Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) "Alfie" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film "Alfie". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film "Alfie" (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: "Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting
Tony Selby the BBC television drama "Three Clear Sundays", directed by Ken Loach. He had one of his earliest film acting roles in The Early Bird (1965) "Alfie" (1966), starring Academy award-winner Michael Caine, and his other film appearances include "Press for Time" (1966), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Witchfinder General" (1968), "Before Winter Comes" (1969), "In Search of Gregory" (1969), "Villain" (1971), "Nobody Ordered Love" (1972), and "" (1973). In 1971-2 he played magician's assistant Sam Maxstead in children's supernatural TV series "Ace of Wands" and had a brief 1972 appearance as a jealous fiancé in "Public Eye". Other notable television appearances included