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Floodtide
''Floodtide'' is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Jimmy Logan. The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection. Plot A young Scotsman becomes a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming. He works his way up the firm, marries the boss's daughter, and revolutionises shipbuilding. Cast * Gordon Jackson as David Shields * Rona Anderson as Mary Anstruther * John Laurie as Joe Drummond * Jack Lambert as Anstruther * Jimmy Logan as Tim Brogan * Janet Brown as Rosie * Elizabeth Sellars as Judy * Gordon McLeod as Pursey * Ian McLean as Sir John * Archie Duncan as Charlie Campbell * James Woodburn as John Shields * Molly Weir as Mrs. McTavish * Ian Wallace as 1st Director * Alexander Archdale as 2nd Director * Grace Gavin as Mrs. McCrae Critical recept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sellars
Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress. Early life and education Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Stephen Sellars and Jean Sutherland. She appeared on the stage from the age of 15, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She also studied law for five years in England. Career Sellars worked with ENSA during World War II, entertaining British troops. She made her first London stage appearance in 1946 in ''The Brothers Karamazov'', directed by Peter Brook and sharing the stage with Alec Guinness. She later appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in ''Richard III'', Helen in ''Troilus and Cressida'', Gertrude in ''Hamlet'', and Hermione in ''The Winter's Tale''. She played opposite Valentine Dyall, Louise Hampton, and Anthony Ireland in ''The Other Side'', at the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1946. Sellars entered films with ''Floodtide'' (1949), part of an all-Scottish cast, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Anderson
Rona Anderson (3 August 1926 – 23 July 2013) was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films '' Scrooge'' and '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' and on TV in ''Dr Finlay's Casebook'' and ''Dixon of Dock Green''. Biography Rona Anderson was born in Edinburgh to James and Evelyn (née Thomson) Anderson. She was educated in her home town and briefly in Ottawa during the war. She trained for the stage at the Glover Turner-Robertson School in Edinburgh. In 1951, she married fellow actor Gordon Jackson, with whom she had appeared in ''Floodtide'' (1949) and remained with him until his death from bone cancer on 15 January 1990. Stage work Anderson had an English accent despite being brought up in Scotland. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Garrison Theatre in April 1945 in a production of ''Peg o' My Heart''. From 1945 through 1949, she played various parts with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Jackson (actor)
Gordon Cameron Jackson, (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in '' The Professionals''. He also portrayed Capt Jimmy Cairns in ''Tunes of Glory'', and Flt. Lt. Andrew MacDonald, "Intelligence", in '' The Great Escape''. Early life Gordon Jackson was born in Glasgow in 1923, the youngest of five children. He attended Hillhead High School, and in his youth he took part in BBC radio shows including '' Children's Hour''. He left school aged 15 and became a draughtsman for Rolls-Royce. Early career His film career began in 1942, when producers from Ealing Studios were looking for a young Scot to act in ''The Foreman Went to France'' and he was suggested for the part. After this, he returned to his job at Rolls-Royce, but he was soon asked to do more films, and he decided to make acting his career. Jackson soon appeared in other films, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Wilson (film Editor)
Frederick Wilson (13 August 1912, London, UK – August 1994, Cambridge) was a British film editor and director. Selected filmography Editor * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1936) * ''London Melody'' (1937) * '' Millions'' (1937) * '' Stolen Life'' (1939) * '' Under the Frozen Falls'' (1948) * '' Doctor at Sea'' (1955) * ''All for Mary'' (1955) * ''The Iron Petticoat'' (1956) * '' Checkpoint'' (1956) * '' Doctor at Large'' (1957) * ''Campbell's Kingdom'' (1957) * ''The Wind Cannot Read'' (1958) * ''The Captain's Table'' (1959) * '' North West Frontier'' (1959) * '' I Aim at the Stars'' (1960) * ''Mysterious Island'' (1961) * '' Reach for Glory'' (1963) * ''Lancelot and Guinevere'' (1963) * '' Girl in the Headlines'' (1963) * '' The Third Secret'' (1964) * '' Rattle of a Simple Man'' (1964) * ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' (1965) * ''The Quiller Memorandum'' (1966) * ''Arabesque'' (1966) * '' The Big Game'' (1973) Director * ''Poet's Pub'' (1949) * ''Floodtide ''Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rawnsley
David Rawnsley (1909–1977) was a British art director. For his last four films, Rawnsley oversaw a scheme to streamline production operations for the Rank Organisation. His innovations were widely ridiculed by the Rank film crews. Despite this resistance, David Rawnsley developed independent frame storyboarding and back projection, both radical improvements to the filmmaking process which are still in use today. David Willingham Rawnsley co-founded the Chelsea pottery with his third wife, born Elaine Doran, a model and talented ceramic artist, and with her he had five children. Rawnsley moved from England to Capri in the 60s, and there he became a well-known sculptor and artist. He died in 1977 while married to his fourth wife Patricia, leaving one son from this last marriage. Selected filmography * '' Out of the Blue'' (1931) * ''Fascination'' (1931) * ''Verdict of the Sea'' (1932) * ''Brother Alfred'' (1932) * ''The Maid of the Mountains'' (1932) * '' For the Love of Mike'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Archdale
