The Saint: Legacy for the Saint


2:20 pm - 3:25 pm, Wednesday, May 20 on ITV4 (26)

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About this Broadcast

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Legacy for the Saint
Season 6, Episode 3

Templar plays his part in a gangster's plot to trick his four greatest enemies into carrying out a robbery. Stephanie Beacham features in an early role, alongside Roger Moore


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General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Roger Moore (Actor) .. Simon Templar
Ivor Dean (Actor) .. Chief Insp Teal
Stephanie Beacham (Actor) .. Penelope Brown
Reginald Marsh (Actor) .. Ed Brown
Roy Ward Baker (Director)

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Did You Know..

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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.
Ivor Dean (Actor) .. Chief Insp Teal
Stephanie Beacham (Actor) .. Penelope Brown
Born: February 28, 1947 in Casablanca, Morocco
Best Known For: Playing Sable in The Colbys and Dynasty.
Early-life: Born on February 28, 1947, in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Her mother was a housewife, her father was an insurance executive. She is completely deaf in one ear and has only 75 per cent hearing in the other. Beacham was educated in London at St Michael's Convent, Finchley, and Queen Elizabeth Girls' School in Barnet, after which she became an au pair in Paris to pay for her training at the famous Etienne de Creux Mime School in 1964. On returning to the UK she spent three years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
Career: After a number of appearances in various TV shows such as The Saint, Armchair Theatre, and Callan, Beacham's first major film role was opposite Marlon Brando in 1971's The Nightcomers. She was subsequently cast alongside Peter Cushing in Dracula AD 1972. It was acclaimed series Tenko in the 1980s that made her name and introduced her to American audiences. In 1985, she starred in the glossy soap operas Dynasty and The Colbys. She also gained a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV series for Sister Kate. Other notable projects include Connie, SeaQuest DSV, To Be the Best, Secrets, Relative Values, Bad Girls, Trollied and Mount Pleasant. She took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2007, featured in Coronation Street for five months in 2009, and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2010.
Quote: On her hearing difficulties: 'I sometimes cut people off dead, not knowing that they have spoken to me. I have been accused of rudeness.'
Reginald Marsh (Actor) .. Ed Brown
Roy Ward Baker (Director)

Before / After

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Magnum, PI
1:15 pm
Boon
3:25 pm