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Hold The Dream
''Hold the Dream'' is a British two-part serial made in 1986, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Barbara Taylor Bradford. It is the second book in the Emma Harte series, following '' A Woman of Substance''. ''Hold the Dream'' continues the story of Emma Harte, played by Deborah Kerr, with Jenny Seagrove, who played the young Emma taking over the part of Paula Fairley. Plot Paula Fairley, now head of the Harte chain of department stores, has taken on the burden of preserving Emma's legacy. However, she suffers dissent within her extended family, in particular from her devious cousin Jonathan Ainsley. Her marriage to Jim Fairley is unhappy, leading her into the arms of her childhood sweetheart, Shane O'Neill (Stephen Collins), grandson of Blackie O'Neill (Liam Neeson). Struggling to prove herself in a male dominated world, just like her grandmother before her, Paula suffers heartache and loss that mirror the life of her grandmother. Emma's request that Paula hold her d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 10 May 1933) is a best-selling British-American novelist. Her debut novel, '' A Woman of Substance'', was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide. She wrote 39 novels, all bestsellers in England and the United States. Writing career In her youth, Barbara read Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, and Colette. At age ten she decided to be a writer after sending a story to a magazine. She was paid seven 7 s 6 d for the story, with which she bought handkerchiefs and a green vase for her parents. Barbara left school at 15. She became a reporter for the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' after working briefly in their typing pool. While a reporter, she worked alongside Keith Waterhouse. She moved to London at the age 20 where she became the fashion editor of ''Woman's Own'' magazine, and later a columnist for the ''London Evening News''. She later wrote an interior decoration column syndicated to 183 newspapers. Her fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Yates
Pauline Lettice Yates (16 June 1929 – 21 January 2015) was an English actress, best known for playing Elizabeth Perrin in the BBC television sitcom ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin''. She also starred in '' Bachelor Father'' and '' Keep It in the Family''. Early life and career Yates was born in St Helens, Lancashire, on 16 June 1929. She began her acting career by joining Oldham Rep straight after leaving Childwall Valley High School for Girls. At the age of 17 she made her stage debut in a dramatised version of ''Jane Eyre'', playing Grace Poole. In 1957 Yates was cast in the role of Estelle Waterman on ''Emergency Ward 10'', after which she became a regular face on British television and also appeared in a few British films. In the 1960s she made guest appearances on ''Armchair Theatre'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Gideon's Way'', '' Nightingale's Boys'', '' The Human Jungle'' and ''The Ronnie Barker Playhouse'', "Maigret", among others. (She appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Watson
Ralph Ramsey Watson (20 January 1936 – 20 June 2021) was a British actor. His TV credits include ''Z-Cars'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serials The Underwater Menace, '' The Web of Fear'', ''The Monster of Peladon'' and ''Horror of Fang Rock''), ''Porridge'', '' Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'', ''The Bill'', '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'' and ''Casualty Casualty may refer to: *Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster **Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare * The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...''. He died in June 2021 at the age of 85. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Ralph 1936 births 2021 deaths English male stage actors English male television actors Male actors from Newcastle upon Tyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Muncke
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Harper (actress)
Kate Harper may refer to: * Kate M. Harper (born 1956), American politician * Kate Harper (''The West Wing''), fictional character in the American television series ''The West Wing'' {{hndis, Harper, Kate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Boxer
Amanda Boxer (born 1948) is an English theatre, television, and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998). Early life Boxer was born in London, the daughter of English scholar C.R. Boxer and American author Emily Hahn. Career Boxer is known for her performances in ''The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'' at the Almeida Theatre, ''Cling To Me Like Ivy, Cling to Me Like Ivy'' at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and ''The Painter (play), The Painter'' at the Arcola Theatre. Her credits include ''Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV series), Sense and Sensibility'', ''The Cleopatras'', ''The Gentle Touch'', ''Miss Marple (TV series), Miss Marple'', ''Between the Lines (TV series), Between The Lines'', ''Trial & Retribution'', and ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty''. Boxer played Amanda Trippley in both series of the BBC sitcom ''Chalk (TV series), Chalk''. She also had a role as Mrs. Ryan in ''Saving Private Ryan ''Saving Private Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denyse Alexander
