Ron Moody

Oliver Reed was kind of an up-and-coming star.

And Ron Moody, who plays Fagin, later told an interviewer that when it was first proposed that he play Fagin, he felt that the character was pretty vicious and unpleasant.

I didn't want to do that.

I didn't want to perpetuate what I considered to be an unfair and unpleasant image of Jewish people." He came to realize that the only way to play Fagin was to...

Was he Jewish? Was Ron Moody Jewish? The character is.

And it is a...

The character's Jewish, but was the actor Jewish? I don't know for sure.

So he came to realize that the only way to play Fagin was to fully forget Dickens and create a clown.

in.

Yeah, interestingly, I did recognise him, but Ron Moody I didn't recognise at first.

Ron Moody, if

you listen to the voice, it is almost fagging when you listen to that.

Yes.

Michael Horden, who had been in such films as Cleopatra and the Spy, who came in from the cold, was considered for the role, as was Patrick Weimark, who had appeared in TV shows Danger Man and The Power Games.

Another possibility was Ron Moody, star of movies such as Murder Most Foul, who had recently appeared in an episode of The Avengers.

Even former pop idol Tommy Steele, whose career was now focused on stage and screen musicals, was discussed.

In late June, however, Lloyd approached actor Patrick Troughton.

And yeah, Oliver Reed was terrifying, and Oliver...

But Ron Moody

is so good.

Oh, and that kid who played Dodger.

This is a change up for the rest of the season from a story by Roald Dahl.

This one directed by Alistair Reed, starring Ron Moody.

Anthony Carrick, Debbie Farrington, and William Hootkins.

So let's talk about William Hootkins.

Yeah.

and i only saw it for the first time about three or four years ago and i've watched it twice now so this will be my third watch and i i think it's fascinating just because it's one of those wonderful cast to die for movies you know it's not significant or it doesn't stand out head and shoulders above some of the other early 60s british comedies that we've covered But I think when you look at the cast, as you say, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett, Peggy Mount, Dandy Nichols, and then people like Ron Moody and John Pertwee in this, and a wonderful guy by the name of Tristian Jellyneck, who I don't know who the hell he is, but I just love the sound of that name.

For a preview, this is about some ladies who do, as in cleaners, in an office block who find out some information they can use to their advantage to save a development of their own houses and get the upper hand.

And they are obviously underestimated as working class women.