Fascinating to hear EW talk about this role. Like most one here I first knew him as Robert McCall. His comments on football show how times have changed; football bowing to TV may have been a novelty then whereas today, it's commonplace.
Dinah Shore said a story on Merv Griffin show where she and Burt were eating at a restaurant and they saw this guy harrassing an old actor Mantan Moreland. Burt knew him from Dinah at many of Jack Bennys parties. Burt got up went over to Mantans table sat down and laughed along with this slug. Burt then slammed the guys head down on the table and he went to the floor out cold. Calmly he escorted Mantan to there table and the three continued there meals.
I was a kid when Callan was on, and I absolutely loved it, along with my family. So Sad EW has passed on because he was a great, modest, and multi talented man.
قصة مشوقة وهي أن كريكوري محامي ويكون سبب في سجن روبرت متشوم وبعدها يخرج من السجن لينتقم من كريكوري وعائلته وتدور الأحداث على هروب كريكوري إلى منطقة ريفية على بيت على النهر ولكن ميتشوم يطارده وعائلته😊
I have just re-watched the film version and good as it is, it is not in the same league as the TV original with Alec Guinness. I first read the book as a teenager, but it was far too complicated for me at that first reading. But I persevered and in the end read it several times and watched the TV series. It is by far my favourite spy story real or fiction.
I watched Callan from day one after the pilot A Magnum for Schnider, but Woodward is mistaken on many scores here, Callan was seen as a bully, and the public liked Lonely more than him (I can understand Woodward not seeing and understanding that, who would tell him !) he has an over-inflated opinion of himself as Callan, No football matches (the midweek match, it was called) were ever cancelled because Callan went out on Wednesday nights, by now 1968+ the average teenager didn't even know who Sir Lawrence Olivier was, Woodward was like all TV people, has was living in a bubble, yes he was good, but everyone in the show was good, every character for was great, lonely, valentine, Mower, Lisa Langdon, Clifford, Bond, Rose, these were all huge TV stars in the 1960s, Mower was more well known than Woodawrd at this time, he had stared in several TV shows, the script was the best TV had seen, I could have played Callan and people would have tuned in, l0l Woodward seems to ignore the fact that he wasn't the show, he was part of it and by 1969 he was too old and the series had lost its mass appeal, series one was by far the best of the four series, by the time of the fourth series it had become a bit of a joke, the scriptwriters had changed, location were being used more than the studio so it lost its intense feeling and colour didn't do it any favours, call me wrong but you know I'm right, all right,
A great series, George Smiley well done by Alec Guiness, couldn't be done better in my book, many memorable scenes through out. Also loved "Smiley's People" another cracker, watched the two of them many times over, amazing what you pick up that you missed before... Another great one is "Game, Set & Match" with Ian Holm as Bernard Samson, as well as Michael Caine in the Harry Palmer spy movies, sheer gold and thank you Britain!😉
