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Eunice Black
Eunice Black (23 October 1914 — 27 August 2007) was an English character actress best known for her roles in various sitcoms and comedy movies. Early life Eunice Black was born on 23 October 1914 in West Ham, Essex, as Eunice Holden. Career Black started out at the Unity Theatre, London, before becoming a qualified teacher of English and Drama. She taught both through the Second World War., Television Black appeared in the 1962 Christmas episode of ''Faces of Jim,'' 'The Christmas Face of Jim,' opposite Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield, Ronnie Barker and Michael Brennan. This was her television debut. Black was a regular supporting cast member on the ITV sitcom ''On The Buses'', appearing in three different roles. Her first appearance was as a traffic warden in 'Mum's Last Fling', series 3, and she reappeared as a ' clippie' called Rosie in two episodes of series 4 titled 'Dangerous Driving' and 'Christmas Duty.' She also played clippies called Gladys in series 6 ('No Smoke ...
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West Ham
West Ham is an area in East London, located east of Charing Cross in the west of the modern London Borough of Newham. The area, which lies immediately to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea, was originally an ancient parish formed to serve parts of the older Manor of Ham, and it later became a County Borough. The district, part of the historic county of Essex, was an administrative unit, with largely consistent boundaries, from the 12th century to 1965, when it merged with neighbouring areas to become the western part of the new London Borough of Newham. The area of the parish and borough included not just central West Ham area, just south of Stratford; but also the sub-districts of Stratford, Canning Town, Plaistow, Custom House, Silvertown, Forest Gate and the western parts of Upton Park, which is shared with East Ham. The district was historically dependent on its docks and other maritime trades, while the inland industrial concentrations ...
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Holiday On The Buses
''Holiday on the Buses'' is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Bryan Izzard and starring Reg Varney and Doris Hare. The film is the third and final spin-off film from the ITV sitcom ''On the Buses'' and succeeded the films ''On the Buses'' (1971) and ''Mutiny on the Buses'' (1972). The film was produced by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for Hammer Films. A fourth film was originally planned but cancelled. Plot The negligent bus driving of Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a driver for the Town & District bus company, finally causes a major accident in the garage forecourt. The first one injures Blakey ( Stephen Lewis), this being caused by Stan not focussing on the road after a woman suffered a wardrobe malfunction with her top and almost running into a car brakes hard with Blakey falling off. The second accident (thanks to Jack not looking behind) being damaging the manager's car from accidentally reversing into it and trapping the manager underneath the bonnet. The final accid ...
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Love Is A Splendid Illusion
''Love is a Splendid Illusion'' is a 1970 British sex comedy concerning a businessman (Simon Brent) whose cheating ways come to a head in Italy when the secret lover of his equally cheating wife (Lisa Collings) turns out to be a potential business partner. It was also known as ''Bed and Don't Tell''.Simon Sheridan, ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'', Titan Books 2011 p 67-68 Cast *Simon Brent - Christian Dubarry *Andrée Flamand - Michelle Howard *Lisa Collings - Amanda Dubarry * Peter Hughes - Maurice Howard * Mark Kingston - Bernard Collins *Fiona Curzon - Liz *Maxine Casson - Debbie *Anna Matisse - Sophie *Carl Ferber - Jason *Nancy Nevinson - Amanda's Mother *Gay Soper - Blonde Girl in Red References External links''Love is a Splendid Illusion''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – includ ...
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Bullseye! (1990 Film)
''Bullseye!'' is a 1990 British–American action comedy film starring Michael Caine and Roger Moore. It was directed by Michael Winner. It was released on 2 November 1990, to mixed reviews, and was a box office disappointment. It has since developed a small cult following. Plot Moore and Caine play dual roles—a pair of small-time con-men and a pair of inept nuclear physicists who believe they have invented a limitless supply of energy. The con men use their resemblance to the scientists to con their way into the scientists' safe deposit boxes and steal the formula, but in so doing, they become entangled in a shady world of spies and international intrigue. The film includes a number of cameo appearances, including Jenny Seagrove (Winner's partner at the time) playing two different roles, John Cleese, Patsy Kensit, Alexandra Pigg and Nicholas Courtney. The film also features Roger Moore's daughter, Deborah Moore, in a supporting role. Cast *Michael Caine – Sidney Lipton ...
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1982 Film)
''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (sometimes known as simply ''Hunchback'') is a 1982 American romantic drama TV film based on Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Filming location was Pinewood Studios, England. It was directed by Michael Tuchner and Alan Hume and produced by Norman Rosemont and Malcolm J. Christopher. It starred Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down and John Gielgud. The film was produced as part of the long-running ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' series and was televised on CBS on February 4, 1982. Cast *Lesley-Anne Down as Esmeralda *Anthony Hopkins as Quasimodo *Derek Jacobi as Claude Frollo *David Suchet as Clopin Trouillefou *Gerry Sundquist as Pierre Gringoire *Tim Pigott-Smith as Phillipe *John Gielgud as Jacques Charmolue *Robert Powell as Captain Phoebus *Nigel Hawthorne as Magistrate at Esmeralda's trial *Roland Culver as Bishop of Paris *Rosalie Crutchley as Simone * David Kelly as Tavernkeeper *Joseph Blatchley as Albert *Dave Hill as Coppenhole *Donald Eccl ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel '' Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car'' (1964). The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Barbara Windsor and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli. John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the musical numbers, written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award. Plot The film opens with a sequence of European Grand Prix races won by the same car over an instrumental version of the main theme (" Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"), concluding with the eponymous car crashing and burning in 1909. Years later, widowed invent ...
