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What Happened To 'The Sweeney' Actor Robert Gillespie (Interview)

The Movie Memories Club is delighted to share "What Happened To ‘The Sweeney’ Actor Robert Gillespie". To see even more film and TV interviews, please subscribe at:    / @themoviememoriesclub   Within the framework of 25 quick-fire questions, this is a celebrity interview with the British film, television, and theatre Actor, Writer, and Director Robert Gillespie, where he talks candidly about his life, and career, working in film, television, and the theatre. Robert James Gillespie was born on November the 9th, 1933 in Lille, France. In this interview, Robert Gillespie talks about arriving with his family from France during the Second World War, moving to Manchester, and then training at RADA before joining The Old Vic, led by Richard Burton and Claire Bloom. Robert fondly remembers his time on stage with the RSC and working in a production of 'The Shoemaker's Holiday' at the Mermaid Theatre - Where he got the biggest laugh he has ever had on stage. Robert Gillespie’s earliest film roles were in ‘Siege of the Saxons (1963), ‘Inspector Clouseau’ (1968), and in ‘Frankenstein Must be Destroyed’ (1969). Other film credits include ‘Force 10 From Navarone’ (1978), The Thirty Nine Steps’ (1978), opposite Peter Sellars in ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ (1979), and his final film role as Magistrate Warmley in Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’ (2018) By sheer chance, Robert Gillespie acknowledges that he fell into television in the 1950’s, and that this would be the greatest area of opportunity for him moving forward. Robert Gillespie has appeared in many cult British TV shows including ‘The Saint’ (1967) opposite Roger Moore, ‘The Avengers’ (1968), ‘The Sweeney’ as Steward in the episode of ‘Thin Ice’, starring alongside John Thaw and Dennis Waterman and two episodes of ‘The Professionals’ (1978) Robert Gillespie is most fondly remembered for appearing in many British situational comedies, such as ‘Dad’s Army (1972), ‘Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?’ (1973/74), The Good Life’ (1975), ‘The Liver Birds’ (1976), ‘George & Mildred’ (1977/78), ‘Butterflies’ (1978/79) and most notably as the Vicar opposite Ronnie Barker in ‘Porridge’ (1974) and The Gasman in ‘Rising Damp’ (1975), in a great scene opposite Leonard Rossiter However, it was in ‘Keep it on the Family’ (1980-1983) at Thames Television, where Robert Gillespie was to enjoy the most significant role of his career, starring as the lead character with a large lion glove-puppet. Written especially for him by Brian Cooke, Robert Gillespie played the part of Dudley Rush, a cartoonist and manic-depressive in 31 episodes over 5 seasons. “Working as an Actor, one has to live with the gaps. Because the gaps look very deep, and a very long way down, and you can never tell at a certain stage if you're ever going to work again. But I wouldn't have changed it because I've never come across anything that I would have preferred to do” - Robert Gillespie Robert Gillespie later turned to directing and writing, and penned two volumes of his autobiography, ‘Are You Going To Do That Little Jump?’ in 2017, and ‘Are You Going To Do That Little Jump? The Adventure Continues’ in October 2021. Robert Gillespie has also launched his own website covering his entire career and a place you can order his books. Go to https://littlejump.co.uk/ Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 00.17 - Q1. Full name given at birth? 00:29 - Q2. Birthday, and year of birth? 00:38 - Q3. Where were you born and raised? 02:17 - Q4. Any brothers or sisters? 02:47 - Q5. Earliest memory of going to the cinema or theatre? 04:45 - Q6. Favourite Actor or Actress growing up? 05:10 - Q7. Event or trigger, that first prompted acting to be considered as a profession? 08:00 - Q8. Formal acting training or stage school attended? 08:24 - Q9. Any other jobs, other than acting? 08:41 - Q10. First ever paid acting performance/ professional debut? 09:29 - Q11. First request to sign an autograph? 11:25 - Q12. Ever been starstruck and asked for an autograph? 12:11 - Q13. Have you collected any memorabilia? 13:10 - Q14. Do you prefer theatre, television, cinema, or radio? 14:56 - Q15. Parts, performances, or characters most remembered for? 15:54 - Q16. Proudest individual stage or screen performance? 17:23 - Q17. Any part or role auditioned for or really wanted but didn't get? 18:16 - Q18. Any regrets for ever having to turn down an acting role? 19:31 - Q19. Name a co-star that you liked/ disliked working with the most? 21:28 - Q20. What a Director needs to do to get the best performance from you? 23:16 - Q21. Three guests you’d invite to an intimate dinner party? 24:07 - Q24. Something about you or your career that most people would not already know? 24:44 - Q23. Any regrets or anything that you would have done differently? 28:35 - Q22. One moment from your career that you would re-live once again? 29:40 - Q25. Whatever happened to the Actor Robert Gillespie? 31:49 - Signed photographs. 32:00 - End