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Bomber Harris (television Film)
''Bomber Harris'' is a 1989 BBC television drama biography based on the life of Arthur Harris, who was Commander-in-chief of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. John Thaw played the role of Harris during a period away from filming for ''Inspector Morse'' and Robert Hardy returned to the role of Winston Churchill, which had earned him a BAFTA nomination for '' Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years''. The drama was written by Don Shaw, produced by Innes Lloyd and directed by Michael Darlow. Cast * John Thaw – Arthur Travers Harris * Robert Hardy – Winston Churchill * Frederick Treves – Sir Charles Portal * Bernard Kay – A.M. Sir Robert Saundby * Sophie Thompson – Jillie Harris * Richard Heffer – Group Captain Davidson * Phil Brown – Lord Beaverbrook *Ronald Fletcher – BBC Newsreader * David Healy – Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker USAAF *William Kerwin – Fred Walsh * Roger Llewellyn – Rev. John Collins * John Nettleton – Wing Commander Harry Weld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Shaw (screenwriter)
Don Shaw is a British screenwriter and playwright. His credits include '' Survivors'', ''Doomwatch'', ''Orde Wingate'', and ''Bomber Harris''.''Derby Telegraph'' (20 June 2009)"No big screen return for Cloughie" Retrieved 13 January 2013. Shaw stated that before he took on writing for ''Survivors'', 'I was very much an up-and-coming hot-shot writer. I was being sought after by ''The Wednesday Play'' and ''Play for Today ''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage ...'' and things like that.' Awards In 1990 Shaw was nominated for a Bafta for his work on the TV film ''Bomber Harris''. References External links * British male screenwriters Living people English television writers English science fiction writers British science fiction writers 1934 births British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Spencer (actor)
Roy Spencer is a British actor and special effects technician who was born in Heanor, Derbyshire, but grew up in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons, during which he went with them on a Russian tour."Phoenix Faces", ''Leicester Mercury'', 26 April 1966 (pg.10) Spencer has appeared in several films and TV shows, including two roles in '' Doctor Who'', as Manyak in '' The Ark'' and as Frank Harris in ''Fury from the Deep''. He also wrote several books about the author D. H. Lawrence and appeared in the BBC dramatisation of Lawrence's ''The Rainbow ''The Rainbow'' is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing particularly on the individual's struggle to growth ...'' (1988). Filmography References External links * cached article 'Loose Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Quilter
David Quilter (born 11 June 1942) is an English actor who has made numerous appearances in British television plays and series since the mid-1960s. Early life and family He was born in Northwood, London, and attended Bryanston School, Dorset. "My first inkling that it was possible to be a professional actor was when a boy at school got a scholarship to RADA," remembered Quilter. "I never did any acting at school, which I slightly regret, but seeing him actually go off and train to be an actor, it made me realise that it was what I wanted to do."''All Memories Great & Small'', Oliver Crocker (2016; MIWK) Quilter trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in South Kensington and then joined weekly rep at Chesterfield in 1963. "We did seven plays in eight weeks," he recalled. "I then joined the RSC in 1964 to play very small parts in the complete history cycle." Quilter's grandfather, Lawrence Beesley, was a survivor of the sinking of and wrote an account of his experienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dewar Weldon
Thomas Dewar "Harry" Weldon (5 December 1896 – 13 May 1958) was a British philosopher. Life Thomas Weldon was born at 3 Bryanston Mansions, York Street, Marylebone, London, in 1896. After an education at Tonbridge School, he won a scholarship to read '' Literae humaniores'' at Magdalen College, Oxford, which he postponed to become an officer in the Royal Field Artillery in 1915. He spent World War I in France and Belgium, rising to acting captain, being wounded and winning the Military Cross and bar. He finally went up to Oxford in 1919, graduating with a first class degree in 1921. Weldon was elected a fellow and philosophy tutor at his college two years later, getting to know C. S. Lewis. He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930. During World War II, he was a temporary civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, then Personal Staff Officer to "Bomber Harris" in RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945. His final duties there involved justifying Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nettleton (actor)
John Nettleton (born 5 February 1929) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary in ''Yes Minister'' (1980–84) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1985–88). Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (Sir Stephen Baxter) in the sitcom ''The New Statesman''. Other television roles included a Ministry of Defence department chief in ''The Avengers'' (episode "The See-Through Man", 1967), a police sergeant in ''Please Sir!'' (1969), Alfred Booker in ''The Champions'' (episode "Full Circle", 1969), Froggett in the office comedy series ''If It Moves File It'' (1970), Francis Bacon in ''Elizabeth R'' (1971), a Detective Superintendent in '' Doctor at Large'' in 1971, George Pattinson in a now lost episode ("The Uninvited") of ''Out of the Unknown'' (also in 1971), as Arthur Bellamy, brother to Viscount Bellamy, in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canon John Collins
Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as official in a fictional universe by its fan base * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West * Canon of proportions, a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art * Canon (music), a type of composition * Canon (hymnography), a type of hymn used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. * ''Canon'' (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco * ''Canon'' (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short * ''Canon'' (game), an online browser-based strategy war game * ''Canon'' (manga), by Nikki * Canonical plays of William Shakespeare * ''The Canon'' (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier * ''The Canon'' (podcast), concerning film Brands and enterprises * Cano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Llewellyn
Roger Llewellyn († 17 April 2018) was a British actor. He played Sherlock Holmes in 1997, 2007 and 2008 in stage versions of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from August 1901 to April 1902, it is se ...'', ''Sherlock Holmes The Last Act'' and ''The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes''. In 2009 he played Sherlock Holmes again in the Big Finish Sherlock Holmes audio series in the stories ''The Last Act'' and ''The Death and Life''. References External links * English male television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{england-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Eaker
General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command. While he struggled to build up airpower in England, the organization of the Army Air Forces evolved and he was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942. Although his background was in single-engine fighter aircraft, Eaker became the architect of a strategic bombing force that ultimately numbered forty groups of 60 heavy bombers each, supported by a subordinate fighter command of 1,500 aircraft, most of which was in place by the time he relinquished command at the start of 1944. Eaker then took overall command of four Allied air forces based in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, and by the end of World War II had been named Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces. He worked in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Healy (actor)
David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor and singer who appeared in Television in the United Kingdom, British and Television in the United States, American television shows. Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include Voice acting, voices for the Supermarionation series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', ''Joe 90'' and ''The Secret Service'', as well as parts in ''UFO (TV series), UFO'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''Strange Report'', ''Dickens of London'', ''Space Precinct'', and ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas''. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of ''The Sign of Four (1983 film), The Sign of Four''. His big screen credits include ''The Double Man (1967 film), The Double Man'' (1967), ''Only When I Larf (film), Only When I Larf'' (1968), ''Assignment K'' (1968), ''Isadora (film), Isadora'' (1968), ''Patton (film), Patton'' (1970), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Beaverbrook
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the ''Daily Express'', which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production. The young Max Aitken had a gift for making money and was a millionaire by 30. His business ambitions quickly exceeded opportunities in Canada and he moved to Britain. There he befriended Bonar Law and with his support won a seat in the House of Commons at the December 1910 United Kingdom general election. A knighthood followed shortly after. During the First World War he ran th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Brown (actor)
Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30, 1916 – February 9, 2006) was an American actor. Early life Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1916. He majored in dramatics at Stanford University, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Career Brown played some of his first roles on stage when he joined the Group Theatre in New York City. The Group Theatre eventually closed, and many of its members relocated to Hollywood, where Brown helped found the Actors' Laboratory Theatre. He found his first cinema roles here, making his motion picture debut in Mitchell Leisen's 1941 war movie, ''I Wanted Wings''. In 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's protagonist Nick Adams in Robert Siodmak's version of ''The Killers'', alongside William Conrad and Charles McGraw as the titular "killers". In 1948, he played Tom in Tennessee Williams's ''The Glass Menagerie'', at the Haymarket Theatre London, in a production directed by John Gielgud. His association with the Lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
