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Ken Parry
Ken Parry (20 June 1930 – 5 December 2007), was an English actor, born in Wigan, Lancashire. Bald, portly and cherubic, Parry portrayed mainly comic character parts in a number of films, but was more prolific on television, in such series as ''The Army Game'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Baron'', '' The Newcomers'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', '' Nearest and Dearest'', '' Love Thy Neighbour'', ''Z-Cars'', '' The Sweeney'', '' Coronation Street'', '' Hazell'' and ''Children's Ward''. Selected filmography * ''Friends and Neighbours'' (1959) - Sid * '' Just For Fun'' (1963) - Lift Attendant * '' The Liquidator'' (1965) - Tailor (uncredited) * ''Out of the Unknown'' ('Time in Advance', episode) (1965) - Ballaskia * '' The Brides of Fu Manchu'' (1966) - Hospital Receptionist (uncredited) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1967) - Tailor * ''Otley'' (1968) - 3rd Businessman * '' Start the Revolution Without Me'' (1970) - Dr. Boileau * '' Spring and Port Wine'' (1970) - Pawnbroker * '' Burke & Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the north-east and Warrington to the south. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,713. Wigan was formerly within the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire. Wigan was in the territory of the Brigantes, an ancient Celtic tribe that ruled much of what is now northern England. The Brigantes were subjugated in the Roman conquest of Britain and the Roman settlement of ''Coccium'' was established where Wigan lies. Wigan was incorporated as a Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in 1246, following the issue of a charter by Henry III of England, King Henry III of England. At the end of the Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends And Neighbours
''Friends and Neighbours'' is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins and Peter Illing. Plot At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia. Cast * Arthur Askey ... Albert Grimshaw * Megs Jenkins ... Lily Grimshaw * Peter Illing ... Nukita * Tilda Thamar ... Olga * Reginald Beckwith ... Wilf Holmes * June Whitfield ... Doris Holmes * Danny Ross ... Sebastian Green * Catherine Feller ... Susan Grimshaw * Jess Conrad ... Buddy Fisher * George A. Cooper ... Wheeler, George * Max Robertson ... TV announcer * Arthur Howard ... Rev. Dobson * Eynon Evans ... Shopkeeper * Linda Castle ... Gloria Stockwell * Ken Parry ... Sid * Steven Scott ... Bus superintendent * Richard Walter ... Bus inspector * Donald Bisset ... Porter * Anatole Smirnoff ... Russian embassy official * Laurence Herder ... 1st Russian * Paul Bogdan ... 2nd Russian * Alan Scott ... 3rd Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisztomania (film)
''Lisztomania'' is a 1975 British surreal biographical musical comedy film written and directed by Ken Russell about the 19th-century composer Franz Liszt. The screenplay is derived, in part, from the book ''Nélida'' by Marie d'Agoult (1848), about her affair with Liszt. Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, ''Lisztomania'' features contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey (of The Who) as Franz Liszt. The film was released the same year as ''Tommy'', which also starred Daltrey and was also directed by Russell. Rick Wakeman, from the progressive rock band Yes, composed the ''Lisztomania'' soundtrack, which included synthesiser arrangements of works by Liszt and Richard Wagner. He also appears in the film as Thor, the Nordic god of thunder. Daltrey and Russell wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack, and Daltrey provided vocals. Of the other rock celebrities appearing in the film, Ringo Starr appears as the Pope. The term Lisztomania was coined by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistress Pamela
''Mistress Pamela'' is a 1973 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel ''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'' by Samuel Richardson. Plot In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress. Cast * Ann Michelle as Pamela Andrews * Julian Barnes as Lord Robert Devenish * Dudley Foster as Jonathan * Anna Quayle as Mrs Jelks * Anthony Sharp as Longman * Rosemarie Dunham as Mistress Blimper * Derek Fowlds as Sir Percy * Ken Parry as Parson * Fred Emney as Dr Livesey * Frederic Abbott as John Andrews * Marianne Stone Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress. She performed in films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, typically playing working class parts such as barmaids, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bequest To The Nation (film)
''Bequest to the Nation'' is a 1973 British historical drama film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston and Margaret Leighton. It is based on the 1970 Terence Rattigan play ''A Bequest to the Nation''. In the United States, it was released as ''The Nelson Affair''. Plot summary The film depicts the relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and his mistress, Lady Hamilton, during the Napoleonic Wars plus others they would meet, including Nelson's nephew, George Matcham Jr. Much of the story takes place at Merton Place, Nelson & Hamilton's estate, before Nelson's heading out to sea for the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. Cast Critical reception ''The New York Times'' found the film "thoroughly genteel", and wrote that Rattigan's dialogue was written "in the manner of someone regurgitating the cadences of a 19th-century schoolgirl's diary... Peter Finch plays Lord Nelson with a reserved passion that seems intelligently thought out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That%27s Your Funeral
''That's Your Funeral'' was a BBC sitcom from 1971 about a North of England funeral director called Basil Bulstrode (Bill Fraser). Storylines used many urban legends about the funeral industry. It was cancelled after one series. A very similar theme was used far more successfully in the ITV sitcom '' In Loving Memory''. Film In 1972, the sitcom was adapted into a film version by Hammer Films. The plot concerns two rival undertakers whose firms are used as fronts for drug smuggling. Directed by John Robins, as well as the usual cast it featured numerous well known actors such as Roy Kinnear, Dennis Price, Sue Lloyd, Richard Wattis, John Ronane and Frank Thornton. However, the film performed poorly at the box office. See also * List of films based on British sitcoms This is a list of theatrically released feature films that are based on British television programmes. Comedy Drama Science fiction Documentary Children's television See also * List of films based on te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke & Hare (1971 Film)
