Robert DeNiro Checks Out London's Treasury  5/31/05

Movie legend Robert De Niro amazed onlookers when he was spotted "striding purposefully" around the British Government's Treasury building in London. 

The 61-year-old actor-turned-director was exploring Westminster - the English capital's political heart - in a bid to find the perfect site for his upcoming movie The Good Shepherd. An insider says, "It emerged he was being given a private tour, in order to use the location for a new film he will be making in Britain." 

A spokesman from De Niro's production company, Tribeca, says, "It was to do with The Good Shepherd, a film about the history of the CIA which Mr De Niro will be directing, but I can't tell you any more."