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Anthony Nicholls (actor)
Anthony Nicholls (16 October 1902 – 22 February 1977) was an English actor. Life and career Nicholls was born 16 October 1902 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the son of Florence (née Holderness) and photojournalist Horace Nicholls. Distinguishing himself on the Shakespearean stage alongside the Redgrave family, Laurence Olivier and Peter O'Toole. In addition he played R Austin Freeman's Doctor Thorndyke on BBC Radio in ''Mr Pottermack's Oversight'', in 1963. The episode was preserved. American audiences first saw Nicholls in the company of Ronald Reagan, Richard Todd and Patricia Neal in ''The Hasty Heart'' (1949). He made his television debut in 1949 and continued with steady work as an actor for the rest of his life, including the film '' A Man For All Seasons'' (1966). In the television series ''The Champions'', he played the role of W.L. Tremayne, the overseer of three top secret agents. Personal life Nicholls and his wife, Faith Kent, had a daughter, actress Phoebe N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is a historic market town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British monarch. The town is situated west of Charing Cross, central London, southeast of Maidenhead, and east of the county town of Reading. It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with its smaller, ancient twin town of Eton. The village of Old Windsor, just over to the south, predates what is now called Windsor by around 300 years; in the past Windsor was formally referred to as New Windsor to distinguish the two. Etymology ''Windlesora'' is first mentioned in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.'' (The settlement had an earlier name but this is unknown.) The name originates from old English ''Windles-ore'' or ''winch by the riverside''.South S.R., ''The Book of Windsor'', Barracuda Books, 1977. By 1110, meetings of the Great Council, which had prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. , AllMovie.com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by RhythmOne. History AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites and kiosks. The AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie website. It was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, TiVo Corporation acquired AMG for a reported $72 million. The AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic.com, AllMovie.com and AllGame.com were sold by Rovi in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Franchise Affair (film)
''The Franchise Affair'' is a 1951 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls and Marjorie Fielding. It is a faithful adaptation of the novel '' The Franchise Affair'' by Josephine Tey. Plot In a quiet English town, 14-year-old schoolgirl Betty Kane (Ann Stephens) claims that the owners of an isolated house ("The Franchise"), spinster Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), kidnapped and beat her. The police believe Betty's story, but local lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a bachelor, is sceptical. Risking ostracism from the community, Blair quietly sets about proving the innocence of the two women. The community begin to shun the women as they have already effectively been tried by the local press. Attacks on the house begin: breaking windows and painting graffiti on the walls. A local garage mechanic (Kenneth More) offers to help guard the house. It eventually emerges tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Clare (film)
''Portrait of Clare'' is a 1950 black and white British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey and Ronald Howard, and based on the 1927 novel of the same name written by Francis Brett Young . Plot The film is begins in a large country mansion owned by the Hingstons and is set just after the Second world War. Lady Hingston starts to recall her youth to a young granddaughter Sylvia, The story is then told in flashback, returning first to around 1900. The family lawyer Mr Wilburn declares his love of Clare to her grandmother. However she enters and announces her engagement to Ralph Hingston. They marry but Ralph drowns as she watches him following a fall from a weir while trout fishing. Clare gives birth to a son soon after. They name him Steven. The story jumps by around 5 years: steven is about to go to school. She goes with Wilburn to take him to a boarding school. Wilburn asks her to marry him on the drive home. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman With No Name
''The Woman with No Name'' is a 1950 British drama film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton and James Hayter. In the United States it was released as ''Her Panelled Door''. Plot Yvonne Winter is an amnesiac, a victim of the wartime bombing of the London hotel where she is staying. At a country hospital she meets the pilot, Nick Chamerd, who saved her life. They fall in love and plan to marry, but he is killed on active duty. Yvonne's real husband hires detectives to find her. She is brought home and starts to piece together her past, but not everything she finds there brings her happiness. Cast * Phyllis Calvert as Yvonne Winter * Edward Underdown as Lake Winter * Helen Cherry as Sybil * Richard Burton as Nick Charmerd * Anthony Nicholls as Doctor * James Hayter as Captain Bradshawe * Betty Ann Davies as Beatrice * Amy Veness as Sophie * Andrew Osborn as Paul Hammond * Patrick Troughton as Colin * Leslie P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dancing Years (film)
