A Scottish photographer shares his humorous and insightful story about photographing Freddie Foreman, the notorious gangster who inspired the Bob Hoskins character in the film The Long Good Friday.
A Scots photographer has told how he incurred the wrath of gangster Freddie Foreman - who inspired the Bob Hoskins character in gangster flick The Long Good Friday . Violent killer Foreman, 92, was considered one of the UK’s most dangerous criminals and was an associate of the Krays. But he was left fuming when Scots photographer Brian Anderson turned up late for a photo-shoot with the notorious hardman.
Brian, 55, who features Foreman in his new book on Britains’s most feared criminals, said: “The character Bob Hoskins played in the Long Good Friday was based on Freddie and the plot about Irish crime families coming into London symbolised the end of Freddie’s reign. “Out of everybody I’ve photographed, Freddie Foreman was the one I wanted to pin down and document. “I was in London and called him up and told him I was a photojournalist doing a book of infamous gangsters. “He told me to pick him up in a limousine, throw some money about and he would do it. “I said, ‘I don’t have any money, I’m just a normal guy. I’ve a car full of petrol and that’s it’. He said, ‘Okay’ and told me to go to Langan’s restaurant at eight.” Anderson headed to the wrong restaurant and was late getting to Langan’s, owned at the time by Michael Caine. “By the time I got to the right Langan’s in Mayfair, Freddie was sitting there with his associates eating his steak,” he said. “Freddie was Gangster number one and here I am rolling in 45 minutes late. “He looked up and said, ‘You’re fu**ing late, mate.’ “That was the first time I photographed him and we became quite good pals after that.” The Glaswegian replicated key movie moments as they drove around London, including getting Foreman to stand in front of Tower Bridge as Hoskins did in the movie. He said: “It felt like I was recreating The Long Good Friday. “People would shout over to him, ‘Alright Fred, killed anybody lately?’ and he’d say, ‘Well the night is still young
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