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Honoria Glossop Turns Up
"Honoria Glossop Turns Up" is the third episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series ''Jeeves and Wooster''. It is also called "Bridegroom Wanted". It first aired in the UK on on ITV. In the US, it was aired as the second episode of the third series of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' on ''Masterpiece Theatre'', on 17 October 1993. "Wooster with a Wife" aired as the third episode of the fourth series instead. Background Adapted from "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" (collected in ''Plum Pie'') and "Bingo and the Little Woman" (collected in ''The Inimitable Jeeves''), all written by P. G. Wodehouse. The title was written for television by Clive Exton. Cast * Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie * Jeeves – Stephen Fry * Bingo Little – Pip Torrens * Sir Roderick Glossop – Philip Locke * Honoria Glossop – Liz Kettle * Rosie M. Banks – Anastasia Hille * Lord Bittlesham – Geoffrey Toone * Jas Waterbury – David Healy * Liftman Coneybear – Joseph Mydell P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves And Wooster
''Jeeves and Wooster'' is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves. When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular comedic double act for their regular appearances on Channel 4's '' Saturday Live'' and their own show ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'' (BBC, 1987–95). In the television documentary ''Fry and Laurie Reunited'' (2010), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bingo Little
Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character in the comedic Jeeves and Drones Club stories of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club. In his early appearances, Bingo, who has an impulsive and romantic nature, falls in love with numerous women in quick succession, generally pursuing an absurd scheme to woo his latest love interest and invariably causing problems for his pal Bertie. Eventually, Bingo marries Rosie M. Banks, and their married life is a happy one for the most part, though his proclivity for gambling sometimes gets him into trouble. Life and character Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a longtime friend of Bertie Wooster. They were born in the same village a few days apart, and went together to kindergarten, preparatory school at Malvern House, secondary school at Eton College, and then to the University of Oxford, where Bingo obtained a degree of some sort. He often reminds Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jeeves And Wooster Characters
This is a list of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' characters from the TV series, based on the Jeeves books by P. G. Wodehouse. Main characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster are in all the episodes. Actors Actors' names are given with the series in which they appeared. * Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie * Jeeves — Stephen Fry Recurring characters Minor characters Character — Actor (Series) * Anatole — John Barrard (2) * Rosie M. Banks — Anastasia Hille (4) * Cyril Bassington-Bassington — Nicholas Hewetson (3) * Cora Bellinger — Constance Novis (1) * Francis Bickersteth ("Bicky") — Julian Firth (3) * Edgar Gascoyne Bickersteth, father of "Bicky" — John Savident (3) * Charles Edward Biffen ("Biffy") — Philip Shelley (2) * Mabel, fiancée of "Biffy" — Jenny Whiffen (2) * Rev. Beefy Bingham — Owen Brenman (1) * Mortimer Little, Lord Bittlesham — Geoffrey Toone (2,3,4) * Mr. Blumenfield — Billy J. Mitchell (1,3) * Sydney Blumenfield — Anatol Yusef (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick Glossop
Sir Roderick Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the comic novels and short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. Sometimes referred to as a "nerve specialist" or a "loony doctor", he is a prominent practitioner of psychiatry in Wodehouse's works, appearing in several Jeeves stories and in one Blandings Castle story. Though he is initially antagonistic towards Bertie Wooster, they become friends in later stories. Inspiration The character of Sir Roderick Glossop was inspired by Dr. Henry Crawford MacBryan, who operated a psychiatric nursing home in the hamlet of Ditteridge, in the parish of Box, Wiltshire, near Cheney House where the young Wodehouse spent some of his childhood with his aunts. Life and character Sir Roderick Glossop is the father of Honoria Glossop and Oswald Glossop. He is first married to Lady Glossop, a friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, and later to Lady Chuffnell, aunt of "Chuffy", Lord Chuffnell. He went to school with Lord Emsworth, who states that Glossop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Mydell
Joseph Mydell (born 1955) is a screen and stage actor, writer and public speaker. Early life Joseph Mydell was born 1955 in Savannah, Georgia. He attended West Savannah elementary school; Tompkins High School(class of 1963); Morehouse College, (1964-65), where he met Martin Luther King, when King spoke at his alma mater after receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace. Inspired by King, and the call of Bahá'ís to participated in the (probably third) Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. Mydell then continued his education at the New York University, School of the Arts(B.F.A., 1970; M.F.A., 1974) City University of New York (CUNY Ph. D Theatre studies, 1976-1979) Career Mydell got his training as a student actor, working with Dr. Baldwin Burroughs and the Atlanta Morehouse Spelman Players in Shakespeare”s ''The Tempest'', and ''Trials of Brother Jero'' by Wole Soyinka. In 1969 Mydell co-performed a play ''Who is America'' at the US Bahá'í national convention, the first "Youth f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Healy (actor)
