Peter Firth

[Tea Lady]

Thanks for the picture Picard1109. We had the text before but not a clear picture of PF in the taxi......nice arms though !

PF's been in a lot of films but I think I have said before, and you seem to agree in part, that a lot of it is dross. I have read up on White Angel, Prisoner, and Lifeforce, and seen clips on youtube but I have stayed clear. The reason is that I adore PF and I dont really want to see a poorly made and scripted film just because he is in it. I guess someone could therefore argue that I am not a true fan but I want to see PF used to his full abilities and that for me means picking and choosing what I watch from his back book of films and TV programmes.

You can get the complete collection of Band of Gold on ebay quite cheap so I think I will buy that next. I think PF was in three of those episodes. I think this series was supposed to be quite good.

As for Blood & Oil I thought he was great. A role completely against his normal casting. Its nice to see though that he has teeth as in Spooks we rarely get to see them as he's always wearing a pout 24/7.

Going slightly off topic, I kept meaning to research the character PF played in Pearl Harbor to see if he was a "real person." So when it was on the tv the other day I jotted down the name on the coffin at the end "Capt Mervyn S Bennion." I looked him up and PF did actually portray the real Captain of the USS West Virginia. He was mortally wounded on the brig, basically nearly cut in half, but refused to be moved to an aid station and stayed commanding his ship during the rest of the attack for 2 hours before he bled to death. He was awared the medal of Honor. So the film is somewhat accurate.