I Say, Look Here!: The Rather Random Reminiscences of a Round Actor in the Square

London: Peter Davies. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1965. 2nd printing. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [modest shelfwear to lower extremities (very slight exposure of board at lower tip of front cover), a few small spots on bottom edge of text block; the jacket is edgeworn and a bit soiled, with a few tiny nicks at the top of the spine and some wear and creasing along the top edge of the rear panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A "sort of sequel" to the author's 1959 previous memoir, "I Know the Face, But...", which dealt primarily with his life in the theatre. Bull, best known for his generally small but always memorable film performances (in such films as THE AFRICAN QUEEN, TOM JONES, and DR. STRANGELOVE), wrote a total of eleven books (most of the ones following this one being about teddy bears, of which he was an aficionado and avid collector), of which this one is decidedly the scarcest -- no doubt to the fact that it contains his hilarious accounts of two of his best-known movie roles: "Thwackum" in TOM JONES, directed by Tony Richardson, and the Russian Ambassador in Stanley Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE. (Part of the discussion of the latter film is his vivid description of filming the famous "pie fight in the War Room" sequence, which took nearly two weeks to shot but didn't make the final cut.) He expresses great admiration for both Kubrick and Peter Sellers, although he writes that he didn't like the film very much -- "the most bizarre film in which I've ever played" -- nor his own performance ("perf") in it. .