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Jack Watson (actor)
Jack Watson (15 May 1915 – 4 July 1999) was an English actor who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards. Early life Watson was born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire. He was the son of a Gaiety Girl, Barbara Hughes, and a music hall comedian, Nosmo King. Watson often appeared on stage with his father as straight man, where he was known simply as Hubert. Military service During the Second World War he was a physical training instructor in the Royal Navy, and his physique was much in evidence in many of his subsequent screen roles. Career During the war Watson was resident compère of the BBC radio comedy ''The Navy Mixture''. After the war, his talent as an impersonator resulted in his becoming a regular on BBC radio programmes such as ''Take it from Here'', ''Hancock's Half Hour'' and ''The Clitheroe Kid''. He gradually made the transition to television, where his first major role was in ''Coronation Street'', in which he became Elsie Tanner's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hancock's Half Hour
''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Galton and Simpson, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James, Sidney James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply ''Hancock'', starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in Cheam, East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the Sitcom, situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development. The radio version was produced by Dennis Main Wilson for most of its run. After Main Wilson departed for his television career, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorney, Cambridgeshire
Thorney is a village in the City of Peterborough, Peterborough unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Located around eight miles (13 km) east of Peterborough city centre, on the A47 road, A47. Historically in the Isle of Ely, Thorney was transferred to the short-lived county of Huntingdon and Peterborough in 1965 and became part of the Peterborough district in 1974, on the merger into Cambridgeshire; the city became a unitary authority area in 1998. History Thorney began as a Saxon settlement in about 500 AD. The existence of Thorney Abbey made the settlement an important ecclesiastical centre, and until 2014 was the most northerly point of the Anglican Diocese of Ely. By 2007 the previous Thorney Abbey church, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was part of the Deanery and Anglican Diocese of Peterborough, Diocese of Peterborough. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the estate became crown property and it was granted to Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edge Of Darkness
''Edge of Darkness'' is a British television drama serial produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six 55-minute episodes in late 1985. A mixture of crime drama and political thriller, it revolves around the efforts of widowed policeman Ronald Craven (played by Bob Peck) to unravel the truth behind the murder of his daughter Emma (played by Joanne Whalley). Craven's investigations soon lead him into a murky world of government and corporate cover-ups and nuclear espionage, pitting him against dark forces that threaten the future of life on Earth. Writer Troy Kennedy Martin was greatly influenced by the political climate of the time, dominated by the Thatcher government, and the aura of secrecy surrounding the nuclear industry – and by the implications of the Gaia hypothesis of environmentalist James Lovelock; these combined to his crafting a thriller that mingled real world concerns with mythic and mystic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Beat (1962 Film)
''On the Beat'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne and Raymond Huntley. Plot Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom) works at Scotland Yard as a car cleaner, but dreams of becoming a policeman as his late father was. The police reject his request to join the force, but later recruit him to work undercover in disguise. He has turned out to be the double twin of a suspected jewel thief, an Italian crime boss in London. In addition to his criminal activities, this man is a ladies' hairdresser. Norman disguises himself as the suspect and gains entry to his salon. Once inside, after some inevitable mishaps, he manages to find the stolen goods, knock out the suspect, wrap him up in a curtain/wall rug, and bring him to justice. As a reward, he is offered a permanent position in the police and marries his love, the ex-girlfriend of the man he brought to justice (whom he had rescued earlier in the film when she was attempting to comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time To Remember
''Time to Remember'' is a 1962 British crime film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Yvonne Monlaur, Harry H. Corbett and Robert Rietty. Part of the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' film series made at Merton Park Studios, it is loosely based on the 1915 novel ''The Man Who Bought London ''The Man Who Bought London'' is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring E.J. Arundel, Evelyn Boucher and Roy Travers. It was based on the 1915 novel '' The Man Who Bought London'' by Edgar Wallace ...''.Goble p. 486 Cast References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1962 films British crime films 1962 crime films 1960s English-language films Films set in England Merton Park Studios films Films directed by Charles Jarrott Films based on British novels Edgar Wallace Mysteries 1962 directorial debut films 1960s British films {{1960s-U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen's Guards
''The Queen's Guards'' is a 1961 military drama film directed by Michael Powell from a script by Simon Harcourt-Smith and Roger Milner. It stars Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, and Ursula Jeans. ''The Queen's Guards'' was made after Michael Powell had shot ''Peeping Tom'' but before it was released. When ''Peeping Tom'' was released there was such an outcry that Powell never directed another feature film in Britain. Powell later called the film "the most inept piece of filmmaking that I have ever produced or directed. I didn't write the story (weak) or the screenplay (abysmal) but I take all the flak." Plot The film tells the story of John Fellowes ( Daniel Massey), an officer in the Grenadier Guards as he prepares for the Trooping the Colour ceremony on 11 June 1960. John is the son of retired guardsman Capt. Fellowes (Raymond Massey) and Mrs. Fellowes ( Ursula Jeans). John's older brother was also a Guards officer, but he was killed in action and John feels h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fate Takes A Hand
