Mike Sarne

Mike Sarne
Mike Sarne
Born 6 August 1940 (1940-08-06) (age 71)
Paddington, London

Mike Sarne (born 6 August 1940) is a British actor, director and former pop singer.

Sarne was born Michael Scheuer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Active in the 1960s as singer, he is best known for his 1962 UK comedy number one hit, "Come Outside" (produced by Joe Meek which features vocal interjections by Wendy Richard). In the mid 1960s Sarne introduced the ITV children's quiz series, Junior Criss Cross Quiz.

Films he has directed include: 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. He also directed a documentary about the Glastonbury Music Festival in 1995.

As an actor, he has appeared mainly on television, in British series including The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase, Jonathan Creek, and The Bill.

His brother, David Scheuer, had a brief acting career in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mike Sarne had a relationship with Brigitte Bardot only a few days after her honeymoon with Gunter Sachs.[1] He has five children. Two (Claudia and William) born from his marriage (1969–1978) to Tanya Sarne, founder of the designer label Ghost. He had three children (Emma, Abigail and Sarah) with his second wife Anne Musso. Sarne and Musso married in 2004 in Chelsea, London.[2]

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