- Father of Ainan Celeste Cawley, the scientific child prodigy and husband of Syahidah Osman Cawley, the artist.
- He has been an actor, a writer, a scientist and a performance artist, among other professions, in his life.
His performance art made global news in the early 1990s and was covered on CNN, Reuters and NBC News. - Valentine was born on St. Valentine's Day...hence his unusual name.
- Valentine's performance art piece, Lord Valentine the Misplaced, was a living 18th century dandy, in the context of the 20th Century world. It was highly influential and seems to have inspired many subsequent imitations, including the covers of George Magazine, which consisted of dressing 20th Century people in 18th Century costume, for example, the first cover of Cindy Crawford, as George Washington (an 18th Century figure).
- Valentine played the role of The German Ambassador, in Fragrant Harbour, opposite German icon Veronica Ferres - and spoke his role entirely in German, even though he doesn't actually speak German. Amusingly, the crew were fooled by this and repeatedly addressed him in German, on set, thereafter, thinking him a native speaker of it.
- Valentine improvised his lines, entirely, for his work on Roy (2015) - a Bollywood production with Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez, and Arjun Rampal. He played an auctioneer.
- Valentine did every shot of his performance as a British colonial leader in The New Village, in one take. Sadly, this polished performance has never been seen by cinema-goers since the film was banned for being too "politically sensitive".
- When Valentine Cawley's three young sons (who are also actors) watched his performance as the Witch Doctor, not a one of them recognized the voice of their own Dad, because he had invented a new voice just for the role.
- Valentine Cawley played a real historical person, Stanley Warren who was a British prison-of-war, who was famed for painting five murals in the prison chapel at Changi Prison, Singapore. Valentine was seen painting one of the murals, in War Diary, which he had been taught to do by Valeriu Sepi, the artist.
- Valentine Cawley transformed himself so successfully for the role of Warick, in Vikingdom, that after the film Premiere in Kuala Lumpur, he managed to walk past the press corps of 160 waiting journalists in modern attire - and not a single one of them recognized him, from the film they had just seen!They never made the connection between the modern dressed actor, and the period character they had just watched for a couple of hours.
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