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Continue reading →: Audiobook Read By John Thaw: Modesty Blaise: I Had A Date With Lady Janet. A Short Story.Welcome everyone to a new post. I may be wrong but this appears to be the only audiobook read by John Thaw. I’ve searched Google, Audible etc and can’t find anything else read by John Thaw. Let me know if there are others. Anyway… I recently bought an audiobook on…
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Continue reading →: Article About John Thaw and the City He Grew Up In: Manchester.This is an article in the Manchester City football club magazine. It is part of a series called CITY DNA. This is number 34 and is about JOHN THAW, his love of football and the Manchester City football team. The article is by Neil Leigh. Enjoy. Having been born in…
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Continue reading →: John Thaw on a Casting List for the 1979 Sci-Fi film Alien.I came across a casting list for the excellent 1979 sci-fi film Alien directed by Ridley Scott. These types of casting lists are quite common as directors and producers throw out some names for each of the main characters and see what everyone thinks. Actors are not chosen for a…
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Continue reading →: Article From the TV Times (British TV Guide) January 31st 1975.In January 1975 Britain was introduced to a new type of police show, The Sweeney.
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Continue reading →: Two John Thaw Photoplay Magazine Articles From The 1970s.Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. Here we have, below, two magazine articles from the 1970s. Both are from the film magazine, Photoplay. Photoplay was the biggest selling film magazine of the 1970s but sadly it is no longer with us. The first article is dated August 1978.…
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Continue reading →: Film Review magazine Article (1978). Sweeney 2.Sweeney 2, the second and final film spin-off from The Sweeney television series.
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Continue reading →: John Thaw’s last play with RADA; The Knight of the Burning Pestle.John’s final play with RADA was The Knight of the Burning Pestle, which was staged at the University Open Air Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, in July 1960. John and his friend Tom Courtenay jokingly referred to the play as Knight of the Burning Pisspots.
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