the bbc, holby city, 1961, and a werewolf called oliver
there i was, watching Hoby City with my wife (honestly i was forced to watch it 
), and an old actress stumbles onto the program. Her character is called Lily Sinclair, and claims to have acted with Oliver Reed in the 1961 classic, The Curse of the Werefolf.
Ok, so that got me thinking, was this for real? To add to the intrigue, one of the characters actually goes onto the ‘net & you see a flash of Lily’s website, that does indeed show a reference to the 1961 classic.
Easy, I thought, I’ll just go onto IMDB & do a search…
So, I find The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), starring Oliver Reed– which is actually a very good film; I recommend it — trouble is, although it does list the cast, there is only a photo against Oliver Reed. Additionally, there is no mention of an actress called Lily Sinclair. Mmmm… OK, so perhaps ‘Lily Sinclair’ really is just a Hoby City character name, and she is (in real life) called something else; perhaps one of the female actresses in the film.
After some searching, i managed to find a fan website for the film, which does actually have photos of all of the cast… bingo! – i’ve found here; and Actress called Yvonne Romain. Her photo does kinda look like ‘Lily’ in Holby too….. job done.
Flushed with my success, I thought i’d just check the scrolling credits at the end of the episode and would see Yvonne Romain…… and…. oh… the actress if called Sian Phillips …
ok – back to IMDB and… oh, that’s where i’ve seen her – she was in Dune. But her first film wasn’t until 1962…
So, what we have here is the writers of Holby City being clever….
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