There can't be many better performances in the genre than Robert Walker's portrayal of a psychotic stalker. He tragically died just a few weeks after the film was released and a (posthumous) Oscar would have been fully merited, IMO.

Strangers on a Train, a noir thriller of a ride. Scene after scene delivering a wonderful mix of suspense and outré dark humour. A film I can watch again and again. 1/2

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No wonder Tolen (Ray Brooks) is checking his hair. It's not every day you get to take 'Motorbike Girl' Jane Birkin for a ride.

Life's a beach. The film won the top prize, the Palme d’Or, at the Cannes film festival. Ray Brooks: “Every big star of the day you can think of was there and anything we wanted we just signed for it. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Ray Brooks in a starring role in the 1965 film comedy The Knack … and How to Get It. The New York Times described Brooks as “the ultimate in cool, with his dark suit, dark glasses, hipster haircut, droopy eyelids and disrobing voice”. 1/2

Ray Brooks, always a modest man in real life - "I don't think I was ever that good an actor" - here seen as a gangland boss in Gideon's Way. Later in his career he was often cast in comedy-dramas. For a certain generation he will always be the distinctive voice of Mr Benn. RIP 🙏

«Je ne suis pas un numéro! Je suis un homme libre!»

McGoohan and Welles rehearsing Moby Dick in 1955. After an inauspicious start where McGoohan almost walked out, he was drawn in by Welles' “force of personality” later describing working with the director as “one of the most rewarding and exhilarating experiences I have known.”

Bent copper Freddie Dyer (Brian Blessed) interrogates master criminal Jack Last (Ian McShane). or should that be vice versa. Another great guest cast in The Last Video Shop (Minder).

Arthur: "Now be fair - I only do copies of filth. If the punters want art they get cosher tapes. If they want filth they can squint." .Daley Videos: 'Putting the consumer first'.

Terry: "You fancy her, don't you?".Arthur: "I do not!. It's a meeting of minds. Though I do have to admit - she does have womanly qualities.".Terry: "You're disgusting!"

Arthur Daley: "I've no quibble with the garments per se. They've all got sleeves and holes in the right places. It's the spelling. Barry, to my certain knowledge, Holywood is not the movie capital of the world. It's somewhere in the Essex marshes." (The Last Video Show).

Rockford Files guests who went on to become 'Classic TV' stars. Number 4: Sharon Gless guest starred in The Rockford Files (left) twice, before winning a Golden Globe and two Emmys for her portrayal of Sergeant Christine Cagney in the landmark cop show Cagney & Lacey (right).

Rockford Files guests who went on to become 'Classic TV' stars. Number 3: Lindsay Wagner guest starred in The Rockford Files (left) twice as client Sara Butler, before becoming The Bionic Woman (right).

Rockford Files guests who went on to become 'Classic TV' stars. Number 2: Tom Selleck guest starred in The Rockford Files (left) twice as fellow private eye Lance White, before becoming Hawaii's number one investigator Thomas Magnum (right).

Rockford Files guests who went on to become 'Classic TV' stars. Number 1: Veronica Hamel guest starred in Kojak, Starsky & Hutch and The Rockford Files (left) before becoming attorney Joyce Davenport in Hill Street Blues (right).

Unlike the Rocky portrayed by Robert Donley (left photo) in the pilot film, who was something of a shady character, Noah's Rocky tended to have Jim's welfare and future as his prime concerns. Surely truck driver would be a safer, more secure profession than private investigator?

Remembering Noah Beery Jr, BOTD 1913. Took over the role of Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford and appeared in 100+ episodes of The Rockford Files as Jim's truck-driving father. Acting was in the blood: his uncle was an Oscar-winning star and his dad had been a silent movie actor & singer.

A web of villainy in Andrew Davies' adaptation of Bleak House, from the highest rung of the social ladder to the lowest, a leading lawyer (Charles Dance), a leech-like hanger-on (Nathaniel Parker), debt collector (Phil Davis), to an illiterate, drunken landlord (Johnny Vegas).