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Chalfont St Giles on FilmPaul Golding has kindly compiled these details of Chalfont St Giles appearing on the silver screen. Do you know of any other filming done in the village? If so, please email Paul at pg@mdlk.com.
Dad's Army (1971) Chalfont St Giles doubled as Walmington-on-sea in the 1971 big screen spin-off of the classic BBC comedy Series "Dad's Army" .
The Sweeney (1978) George Sewell makes a call from Chalfont St Giles in an episode of "The Sweeney" entitled "Bait", first aired on October 19th 1978 this is episode 7 of series 4.
Hammer House of Horror (1980) Hammer paid a visit to Chalfont St Giles in 1980 in the episode "Visitor from the Grave" which was part of their 13 episode run of TV horror specials filmed after the company had set up their studios at Hampden House, Great Hampden, Bucks. All episodes were filmed in the Buckinghamshire area but this particular one features Chalfont St Giles being haunted by a ghostly Stanley Lebor (Howard Hughes from Ever Decreasing Circles!!) driving a....ahem...white Range Rover.... Poor Kathryn Lee Scott is scared witless as "shot at close range" Stanley pulls up opposite "The Crown" pub while her husband Simon MacCorkindale (from 1983's "Manimal" TV series) is off galavanting around the village.
The Canterbury Tales: A Miller's Tale (2003) The BBC's new take on the "The Canterbury Tales" meant a visit to Chalfont St Giles by James Nesbitt and Dennis Waterman for the episode "A Miller's Tale" in 2003. Click here for more details.
BBC London News Blink and you'll miss it. Chalfont St Giles is included in the intro sequence of BBC London News.
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