...Day on Talking Pictures TV this Thursday (15 Feb). With interviews between films with his son.
Sam Kydd...
Orlando was one of my first favourite TV programmes as a kid.
A spin-off from Crane (with Patrick Allen) as I recall.
I don't remember that at all. Was it a children's programme?
And sorry Billy. I don't quite understand where this programme will be on.
I think Crane was an adult programme in which Orlando was one of the characters. I remember my mother used to like Patrick Allen. Orlando was a spin off made for children's tv.
Sam Kydd day is on Talking Pictures TV (Freeview/Freesat 81, Sky 343, Virgin 445) next Thursday.
It's not a proper war film without Sam Kydd in the background as a stoker, squaddie or air mechanic.
"Remembering Sam Kydd" next Wed. 6.30pm on TPTV - very good documentary
He turned up again (of course!) for about 5 minutes in the CFF 'Saturday Morning Pictures' film "The Last Load" (1948) on TPTV, as a police station radio controller.
42 years ago today that Sam Kydd left us aged just 67 but having appeared in some 345 films and TV episodes.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 26th March 2025, 3:44 PM42 years ago today that Sam Kydd left us aged just 67 but having appeared in some 345 films and TV episodes.
Of course, regularly appears in B&W films on TPTV, sometimes uncredited with no speaking part, but you can't miss that fizzog.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 26th March 2025, 3:48 PMOf course, regularly appears in B&W films on TPTV, sometimes uncredited with no speaking part, but you can't miss that fizzog.
(And Orlando.)
We're in to coincidences this week with TPTV - first it was Alvin Stardust, now the latest oft repeated "Look at Life" is the one where Sam plays all the parts - some 10 of them!