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Flesh And Blood (1951 Film)
''Flesh and Blood'' is a 1951 British drama film with Richard Todd in a dual role. Based upon the play ''A Sleeping Clergyman'' by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances. It was shot at Teddington Studios. Cast *Richard Todd as Charles Cameron Sutherland *Glynis Johns as Katherine *Joan Greenwood as Wilhelmina *André Morell as Dr Marshall *Ursula Howells as Harriet *Freda Jackson as Mrs Hannah *George Cole (actor), George Cole as John Hannah *James Hayter (actor), James Hayter as Sir Douglas Manley *Ronald Howard (British actor), Ronald Howard as Purley *Muriel Aked as Mrs Walker *Michael Hordern as Webster *Helen Christie as Minnie Arnott *Walter Fitzgerald as Dr Cooper *Lilly Kann as Sister Maria *Patrick Macnee as Sutherland *Fred Johnson as Donovan *Molly Weir as Margaret *Hugh Dempster as Cranley *Alexander Gauge as Coutts *Betty Paul as Moira *Peter Macdonell as Jordan *Hector MacGregor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Kimmins
Anthony Martin Kimmins, OBE (10 November 1901 – 19 May 1964) was an English director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor. Biography Kimmins was born in Harrow, London on 10 November 1901, the son of the social activists Charles William Kimmins and Grace Kimmins. He served in the Royal Navy, and upon leaving the navy he became an actor. In 1932, he wrote the comedy play ''While Parents Sleep'' which had a long run in the West End. In 1935, another of his plays '' Chase the Ace'' was staged. His first directorial assignment was ''Keep Fit'' (1937). with George Formby. During World War II, he returned to the Navy achieving the rank of Commander. In 1941, he took part in Operation Claymore a successful Commando raid in Norway. During the success of the raid, Kimmins is said to have gone skiing on a nearby slope out of boredom, according to John Durnford-Slater. He would later run the British Pacific Fleet newspaper in Sydney during the Pacific war. Kimmins received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hayter (actor)
Henry James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor of television and film. He is best remembered for his roles as Friar Tuck in the film ''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men'' (1952) and as Samuel Pickwick in the film ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1952), the latter earning him a BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nomination. Early life He was born in Lonavala, India, and brought up in Scotland, attending Dollar Academy. He made his West End debut in the 1936 comedy ''The Composite Man'' at Daly's Theatre. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film ''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men'' (he reprised the same role in the 1967 film ''A Challenge for Robin Hood'') and Samuel Pickwick in ''The Pickwick Papers'' of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles. Acting career A pupil of Dollar Academy, he became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His film career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films With Screenplays By Anatole De Grunwald
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chappell (dancer)
William Chappell (27 September 19071 January 1994) was a British dancer, ballet designer and director. He is most noted for his designs for more than 40 ballets or revues, including many of the early works of Sir Frederick Ashton and Dame Ninette de Valois. Early life Chappell was born in Wolverhampton, the son of theatrical manager Archibald Chappell and his wife Edith Eva Clara Black (''née'' Edith Blair-Staples). Edith, the daughter of an army officer, was raised in Ceylon and India; in pursuing a career in repertory acting, she moved away from her upper-middle-class roots and married twice to fellow actors, by the first of whom she had a daughter, Hermina, the second time being to Archibald Chappell, by whom she had two daughters, Dorothea and Honor, followed by Billy. Chappell was acutely aware of his 'déclassé origins': whereas his mother's brother had maintained a conventional upper-middle-class life, being a tea-planter in Ceylon and able to provide his son, Patrick (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis De Wolff
Francis Marie de Wolff (7 January 191318 April 1984) was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains in both film and television. Life and career Born in Essex, he made his film debut in '' Flame in the Heather'' (1935), and made many other appearances in such films as ''Fire Over England'' (1937), ''Treasure Island'' (1950), '' Scrooge'' (1951), as the Ghost of Christmas Present, ''Ivanhoe'' (1952), ''Moby Dick'' (1956), '' Saint Joan'' (1957), '' From Russia with Love'' (1963), and ''Carry On Cleo'' (1964). He is perhaps best remembered, however, as a supporting player in horror movies of the 1950s and 1960s, many of them for Hammer Films. These include ''Corridors of Blood'' (1958), ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1959), ''The Man Who Could Cheat Death'' (1959), ''The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll'' (1960), '' Devil Doll'' (1964), and ''The Black Torment'' (1964). His last film appearance was in ''The Three Musketeers'' (1973). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge (29 July 1914 – 29 August 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959. Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China,Biography of Gauge Gauge was a well-known English character actor. Gauge attended school in before moving to . He served in the in |
Hugh Dempster
