Telly Savalas He attribute his success to "his complete ability to be himself." Savalas had his first lead role in a film in "Crooks and Coronets" (1969), a British crime comedy. More widely seen was the James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), where Savalas played Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Savalas had the lead in a Western shot in Spain, "Land Raiders" (1970), then was second-billed to Clint Eastwood in the war-heist film "Kelly's Heroes" (1970), shot in Yugoslavia, directed by Hutton. He was second-billed to Charles Bronson in an Italian–French crime film, "Violent City" (1970), then went to Hollywood to
Pleasance Smith letter from Queen Victoria to "her friend" on her 100th birthday. Pleasance Smith Pleasance Smith (11 May 1773 – 3 February 1877) (née Reeve) was an English letter writer and literary editor. Smith was born in Lowestoft in 1773. She married James Edward Smith. After she married in 1796 she was painted "as a gypsy" by John Opie. After her husband died in 1828 she edited a biography of him which included some of his letters. This was published in 1832. Smith died in Lowestoft having already achieved an age of 100 in 1873. She was said to have retained