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Countess Dracula
''Countess Dracula'' is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on some of the legends surrounding the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. ''Countess Dracula'' was also released on a double bill with ''Vampire Circus''. Plot In 17th-century Hungary, recently widowed Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy discovers that her youthful appearance and libido can be temporarily restored if she bathes in the blood of young women. She enlists her steward and lover Captain Dobi and her maid Julie to help with the kidnap and murder of several local girls, whilst beginning a new romance with a young Lieutenant named Imre Toth. As a cover for her crimes while in her rejuvenated state, she takes the identity of her own 17-year-old daughter, Countess Ilona, whom she has Dobi hold captive in the woods by the mute money gambler. However, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sasdy
Peter Sasdy (born 27 May 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is a British film and television director. In addition to his numerous TV credits, notable among which is the Nigel Kneale-scripted ''The Stone Tape'' (1972), he directed several horror films for Hammer, including ''Taste the Blood of Dracula'' (1969), ''Countess Dracula'' (1971) and ''Hands of the Ripper'' (1971). Pirie, David, "New Blood", in ''Sight & Sound'', volume 40, issue 2 (Spring 1971): 73. Sasdy directed the 1960s TV series ''Wuthering Heights'', ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' and ''The Spoils of Poynton'' for BBC TV. He also directed several early episodes of the hit TV series ''Minder'', and earned a Razzie Award for his direction of the 1983 film ''The Lonely Lady''. He directed three different adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories: ''The Illustrious Client'', the first episode of the 1965 BBC series starring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson; one episode (''The Case of the Blin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandor Elès
József Sándor Éles (15 June 1936 – 10 September 2002), sometimes credited simply as Sándor Éles, was a Hungarian actor. He was best known latterly for TV and film work. Born in Tatabánya, 60 km from Budapest, Éles was orphaned during World War II, and emigrated to Britain during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He began his acting career on stage, and went on to appear in a host of television roles, the majority on ITV. These included the ITC series ''Danger Man'', '' The Baron'', ''The Saint'', ''Timeslip'' and '' Jason King''. He appeared as a storyteller on the BBC children's programme ''Jackanory'' in ten episodes between 1970 and 1972, and he also made appearances in '' The Avengers'', ''The Professionals'', ''Strange Report'' and '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Often cast in generic 'foreigner' roles (diplomats, waiters, desk clerks), he most often played Frenchmen. Éles became a British citizen on 10 January 1977. One of his most memorable film roles was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anemia
Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells, or a reduction in the amount of hemoglobin. When anemia comes on slowly, the symptoms are often vague, such as tiredness, weakness, shortness of breath, headaches, and a reduced ability to exercise. When anemia is acute, symptoms may include confusion, feeling like one is going to pass out, loss of consciousness, and increased thirst. Anemia must be significant before a person becomes noticeably pale. Symptoms of anemia depend on how quickly hemoglobin decreases. Additional symptoms may occur depending on the underlying cause. Preoperative anemia can increase the risk of needing a blood transfusion following surgery. Anemia can be temporary or long term and can range from mild to severe. Anemia can be caused by blood loss, decreased red blood cell production, and increased red blood cell breakdown. Causes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllRovi
RhythmOne , previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel. Blinkx was founded in 2004, went public on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and London, England. RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015. In April 2019, RhythmOne merged with Taptica International (renamed Tremor International in June 2019), an advertising technology company headquartered in Israel. History Blinkx was named after blinkx.com, an Internet Media platform that connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships, as well as 111 patents related to the site's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kine Weekly
''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. History ''Kinematograph Weekly'' was founded in 1889 as the monthly publication ''Optical Magic Lantern and Photographic Enlarger''. In 1907 it was renamed ''Kinematograph Weekly'', containing trade news, advertisements, reviews, exhibition advice, and reports of regional and national meetings of trade organisations such as the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association and the Kinema Renters' Society. It was first published by pioneering film enthusiast, industrialist and printing entrepreneur Edward Thomas Heron, E. T. Heron. In 1914 it published its first annual publication for the film industry, the ''Kinematograph Yearbook, Program Diary and Directory''. ''Kinematograph Weekly'' was owned by the periodical publisher Odhams. Towards the latter part of its run it was published by Odhams' subsidiary Longacre Press. This was the name Odhams had g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Trigger
