BA on the BIG screen (or small screen if you're watching on-board)
 

I was watching Mission: Impossible the other day, with that scene in the Old Old First Class cabin, where Jim Phelps is receiving a video message which is played through the personal video player (pre-AVOD!) and then it self-destructs :cool:, so he has to light a cigarette to hide the smell.

But it got me thinking – what other movies have BA aircraft starred in? Surely there were some James Bonds with Concorde in, weren’t there (before Beardy stole the limelight)? And surely loads of other famous BA appearances on the big screen.

Can we pull together a list between us…?

I'm sure I've seen Bond travelling in F at some point.

Ignoring all the Bonds,
Fish Called Wanda,
Parent Trap
Coming to America
Three Men and a Baby
Family Guy (okay so the small screen on that one)

Bond is shown in Moonraker arriving in Rio on a Concorde but it' an AF one not a BA one.

Die Another Day has JB sitting in 4E in old first (walnut cabin).

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The Holiday starring Jude Law and Cameron Diaz features the BA brand several times

I was just about to say that one! I only watched in the other day... Love that film! Kate is amazing... Fab actress... An absolute delight to have onboard too... ^

Welcome back. ^^^

2012 has a BA plane in the background at the ark place.

Ta...

Welcome back! She is my favourite actress so I'm delighted to hear that.

In the film 'Valentine's Day', one of the characters is driving to the airport and a BA plane (I think it was a 747) flies right overhead for the perfect shot.

Bond flew BA Club Europe (because Q scanned his BP and it said C on it) in a 757 from London to Russia in Golden Eye.

He did go on Concorde at least once - possibly in a Roger Moore film. Would have to check and I think it was an Air France Concorde.

In Doctor No - loved the way that as the Pan Am 707 arrives in Jamaica - the control tower "phones" New York to tell them that "Your flight XYZ just arrived in Kingston.

Bros an also flies BA in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Please see my earlier post, we don't know if Jaws went by BA Concorde in Moonraker though.

Does he, when? At the end of the film where he is sitting behind Renee he is on an American plane (not sure of the airline), he flies a glider and a private jet, but I don't remember a BA plane at all.

Airport 79 has a Concorde as the main plane and it had a reddy/orange BOAC style speedmark on the tailfin. not sure if that counts.

The VIPs with Margaret Rutherford et al (1963).

John Cleese in Crown First Class in a Fish called Wanda

David Niven in BOAC/BA Y to KL in Paper Tiger (1975)

The Games (1970) with Stanley Baker has good scenes in F on a BOAC 707

My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and quite a few novels as well as in a song in the last realising of the musical Tell Me On A Sunday with Denise Van Outen....

An A380 by the looks of it too.

Not a movie but I have been watching all the Extreme Fishing programmes with Robson Green and he has been shown flying in BA F a few times. Got an upgrade to new F in the last programme I watched.

Good programme. He certainly enjoyed BAs CW in the previous series.

I forgot about Perfect Friday (1970) where there are some nice scenes inside Terminal 3 and Ursula Andress escaping with the loot on a BOAC 707. Another film with Stanley Baker, so perhaps he had some sort of deal.

Does the "Jakarta Incident" on Air Crash Investigation count?

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Don't forget the fantastically 80's 'We'll take more care of you' billboard in Rio in Moonraker. Okay-not an aeroplane, but still a great piece of BA nostalgia.

In 'Frost/Nixon' Michael Sheen flies BA from LHR to LAX - there's quite an extended scene in the nose and upper deck bar of a 747-100.

I remember an episode of Bergerac....might even have been the very first one. Showing John Nettles flying back to Jersey on a Trident.

Remember the famous Cinzano ads with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins?

Rossiter is reading from a BA First Class menu in the one they did on a plane.

It was Joan Collins reading the menu. :)

BCal appears in Local Hero, MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) flies into Scotland where he is met at the airport by a young Peter Capaldi.

Is that the BA9 Mount Galougloug-whatever ash-ingestion thing?

Yes it was. Well spotted ^

You can see the inside of First aboard a BOAC 747 about half way through this clip:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73009

Things have come a long way since those days!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...7328/img/1.jpg

Does Nuns on the Run count?

http://www.tg-films.info/films_n/pics/nuns3.jpg

Don't see why not, one of the better Handmade films.

Yup - not BA at all - United, IIRC.

rb211.

Thanks for that, I was going to dig my copy out tomorrow and check.

In Snatch, John Cleese takes the Concorde NY-London and back (so presumably, on BA), and on his return gives Customs a great line:

"Anything to declare?"
"Yeah, don't go to England."

Oh - and in Proof of Life, Russell Crowe is seated in New Club World... he was facing backwards and working on his laptop...

Just noticed there's a BA plane shown at the start of titles of the ITV comedy "Duty Free" with Keith Baron and Gwen Taylor et al

They certainly have. Can you imagine the outcry if they went back to Mumm Cordon Rouge?

That was Dennis Farina. And I loved the way they put together the Concorde sequences.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKBSy6rgdY

In Moonraker one of the ambulance henchmen is thrown from the ambulance and ends up in a BA advertising hoarding in GIG.

In Stormbreaker G-NVSB arrives at a purported Cornish airport carrying some of the cast. (I wasn't watching the cast very closely)

...and served a drink by Roger Moore's daughter, in character as Pucci.

Feature films that feature BA ?
 

Just out of curiosity a little question to the collective triviality that is the BA EC board. Was BA ever featured in any motion picture and if yes, which? It is always funny to see the made up airlines in films, especially if they crash, but I am sure that real airlines are used as well. Maybe even a bit of product placement.

I know of none, but I am sure you do.