Denyse Alexander ( Denyse Verena Macpherson ; born 28 June 1931) is a British stage, film and television actress. She was married to the film and television director Jack Gold from 1957 until his death in August 2015. Selected filmography Film roles * ''Orders to Kill'' (1958) * ''The Medusa Touch'' (1978) * '' The Sailor's Return'' (1978) * '' Lady Jane'' (1986) Television roles * ''Inspector Morse'' * ''Foyle's War'' * ''Fawlty Towers'' (episode ''The Anniversary'', 1979) * '' Midsomer Murders'' * ''Dramarama'' * '' Heavy Weather'' (TV film of Sir P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeve ...'s book) References External links * 1931 births Living people British stage actresses British film actresses British television actresses {{UK-fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Boa
Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most recognizable film role is in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) as General Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash and rude American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the ''Fawlty Towers'' episode "Waldorf Salad". Early life Bruce Boa was born on 10 July 1930 in Calgary, Alberta, the second of three children of Ila (née Phinn) and Andrew Boa, a clergyman. His older sister was Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman, and his younger brother was Fraser Boa, also a Jungian analyst, who died in 1992. Boa attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating in 1952 with a degree in theology, then spent a brief period playing professional football for the Calgary Stampeders in 1952. After travelling through Europe, he began his acting career in England in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Morant
Richard Morant (30 October 1945 – 9 November 2011) was an English actor. Biography Morant was born in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. His father was the Shakespearean actor Philip Morant (1909–1993). His sister is the actress Angela Morant. He was also a nephew of actors Bill and Linden Travers, and a cousin of actress Penelope Wilton. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama before joining the Prospect Theatre Company, and touring with Ian McKellen in ''Richard II'', ''Edward II'' and ''Twelfth Night''. He enjoyed a long television and theatrical career, first creating an impression as the bully Flashman in a BBC adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel, ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'' (1971), and had a starring role in Thames Television's Armchair Theatre play ''Verité'' (1972) and followed this up with a regular role as Dr Dwight Enys in the popular BBC series of ''Poldark'' (1975). Morant also appeared in several BBC classic serials, including adaptations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Farrell
Nicholas C. Frost (born 1955), known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor. Education Farrell was educated at Fryerns Grammar and Technical School in Basildon, Essex, followed by the University of Nottingham and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, alongside fellow pupil Daniel Day-Lewis. Life and career Farrell's early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film ''Chariots of Fire''. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, ''Mansfield Park''. In 1984, he appeared in '' Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'' and '' The Jewel in the Crown''. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 ''Hamlet'', in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of ''Twelf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Swift (actor)
David Bernard Swift (3 April 1931 – 8 April 2016) was an English actor known for his role as Henry Davenport in the topical comedy ''Drop the Dead Donkey''. Early life Swift was born in Liverpool, the second of the four children of Abram Sampson Swift and Lily Rebecca (née Greenman), who owned a furniture shop in Bootle. His family were Jewish. He was educated at Clifton College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied law. He then embarked on a career as a businessman with his father-in-law, J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Career Swift made his professional debut on stage after being appointed as an assistant stage manager at Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1963. He made his television debut in 1964 as Theo Clay in the soap opera ''Compact''. He appeared in many small-screen roles in the 1970s and 1980s, whilst in the theatre he appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1978 production of '' Henry VI, Part 1'' at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Wicks
Victoria Wicks (born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks; 18 April 1959) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Sally Smedley in Channel 4's comedy series ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' (1990–1998), Mrs. Gideon in ''The Mighty Boosh'' (2004), and the College Director in '' Skins'' (2007–08). Her film appearances include ''The Imitation Game'' (2014) and '' High-Rise'' (2015). She is an associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School. Biography Early life and education Wicks was born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, to Brian and Judith Wicks. Wicks's mother, Judith Bates, born 1933, was the second child of the writer H. E. Bates. Wicks is the niece of Jonathan Bates, a sound editor who died in 2008, and the television producer Richard Bates, who produced the television adaptation of '' The Darling Buds of May''. Wicks is a director of Evensford Productions Ltd, the company set up in 1955 to protect and promote H. E. Bates' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
