Ep. 426 - Gary Warren

My Time Capsule

Cast Off Productions

Comedy, Lee Mack, Interview, Comedy Interviews, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Rob Brydon, Caroline Quentin, Mike Fenton Stevens, David Mitchell, Michael Fenton Stevens, Arabella Weir, Stephen Fry, Ross Noble

4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Gary Warren is a former child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. Now retired from acting Gary Warren also played Cedric Collingford in the 1970 TV series Catweazle and Taplow in Whack-O!, as well as starring as Alexander in his own TV sitcom Alexander the Greatest. In the West End, he played the nephew of Mame in the musical Mame starring Ginger Rogers. Gary has written a memoir of his acting years and his passion for music entitled If My Memoir Serves Me Well. It is available on Kindle and the audiobook is available on Audible. He has also written a novel, 1961 Greenwich Village; a Fable, also available on Kindle and in audiobook on Audible .

Gary Warren is guest number 426 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

Gary’s memoir, If My Memoir Serves Me Well, is available here - https://a.co/d/a4MFRpR .

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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .

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0:00.0	On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me, rip up the charades, forget about the
0:06.9	telly, let's play scratch cards, coins are to stretching, everybody laughing, better not be cheating,
0:15.4	and the chance to win a pound or three. Add some play to Christmas With scratch cards from the National Lottery
0:22.3	Please gift responsibly rules and procedures apply
0:24.6	Players and gifters must be 18 or over
0:26.1	And the chance to win a pound or three
0:28.7	You Hello and welcome to my time capsule.
0:45.3	I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is a podcast where people tell me five things
0:50.0	from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule.
0:53.5	They pick four things that they cherish and one thing that they'd like to bury and forget. And they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they
0:54.6	cherish and one thing that they'd like to bury and forget. And that's it. Sounds simple?
1:00.0	Well, let's see, shall we? My guest in this episode is Gary Warren. Now, Gary is a former child actor,
1:06.7	but best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children.
1:12.3	What a great film that was with Jenny Agatha and Bernard Cribbins.
1:16.3	He also appeared in Cat Weasel with Geoffrey Baildon, said cars,
1:20.4	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, try saying that when you're philanthropists,
1:24.3	with Edward Fox, Wacko with Jimmy Edwards, as well as starring as Alexander
1:29.0	in his own TV sitcom Alexander the Greatest. In the West End, he played the nephew of
1:34.9	maim in the musical Mame, starring, and this is pretty impressive, Ginger Rogers. He even got
1:41.1	to dance with her. But it's not easy to make the transition from child actor to adult actor.
1:46.5	Well, it's easier than making the transition from adult actor to child actor, but in the early
1:51.4	1970s, Gary quit acting and didn't really appear again until Danny Baker had him on his radio show as a
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