#the later body of the episode‚ which features star Marius Goring playing a Chinese character in yellowface (as well as the Pimpernel in

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Acting legend Peter O'Toole makes his screen debut as lowly '1st Soldier' in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel: A Tale of Two Pigtails (1.4, ITP, 1955)

#fave spotting #peter o'toole #the adventures of the scarlet pimpernel #1955 #itp #itc #classic tv #actual acting royalty here! fresh from RADA and without a penny to his name. i actually knew he would turn up in this series at some #point but i still didn't recognise him‚ it was dad that picked him out. i think it's his nose? did he break his nose at some point? idk it #just looks different and as a result his whole face does. perhaps it's a fake nose‚ tho i have no idea why he'd wear one for this small #role. Peter would soon be winning rave reviews on the english stage‚ and from there film work and screen immortality #beckoned. unsurprisingly this would be O'Toole's only ITC credit (and before they were even called ITC)‚ although he did make a handful #of other tv appearances (mostly single plays in drama strands) before Hollywood claimed his as their own #his brief appearance here is quite fun and he gets to mug quite mercilessly to Stanley van Beer's villainous Chauvelin #alas i can't with clear heart recommend the ep to anyone looking to see a baby Peter; it is alas Hella Racist. not his scenes‚ but #the later body of the episode‚ which features star Marius Goring playing a Chinese character in yellowface (as well as the Pimpernel in #yellowface impersonating the Chinese character‚ a sort of meta racism??) #it's pretty awful‚ as is the accent and the dialogue choices. #imdb lists this as the 18th and final ep but wiki and network place it 4th and i suspect imdb is following the US transmission #bc they list the show under its overseas title of simply The Scarlet Pimpernel