree in Billy Liar.
Career:
Bannister's breakthrough on TV came in the 1968 drama The War of Darkie Pilbeam, a trilogy about a 1940s spiv, written by Coronation Street creator Tony Warren. Playing menswear assistant Mr Lucas in popular BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? made Bannister a household name. In his later career, he played a recurring character in Last of the Summer Wine. Bannister died on April 14, 2011, at the age of 76, after suffering a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Quote:
On Are You Being Served? 'The joy of that particular show was the fact that most of us had known each other before we came to do it.'
Trivia:
Bannister was a regular pantomime dame on stage, taking 34 roles in 35 years.
John Gilling
(Director)
