Photographs by Lewis Morley

Sleeping street musician with gramophone in Florence, 1949. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Clint Eastwood in London, 1968. Morley photographed Eastwood on the set of Where Eagles Dare. Despite his tough-guy stance, Eastwood was one of Morley's all-time nicest subjects. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

David Frost, That Was The Week That Was, London 1963. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Christine Keeler in London,1963. Morley photographed Keeler in his studio above the Establishment nightclub at the behest of Peter Cook as publicity shots for a future film.
Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive via National Portrait Gallery

Michael Caine, in London, 1963. Caine was having trouble getting film roles, despite his well-received debut in A Hill in Korea (1956). He came to Morley's studio for a new series of publicity photographs. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Susannah York, in Paris, 1961. Morley found this reflective moment at Monmartre. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

François Truffaut, in London, 1961. Morley was commissioned by Tatler to photograph the French director of The 400 Blows (1959) during the release of his film Jules et Jim. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Judi Dench, in London, 1965. Morley had followed Judi Dench's career from her first stage performance in 1957 as Ophelia at the Royal Court. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Peter O'Toole, in London, 1963. O'Toole played the lead in Bertolt Brecht's play Baal at the Phoenix Theatre. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Mersey Girls, Liverpool, 1964. Four female extras for the film Ferry Across the Mersey, shot on location as a publicity venture for Gerry and the Pacemakers. Photograph: NPG/Lewis Morley Archive

Salvador Dali, in London, 1959. Dali was in London at the invitation of his biographer, Fleur Cowles, the editor of Look and Quick magazines. Cowles had summoned Morley from a throng of photographers at Victoria station in London for a private session, and Morley snapped this image after Dali thought the session was finished. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Stephen Hawking (with cane), Tariq Ali and Vanessa Redgrave at the front of an anti-Vietnam war demonstration, Grosvenor Square, London, 1968. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Susannah York, in London, 1963. York had graduated from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1960, along with Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole and Joe Orton. Morley had introduced her to Finney and she appeared with him in Tom Jones in 1963. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive

Lewis Morley poses for his own Keeler recreation, with a millstone around his neck. Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive