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John Wood (Australian Actor, B.1909)
John Wood (11 November 19091 March 1965)National Archives of Australia, Service Record, Signalman John Wood, NX6581/ref> was an Australian who acted on the stage and briefly became a film star in Hollywood and Britain in the late 1930s. Early acting career Wood was born in Forbes, New South Wales and attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School. After briefly venturing into operating a banana plantation he turned to acting. He performed on stage for the J. C. Williamson Company in Australia between 1929 and 1933, earning good reviews as a "talented juvenile" and handsome young actor "with promise." Stage and screen work in London and Hollywood By early 1934 he had established himself in London, cast soon after arrival in the lead role of Lord Fancourt Babberley in a 1933 revival of ''Charley's Aunt'' at the Gaiety Theatre He appeared in supporting roles in several British B films before being offered a key role as Flavius in the 1935 Hollywood movie ''The Last Days of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. It is based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Competitors in the national business magazine category include ''Fortune'' and ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. ''Forbes'' has an international edition in Asia as well as editions produced under license in 27 countries and regions worldwide. The magazine is well known for its lists and rankings, including of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400), of the America's Wealthiest Celebrities, of the world's top companies (the Forbes Global 2000), Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People, and The World's Billionaires. The motto of ''Forbes'' magazine is "Change the World". Its chair and editor-in-chief is Steve Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Griffin
Vaughan Murray Griffin (11 Nov 1903 – 29 January 1992) was an Australian print maker and painter. Life and work Commonly known as Murray Griffin, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern to Vaughan and Ethel Griffin. He spent most of his life living in the Eaglemont and Heidelberg area in Melbourne although he also travelled around country Victoria to paint and draw. He produced an extensive body of landscape paintings as well as portraits, but he is best known for his printmaking, where he was heavily influenced by Japanese woodcuts. A number of these prints are on the National Gallery of Australia database. Griffin trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne from 1919 to 1923. He later taught art at Scotch College (1936 to 1937) and drawing and teaching at RMIT (1937 to 1940). Griffin was appointed an official war artist in 1941 to work with the 8th Australian Dvision in Malaya. During his three months’ service there he completed pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Male Film Actors
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wood (English Actor)
John Wood (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English actor, known for his performances in Shakespeare and his lasting association with Tom Stoppard. In 1976, he received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Stoppard's ''Travesties''. He was nominated for two other Tony Awards for his roles in '' Sherlock Holmes'' (1975) and ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' (1968). In 2007, Wood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Wood also appeared in ''WarGames'', ''The Purple Rose of Cairo'', ''Orlando'', '' Shadowlands'', ''The Madness of King George'', '' Richard III'', ''Sabrina'', and '' Chocolat''. Early life Wood was born on 5 July 1930 in Derbyshire. He was educated at Bedford School. He did his national service as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery. During his time of service, he was invalided out after being accidentally shot in the back. Later during his service, he was alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Face
''Stolen Face'' is a 1952 British film noir directed by Terence Fisher and starring Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott and André Morell. It was made at Riverside Studios by Hammer Film Productions. Plot Dr. Philip Ritter, a plastic surgeon (Paul Henreid), falls in love with a gifted and beautiful concert pianist, Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott). They meet by chance at a country inn, and romance soon develops. However, Alice is already engaged to be married and, afraid to tell Ritter, runs away. Ritter is devastated. Back at his London surgery, Ritter receives a phone call from Alice, who informs him she is to marry David (André Morell). Meanwhile, Ritter's new patient is Lily Conover (Mary Mackenzie), a female convict whose face is disfigured. The love-struck surgeon believes he can change her criminal ways by constructing her new face to resemble that of Alice. He does so, and they marry. (Now identical to Alice, she is played by Scott.) However, Lily has not changed her ways. She s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Englishman's Home
''An Englishman's Home'' is a threat-of-invasion play by Guy du Maurier, first produced in 1909. The title is a reference to the expression "an Englishman's home is his castle". Play ''An Englishman's Home'' caused a sensation in London when it appeared anonymously, under the name "A Patriot", in 1909. Ticknor 1922 The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915. It first played at Wyndham's Theatre on 27 January MacKenzie 1992 and went on to be a long-running success. It is now considered a typical example of the invasion literature popular at the time. The play was produced by Guy's brother Gerald du Maurier, possibly without his knowledge and with some assistance from J. M. Barrie. The story concerns an attack on England by a foreign power identified as "Nearland", generally assumed to represent Germany. The home of an ordinary middle-class family is besie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Eyes (1939 Film)
