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Do Not Disturb (1965 Film)
''Do Not Disturb'' is a DeLuxe Color CinemaScope (1965) romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Levy and starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor as a married American couple living in England. Plot American couple Mike and Janet Harper move to England for Mike's work with a company that deals in textiles and fashions. Mike wants to live in a flat in the heart of London, but Janet instead finds a rural estate 30 miles outside London in Kent, and Mike must to commute into the city by train. For convenience, Mike often stays in a company's flat in London rather than returning to Kent, but his absence causes Janet to feel lonely and neglected. Janet believes that Mike may be having an affair with his assistant Claire Hackett, and the Harpers' busybody landlady Vanessa Courtwright encourages Janet to play Mike's game by entering into an affair of her own, even if it is fake. However, the affair may become a reality when the suave Italian antiques dealer Paul Bellari arrives to decorate the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Levy
Ralph Levy (December 18, 1920 – October 15, 2001) was an American producer, film and television director. Biography Ralph Levy was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He directed episodes of several television shows, including ''I Love Lucy'', ''Green Acres'', '' The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction'', ''Trapper John, M.D.'' and'' Hawaii Five-O''. He also served as producer/director of ''The Ed Wynn Show'', ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'' and ''The Jack Benny Program''. Levy's film directorial career includes '' Do Not Disturb'' starring Doris Day, and ''Bedtime Story'' starring David Niven, Shirley Jones and Marlon Brando. Levy was the director of '' General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein'', a TV special broadcast on March 28, 1954, on all four TV networks in the US at the time. Levy won the 1960 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy for ''The Jack Benny Program''. Death Levy died in Santa Fe, New Mex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...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] |
Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Welch ( Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress. She first won attention for her role in ''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made ''One Million Years B.C.'' (1966). Although she had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in '' Bedazzled'' (1967), ''Bandolero!'' (1968), '' 100 Rifles'' (1969), '' Myra Breckinridge'' (1970) and ''Hannie Caulder'' (1971). She made several television variety specials. Through her portrayal of strong female characters, which helped in her breaking the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Winslow
Richard Winslow (March 25, 1915 – February 7, 1991) was an American film actor, mostly in supporting roles. He died of complications of diabetes on February 7, 1991, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ... at age 75. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Winslow, Dick 1915 births 1991 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Carrier
Alberto Carrieri (October 16, 1919 – May 23, 2002) was an Italian-American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing "Pedro Quinn" in the 1983 film '' Scarface'', with also being known for playing the role of "Captain Jacques Tremaine" in the 1965 film ''Major Dundee''. Life and career Carrier was born in Italy. He began his career in 1950, where he appeared in five Mexican films. He then moved to Hollywood, California to appear in films. In 1958, Carrier co-starred in the film ''Desert Hell'', where he played the role of "Sgt St. Clair". He appeared in films such as: ''Two Weeks in Another Town'', ''The Secret Life of an American Wife'', '' Fitzwilly'', ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', '' Do Not Disturb'', ''Tender Is the Night'', ''Thunder in the Sun'' and ''Moment to Moment''. Carrier also appeared in numerous television programs. In 1963, he played the uncredited role of the Paris policeman "Gendarme" in the film ''A New Kind of Love ''A New Kind o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Romanoff
Harry F. Gerguson (born Hershel Geguzin, February 20, 1890 – September 1, 1971), known as Michael Romanoff, was a Hollywood restaurateur, con man and actor born in Lithuania. He is perhaps best remembered as the owner of the now-defunct Romanoff's, a Beverly Hills restaurant popular with Hollywood stars in the 1940s and 1950s. He claimed to be a member of Russia's royal House of Romanov (sometimes spelled "Romanoff" in English). This was widely known to be untrue throughout his career, but press reports tended to treat the deception as a humorous matter. Background ''The New Yorker'' ran a series of five profiles, starting October 29, 1932, tracing Romanoff's history from birth until date of publication, including his having been deported to France in May of that year to serve time for fraud. According to ''U.S.A Confidential'' (Mortimer and Lait, 1952), though Romanoff pretended to be Russian royalty, he was actually a former Brooklyn pants presser. Geguzin emigrated to Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Askin
Leon Askin (; born Leon Aschkenasy, 18 September 1907 – 3 June 2005) was an Austrian Jewish actor best known in North America for portraying the character General Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy ''Hogan's Heroes''. Life and career Askin was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine (Susman) and Samuel Aschkenazy (both of whom were later murdered in the Holocaust). According to his autobiography his first experience of show business occurred during World War I when he recited a poem before Emperor Franz Joseph. In the 1920s, he studied acting with Louise Dumont and Max Reinhardt. While working at Vienna's "ABC" cabaret theater in the 1930s, he frequently directed the works of dissident political writer Jura Soyfer. Askin fled Austria to the United States in 1940, after having been beaten and abused by the Nazi SA and SS. His parents were murdered in the Treblinka death camp. He then served in World War II as a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Air Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maura McGiveney
Maura McGiveney (February 28, 1939 – November 10, 1990) was an English-American film and television actress during the 1960s and 1970s. She appeared several times in such TV series as ''Hawaii Five-0'' and ''Perry Mason,'' '' The Virginian'' ("Day of the Scorpion"), '' Straightaway'', ''The Hollywood Palace,'' ''Adam-12,'' ''McHale's Navy,'' ''My Three Sons,'' ''Peter Gunn,'' '' The Fugitive,'' ''The Flying Nun,'' ''Death Valley Days,'' and ''Dr. Kildare''. She was born February 28, 1939, in Stockport, England, UK and died November 10, 1990, of cirrhosis of the liver in Sherman Oaks, California. Born Mary Alish McGiveneyCalifornia Death Index 1940-1997 She was the daughter of the "quick change" actor Owen McGiveney and Elizabeth Hughes. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and first came to Hollywood to work in film. Career McGiveney earned a Golden Globe nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as Most Promising Newcomer of 1966 for her role as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Gardiner
William Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 – 7 July 1980) was an English actor on the stage, in films and on television. Early years Gardiner was born in Wimbledon, England, and he was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.Katz, Ephraim (1979). ''The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume''. Perigee Books. . pp. 465–466. His parents wanted him to be an architect, but he insisted on a career as an actor. Stage and radio Gardiner started as a ''super'' on stage and eventually became well known on the West End stage. "He appeared in British revues, plays and films before delighting Broadway audiences in 1935 with a wallpaper imitation act in ''At Home Abroad''." His other Broadway credits include ''Little Glass Clock'' and ''An Evening with Beatrice Lillie''. He was also well known to radio listeners, and was known on the air for his amusing train and car noises. Film Gardiner worked in almost 100 movies. He st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Fantoni
Sergio Fantoni (7 August 1930 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and director. Biography Fantoni was born in Rome to the actor Cesare Fantoni. He began his career appearing in films, radio dramas, television and theatrical productions from the late 1940s. He made his debut film appearance alongside his father in the 1949 film ''Anthony of Padua''. In addition to working mainly in his own country, he starred in international productions as well. Fantoni made several appearances in Hollywood films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film ''Von Ryan's Express'', made in 1965. In 1960, he played the villainous Haman in '' Esther and the King'', starring Joan Collins and Richard Egan in the title roles. Among his roles in the UK, Fantoni appeared alongside Anglo-Italian actress Cherie Lunghi in the Channel 4 television series ''The Manageress''. Fantoni was also a voice actor. He most notably dubbed over Marlon Brando’s voice in ''Apoca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
