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Home Before Midnight
''Home Before Midnight'' is a 1979 British sexploitation drama film directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by Murray Smith, and starring James Aubrey, Alison Elliott and Richard Todd. Plot The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old songwriter who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14 year old girl. Cast * James Aubrey - Mike Beresford * Alison Elliott - Ginny Wilshire * Mark Burns - Harry Wilshire * Juliet Harmer - Susan Wilshire * Richard Todd - Geoffrey Steele * Debbie Linden - Carol * Andy Forray - Vince Owen * Chris Jagger - Nick * Sharon Maughan - Helen Owen * Charles Collingwood - Burlingham * Faith Kent - Miss Heatherton * John Hewer - Donelly * Jeff Rawle - Johnnie McGee * Patrick Barr - Judge * Edward de Souza - Archer * Ian Sharrock - Malcolm * Emma Jacobs - Lindy * Leonard Kavanagh - Mr. Beresford * Joan Pendleton - Mrs. Beresford * Ivor Roberts - Inspector Gray * Claire McClellan - Tracey Wilshire * Nich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Walker (director)
Pete Walker (born 4 July 1939) is an English film director, writer, and producer, specializing in horror and sexploitation films, frequently combining the two. Biography Walker was born on 4 July 1939 in Brighton, England, the son of a stand-up comic Syd Walker and a showgirl mother. He began his performing career as a stand-up comic while a teenager, but quit at age 19. Walker made films such as ''Die Screaming, Marianne'', ''The Flesh and Blood Show'', ''House of Whipcord'', '' Frightmare'', ''House of Mortal Sin'', '' Schizo'', '' The Comeback'', and ''House of the Long Shadows''. His films often featured sadistic authority figures, such as priests or judges, punishing anyone — usually young women — who doesn't conform to their strict personal moral codes, but he has denied there being any political subtext to his films. Because of the speed with which he had to make his films, Walker often used the same reliable actors, including Andrew Sachs and Sheila Keith, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unlawful Sexual Intercourse
Sexual intercourse (or coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity typically involving the insertion and thrusting of the penis into the vagina for sexual pleasure or reproduction.Sexual intercourse most commonly means penile–vaginal penetration for sexual pleasure or sexual reproduction; dictionary sources state that it especially means this, and scholarly sources over the years agree. See, for example; * * * * * * * * * This is also known as vaginal intercourse or vaginal sex. Other forms of penetrative sexual intercourse include anal sex (penetration of the anus by the penis), oral sex (penetration of the mouth by the penis or oral penetration of the female genitalia), fingering (sexual penetration by the fingers) and penetration by use of a dildo (especially a strap-on dildo). These activities involve physical intimacy between two or more individuals and are usually used among humans solely for physical or emotional pleasure and can contribute to human bonding. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Pendleton
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (other), multiple tropical cyclones are named Joan Music * ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album ''Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album ''Umbrella'' *"Joan", a song by God Is My Co-Pilot from their 1992 album ''I Am Not This Body'' Other uses *Jōan (era), a Japanese era name * ''Joan'' (play), 2015 one-woman play written by Lucy J. Skillbeck *Joan Township, Ontario, a geographic township See also *''Jo-an'' tea house, National Treasure in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan * *Jane (other) *Jean (other) *Jeanne (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Kavanagh
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Lehnertz, Lehnert (Luxembourgish) * Len (English) * :hu:Lénárd (Hungarian) * Lenart ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Jacobs
Emma may refer to: * Emma (given name) Film * ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown * ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow * ''Emma'' (1996 TV film), a British television film starring Kate Beckinsale * ''Emma'' (2020 film), a British drama film starring Anya Taylor-Joy Literature * ''Emma'' (novel), an 1815 novel by Jane Austen * ''Emma Brown'', a fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë, completed by Clare Boylan in 2003 * ''Emma'', a 1955 novel by F. W. Kenyon * ''Emma: A Modern Retelling'', a 2015 novel by Alexander McCall Smith * ''Emma'' (manga), a 2002 manga by Kaoru Mori and the adapted Japanese animated series * ''EMMA'' (magazine), a German feminist journal, published by Alice Schwarzer Music Artists * E.M.M.A., a 2001–2005 Swedish girl group * Emma (Welsh singer) (born 1974) * Emma Bunton (born 1976), English singer * Emma Marrone or Emma (born 1984), Italian singer Songs * "Emma" (Hot Chocolate song), 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward De Souza
Edward James de Souza (born 4 September 1932) is a British character actor and graduate of RADA, who is of Portuguese-Indian and English descent. Early life De Souza was the only child of Annie Adeline Swift (née Calvert) and Edward Valentine De Souza Jr. (Rangoon 1881–1947), a graduate of the University of Cambridge who was of Portuguese-Indian descent (his father originated from Goa). De Souza was brought up primarily by his mother because his father died when De Souza was just 14. Career From 1961 to 1966, he starred in the sitcom ''Marriage Lines'' with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. De Souza had roles in the Hammer films ''The Phantom of the Opera'' and ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (both 1962). In the same year, he appeared in "Six Hands Across the Table", an episode of British television series '' The Avengers''. De Souza appeared as the lead character, space security agent Marc Cory, in the ''Doctor Who'' story ''Mission to the Unknown'' (1965) – the only story ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Barr
