3.07 - Interview
Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell has worked with Chips Rafferty, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Wise, James Mason, Richard Burton, and Charlie the Wonder Dog. He has appeared in over one hundred films, and is probably the most valuable contribution Australia has ever given to cinema. This interview is further proof of why we love him.
Bud really knows his jubes:
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, then brace thyself for thine shoe leather on thou bottom…
Hamlet - act 3, scene 2
Bud Tingwell, fantastic fellow, served with him in the war. Capital chap, unlike you pair of puff pieces. You probably wouldn’t even know the smell of cordite if it wafted past your noses. Too much Brut 33 has addled your nostrils. Decent haircuts and a stint in the airforce, that’s what you two need. And while I’m at it it’s not too late to change your Christian names. Whoever heard of blokes being called Leigh and Shannon? Not me. I had twin-sister’s named Leigh and Shannon. Enlisted under the names Barry and Victor and became first-class gunners. Fifty-six and sixty-five confirmed kills respectively. I fought for the right of future Australian males to have butch Christian names, y’know. Cooee!