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David Keir
David Keir (1884–1971) was a British film actor, who also appeared on stage Stage or stages may refer to: Acting * Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions * Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage" * ''The Stage'', a weekly British theatre newspaper * Sta .... Selected filmography References External links * 1884 births 1971 deaths British male stage actors British male film actors 20th-century British male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a 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 hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic 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 medieval world, and in England at the time of Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under New Management
''Under New Management'', also known as ''Honeymoon Hotel'', is a 1946 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Nat Jackley, Norman Evans and Dan Young. The screenplay concerns a chimney sweep inherits a hotel and calls on a number of ex-army friends to staff it. The film was one of a number of films at the time dealing with the contemporary issue of demobilisation following the end of the Second World War.Mundy p.115 Plot Chimney sweep Joe (Norman Evans) inherits a dilapidated hotel which, with the help of former army chums as staff, he starts to turn around. A pair of devious property developers however, attempt to buy the hotel from him, knowing that the land is due to be redeveloped, and to increase in value when an airport is built nearby. Cast * Nat Jackley - Nat * Norman Evans - Joe Evans * Dan Young - Dan * Betty Jumel - Betty * Nicolette Roeg - Brenda Evans * Cavan O'Connor - the Strolling Vagabond * Michael Taylor - Reg Allen * Tony Dalton - Tony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Stage Actors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Deaths
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on historical principles, part 1'' (edited by James A. H. Murray), the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', is published in England. * February 5 – Derby County Football Club is founded in England. * March 13 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins (ends on January 26, 1885). * March 28 – Prince Leopold, the youngest son and the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
''Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue'' is a 1953 adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions which is about Rob Roy MacGregor. It was the last Disney film released through RKO Radio Pictures. Plot The film begins in the early 18th century with Rob Roy leading his McGregor clansmen against King George I's forces commanded by the Scottish Duke of Argyll. While determined to establish order in the Highlands, Argyll is sympathetic to "the bonny blue bonnets" whom he is fighting, even refusing to unleash German mercenaries against them. A final charge by royal dragoons scatters the clansmen but honour appears satisfied and Rob Roy returns to his village to wed his beloved Helen. The wedding celebrations are interrupted by fencibles – the private army of the Duke of Montrose who has been appointed as the King's Secretary of State for Scotland and who lacks Argyll's regard for the highlanders. All clans involved in the Jacobite rising of 1715 are pardoned except for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy Family (1952 Film)
''The Happy Family'' is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison and Naunton Wayne. The plot of the film centres on resistance by a family to the disruption caused by the construction of the Festival of Britain. It is also known in the U.S. by the alternative title ''Mr. Lord Says No''. It was an adaptation of a play ''The Happy Family'' by Michael Clayton Hutton. Plot In 1951, the House of Lords is a grocery shop that sits on the South Bank of the river Thames close to the site of Festival Hall, which is noisily under construction. It is owned by the Lord family, a husband and wife with several children. Lillian Lord runs the shop, while Henry is a British Railways train driver who has worked on the railways for over 30 years and who is just about to retire. He is looking forward to enjoying a quiet retirement at the family shop, looking after his pet hare, Winston, though his spiritualist sister-in-law Ada has had super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeymoon Deferred (1951 Film)