''Black Eyes'' is a 1939 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire and Walter Rilla. It is a remake of the 1935 French film '' Dark Eyes''. Cast * Otto Kruger as Ivan Ivanovich Petroff * Mary Maguire as Tanya Petroff * Walter Rilla as Roudine * John Wood as Karlo Karpoff * Marie Wright as Miss Brown * Jenny Laird as Lucy * O. B. Clarence as Waiter * Ralph Truman as Diner * Ballard Berkeley as Diner * Ernest Butcher as Diner * Michael Wilding Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for a series of films he made with Anna Neagle; he also made two films with Alfred Hitchcock, '' Under Capric ... as Officer See also * '' Dark Eyes'' (1935) References External links * 1939 films 1939 drama films Films shot at Associated British Studios 1930s English-language films Films directed by Herbert Brenon British drama films British re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luck Of The Navy
''Luck of the Navy'' is a 1938 British comedy thriller film directed by Norman Lee and starring Geoffrey Toone, Judy Kelly and Clifford Evans. Shot at Elstree StudiosWood p.98 it was based on the play '' The Luck of the Navy'' by Mrs Clifford Mills and is also known by the alternative title of ''North Sea Patrol''. Plot With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton. Cast * Geoffrey Toone as Commander Clive Stanton * Judy Kelly as Cynthia Maybridge * Clifford Evans as Lieutenant Peel * John Wood as Sub Lieutenant Eden * Albert Burdon as Noakes * Alf Goddard as Tomkins * Henry Oscar as Perrin * Kenneth Kent as Colonel Suvaroff * Marguerite Allan as Anna Suvaroff * Edmund Breon as Admiral Maybridge * Doris Hare as Mrs Maybridge * Daphne Raglan as Dora Maybridge * Olga Lindo as Mrs Rance * Diana Beaumont as Millie * Leslie Perrins as Briggs * Frank Fox as François * Joan Fred Emney as Cook * Ronald Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold My Hand (film)
''Hold My Hand'' is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Stanley Lupino, Fred Emney and Barbara Blair. The film's plot follows a wealthy man who buys a newspaper, resulting in a series of romantic entanglements. It was based on a musical play by Lupino. Cast 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 ...'' rated the film two out of five stars, calling it an "Occasionally amusing farce." References External links * 1938 films British musical comedy films 1938 musical comedy films Films shot at Associated British Studios Films directed by Thornton Freeland British black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films {{musical-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh Boy! (1938 Film)
''Oh Boy!'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Albert Burdon, Mary Lawson and Bernard Nedell. It was made at Elstree Studios by ABPC.Wood p.96 The film's sets were designed by the art director John Mead. Synopsis Percy Flower, a young chemist, takes his girlfriend to watch his Beefeater father on parade at the Tower of London, but she is stolen away by an assertive, taller man. Percy is then given a secret formula by an eccentric inventor which makes him extremely confident, strong and energetic. However once Percy starts suffering the side effect, which reduces him back to childhood, his father urgently tries to find the Professor again to get the antidote. Eventually Percy is restored to his true self, managing both to win back his girlfriend and to foil a plot by some American gangsters to steal the Crown Jewels. Cast * Albert Burdon as Percy Flower * Mary Lawson as June Messenger * Bernard Nedell as Angelo Tonelli * Jay Lauri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housemaster (film)
''Housemaster'' is a 1938 British comedy drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill and Phillips Holmes. It was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. When three young women come to stay at an elite public school, they cause disruption amongst the male students and teachers. It was based on the 1936 play of the same name by Ian Hay. Cast * Otto Kruger as Charles Donkin * Diana Churchill as Rosemary Faringdon * Phillips Holmes as Philip de Pourville * Joyce Barbour as Barbara Fane * Rene Ray as Chris Faringdon * Kynaston Reeves Philip Arthur Reeves (29 May 18935 December 1971), known professionally as Kynaston Reeves, was an English character actor who appeared in numerous films and many television plays and series. Early life Reeves was born in London on 29 May 189 ... as The Rev. Edmund Ovington * Walter Hudd as Frank Hastings * Michael Shepley as Victor Beamish * John Wood (Australian Actor, b.1909), John Wood as Flossie Nightingale * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Catch A Thief (1936 Film)
''To Catch a Thief'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Garrick, Mary Lawson and H. F. Maltby. Cast * John Garrick as John * Mary Lawson as Anne * H. F. Maltby as Sir Herbert Condine * John Wood as Bill Lowther * Vincent Holman as Galloway * Gordon McLeod as Detective * Eliot Makeham as Secretary * Max Adrian Max Adrian (born Guy Thornton Bor; 1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In addition to his succ ... as Salesman References External links * 1936 films 1936 comedy films Films directed by Maclean Rogers British comedy films British black-and-white films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films English-language comedy films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
