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Castaway
1 appearance
A photographer who captured iconic celebrities from the 1960s and 1970s, including the Beatles, Brigitte Bardot, and Frank Sinatra.
On the island
Eight records
When I first started photography I worked for a week with him and he's a great singer, great mimic, played the piano vibes and drums. He was an extraordinary character.
When I was um started playing the drums, Oscar Peterson was my hero and uh I used to pract do all my drum practice him so I'd like to dedicate to this to him.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
This is from what I think is the probably the best jazz record about to pick one.
Baby Baby All the TimeFavourite
Ah, that's a great singer who's the new hot singer in jazz and a great pianist called Diana Kroll singing Baby Baby all the time.
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
If I was on a desert island I'd need a record to remind me of Lorraine, who I'm going to marry, who I've been together with a long time and it's been a long time coming
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
When I was working with Frank Sinatra I met Dean Martin and and the clan and Dean Martin always struck me as one of the really great singers.
This is by Eric Clapton, who's a friend but also a great musician who's singing playing better than ever.
Well this is the one and only Louis Armstrong singing Up a Lazy River. It's sort of me, actually.
In conversation
Presenter asks
4:48Why [were you] at Heathrow Airport, what were you doing there?
I came out of the army and I took a job with BOAC to be a photographer. ... Part of the thing was you went to an art school once a week. as part of the training. And they said, Go here, go there or come back next week with a picture story. I thought, well, right on my doorstep is London Airport, where the most incredible things happen. ... I used to go to the airport on a Saturday and one day I accidentally photographed. Rap Butler, who I didn't know who Rap Butler was. It was this guy in a pinstriped suit asleep amongst a load of African chieftains.
Presenter asks
10:17What didn't gel for you [about training to be a priest]?
You had to believe that there was a God, and I was always looking for proof. ... the only thing that made sense to me was the human eye. Because I realized you couldn't I mean, you can create a heart and things, but you can create the eye. ... That's the one thing that got me through. But it's the one thing that I couldn't explain.
Presenter asks
11:16Do you think [your shyness] was exacerbated by the fact that your father was quite a dominant man?
Well, I didn't actually see much of my father. I mean, I actually got brought up during the war in an air raid shelter. ... But I rarely saw my father actually. I don't actually know what happened, but my mother was fantastic.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
17:35Why [was Frank Sinatra the man you liked working with best]?
He he walked into a room, he lit up a room without a doubt ... he knew always what he wanted to do, and he taught me. that you've got to do your best all the time. ... he never. made me feel a photographer, which was a great thing. Just didn't see you, just acted like you weren't there, which is the best thing you could ever have happened to you f from doing what I was doing.
Presenter asks
20:39Was it not possible [to be married to a Hollywood star like Faye Dunaway]?
Well, that wasn't the thing that broke it up. I mean, I didn't I never looked at people as stars anyway. She was just a another girl to me. ... I felt she was not getting the right money, she was a really good actress and her heart was in the right place. But unfortunately, as happens with a major star'cause she just won an Oscar, you get dragged more and more into their world. ... I d I just didn't know where I was ever going to come out. And I just thought if I get these films out the way I can get on with my own life.
“I know more about people looking through the camera than I do talking to them.”
“I didn't really think much of myself. I mean, I was hiding behind a camera.”
“It's only picking up the camera and having it to walk out into life and slowly take charge and. direct people it it just sort of grew and grew and grew and and I've become who I am today.”