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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!

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