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Anthony Smee
Anthony Smee (22 November 1949), known professionally as Tony Smee, is an English theatre producer, writer, and actor who has worked in radio, theatre, television, and film since 1972. Background Education Smee trained at the Rose Bruford College. Career Theatre Mr Maugham at Home (2010–2014) Partial filmography *''Return of the Jedi'' (1983) - Imperial Bunker Commander (uncredited) *''The English Patient'' (1996) - Beach Interrogation Officer *''Hilary and Jackie'' (1998) - BBC Nabob *''Parting Shots'' (1998) - George *'' You're the Stranger Here'' (2009) - Bruno Partial television *''Colditz'' (1974) - Captain Able *''Z-Cars'' (1977) - Mick *'' Secret Army'' (1977) - Vidler *''Crown Court'' (1978) - Ben Hare *''House of Caradus'' (7 episodes, 1979) - Lionel Caradus *''Coronation Street'' (1981) - John Ridley *'' Wet Job'' (1981) - Thorne *''Miss Marple'' "The Body in the Library" (1984) - Basil Blake *'' Hold the Back Page'' (1985) - The Brigadier *''Brookside'' (6 ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold The Back Page
''Hold the Back Page'' is a British television series which originally aired on BBC One between 12 November 1985 and 28 January 1986. A sports reporter transfers from a broadsheet to a tabloid.Vahimagi p.301 Main cast * David Warner as Ken Wordsworth * Eric Allan as Reg * Gil Brailey as Alison * Lee Whitlock as Charlie Wordsworth * David Horovitch as Russell de Vries * Peter-Hugo Daly as Steve Stevens * Richard Ireson as Frank McNab * Tilly Vosburgh Matilda Vosburgh (born 17 December 1960) is a British character actress. Early life Born in the Westminster district of London, Vosburgh is the daughter of comedy writer and lyricist Dick Vosburgh and former actress Beryl Vosburgh (née Roques ... as Ruby References Bibliography * Vahimagi, Tise . ''British Television: An Illustrated Guide''. Oxford University Press, 1996. External links * {{IMDb title, id=0181224 BBC television dramas 1985 British television series debuts 1986 British television series endings 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Firsts , ''Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy'', BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003''Comedy Firsts'' is a short-lived British television series consisting of five unrelated sitcoms and one sketch show that aired in 1995. Two of the episodes later led to full series, '' Barbara'' and '' Sometime, Never''. Background ''Comedy Firsts'' followed on from ITV's ''Comedy Playhouse'' that had aired in 1993. It followed the same format of a series of one-off comedy pilots. Each episode of ''Comedy Firsts'' aired on Monday at 8pm and had a different cast and writers. Episodes References *Mark Lewisohn Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English historian and biographer. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. ''Comedy Firsts''< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crusades (BBC TV Series)
''Crusades'' is a 1995 historical documentary series presented by Terry Jones. It looked at The Crusades and used elements of black comedy. Prominent figures are depicted by actors wearing masks and costumes making to appear as living images in the style of their cultures. Emperor Alexios I, for example, appears as a Byzantine mosaic, while European and Muslim figures are brought to life by actors appearing in the style of medieval and near eastern miniatures. At times, production is deliberately anachronistic, such as showing the use of 1930s style newsreels by the Church to drum up mass support for the Crusades. Episodes 1. "Pilgrims in Arms" The first episode recounts Byzantine Emperor Alexius's appeal to Pope Urban II for military aid with which to fight Muslim Turks. The Pope uses the request to drum up popular support for the creation of a Christian army, with the mission of liberating Jerusalem. European knights, recently converted to Christianity, eagerly join th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Play The King
''To Play the King'' is a 1993 BBC television serial and the second part of the ''House of Cards'' trilogy. Directed by Paul Seed, the serial was based on Michael Dobbs' 1993 novel of the same name and adapted for television by Andrew Davies. The opening and closing theme music for the TV series is entitled "Francis Urquhart's March", by composer Jim Parker. The series details the conflict between British Prime Minister Francis Urquhart and a newly crowned king as well as the run-up to the general election. The book and TV serialisation follow on from the TV version of the first part of the trilogy. ''To Play the King'' (and the final part '' The Final Cut'') reflect upon the end of the first series, which differed somewhat from the plot of the original novel. Plot The newly crowned King ( Michael Kitchen) is displeased with the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and becomes involved in politics in a way that Urquhart finds unaccepta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Framed (TV Series)
''Framed'' is a British television crime drama series, created and written by acclaimed author Lynda La Plante, adapted from her novel of the same name. The four-part series, broadcast on ITV, ran from 27 November to 18 December 1992 and followed police officer Lawrence Jackson (David Morrissey), who whilst on holiday in Spain, bumps into career criminal Eddie Myers (Timothy Dalton), who was known to have been involved a bank robbery committed several years ago, but was never caught. The officer who investigated the original case, Jimmy McKinnes (Timothy West) assigns Jackson to go undercover and live with Myers in an attempt to finally bring him to justice. Annabelle Apsion co-stars as Susan Jackson, Larry's long-suffering wife who has an affair whilst Larry is working on the case, and Penélope Cruz stars as Lola Del Moreno, one of Myers' girls who has been protecting him during his time living in Spain. For its broadcast in the United States, the series was edited down into o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Hurts (TV Series)