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Drop Dead Darling
''Drop Dead Darling'' (US title: ''Arrivederci, Baby!'') is a 1966 British-American black comedy film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Plot A man goes around marrying wealthy women, and then murdering them. However, his third wife has married him with similar intentions. Cast * Tony Curtis ... Nick Johnson * Rosanna Schiaffino ... Francesca * Lionel Jeffries ... Parker * Zsa Zsa Gabor ... Gigi * Nancy Kwan ... Baby * Fenella Fielding ... Fenella * Anna Quayle ... Aunt Miriam * Warren Mitchell ... Conte de Rienz / Maximillian * Mischa Auer ... Romeo * Noel Purcell ... Capt. O'Flannery * Alan Gifford ... American Brasshat * Joseph Furst ... German Brasshat * Monti DeLyle ... Butler * Bernard Spear ... French Inspector * Eileen Way ... Italian Dressmaker * Bruno Barnabe ... Head Waiter * Gábor Baraker ... Gypsy Baron * Tony Baron ... Baby's Boyfriend * Eunice Black ... Matr ...
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A Taste Of Honey (film)
''A Taste of Honey'' is a 1961 British film adaptation of the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney wrote the screenplay with director Tony Richardson, who had directed the play on the stage. It is an exemplar of a gritty genre of British film that has come to be called kitchen sink realism. The film opened on 15 September 1961 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End. Plot The film starts with girls playing a game of netball in a school playground. Jo and her mother then move across Manchester on a bus. The story is set in a run-down, post-industrial area of Salford. Jo (Rita Tushingham) is a 17-year-old schoolgirl with a self-centred, promiscuous, alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan). The two of them frequently argue, and rarely stay in one home for long, since the mother runs up rent arrears, and is either evicted, or elects to abandon the property without settling any debts. As they move into a shabby new flat, a young black sailor called Ji ...
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Last Of The Summer Wine
''Last of the Summer Wine'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of ''Comedy Playhouse'' on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and directed all episodes of the show. The BBC confirmed on 2 June 2010 that ''Last of the Summer Wine'' would no longer be produced and the 31st series would be its last. Subsequently, the final episode was broadcast on 29 August 2010. Since its original release, all 295 episodes, comprising thirty-one series—including the pilot and all films and specials—have been released on DVD. Repeats of the show are broadcast in the UK on BBC One (until 18 July 2010 when the 31st and final series started on 25 July of that year), Gold (UK TV channel), Gold, Yesterday (TV channel), Yesterday, and Drama (British TV channel), Drama. It is also seen in more than 25 countries, inclu ...
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The Benny Hill Show
''The Benny Hill Show'' is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV (from 1969) between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketches that were full of slapstick, mime, parody and double entendre (which could be described as a filmatographic version of British saucy seaside postcard humour). At its peak ''The Benny Hill Show'' was among the most-watched programmes in the UK with the audience reaching more than 21 million viewers in 1971. In 1972, Hill received a BAFTA Television Award for Best Writer, and he was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance. In the late 1970s, the Thames Television version of the show gained a following in the United States and would run in syndication until 1991. In 1980 and 1981, it received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Variety. In 1984 Hill received a Rose d'Or. Thames cancelled production of the show in 1989 due to declining ratings and large pr ...
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George And Mildred
''George and Mildred'' is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television and first aired between 1976 and 1979. It is a spin-off from ''Man About the House'', and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as constantly-sparring married couple George and Mildred Roper. The premise of the series had George and Mildred leaving their flat as depicted in ''Man About the House'' and moving to a modern, upmarket housing estate in Hampton Wick. Their arrival horrifies their snobbish neighbour Jeffrey Fourmile, a middle-class estate agent who fears the Ropers' presence will devalue his home. It was written by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. Like many British sitcoms, ''George and Mildred'' was made into a film. The movie was dedicated to actress Yootha Joyce who died suddenly in August 1980, just as the cast were about to film a sixth and final series. Cast *Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper *Brian Murphy as George Roper *Norman Eshley as Jeffrey Fourmile *Sheila Fearn as Ann Fourmile *N ...
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Doctor At Large (TV Series)
''Doctor at Large'' is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors. The series follows directly from its predecessor ''Doctor in the House'', and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1971. Writers for the ''Doctor at Large'' episodes were Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna, Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Jonathan Lynn and David Yallop, as well as George Layton (under the pseudonym of "Oliver Fry"). Plot The plot revolves around newly qualified Doctor Michael Upton as he tries to make a start in his profession. He obtains a series of jobs, including working in otolaryngology and as a general practitioner, before returning to St. Swithin's Hospital (where he received his training) as a Junior Registrar. Notable events also include Upton's (and other young doctors') pursuit of women. Characters * Barry Evans - Dr Michael Upton *George Layton ...
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