An Indian-born boy with an impish popularity, actor Sabu (left) was playing the title role in his third British film, 'The Thief of Bagdad', described in Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopædia as a 'spectacular technicolour adventure'. Some of the scenes were filmed on South Beach, which explains Sabu's presence in Tenby. He stayed at the Cobourg Hotel. Sabu met with success in Hollywood and was the first Indian and middle-eastern actor to do so. His untimely death of a heart attack at 39 came as a real shock, since it was just days after a doctor had told him "if all my patients were as healthy as you, I'd be out of business."