Mike Sarne
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Mike Sarne (Michael Scheuer born August 6, 1939 in London) was a British pop singer in the 1960s, best known for his 1962 UK number one hit Come Outside (featuring Wendy Richard), who became a film director.
He has directed a number of films, including Joanna (1968) and most notably Myra Breckinridge (1970), an adaptation of Gore Vidal's book of the same name, starring Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Mae West and Farrah Fawcett in her first big screen role. A more recent film is The Punk And The Princess (1994) an adaptation of Gideon Sams' young adult novel The Punk, about the romance between a teenage punk rocker and an upper-class Sloane Ranger girl. None of these films were successful at the box office nor with the critics.
In the mid 1960s he intrdouced the ITV children's quiz series, Junior Criss Cross Quiz.
