Appearances

Channel 5  Â·  2024

Broadmoor: For the Criminally Insane

Reconstructions, as John Silver. Series 1, episode 2, from 14:09.

Channel 5's four-part series on Britain's best-known high-secure hospital tells its history through stylised reconstructions, and he is in the b-roll of them. At 14:09 in the second episode he is John Silver: a real patient, nicknamed Long John because he stood six foot nine, held in Norfolk House, the maximum-security block so feared that Ronnie Kray never wanted to see it twice. A former member of staff remembers it taking fifteen of them to walk him back from the exercise yard, and that he had the beard because nobody could get close enough to shave him. The same man says, on camera, that Silver looked like Rasputin. So does Stewart, asked what the job was. Elsewhere in the series he is Peter Sutcliffe.

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Channel 5's clip of the Sutcliffe sequence later in the same episode, not the John Silver stretch. UK only, as is the full episode on their player.

adam&eveDDB for McCain  Â·  2019

Brew City, It's Beermunch

Featured extra.

McCain's £2.29m launch campaign for a frozen bar-snack range, built as vignettes of people failing to describe why beer and snacks go together. He was cast for the Ambassador's Ball, moved steadily towards the back of it, and was then recast into the roadman barbecue in a grey tracksuit. Both scenes are below. The distance between them is the job.

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The full advert, on Brew City's own channel.

Background work

• 2020
  I Hate SuzieSky Atlantic. The Comic-Con sequence in the second episode was shot among the real crowd at MCM London in October 2019. He is in it, uncredited, as several hundred other people also are. Sky's player blanks any screen grab, so there is no frame to show.

• 21 July 2019
  The Sunday TimesLeave the pointless promenading to the French. A walk is not a walk without a pub at the end
  Jeremy Clarkson, News Review, page 31.
  A week later Clarkson gave his column to the walk, opening on the group who met in Jermyn Street for what they called a stroll without direction, and arguing at length that a walk needs a pub at the end of it. He was not persuaded. The walk went ahead anyway, and has every year since.
• July 2019
  The TimesFine and dandy: The Grand Flâneur walk began at Beau Brummell's statue in London in celebration of the purposeless stroll
  Photograph by Stephen Chung / Alamy. News, page 17.
  The Chap's Grand Flâneur Walk assembled at midday on Sunday 14 July 2019 at the Beau Brummell statue in Jermyn Street, marking the magazine's hundredth issue and twentieth year, with more than a hundred walkers and simultaneous strolls in Düsseldorf and Los Angeles. The Times ran the picture. He is one of the walkers, not the subject of the photograph.
• 2019
  Leipziger VolkszeitungFriedlich, freundlich, fotogen – das WGT läuft
  Kerstin Decker, photographs by Dirk Knofe.
  The Viktorianisches Picknick in the Clara-Zetkin-Park, the Friday highlight of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig, which draws some twenty thousand people to the city over Whitsun. This was the 2019 meeting. He is in the group on the grass.
• May 2018
  The ChapFashion editorial
  Suit by Dolce & Gabbana, shirt by Darcy Clothing, shoes by J. FitzPatrick, rings by The Great Frog and Seventh Circle Artworks.
  A full-page shoot for the magazine that runs the Grand Flâneur Walk: pinstripe three-piece and stock tie, watch chain, cane, a glass of red, shot against the mirrored back bar and the chequerboard floor. The only thing on this page he was actually booked to be the subject of, rather than wandering into.
• 17 April 2017
  MailOnlineMore wine than water! Easter Sunday chaos as pub-crawlers dress as Christ and revellers urinate in the street and slump in doorways on the final day of the Bank Holiday weekend
  James Dunn.
  The pub crawl in the photographs is the Christathon, an annual fundraiser for Save the Children that works its way through biblically named pubs from The Trinity in Borough to the Silver Cross in Whitehall, in tunics and felt-tip beards. The paper ran it inside a story about bank-holiday drunkenness, interleaved with pictures taken a couple of hundred miles away in Manchester of overflowing bins and a man urinating against one. The charity goes unmentioned. He is on the crawl, not in Manchester.