Sir Roger answers your questions March 2007

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Dear Sir...

I recently watched a documentary about Sir John Mills, which showed many of his private home movies. I spotted your good self in one, relaxing by the pool. Do you remember this and have you demanded appearence fees every time it is shown?! Tee hee. Did you take home movies yourself or do you remember cameoing in anyone else's home movies?

Much respect and kudos for your work with Unicef. That, over everything else, truly sets you out to be a star of the highest shining.

Best wishes & rainbow fishes,
BARNABY

www.offstagetheatregroup.com

Hi Barnaby

I wonder was it his pool in Denham, or was it in the South of France ... eitherway, yes I did socialise with Johnny and Mary quitea lot, and often he'd pull out his camera. I'm sure I've been captured many times by his and other people's cameras, but you know you're never really concious of it at the time. I'm guilty of doing it with my video camera, though mainly with family.

All the best

Hello Sir Roger
Any idea how
the new Saint project is coming along? Is your son still attached to it? As the Saint?

My son Geoffrey co-owns the rights will Bill Macdonald. He will produce, not star. It's nudging along, but like everything else in this business, it takes an age to get things going. So time, patience and determination are the watch words..

Dear Sir Roger,

I've been a fan of yours at least since Live and Let Die, if not before, and am hoping

you can answer a question for me.
I understand that you appeared in a 2-part episode of The Roaring 20s called "Right Off the Boat," and read that it was supposed to be released theatrically outside of the U. S., but can't find any evidence of this: can you enlighten me? It was directed by Robert Altman.
Thank you very much.

HiAs far as I can remember it was only ever shown on tv. Copies are in circulation on video tape, as I think I have one, but as to whether it was planned to go theatrical, I'm afraid I've no idea. I was just a jobbing actor, glad of the work and didn't get too involved in the business.

Dear Sir Roger,

I read somewhere that Patrick McGoohan was offered to play both James Bond and Simon Templar and didn't accept in either cases. He probably wouldn't have personified the same Bond or Templar as you successfully rendered. Have you ever had the opportunity to thank him or joke about that with him?

Salutations,

Eric

Hello Eric

Yes, he was apparently offered both ... and turned both down because, being a staunch Catholic, he didn't approve of the characters' womanising. We never discussed it, though did often play squash while I was at ABPC with The Saint and he was up the road at MGM with The Prisoner.

Hallo Sir Roger,

Some of us members noted that you celebrated your 5th wedding anniversary with your lovely wife Kristina this month. We would like to congratulate you! My simple question: Did you do anything special on that day?

Kind regards on behalf of all, also to

Kristina!
Martin

Thank you Martin, and everyone else. Kristina and I were in the Maldives having a wonderful, quiet, restful holiday. It's idyllic and we spent the day relaxing, eating, swimming, eating, sleeping, eating and the odd drink too.

My question is this....

I was reading the poem "If" on this site by Rudyard Kipling, and I thought it was a poem full of encouragement and hope for people.

We know you like the poem, but my question is, when you read it, what thoughts came to mind about it and what do you think the message is in it?
Many thanks and best wishes
Noel

Hello again Noel

It is a poem I know off by heart, and have done for years. It is very moving and very hopeful too. I just love the words, and being a great admirer of Kipling, think it is not only his best known poem, but maybe his best too.

I will be reading Kipling later this year at the Nobel Institute, where they are celebrating his life.

By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing
theirs and blaming you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but
make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, and don't deal in lies, or being hated and don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, or talk too wise;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and
treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by
knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your
life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make on heap of all your winnings and risk
it on a turn of pitch-and-toss, and start at your
beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve
your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is
nothing in you except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or
walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but not too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds'
worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

And — which is more — you'll be a man my son!

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