Sit-down Sunday: A Life In Focus, Terry O'Neill
It’s coming up to the fifth anniversary of the death of the photographer who took countless iconic pics. Here is my interview with him, which my then editor refused to publish for a very silly reason.
Terry O’Neill, according to the late film director Michael Winner, was as legendary for seducing some of the most beautiful screen sirens as he was for his iconic pictures of them.
The list of Terry’s lovers revealed in Michael Winner’s autobiography reads like a who’s who of Hollywood royalty: Raquel Welch, Ava Gardner, Julia Christie and Jean Shrimpton. “If I listed them all we’d run to a couple dozen pages,” Winner quipped in his book, describing Terry as, “without doubt the greatest seducer in the history of the world”.
Ever the gentleman, the world famous photographer—who has the distinction of being the only snapper to work with every Bond actor over a 50-year timeframe—had always declined to divulge the names of his famous lovers . . . until I gently pushed him.
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