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Paul Burton, Royal Flash, 1974. Director Dick Lester had two attempts at filming the first Flashman cut from under him. He had had better luck with the second book – with (at first) Sundquist as the victim o Malcolm McDowell’s titular cad. Author George MacDonald Fraser, who worked with Lester on his Three/Four Musketeers, hated it and banned all other screen versions in his lifetime. Since his death in 2008, no one has planned any. Proof positive that no one loves such a cowardly bully (is there any other kind?) as Captain Harry Flashman
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Rupert Everett, Arthur The King, USA-Yugoslavia, TV, 1985. Among the possible Lancelots – Richard Heffer,Barry Stokes, Lambert Wilson – in the worstCamelot saga ever made. Well, imagine Candice Bergen andDyanCannon in Camelot!
- Martin Kemp, The Krays, 1989. The Who singer Roger Daltrey (who played gangster John McVicar in 1979) was the first producer interested in a movie about London’s notorious twin mobsters – into armed robbery, arson, protection, assault, torture and murder. Reggie and Ronnie Kray were to be played by Sunquist and Hywel Bennett. Director Peter Medak used real twins – Gary and Martin Kemp of the Spandau Ballet band – and in 2014’s Legend, Tom Hardy played both of them.
Birth year: 1955Death year: 93Other name: Casting Calls: 3