Alexander Mervyn Archdale (26 November 190513 May 1986) was a British actor, manager and theatre producer. He had a very long career in both the theatre and in film, stretching from the 1930s to the 1980s. He spent the latter part of his life and career in Australia. Biography He was born Alexander Mervyn Archdale in Jhansi, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India , to British parents Theodore Montgomery Archdale and Helen Alexandra Russell His younger sister was the educationalist and cricketer Betty Archdale. In 1934 he was in a Broadway production of ''The Wind and the Rain'' at the Ritz Theater (Newburgh, New York), Ritz Theatre, New York City. In 1937 he acted in Jeffrey Dell's play ''Night Alone'' at the Embassy Theatre (London), Embassy Theatre in London, England with Richard Bird, Julian Somers, and Anna Konstam in the cast. In the same year he acted in J. B. Priestley's play ''Time and the Conways'' at the Duchess Theatre in London, with Jean Forbes-Robertso ... [...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] |
Archie Duncan (actor)
Archie Duncan (26 May 1914 – 24 July 1979) was a Scottish actor born in Glasgow. Duncan's father was a regimental sergeant major in the army and his mother was a postmistress. He attended Glasgow's Govan High School and worked as a welder in Glasgow shipyards for a decade. He began his career in repertory theatre and West End plays. His professional acting debut was in ''Juno and the Paycock'' in May 1944 at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow. Although he appeared in over 50 television series and movie roles, he is best remembered for Inspector Lestrade in the 1954 series ''Sherlock Holmes'' and Little John in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959. Duncan was replaced in the Little John role by Rufus Cruikshank for 13 episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode "Checkmate" on 20 April 1955. He grabbed the bridle, stopping the horse, but the cart it was pulling ran him ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McLean (actor)
Ian McLean (7 December 1887 – 1978) was an English stage and film actor. He is sometimes credited as Ian Maclean. He played supporting roles in around thirty British films, frequently playing police officers. Partial filmography * '' Brewster's Millions'' (1935) - McLeod * ''Jack of All Trades'' (1936) - The Fire Raiser * ''Mayfair Melody'' (1937) - Collecchi * ''The Street Singer'' (1937) - Police Inspector * '' The Singing Cop'' (1938) - Zabisti * ''Quiet Please'' (1938) - Woods * '' Thistledown'' (1938) - Rossini * ''Simply Terrific'' (1938) - Foster * ''Thank Evans'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''The Return of Carol Deane'' (1938) - Prosecution * '' Marigold'' (1938) - James Paton * ''Too Dangerous to Live'' (1939) - Saunders * ''The Nursemaid Who Disappeared'' (1939) - Inspector Pike * '' Murder Will Out'' (1939) - Inspector * ''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' (1939) - Sgt. Clinton * ''That's the Ticket'' (1940) - Hercule * ''Two for Danger'' (1940) - Australian * '' Sailors Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon McLeod (actor)
Charles Gordon McLeod (27 December 1890 – 16 October 1963) was an English actor. He was born in Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devon. His film appearances include '' Chance of a Lifetime'' and ''The Silent Passenger'', but he is best known for his recurring appearance as the character Claud Eustace Teal in films such as ''The Saint Meets the Tiger''. Filmography * '' A Smart Set'' (1919) * ''Mixed Doubles'' (1933) * ''Brides to Be'' (1934) * '' Borrow a Million'' (1934) * ''The Case for the Crown'' (1934) * ''Lucky Loser'' (1934) * '' The Primrose Path'' (1934) * '' The Crimson Circle'' (1936) * ''Talk of the Devil'' (1936) * '' Nothing Like Publicity'' (1936) * ''The Frog'' (1937) * '' The Squeaker'' (1937) * ''Victoria the Great'' (1937) * ''Dangerous Medicine'' (1938) * '' I See Ice'' (1938) * '' Double or Quits'' (1938) * ''Lucky to Me'' (1939) * '' Hoots Mon!'' (1940) * ''That's the Ticket'' (1940) * '' Two for Danger'' (1940) * '' This Man Is Dangerous'' (1941) * '' The P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lambert (British Actor)
Jack Lambert (29 December 1899 – 13 March 1976) was a British film and television actor. Selected filmography * ''A Honeymoon Adventure'' (1931) - Chauffeur * '' Sorrell and Son'' (1933) - (uncredited) * '' Red Ensign'' (1934) - Police Inspector (uncredited) * ''The Ghost Goes West'' (1935) - Son of MacLaggen (uncredited) * '' House Broken'' (1936) - Jock Macgregor * ''The Last Adventurers'' (1937) - (uncredited) * ''Premiere'' (1938) - Stage Manager * '' Thistledown'' (1938) - (uncredited) * ''The Terror'' (1938) - Warder Joyce (uncredited) * '' Marigold'' (1938) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' The Outsider'' (1939) - (uncredited) * ''The Spy in Black'' (1939) - Passport Official (uncredited) * ''The Four Feathers'' (1939) - (uncredited) * ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' (1939) - Padre (uncredited) * ''The Spider'' (1940) - Smith * ''Nine Men'' (1943) - Sergeant Watson * ''The Captive Heart'' (1946) - Padre * ''Meet Me at Dawn'' (1947) - Minor Role (uncredited) * ''Dear Murderer'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Brown
Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 192327 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth, who was best known for his appearances in the ''Carry On'' films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried. Career Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy. During World War II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress. She entered British film as an actress in 1948, notably in ''Folly to Be Wise'' (1952), and then appeared in several British television series, such as ''The Eric Barker Half-Hour'' (1952), ''How Do You View?'' (1952–1953) and ''Friends and Neighbours'' (1954). Margaret Thatcher impersonations Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |