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The Russian Prisoner
Season 5, Episode 3
Templar is called in to help a Russian physicist who wants to defect to America. Vintage adventure, starring Roger Moore, with Guy Deghy, Anthony Booth and Yootha Joyce
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General
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Simon Templar
Guy Deghy
(Actor)
.. Inspector Oscar Kleinhaus
Anthony Booth
(Actor)
.. Pyotr
Joseph Furst
(Actor)
.. Professor Karel Jorovitch
Yootha Joyce
(Actor)
.. Milanov
More Information
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.
Guy Deghy
(Actor)
.. Inspector Oscar Kleinhaus
Anthony Booth
(Actor)
.. Pyotr
Joseph Furst
(Actor)
.. Professor Karel Jorovitch
Yootha Joyce
(Actor)
.. Milanov
Born:
August 20, 1927
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Early-life:
Yootha was born in London on August 20, 1927, the only child of singer Hurst Needham and concert pianist Jessica Revitt. Yootha left school at the age of 15 and trained to be an actress at Rada. She toured with the Entertainments National Service Association, and was also a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop with future co-star Brian Murphy. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Yootha made guest appearances on a number of shows, including Benny Hill, Z Cars, The Saint, The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green, and Steptoe and Son.
Career:
Joyce's big break came in 1974 when she began playing Mildred Roper alongside Murphy in the sitcom Man About the House. Murphy played her hen-pecked husband George. The popularity of Murphy and Joyce's characters led to them starring in their own spin-off sitcom George and Mildred. The hugely popular series ran on ITV for five series until 1979. Murphy and Joyce also starred in a stage version of George and Mildred and a spin-off movie. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure on August 24, 1980, at the age of 53. Murphy was at her bedside.
Quote:
Man About the House co-star Sally Thomsett revealed that Joyce was so popular, 'she had more fan mail than the rest of us put together.'
Trivia:
A sixth and final series of George and Mildred had been written but Joyce died before he could be made.
