ACTORS BEHAVING BADLY with David Barry

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During his sixty-year career, David Barry has collected many funny anecdotes about famous actors and their often-outrageous behaviour, ACTORS BEHAVING BADLY During his sixty-year career, David Barry has collected many funny anecdotes about famous actors and their often-outrageous behaviour, especially when he toured Europe with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh at the age of 14, the first British theatre company to go behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War. And years later when he played Frankie Abbott in the successful television comedies Please Sir! and Fenn Street Gang in the seventies. Stories from London Weekend Television’s bar and what often happened, like the time the Please Sir! cast met Tommy Cooper. He recalls those years with entertaining anecdotes, and things that went wrong while shooting the feature film of Please Sir! often with hilarious consequences. He also tells funny true stories about famous actors who, having had one drop too many, still tried to perform, usually when he toured with actors like Bill Simpson who played Dr Finlay in Dr Finlay’s Casebook, who after consuming too much alcohol brought the set down with a crash one night. And he owns up to some of his own bad behaviour like the time he threw a hot cup of coffee over a newspaper reporter, a story that is worth recounting. And getting legless filming a beer commercial with Joanna Lumley or fiddling the Pepsi Taste Test with singer Joe Brown. These and dozens of other anecdotes take listeners through more than four decades of actors – and some directors – behaving badly.

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