With two major conflicts that get all the publicity and more that don’t, surely the one thing all sensible people pray for is Peace in the World. Ours is such a tiny planet, it is madness that the one mammal blessed with reasoning powers, could be using it more usefully, than finding even more ways to hurt and destroy each other. My number one prayer this year that we wake up and stop fighting and find a way to live peacefully with each other.
I am lucky I have a good year and enjoyed carrying on with some work. I do love my job, being an actress/ actor call it what you will. Good parts dwindle with age, so now – more of my own work – this coming year – ANDY, the film I wrote. I made a short and now in partnership with another actor/director have nearly finished producing the feature length version. I will write more about the making of ANDY another time, but now I want to reflect on the luck I have had in my career.
Sixty five years – working at what I love – acting- is somewhat amazing to me. However there are contemporaries who are at the same stage- us lucky survivors, starting in the 1960’s, possibly the most exciting, creative time in the media industry.
I am not a great one for looking back, but how can I forget – The Lion in Winter, The System aka The Girl Getters, Adam’s Woman,Danger Man aka Secret Agent. The Saint, The Avengers, 1984, Lorna Doone, the list goes on, which includes working in so many TV dramas at the BBC and ITV. In Los Angeles the luck continued with Magnum PI, Cannon, Mission Impossible, The Incredible Hulk, The Magician, Alias Smith and Jones. etc( the last was a TV series losely based on “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and its success, Hollywood never missed a chance to cash in on the moment.) I got to ride a horse Western style…a long held ambition, what a blast, the whole of my experience as an actor, has been nothing but a joy. And the icing on the cake was meeting so many interesting and good people along the way and bringing a little fun and entertainment into the lives of the people who watched and who wrote and said so. I am grateful and can only say “thank you” first to the most important – the audience, then to fellow actors, to the crews, producers, directors, casting agents, theatrical agents, managers and publicists.
This little homage is to everyone who has helped me and been there for me, through the many years of work as we end 2025. And please may it continue, the Lord willing.
Happy Christmas and a Happy peaceful New Year for us all!
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