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I Will (film)
''I Will'' is a 1919 British silent comedy film directed by Kenelm Foss and Hubert Herrick and starring Guy Newall, Ivy Duke and Dorothy Minto.Low p.146 In order to be able to marry a beautiful daughter of a socialist, a wealthy young aristocrat gains a job as a farmworker. Cast * Guy Newall as Lord Eustace Dorsingham * Ivy Duke as Ida Sturge * Dorothy Minto as Mrs. Giles * Cyril Raymond as Harris Giles * Ronald Power as Bart Sturge * Will Corrie as Kiffin * Wallace Bosco as Sherlock Blake * Percy Crawford as Boosey * Lyell Johnstone as Professor Biggs * Philip Hewland Philip Hewland (12 December 1876, Gravesend, Kent, England – 1953, Ealing, London) was a British actor. He had one son Ivor and a granddaughter Domini. Selected filmography * '' The Christian'' (1915) * '' His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916) * ''Ar ... as Landlord References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenelm Foss
Kenelm Foss (13 December 1885 – 28 November 1963) was a British actor, theatre director, author, screenwriter and film director. Early life and education He was born in Croydon, Surrey and studied art at the Wellesley School of Art and in Paris. He was, however, more interested in theatre and in 1903 made his first appearance on the London stage at the Royal Court Theatre. He then spent four years at the Glasgow Repertory Theatre producing plays and acting before returning to London to manage the Lyric Theatre in the Strand. Career and publications He directed the play ''Magic'' by G.K.Chesterton, which had been written specially for him in 1913, and which title was the caption to the Vanity Fair caricature of him on 17 December 1913. He then produced the first performance of Chekhov’s ''The Cherry Orchard'' in England and in Europe, after which he obliged to leave the theatre for a while when he contracted tuberculosis. In 1915 he began a new career as a film director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Raymond
Cyril William North Raymond MBE (13 February 1899 – 20 March 1973) was a British character actor. He maintained a stage and screen career from his teens until his retirement, caused by ill health, in the 1960s. His many stage, film and television roles include Fred Jesson, the husband of Celia Johnson's Laura Jesson in ''Brief Encounter'' (1945). Life and career Raymond was the son of Herbert Linton Raymond and his second wife, Rose ( Knowles). Herbert died in 1906 at the Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol, which he and his wife ran. Raymond became a pupil at Sir Herbert Tree's Academy of Dramatic Art."Obituary: Mr. Cyril Raymond", ''The Times'', 22 March 1973, p. 20 He made his professional debut in 1914 at the Garrick Theatre, London, playing the Second Spanish Gentleman in ''Bluff King Hal''.Gayle, pp. 1099–1100 As Little Billee in ''Trilby'' he supported Tree's Svengali at His Majesty's Theatre in 1915. While still a boy actor he appeared in plays by Louis N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white Films
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Films Set In England
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Kenelm Foss
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent British Comedy Films
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British Silent Feature Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ... (1707– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Bratislava, Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY Iolaire, HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2–January 22, 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919), Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Faisal I of Iraq, Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionism, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (region), Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hewland
Philip Hewland (12 December 1876, Gravesend, Kent, England – 1953, Ealing, London) was a British actor. He had one son Ivor and a granddaughter Domini. Selected filmography * '' The Christian'' (1915) * '' His Daughter's Dilemma'' (1916) * ''Arsène Lupin'' (1916) * '' The Manxman'' (1916) * '' The March Hare'' (1919) * ''I Will'' (1919) * ''Whosoever Shall Offend'' (1919) * '' Not Guilty'' (1919) * '' Lady Tetley's Decree'' (1920) * ''The Scarlet Kiss'' (1920) * ''Duke's Son'' (1920) * ''The Breed of the Treshams'' (1920) * '' Kissing Cup's Race'' (1920) * '' The Golden Dawn'' (1921) * '' Dangerous Lies'' (1921) * ''In Full Cry'' (1921) * '' Her Penalty'' (1921) * '' A Couple of Down and Outs'' (1923) * ''The Money Habit'' (1924) * ''The Guns of Loos'' (1928) * ''Love's Option'' (1928) * ''Alf's Carpet'' (1929) * ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930) * '' Tons of Money'' (1930) * '' Glamour'' (1931) * ''The Sleeping Cardinal'' (1931) * ''Many Waters'' (1931) * ''The Missing Rembrandt'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Bosco
Wallace Charles Bosco (31 January 1880 in St Pancras, London – 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film actor and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. .... Filmography References External links * 1880 births 1973 deaths English male film actors English male silent film actors People from St Pancras, London Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Corrie
Will Corrie (14 January 1867 - 1950) was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Hard Times (1915 film), Hard Times'' (1915) * ''The Laughing Cavalier (film), The Laughing Cavalier'' (1917) * ''The Manxman (1917 film), The Manxman'' (1917) * ''Tom Jones (1917 film), Tom Jones'' (1917) * ''Dombey and Son (film), Dombey and Son'' (1917) * ''The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) * ''The March Hare (1919 film), The March Hare'' (1919) * ''I Will (film), I Will'' (1919) * ''Fancy Dress (1919 film), Fancy Dress'' (1919) * ''The Breed of the Treshams'' (1920) * ''A Bachelor Husband'' (1920) * ''The Amateur Gentleman (1920 film), The Amateur Gentleman'' (1920) * ''The Headmaster (film), The Headmaster'' (1921) * ''Cherry Ripe (film), Cherry Ripe'' (1921) * ''The Street of Adventure (film), The Street of Adventure'' (1921) References External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown British male silent film actors 20th-century British male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
