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Sophie Neville is best known for playing 'Titty' in the classic film 'Swallows and Amazons' (1974). She is also a screenwriter, director, author and speaker, who has won many awards and appeared on BBC Breakfast TV.
- Ransome’s Swallow
- Stern Words
- The Saucepan
- A New Lease of Life
- The 2016 Film
- Telling My Story
Arthur Ransome described Swallowas being 13ft-long with a keel, rather than a centreboard. In his illustrations she is painted white, a common way of protecting wood in the 1930s. I’m pretty sure that Richard Pilbrow, the producer of the movie, bought the dinghy we used when we were in Burnham-on-Crouch to audition for the parts in March 1973. She ...
My father spoke sternly to the producer that afternoon, pointing out that we could have all gone down. Sten Grendon, who played the Boy Roger, was only eight and could hardly swim. I could have become entangled in the camping gear. Dad tested the old BOAC life vests we wore to travel out to film locations. They failed to inflate. He nearly took me ...
Making the movie on location in the Lake District was pretty challenging. The weather was so unpredictable. Swallowhad to be moved to four different lakes and a lily pond. We shot the fishing scenes on Elterwater and those featuring Captain Flint’s houseboat on Derwentwater, whilst Octopus Lagoon was filmed on private property near Skelwith Fold. V...
When Mike Turk retired, many boats that had featured in movies came up for auction. I knew Swallowwould be costly and in need of renovation. When fans of the film, who were also members of The Arthur Ransome Society, contacted me I knew that I needed to club together with them. In the end, 83 of us hastily formed a group called SailRansome and bid ...
Nick came up to Coniston Water to watch me re-launch Swallowin April 2011, sloshing brandy wine over the old lady’s bows in true Ransome style. I helped him to raise finance for the new Swallows and Amazons film, which was made in the cold wet summer of 2015 and released in 2016, starring Kelly Macdonald as Mrs Walker, Rafe Spall as Captain Flint a...
Urged by many to recount my full story, I launched The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazonsas an illustrated ebook with links to behind-the-scenes cine footage taken by my parents. A little bit of film history, it sells on Kindle, Smashwords and Apple Booksfor about £2.99. Being partly about acting, it can be found under the category ‘Stage & Thea...
- Sophie Neville
Apr 24, 2024 · Sophie Neville, who played Titty in the 1974 film adaptation of Arthur Ransome's classic novel, shares her memories of making the movie and her career in TV and wildlife. She also reveals how she became involved in the Arthur Ransome Society and the restoration of the dinghies used in the film.
- Sophie Neville
Sophie Neville is a British writer, director and actress who played Titty in the 1974 movie of 'Swallows and Amazons'. She has worked on documentaries, comedies and wildlife programs in Africa and the UK, and is a founder of The Waterberg Trust.
Mar 15, 2024 · Interview: Sophie Neville, writer. My professional life began at the age of ten, when I gained a part in the first BBC adaptation of Cider With Rosie. Two years later, the director, Claude Whatham, invited me to interview for the part of Able Seaman Titty in the EMI film Swallows and Amazons, in 1974. He never thought to ask if either I or ...
May 9, 2021 · Sophie Neville playing Titty Walker in the 1974 movie 'Titty from Swallows and Amazons' often gets typed into the Goggle search engine but when I attempt to use it as a 'tag' a message pops up saying: 'Sorry, you are not allowed to assign the provided terms.'
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Aug 2, 2016 · As a new film of the children’s classic nears, Sophie Neville, who played Titty in the 1974 version, tracks down its original young cast. In 1974, I was one of six children to appear in...
