Here is Six of
One’s list of all the celebrities who have graced our events, since Ron Grainer
guested at the 1978 Thatched Barn, Borehamwood convention.Or perhaps Sir
Clough Williams-Ellis was our first ‘guest’, at the spring 1977
Portmeirion society one day visit.
1979 Vincent Tilsley (Brighton)
1980 George Markstein (London)
1983 Patrick McGoohan (TV show ‘Greatest Hits’ with
society members)
1984 Alexis Kanner (London)
1987 Gino Marotta, Frank Maher, Peter Graham Scott, Camilla Hasse, David
Naughton, Eric Mival, Ian Rakoff, Betty McDowall, Katherine Kath, Victor Maddern, Harold
Berens, Wilf Jospephs, Tony Sloman (librarian) (10th anniversary party, London)
1989 John Lageu (Portmeirion and Birmingham)
1989 Kenneth Griffith, Peter Brady (lighting), John S. Smith, Len
Harris, Noreen Ackland, Richard Best (husband of NA, helped on Fall Out), Fred Hayward
(McGoohan driver), Michael Hickey (sound recording operative) (Borehamwood)
1990 Kenneth Griffith (Portmeirion)
1991 Rachel Herbert, James Bree, Katherine Kath, Mickey O'Toole
(Borehamwood)
1991 Len Harris (Portmeirion)
1992 Mickey O'Toole (Portmeirion)
1993 Jane Merrow, Tony Sloman (Portmeirion)
1993 Graham Nearn, David Arlen,
Michael Balfour, Harold Berens, James Bree, Richard Caldicot, Dennis Chinnery, Rosalie
Crutchley, Mark Eden, Kenneth |
Griffith, Rachel
Herbert, Peter Howell, Lloyd Lamble, Bettine Le Beau, Frank Maher, Norman Mitchell,
Michael Nightingale, Robert Rietty, Wanda Ventham, Arthur White, Gino Marotta, Peter
Graham Scott, Terence Feely, Lewis Greifer, Wilf Josephs, Eric Mival, Noreen Ackland, Roy
Cannon (propsman), Norman Coles (assistant film editor, Tina Davies (production
secretary), Len Harris, Ronald Liles, Doris Martin, Mickey O'Toole (chargehand propsman,
Sidney Palmer (property buyer, Tony Sloman (librarian), John S. Smith (25th Prisoner
event, London; unconfirmed if they all attended but their names were in the programme)
1994 Mark Eden and wife actress Sue Nicholls, Eric and Penny Mival
(Portmeirion)
1995 Peter Howell, John S. Smith, (Portmeirion)
1996 Norma West, Alexis Kanner, Jack Lowin, Tina Davies (production
secretary) (Portmeirion)
1997 Angela Browne and husband actor Francis Matthews, Roger Parkes
(Portmeirion)
1997 Annette Andre, David Arlen, Roy Beck (No.1 figure), John Bramall,
Peter Brayham, James Bree, Earl Cameron, Dennis Chinnery, Terence Feely, Arthur Gross,
Rachel Herbert, Alexis Kanner, Gerald Kelsey, Lloyd Lamble, Bettine Le Beau, Frank Maher,
Gino Marotta, Eric Mival, David Naughton, Ian Rakoff, Peter Graham Scott, Tony
Sloman, John S. Smith (30th Anniversary Event, London)
1998 Frank Maher, Ian Rakoff, John S. Smith (Portmeirion) |
2001
Frank Maher (Portmeirion)
2003 Alexis Kanner, Vincent Tilsley (Portmeirion)
2004 Michael Billington (Borehamwood)
2005 Michael Billington, Roger Parkes, Bob Mackenzie-Grieve (driver and
nurse in Arrival)
2006 John S. Smith, Tony Sloman
2007 Norma West, Ian Rakoff
2008 Jane Merrow, Earl Cameron, plus special messages sent by Pat Jackson
and Bernie Williams
2009 Wanda Ventham and John S. Smith
2010 Rachel Herbert
2011 Justine Lord
2012 Tony Sloman, Peter and David Shillingford, Prisoner filming 1966/7
2013 Bettine Le Beau
In addition there were ‘extras’ Lilian Llewelyn, Marjorie Beer, Richard and Gaye
Eastwood, Cynthia and John Glyn Jones, Peggy Yeates and others who came to PortmeiriCons.
Also Bob Piercy was the Coliseum projectionist who ran the 1966 filming ‘rushes’
and projected our big screen episode PortmeiriCon presentations.
Visitors to the Village included Jools Holland and David Tomblin who spoke to Max Hora in
the Prisoner shop. Singer Ed Ball came to Portmeirion once or twice and attended London
events. We also had at one convention Steve Harley of the pop group Cockney Rebel.
To all of these and to our members who have come to so many events, plus the
staff at Portmeirion, we offer hearty thanks and hope for many more conventions! |