''Fate Takes a Hand'' is a 1961 British anthology drama film. Plot The recovery of a mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years before has varying consequences on the lives of five of the recipients of the letters, when the post office decide that the mail should be delivered. Several lives are changed, as witnessed by a newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer, who decide to follow up on several of the letters. Cast * Ronald Howard as Tony * Christina Gregg as Karon *Basil Dignam as Wheeler *Willoughby Goddard as Rollenshaw * Jack Watson as Bulldog *Peter Butterworth as Ronnie *Mary Laura Wood as Sandra *Noel Trevarthen as Bob * Sheila Whittingham as Jenny *Michael Peake as Ross *Laidman Browne as Maxwell *Derek Blomfield as Briggs *Valerie Gearon as Peggy *Valentine Dyall as Wilson * John Gabriel as Matt Little *Brian Cobby as Mark *Peter Swanwick as Preeny *Bruce Beeby as Inspector Phillips *Arnold Bell as Finch * Michael Anthony as Fuller *Carl Duering a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konga (film)
''Konga'' is a 1961 technicolour science fiction horror film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns and Austin Trevor. It was shot at Merton Park Studios and in Croydon for Anglo Amalgamated, then distributed in the United States by American International Pictures (AIP) as a double feature with '' Master of the World''. Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US$500,000 film, with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres. ''Konga'' was the basis for a comic book series published by Charlton Comics and initially drawn by Steve Ditko (prior to Ditko's co-creation of Spider-Man) in the 1960s. The film epitomises the B-movie in terms of illogical plot and shortcut special effects, such as a man in a gorilla suit replacing special effects. Shots of screaming people looking upwards invoke the idea that they are looking up to Konga and it is not explained how the serum changes species as well as size (chim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Horatio Hornblower
''Captain Horatio Hornblower'' (a.k.a. ''Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.'' in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") is a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: ''The Happy Return'' (1937), '' A Ship of the Line'' (1938), and '' Flying Colours'' (1938). Forester is credited with the screen adaptation. Plot In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower commands the 38-gun frigate HMS ''Lydia'' on a secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who calls himself "El Supremo" ("The Almighty"), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. Upon arrival, Hornblower is told that a larger, much more powerful Spanish warship, the 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Geese
''The Wild Geese'' is a 1978 war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger. The screenplay concerns a group of mercenaries in Africa. It was the result of a long-held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film similar to '' The Guns of Navarone'' or ''Where Eagles Dare''. The producer and director would later make ''The Sea Wolves'' starring several cast members from this film. The screenplay by Reginald Rose was based on an unpublished novel titled '' The Thin White Line'' by Daniel Carney. The film was named ''The Wild Geese'' after the Wild Goose flag and shoulder patch used by Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare's Five Commando, ANC, which in turn was inspired by a 17th-century Irish mercenary army (see Flight of the Wild Geese). Carney's novel was subsequently published by Corgi Books under the same title as the film. The novel was based upon rumours and speculation following the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Brigade (film)
''The Devil's Brigade'' is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color war film filmed in Panavision, based on the 1966 book of the same name co-written by American novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman and Col. George Walton, a member of the brigade. The film recounts the formation, training, and first mission of the 1st Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit, known as the Devil's Brigade. The film dramatizes the Brigade's first mission in the Italian Campaign, the task of capturing what is considered an impregnable German mountain stronghold, Monte la Difensa. Plot In the summer of 1942, American Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. Frederick, a War Department staff officer with no prior combat or command experience, is summoned to Britain where he is selected by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten to raise a commando force composed of both American and Canadian personnel for operations in German-occupied Norway. Back in the U.S., Frederick arrives at the derelict Fort Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McKenzie Break
''The McKenzie Break'' is a 1970 British war drama film starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Scotland. The Nazi German POWs are led by the charismatic and ruthless Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem). Filmed in DeLuxe Color, the picture was directed by Lamont Johnson, Plot At the McKenzie prisoner of War (POW) camp in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem) – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s rigidly by-the-book commanding officer, Major Perry (Ian Hendry). British Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jack Connor, an Irishman seconded from the Royal Ulster Rifles. a former star crime reporter during peacetime, is in hot water (again) for various off-duty indiscretions. His patron, General Kerr ( Jack Watson), bails him out - in return for sending him to Camp McKenzie to learn what else might be behind the escalating upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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