#WHYMONDAY? THREE ANSWERS PLEASE . . AND HIP-HIP HOORAY!

START OF A NEW WEEKLY POST, #WHYMONDAY?  Why? Well, I don't know about you, but Monday's right now, seem very much like every other day!! But hey, no doubt things can only get better, eventually. So, for those who pride themselves, on crushing and solving past puzzles and tests here on the PCASuk blog, facebook fan page and IG, THESE are for you too! Think you can answer ALL THREE questions? Why not trip over to the FACEBOOK PCASuk FAN PAGE, 

and throw down your hand! See you there...  

 

JUNE 4th 1989, and he's up and at it! Following #PeterCushing's fall from his push bike on December 30th.. the same day he received official notice of his OBE from 'The Queen'... Peter had an operation on his broken hip, but come just five months later, he was taking part in a sponsored mile walk around the Kent Cricket Ground in Canterbury for the 'Great Hip Walk, in support of the British Orthopaedic Association! That I should live so long and at 76 still be able to walk around Kent Cricket Ground, after a hip operation, I would feel extremely lucky and blessed . .

 

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#HAMMERFILMS GOTHIC CLASSICS SHROUDED IN GLASS SMOKE AND MIRRORS!

ABOVE: TWO POSTS shared at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page  tonight about the 'smoke and mirrors' world of #HAMMERFILMS still working magic over 60 years later . . 

 

 

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REMEMBERING ACTOR #DOUGLASWILMER

TODAY AT THE Facebook PCASUK Fan Page we are remembering an actor who for many, was their first stop off of a TV #SHERLOCKHOLMES actor, #DOUGLASWILMER. Wilmer was for a time, quite a close work companion, working for the #BBC in their flagship television drama of Sherlock Holmes. They later work alongside on the big screen in the #HAMMERFILMS ' The Vampire Lovers' in 1970.

 

 

WILMER WAS mainly associated by the public for his role as Sherlock Holmes, which he first played in the BBC's 1964 production of 'The Speckled Band'. Together with co-star Nigel Stock, playing Doctor Watson, it was a knockout tv series, that Peter Cushing went on to star in after Wilmer left. In 1973 Wilmer played author Jacques Futrelle's Holmesian detective Professor Van Dusen in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes for ITV. In 1975 he once again appeared as Holmes (albeit in a supporting role) in #GeneWilder's The Adventure of #SherlockHolmes' Smarter Brother, with Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Wilmer also played Sir Denis Nayland Smith in two Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu films The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967).   

ABOVE: Peter Cushing and Douglas Wilmer in 'The Vampire Lovers' ... I see here, Wilmer is wearing a very similar full head hair piece. . . very much like Cushing wears in 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' 'And now, the Screaming Starts' and his character, Count Gerard De Merret in the Orson Welles Great Mysteries episode, 'La Grande Breteche' . . I wonder Wilmer suggested it? By the late 1960s, Peter's natural hair had thinned and receded. Like actor John Wayne, baldness never bothered him, but his horror films often required him to wear a toupee. And in these three projects, he sported this flamboyant 'Marcel Marceau' piece. 

 

WILMER APPEARED in Hammer films, 'The Vampire Lovers', as Baron Hartog... with #PeterCushing in 1970. With roles in Revenge of the Pink Panther, 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad', 'Cleopatra' in 1963 and 'Jason and the Argonauts'.. it will be for Sherlock Holmes he is probably be best remembered. In 2009 Wilmer published his autobiography entitled 'Stage Whispers'.

IN 2012 Wilmer made a cameo appearance in the "The Reichenbach Falls" episode of Sherlock as an irate old man in 'The Diogenes Club'.

 

Sadly, Douglas Wilmer left us peacefully on March 31, 2016 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England....

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'I DID MY RESEARCH!' #MARKHAMILL TALKS CUSHING AND #CHRISTOPHERLEE

I'VE POSTED SEVERAL CLIPS , over the years of #MarkHamill talking about his respect for and his meeting #PeterCushing during the making of #StarWars, some from way back in 1977. Today, I have shared and posted a new  short clip over at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page from 2016 and a really interesting and fun talk Mark gave for the The Oxford Union Society in the UK, were he mentions both Peter AND #ChristopherLee! It takes a while to thaw out the academics, and Hamill certainly make his huge store of anecdotes, very entertaining and  Interesting. His Christopher Lee impression, is I think, SPOT ON!....😆 😉 - Marcus

 

 

 

ABOVE: Clips we shared back in 2019: Hamill was a quite the Peter Cushing fan . So, much so when first cast in Star Wars back in 1976, he was extremely excited about appearing in a film, that featured Cushing as a Grand Guy in a black hat baddy! Sadly, they didn't get to appear on screen together.. but he made sure, he got the opportunity to meet up with one of his major big screen idols... Here are two short clips with Hamill talking about the day, he met Peter Cushing at Elstree studios . . 

 

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