Patrick David Barr (13 February 1908 – 29 August 1985) was an English actor. In his career spanning over half a century, he appeared in about 144 films and television series. Biography Born in Akola, British India in 1908, Barr was educated at Radley College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he rowed in the 1929 Boat Race and achieved a Blue. He went from stage to screen with ''The Merry Men of Sherwood'' (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types. As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Barr helped people in the Blitz in London's East End before serving with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in Africa. There he met his wife Anne "Jean" Williams, marrying her after ten days; it would have been sooner, but they needed permission from London. In 1946, he picked up where he had left off, and in the early 1950s he began working in British television, attaining a popularity greater than he had while playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Rawle
Jeffrey Alan Rawle (born 20 July 1951) is an English actor. He is known for portraying George Dent in the news-gathering sitcom ''Drop the Dead Donkey''. He also portrayed Silas Blissett in ''Hollyoaks'' from December 2010 until 2012. Rawle returned to ''Hollyoaks'' in 2016, 2020 and 2022. Early life Rawle was born on 20 July 1951 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. His first secondary school was King Edward VI School in Aston, Birmingham. When he was 15 his family moved to Sheffield, and it was at High Storrs Grammar School that he first became interested in drama when he appeared in school plays. He worked at the Sheffield Playhouse before training at LAMDA. Career Rawle landed his first major role in 1973 as Billy in the television version of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's '' Billy Liar''. In 1979, he appeared with Ian McKellen and Tom Bell in ''Bent'' at the Criterion Theatre, London. In 1984, he appeared in the '' Doctor Who'' story '' Frontios'' as the character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewer
John Hewer (13 January 1922 – 16 March 2008) was an English actor and business manager who became familiar with audiences for playing Captain Birdseye in ads for Birds Eye. Biography Hewer was born in Leyton, Essex, the son of an engine driver. He attended Leyton High School following which he worked for the Social Services Department for London County Council (LCC) dealing with people who had problems paying their rent. During World War II when he served as a navigator in the Fleet Air Arm, with which he travelled to Vancouver and the Caribbean and witnessed the result of the Hiroshima bombing. During the war Hewer performed with a group that entertained other service personnel.John Hewer: Icon of TV advertisements - '' |
Faith Kent
Faith, derived from Latin ''fides'' and Old French ''feid'', is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, or evidence while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.Russell, Bertrand"Will Religious Faith Cure Our Troubles?" ''Human Society in Ethics and Politics''. Ch 7. Pt 2. Retrieved 16 August 2009. Etymology The English word ''faith'' is thought to date from 1200 to 1250, from the Middle English ''feith'', via Anglo-French ''fed'', Old French ''feid'', ''feit'' from Latin ''fidem'', accusative of ''fidēs'' (trust), akin to ''fīdere'' (to trust). Stages of faith development James W. Fowler (1940–2015) proposes a series of stages of faith-development (or spiritual development) across the human lifespan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Collingwood (actor)
Charles Henry Collingwood (born 30 May 1943) is a Canadian-born British actor. Biography Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, England, he trained at RADA. He is best known for playing the role of Brian Aldridge in the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera ''The Archers'' since March 1975. He is married to Judy Bennett who plays Shula Hebden Lloyd in the series. Collingwood credits the television producer and director Dorothea Brooking as giving him his break in the medium. Brooking specialised in children's programmes, mainly for the BBC, and cast Collingwood in ''The Raven and the Cross'' (1974) and ''The Secret Garden'' (1975). He may be better known to television audiences for his appearances in the mid-1990s as the score-keeper on Noel Edmonds' BBC One quiz show ''Telly Addicts''. He has also had many guest roles in programmes such as ''Midsomer Murders''. He co-hosted the Southern Television quiz show ''Under Manning'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Maughan
Sharon Patricia Maughan (born 22 June 1950) is a British actress. Early life Sharon Mughan grew up in Kirkby, Lancashire, with her four siblings. She later changed her surname to "Maughan". Career Upon graduating from RADA, Maughan gained her Equity Card while playing Ophelia in an Open University tour of ''Hamlet''. She then did rep at the Liverpool Playhouse and Chester, and won her first television opportunity in Philip Mackie's ''The Organisation'', starring Peter Egan. This led to episodes of ''The Last of the Baskets'' with Patricia Hayes, then Justice with Margaret Lockwood. In 1973, Maughan was chosen for the role of Rachel Rosing in a Granada Television serialisation of Howard Spring's novel, ''Shabby Tiger''. Maughan immediately went on to work with Elaine Stritch, playing the title role in ''If You Knew Susie'', which was part of the TV series ''Dial M For Murder''. This led to Alan Bennett asking her to appear alongside him at the Lyric Theatre in his original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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