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Baxter!
''Baxter!'' is a 1973 British-American drama film directed by Lionel Jeffries and starring Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt Ekland. The film follows a young boy called Roger Baxter who struggles to overcome his speech problem (rhotacism) and his strained relationship with his parents. The film was based on a book by Kin Platt, called ''The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear''. The film was made before Jeffries' third film as director, ''The Amazing Mr Blunden'', but released afterwards. Plot Roger Baxter ( Scott Jacoby), a young American boy with a speech impediment, goes to live in London with his mother (Lynn Carlin) after his parents' divorce. He struggles to pronounce the letter R, and at school he becomes close to his speech therapist (Patricia Neal). He makes friends with his upstairs neighbour Chris Bentley (Britt Ekland), whom he meets in the lift, and her French husband, Roger Tunnell (Jean-Pierre Cassel). He also meets Nemo (Sally Thomsett), a girl w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Thomsett
Sally Thomsett (born 3 April 1950) is an English actress who starred as Phyllis in the film ''The Railway Children'' (1970) and played Jo in the TV sitcom ''Man About the House'' (1973–1976). She also appeared as Janice in the film '' Straw Dogs'' (1971) and Nemo in ''Baxter!'' (1973). Early life Thomsett was born in Plumpton in 1950 to Maurice and Dorothy Thomsett (née Joy) and had three older brothers. She grew up in nearby Brighton and attended the Elm Grove Infants and Juniors School. One of her brothers offered her five shillings to audition for ''The Max Bygraves Summer Show''. After doing so successfully, she appeared in several pantomimes until she left secondary school to attend Phildene Stage School in London. Career Out of drama school, Thomsett made several films for the Children’s Film Foundation and appeared in many popular television series, including ''Theatre 625'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Nearest and Dearest'' and ''Z-Cars''. She also starred as Jenni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kin Platt
Kin Platt (December 8, 1911 – November 30, 2003) was an American writer, artist, painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and comics artist, best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's mystery novels, one of which earned him the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. He additionally wrote and drew comic books (creating an early talking animal superhero, Supermouse) and comic strips. Biography Early life and career Kin Platt was born to Etta (née Hochberg) and Daniel Platt. In the mid-1930s he wrote radio comedy for George Burns, Jack Benny, the comedy team of Stoopnagle and Budd, and ''The National Biscuit Comedy Hour of 1936''. Later in the 1930s, he wrote for Disney and Walter Lantz theatrical cartoons, and he scripted the Robert Benchley film ''How to Read'' (1938). Comic books He broke into comic books with humor stories featuring the character "Happy" in the Better Comics omnibus ''Best Comics'' #1 (Nov. 1939). Platt went on to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress, model and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in '' The Double Man'' (1967), ''The Night They Raided Minsky's'' (1968), ''Machine Gun McCain'' (1969), '' Stiletto'' (1969) and the British crime film ''Get Carter'' (1971), which established her as a sex symbol. She also starred in several horror films including the British horror film ''The Wicker Man'' (1973), and appeared as a Bond girl in '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974). Ekland continued to act throughout the remainder of the 1970s, having roles in films such as '' The Ultimate Thrill'' (1974), ''Royal Flash'' (1975), '' High Velocity'' (1976) and ''King Solomon's Treasure'' (1979), and into the 1980s starring in the likes of ''Fraternity Vacation'' (1985), ''Moon in Scorpio'' (1987) and ''Scandal'' (1989) although since the early 1990s her acting work has mainly consisted of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Carlin
Mary Lynn Carlin (née Reynolds) is an American former actress. She is best known for her debut role in the film ''Faces'' (1968), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Life and career She was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of socialite Muriel Elizabeth ( née Ansley) and Laurence 'Larry' Reynolds. Her father was a Hollywood business manager, and her mother worked in radio. She grew up in Laguna Beach. Carlin, a secretary-turned-actress, earned her only Academy Award nomination in 1968 for her first feature role, as John Marley's suicidal wife, Maria, in John Cassavetes' '' ''Faces'''' (1968). She is the first nonprofessional to be nominated for an Academy Award. She subsequently played wives and mothers before retiring in 1987. She next appeared in '' ...tick...tick...tick...'' (1970), as George Kennedy's ambitious, henpecking wife, and returned to the offbeat as Buck Henry's wife, searching for her missing daughter amid the hippies and drug culture of 1970s New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Stone
Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress. She performed in films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, typically playing working class parts such as barmaids, secretaries and landladies. Stone appeared in nine of the ''Carry On'' films, and took part in an episode of the ''Carry On Laughing'' television series ("The Case of the Screaming Winkles"). She also had supporting roles with comedian Norman Wisdom. Film work Stone also appeared in '' Brighton Rock'' (1947), ''Seven Days to Noon'' (1950), '' The 39 Steps'' (1959), ''Lolita'' (1962), ''Ladies Who Do'' (1963), ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969) and the first two "Quatermass" films. Her most serious and arguably most dramatic role was as Lena Van Broecken in three episodes of the BBC's '' Secret Army'' between 1977 and 1978. Stone, whose nickname was "Mugsie", was credited in her early films under the name "Mary Stone", and also has been credited as "Marion Stone". She was marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Eddington
Paul Clark Eddington (18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English actor best known for playing Jerry Leadbetter in the television sitcom '' The Good Life'' (1975–78) and politician Jim Hacker in the sitcom ''Yes Minister'' (1980–84) and its sequel, ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1986–88). Early life Eddington was born at Paddington in London to decorative artist Albert Clark Eddington and Frances Mary (née Roberts); he was raised in St John's Wood. The family were Quakers – Albert Clark Eddington being related to the Somerset shoemaking Clark family and the scientist Sir Arthur EddingtonQuakers and the Arts: "Plain and Fancy" – An Anglo-American Perspective, David Sox, Sessions Book Trust, 2000, p. 65 – and Eddington was brought up by his parents with strict family values. His father had been "emotionally shattered" on his return from the First World War, which led to Eddington being a life-long pacifist. Eddington attended Sibford School, Sibford Ferris, Oxfordshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Maxwell
Paul Maxwell (born Maxim Popovich; November 12, 1921December 19, 1991) was a Canadian actor who worked mostly in British cinema and television, in which he was usually cast as American characters. In terms of audience, his most notable role was probably that of Steve Tanner, the ex- GI husband of Elsie Tanner in the soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1967. Life and career During World War II, Maxwell served in the Royal Canadian Artillery. He studied at Yale University, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. Maxwell started as an actor in the U.S., appearing in series such as Dragnet and Alfred Hitchcock Presents before emigrating to Britain in 1960. In the next decade, Maxwell appeared in many TV series produced by ITC Entertainment, such as ''Danger Man'' and '' The Baron''. He also voiced North American characters in series filmed by Gerry Anderson's production company Century 21, most prominently the leading character of Colonel Steve Zodiac in ''Fireball XL5'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (5 October 1920 – 12 September 2005) was a British film and television actor. His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army. Though never a major star, he appeared in over a hundred television and film productions over a forty-year period, including as King Arthur in ''The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'' in the mid-1950s, and ''General Hospital'' in the early 1970s. He appeared in ''Danger Man'' and twice in ''Doctor Who'', as Commander Radnor in ''The Seeds of Death'' (1969) and as Commander Stevenson in ''Revenge of the Cybermen'' (1975); and starred as Colonel Buchan in every episode of the 1960s and 1970s children's TV series ''Freewheelers''. Later he appeared in "You Lose Some, You Win Some", an episode of series 2 of ''Minder''. His film appearances included ''The League of Gentlemen'' (1960), ''Le Mans'' (1971) and ''The Omen'' (1976). In his later years he was a familiar sight at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Alison
Dorothy Alison (4 April 1925 – 17 January 1992) was an Australian stage, film and television actress Biography Dorothy Alison was born in the New South Wales mining city of Broken Hill and educated at Sydney Girls High School. She moved to London in 1949 to further her career. Aside from her numerous, mostly supporting film roles, she appeared in several television programmes and miniseries, including a prominent role in ''A Town Like Alice'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' as the Duchess Constance and other TV shows. She was nominated for two BAFTA awards: Most Promising Newcomer for ''Mandy'' (1952) and Best British Actress for ''Reach for the Sky'' (1956). For her performance in ''A Town Like Alice'', she won the 1982 Logie Award (Australian television) for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie. She died at the age of 66 in London in 1992. Partial filmography *''Eureka Stockade'' (1949) - Mrs. Bentley *'' Sons of Matthew'' (1949) - Rose O'Riordan *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National General Pictures
National General Corporation (NGC) was a theater chain holding company, film distribution and production company and was considered one of the "instant majors". It was in operation from 1951 to 1974. Divisions Its division National General Pictures (NGP) was a production company which was active between 1967 and 1973. NGP produced nine motion pictures in-house. The company was a division of the National General Corporation (NGC) which started as the spun out Fox Theatre chain of movie houses, which were later sold to the Mann Theatres Corporation. National General had its own record label, National General Records, that operated for at least three years and was distributed by Buddah Records. History National General Corporation was a film distribution network and the successor of 20th Century Fox's theater division with 550 theaters when spun off in 1951 and reduced in half by court order six years later.Cook, p. 400. National General entered distribution in 1966 under a th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Jeffries
Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, director, and screenwriter. He appeared primarily in films and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award nomination during his acting career. Early life Jeffries was born in Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill, south London. Both his parents were social workers with the Salvation Army. As a boy, he attended the Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wimborne Minster in Dorset. In 1945, he received a Queen's Commission, commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served in British Burma, Burma at the Rangoon radio station during the World War II, Second World War, being awarded the Burma Star. (He blamed the humidity there for his hair loss at the age of 19.) He also served as a captain in the Royal West African Frontier Force. Career He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Unsworth
Geoffrey Gilyard Unsworth, Order of the British Empire, OBE, British Society of Cinematographers, BSC (26 May 1914 – 28 October 1978) was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years. He is best known for his work on films such as Stanley Kubrick's ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'', Bob Fosse's ''Cabaret (1972 film), Cabaret'' and Richard Donner's ''Superman (1978 film), Superman''. Career Unsworth began his career working at Gaumont British from 1932 to 1937. Having joined Technicolor in 1938, he acted as assistant director of photography on many notable productions, such as Powell and Pressburger's ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' (1943) and ''A Matter of Life and Death (film), A Matter of Life and Death'' (1946). After working on some of the Gainsborough melodramas, he worked at the Rank Organisation throughout the 1950s, notably on films such as ''A Town Like Alice (1956 film), A Town Like Alic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
