Actor best known for his role as the rugged and handsome captain in The Onedin Line
James Onedin, the protagonist of the long-running BBC television series The Onedin Line, gained his splendid name from a sea nymph. After the programme's creator, Cyril Abraham, had read about mythological figure Ondine, he transposed the "e", thus making her a man. And what a man: Peter Gilmore, who played Onedin in 91 episodes from 1971 to 1980, had tousled hair, flinty eyes, hollow cheeks, mutton-chop sideburns racing across his cheek, lips pulled severely down, chin thrust indomitably forward to face down the brewing gale. He has died aged 81.
The sea captain did not so much talk as emit salty barks that brooked no demur. In 1972, while filming, Gilmore was buzzed by speedboats from the Royal Naval College. Still in character as Onedin, he yelled irascibly at the tyro sailors: "Taxpayers' money! Where are your guns? What...
James Onedin, the protagonist of the long-running BBC television series The Onedin Line, gained his splendid name from a sea nymph. After the programme's creator, Cyril Abraham, had read about mythological figure Ondine, he transposed the "e", thus making her a man. And what a man: Peter Gilmore, who played Onedin in 91 episodes from 1971 to 1980, had tousled hair, flinty eyes, hollow cheeks, mutton-chop sideburns racing across his cheek, lips pulled severely down, chin thrust indomitably forward to face down the brewing gale. He has died aged 81.
The sea captain did not so much talk as emit salty barks that brooked no demur. In 1972, while filming, Gilmore was buzzed by speedboats from the Royal Naval College. Still in character as Onedin, he yelled irascibly at the tyro sailors: "Taxpayers' money! Where are your guns? What...
- 2/7/2013
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Rob Lowe's Welsh Mansion
Rob Lowe has brought a little piece of Wales to his California home - basing his Malibu mansion on a Welsh manor house. Lowe and his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, fell in love with a stately home in Wales when he was filming the television movie On Dangerous Ground. And when he bought his Malibu property - then a one-story ranch house, Lowe presented his architect with detailed pictures of the Welsh manor and asked him to recreate it. After creating a nearly exact replica of the Welsh home, Lowe brought in a Feng Shui master to check his rooms were decorated to his best advantage. After discovering his "house of prosperity" was in a section of the house not being utilized, Lowe insisted his office space be re- arranged to incorporate that area. A few weeks later, Lowe was offered his role as Sam Seaborn on the hit political drama The West Wing. Lowe was also careful to ensure all building materials used on his home were environmentally friendly - because one of his sons suffers from asthma.
- 6/7/2001
- WENN
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