Remember

I'm a few days late with this, but here's another one for you:

Erwin C. Dietrich is a Swiss film producer, director and writer, mainly of exploitation vehicles like Ranch of the Nymphomaniac Girls, Barbed Wire Dolls, She Devils of the SS and The Erotic Adventures of Robin Hood.
Born: October 4, 1930 (age 86), St. Gallen, Switzerland

My interest in him is because he produced the first Jess Franco film I can remember seeing, Barbed Wire Dolls: this is the film in which a slow motion sequence of Lina Romay rejecting her father's advances (him played by Jess himself) was needed, and Jess, not hindered by the lack of a special camera, decided that they would act the scene in slow motion instead; it used to be on Youtube, but I've just spent 10 minutes looking for it and nothing (except the whole film: which is maybe worth seeing, if you like that kind of thing. To be fair, I'm probably the only one here who does.)


Dietrich also wrote or produced several other Franco films, including one with what I think is the best exploitation title of all: Swedish Nympho Slaves.

There seems to be no end of actors of that kind of generation - give or take 30 years - who were born in Bradford, or at least West Yorks - Captain Picard (can't remember his real name at the moment - oh, Patrick Stewart) James Mason (or was it someone else?), er, can't think of any more. But anyway - Go West Yorkshire*!!!





*And don't go getting any clever ideas there, eh?

Well, yes, as it happens - Leeds, anyway: but how on earth could you tell?

Colin Jeavons (born 20 October 1929, Newport, Monmouthshire) is a Welsh television actor. Jeavons is known for portraying Inspector Lestrade in the Granada television serials The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from Waterhouse's novel Billy Liar.