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MORGAN FREEMAN served in the U.S. Air Force from 1955-59. He wanted to be a fighter pilot but ended up a mechanic for Automated Tracking Radar equipment. In the end he got his private pilot’s licence aged 65 and can now fly aircraft - including his own private jet.
79 Candles 🎂 today for the legendary Singer, Songwriter, Musician and Bee Gee - BARRY GIBB
86 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful LILY TOMLIN
JEFF BRIDGES in 1970 📷 by Art Zelin
A billboard for The Who’s “Tommy” album - on Sunset Strip in 1975.
The iconic Marlboro Man at Sunset and Marmont in 1994.
Remembering the late, great, multi-Oscar winning JOHN FORD - who left us 52yrs ago today, aged 79.
Remembering JAMES COBURN - born 97yrs ago today.
80 Candles 🎂 today for VAN MORRISON
Remembering the Oscar winning FREDRIC MARCH - born 128yrs ago today.
Whilst shooting ‘Green Mansions’ in 1958 AUDREY HEPBURN worked with a Fawn called Pippin. In order to cement their bond Audrey took ‘Ip’ - as she nicknamed her - home after shooting & bond they surely did.
24yr old HELEN MIRREN in 1969
Remembering FRED MacMURRAY - born 117yrs ago today.
Remembering JEAN SEBERG - who left us 46yrs ago today, aged just 40.
77 Candles 🎂 today for the brilliant, the hilarious - LEWIS BLACK
Remembering CHARLES BRONSON - who left us 22yrs ago today, aged 81.
10yr old DANIEL DAY-LEWIS with his Poet Laureate Father - Cecil, Mother - Jill, and Sister - Tamasin in 1968.
Remembering the late great GENE WILDER - who left us 9yrs ago today.
Remembering the late, great, Oscar winning WILLIAM FRIEDKIN - who was born 90yrs ago today.
67yr old INGRID BERGMAN - London (1982) This wonderful Actress and three time Academy Award winner was born 110yrs ago today and died 43yrs ago today.
Remembering the 3 time Academy Award winner INGRID BERGMAN - who was born 110yrs ago today and died 43yrs ago today.
Remembering the 3 time Academy Award winner INGRID BERGMAN - who was born 110yrs ago today and died 43yrs ago today.
HEDY LAMARR escaped from her Nazi husband by disguising herself as her own maid, became a top actress in Hollywood, then co-developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes - the principles of which are incorporated into today's Bluetooth and GPS technology. What a gal.
It’s pretty rare for someone to make their film debut at the age of 61, it’s even rarer for them to make such an impact they’re nominated for an Oscar. But that’s what happened to a lad from Kent - the great SYDNEY GREENSTREET. #TheMalteseFalcon
Remembering MICHAEL JACKSON - born 67yrs ago today
Remembering the late great CHARLIE PARKER ‘Bird’ was born 105yrs ago today.
87 Candles 🎂 today for the Oscar-nominated ELLIOTT GOULD.
Remembering the late, great, Oscar winning Actor, Director & Producer - RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH - born 102yrs ago today.
Paul Newman at the Venice Film Festival in 1963.
Remembering the 14 time Oscar nominee and two time Oscar winner - JOHN HUSTON - who left us 38yrs ago today, aged 82.
63 Candles 🎂 today for DAVID FINCHER
Remembering the late great ROBERT SHAW - who left us 47yrs ago today aged just 51.
Steve McQueen in his Los Angeles office in 1969 - with ‘Le Mans’ clearly on his mind. 📷 by Milton Greene
Remembering DAVID SOUL - born 82yrs ago today.
Work on BOB HOPE’s extraordinary Palm Springs home started in 1973 and was finally completed in 1979.
Hollywood Film & TV star JACKIE GLEASON was fascinated to the point of obsession with UFO’s, so much so that his home in Westchester County - New York was built to resemble a UFO. It was called ‘The Mothership’.
Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis with their daughters Jamie Lee & Kelly at their Los Angeles home in 1960.
My favourite Movie of all time. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
McQUEEN on the set of his passion project LE MANS (1971)
New Yorker Scott Campbell has one of the coolest collections of Boomboxes.
The Pythons (& friend) take a break while on location in Tunisia filming MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN in 1978. L to R: John Cleese, Spike Milligan, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam & Graham Chapman.
Remembering BRIAN EPSTEIN (here with the boys at Shea Stadium in 1965) who died 58yrs ago today, aged just 32.
Oh that’s TREMENDOUS stuff brother!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 What a (hard working for sure but) merry Christmas YOU’RE gonna have!! Just fantastic stuff. AND you’ll be f***ing MARVELLOUS in the role too of course!!
Gilda Radner & Gene Wilder
PETER SELLERS & BRITT EKLAND in 1965
McQueen, Coffee & Donuts (1961)
It’s kind of amazing yet also testament to how good the Films he made were, that MACAULAY CULKIN - 45 Candles 🎂 today - was really only an active Movie star from 1989 (Uncle Buck) until 1994 (Richie Rich) - so just 11 Films - & yet is still an iconic figure.
ANGELA LANSBURY once recalled her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat who would pick her up from school and get her to steal money & food from her parents for him. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’ was Charles Manson.
67 Candles 🎂 today for phenomenally talented TIM BURTON
71 Candles 🎂 today for ELVIS COSTELLO - the Grammy and Ivor Novello award winning Singer, Songwriter, Author & Actor.
VIVIAN MAIER was a professional Nanny who pursued her passion for street photography in her spare time & who took over 150,000 photographs during her lifetime. Only in 2011 were her photos discovered by chance in a lock-up & her incredible body of work revealed to the world.