''Burke & Hare'', sometimes called ''Burke and Hare'' or ''The Horrors of Burke and Hare'', is a 1972 horror film, directed by Vernon Sewell, and starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, and Glynn Edwards. It is based on the true life story of the Burke and Hare murders, and was the last film to be directed by Vernon Sewell. Typically for its time the film is considerably more sexual that most of its counterparts, and much of the plot focusses on brothel activities. It was shot at Twickenham Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Scott MacGregor. Plot In Edinburgh, in 1828, there are two sides to society: men living in dirty hovels and grave robbing to make a living; and rich men going to the brothels. Meanwhile, the doctors dine together and drink wine. Surgeon Dr Robert Knox (Harry Andrews) needs bodies for dissection to satisfy the training needs of his medical students. As only hanging victims may be used, bodies are in short supply. In order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring And Port Wine
''Spring and Port Wine'' is a stage play by Bill Naughton and a 1970 British kitchen sink drama film based on it. The drama is set in Bolton and concerns the Crompton family, especially Rafe, the father, and his attempts to assert his authority in the household as his children grow up. The Play The original version, ''My Flesh, My Blood'', was a BBC radio play broadcast on 17 August 1957 in the ''Saturday Night Theatre'' series. By April 1958, a version for BBC Television had been broadcast and, in October 1959, a stage adaptation was presented at the Bolton Hippodrome. Retitled ''Spring and Port Wine'', the play was first produced in Birmingham prior to opening at London's Mermaid Theatre in November 1965, with Alfred Marks (as Rafe), Ruth Dunning (as Daisy), John Alderton (as Harold), Jennifer Wilson (as Florence), Jan Carey (as Hilda), Ray Mort (as Arthur), Gretchen Franklin (as Betsy Jane) and Melvyn Hayes (as Wilfred) in the cast. It was produced by Allan Davis and Michae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Start The Revolution Without Me
''Start the Revolution Without Me'' is a 1970 British-French-American period drama, period comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles (playing himself as narrator) and Victor Spinetti. The comedy is set in revolutionary France where two peasants are mistaken for the famous The Corsican Brothers, Corsican Brothers. The film is considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution and History of France, French history in general, including ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1859) by Charles Dickens and two works by Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas, ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1844) and ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later#Part Three: The Man in the Iron Mask (Chapters 181–269), The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1847). Plot Two sets of identical twins are babies switched at birth, accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otley (film)
''Otley'' is a 1968 British comedy thriller film, starring Tom Courtenay and Romy Schneider. It was adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais from a book by Martin Waddell, and released by Columbia Pictures. Plot Tom Courtenay plays Gerald Arthur "Gerry" Otley, a charming but feckless young drifter who scrapes a living from selling antiques in trendy 1960s London. Gerry's responsibility-free life suddenly takes a serious turn, when he finds himself caught up in a round of murder, espionage and quadruple crossing. He is mistaken for a spy; is kidnapped and detained several times; and becomes romantically involved with a foreign agent (Romy Schneider) working for British Intelligence. Cast * Tom Courtenay .... Gerald Arthur Otley - "Gerry" * Romy Schneider .... Imogen * Alan Badel .... Sir Alec Hadrian * James Villiers .... Hendrickson * Leonard Rossiter .... Johnson * Freddie Jones .... Philip Proudfoot * Fiona Lewis .... Lin * James Bolam .... Albert * James Cossins .... Geffco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Taming Of The Shrew (1967 Film)
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a 1967 period romantic comedy film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, based on William Shakespeare’s play about a courtship between two strong-willed people in 16th-century Italy. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor (who also produced) as Kate and Richard Burton as Petruchio, who were both nominated for BAFTA Awards for their acting. It features Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Michael York, and Victor Spinetti in supporting roles. ''The Taming of the Shrew'' premiered with a Royal Film Performance on 27 February 1967. At the 40th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction - Set Decoration. Burton was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Comedy or Musical, and the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. Burton and Taylor also received BAFTA nominations. This was one of three Shakespearen film adaptations directed by Zeffirelli, followed by ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1968, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brides Of Fu Manchu
''The Brides of Fu Manchu'' is a 1966 British/West German Constantin Film co-production adventure crime film based on the fictional Chinese villain Dr. Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the second film in a series, and was preceded by ''The Face of Fu Manchu''. ''The Vengeance of Fu Manchu'' followed in 1967, '' The Blood of Fu Manchu'' in 1968, and ''The Castle of Fu Manchu'' in 1969. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Hallam Productions. Like the first film, it was directed by Don Sharp, and starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu. Nigel Green was replaced by Douglas Wilmer as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith. The action takes place mainly in London, where much of the location filming took place. Plot In 1924, Dr. Fu Manchu, his army of dacoits and his vicious daughter Lin Tang are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his hidden base in the Atlas Mountains, where he demands that their fathers help him to build a device th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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