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Jeremy Hawk
Jeremy Hawk (20 May 1918 – 15 January 2002) was a character actor with a long career in music halls and on London's West End stage. Early life Hawk was born Cedric Joseph Lange in Johannesburg, South Africa; his father was a matinee idol who used the name Douglas Drew, and his mother, June, of Irish origin, was of the third generation of an acting family. After his parents' divorce and his mother's subsequent marriage to a wealthy Yorkshire wool merchant, he was educated at Harrow School. Already nicknamed "Hawk" because of the shape of his nose, Lange began using the name Jeremy Hawk on entering RADA. By his first wife, Tuli, he had a daughter, Berenice Hawk; he married secondly actress Joan Heal, with whom he had another daughter, the actress Belinda Lang. Career Hawk appeared on television as straight man to Benny Hill, Arthur Askey, Norman Wisdom and Sid Caesar as well as hosting the ITV programme ''Criss Cross Quiz'' and the junior version for children's television from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage. There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881. Opening in October 2022, @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goose Steps Out
''The Goose Steps Out'' is a British film released in 1942, starring Will Hay, who also co-directed with Basil Dearden. It is a comedy of mistaken identity, with Hay acting as a German spy and also an Englishman who is his double. It was the film debut of Peter Ustinov. Plot summary Set during the Second World War, the film recounts the adventures of William Potts (Will Hay) after it is discovered that he is an exact double of a German spy who the British have just captured. Potts is flown into Nazi Germany to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details of a new German secret weapon. On arrival, however, Potts is placed in charge of a group of apparently rabidly-fascist young students who are being trained to work as spies in Britain. Potts attempts to undermine this by convincing the youngsters that the proper British way of saluting a great leader is to apply the V-sign, which they therefore do repeatedly and enthusiastically in the direction of a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eskimo Nell (film)
''Eskimo Nell'', also known as ''The Ballad of Eskimo Nell'' and as ''The Sexy Saga of Naughty Nell and Big Dick'', is a 1975 British sex comedy film directed by Martin Campbell and produced by Stanley Long. Though inspired by " The Ballad of Eskimo Nell", the movie owes little to the original bawdy song. Plot Budding film director Dennis Morrison ( Michael Armstrong), producer Clive Potter (Terence Edmond), and screenwriter Harris Tweedle (Christopher Timothy) are hired by seedy erotic film producer Benny U. Murdoch (Roy Kinnear) to make a dirty movie based on the poem "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell". However they run into difficulty when each of the production's backers want a completely different style of film made. Then Murdoch makes off with the money and the three have to produce four ''different'' versions of the movie to keep everybody happy - a gay Western, a hardcore porno, a Kung Fu-style musical, and a wholesome family production. Cast * Roy Kinnear as Benny U. Murdoch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trygon Factor
''The Trygon Factor'' is a 1966 British-West German crime film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire and Robert Morley. It is one of the films based on works by Edgar Wallace of the 1960s and its German title is ''Das Geheimnis der weißen Nonne''/ ''Mystery of the White Nun''. The film is based on the 1917 Edgar Wallace novel '' Kate Plus Ten''. Plot A Scotland Yard inspector is called to investigate a series of unsolved robberies. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) arrives at the country manor of a respectable English family. He discovers Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt), the mistress of the house, has turned to crime in order to bolster the family's flagging fortunes. With assistance from an order of bogus nuns, stolen goods end up in the warehouse of Hamlyn (Robert Morley), purportedly a respectable businessman. Cast * Stewart Granger as Superintendent Cooper-Smith * Susan Hampshire as Trudy Emberday * Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Submarine (1963 Film)
''Mystery Submarine'' is a 1963 British war film directed by C. M. Pennington-Richards and starring Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice and Laurence Payne. A captured German submarine is used by the Royal Navy to trick a German force aiming to intercept a supply convoy. The film is based on a play by Jon Manchip White. Plot ''U-153'' is damaged during air attack in the Atlantic, and its crew abandon ship to escape chlorine gas now leaking from its battery cells. Her commanding officer is overcome by fumes before he can jettison the ship's papers. Due to the intelligence windfall that this represents, the submarine is taken by a British prize crew to be examined and inspected (in much the same manner that befell the real German U-boat later renamed HMS Graph ). It is not long before British intelligence suggest a new use for the submarine as a Trojan Horse. A picked crew of volunteers led by Commander Tarlton ( Edward Judd) take the ''U-153'' back to war, to intercept and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic (1963 Film)
''Panic'' is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Gilling and starring Dyson Lovell, Janine Gray and Glyn Houston. The screenplay concerns a young Swiss woman who becomes mixed up with a gang planning a diamond heist. Cast * Janine Gray - Janine Heinig * Glyn Houston - Mike * Dyson Lovell - Johnnie Cobb * Duncan Lamont - Inspector Saunders * Stanley Meadows - Tom * Brian Weske - Ben * Charles Houston - Louis Cobb * Philip Ray - Jessop * Marne Maitland - Lantern * John Horsley - Inspector Malcolm * Leonard Sachs - Len Collier * Colin Rix - Detective Sergeant Rose * Dermot Kelly - Murphy Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or t ...'' called it "A hollow crime melodrama"; whereas '' The Dark Side'' called it "an atmospheric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dentist On The Job
