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All In Good Time (play)
''All in Good Time'' is a comic play by Bill Naughton based on his 1961 ''Armchair Theatre'' television play "Honeymoon Postponed". Originally produced at the Mermaid Theatre in 1963 in London, it subsequently transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, London, Phoenix Theatre, and then to Broadway theatre, Broadway, where it ran for 44 performances in February and March 1965. The Broadway cast included Donald Wolfit, Marjorie Rhodes and Richard Dysart. It received 19th Tony Awards, Tony Award Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Best Actress and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actress nominations for Marjorie Rhodes and Alexandra Berlin. Plot Teenage newlyweds living with the groom's parents, have difficulties consummating their marriage. Original production The play, directed by Josephine Wilson, opened on 6 March 1963 at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre, London, before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre, London, Phoenix Theatre in the West End theatre, Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All In Good Time (play)
''All in Good Time'' is a comic play by Bill Naughton based on his 1961 ''Armchair Theatre'' television play "Honeymoon Postponed". Originally produced at the Mermaid Theatre in 1963 in London, it subsequently transferred to the Phoenix Theatre, London, Phoenix Theatre, and then to Broadway theatre, Broadway, where it ran for 44 performances in February and March 1965. The Broadway cast included Donald Wolfit, Marjorie Rhodes and Richard Dysart. It received 19th Tony Awards, Tony Award Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Best Actress and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actress nominations for Marjorie Rhodes and Alexandra Berlin. Plot Teenage newlyweds living with the groom's parents, have difficulties consummating their marriage. Original production The play, directed by Josephine Wilson, opened on 6 March 1963 at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre, London, before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre, London, Phoenix Theatre in the West End theatre, Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Welch (actor)
Peter William Welch (30 March 1922 – 20 November 1984) was a British actor who appeared in television programmes including ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Spy Trap'', '' Softly, Softly'', ''Doctor Who'' and ''Danger Man'' with Patrick McGoohan. He spent several years touring in the theatre with a repertory company he founded, and began playing character parts in films from the mid 1950s. Filmography * '' Dial 999'' (1955) * '' The Long Arm'' (1956) * ''Five Clues to Fortune'' (1957) * ''The Admirable Crichton'' (1957) * '' The Silent Enemy'' (1958) * ''The House of the Seven Hawks'' (1959) * ''The Secret Partner'' (1961) * ''A Prize of Arms'' (1962) * ''Calculated Risk'' (1963) * ''The Secret of Blood Island'' (1964) * ''Jude the Obscure'' (1971) - Policeman TV * ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1957–58) - Wounded Man/Sheriff's Servant/Ambassador/Lt. Howard (4 episodes) * ''No Hiding Place'' (1959–67) - Joe Denham/McBride/Linker/Wilkie/Benny Gimbal (5 episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Plays
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A January 1963 lunar eclipse, total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the January 1963 lunar eclipse, penumbral lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963, annular solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All In Good Time (film)
''All in Good Time'' is a British film directed by Nigel Cole and starring Reece Ritchie, Amara Karan, Harish Patel, and Meera Syal. It is based on Ayub Khan-Din's 2007 play ''Rafta, Rafta'', which was based on Bill Naughton's 1963 play ''All in Good Time'' and the 1966 film adaptation ''The Family Way''. Synopsis Atul (Reece Ritchie) and Vina (Amara Karan) are newly married and in love. But their marriage gets off to a slow start because they are living with Atul's parents in Bolton. Lack of privacy in the cramped household and Atul's overbearing father, Eeshwar (played by Harish Patel), prevent Atul and Vina to find a suitable time and place to consummate their marriage. At time goes by, word gets around and the young couple's relationship begins to fray. After Vina leaves Atul, Eeshwar is finally able to talk to Atul without judgment and tells him to bring Vina home. With the relationship repaired, Atul and Vina are finally able to consummate their marriage. Reception The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Way
''The Family Way'' is a 1966 British comedy-drama film about the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple living in a crowded house with the husband's family. Based on Bill Naughton's play '' All in Good Time'' (1963), the film began life in 1961 as the television play ''Honeymoon Postponed''. The film was produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, respectively, and starred father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills. Naughton wrote the screenplay. Plot After Jenny Piper (Hayley Mills) and Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) marry, a rowdy reception ensues at a local Lancashire pub. The newlyweds spend their wedding night at the Fitton's house, where Arthur's father, Ezra (John Mills), and some drunken guests loudly sing in the living room. Arthur clashes with Ezra, a lifelong gasworks employee, who is unable to understand his son's love of literature and classical music. After a strained evening, the newlyweds retire, only for their marital bed to collapse, the result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sharp (actor)
