The latte greats
MARION McMULLEN looks at celebrity coffee drinkers ahead of Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on September 25
1980
Lawrence Of Arabia film star Peter O’Toole faced the morning after with a cup of coffee. The notorious hellraiser once said: “I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.”
1975
American director John Huston made sure there was plenty of coffee to hand during the filming of his movie The Man Who Would Be King. The film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine went on to be nominated for four Oscars.
1992
There were grounds for laughter as Victoria Wood and Celia Imrie, above, shared a coffee during a sketch spoof of doomed BBC1 soap Eldorado, which followed the fortunes of Brits living in Spain. The pair were no strangers to starring in dodgy soaps, playing Berta and Babs in Wood’s genius comedy creation Acorn Antiques.
1992
Swimmer Duncan Goodhew and entertainer and Record Breakers TV presenter Roy Castle did not mind making mugs of themselves as they helped launch the World Record Coffee Morning.
1966
Mellow Yellow singer Donovan found time for a quick coffee with his mate David “Gypsy Dave” Mills at Television House ahead of the screening of documentary movie A Boy Called Donovan.
1966
You’ve got to be joking! Comedian Eric Morecambe found himself modelling a new style of ear muffs made from coffee cups when partner Ernie Wise came up with the novel idea on a cold January day.
1960
Would the King of Rock and Roll be all shook up without his coffee? Elvis Presley arrived for a press conference in Germany wearing his army uniform and carrying a cup of coffee.
1993
Sharon Maughan first found TV fame in the late
80s and early 90s appearing alongside Anthony Head in the Nestle Gold Blend Coffee adverts. The tantalising “will-they-won’t-they” set up led to the commercials becoming hugely successful and even inspired a novel called Love Over Gold.
1970
American performer Eartha Kitt was ready to wake up and small the coffee when she found herself waiting at Heathrow Airport. The singer and actress once declared: “I am the original Material Girl.”
1962
British Actor Terence Stamp was the epitome of the Swinging Sixties cool. He was pictured enjoying coffee in a park in London in the year he filmed British movie Billy Budd with Peter Ustinov.