Back in the late 90's I saw Stephen Forsyth being interviewed on City-TV's Much Music in Toronto.
I didn't know what he looked like back then, but I thought It had to be him.
Actor? Musician? Actor turned Musician?
It wasn't much of a stretch to try and find out. I looked in the phone directory and there were 2 or 3 Stephen Forsyth and he was the first to answer (as the others were at work I figured). He was surprised and he admitted he was the actor, but he only wanted to talk about his music so nothing came about. In hindsight I should have met up with him, but back then I had no photos and barely knew anything about him to ask about.
There was no internet yet and no books to go to.
The same thing happened with Larry Aubrey & Harry Alan Towers. Larry Aubrey ordered a book from The World's Biggest Bookstore and I called him to let him know it had come in and we were both just as surprised. He was working then as a schoolteacher teaching all things 'acting' and since he hadn't made any westerns. Aubrey also said he had stopped acting, even though I would later learn he had a long list of local TV work (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues).
I quickly asked about "Gott Mit Uns", the first
thing that came to mind, and hadn't realized that both Bud Spencer & Franco
Nero had been in it until he had hung up. You have to remember it was a
bookstore, not a convention hall, and we weren't supposed to bother the
customers.
On another occasion (mid 1990's) a coworker took an order for Harry Alan Towers, and Maria Rohm came in on my day off! The only thing I knew about them were the Fu-Man-Chu movies.
Towers had an office on Yonge, southwest of Bloor, for 'Breton Films'. I went by their office a couple of times, and it was always closed, and no one answered the phone. But the placard on the door did say "Breton Films".
I didn't know they were in South Africa making god-awful
'Canadian' tax-write off action flicks that starred either Oliver Reed or Tony
Curtis!
Such is the reel world.
By Michael Ferguson
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