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Keep The Aspidistra Flying (film)
''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'' (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as ''A Merry War'') is a 1997 British romantic comedy film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Plater and was produced by Peter Shaw. The film stars Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter. Plot Gordon Comstock (Grant) is a successful copywriter at a flourishing advertising firm in 1930s London. His girlfriend and co-worker, Rosemary (Bonham Carter), fears he may never settle down with her when he suddenly disavows his money-based lifestyle and quits his job for the artistic satisfaction of writing poetry. Cast * Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock * Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary * Julian Wadham as Ravelston * Jim Carter as Erskine * Harriet Walter as Julia Comstock * Lesley Vickerage as Hermione * Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Wisbech (credited as Barbara Leigh Hunt) * Liz Smith as Mrs. Meakin * Dorot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bierman
Robert Bierman is an English film and television director. He began his career directing commercials and short films before making the transition to directing feature films and television dramas. Bierman was originally scheduled to direct '' The Fly'' (1986), but due to personal tragedy was unable to commit to the project. In 1989 he directed ''Vampire's Kiss''. He has directed episodes of '' Waking the Dead'', ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', ''The Bill'' and ''Holby City''. He has three children from his first marriage and three daughters from his second marriage to Saskia Wickham. Filmography as director * ''The Dumb Waiter'' (1979) * ''The Rocking Horse Winner'' (1983) * '' Apology'' (1986) * ''Vampire's Kiss'' (1989) * ''The Moonstone'' (1996) * ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'' (1997) * ''The Blonde Bombshell ''The Blonde Bombshell'' is a British two-part mini-series based on the life and death of actress Diana Dors. It was produced by LWT for ITV, and first shown o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Vickerage
Lesley Francesca Vickerage is an English actress best known for her roles as WPC Jenny Dean in the television series '' Between the Lines'', as Lieutenant (later Captain) Kate Butler in ''Soldier Soldier'', as Helen Lynley in the television series ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', and as Aunt Jane in the television series '' Moonfleet''. She is an enthusiast of English folk music and is often seen at the annual Chippenham Folk Festival. She had a walk on part in 1991 in ''King Ralph'' as a woman in the shop near the end of the film. She played Ellie in ''My Good Friend'', Helen Lynley in ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', Viv Casey in '' Grafters'', the space pilot Vornholt in the BBC series '' Bugs'' and she has also been in ''The Bill'', '' Silent Witness'', '' Sea of Souls'', ''Inspector Morse'', '' Holby City'', '' Law & Order: UK'', '' Midsomer Murders'', '' Doctors'', ''Lewis'', ''My Family'' ‘’The Murder Room’’ and '' Between The Lines''. Most recently, she pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dixon Actor
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", " Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Miles
Benjamin Charles Miles (born 29 September 1966) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Patrick Maitland in the television comedy ''Coupling'', from 2000 to 2004, as Montague Dartie in ''The Forsyte Saga'', from 2002 to 2003, as Peter Townsend in the Netflix drama ''The Crown'' (2016–2017) and George in episode 8 "The One That Holds Everything" in the TV drama ''The Romanoffs'' (2018). Early life Miles was born in Wimbledon, London, and lived as a young man in Ashover, Derbyshire, attending Tupton Hall School. He began acting in school productions, which he pursued mainly because it allowed him to miss classes. In an interview, Miles stated how he would spend his spare time in a now-defunct record shop (Hudsons) in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, while "thinking about 'finding the one'". He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career He moved into television roles in the 1990s, playing supporting roles in such series as ''Zorro'', ''Soldier Soldier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Smee
Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of ''Diederik'', the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler". Common variants of the name are Derrek, Derick, Dereck, Derrick, and Deric. Low German and Dutch short forms of Diederik are Dik, Dirck, and Dirk. History The English form of the name arises in the 15th century, via import from the Low Countries. The native English (Anglo-Saxon) form of the name was ''Deoric'' or ''Deodric'', from Old English ''Þēodrīc'', but this name had fallen out of use in the medieval period. During the Late Middle Ages, there was intense contact between the territories adjacent to the North Sea, in particular due to the activities of the Hanseatic League. As a result, there was a lot of cross-pollination between Low German, Dutch, English, Danish and Norwegian. The given name ''Derk'' is found in records of the Low Countries from the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Sinclair (actor)
