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Fred Wood (actor)
Fred Wood (born 26 October 1922, Rotherhithe, London), died January 2003) was an English actor. Wood was best known for roles in ''Star Wars'' (1977), ''Elephant Man'' (1980) and '' From Russia with Love'' (1963). Wood has appeared in a large number of American films, due to filming taking place partly or entirely in Britain. As a British-based actor and supporting artist, he worked extensively in British films since the late 1940s until 2001 and television since the 1950s. He appeared in a wide range of television shows including ''Dangerman'', ''Gideon's Way'', ''The Professionals'', ''The Baron'' and Gone to Seed 8/12/92(1992) ''' Selected filmography *''Gaiety George'' (1946) - Tommy returning home from war (uncredited) *''Piccadilly Incident'' (1946) - Sailor (uncredited) *''The Root of All Evil'' (1947) - Celebratory Crowd Member (uncredited) *'' Fame Is the Spur'' (1946) - Welsh Miner (uncredited) *''Master of Bankdam'' (1947) - Striker in Crowd (Far Left) (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe () is a district of south-east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, as well as the Isle of Dogs to the east of the Thames and is a part of the London Docklands, Docklands area. It borders Bermondsey to the west and Deptford to the south east. Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with Elizabethan era, Elizabethan shipyards and working docks until the 1970s. In the 1980s, the area along the river was redeveloped as housing through a mix of warehouse conversions and new-build developments. Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 (giving quick connections to the West End of London, West End and to Canary Wharf) and the London Overground in 2010 (providing a quick route to the City of London), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a gentrification, gentrifying residential and commuter area, with urban regeneration progressing arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konga (film)
''Konga'' is a 1961 technicolour science fiction horror film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns and Austin Trevor. It was shot at Merton Park Studios and in Croydon for Anglo Amalgamated, then distributed in the United States by American International Pictures (AIP) as a double feature with '' Master of the World''. Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US$500,000 film, with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres. ''Konga'' was the basis for a comic book series published by Charlton Comics and initially drawn by Steve Ditko (prior to Ditko's co-creation of Spider-Man) in the 1960s. The film epitomises the B-movie in terms of illogical plot and shortcut special effects, such as a man in a gorilla suit replacing special effects. Shots of screaming people looking upwards invoke the idea that they are looking up to Konga and it is not explained how the serum changes species as well as size (chim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl On The Boat (film)
''The Girl on the Boat'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Henry Kaplan and starring Norman Wisdom, Millicent Martin and Richard Briers. It is based on the 1922 novel of the same name by P.G. Wodehouse. It was the second of a proposed three picture deal Wisdom had with United Artists but did so badly at the box office that the third film was cancelled. Plot During the 1920s, two young men returning to England on a transatlantic liner fall in love with two fellow passengers. Cast * Norman Wisdom - Sam Marlowe * Millicent Martin - Billie Bennett * Richard Briers - Eustace Hignett * Philip Locke - Bream Mortimer * Sheila Hancock - Jane * Athene Seyler - Mrs Hignett * Bernard Cribbins - Peters * Noel Willman - Webster * Reginald Beckwith - Barman * Timothy Bateson - Purser * Peter Bull - Blacksmith * Martin Wyldeck - J.P. Mortimer * William Sherwood - Mr Bennett * Georgina Cookson - Passenger Critical reception Sky Movies: "Something of a departure for Norman Wisdom.. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of The Triffids (film)
''The Day of the Triffids'' is a 1962 British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, produced by George Pitcher and Philip Yordan, and directed by Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis. It stars Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey, and is loosely based on the The Day of the Triffids, 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham. The film was released in the U.K. by the Rank Organisation and in the U.S. by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Allied Artists. Plot A meteor shower blinds most people in the world and at the same time spreads triffid plant spores which quickly become animated. Bill Masen, a merchant navy officer who has been lying in hospital overnight with his eyes bandaged, is unaffected and leaves the next day. While at a railway station, he comes across an orphaned schoolgirl named Susan who, having spent the night in the luggage van, is unaffected too. He helps her escape the groping crowds and they commandeer an abandoned car in order to reach his ship. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Thank A Fool
''I Thank a Fool'' is a 1962 British Metrocolor crime film made by Eaton (De Grunwald Productions) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in CinemaScope. It was directed by Robert Stevens and produced by Anatole de Grunwald from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg based on the 1958 novel of the same title by Audrey Erskine Lindop. The music score was by Ron Goodwin and the cinematography by Harry Waxman. The film stars Susan Hayward and Peter Finch with Diane Cilento and Cyril Cusack. Also in the cast are Kieron Moore, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler, Miriam Karlin, Laurence Naismith, J. G. Devlin, Clive Morton, Richard Leech and Brenda De Banzie. Plot Dr. Christine Allison ( Susan Hayward) is convicted of manslaughter for the mercy killing of her terminally ill, married lover. After serving two years in prison, she is unable to find work. Help comes from a surprising source—she is approached by Stephen Dane ( Peter Finch), the man who prosecuted her, to look after his disturbed wife L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of The Opera (1962 Film)
