Films / TV shot in Dulwich

[Keef]

Batdog mentioned in another thread

"It was used to film a sequence of one of Stephen King?s movies in the 90's..."

It got me thinking, can anyone think of films or TV shot in the area.

I shall start...

Mona Lisa (1986) starring Bob Hoskins, Robbie Coltrane, Cathy Tyson, and Michael Caine see HERE. for review.

The opening scene has Bob Hoskins' character walking down Darrell Road and banging on the door of his ex, who he has a row with. There are a group of kids playing out on their bikes, who actually lived there (I knew one of them much later, and he was embarrassed about the huge afro he had in the film!). After that, Hoskins goes to see his mate (Robbie Coltrane) in his garage, which is actually the yard on Uplands Road, right opposite the end of Darrell (near the old Dulwich Music Shop).

Not sure if Dulwich pops up again, it was years ago I last saw it, but those opening scenes are unmistakable!

Anyone else think of any?

[Keef]

By the way, it was a good film, worth a watch.

[mockney piers]

Interestingly enough someone forwarded me this movie locations website earlier today.

Haven't checked it for Dulwichy stuff yet, but I see that 'The Winchester' in shaun of the dead is over in new cross gate.

Monson Rd

[Keef]

Oh well, that'll put an end to that then...

Was just trying to start a thread that wasn't about Whether Dulwich was better in the 80's or now (although I just proved we had films made in the 80's ;-) ).

Know New Cross well, but can't think of where that is.

[CrystalClear]

Don't they film the bill around Kings? That's kinda Dulwich....

[bob]

Some of the sweeny filmed in peckham and dulwich one corner maxted rd and elm grove by railway arch

Bob S

[Guest]

Marian & Geoff, the painful to watch (in a good way) sitcom from a couple of years back had lots of the exterior shots of the car he drove filmed around Dulwich (the signposts and white railings were a giveaway)

[Guest]

Nuns on the run - short scene with some woman on the 185 at Denmark Hill with a sign telling people to wake her up at Kings.

[Guest]

Both "The Bill" and "Family Affairs" are based on an industrial estate near Colliers Wood (in the same building) They've got some sets 'on site' - the rest they film around various parts of South London.

I was once privvy to a heated scene between Bob Cryer and June Ackland, as they got out of a panda car - spied from the window of my old flat in Streatham.

A moment to treasure.

[mockney piers]

They used to film dodgy pub scenes in the Bedford in Balham, I often used to walk past the big silver film crew lorries on the way to the station in the morning. But then it got hugely gentrified. However I thought they did a very good job of it and kept the comedy, added a theatre and pretty huge function rooms that doubled up as a weekender cattle market (never as much fun as the swan though).

I bet you Balham's forum is even more polarised than ourd

[James]

I've got a good 'un.

Last year they were filming the sequel to 28 Days Later (imaginitively titled 28 Weeks Later) in one of those posh roads behind Peckham Rye - Mundania I think.

I also read somewhere that one of those x-factor rejects had her video filmed in the EDT. I watched it and it definitely was but I didn't recognise her... reckon the EDT is more famous than she is.

[capt_birdseye]

They were filming for the Bill outside that "Egg" place (behind Tesco) on Park Hall Road a year or two ago. Oh the glamour.

[spymum]

Thanks for that Keef; 'Mona Lisa' is one of my all time favourites, and I shall watch it agaiin just for those snippets!

A few years ago there were several film crews in Belair carpark, but I never had the courage to ask them what production they were on. Or to sneak onto the catering truck in an attempt to blag free food! i wonder what they were up to.

spymum

(my blog: Posh Mum)

[dulwichmum]

They did film 'Londons Burning' all around Forest Hill. I remember they used to block off the roads, and they have made a dreadful ad. for e-sure or some insurance in Dulwich Park near the coffee shop recently. Oh the heady excess of it all!

[spadetownboy]

before it was razed to the ground in the mid 90s the old dulwich hospital and the nurses home was being used to shoot scenes for the bill.manys a day i hung out my window in hambledon court hoping for the director to spot my hither to untapped talent alas it never happened.by the way dont forget desmonds.

[dulwichmum]

Dear Spadetownboy,

Hambledon Court, a blast from the past!

[James]

Hey Spadeboy, where was Desmond's filmed? That would be a FANTASTIC claim to fame!

Btw DulwichMum, I think the ad in Dulwich Park was for a new gossip magazine for women. It featured the lovely Vanessa Feltz if I remember rightly. Wonder if she was given a script - like the guests on her TV show?

[val]

Desmonds was filmed in Bellenden Road nearly opposite the school

[Muttley]

Desmonds was filmed in Bellenden road - the barber shop there got renamed 'Desmonds' after the series finished I think. don't know if it's still there.

I believe one of the Tango ads (with Ray Wilkins commentating?) was filmed by the lake in Dulwich park.

I saw Jamie Oliver filming outside East Dulwich Police Station a couple of years back. And I think Gareth Gates (remember him?) might have done his driving lessons on film around East Dulwich Road/Peckham Rye (I spotted the Burnet Ware & Graves shopfront as it flashed by).

There was a sitcom with a cricket match where some scenes were filmed at one of the grounds on Gallery Road.

[dulwichmum]

Dear James,

You are of course right. It was Vanessa Feltz and a gossip mag. I remember now. She was dressed as a tramp and sitting at one of the tables on a bench. My brain shrank when I was pregnant, and I have been in a state of exhaustion ever since. Life is just not what it was ...I think in a good way. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Oh, sorry, what was I saying?

[James]

Dressed as a tramp? That's a bit harsh! Although I must confess I once mistook Jo Brand for one in Dulwich Park (seriously, I am not being nasty - I like her).

I still can't get over Desmond's. What a classic.

[dulwichmum]

Dear James,

I should have said 'disguised' as a Tramp. I have a huge affection for Jo Brand, and however she dresses is fine with me. She is a great mum too.

[Keef]

They also filmed loads of Desmond's around Rye Land and the park. Obviously Porkpie followed, but was a bit of a flop. Remember the Tango ad, it was by the pond with the boats. As for the cricket sitcom, was Timothy Spall in it? It rings a bell.

[Guest]

Little bit of topic but I've seen Timothy Spall around ED on a couple of occassions recentley. Does he live around ED?

[capt_birdseye]

I bet a lot of "Home movies" have been shot in and around Dulwich. Nudge-nudge.