Juliet Lacey remembers well the moment in A Fish Called Wanda when Kevin Kline dangles John Cleese out of a window for calling him stupid. It was filmed, with other scenes, in her Southwark flat, in a former grain wharf overlooking the Thames. The flat is now for sale for £2million.

Lacey, a 64-year-old actress, converted the entire building in the late 1970s with her husband, Nick, an architect, and signed up to two film-location agencies, which put MGM studios in touch. Several advertisements, including one for Marks & Spencer, have also been filmed there.

The two-storey flat is almost 3,000 sq ft, with four bedrooms and a huge open-plan living room and kitchen. It feels more like a country cottage than a Central London flat, with original features such as a staircase made from an upturned grain shoot, built-in bookcases, driftwood beams and an ancient-looking Aga. “You're not terribly aware of the city here,” Lacey says. The neighbouring wharves, previously an artists' haven, are now mostly inhabited by bankers.

There are two single and two double-beds, one upstairs with an en suite bathroom, fantastic views of the river and an adjacent study. The terrace may need repaving. An old Pither stove, visible in the film when Cleese is caught pants-down seducing Jamie Lee Curtis with Russian poetry, comes with the flat.

020-7480 6848; knightfrank.co.uk

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