Malcolm Sinclair (born 5 June 1950) is a British stage and television actor and former President of Trade Union, Equity 2010–18 when he stood down after 4 terms and was replaced by Maureen Beattie. He played Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher in the television series ''Pie in the Sky'' from 1994–1997. Malcolm's brother is Keith Sinclair, the former Bishop of Birkenhead. Career A former pupil at Trinity School in Croydon, and a student at the University of Hull and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Sinclair has performed with theatre companies such as the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. He has performed widely, both in Britain and internationally, in roles that have included Shakespeare (Hamlet, Malvolio), Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ibsen and Noël Coward. Sinclair appeared in the play ''Little Lies'', starring Sir John Mills, at Wyndham's Theatre, London, England, which ran from July 1983 through February 1984, written by Joseph George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Parsons
Grant or Grants may refer to: Places * Grant County (other) Australia * Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia United Kingdom *Castle Grant United States * Grant, Alabama *Grant, Inyo County, California *Grant, Colorado *Grant-Valkaria, Florida * Grant, Iowa *Grant, Michigan * Grant, Minnesota * Grant, Nebraska *Grant, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Grant, Washington *Grant, Wisconsin (other) (six towns) *Grant City, Indiana * Grant City, Missouri *Grant City, Staten Island *Grant Lake (other), several lakes * Grant Park, Illinois *Grant Park (Chicago) *Grant Town, West Virginia *Grant Township (other) (100 townships in 12 states) *Grant Village in Yellowstone National Park *Grants, New Mexico * Grants Pass, Oregon * U.S. Grant Bridge over Ohio River and Scioto River *General Grant National Memorial aka Grant's Tomb India * Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun, Uttarakhand Canada *Rural Municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stockbridge
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Alexander
Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to: People * Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes * Dorothea Brooking (1916–1999), British children's television producer and director * Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist * Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878–1960), English tennis player * Dorothea Dunckel (1799–1878), Swedish playwright * Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first woman doctor in Germany * Dorothea Fairbridge (1860–1931), South African novelist * Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), Scottish novelist * Dorothea Hoffman (d. 1710), Swedish hat maker * Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom * Dorothea Kalpakidou (born 1983), Greek discus thrower * Dorothea Krag (1675–1754), Danish postmaster * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lill Roughley
Lilian Roughley (born 1949), best known as Lill Roughley, is an English actress who has appeared on British television since the 1970s. Her notable roles include Alice in the first series of ''Mulberry (TV series), Mulberry'', and as Ella Dawkins in ''My Hero (British TV series), My Hero''. In the 1980s and 1990s, Roughley also worked often with Victoria Wood, playing a variety of roles in Wood's various comedy series for the BBC. Career Lilian Roughley was born 1949 in Prescot, Lancashire. She had minor roles in the 1970s and 1980s in programmes including ''All the Fun of the Fair'', ''Tales of the Unexpected (TV series), Tales of the Unexpected'', ''Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV'', ''Bergerac (TV series), Bergerac'' and ''Inspector Morse (TV series), Inspector Morse''. She worked with Victoria Wood again in 1989, appearing in four of her Victoria Wood (1989 TV series), six comedy plays for television, and again in 1992's ''Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast''. Also in 1992 she pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Wallis
William Wallis (20 November 1936 – 6 September 2013) was a British character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as in the theatre. Biography Wallis was born in Guildford in Surrey, the only son of Albert Wallis, a trainee fishmonger turned engineer, and his wife, Anne, a nurse. He attended Farnham Grammar School from 1948 to 1955, where he was head boy. He gained a State Scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, and while at Cambridge met Peter Cook and David Frost. When Cook and the team took '' Beyond the Fringe'' to Broadway, Wallis took over the roles played by Alan Bennett. Wallis appeared in a number of television programmes including ''Chelmsford 123'', '' Doctor at Large'' (1971), ITV's production of ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole'', the BBC's adaptation of John Masefield's book ''The Box of Delights'' (1984), the first series of ''Blackadder'' (drunken knight), ''Blackadder II'' (Ploppy the Gaoler), ''Blackadder Goes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clegg (actor)
John Walter Lawrence Clegg (born 9 July 1934) is an Indian-born English actor, best known for playing the part of Gunner 'Paderewski' Graham in the BBC sitcom ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum''. Early life and career Clegg was born on 9 July 1934 in Murree, British India (present-day Pakistan) to English parents. When he and his parents arrived back in England, Clegg became a student at RADA. After leaving RADA Clegg joined the Watford Palace Theatre Company, where he met Jimmy Perry, who would go on to cast Clegg in the role for which he is best known. It was there that he also met many of his future co-stars, including Michael Knowles, Donald Hewlett, and Mavis Pugh (whom he married in 1959). Pugh appeared in Croft and Perry sitcoms including ''Dad's Army'', ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'' and ''Hi-de-Hi!'', but she is best known for playing Lady Lavender Southwick in ''You Rang, M'Lord?''. Due to the twenty year age gap between Clegg and Pugh many were sceptical as to whether the marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |