Keyboard Shortcuts. Home Messages Hashtags Subgroups. BillyBunter Main Topics. Search Cancel. Topics Messages Expanded Polls. Hashtags poll. Between and. Date - of previous page next page. The famous Hollywood actor Peter Cushing was one of us. During his life-time Cushing had two auto-biographies published. In the first autobiography there is a paragraph praising Hamilton as an author, and mentioning how the Gem in particular and Tom Merry as a character had an inspirational and positive influence on his life.
Peter Cushing actually became famed in Britain first in the 's appearing in a lot of TV shows of the era , and then went over to America.
He even acted alongside Laurel and Hardy in one of their films and many others over the years with other famed Hollywood actors and actresses. Just trying to put across a potted and incoherent biography here. The upshot is that I recently came across the attached. He was also a painter painting natural outdoor scenes and indulged in Toy soldiers as a hobby Not surprising that he made some stand up figures of our Hamilton characters.
I have recently bought these two Gussy and Bunter. See attached. Peter attended an OBBC meeting in , and must have given this as a gift to Len at that time the meeting is recorded in the July CD issue, though no mention of these stand-up gifts. We can't quite decipher to whom the Bunter figure is inscribed I know for a fact that he must have done a Tom Merry how could he not for his favourite Hamilton character?
So an actor whom I really admire for his own acting, and one who was connected to our hobby in the past. Nice to have these in my collection! Walker of the Sixth quoted on discovery of lost books-Would like to give the discoverer a good one on the solar plexus". Horace Coker was wholly, completely and utterly uninterested in the Carthaginian War, Coker had much more urgent matters to think of than ancient wars waged in Africa. Coker simply couldn't give any attention, just then, to any war in Africa, even to that great and historic war 'quod Hannibale duce Carthaginienses cum populo Romano gessere'.