''Dentist on the Job'' is a 1961 British comedy film directed by C. M. Pennington-Richards, the sequel to ''Dentist in the Chair'' (1960). It was released in the US with the title ''Get On with It!''. The film was co-written by Hugh Woodhouse and Hazel Adair (actress and screenwriter), Hazel Adair. It stars Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Ronnie Stevens (actor), Ronnie Stevens and Eric Barker repeating their roles from the previous film. Other actors appearing in the film include Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis and Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914), Charles Hawtrey. Monkhouse, Eaton, Connor, Barker and Hawtrey had all previously acted together in unrelated 1958 comedy ''Carry On Sergeant''. Plot Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries aims to entice a couple of dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off. His cousin, the director of a Dental Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dentist In The Chair
''Dentist in the Chair'' is a 1960 British comedy film, directed by Don Chaffey and starring Bob Monkhouse, Ronnie Stevens, Eric Barker and Vincent Ball. The screenplay was written by Val Guest, and based on a novel by Matthew Finch. Additional scenes were written by Bob Monkhouse and George Wadmore. ''Dentist on the Job'' (1961), a sequel, followed. Plot Two dental students, David Cookson (Monkhouse) and Brian Dexter (Ronnie Stevens) become mixed up in the misadventures of a thief, Sam Field (played by Kenneth Connor), when he tries to sell them stolen dental equipment. Cast *Bob Monkhouse as David Cookson * Peggy Cummins as Peggy Travers *Kenneth Connor as Sam Field *Eric Barker as The Dean * Ronnie Stevens as Brian Dexter *Vincent Ball as Michaels * Eleanor Summerfield as Ethel * Reginald Beckwith as Mr. Watling * Stuart Saunders as Inspector Richardson * Ian Wallace as Dentist *Peggy Simpson as Miss Brent * Jean St. Clair as Lucy *Rosie Lee as Maggie *Charlotte Mitchell a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Right And Centre
''Left Right and Centre'' is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim. It was produced by Frank Launder. A political comedy, it follows the events of a by-election in a small English town. Plot Robert Wilcot, a popular television personality, is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale in the upcoming by-election. His selection is mostly due to the influence of his uncle, Lord Wilcot, a powerful local figure. His opponent is to be Stella Stoker, a fishmonger's daughter with a degree from the London School of Economics who has been chosen to stand for the Labour Party. Travelling up on the train to Earndale, the two candidates meet and while she quickly works out who he is, he remains ignorant of her true identity. To try to show off he begins to tell her about his selection for the seat and how he expects to win. He describes his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 39 Steps (1959 Film)
''The 39 Steps'' is a 1959 British thriller film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More and Taina Elg. Produced by Betty Box, it is a remake of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, loosely based on the 1915 novel '' The Thirty-Nine Steps'' by John Buchan. In the film, diplomat Richard Hannay returns home to London, only to become inadvertently embroiled in the death of a British spy investigating the head of an organisation planning to sell the secret of a British ballistic missile. Hannay thus travels to Scotland to escape the police, and attempts to complete the spy's work. It is the first colour version of the Buchan tale, and, unlike the mainly studio-bound original, features extensive location shooting. Several large set pieces (such as Hannay's escape from the train on the Forth Bridge and the music hall finale) and much of the dialogue are taken from the original film. As with the Hitchcock version, the scenario was contemporary rather than the pre-Great War sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Done It? (1956 Film)
''Who Done It?'' is a 1956 British slapstick black and white comedy crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, and George Margo. One of the last Ealing comedies, it was Benny Hill's film debut. ''Who Done It?'' opened at the New Victoria and Dominion Cinemas in London on 18 March 1956 before entering general release. Plot Hugo Dill is an ice rink sweeper, who accidentally gets involved in the show, causing much catastrophe. He dreams of being a private investigator. He goes to a gun-shop to buy a revolver, but his acting as a robber while the shopkeeper is in the back gets him mistaken for a robber and almost arrested. He hires a room in a casting agency causing some confusion with his new clients. He wins a cash prize and a bloodhound in a sleuthing contest and sets up as a private eye. A group of Soviet spies employ him to impersonate a scientist to trick the world into thinking the scientist is dead (they plan t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mask Of Dust
''Mask of Dust'' (later named 'Race for Life' ) is a 1954 British motor racing drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Richard Conte, Mari Aldon and Peter Illing. The film was based on the 1953 novel ''The Last Race'' by Jon Manchip White. It was produced by Hammer Films at the company's Bray Studios as a programmer.Chibnall & McFarlane p.82 The film's sets were designed by the art director J. Elder Wills. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures as ''Race for Life'' Synopsis A freestyle racing driver must choose between his love for racing, and his wife. His friend's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival. Cast *Richard Conte as Peter Wells *Mari Aldon as Patricia Wells *Peter Illing as Tony Bellario *Alec Mango as Guido Rosetti * James Copeland as Johnny Jackson *George Coulouris as 'Pic' Dallapiccola * Meredith Edwards as Laurence Gibson *Edwin Richfield as Reporter in Lounge *Richard Marn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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