Extras

[denis rigg]

Hi, dear Fans!!!

Opening a new topic - Extras in series!

This area fascinated me for many years and I, like Piers, conducted various studies and identification of the performers in the Avengers and TNA.

Today I would like to present for fans the latest research:

Watching the episode The Bird who Knew too Much, often I thought who is this actor?



I definitely see him in other films, but he was nowhere in the credits.

Finally I stumbled on the answer: turns, famous extra is William F. Sully.

He played a funny role in The Avengers, as model in studio dressed as a Steed. I like to watch this scene.

William F. Sully played in many known films: A Stitch in Time, The Ipcress File, James Bond movies, etc...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838425/

http://movie-dude.co.uk/William%20F%20Sully.htm

[MikeR]

Hi, dear Fans!!!

Opening a new topic - Extras in series!

This area fascinated me for many years and I, like Piers, conducted various studies and identification of the performers in the Avengers and TNA.

Today I would like to present for fans the latest research:

Watching the episode The Bird who Knew too Much, often I thought who is this actor?



Denis

I definitely see him in other films, but he was nowhere in the credits.

Finally I stumbled on the answer: turns, famous extra is William F. Sully.

He played a funny role in The Avengers, as model in studio dressed as a Steed. I like to watch this scene.

William F. Sully played in many known films: A Stitch in Time, The Ipcress File, James Bond movies, etc...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838425/

http://movie-dude.co.uk/William%20F%20Sully.htm

Denis

There is a book that lists many extras seen in The Avengers, with information taken from official paperwork and eagle-eyed enthusiasts.

[denis rigg]

Mike

Thanks for information. Nevertheless, I think this is a good topic for research in this area. I'm sure that many of the findings in mentioned book have already been presented on other sites and forums.

[cyberrich]

Great idea for a topic I can only remember the famous extras in The Avengers. Penelope Keith in Murder Market and Nicholas Smith in Escape in time. They of course had proper roles in season 6. (Take me to your Leader, Super secret cypher snatch). I recognised the extra in the opening scene of Escape in time as an extra in the opening scene of a season 6 episode. I'm trying to recall which one. Anyone remember Rich.

[denis rigg]

Great idea for a topic I can only remember the famous extras in The Avengers. Penelope Keith in Murder Market and Nicholas Smith in Escape in time. They of course had proper roles in season 6. (Take me to your Leader, Super secret cypher snatch). I recognised the extra in the opening scene of Escape in time as an extra in the opening scene of a season 6 episode. I'm trying to recall which one. Anyone remember Rich.

Clifford Earl, Rich. He played a similar small role in Super Secret Cypher Snatch. It's interesting that I first watched Super Secret Cypher Snatch in January 1995, after Escape in Time (in October same year). It happened that when I watched Escape in Time, I recalled actor from Tara episode, but I vaguely remember what happened to character there. Bottom line, I thought, "There is a small chance that this is the same character."

[cyberrich]

Clifford Earl, Rich. He played a similar small role in Super Secret Cypher Snatch.

That's it Thanks. I wonder if anyone has spotted an extra in The Avengers before they became famous.

[Ian Wegg]

Clifford Earl was later a well known face to viewers in the south of England as a continuity announcer on Southern Television.



He acted in The Avengers and Doctor Who, as well as a supporting role in Diamonds Are For Ever. He was founder of the Porton Down Veterans Support Group having been exposed to Sarin in 1953.

Sadly he passed away last year.

http://exforces.net/ken-earl-founder-of ... roup-dies/

~iw

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Clifford Earl was later a well known face to viewers in the south of England as a continuity announcer on Southern Television.



He acted in The Avengers and Doctor Who, as well as a supporting role in Diamonds Are For Ever. He was founder of the Porton Down Veterans Support Group having been exposed to Sarin in 1953.

Sadly he passed away last year.

http://exforces.net/ken-earl-founder-of ... roup-dies/

~iw

thank you. that is most interesting! Then he knows all about espionage first hand.

[cyberrich]

Thanks for the info Ian. The next time I watch an Avengers episode I shall be looking out for a future star among the extras Rich.

[dissolute]

You are the business, Denis! Last time I checked Britmovies & movie dude, he was still an unknown.