IN SEARCH OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN
IN SEARCH OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Television Variety Show / 1971
Entertainer Tommy Steele’s BBC vehicle about the life and times of the young Chaplin growing up in Bermondsey, saw six year old Jeff cast in various flashback scenes as the legendary silent movie star when a child in the London workhouse.
Filmed late 1970 and broadcast early the following year.
Written by Tommy Steele. Produced by John Gibson.
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Jeff Kristian Radio Interview / 28th January 2019
Jeff was interview by Heather Markham aka Mama Creepy for her blog radio show Mama Creepy's Corner, about his career and his work on Tommy Steele's In Search Of Charlie Chaplin.
"When I was six years old I went to school in Bermondsey in London, which is just south of Tower Bridge, where I was born and brought up. I got called into the head mistress' office one day. I walked in and there sitting at her desk was Tommy Steele. He was a big star, I knew who he was, the first famous person I ever met. He was looking to cast for a TV special he was doing for the BBC. He was looking for an actor who looked like a young Charlie Chaplin to play the part of him in the workhouse. It was less of an acting role and more of a, well he looks like him thing."
Jeff Kristian Magazine Interview / 8th October 2012
Stacy Novak of Transliving Magazine interviewed Jeff about his beginnings in the world of entertainment.
“When I was 6 years old, Tommy Steele came to my school in Bermondsey, London to cast a BBC TV Special called Tommy Steele In Search Of Charlie Chaplin. Because I looked like Chaplin at that age, I was cast as him in the workhouse scenes.”
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