Stanley Baker....Robbery....scene filmed at Brisbane Road?
That wouldn't be surprising as the early sixties Orient were owned by a group of Jewish Eastenders who made their fortunes from the film and TV industries of which Soho is such an important part.
Brothers Lew* and Leslie Grade and Bernard Delfont owned most of what was worth owning in "Theatreland" and of course were the leading financiers behind the burgeoning ITV of the time. They were joined on the Leyton Orient board by their good friend
Harry Zussman and many a showbiz star would get invited along to Brisbane Road where none where more popular with the punters than Arthur Askey who just couldn't resist grabbing the PA mike and ask the crowd to
"move along now, move along...................I thank you"Despite their immense wealth, these gentlemen protected their self made worth with an iron fist and where notoriously frugal with their underwriting of the football club.
It has often been said that in the West of London, Fulham were The O's "antipode"....................and their chairman at the time was comedian
Tommy Trinder.* The family link with football and directorships continued with Leslie Grade's son
Michael Grade (erstwhile chairman of ITV and the company that owns and runs iconic film studios Pinewood, Teddington and Shepperton) becoming a board member of his football love, Charlton Athletic.
Leslie Grade was born Laszlo (Lazarus) Winogradsky in the Ukraine and the family epitomised the East End tradition of poor Jewish boys made good....................people like
Jack Cohen who used to fist fight for the best pitch for his fruit and veg stall every morning in Hackney's Well Street Market ~ you'd know Jack's "barrow" now as
Tescos I expect, and old Jack was still throwing his fists around until he died in his late nineties during boardroom rows!
Perhaps today's highest profile of the like would be the former owner of yet another football club (Tottenham Hotspur)
Baron Sugar of Clapton in the London Borough of Hackney to give Sir Alan Sugar his full title. The "baron" of Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar) always claimed to have made his first pennies sitting with his Guy Fawkes outside the shops in Upper Clapton Road
E5 where he then hit on the wheeze of buying beetroots wholesale ,
sugaring (see where the name came from?)them and selling them on as the local delicacy Sweet Beetroot!
Another one who I had the pleasure of meeting some months back was
Jarvis Astaire , one time owner of Wembley Stadium; who made his fortune when he hit upon the idea of the huge public clamour to be able to watch the boxing greats of the early sixties.......................men like Henry Cooper, Brian London and Billy Walker (Jarvis was the "silent partner" of legendary boxing promotor Jack Solomons)....................and he pioneered the showing of all the big fights in the Odeon Cinemas that eventually led to the huge money boxing gets from television to this day.
Solomons was another to whom frugality clung like a Crombie Overcoat. It is calimed that he once conned a young boxer up from the country and staying at his home in Hackney, by responding to his request to see "the bright lights of the West End" by taking him on a bus ride along
Mare Street E8 so that he thought the local shops and the fabulous
Hackney Empire were "Oxford Street & Theatre Land".................well compared to rural Cambridgeshire they must have seemed that way anyhow!
realises that where he lives in "Rosie & Jim Cottages" overlooks the former ground of McCleans? I reckon that was where the field that has "gone back to nature" now edges up to his nice little gaff..................and di they use toothpaste in the line marker? 
