Jack Wild

nice.

I met Lionel Bart and the artful Dodger, who in the movie was played by Jack Wilde, who was in H.R.

Puff and stuff, amongst other things.

Anyway.

Maybe a relation to Lydia Wilde because she's got a background of royalty, apparently, Lydia

Wilde.

Can you find out if she is related to Jack Wilde? I'll have to

find out.

So again, way more popular in the UK than it is in the US.

I don't really have a lot about the process of turning this into a Nancy wasn't super famous.

Jack Wilde, obviously another child, but hadn't been in anything big before.

But it also had a few smaller parts that were huge actors.

So the guy who played the magistrate was Hugh Griffith, who was an Oscar winner for Ben-Hur.

projects, Mouse on the

Moon.

He was in The Twelve Chairs by Mel Brooks, Flight of the Doves, where he prized and shared the screen again with Jack Wilde, who played...

think, are on that episode.

And Jack Wilde, was it Jack? It was Davy Jones and a live production of Oliver.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, so much variety.

It marked a distinct change of pace for director Carol Reed, best known for mystery dramas such as those which had won him earlier Oscar nominations, 1949's The Fallen Idol and 1950's The Third Man.

The Lively Oliver cast included Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Shawnee Willis, Hugh Griffin, Jack Wilde, and Mark Lusser.

In 1968, it won Best Picture, and that year it was up against Funny Girl, The Lion and Winter, Rachel Rachel, and Romeo and Juliet.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know.

Yeah, but...

Yeah, the art for Dodger was played by Jack Wilde.

Jack Wilde.

Yeah.

um and for the audience who is not aware it's uh subject with roses by with uh jack albertson he had won the oscar um and he beat out seymour castle for faces daniel massey for star jack wilder for jack wild for oliver and again gene wilder for the producers um why did you think jack albertson beat out this category like d was there anything about the performance that really stood out for you or

um i mean in terms of the performance alone it is a very the subject of roses was based on a play so it's a very actor-friendly performance you can say like that

yeah

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Jack Wild and Oliver is great.

Like, he plays one of the kids.

It was created by the Canadian siblings Sid and Marty Krofft, who'd just come off Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits.

And this was a show very much in that idiom, a garish cartoon transposed into live action with the eponymous Pufnstuf, a dragon, and also mayor of Living Island, a place where 11-year-old Jimmy, played by British Oliver star Jack Wild, and the only human character in this episode, ends up shipwrecked after being lured there, along with his magical talking flute named Freddy by the evil Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo.

Hmm.

Um, so, oh God, this was, this was so weird.

Yes.

There's something disturbing and creepy about the awfulness of the costuming.

I mean, the, what I will say is that part of what makes it more horrifying is Jack Wild, who I think he got an Oscar nomination, didn't he, for Oliver? And he was such an amazing actor, and he's somehow doing great acting surrounded by all this terrible stuff.

Jimmy, I'm frightened.