I was stunned when I saw Edward Woodward singing on his own variety show from Britain, sometime in the late 1970’s, because I’d only known him via re-runs of the old Callan series where he’d played a very down-at-heel assassin working for the British secret agencies. These people are often more talented, at least in their sphere of art and entertainment, than we give them credit for.

Mind you, we layman aren’t the only ones, as one Hollywood talent scout later discovered after assessing a prospect:

“Can’t act, can’t sing, can dance a little.”

The unknown scribe was writing of Fred Astaire.