Hugh Dempster (3 August 1900 – 30 April 1987) was a British theatre and film actor. Born in London, Dempster made his stage debut in 1920, and began his screen career in the silent film era. His credits included ''Vice Versa'', ''Anna Karenina'', ''The Winslow Boy'', '' The Fan'', '' Scrooge'', '' The House Across the Lake'' and ''The Ghost Train'' (short film). Thirty-six years separated Dempster's first and last appearances on Broadway. He debuted in the 1929 melodrama ''Rope's End'' by Patrick Hamilton and in 1965 replaced Peter Sallis as Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes-inspired musical ''Baker Street''. Dempster died in Chicago, Illinois. Selected filmography * ''The Great Well'' (1924) * ''Lord Babs'' (1932) * ''Music Hath Charms'' (1935) * '' The Student's Romance'' (1935) * '' Crackerjack'' (1938) * '' Marigold'' (1938) * ''Three Silent Men'' (1940) * ''Candles at Nine'' (1944) * ''Waltz Time'' (1945) * ''The Trojan Brothers'' (1946) * ''Anna Karenina'' (1948) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Weir
Mary Weir (17 March 1910 – 28 November 2004), known as Molly Weir, was a Scotland, Scottish actress. She appeared as the character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series ''Rentaghost''. She was the sister of naturalist and broadcaster Tom Weir. Biography Born in Glasgow and brought up in the Springburn area of the city, Weir began in amateur dramatics. In her early professional career, she was a well-known radio actress, featuring in many comedy shows, such as ''It's That Man Again, ITMA''. Her greatest theatrical success came in ''The Happiest Days of Your Life (play), The Happiest Days of Your Life''. She made her film debut in 1949, and had a regular role as the housekeeper, Aggie McDonald, in the radio and television sitcom ''Life With The Lyons''. During the 1970s and early 1980s she became famous as a writer, with several volumes of best-selling memoirs, notably, ''Shoes Were For Sunday''. She also appeared in a series of television advertisements for ''Mr. Clean, Fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Macnee
Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British film and television actor. After serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, he began his acting career in Canada. Despite having some small film roles, Macnee spent much of his early career in playing small roles in American and Canadian television shows. In 1961, he landed the role of secret agent John Steed in the British television series '' The Avengers''. The show was a success running for eight seasons from 1961 to 1969 and was revived in 1976 as ''The New Avengers''. The show was a major breakthrough for Macnee and led to his roles in many films including '' This Is Spinal Tap'' and ''A View to a Kill'' as well as continuing to appear in both British and US television shows up until 2001. Early life and career The elder of two sons, Macnee was born in Paddington, London, England, on 6 February 1922; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Kann
Lily Hertha Kann 26th. October, 1893, Peitz – 2nd. November, 1978, Sussex, was a German-born, British actress. (Though the BFI website claims that she was born in Berlin, and died in Horsham). She appeared in the West End in the play ''Background'' by Warren Chetham-Strode (1950). Selected filmography * ''The Flemish Farm'' (1943) as Farm Wife * '' Escape to Danger'' (1943) as Karin Möller * ''Latin Quarter'' (1945) as Maria * '' Woman to Woman'' (1947) as Concierge * ''The Woman in the Hall'' (1947) as Baroness von Soll * ''The White Unicorn'' (1947) as Shura * '' Mrs. Fitzherbert'' (1947) as Queen Charlotte * ''Now Barabbas'' (1949) as Woman * ''I Was a Male War Bride'' (1949) as Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited) * ''The Third Man'' (1949) as Nurse (uncredited) * ''The Clouded Yellow'' (1950) as Minna Cesare * ''A Tale of Five Cities'' (1951) as Charlady - (US: 'A Tale of Five Women') * '' Flesh and Blood'' (1951) as Sister Maria (uncredited) * '' Twice Upon a Time'' (1953) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Fitzgerald
Walter Fitzgerald Bond (18 May 1896 – 20 December 1976) was an English character actor. Early life Born in Stoke, Plymouth, Fitzgerald was a former stockbroker before he began his theatrical training at RADA. He joined the British Army during World War I, serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, the Devonshire Regiment, and the Somerset Light Infantry. Career Fitzgerald made his professional stage bow in 1922 and his first film appearance in 1930. He toured with Sir John Martin-Harvey and Sir Seymour Hicks. He was understudy to Sir Gerald du Maurier (1928–29). Fitzgerald appeared in films from the 1930s, often in 'official' roles (policemen, doctors, lawyers). He appeared on British television in the 1950s and 1960s before his retirement. His best-remembered film roles include Simon Fury in ''Blanche Fury'' (1948), Dr. Fenton in '' The Fallen Idol'' (1948), and Squire Trelawney in ''Treasure Island'' (1950). In the opening scenes of '' H.M.S. Defiant'' (1962) he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Christie
Helen Christie (22 October 1914 – 17 March 1995) was an Indian-born British stage, film and television actress. She was married to Patrick Crean. Selected filmography Film * '' Up for the Cup'' (1950) * '' Wide Boy'' (1952) * '' Castle in the Air'' (1952) * ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1953) * ''Rasputin the Mad Monk'' (1966) * '' Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher'' (1968) * ''The Smashing Bird I Used to Know'' (1969) * ''Lust for a Vampire'' (1971) * ''Escort Girls'' (1975) Television * ''Melissa'' (1964) * ''Middlemarch'' (1968) * ''Wives and Daughters'' (1971) * ''The Pallisers ''The Pallisers'' is a 1974 BBC television adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels. Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven's dramatisation covers six of Anthony Trollope's novels and follows the e ...'' (1974) References External links * * 1914 births 1995 deaths British stage actresses British film actresses British television actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
