One child star who shot to fame in Deliverance looks completely unrecognisable now.
Charley Boorman found his feet in the acting industry in the 1972 cult classic with his father John Boorman acting as the producer on the flick.
Alongside Billy Redden, who played Lonnie the inbred banjo boy, Charley was one of the very few child stars to emerge from the thriller film.
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Charley wasn’t the only relative of a cast member to appear in the film, as starring member Ned Beatty also involved his wife Belinda in the project, starring as Ed’s wife.
But before finding fame as a motorcycling legend alongside Ewan McGregor in The Long Way Round, Down and Up, Charley appeared in plenty of other films with his famous dad.
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In 1981, he played Boy Mordred in Excalibur, also directed by John, before going on to play Tomme in 1985’s The Emerald Forest.
His last acting role came in 2011, when Charley appeared as Brian Seaborn in Travellers – but he’s also appeared in short films like Two Nudes Bathing and feature film The Serpent’s Kiss.
Despite being best pals with Ewan and having a very successful TV career, life hasn’t always been easy for Charley.
In 2016, he was riding his motorbike in Portugal when he collided with a wall to avoid a car that pulled out in front of him – and broke both legs in the process.
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While he was still in recovery, he suffered another gruesome injury, breaking his hip while riding a Vespa.
Operations were done to repair the bones, but he was forced to use a wheelchair while relearning how to walk. Said surgeries left him with one leg one centimetre shorter than the other – and with a recognisable limp.
Speaking of his injuries, Charley revealed: “It suddenly dawned on me that I was old and had the whiff of the nursing home about me with my broken hip.
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“Getting back on the toilet on my own was something really important, after having being in bed, using a bed pan, being on a commode – all these things the rest of us all just take for granted.”
He added: “Being in a wheelchair is just so debilitating, people seemed to think that I wouldn’t get out of it again. And when I went round the corner for a coffee with my wife Ollie, they would talk to her and not me and say ‘How is he?’ and I’m thinking ‘Oy, I’m right here!’”
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