Ian Trigger (30 September 1938 – 6 January 2010) was a British actor of stage, film and television who had a successful career in the United States. A diminutive actor, Trigger's long career saw him working in the West End, on Broadway and across America. He first appeared in the United States with the Young Vic company following which he lived there for many years.Obituary for Ian Trigger in '''' - 16 February 2010 Early career Ian J. Trigger was born in Plymouth in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Stallybrass
Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass (4 December 1938 – 3 July 2021) was an English actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The television roles for which she is best known are Jane Seymour in ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (1970) and Anne Onedin in ''The Onedin Line'' (1971–1972). In the 1990s, Stallybrass played Dr Kate Rowan's Aunt Eileen in ''Heartbeat'' (Season 3 episode 5 and Seasons 5-7). Biography Stallybrass was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on 4 December 1938, to Edward Lindsay Stallybrass (1905–1990) and Annie Isobel (née Peacock) Stallybrass (1911–1981), who married in 1933 in Hackney, London. She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Westcliff and spent three years training at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Drama Gold Medal. She began her professional acting career by spending several years in repertory, gaining experience in Folkestone Kent, with the Arthur Brough Players, before moving to Nottingham and then to Sheffiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Farrell (Irish Actor)
Charles Farrell (6 August 1900 – 27 August 1988) was an Irish stage, film and television actor. Born 6 August 1900 in Dublin, Ireland, Farrell moved to America and appeared in a stock company in Detroit when a child. In 1921 he moved to England and made his first stage appearance at the Coliseum. His first film appearance was in John Bunny and Flora Finch comedies. Unlike his heroic American namesake, he was (later) cast in villainous film roles. This contrasted with his frequent broadcasts of fairy tales on BBC radio's '' Children's Hour''. Selected filmography * '' The Ring'' (1927) - Second (uncredited) * ''Song of Soho'' (1930) - Legionnaire * ''The Man at Six'' (1931) - George Wollmer * '' The Flying Fool'' (1931) - Ponder * ''Creeping Shadows'' (1931) - Chicago Joe * ''Tonight's the Night: Pass It On'' (1931) - Williams * '' Money for Nothing'' (1932) - Digger * ''The Innocents of Chicago'' (1932) - Smiler * ''The House Opposite'' (1932) - Wharton * ''The Sign of Four'' ... [...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] |
Nike Arrighi
Nike Arrighi (born 9 March 1947) is a French visual artist and former actress, known for roles in several European horror and art house films in the 1960s and 1970s in addition to work in television. Early life Daughter of Italian diplomat and former journalist Count Ernesto Arrighi and Australian Eleanor ("Nellie"), daughter of grazier Douglas Cox, Arrighi was raised in the Vaucluse neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, her family having moved there because her father was the Italian consul. He died when she was young. Career Arrighi began her professional career as a fashion model in Paris, then moved to London, where she studied art at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She played the part of Corinne in ''The Champions'' (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967). After a ten-year career in film and television she retired in the early 1970s to return to art, which she had studied as a young woman. Specializing in copperplate etching and oil painting, she won First Prize for Graphic Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andria Lawrence
Andria Lawrence (born Maureen Smith, 20 June 1936) is an English actress, best known for her roles in ''On the Buses'', and in '' Coronation Street'' as Janet Stockwell. Career Andria Lawrence is best remembered for her appearances in both the TV and film productions of the 1970s’ British sitcom ''On the Buses''. Her performance as "Turnaround Betty" in the 1971 ''On the Buses'' film exemplified the amorous type of comic role in which she was most often cast. She was cast to similar comic type in ''For the Love of Ada'' (1972) and ''Man About the House'' (1974). She is also remembered for her part as a pretty barmaid in a c.1970 TV advert for Courage Tavern Keg Bitter, in which her line was "Ooooh, it's too strong for me .... but I like the men who drink it!" Lawrence demonstrated skill in drama too. She appeared in Ken Loach's acclaimed slice of gritty realism '' Cathy Come Home'' (1966) and in the Hammer Films production ''Countess Dracula ''Countess Dracula'' is a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Lissek
Leon Lissek (19 January 1939 – 13 January 2022) was an Australian-born British actor. He appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with ''Marat/Sade''. Lissek was well known for his television roles in ''The Sullivans'' and ''EastEnders'', and his film roles in ''Time Bandits'', ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra'', and '' The Horsemen''. Lissek was born in Australia on 19 January 1939. He started acting at the Kadimah in Melbourne, through his school-days and during his university year (he gave up the law course at Melbourne University about half-way through), when he was part of the Marlowe Society in late 1950s. He went to live in England in 1963. Lissek played Hans Kauffman on ''The Sullivans''. He also performed on stage. A review of ''Company'', which played in Exeter in 1980, said Lissek was "admirably cast". Lissek, who was Jewish, spoke in defence of performing ''The Merchant of Venice'', which is regarded by some as anti-Sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
