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A Matter Of Choice
''A Matter of Choice'' is a 1963 British drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody and Ballard Berkeley. The screenplay concerns two youths who accidentally kill a man. It was one of a number of low budget British films Steel made in the 1960s while based in Rome. Cast * Anthony Steel - John Crighton * Jeanne Moody - Lisa Grant * Ballard Berkeley - Charles Grant * Malcolm Gerard - Mike * Michael Davis - Tony * Penny Morrell - Jackie * Lisa Peake - Jane * James Bree - Alfred * George Moon George Moon (19 March 1909 – 17 December 1981) was an English stage, film and television actor. During the late 1950s he appeared as Ginger Smart in the television series ''Shadow Squad'' and its sequel ''Skyport''. Moon's largest telev ... - Spike * Richard Bebb as Waiter * Garard Green as Shop Keeper * Frank Pettitt as Police Sergeant * Frank Shelley as Police Doctor References External links * 1963 films 1963 drama films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Sewell
Vernon Campbell Sewell (4 July 1903 – 21 June 2001) was a British film director, writer, producer and, briefly, an actor. Sewell was born in London, England, and was educated at Marlborough College. He directed more than 30 films during his career, starting with '' Morgenrot'' (1933) and ending with '' Burke & Hare'' (1971). He worked chiefly in B-movies, some of which were, according to the BFI Screenonline, "well above the usual cut-price standards of film-making at this level." He was married to the actress Joan Carol (born Joan Roscoe Catt 1905-1986) in 1950. Vernon Sewell died on 21 June 2001 in Durban, South Africa, at age 97. Filmography (director) *1933: '' Morgenrot'' *1934: ''The Medium'' *1937: ''A Test for Love'' *1938: ''Breakers Ahead'' *1939: ''What Men Live By'' *1943: '' The Silver Fleet'' *1945: ''The World Owes Me a Living'' *1945: '' Latin-quarter'' *1945: ''Frenzy'' *1947: ''The Ghosts of Berkeley Square'' *1948: ''Uneasy Terms'' *1949: ''The Jack of Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Moon
George Moon (19 March 1909 – 17 December 1981) was an English stage, film and television actor. During the late 1950s he appeared as Ginger Smart in the television series ''Shadow Squad'' and its sequel ''Skyport''. Moon's largest television role came in 1977 when he played Tipping the butler in the short lived television series Lord Tramp alongside Hugh Lloyd and Joan Sims. His daughter is the actress Georgina Moon. Selected filmography * ''Diggers'' (1931) - Joe Mulga * '' A Co-respondent's Course'' (1931) * '' Diggers in Blighty'' (1933) - Joe Mulga * ''Lightning Conductor'' (1938) - George * '' Me and My Pal'' (1939) - Hal Thommson * '' Time Flies'' (1944) - Bill Barton * ''What Do We Do Now?'' (1945) - Wesley - (with Leslie Fuller) * '' An Alligator Named Daisy'' (1955) - Al * '' It's a Wonderful World'' (1956) - Taxi Driver * '' Carry on Admiral'' (1957) - Casey (uncredited) * '' Davy'' (1958) - Jerry * ''A Guy Called Caesar'' (1962) - Maurice * '' The Boys'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Drama Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Vernon Sewell
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Drama Films
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 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 penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Gheorg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Films
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic ''Cleopatra'' and two films with all-star casts, '' How the West Was Won'' and '' It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 9 – Joseph Vogel resigns as president of MGM and is replaced by Robert O'Brien. * February 20 – The classic epic western '' How the West Was Won'' premieres in the United States. It is an instant success with both audiences and critics and becomes the biggest moneymaker for MGM since '' Ben-Hur''. * June 12 – ''Cleopatra'', starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. Its staggering production costs nearly bankrupted Twentieth Century Fox and the adulterous affair between Taylor and Burton made the publicity even worse. ''Cleopatra'' marked the only instance that a film would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Pettitt
Frank Pettitt (16 October 1899 – 27 March 1964) was an English stage, film and television actor. He played Albert Finney's father in the film '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960). Filmography * '' Night and the City '' (1950) - Cabby (uncredited) * '' Face the Music'' (1954) - Constable (uncredited) * '' The Heart Within'' (1957) - 3rd Constable * '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960) - Mr. Seaton * ''The Kitchen'' (1961) - Frank * '' Victim'' (1961) - Barman * ''The Pot Carriers'' (1962) - Van Driver * '' Serena'' (1962) - Fred * ''Impact'' (1963) - Sid the foreman * ''A Matter of Choice ''A Matter of Choice'' is a 1963 British drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody and Ballard Berkeley. The screenplay concerns two youths who accidentally kill a man. It was one of a number of low budget Br ...'' (1963) - Police Sergeant References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Pettitt, F 1899 births 1964 deaths Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garard Green
