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Michael Warburton

@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

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Actor (The Strays, All About Eve, Coronation Street etc) Cinephile. Posting stuff I like, no pandering. @TheMonologist on Twitter/‘X’.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13h

One of my favourite Westerns, WILLIAM WYLER’s epic

THE BIG COUNTRY (1958)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 15h

BRUCE DAVIDSON’s photos of Jimmy ‘The Dwarf Clown’ Armstrong taken in 1958 are a profoundly moving record of life in and out of a Circus for someone like Jimmy back then.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19h

Remembering HAROLD PINTER - born 95yrs ago today - one of the greatest, most important & influential Playwrights in the history of Theatre, Screenwriter, Poet & Nobel Prize Winner.

I was lucky enough to meet & talk with him a few times & play for his Cricket team (Gaieties CC).

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

Slim Aarons’ iconic photo of The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1957.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

10yr old STANLEY KUBRICK - already with a camera in his hand - poses for a photo taken by his father at a local airfield.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple exposure photos of stunt man RODD REDWING performing a quickdraw in 1956.

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

90 Candles 🎂 for DON MCCULLIN - one of our greatest Photojournalists.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

90 Candles 🎂 for DON MCCULLIN - one of our greatest Photojournalists.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the late great ALASTAIR SIM - born 125yrs ago today.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

John & Sean Lennon.

John would’ve been 85 today ♥️
Sean is 50 today ♥️

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

John & Aunt Mimi outside ‘Mendips’ - his home from 1945 to 1963 - and John’s bedroom there.

JOHN would’ve been 85 today ♥️

Always missed, never forgotten.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

JOHN & SEAN LENNON outside the entrance to The Dakota building - NYC in 1977, only a few feet away from where he was callously & tragically murdered by a non-entity 3yrs later.

John would’ve been 85 today, Sean celebrates his 50th today ♥️

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

JOHN LENNON — born 85yrs ago today — his ex-wife Cynthia, their son Julian, May Pang (and security guard) at Paramount Studios in 1974 having just visited the set of ‘Happy Days’

(taken by Mal Evans – John’s longtime friend and The Beatles’ road manager)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

JOHN LENNON would’ve been 85 today.

Every year on the anniversary of his birth, the National Trust leave the bedroom light on in John’s childhood home, all night.

Always missed ❤️

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

21yr old Jeff Bridges in 1970

📷 by Art Zelin

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus he’s still so proud of you my brother.

Happy heavenly birthday to him. 🎂

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy billionaire industrialist, inventor, Hollywood Studio owner HOWARD HUGHES ‘squired’ many a Hollywood actress (the Studios were basically like Tinder for him) - including Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino, Ginger Rogers (pictured here), Katharine Hepburn, & Gene Tierney.

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

Working on the Shark that never worked

JAWS (1975)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

76 Candles 🎂 today for the glorious SIGOURNEY WEAVER

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

Tina & Ike Turner at home with their sons Michael, Craig, Ike Jr. & Ronnie Turner (1970)

Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

If you can name everyone in this photo - taken in the driveway after one of the regular gatherings BUDDY HACKETT used to hold at his Beverly Hills home - you’re a better man than I.

(although there’s plenty you should recognise)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing - the last photo of these two old friends together (1994)

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

PAUL HOGAN - 86 Candles 🎂 today - working as a painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1971.

15 years later he'd become famous the world over as Mick “Crocodile" Dundee.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d

55 Candles 🎂 today for

MATT DAMON

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