Don't have Sky, don't have the persistence to watch long-running serials, don't like the vast majority of American output.
The things you watch on TV as a small child have a far greater impact on you then, than when you watch them again as an adult. Watching westerns with my Dad [love him, miss him] was something I will treasure forever. Sure John Wayne wasn't the best actor of all time but at that time to me, he was. Watch anything you loved as a child now and you'll laugh your socks off. But at the time you thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Can you remember every Sunday afternoon there would be a western or a war film on, and Sam Kydd seemed to be in every single one. The ultimate bit part actor.
I do indeed. Wan't Sam Kydd in Crane as well? As a child growing up in Liverpool, Wagon Train and Bonanza were magical. The ultimate escapism. A land far away with big skies and where the prairies went on and on forever, so much space, so much freedom. I wanted to jump on a horse, be a cowboy and go exploring for myself.
If you look at Sam Kydd's filmography on Wiki he is either uncredited or credited as "soldier in top bunk", "newspaper vendor", "Tramp", "second cab driver", the list is endless.
My Dad [love him, miss him] was an Evertonian. I didn't go to my first game until I was a teenager by then I was a Liverpool fan like my big brother. Watching any football in those austere times were treasured moments though.
Sam Kydd was British. He was in loads of TV series and maybe a few war films, but I don't remember him being in too many westerns.
He probably wasn't, he just seemed to be in every film. We used to play spot "Sam" when we were kids whenever a film was on, especially if it was black and white
He was in a lot of stuff. British studios in those days only seemed to have a small stable of actors and you'd see familiar faces in the supporting roles in nearly all of them.
