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List of Illustrations
1. With the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor in my first movie in Hollywood,
The Last Time I Saw Paris
. Believe me, I was looking into the glass!
(REX/Moviestore Collection)
2. Two shots from
Diane
with Lana Turner. She taught me how to kiss with passion, but without the pressure.
(MGM/The Kobal Collection)
3. With lovely Angie Dickinson in
The Sins of Rachel Cade
, 1961. Sadly I wasn’t allowed to sin (on screen at any rate!).
(REX/SNAP)
4. The poster for an ‘intriguing’ film …
The Sicilian Cross
,
The Executors
,
Opium Road
,
Street People
, it went by several titles and the poster was most definitely better than the film – though Stacy Keach was a delight.
5. I recruited a few young starlets to help me find my missing halo on
The Saint
.
6. In1967 German magazine
Bravo
voted me the best television actor – naturally! – and their editor presented me with this lovely award.
7. Me ‘persuading’ dogs not to use this tree.
8. We had attracted a big crowd for this set-up and had to stop Tony falling into the river by having someone clutch him from behind.
9. The Aston Martin DBS from
The Persuaders!
sold for £545,000 at auction in May 2014 … wish I’d kept it now …
10. A shotgun wedding! With Lee Marvin and Barbara Parkins in
Shout at the Devil
in 1976, and that’s Sir Ian Holm peering over the bride’s shoulder. The black eyes were make-up – honestly!
11. Not
Hart to Hart
, but with Stefanie Powers in
Escape to Athena
, going in for a close up. My other co-stars included David Niven and Telly Savalas. The tagline on the poster was: ‘The patriot, the professor, the comic and the stripper were fighting for what they believed in … GETTING RICH!’ I couldn’t have put it better myself!
12. They say an actor’s life is a solitary one. I say, ‘nah, nah, nah-nah-nah’ to that!
13. Me looking well and truly goosed in a shot from
The Wild Geese
. It’s not all wine, women and song, you know.
14. At the Oscars in 1989 Michael Caine, Sean Connery and I presented the Best Actor in a Supporting Role award to Kevin Kline for his part in
A Fish Called Wanda
– and then tried to steal it off him.
15. On a holiday in Venice with my old friend Bryan Forbes.
16. Tony Curtis with his wife Jill, Kristina and myself met up at the
Empire
Awards in London in 2006, where Tony picked up a much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award.
17. Kristina always threw the best birthday parties for me, this one at Le Dome on Hollywood’s famous Strip. (
l to r
) Frank Sinatra, Joan Collins, Gregory Peck and my darling, at one of them.
18. With Frank and Barbara Sinatra and Chief Abbot William B. Williams (the American disc jockey who first called Frank ‘The Chairman of the Board’) at The Friars Club Man of the Year award in 1986. Believe it or not, I was that man!
19. Dean Martin was always thought of as a hard-drinking rascal but in reality his glass was usually filled with apple juice.
20. HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco presents me as a Monaco Goodwill Ambassador on behalf of the Ambassadors Club of Monaco in 2012, at the Hotel de Paris.
21. (
l to r
) Kevin Costner, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Kristina, myself and Sir Richard Branson at the Monaco Golf Club – we arrived by helicopter and left in Richard’s hot air balloon!
22. Two of my favourite ladies: daughter Deborah and Kristina at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 for
The Ladykillers
.
23. (
l to r
), my daughter-in-law Loulou and her husband Geoffrey (that makes him my son!), Deborah, Kristina and me with the lovely Geraldine and Michael Winner in Gstaad.
24. My most recent film was
A Princess for Christmas
, during which three huge Bulgarian technicians fell on my leg – hence the attractive footwear in this cast shot.
25. With (
l to r
) Tore Wretman, HRH Princess Lilian (showing her sense of fun with that apron), Kristina and HM Queen Sylvia of Sweden at a lunch party.
26. (
l to r
) Lady-in-waiting Lena Luttichaü, HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Pastor Peter Parkov, who married Kristina and I in Copenhagen. HRH The Prince Consort is not in the picture – because he took it!
27. My eldest son Geoffrey with his wife Loulou and daughters Ambra and Mia, with Kristina and me.
28. Kristina’s daughter Christina with her horse Lucky.
29. Kristina’s son, Hans-Christian, his wife Henrietta and their two children Kathrine and Adrian.
30. Kristina with her grandson Lucas.
31. My youngest son Christian with his wife Lara, daughter Heidi and sons Tristan and Maximillian.
32. In 2011 the Royal Albert Hall staged a festive treat in aid of UNICEF – and here I am, with my daughter Deborah, introducing Captain Beaky and his Band, and a number called ‘The Grasshopper’. (
Christine Goodwin/courtesy of RAH, 2011
)
33. In 2012 I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Hertfordshire. Their Chancellor, the Marquess of Salisbury, kindly presented it to me.
34. Kristina and me on a recent UNICEF trip to Aachen, Germany, and the Opening Ceremony of the World Equestrian Festival, looking rather regal in our carriage (
Henry Herrmann/UNICEF
)
PLATES
1. With the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor in my first movie in Hollywood,
The Last Time I Saw Paris
. Believe me, I was looking into the glass!
(REX/Moviestore Collection)
2. Two shots from
Diane
with Lana Turner. She taught me how to kiss with passion, but without the pressure.
(MGM/The Kobal Collection)
3. With lovely Angie Dickinson in
The Sins of Rachel Cade
, 1961. Sadly I wasn’t allowed to sin (on screen at any rate!).
(REX/SNAP)
4. The poster for an ‘intriguing’ film …
The Sicilian Cross
,
The Executors
,
Opium Road
,
Street People
, it went by several titles and the poster was most definitely better than the film – though Stacy Keach was a delight
.
5. I recruited a few young starlets to help me find my missing halo on
The Saint
.
