Harry "Aitch" Fielder

I worked at Elstree studios in the 60s-70s-80s and got to work on The Avengers and other tv series at that time. Great fun..

Aitch, (H)...

www.harryfielder.co.uk

Welcome on board, Harry !
Don't hesitate to post.
I will translate if necessary.

harryfielder a écrit:I worked at Elstree studios in the 60s-70s-80s and got to work on The Avengers and other tv series at that time. Great fun..

Aitch, (H)...

www.harryfielder.co.uk

What is your best memory concerning the series ?

Joris a écrit:

harryfielder a écrit:I worked at Elstree studios in the 60s-70s-80s and got to work on The Avengers and other tv series at that time. Great fun..

Aitch, (H)...

www.harryfielder.co.uk

What is your best memory concerning the series ?

In 1968 I was doing a show called Randall and Hopkirk and on the next studio stage my wife Mary was standing/in for Linda Thorson on The Avengers..Happy days..
Here's a call sheet from those days...

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/harryfielder/Call%20sheets/14October20074.jpg

Aitch, (H)

Interesting !
It's so amazing to talk with famous people !

Joris, I was never famous, I just went to work for 32 years and did the job I loved...(It was better than 9-5 for a lifetime )

Aitch, (H)

Yes but for me you're famous.
Because you saw things, you have memories concerning my favourite series.
Especially that you were on a show.

harryfielder a écrit:Joris, I was never famous, I just went to work for 32 years and did the job I loved...(It was better than 9-5 for a lifetime )

Aitch, (H)

Quite impressive when one looks year after year

Ah...Randall & Hopkins ( deceased ) ,one of the very few Cult Brit TV series we never got in France ..Sigh...

Lord B...

Did you get this series....
THE PERSUADERS…Tony Curtis…Roger Moore…
Nearly another years work all down to Ricky Green the 2nd A.D. (Where are you Rick)?
I was booked to do a couple of days stand/in for Tony while his regular stand/in Alan (Butch) Meecham was off sick. I got on well with Tony because he liked my Cockney accent. (Well I was born N1/E1)
Now I would either stand/in for Tony, Roger or one of the guest Artists on that episode.(Including Terry Thomas)
Tony was the best to work for because he always had time for you.
He would come on the set early morning and ask how the wife and kids were.
He would tell me of his tough upbringing as a child in the Bronx and how he learned to be tough. He had to be he said.
(As a young man I was madly in love with his ex wife Janet Leigh but I thought it better not to tell him)
One day off set he was doing handstands and ask me would I like to join him. (By now you would have guessed that I’m not the fittest man in the film game)
So I declined saying ‘’Tone, I have trouble standing the right way up never mind upside down’’. He was a very fit man and so should be after working with Burt Lancaster on TRAPEZE.
As I said I was on The Persuaders for nearly a year thanks to Tony, Roger and Ricky Green. (I like the film business)

Wonderful memories , Harry .

I've been quite a lot at Pinewood Studios myself...but two decades later !!!!

As a matter of fact , will be back at Pinewood in next october for the official Spy Who Loved me Anniversary Day with the added bonus of the presence of Sir Rog' himself attending...

And on a personnal note , I must confess I was too young to attend the filming of the intro sequence of The Persuaders at Nice airport and then on the Corniche road between Nice and Monaco, although living quite nearby at the times ...Sigh ( again )

Strangely enough , Roger Moore remains to this day the only Bond actor I've never met in person so far...

Welcome, Harryfielder, it's a real pleasure to meet you here.
Wonderful memories, I can see. You're a lucky man !

Thank you, Evelyne for the welcome.
I did have some luck in my life (3 kids..5 grandkids and a lovely wife for 45 years this year)
But I had to work hard at getting all the jobs I did and I would gladly do it all again.
When you're in a studio you would bump into all the stars in the canteen or bar and they are all the same as us and have to be fed and watered.
I'm retired now and enjoying not having to rush up and down motorways after forty years.
I still go to Elstree studios for the odd lunch or drink (but at my own pace)

Aitch,

The sentence you used is wonderful : "I did have some luck in my life (3 kids..5 grandkids and a lovely wife for 45 years this year".
Family is important !

Question : did you ever work on any of the Indiana Jones movies ?
( just asking because of the obvious Elstree connection..)

That's me at the front middle of the pic about to get it.

Boy , have you ever thought of writing your Movies Memoirs ?????

Lord B Sinclair a écrit:Boy , have you ever thought of writing your Movies Memoirs ?????

I did write them and it turned into my web site.

It took me six months to write (but nearly 40 years to live)
When I think back to the Avenger days at Elstree that would only count for 2-3 days in my life. When I think back to the 800 other productions that took 32 years of my life.
If the Mod can set up a page for me in English I have many tales to tell and we can leave this page free for Avengers fans.
I did get to work with some of the best stars from both sides of the pond....

Aitch, (means H) WWW.HARRYFIELDER.CO.UK

ah..Well..You got me , there !!!!

Was thinking more of Movies memoirs ..In book form, of course !!!

Your site is wonderful indeed , but to be able to hold a book with the very same text and / or illustrations would be even better !!( you should try Boxtree with a synopsis...)



P.S : cannot resist , any Bond connection in your film career ???

When you worked for Spielberg ( Indiana Jones ), did you meet the stars of the movie ? I mean Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, John Rhys- Davies... If yes, do you have some stories to tell ?
I must admit I'm interested
Best regards

Evelyne, I got to work with Harrison Ford a few times on films but I suppose the biggest one was Star Wars.( again Elstree)
If you're in the same scene as any top actor you might get a line to say or have to react to them so of course you speak to them...(You don't go out to dinner with them though.)
We are there to make movies so everyone has a job to do.

Lord B..I did work on a few Bond films and this one is funny

harryfielder a écrit:If the Mod can set up a page for me in English I have many tales to tell and we can leave this page free for Avengers fans.

It's done

( regarding your SWLM anecdote ) ...Aah , the good ole' Stuntmen esprit-de-corps !!!



I perfectly remember that sequence indeed .
Roger Moore himself hated noisy explosions and scenes like that ( remember the one at the end of ' The Man With The golden Gun - when Scaramanga's island is blown to pieces . Roger was so nervous ,his hands were moist and he kept slipping and missing Britt Ekland at each shot,when they had to run & take cover behind a rock ...)

Hiya folks,
It's not very often you get to work with the truly greats,

A wonderful little story, Aitch ! "That man"... Sir Hitchcock was a genius and beind addressed to by him that way... I guess it must be really interesting to have tea ( or a pint ! ) with you, Aitch.
Keep on telling us about your life, it is interesting. Your site is a good one. Carry on !

Ah Frenzy ( and its famous strangling sequence..) , one of the most violent ( if not THE most violent ) of all of the Master's movies ..Remember it was rated PG or more when released ...And even started some sort of controversy

There's another Hitchcock's film which is very violent, which happens during the Cold War. There's a sequence where a man shoots a woman.
I don't remember the title but I saw it a long time ago.


By the way Lord B.Sinclair, the picture with the title of the new James Bond is great.
I like the color. Green just like Eva Green. Oh my god, Eva Green is so....She makes me fantasize.

Hey , keep your self control , Young Padawan ...I like Miss Green a lot too .. ( specially in Bertolluci's The Dreamers . Ahem...)

Btw , what's the name of the main Villain of Quantum of Solace again ????

Did you talk to Eva ???

Aha...Why do you want to know, Lil' Joris ???