David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor and singer who appeared in Television in the United Kingdom, British and Television in the United States, American television shows. Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include Voice acting, voices for the Supermarionation series ''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', ''Joe 90'' and ''The Secret Service'', as well as parts in ''UFO (TV series), UFO'', ''The Troubleshooters'', ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''Strange Report'', ''Dickens of London'', ''Space Precinct'', and ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas''. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of ''The Sign of Four (1983 film), The Sign of Four''. His big screen credits include ''The Double Man (1967 film), The Double Man'' (1967), ''Only When I Larf (film), Only When I Larf'' (1968), ''Assignment K'' (1968), ''Isadora (film), Isadora'' (1968), ''Patton (film), Patton'' (1970), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Toone
Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910 – 1 June 2005) was an English character actor and former matinee idol, born in Ireland. Most of his film roles after the 1930s were in supporting parts, usually as authority figures, though he did play the lead character in the Hammer Films production ''The Terror of the Tongs'' in 1961. Life and career Toone was born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents and was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II, but was invalided out in 1942. Toone's notable appearances include: * As Sir Edward Ramsay in the musical film ''The King and I'' (he dances with Deborah Kerr in the banquet sequence, much to the annoyance of the King). * As retired boxer and pimp Denny Lipp in "Jeff", a noteworthy 1960 episode of the TV series '' The Westerner'', produced, directed and co-written by Sam Peckinpah. The episode also featured in a small role Warren Oates, who becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jeeves Characters
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in " Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers postp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Hille
Anastasia Hille (born 1965) is an English film, television and theatre actress, and ceramicist. Born in London, she was a student at London's Drama Centre and won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards in 1994 (the first prize was awarded to Toby Stephens and the third prize to Jude Law). She has twice been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, for ''The Master Builder'' at the Almeida Theatre in 2011, and for ''The Effect'' at the National's Cottesloe Theatre in 2013. Hille was nominated for the 2013 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2012 miniseries ''The Fear''. Her other TV roles include '' Kavanagh QC: The Sweetest Thing'' (1995), ''Trial & Retribution'' (1997), as Carole Lombard in ''RKO 281'' (2000), ''The Cazalets'' (2001), ''Agatha Christie's Poirot: Three Act Tragedy'' (2010), and '' The Missing'' (2016). Her film roles include '' The Hole'' (2001), '' The Abandoned'' (2006), '' Snow White & the Huntsman'' (2012), and ''A Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie M
Rosie may refer to: Geography * Rosie, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Rosie River, Northern Territory, Australia People and characters * Rosie (given name) * Rosie the Rocketeer (aka "Rosie"), a Boeing spaceflight test dummy * Rosie the Riveter, a World War II character used to encourage women to work on the home front Film * ''Rosie'' (1965 film), an Indian Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir * ''Rosie!'', a 1967 film starring Rosalind Russell * ''Rosie'' (1998 film), a Belgian film * ''Rosie'' (2013 film), a Swiss film * ''Rosie'' (2018 film), an Irish film * ''Rosie'' (2022 film), a Canadian film Television * ''Rosie'' (TV series), a 1970s BBC TV police series * Rosie Awards, the Alberta Film and Television Awards Music Groups * Rosie and the Originals, an American 1960s musical group * Rosie, a 1970s band of singer David Lasley Albums * ''Rosie (album)'', by Fairport Convention (1973) * ''Rosie'', an album by John Parish (2000) Songs * "Rosie", a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Kettle
Liz is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God's Promise". It is also a short form of Elizabeth, Elisabeth, Lisbeth, Lizanne, Liszbeth, Lizbeth, Lizabeth, Lyzbeth, Lisa, Lizette, Alyssa, and Eliza. People * Liz Balmaseda (born 1959), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist * Liz Bonnin (born 1976), Irish television presenter * Liz Brown (politician), American politician first elected to the Indiana Senate in 2014 * Liz Brown, backing vocalist for Wheatus * Liz Claiborne (fashion designer) (1929–2007) * Liz Fraser, stage name of English actress Elizabeth Joan Winch (1930–2018) * Liz Friedman, American television producer and television writer * Liz Hyder, English author * Liz Kershaw (born 1958), English radio broadcaster * Liz Kendall (born 1971), British politician * Liz Krueger (born 1957), American politician, member of the New York State Senate since 2002 * Liz Lochhead (born 1947), Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster * Liz Mace, half of the American count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoria Glossop
Honoria Glossop is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. Athletic as well as scholarly, she is a formidable young lady and one of the women whom Bertie Wooster becomes reluctantly engaged to. Life and character Honoria Glossop (full name Honoria Jane Louise Glossop) is the daughter of Sir Roderick Glossop and the older sister of Oswald Glossop. Large, brainy, and athletic, she has an assertive personality and a forceful voice. She plays every kind of sport, and Bertie suspects she may have boxed for her university.Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 100. She has a strong presence; Bertie notes that "there is something about Honoria which makes almost anybody you meet in the same room seem sort of under-sized and trivial by comparison." A graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, she is interested in intellectual pursuits, and reads Nietzsche and Ruskin.Cawthorne (2013), pp. 191-192. In the Jeeves canon, Honoria gets engaged to Berti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |