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Clytie Jessop
Clytie Jessop (born Clytie Erica Lloyd-Jones; 1929 – 9 April 2017) was a British-based Australian actress, gallerist, painter, screenwriter and film director, notable mainly for her association with cinematographer and film director Freddie Francis. Biography Born to Herman Jonah and Erica Lily (née Small) Lloyd-Jones in Sydney, New South Wales, Jessop's younger sister, Hermia Sappho Lloyd-Jones (1931–2000), married artist David Boyd (artist), David Boyd. Clytie Lloyd-Jones married her first husband antiques dealer, Peter Jessop, in London in 1952, with whom she adopted a daughter, Pandora, her only child. Living in New York in the late 1950s she worked as an actor in off-Broadway productions. Her first screen role was as the ghost of Miss Jessel in ''The Innocents (1961 film), The Innocents'' (1961), based on Henry James's ''The Turn of the Screw'' and starring Deborah Kerr. She appeared only in long shot. Francis had been cinematographer for ''The Innocents''; he later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torture Garden (film)
''Torture Garden'' is a 1967 British anthology horror film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant (actor), Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing. The score was a collaboration between Hammer Studios, Hammer horror regulars James Bernard (composer), James Bernard and Don Banks. Made by Amicus Productions, it is one of producer Milton Subotsky's trademark "portmanteau" films, an omnibus of short stories (in this case all by ''Psycho (novel), Psycho'' author Robert Bloch, who adapted his own work for the screenplay) linked by a single narrative. Plot Prologue Five people visit a Traveling carnival, fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith). Having shown them a handful of Haunted attraction (simulated), haunted house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra. Their curiosity gets the better of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Births
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Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film ''Days of Wine and Roses (film), Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), and for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway theatre performance in ''Wait Until Dark''. Remick made her film debut in ''A Face in the Crowd (film), A Face in the Crowd'' (1957). Her other notable film roles include ''Anatomy of a Murder'' (1959), ''Wild River (film), Wild River'' (1960), ''No Way to Treat a Lady (film), No Way to Treat a Lady'' (1968), ''The Detective (1968 film), The Detective'' (1968), ''The Omen'' (1976), and ''The Europeans (1979 film), The Europeans'' (1979). She won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, Golden Globe Awards for the TV film ''The Blue Knight (film), The Blue Knight'' (1973), and for playing the title role in the miniseries ''Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma's War (film)
''Emma's War'' is a 1987 Australian drama film starring Miranda Otto and Lee Remick.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990, p. 366 Clytie Jessop made her debut directing, producing and writing this film. It was completed in 1986, and released there in 1988. This was the last feature film for Remick and David Cahill. Cast * Lee Remick as Anne Grange * Miranda Otto as Emma Grange * Mark Lee as John Davidson * Terence Donovan as Frank Grange * Donal Gibson as Hank * Bridey Lee as Laurel Grange * Pat Evison as Miss Arnott * Grigor Taylor as Dr. Friedlander * Noeline Brown as Mrs. Mortimer * Rebel Russell as Miss Gunz * Mervyn Drake as Iceman * Ashley Grenville as Brian * Kay Eklund as Miss Clewes * Jean Calver as Old Woman, Grog Shop * David Cahill as Headmaster, Country School References External links ''Emma's War''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Smalley
Peter Smalley is an Australian-born author born in Melbourne in 1943, screenwriter and broadcaster who lives in the United Kingdom, who has written a series of naval thrillers featuring Captain William Rennie. His first Rennie adventure ''HMS Expedient'' was published by Century, an imprint of Random House in 2005. His screenwriting credits include '' Dead-End Drive In'' (1986), ''The Return of Captain Invincible'' (1984) and ''Chopper Squad'' (1978–1979). Smalley was born in Melbourne and following a career in advertising he became a screenwriter, broadcaster, and novelist. Smalley is from a seafaring family, and lives in London. His wife, Clytie Jessop, died in 2017. Bibliography *''A WARM GUN '' (1972) *''HMS Expedient'' (2005) *''Port Royal'' (2006) *''Barbary Coast'' (2007) *''The Hawk'' (2008) *''The Gathering Storm'' (2009) *''The Pursuit'' (2010) Screenwriting *'' Dead-End Drive In'' (1986) *'' Emma's War'' (1986) *''The Wild Duck'' (1984) *''The Return of Captain Invin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Anderson (editor)
Jim Anderson (born 1937) is a British-Australian editor and novelist. He edited '' OZ Magazine'' and later wrote the novels ''Billarooby'' and ''Chipman's African Adventure''. Early life and education Anderson was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was one year old. This was due to his father having a dispute with his own father, with whom he never reconciled. They moved to Orange, New South Wales and then to Warwick, a small town (now place name) near Cowra on the Lachlan River where his family had a vegetable farm. The farm became unworkable in the 1940s due to the river drying up in a prolonged drought and at this time he helped his father trapping rabbits for food. In Sydney he studied law at the University of Sydney while also working at the Attorney General's Department. Career Anderson joined ''OZ'' in 1969. In 1971, he was prosecuted in London, along with fellow ''OZ'' editors Felix Dennis and Richard Neville for ''OZ'' number 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Neville (writer)
Richard Clive Neville (15 December 1941 – 4 September 2016) was an Australian writer and social commentator who came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine '' OZ'' in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was educated as a boarder at Knox Grammar School and enrolled for an arts degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Australian political magazine ''The Monthly'' described Neville as a "pioneer of the war on deference". ''Oz'' In late 1963 or early 1964, Neville, then editor of the UNSW student magazine ''Tharunka'', met Richard Walsh, editor of its University of Sydney counterpart ''Honi Soit'', as well as artist Martin Sharp. Neville and Walsh wanted to publish their own "magazine of dissent" and asked Sharp to become a contributor. The magazine was dubbed ''Oz''. ''Oz'' was launched on April Fool's Day in 1963. Its radical and irreverent attitude was very much in the tradition of the student newspapers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oz (magazine)
''Oz'' was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of ''Oz'' was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published until 1969 and the British version until 1973. The central editor, throughout the magazine's life in both countries, was Richard Neville. Co-editors of the Sydney version were Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp. Co-editors of the London version were Jim Anderson and, later, Felix Dennis, and then Roger Hutchinson. In both Australia and the UK, the creators of ''Oz'' were prosecuted on charges of obscenity. A 1963 charge was dealt with expeditiously when, upon the advice of a solicitor, the three editors pleaded guilty. In two later trials, one in Australia in 1964 and the other in the UK in 1971, the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal, after initially being found guilty and sentenced to har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmare (1964 Film)
''Nightmare'' is a 1964 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Jennie Linden. It was written by Jimmy Sangster, who also produced the film for Hammer Films. The film focuses on a young girl in a finishing school who is plagued by nightmares concerning her institutionalized mother. Plot Janet, a girl at finishing school who six years earlier saw her mother stab her father to death, is plagued by nightmares. (Her mother, following the tragedy, was committed to an asylum.) Miss Lewis, a teacher, takes Janet home and in the absence of Henry Baxter, Janet's guardian, they are met by John, the chauffeur; Mrs. Gibbs, the housekeeper; and Grace Maddox, an attractive nurse-companion hired by Henry. Miss Lewis leaves Janet in Grace's care. The nightmares continue: a white-shrouded woman roams the corridors, inviting Janet to burst into her parents' room, where she finds the same woman on the bed with a knife in her chest. When Henry returns, he finds Janet under sedat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