John Herbert Sharp ( – ) was a British actor who made numerous appearances on television during a career spanning 42 years. Biography Sharp made more than 130 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Although active in theatre, Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s. By the mid-1960s he mostly appeared in British television on popular shows of the era such as '' The Avengers'' ''"Murdersville"'' episode, the ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' episode ''"The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo"''; ''The Prisoner'', ''Not on Your Nellie'' opposite Hylda Baker, ''Z-Cars'', and in 1976 in ''The Sweeney'' episode ''"On the Run"'' in which he played ''Uncle,'' a homosexual retired Magistrate who becomes embroiled in the escape of a psychopathic prisoner having befriended the prisoner's former accomplice. He performed in Charles Dickens TV adaptations in the 1980s. In 1991, he made his last television appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Roche
Eugene Harrison Roche (September 22, 1928 – July 28, 2004) was an American actor and the original " Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials. Personal life Roche was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary M. (née Finnegan) and Robert F. Roche, who was at the time serving in the U.S. Navy. He served in the U.S. Army after graduating from high school. He married Marjory Perkins in 1953. The couple had nine children, including actor Eamonn Roche and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Sean Roche. They divorced in 1981. Eugene Roche remarried in 1982 and remained married to his second wife, Anntoni C. Roche (née Bratman), until his death in 2004. Career After playing theater on various stages since 1953, Roche made his Broadway debut in 1961 as a bit player in the play ''Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole'' with Darren McGavin and went on to appear in ''Mother Courage'' with Anne Bancroft in 1963, and in ''The White House'' with Helen Hayes in 1964.Vallance, To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Murray (actor)
Brian Murray (né Bell; 10 September 193720 August 2018) was a South African actor and theatre director who was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. Biography Murray was born Brian Bell in Johannesburg, the son of Mary Dickson (née Murray) and Alfred Bell, a professional golfer. Career Murray made his Broadway debut in the play '' All in Good Time'' in 1965. "Brian Murray Credits and Awards" Playbill Vault, retrieved August 23, 2018 In 1967, he starred as Rosencrantz in the Broadway production of '''', earning the first of three |
John Karlen
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz; May 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was an American character actor who played multiple roles on the ABC serial ''Dark Shadows'' on and off from 1967 to 1971. In 1971, Karlen starred as the male lead in ''Daughters of Darkness''. He played Harvey Lacey, husband of Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly), on the CBS crime series ''Cagney & Lacey'' (1982–88). Karlen reprised the role of "Willie Loomis" for a series of ''Dark Shadows'' audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions. Life and career Karlen was born May 28, 1933, in Brooklyn, the son of Helen Agnes (née Balondowicz) and Adam Marion Karlewicz. He was of Polish descent. He enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on a scholarship. His first acting experiences were on early television productions such as ''From These Roots'' and ''Kraft Television Theatre''. His stage career began in 1959 in ''Sweet Bird of Youth''. He accumulated roles on both stage and television before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard A
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Douglas
Hazel Douglas (2 November 1923 – 8 September 2016) was an English actress. She portrayed Bathilda Bagshot in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1''. Her credits stretch back to the early days of television, and include ''Sunday Night Theatre'', '' The Worst Week of My Life'', '' Eyes Down'', ''The IT Crowd'', ''Gavin & Stacey'', ''Run Fatboy Run'', ''Casualty'', ''The Royal'', ''Asylum'', ''The Bill'', '' Where the Heart Is'', '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'', ''At Home with the Braithwaites'', ''The Liver Birds'' and '' Vicious''. She spent 11 happy years with Brian Rix’s company in the Whitehall farces, joining in 1954 for John Chapman’s Dry Rot, which ran for more than 1,400 performances. These comedies were also televised, and she appeared in episodes of the one-off comedies in the series Dial RIX (1962-63), with Rix and his wife Elspet Gray. Rix used to say that Hazel had the best double-take in the business. Recent work In 2009, she played the role of Mrs H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard B
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French language, French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English reflex was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced by the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). Bernard is the second most common surname in France. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
