by Peter Elson | Jun 8, 2023 | Sandy Johnson, Uncategorized
IN possibly the most bizarre incident of its kind, a world-famous film star offered to stage a military-style coup to stop the collapse of a spectacular British TV series directed by Sandy Johnson, who is Ettinger Brothers Productions’ lead director. Christopher Lee,...
by Peter Elson | Apr 27, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
WHEN Mae West, Hollywood’s queen of the double entendre, arrived at the country house hotel managed by Sandy Johnson’s father, alongside Loch Lomond and the rugged Ben Lomond, legend holds she huskily lisped: “Who is this Ben Lomond? Mmm, sounds like a big guy!” Given...
by Peter Elson | Jan 17, 2023 | Inspector Vignoles, News
If your railway detective TV thriller requires a dead body in a signal box, then Great Central Railway is the place to film it. In fact, jokes GCR chairman Richard Patching, this leading heritage steam railway boasts four signal boxes allowing the luxury of four...
by Peter Elson | Oct 25, 2022 | The Divided Self
MOST people would cringe at the thought of their father being portrayed on screen warts and all, especially if he’d been a controversial public figure and, perhaps, a less than perfect parent. Not for Adrian Laing, son of RD Laing, the world-famous counter-culture...
by Peter Elson | Oct 25, 2022 | Kosmos
Taking his sons on the daily school run in north London, Adrian Laing passed Boudicca’s Mound, on Hampstead Heath, where the legendary Iceni queen was once thought to be buried, and this created the germ of an idea, which became his novel Kosmos. “I had this fantasy...
