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Haddon Mason
Haddon Mason (21 February 1898 – 30 April 1966) was a British film actor. Selected filmography * ''Every Mother's Son'' (1926) * ''Dawn'' (1928) * '' The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1928) * ''The Lady of the Lake'' (1928) * '' The Woman in White'' (1929) * '' A Peep Behind the Scenes'' (1929) * ''Painted Pictures'' (1930) * ''London Melody'' (1930) * '' French Leave'' (1930) * '' Inquest'' (1931) * '' The Shadow Between'' (1931) * ''Castle Sinister ''Castle Sinister'' was a 1932 British horror film produced, written and directed by Widgey R. Newman. Very little is known of either the film or the director, although available information suggests Newman to have been something of a maverick ...'' (1932) * '' The Village Squire'' (1935) * '' Contraband'' (1940) References External links * 1898 births 1966 deaths English male film actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors {{england-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Carroll
Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's '' The 39 Steps'' (1935). She is also noted for largely abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced or maimed by the war. She was awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Medal of Freedom for her work with the Red Cross. Early life Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, daughter of John Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from County Limerick, and Helene, his French wife. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, with a B.A. degree in languages. While at university she appeared in some productions for the Birmingham Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Peep Behind The Scenes (1929 Film)
''A Peep Behind the Scenes'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Frances Cuyler, Haddon Mason and Harold Saxon-Snell. It was based on the 1877 novel of the same title by Amy Catherine Walton. It was made at Cricklewood Studios. Cast * Frances Cuyler as Rosalie Joyce * Haddon Mason as Toby Charlton * Harold Saxon-Snell as Augustus Joyce * Vera Stanton as Gypsy Belle * Johnny Butt John William H. Butt (1870–1931) was an English film actor of the silent era. He was born in Bradford and died in North Bierley, West Yorkshire. Selected filmography * ''The Chimes'' (1914) * '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1915) * ''The ... as Jim * Renée Macready as Norah Joyce * Ethel Irving as Lucy Leslie * Clarence Blakiston as Henry Leslie * Shirley Whyte as Mother Manikin References Bibliography * Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929''. Routledge, 1997. External links * 1929 films British drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Male Film Actors
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, '' J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contraband (1940 Film)
''Contraband'' (1940) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which reunited stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson after their earlier appearance in ''The Spy in Black'' the previous year. On this occasion, Veidt plays a hero, something he did not do very often, and there is also an early (uncredited) performance by Leo Genn. The title of the film in the United States was ''Blackout''. Powell writes in his autobiography, ''A Life in Movies'', as saying that the U.S. renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it. Plot It is November 1939: the Phoney War-stage of the World War II. Denmark is still neutral, but ( Danish) Captain Andersen (Conrad Veidt) and his freighter ''Helvig'' are stopped in the English Channel by Lt. Commanders Ashton ( Joss Ambler) and Ellis ( Harold Warrender) for a cargo inspection in a British Contraband Control Port. He receives two shore passes for himself and his Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Squire
''The Village Squire'' is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Reginald Denham and starring David Horne (actor), David Horne, Leslie Perrins, Moira Lynd and Vivien Leigh. It is based on Arthur Jarvis Black's play. The screenplay concerns a village's amateur production of ''MacBeth'' that is aided by the arrival of a Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood star. This provokes the fierce resistance of the village squire who hates films.Chibnall p.131 The film was a quota quickie, produced at Imperial Studios, Elstree Studios for Paramount Pictures, Paramount to help them meet their yearly quota set down by the British government. Cast * David Horne (actor), David Horne - Squire Hollis * Leslie Perrins - Richard Venables * Moira Lynd - Mary Hollis * Vivien Leigh - Rose Venables * Margaret Watson - Aunt Caroline * Haddon Mason - Doctor Blake * Ivor Barnard - Mr Worsford References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' film''. British Film Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Sinister
