Amazing facts!!! A new occasional series

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The late Donald Sutherland studied in London from 1957 to 1960 at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. When he dropped out he became a member of Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland, where his room-mate was Michael Sheard, best known as Mr. Bronson in "Grange Hill".

I saw this in a YouTube video, but it does appear to be true!...
Michael Sheard has also played Adolf Hitler 5 times on TV and in movies, perhaps most famously in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

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In the first series of the Doctor Who revival, the family of Billie Piper's character, the Tylers, were named by Russell T. Davies after his neighbour in Swansea, Bonnie Tyler.

Source: "My 80s" on "Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies", BBC Radio 2, 12 April 2025.

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Victor Tourjansky was an extra in three consecutive James Bond films, as an in-joke. Victor was actually an Italian assistant director who worked as a location assistant on the James Bond Films. In each case he appeared as a "Man with Wine" reacting to the event that was happening nearby, in scenes filmed in Italy - after his first appearance went down well, he was put in the next two as well. In "The Spy Who Loved Me", he's on the beach in Sardinia as the Lotus Esprit submarine emerges from the sea. In "Moonraker", he's at a bar in St. Mark's Square, Venice as Bond drives past in the Q-branch gondola / hovercraft. In "For Your Eyes Only", he's at an outdoor restaurant in Cortina as Bond skis through pursued by motorbikes.

YouTube proof