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Stephanie Beacham, 76, was forced to confront her mortality when a drug addict broke into her home, as she reveals in this joyously outspoken interview
'He held a crowbar over my head, saying:
The actress, the onscreen love interest of everyone from Marlon Brando to Coronation Street's Ken Barlow (played by William Roache), admits that when she was burgled in October 2022 — a truly terrifying experience where a drug addict threatened her with a crowbar in her West London cottage — 'I feared for my life. I said to the CID guy a few weeks later when I was giving my statement that I felt a bit bad because he only broke open my conservatory and stole a few credit cards and my keys — all the normal rubbish [burglars] do to make your life a misery. Brando even acted as Stephanie's unofficial intimacy co-ordinator — before such things even existed — by donning wellies and a huge set of Y-Fronts himself during a love scene for The Nightcomers, 'because he didn't trust Michael Winner not to shoot the whole of me naked,' she says.
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