10 Actors who have portrayed Churchill

1. Darkest Hour (2017) – Gary Oldman
2. Churchill (2017) – Brian Cox
3. Churchill's Secret (2016) – Michael Gambon
4. The King's Speech (2010) – Timothy Spall
5. Into the Storm (2009) – Brendan Gleeson, for HBO
6. Allegiance (2005) – Mel Smith
7. The Gathering Storm (2002) – Albert Finney, for HBO
8. Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) – Christian Slater
9. Young Winston (1972) – Simon Ward
10. Robert Hardy has played him twice in the theatre and six times on TV including Agatha Christie Marple, The Sittaford Mystery (2006) Bomber Harris (1989) War and Remembrance (1988) Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
(A number of these have also acted in Harry Potter)

Hampstead

We finally got to see the film Hampstead last night. Knowing it is based in our neighbourhood we were curious to see. I remember seeing them filming it from time to time a year or two back. We went to see the film in the JW3 Centre, which we had not been to before. It's a cultural centre with restaurant, cinema, etc. It currently features a large sanded area with deckchairs and a Tel Aviv backdrop. There are security guards on the gates but it has a nice voluntary Israeli feel. Anyway the film is a nice gentle romance featuring two older people not convinced about the rat race. It is nice to be reminded of what a lovely area we live in (as ever in such films the geography is fictional and you know where things really are). It is sad that the only only alternatives offered in this set up are rat race, moan at the race or drop out. There are other alternatives. We managed to exit the cinema just as it was about to rain. I've rarely seen such a storm.