Cap'n Dan Tempest.

[Atheist]

Anyone remember Robert Shaw (who went on to write novels)?

[10ClarionSt]

Wasn't he from Blackburn? 

[Atheist]

I don't know, clarion. The programme was The Buccaneers.

[-SharonA-]

A great actor, one of my faves.

[New Judge]

He was born in Westhaughton, just outside Bolton.

Was good as "Red" Grant, James Bond's adversary in From Russia With Love. My favourite role of his was as Doyle Lonnegan, the main "mark" in The Sting. "D'ya foller?" That was his catchphrase. He died tragically young, aged just 51.

The Buccaneers is currently being shown on Saturday mornings on TPTV.

 

[Togo]

Besides his early role in the Buccaneers  ... ahh jim lad where's ma buccanneers.....on ya buccann head, he famously played Quint in Jaws where he channeled the seafaring peresona to great comic effect. 

[Atheist]

NJ; It's Westhoughton. Pronounced westowton. - To rhyme with bowton. I never knew he was from there.

 

[Barsel]

Didn't he play Robin Hood on the tele?

I've always pronounced it as Westhawton.

[Barsel]

No, he didn't, that was Richard Greene.

[bhg481]

No, that was Richard Greene.

[Barsel]

Crossed posts.

[Barsel]

I was thinking what I'd seen him in, so if it wasn't on the TV, it must have been in Jaws.

[bhg481]

We watched an episode a couple of weeks ago - it was wonderful 60 years ago, rubbish the other week.

[bhg481]

My last answer applies to both Robin Hood and the Buccaneers.

[New Judge]

"It's Westhoughton. Pronounced westowton. - To rhyme with bowton."

Ta Atheist. Could never get to grips with anything north of Watford!  😂

[Barsel]

Did you not see my post @16.42pm?

How do you pronounce Westhoughton?

Westhoughton (/wɛstˈhɔːtən/ west-HAW-tən) is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Bolton, 5 miles (8 km) east of Wigan and 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Manchester.

[Atheist]

My suggestion of the pronunciation was based on the way it was pronounced in Wigan in the fifties, when Wiganese was almost its own language. Since then, accents have evolved under the influence of mass media, and so I don't know how it would be pronounced nowadays - probably as NJ and Barsel have said.