Garard Green (31 July 1924 – 26 December 2004) was a British actor and commentator. Green was born in Madras, India in 1924 where his father was superintendent of the government press. When his father died in 1933 the family returned to the United Kingdom and Green finished his education at Watford Grammar School. He developed an interest in acting at Watford but when he left the school he returned to India and the Military Academy and was commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). At the end of the war he was demobilised and won a Sir Alexander Korda scholarship to Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). On leaving RADA he worked in the theatre in London. In 1953 he married the actress Margaret Tansley. He developed mobility problems caused by severe arthritis which ended his stage career and he concentrated on films and television, appearing in over 40 films including '' Hour of Decision'' (1957), ''Horrors of the Black Museum'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bebb
Richard Bebb (12 January 1927 – 12 April 2006) was an English actor of stage, screen and radio. Born Richard Bebb Williams in London, he changed his name to his mother's surname, Bebb, when he took up acting as there was already a British actor called Richard Williams. Bebb's father Herbert Edward Williams was a physician whose practice was run from part of St Mary's Lodge, the family's impressive home in Stoke Newington. Bebb was educated at Highgate School in North London, and attended Trinity College, Cambridge from . In 1952, he married actress Gwen Watford (1927–1994), who predeceased him. Bebb was a prolific performer in theatre, television and radio, probably most famously as "Second Voice" in the original 1954 BBC Radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'', opposite Richard Burton's "First Voice". On television, he appeared in early televised Shakespeare to Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Softly, Softly (TV series), and a long running role in the soap-op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bree (actor)
James Rutherfoord Worsfold Thomson (20 July 1923 – 1 December 2008), known professionally as James Bree, was a British actor who appeared on stage, and played many supporting roles in both film and television. Bree was educated at Radley College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire and during the Second World War served in the RAF. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He changed his surname to Thomson-Bree after inheriting land from his great-uncle, Archdeacon William Bree. On stage, Bree was in the original productions of Thornton Wilder's ''The Matchmaker'' in London's West End in 1954; and in John Arden's ''Sergeant Musgrave's Dance'' at the Royal Court in 1959. He was also one of the founder members of Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1960. On screen, he was cast as Blofeld's attorney Gumbold in the 1969 James Bond film ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', and for his role as Uncle Arthur in '' The Jewel in the Crown''. Bree perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Maynard (film Producer)
George Maynard (18 May 1909 – 1976) was a British film producer. During the 1950s and 1960s he produced a number of independent films. Maynard had earlier worked as a production manager at several British studios. Selected filmography * ''The Courtneys of Curzon Street'' (1947) * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) * '' Where There's a Will'' (1955) * ''Soho Incident'' (aka ''Spin a Dark Web'') (1956) *''Rogue's Yarn'' (1957) * ''The Strange World of Planet X'' (1958) * '' Ferry to Hong Kong'' (1959) * ''A Prize of Arms ''A Prize of Arms'' is a 1962 British crime film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Patrick Magee and Tom Bell with early appearances by several actors including Fulton Mackay, Michael Ripper, Stephen Lewis, Geo ...'' (1962) * '' Zeta One'' (1969) Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. ''The British 'B' Film''. Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. * Hunter, I.Q. ''British Science Fiction Cinema''. Routledge, 2002. External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Morrell
Penny Morrell (4 February 1938 – 3 January 2020) was a British actress. She was married to the actor George Cole until his death in 2015. Death Penny Morrell died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Berkshire, England on 3 January 2020, aged 81. She is survived by her children Tara and Toby and her grandchildren Harry, Amelia and Thomas. Selected filmography *''Reach for the Sky'' (1956) *'' Brothers in Law'' (1957) *''Lucky Jim'' (1957) *'' The Bulldog Breed'' (1960) *''Make Mine Mink'' (1960) *'' Too Hot to Handle'' (1960) *'' Out of the Fog'' (1962) *''Mrs. Gibbons' Boys'' (1962) *'' A Matter of Choice'' (1963) *''The Wild Affair'' (1963) *'' A Stitch in Time'' (1963) *''The Comedy Man'' (1964) *'' Smokescreen'' (1964) *'' The Early Bird'' (1965) *'' The End of the Affair'' (1999) Television credits (partial) *'' Minder'' - Daphne Mount *''An Independent Man'' - Mrs Bamford *''EastEnders'' *'' Heartbeat'' - Mrs. Roberts *''ChuckleVision'' - Lettice / Fairy Godmother *''Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