''Honeymoon Deferred '' (Italian: ''Due mogli sono troppe'') is a 1951 British-Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Sally Ann Howes, Griffith Jones, and Kieron Moore.Alan Burton and Steve Chibnall. ''Historical Dictionary of British Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2013. p.239 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Gianni Polidori and Ivan King. It was partly shot on location in Italy, and was one of two co-productions in Italy that producer Joseph Janni oversaw during the period, along with the melodrama '' The Glass Mountain'' (1949). Separate English- and Italian-language versions were released. Synopsis A British couple honeymooning in Italy plan to visit Rome and take in the opera and the various historical sights of the city. However, after taking the wrong train, they end up in the village where the husband, David, had fought and taken shelter as a British Army officer during the Second World War. Regarded as a hero by the villagers, it soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Alec (1951 UK Film)
''Smart Alec'' is a 1951 British crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring Peter Reynolds (actor), Peter Reynolds. Plot Young Alec Albion plans successfully to kill his rich uncle with an ice bullet which will melt away, leaving no evidence. He gets an alibi by having the chief commissioner of police living in the same building as his chief witness. He sets himself up in an apartment overlooking his uncle's. He invites over the new commissioner of police, Sir Randolph, for tea and tells him he has had a premonition about his uncle's murder. The murder is committed. Sir Randolph is convinced Albion did it, especially after he discovers that the young man was his uncle's heir but was going to be disinherited the following day. He says while they were having tea, Albion went into another room and shot dead his uncle. Randolph has Albion arrested and tried for murder. Albion is found not guilty. Knowing he cannot be tried twice for the same crime, he confesses to the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man's Affair
''A Man's Affair'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring Hamish Menzies, Cliff Gordon and Diana Decker. It was made as a second feature, and released by Exclusive Films. Both Lewis and most of his crew were former members of the Army Kinematograph Service.Chibnall & MacFarlane p.36 The film portrays a pair of coal miners who meets some holidaying girls in the Kent resort of Ramsgate. Cast * Hamish Menzies as Jim * Cliff Gordon as Ted * Diana Decker as Sheila * Joan Dowling as Joan * Wallas Eaton as Leonard * Joyce Linden as Phyl * Toke Townley as Mike * Verne Morgan as Sidney * D.L. Davies as Evan Davies * Malcolm Thomas as Joe Davies * Jack Vyvian as George * Farnham Baxter as Herbert * David Keir as Curly * Peter Lewis as Ernie * Pat Nye Patricia Dorothy Nye, OBE (11 February 1908 – 11 April 1994) was an English actress-manager. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers (1947 Film)
''The Brothers'' is a British film melodrama of 1947, starring Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe and Maxwell Reed, from a novel of the same name by Leonard Strong, L. A. G. Strong. Plot In the Western Isles of Scotland, a long and murderous grudge exists between two Scottish clans, clans, the Macraes and McFarishes. The arrival of a serving girl (Patricia Roc) to work for the Macraes reinflames the conflict and causes an internal power-struggle between two brothers in the Macrae clan (played by Maxwell Reed and Duncan Macrae (actor), Duncan Macrae). Cast * Patricia Roc as Mary * Will Fyffe as Aeneas McGrath * Maxwell Reed as Fergus Macrae * Finlay Currie as Hector Macrae * John Laurie as Dugald McLeod and Alistair MacDonald * Andrew Crawford (actor), Andrew Crawford as Willie McFarish * Duncan Macrae (actor), Duncan Macrae as John Macrae * Morland Graham as Angus McFarish * Megs Jenkins as Angustina McFarish * James Woodburn as Priest * David McAlister as George McFarish * Patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Of Scotland Yard
''Code of Scotland Yard'' is a 1947 British crime film directed by George King and starring Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow and Derek Farr. It was originally released as ''The Shop at Sly Corner'', being based on the popular stage play of that title by Edward Percy. Synopsis A French antique dealer (Homolka) lives a comfortable life in London. He cares only for his daughter (Pavlow), who is trying to become a professional concert violinist. When his shop assistant (Griffith) discovers that much of his money comes from fencing stolen goods he attempts to blackmail the Frenchman. Cast * Oskar Homolka as Descius Heiss * Derek Farr as Robert Graham * Muriel Pavlow as Margaret Heiss * Manning Whiley as Corder Morris * Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Catt * Garry Marsh as Major Elliot * Kenneth Griffith as Archie Fellowes * Jan Van Loewen as Professor Vanetti * Irene Handl as Ruby Towser * Johnnie Schofield as Inspector Robson * Diana Dors as Mildred * Katie Johnson as Woman in Shop * Vi Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