''Love Hurts'' is a British comedy-drama series that was broadcast from 3 January 1992 to 18 March 1994 on BBC One. It was scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starred Adam Faith as Frank Carver, Zoë Wanamaker as Tessa Piggott, Tony Selby as Max Taplow and Jane Lapotaire as Diane Warburg. Zoë Wanamaker received a 1993 Best Actress BAFTA nomination for her work in the series. The theme tune was written by Alan Hawkshaw and performed by Peter Polycarpou. Plot When her married long-term boyfriend (who was also her boss) decides to end their relationship for a younger woman, Tessa Piggott (Zoë Wanamaker) leaves her high powered City career and, determined to change her life and leave the rat race, with the help of an old University friend (Jane Lapotaire) - who is also a rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergerac (TV Series)
''Bergerac'' is a British crime drama television series. Set in Jersey, it ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Australian Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who is initially a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later leaves the force and becomes a private investigator. Westward Studios executive producer Brian Constantine said the Bergerac reboot was in the final stages of development, possibly airing 2024. Background The series ran from 1981 to 1991. It was created by producer Robert Banks Stewart after an earlier detective series, '' Shoestring,'' starring Trevor Eve, came to an abrupt end. Like ''Shoestring'', the series begins with a man returning to work after a particularly bad period in his life: Eddie Shoestring fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amongst Barbarians
''Amongst Barbarians'' is a 1989 play by British playwright Michael Wall, first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester prior to a transfer to the Hampstead Theatre in London. It was filmed as a made-for-TV movie in 1990, which was shown as part of series five of the BBC drama anthology series, '' ScreenPlay''. It was directed by Jane Howell and starred David Jason, Anne Carroll, Rowena Cooper, Con O'Neill and Lee Ross. ''Amongst Barbarians'' is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking. As they both face the death penalty, their relatives travel to Penang to come to their rescue. However, they soon find out that there is nothing they can do to save the boys' lives. In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their racism becomes more than apparent. The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass (TV Series)
''Brass'' was a British television comedy drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, ''Brass'' satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly ''When the Boat Comes In''. Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, ''Brass'' eschewed a laugh track and used a dry sense of humour based in part on convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. The series also parodied the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' '' Hard Times'', which also starred Timothy West. Story and characters The series, created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, was about two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the working-class Fairchilds—who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire. The Hardacre family was headed by the ruthless self-made businessma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Testimony Of A Child
In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter. Etymology The words "testimony" and "testify" both derive from the Latin word ''testis'', referring to the notion of a disinterested third-party witness. Law In the law, testimony is a form of evidence that is obtained from a witness who makes a solemn statement or declaration of fact. Testimony may be oral or written, and it is usually made by oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury. To be admissible in court and for maximum reliability and validity, written testimony is usually witnessed by one or more persons who swear or affirm its authenticity, also under penalty of perjury. Unless a witness is testifying as an expert witness, testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is generally limited to those opinions or inferences that are rationally based on the perceptions of the witness and are helpful to a clear understanding of the witness' testimony. Legitimate expert witnesses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Lamp
''The Blue Lamp'' is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do). The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series ''Dixon of Dock Green'', where Jack Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film). The screenplay was written by ex-policeman T.E.B. Clarke. The film is an early example of the "social realism" films that emerged later in the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes using a partial documentary-like approach. There are also cinematic influences of the film noir genre, particularly in underworld scenes featuring Bogarde's Tom Riley, such as the pool rooms and in and around the theatre, making deliberate use of genre trademarks like slow mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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