''Castle Sinister'' was a 1932 British horror film produced, written and directed by Widgey R. Newman. Very little is known of either the film or the director, although available information suggests Newman to have been something of a maverick in the British film industry of the time. ''Castle Sinister'' is classed as a lost film. Overview The film was apparently set in a lonely mansion in Devon, and was marketed with the tagline "Mad doctor tries to put girl's brain into apeman's head!" A brief synopsis in the cinema magazine ''The Bioscope'' (6 April 1932) offers a plot outline: "The story of a young man's adventures in a large country mansion with a scientist who is engaged in forwarding his theory that rejuvenation by the transfer of certain glands is more than a possibility. A girl is, of course, involved to supply the necessary love interest, and a misshapen creature, victim of the scientist, supplies the thrills." It also mentions "a constantly howling wind and a gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Between (1931 Film)
''The Shadow Between'' is a 1931 British romantic drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Godfrey Tearle, Kathleen O'Regan, Olga Lindo and Ann Casson. It was produced by British International Pictures and shot at the company's Elstree Studios outside London.Wood p.73 Cast * Godfrey Tearle as Paul Haddon * Kathleen O'Regan as Margaret Haddon * Olga Lindo as Nell Baker * Ann Casson as Betty Fielder * Haddon Mason as Philip * Mary Jerrold as Mrs. Maddox * Hubert Harben as Reverend Simon Maddox * Henry Wenman as Sergeant Blake * Henry Caine as Wincher * Morton Selten as Sir George Fielder * Arthur Chesney as Pug Wilson * Jerrold Robertshaw Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866, in Allerton, West Riding of Yorkshire – 14 February 1941, in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Dombey and Son'' (1917) * ''Build Thy House'' (1920) * ... as Mr. Haddon References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inquest (1931 British Film)
''Inquest'' is a 1931 British crime film directed by G.B. Samuelson and starring Campbell Gullan, Mary Glynne, Haddon Mason and Sidney Morgan. It was based on the play by Michael Barringer, which was adapted for film again in 1939. Syopsis In the film, a widow enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help clear herself of the accusation she had murdered her husband by a suspicious coroner. Cast * Mary Glynne as Margaret Hamilton * Campbell GullanNorman Dennison KC * Sidney Morgan as Coroner * Haddon Mason as Richard Hanning * G. H. Mulcaster as Charles Wyatt * Lena Halliday Lena Halliday (1872 – 19 December 1937) was an English stage and film actress. She as born Selina Heinekey in Balham, London, UK and died in Battersea, London, UK. Selected filmography * ''Motherland'' (1927) * '' Adam's Apple'' (1928) * ''S ... as Mrs Wyatt * Peter Coleman as Mr Hamilton * Reginald Tippett as Mr Denton Hume References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmakin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In White (1929 Film)
''The Woman in White'' is a 1929 British silent mystery film directed by Herbert Wilcox (whose main career was as a producer) and starring Blanche Sweet, Haddon Mason and Cecil Humphreys. It was written by Robert Cullen and Herbert Wilcox, based on the 1859 mystery novel '' The Woman in White'' by Wilkie Collins. The film was made at Cricklewood Studios in London and was the first British film version of the novel. Some sources disagree on whether the film was actually made in England or in Scotland, however. Plot A recently married heiress named Laura Fairlie keeps seeing visions of a woman in white around her estate. Laura is unaware that her husband Sir Percival Glyde is plotting to steal her inheritance. Her sister Marion learns of the plot, but falls ill before she can warn Laura. When Marion recovers from her illness, she learns that Laura has died and has been buried. Laura's old boyfriend Walter Hartwright discovers however that Laura isn't really dead. It seems Laura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Leave (1930 Film)
''French Leave'' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Madeleine Carroll, Sydney Howard and Arthur Chesney. It was made at British and Dominions Elstree Studios. It is based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, a "light comedy in three acts", set during the First World War. It was remade in 1937 by Norman Lee. Plot During World War I, Captain's wife Dorothy Glenister finds it hard being separated from her husband, so she travels to France to the village where he's stationed. Dorothy disguises herself as the daughter of a local, which leads to complications when she's suspected of being a German spy. Cast *Madeleine Carroll as Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister * Sydney Howard as Cpl. Sykes *Arthur Chesney as General Root *Haddon Mason as Captain Harry Glenister * Henry Kendall as Lt. George Graham *May Agate as Mme. Denaux *George Owen as Pvt. Jenks *George De Warfaz as Jules Marnier Critical reception ''The New York Times'' called it "a moderately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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