Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actor, known for playing Ivanhoe.
On the island
Eight records
Theme from New York, New YorkFavourite
Oh, well, I I I think mister Sinatra would have to come with me.
Oh, well, I mentioned that I was in Italy. Musetta's Waltz from Laboem.
Barry Manilow. Ready to take a chance again.
National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge
Well, I think after all that amount of work I need slowing down a little. I would love a little of La Traviata.
Bob Newhart, who for years has made me roll around all over the place and one particular thing that he did, which was the captain of a a submarine, a nuclear submarine, that had spent two years under water going around the world, is about to surface.
Well, this one I would like to preface the reason that I would like this, because it would bring back memories to me on the island of the one night in my life when I was absolutely terrified... I got up and recited from Goodbye, Mr. Chips, to the music, of course, of Fill the World with Love.
Well, we spoke about the guitar before and this is somebody I would love to be able to play like Leona Boyd, she's a Canadian girl who is absolutely wonderful and this is Memories of the Alamborough.
Well while I'm waiting for my nails to grow in this island, I'm going to need another laugh. And I think Tom Lehrer, with his wonderful black humour, and I hold your hand in mine.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:39Could you endure the loneliness of a desert island?
Yes, I think I could... I could endure it because I am fairly adaptable. Maybe because I'm a Libre and well balanced.
Presenter asks
3:10What were you good at at school?
Actually I was very good at at school, at looking as though I was listening. I suppose it's the reason I became an actor. I was able to daydream and always look as though I were listening... I never really had to study very hard. I found things came easy and I that was probably a mistake. If they'd come a little harder I might have worked that much more and become really intelligent.
Presenter asks
4:13How did acting come into it?
Well, it was a nice steady job until I got fired... some friends who were doing... ex-servicemen who had been invalided out were working on the crowd of a film called Caesar and Cleopatra... I was asked if I wanted to be an actor. And I naturally said yes, rushed home, said to my mother, I'm going to become Stuart Granger. And Brian Desmond Hurst... met with my father and said, I think he should maybe go to Rada, which I did.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
18:41Does it worry you that you're hardly being stretched as an actor, as Bond?
Maybe just as well... I enjoy making films, whether I have a lot to say or very little to say. I mean I I say my name is Bond James Bond.
Presenter asks
19:44Does it worry you that you're showing all this violence [in James Bond] to the impressionable young and the impressionable feeble minded?
Uh well, I think that not in the case of Bond. I think they all recognise that it is fantasy... We don't dwell on the blood and the gore. In fact, there is very little blood, if you work it out. There's a vast amount of carnage, but very little blood.
“Actually I was very good at at school, at looking as though I was listening. I suppose it's the reason I became an actor. I was able to daydream and always look as though I were listening.”
“I enjoy making films, whether I have a lot to say or very little to say. I mean I I say my name is Bond James Bond.”
“I think they all recognise that it is fantasy... We don't dwell on the blood and the gore. In fact, there is very little blood, if you work it out. There's a vast amount of carnage, but very little blood.”