Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
American actor, known for his work in theatre and film.
On the island
Eight records
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68Favourite
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
I found that I became interested in and wanted to hear more too. So that was really the the foundation of my discovering an appreciation for music. Therefore I would like to take along Brahm's First Symphony.
I take it that I'm on this island alone. I dare say. And so I suppose there would be moments of nostalgia when I would think of home and my boyfriend, which was Virginia. And I think maybe a good brass band playing Dixie. would be very heartening on certain occasions.
I was on a movie once called September Song. And um oh September Affair was the name of the movie... But the song was beautiful.
We couldn't be on any desert island without Ethel Merriman. Ethel Merriman, I I miss whenever I go to New York because she isn't on the stage.
Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler
On a desert island, I think the temptation to get sloppy must be great. I do think that we need to keep some order and be remained. A form. I couldn't think of a better way of being gently tapped on the wrist and reminded... I couldn't think of anything better than Bark.
Thessaly Courtnage made a record and it had A piece called Double Damask, dinner, napkin. And I hope that we can hear that on my desert island. Sometimes when I'm feeling good, I'm sorry for myself too, Philly. I would love even to think of it.
This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Peter Duchin and His Orchestra
Naturally, uh poor little lumps of me that'll feel sorry for myself and miss my beautiful wife an awful lot... This could be the start of something big, which a countess used to play in the restaurant where Patricia and I used to dine alight in a dark corner with a candle. Before we were married.
Spike Jones and His City Slickers
We've got to be, I said we weren't going to be frivolous on this island, but we've got to have some low fun. And Bike Jones, I think. It's the best fellow on record spell find that I could take up.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:33What would you be happiest to have got away from [on this desert island]?
I'm not going to be happy to get away from anything. Right now I'm very happy in London, where I spend as much time as I possibly can.
Presenter asks
5:05Did you have enough money to get through your [drama] course or did you have to work your way through?
I did not have enough money to after I worked in the summers. I would come home and [work as] a life guard. And then while I was in Washington, I played football on Sundays. To any American football professionally, that's a very dangerous occupation.
Presenter asks
13:00When did you first meet [Orson] Welles?
I met him first in radio... Orson had produced or directed several plays for the Federal Theatre Project, which was one of Roosevelt's... anti-depression [projects]... And he did start the Mercury, and I was one of the... charter members you could say.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
What's the worst [film] you've made?
I don't know. I've had two or three rather spectacular disappointments. But publicly... the most publicized and most spectacular of all time seems to be Heaven's Gate... I think it's the biggest slop ever made.
Presenter asks
28:38Are you good with your hands? Can you make things?
Yes, I've studied all my life to be a handyman. And your carpentry was one of your jobs. Yes, and now in our apartment I have absolutely... best equipped... tool workshop.
“I seriously tried to learn to sing because when I first [started] I thought that I should learn to do everything that I could... I sang in the choir... and when my voice changed the bishop warned me that if I insisted on going to hell by going on the stage, I should confine my roles to speaking only.”
“I must say that it was it was rather shameless of me and that I did review a play in in which I appeared one time. I was only guilty of that once, but it was shameless.”
“I warned her that she had no right to speak of me personally. She she caused great distress in my family and in somebody else's family... I said... nothing I can do um except kick you in the ass if you do it... And she did. I did it.”