Leeds on screen

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Tue 06 May, 2008 12:13 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: I think Harry's Game was mentioned earlier in the thread. While I am sure security considerations had something to do with the "location" filming I would think budgetary considerations probably swung it as unless I am very much mistaken harry's game was a YTV production very true..i remember seeing an old saracen pig armoured car coming past the catholic church on northparkway and thinking we were under marshall law,since a couple of days before,there were soldiers in the east park streets and i watched them 'drop' a sniper from an upstairs window.i've always thought leeds to be like belfast in many ways,more especially the row of back to backs everywhere.

oldleedsman · Post by **oldleedsman** » Wed 07 May, 2008 6:09 pm

Not quite Leeds on Film, but this Sunday's South Bank Show is about David Peace's novel The Damned United. It is about the period when Brian Clough was in charge of Leeds United for 44 days in 1974. I'm not a great LU fan, but the novel is great.It is being made into a film with Michael Sheen as Cloughie.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned_United

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 07 May, 2008 9:13 pm

I misread that as MARTIN SHEEN playing Clough(G)! I was about to moan about Yanks ruining stuff when I re-read it and it made sense.mind you "Apocalypse Now" set at Elland Road sounds fun<LOL>."I love the smell of napalm and liniment in the morning....."

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 09 May, 2008 12:23 pm

Trojan wrote: When anyone in Emmerdale is up in court they use the now disused magistrate's court in Morley Town Hall. For the outside shots they do, but for the actual court room setting, they use the, now defunct, court room in the Leeds Town hall! We know, cos wev'e been round it. Na na nana na!!

bigpants · Post by **bigpants** » Tue 13 May, 2008 2:04 pm

going back to "the book tower" according to Mrs Bigpants, interior stuff was filmed in my favourite pub "The Chequers" at Ledsham. Her sister worked there and the old landlord is in some episodes along with a dwarf of some description. cant remmeber the programme myself so she could be talking nonesense...

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Tue 13 May, 2008 3:50 pm

Touch of Frost is filmed at various locations in and around Leeds.Back in December 1995 I had a B&W taxi and got a YTV account job to pick up someone from a filmset at Roundhay High School. The actor was Michael Kitchen who is probably best known for playing Foyle in Foyle's war.He was staying at the Queens and as went through Leeds (Vicar Lane, pre-loop) he was looking at the Xmas lights and asked to be driven around Leeds to get to know the area. I had about an hour in teh car with him having a good chat about Leeds and acting.On a similar note I used to pick up David Oxley who was top man at the Rugby League HQ at Red Hall. He lived in Harrogate and was always keen to talk about RL.Whilst going way off topic I also recall someone also on the YTV account being picked up from the Hilton Hotel in town. For some reason she said 'do you know who I am' and I said 'no' and she told me she was in Emmerdale. I told her I didn't watch it. I am pretty certain that it was her that married Harry Kewell

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Tue 13 May, 2008 10:22 pm

richard harris getting on the bus outside townhall....'this sporting life'

Lollipop · Post by **Lollipop** » Wed 04 Jun, 2008 7:44 pm

Has anyone seen the new Indiana Jones film? I read in the YEP that Leeds is mentioned somewhere within it, but the journalist didn't say in what context.Has anyone spotted it?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 05 Jun, 2008 8:44 am

Yeah it is mentioned in it. Without giving too much of the plot away one of the professors is put under a "spell" and when Indiana Jones tries to snap him out of it he tells him, "your name is Oxley, you were born in LEEDS"...Other than this thats it. - It was the first thing I commented on when we left the cinema much to my girlfriends expectation!

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Thu 05 Jun, 2008 9:58 am

Does anybody remember THERE IS A HAPPY LAND.wrote by keith waterhouse and filmed in midddleton.I remember the tv crew filming in the woods between the clearings and the golf course. It must have been the very early 70s? Yes -I remember this. My nan lived on the Middleton Estate ( where Keith Waterhouse had lived) near to the Tivoli bingo which had been dresses to look like a cimema again (why a vague memory of a film staring Ronald Coleman comes to mind I don't know. It was in the early 70's - when everyone had longer hair. A mate of mine was given a "walk on" part - riding a bike in a street scene and he was paid for the trauma of having his hair cut "short back and sides". I think all the cast came from Middleton school on the estate.