Patricia NEAL (1926-2010)

Patricia Neal This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 502
  • Subject No: 500
  • Broadcast date: Wed 13 Dec 1978
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Wed 22 Nov 1978
  • Venue: New London Theatre
  • Series: 19
  • Edition: 8
  • Code name: Hud

on the guest list...

  • Roald Dahl - husband
  • Elaine Stritch
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Patricia Medina
  • Marius Goring
  • Wendy Hiller
  • Richard Greene
  • Lucy - daughter
  • Ophelia - daughter
  • Theo - son
  • Tessa - daughter
  • Pete - brother
  • Margaret - sister
  • George - brother-in-law
  • Eura - mother
  • Helen Horton
  • Wally Saunders
  • Valerie Eaton Griffith
  • Else Logsdail - sister-in-law
  • Alfhild Hansen - sister-in-law
  • Asta Anderson - sister-in-law
  • Marjorie Clipstone
  • Frankie Conquy
  • Ann Lamb
  • Angela Hogg
  • Dick Kirwan
  • Patricia Kirwan
  • Audrey Ray-Smith
  • Jane Figg
  • Kenneth Haigh
  • Emily Faust
  • Filmed tributes:
  • John Wayne
  • Sophie - granddaughter
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Dr Charles Carton

production team...

  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Patricia Neal autobiography

Patricia Neal recalls her experience of This Is Your Life in her autobiography, As I Am...


Back in England, Roald took me to a formal party at Sir John Woolf's office. Sir John was producing Roald's short stories as a TV series called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.


There were scads of British stars there who had appeared in the shows. Midway through the party, an unfamiliar man with a large red album under his arm interrupted an enjoyable conversation I was having.


That was a bit much, I thought.


The man was Eamonn Andrews, the host of the British 'This Is Your Life' television programme, and it was my life they were doing then and there. So that was the reason for Roald's mysterious chauffeured-limousine trips to London!


It seemed that everyone who had ever been in my life had been gathered. Mother and NiNi, the whole Neal family and Emily Mahan Faust were flown in from America. Roald's family and half of Great Missenden were there. Even Dr Charles Carton, Kirk Douglas and Duke Wayne sent greetings on film. It was fabulous – on television.


It was a private fiasco, however. We did not have room at Gypsy House to put up my family because all the children were home on holiday. Mother was crushed. Once safely home, she let me know with an angry letter. When Roald saw it, a lifetime of antagonism between them burst like a ripe boil. He dictated a scathing letter saying we would never see her again. I was not prepared to cut Mother out of my life over a misunderstanding, but I still could not take a stand against my husband. The letter was sent.

Series 19 subjects

Alice Goldberger | Michael Parkinson | Mary O'Hara | Barbara Kelly | Terry Scott | Jimmy Shand | Eric Newby | Patricia Neal
David Bellamy | Muhammad Ali | Vera Lynn | Naomi James | Leslie Thomas | James Galway | Elaine Paige | Lord Lovat
Kevin Keegan | Stephane Grappelli | Robert Powell | Shirley Crabtree | Peter Barkworth | Robert Law | Dinah Sheridan
JPR Williams | Joyce Pearce | Ian Ogilvy | Margaret Kelly