The Saint: The Noble Sportsman
11:05 pm - 12:10 am, Saturday, December 27 on That's TV 3 (71)
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The Noble Sportsman
Season 2, Episode 17
The daughter of a lord asks Simon to discover who tried to shoot her father - but there is no shortage of suspects. Guest starring Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle and Jane Asher
General
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Simon Templar
Sylvia Syms
(Actor)
.. Lady Anne Yearley
Anthony Quayle
(Actor)
.. Lord Thornton Yearley
Jane Asher
(Actor)
.. Rose Yearley
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.
Sylvia Syms
(Actor)
.. Lady Anne Yearley
Born:
January 06, 1934
in
London
Best Known For:
At Home with the Braithwaites and her 1950s movie roles.
Early-life:
Sylvia Syms was born on January 6, 1934, in London. Not to be confused with the Broadway singer of the same name, this Sylvia Syms was an evacuee and was educated at various convent schools and a grammar school. She honed her acting craft at Rada where she received The Gerald Lawrence Scholarship and an HM Tenants Award.
Career:
Syms' first film role came in 1953's It Happens Every Thursday. Three years later, her big break came in My Teenage Daughter. She was a highly popular star for the next 15 years thanks to such movies as Ice-Cold in Alex, Expresso Bongo, Victim, and The Quare Fellow, featuring arguably her best performance. She was also nominated for a Bafta for The Tamarind Seed in 1974. Since then, her most memorable work has largely been on TV, although she did have a small role in 1989's Shirley Valentine. She had a regular role in Peak Practice in the mid-1990s and became a familiar face again thanks to At Home with the Braithwaites.
Quote:
"I quite like my own company. I've never really been worried about getting older or being alone."
Anthony Quayle
(Actor)
.. Lord Thornton Yearley
Jane Asher
(Actor)
.. Rose Yearley
Born:
April 05, 1946
in
London
Best Known For:
Her cakes.
Early-life:
Born in Marylebone, central London, on April 5, 1946. Her father, Dr Richard Asher, was the first psychiatrist to identify Munchausen syndrome. Her mother Margaret taught at the Guildhall School of Drama and Music and counted Beatles producer George Martin among her pupils. Her brother Peter was a member of 1960s band Peter and Gordon, her sister Claire also dabbled in acting before becoming a teacher. She's a descendant of Richard III and is also distantly related to Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Career:
Asher made her film debut aged five in the film Mandy. By the age of 15 she had featured in eight movies, nine TV shows and numerous radio plays. She gained more grown-up roles during the 1960s in productions such as The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie and The Mill on the Floss. She also appeared in several episodes of The Saint, required a body double for the nude scenes in Deep End, was frightened to death in cult horror The Stone Tape, and starred in both Brideshead Revisited and the revamped Crossroads. She's also made various stage appearances.
Quote:
"Despite what you might think, my life is not perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl at home."
Trivia:
Away from acting she has a cake-making business, has written three novels and is President of the National Autistic Society and the Parkinson's Disease Society.
