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on a more or less specially constructed flat surface, a counter, a table, a pile of luggage and so on. His body sat on the surface with Ivan sitting underneath with his arm up through a hole in the surface. The join between the base of Basil’s body and the surface always had to be disguised with a pile of (for example) books and the puppet’s position never changed during a given scene. On one occasion, though, Basil, who seated was about 45cm high, had to walk from a dentist’s waiting room into the surgery across the studio floor. This was achieved by cutting to
surgery, and appeared in fine form at the 2015 Oscars ceremony. BIBLIOG : Robert Windeler, Julie Andrews: A Life on Stage and Screen , 1998; Richard Stirling, Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography , 2007; Autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years , 2008 Andrews, Naveen ( b London, 1969). Actor. Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Came to fame in TV’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), as the South London son of an Indian father and English mother, and as Kip in The English Patient (1996, UK/US). Now appearing in international productions