During his sixty-year career, David Barry has collected many funny anecdotes about famous

actors and their often-outrageous behaviour,

ACTORS BEHAVING BADLY

During his sixty-year career, David Barry has collected many funny anecdotes about famous

actors and their often-outrageous behaviour, especially when he toured Europe with Laurence

Olivier and Vivien Leigh at the age of 14, the first British theatre company to go behind the Iron

Curtain at the height of the Cold War. And years later when he played Frankie Abbott in the

successful television comedies Please Sir! and Fenn Street Gang in the seventies. Stories from

London Weekend Television’s bar and what often happened, like the time the Please Sir! cast

met Tommy Cooper. He recalls those years with entertaining anecdotes, and things that went

wrong while shooting the feature film of Please Sir! often with hilarious consequences. He also

tells funny true stories about famous actors who, having had one drop too many, still tried to

perform, usually when he toured with actors like Bill Simpson who played Dr Finlay in Dr Finlay’s

Casebook, who after consuming too much alcohol brought the set down with a crash one night.

And he owns up to some of his own bad behaviour like the time he threw a hot cup of coffee

over a newspaper reporter, a story that is worth recounting. And getting legless filming a beer

commercial with Joanna Lumley or fiddling the Pepsi Taste Test with singer Joe Brown. These

and dozens of other anecdotes take listeners through more than four decades of actors – and

some directors – behaving badly.

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