Remembering the Oscar winning SEAN CONNERY - born in Edinburgh 95yrs ago today.
Remembering the Oscar winning SEAN CONNERY - born in Edinburgh 95yrs ago today.
Remembering the late, great, Oscar winning Actor, Director & Producer - RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH - who left us 11yrs ago today.
64 Candles 🎂 today for a chip right off the old block - the brilliant JARED HARRIS.
As we lost him 4yrs ago today, here’s four reasons why I really liked CHARLIE WATTS 1. He put an ‘Open’ sign on his kit when he drummed 2. He once punched Jagger for calling him ‘my Drummer’ 3. He was tight as fuck 4. His Fulham Town Hall live album is a joy
68 Candles 🎂 today for STEPHEN FRY
74yr old CARY GRANT in 1978
A rather extraordinary photo of Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando and Gregory Peck meeting up at Universal Studios in 1962.
River and Joaquin Phoenix in 1985. RIVER would’ve been 55 today.
Remembering RIVER PHOENIX - who would’ve been 55 today.
Remembering KEITH MOON - born 79yrs ago today.
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.” Remembering the legendary GENE KELLY - born 113yrs ago today.
94 Candles 🎂 today for BARBARA EDEN
80 Candles 🎂 today for the man behind one of the great TV Dramas of all time - DAVID CHASE THE SOPRANOS (1999-2007)
Remembering one of 20thC’s great Photographers HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (born 117yrs ago today) ‘Rue Mouffetard’ - 1954
Faye Dunaway the morning after she won the Best Actress Oscar for ‘Network’. BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL - CA (1977) 📷 by Terry O’Neill
Well, this is a must-watch. THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY (2025) Re-mastered, re-worked and with a brand new episode (9). Airs on @disneyplus Nov 26th
The lost art of the ‘80s Mixtape
Remembering Jazz legend - COUNT BASIE - born 121yrs ago today.
One of my favourite Comedy friendships - MEL BROOKS & CARL REINER
I’d love to have seen his version of 007. RIP TERENCE STAMP
JACQUELINE COCHRAN and her Northrop Gamma Race Plane (1939). A pioneer of women's aviation, a prominent racing pilot, broke the sound barrier in 1953, WW2 head of WASP (which employed women to ferry planes around the USA) & a sponsor of the Mercury 13 women’s astronaut program.
Brando as Johnny Strabler in "The Wild One" (1953). 📷 by Homer Van Pelt
Groucho Marx - Hollywood (1935)
The Rolling Stones in 1966 📷 by Jerry Schatzberg
STEVE McQUEEN having fun with his CJ5 Jeep in the California hills whilst training for the Baja 1000 off-road race in 1969.
Harvey Keitel on the set of APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) before he was replaced by Martin Sheen.
From the Director of one of my favourite Movies this century (‘Hell And High Water’) and starring one of my favourite Actors - RIZ AHMED - a classic thriller. RELAY (2025) Opens August 22nd #LilyJames #DavidMackenzie
JAMES DEAN filling up his Porsche 550 Spyder hours before the tragic crash. Dean, who had only taken up racing the year before, bought the car just 9 days before he lost his life on Highway 46, San Luis Obispo - CA, whilst driving to a Salinas race.
Taken in 1865 - the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated & Lewis Carroll's Alice made her first trip to Wonderland - this extraordinary photo of Dickensian London never ceases to take my breath away.
Jack Nicholson at his Mulholland Drive home in Los Angeles in 1969. 📷 by Arthur Schatz
Paul Mace, SYLVESTER STALLONE, HENRY WINKLER, and Perry King on location shooting ‘The Lords Of Flatbush’ (1974). Perry King took over from Richard Gere when Gere was fired from the Film, and Stallone & Winkler became life-long friends as a result of the Movie.
He had many strings to his bow - but whatever the definition of charisma is, boy did he have that. RIP TERENCE STAMP
Best Buds - the late RICHARD LEWIS and LARRY DAVID - hanging with Bunnies in the 70’s. #comedians #talent #comedy #standup
Remembering PATRICK SWAYZE - born 73yrs ago today.
56 Candles 🎂 today for the always excellent EDWARD NORTON
Remembering the late great ALAIN DELON - who left us a year ago today, aged 88.
89 Candles 🎂 today for the legendary Oscar winning Actor, Director & Producer - ROBERT REDFORD
89 Candles 🎂 today for the legendary Oscar winning Actor, Director & Producer - ROBERT REDFORD
RIP the bloody marvellous TERENCE STAMP who’s sadly passed away aged 87
RIP the East End son of a tugboat stoker who was part of a generation of working class Actors who smashed their way through the class barriers & cut-glass accents. He was 87. TERENCE STAMP
Remembering MAUREEN O’HARA - born 105yrs ago today - here as ‘Lady Godiva’ in 1955.
Remembering MAUREEN O’HARA - born 105yrs ago today.
A brand new, 5-part Documentary series on a key figure in late 20thC and post-millennial Cinema, by @AppleTV MR. SCORSESE (2025) Airs October 17th
65 Candles 🎂 today for SEAN PENN
82 Candles today for ROBERT DE NIRO🎂 #actor #birthday #film #movies #cinema
Bruce, QT, Uma, Samuel & John PULP FICTION (1994)