''The Phantom of the Opera'' is a 1962 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher, a loose adaptation of the 1910 novel '' Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'' by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions but performed unsuccessfully at the box office. Plot In 1900, it is the first night of the season at the London Opera House. It is also the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy, a wealthy and pompous man who is annoyed and scornful when the manager Lattimer informs him the theatre has not been completely sold out. No one will sit in a certain box, Box #5, because it is haunted. Backstage, despite the soothing efforts of the producer, Harry Hunter, everyone, including the show's star, Maria, is nervous and upset as if a sinister force was at work. When the body of a murdered stagehand swings out of the wings during Maria's first aria, pandemonium ensues. With the show postponed and Maria refusing to perform again, Harry frantically auditions new singers. He fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Clegg (film)
''Captain Clegg'' (released as ''Night Creatures'' in the United States) is a 1962 British adventure horror film directed by Peter Graham Scott and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is loosely based on Doctor Syn, created by Russell Thorndike, and stars Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain and Patrick Allen. Plot In 1776, a mulatto sailor (Milton Reid) is marooned on an island after assaulting the wife of pirate captain Nathaniel Clegg. By 1792, Clegg has supposedly been captured by the Royal Navy and hanged. His resting place is the coastal village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marsh. The surrounding countryside is home to the "Marsh Phantoms": figures on horseback who ride by night and bring terror to the village. Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his band of sailors arrive in Dymchurch to investigate reports that the locals are involved in the smuggling of alcohol, from France. They are accompanied by the mulatto, mute after his tongue was cut out sixteen years earlier, whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two And Two Make Six
''Two and Two Make Six'', also known as ''A Change of Heart'' and ''The Girl Swappers'', is a 1962 black and white British romantic comedy film directed by Freddie Francis and starring George Chakiris and Janette Scott. Unusually, the two women are the main pursuers in the storyline, and the men are each slow to respond. Plot American serviceman Larry is serving in England when he goes absent without leave. After accidentally knocking out a sergeant sent to arrest him he goes on the run with a girl, Julie, riding a motorcycle around rural England. At a transport cafe, due to parallel bikes and leathers as seen from the back, she gets on the pillion of the wrong motorcycle (that of Tom Bennett), and her counterpart Irene gets on Larry's bike. Both girls realise their mistake ten minutes later. Both couples return to the cafe to resolve it. Tom is ridiculed at the counter. Larry returns but speeds off when he sees a police car. One couple go to Sevenhills and one to Westport. Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooks Anonymous
''Crooks Anonymous'' is a British comedy film from 1962. Directed by Ken Annakin, it stars Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter and is notably the feature film debut of Julie Christie. Plot Captain "Dandy Forsdyke" (Leslie Phillips) is a habitual criminal who can't resist a tempting robbery. His gifts are for pickpocketing and safecracking. He never uses his real name, of which he's ashamed. However, he is engaged to Babette (Julie Christie), a stripper who wants him to go straight before they marry. In love with Babette, he desperately wants to quit, but is always lured back into another crime by his associates. Babette comes across a society known as Crooks Anonymous which helps hardened thieves go straight. Founded by Mr Montague (Wilfrid Hyde-White), and funded by a generous legacy, they have an excellent track record. Babette agrees to help them cure Forsdyke. Forsdyke is picked up during a robbery by a Crooks Anonymous man, Brother Widdowes ( Stanley Baxter), who is dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kind Of Loving (film)
''A Kind of Loving'' is a 1962 British kitchen sink drama film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in early 1960s Lancashire. The photography was by Denys Coop, and the music by Ron Grainer. Filming locations included the towns of Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Salford, Manchester, Radcliffe and St Anne's-on-Sea in the northwest of England. The film belongs to the British New Wave movement in film, and the related genre commonly known as "kitchen sink drama". The novel was later adapted into the 1982 television series ''A Kind of Loving''. Plot summary Victor 'Vic' Brown (Bates) is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her. When he learns he has made her pregnant Vic proposes marriage and the couple move in with Ingrid's protective, domineering mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Of Daughters
''Village of Daughters'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, John Le Mesurier, Grégoire Aslan, Graham Stark, and Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was a British actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ''Educatin .... Plot Herbert Harris is a poor traveling salesman who is forced off the bus at a remote Italian village because he has no more money for the fare. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. Unbeknownst to him, the villagers have a dilemma. Antonio is a wealthy businessman in London who, in accordance with his father's wish, has decided to marry a woman from his ancestral village. He writes to the mayor and asks him to choose. The mayor wants to select his daughter Annunziata, but the other villagers object. The v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Whopper
''What a Whopper'' is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn. It was written by Terry Nation, from a story by Jeremy Lloyd and Trevor Peacock. Pop singer Adam Faith stars as a writer who travels with some friends to Scotland to fake a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. The cast includes Wilfrid Brambell as a local postman, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey and Terry Scott. The TV reporter Fyfe Robertson appears briefly as himself, covering the alleged sightings of the monster. Plot Struggling young writer Tony Blake (Adam Faith) is served an eviction notice by Mr Slate (Clive Dunn) from his rented room in a Chelsea house shared with other artistic types including abstract "flicking" painter Arnold (Charles Hawtrey). Tony hatches a plan to drum up interest in his rejected book on the Loch Ness Monster by faking a sighting of the creature. He and his friend Vernon (Terence Longdon), who makes electronic music, construct a phony monster, which they photograph in the Serpenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