''The Dancing Years'' is a 1950 musical British film based on the musical by Ivor Novello. Plot A pre-First World War love affair between a young composer (Dennis Price) and a star of the musical stage (Giselle Preville) falters through a misunderstanding which causes her to leave him and marry a prince (Anthony Nicholls). Cast *Rudi Kleber - Dennis Price *Maria Zeitler - Gisèle Préville *Grete - Patricia Dainton *Prince Reinaldt - Anthony Nicholls *Franzel - Grey Blake *Hatti - Muriel George *Frau Kurt - Olive Gilbert *Tenor - Martin Ross *Rudi's secretary Gerald Case *Head Waiter - Carl Jaffe *Maria's son - Jeremy Spenser Production Dennis Price was loaned by the Rank Organisation to ABPC to play the lead role. Reception Critical In ''The New York Times'', Bosley Crowther wrote, "the British obviously spared no expense in bringing Ivor Novello's "The Dancing Years" to the screen. For, in the operetta, which came to the Little Carnegie on Saturday, Vienna, before and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Place For Jennifer
''No Place for Jennifer'' is a 1950 British film directed by Henry Cass and starring Leo Genn, Rosamund John, Guy Middleton and Janette Scott. It was based on the novel ''No Difference to Me'' by Phyllis Hambleton. Plot In the film, a young girl experiences trauma when her parents divorce. Cast * Leo Genn as William * Rosamund John as Rachel Kershaw * Beatrice Campbell as Paula * Guy Middleton as Brian Stewart * Janette Scott as Jennifer * Anthony Nicholls as Baxter * Jean Cadell as Aunt Jacqueline * Megs Jenkins as Mrs Marshall * Philip Ray as Mr Marshall * Edith Sharpe as Doctor * Ann Codrington as Miss Hancock * Brian Smith as Martin Marshall * André Morell as Counsel * Anthony Wager as Ted *William Simons as Jeremy Critical reception Bosley Crowther wrote in ''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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man On The Run
''Man on the Run'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More and Laurence Harvey. Plot An army deserter, still a fugitive in post-war Britain, wanders into a pawn shop robbery and finds himself mistakenly wanted for murder. Forced to go on the run while attempting to prove his innocence, he meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals. Cast * Derek Farr as Sergeant Peter Burden, alias Brown * Joan Hopkins as Jean Adams * Edward Chapman as Chief Inspector Mitchell * Laurence Harvey as Detective Sergeant Lawson * Howard Marion-Crawford as 1st Paratrooper * Alfie Bass as Bert the Barge Mate * John Bailey as Dan Underwood, burglar * John Stuart as Detective Inspector Jim McBane * Edward Underdown as Slim Elfey, Burglar Missing Fingers * Leslie Perrins as Charlie the Fence * Kenneth More as Corporal Newman the Blackmailer * Martin Miller as Tony, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guinea Pig (film)
''The Guinea Pig'' is a 1948 British film directed and produced by the Boulting brothers, known as ''The Outsider'' in the United States. The film is adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode. Plot The "guinea pig" is 14-year-old Jack Read (played by the 25-year-old Richard Attenborough), a tobacconist's son who, following the Fleming Report, is given a scholarship to Saintbury, an exclusive public school. Read's uncouth behaviour causes him difficulties in fitting into the school. Only after the social changes caused by the Second World War could such a scenario be imagined. Cast * Richard Attenborough as Jack Read *Sheila Sim as Lynne Hartley *Bernard Miles as Mr. Read *Cecil Trouncer as Lloyd Hartley *Robert Flemyng as Nigel Lorraine *Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Hartley *Joan Hickson as Mrs. Read *Timothy Bateson as Tracey * Herbert Lomas as Sir James Corfield *Anthony Newley as Miles Minor * Anthony Nicholls as Mr. Stringer *Wally Patch as Uncle Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laughing Lady
''The Laughing Lady'' is a 1946 British Technicolor musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Francis L. Sullivan. Based on a play by Ingram D'Abbes, its plot follows a young aristocrat who makes a deal with Robespierre during the French Revolution. Plot summary During the French Revolution, a young aristocrat makes a deal with Robespierre that he will locate and steal some pearls from Britain in order to save his mother from the guillotine A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with stocks at t .... Partial cast References External links * 1946 films 1940s historical musical films British historical musical films 1940s musical drama films Films directed by Paul L. Stein British musical drama films Films set in England F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
