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Lisa Daniely
Lisa Daniely (born Mary Elizabeth Bodington; 4 June 1929 – 24 January 2014) was a British film and television actress. Life and career Born in Reading, Berkshire, to an English solicitor father and a French mother, she was educated in Paris and studied at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. She made her film debut at the age of 21, in the title role of ''Lilli Marlene'' (1950), whilst in '' Hindle Wakes'' (1952) she played the part of mill worker Jenny Hawthorn. In '' Tiger by the Tail'' (1955) she played opposite Larry Parks, and later appeared in the horror film ''Curse of Simba'' (1965), but appeared more regularly on television. In the ITC series ''The Invisible Man (1958 TV series), loosely based on H. G. Wells' novel, she played Diane Brady. Her other appearances in various TV programmes include ''The Saint'', ''Danger Man'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Strange Report'', ''The Protectors'', ''The First Churchills'' (as Queen Mary II), ''Van Der Valk'' and ''The Adventures of Sherlock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading, Berkshire
Reading ( ) is a town and borough in Berkshire, Southeast England, southeast England. Located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the rivers River Thames, Thames and River Kennet, Kennet, the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway serve the town. Reading is east of Swindon, south of Oxford, west of London and north of Basingstoke. Reading is a major commercial centre, especially for information technology and insurance. It is also a regional retail centre, serving a large area of the Thames Valley with its shopping centre, the The Oracle, Reading, Oracle. It is home to the University of Reading. Every year it hosts the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Reading Festival, one of England's biggest music festivals. Reading has a professional association football team, Reading F.C., and participates in many other sports. Reading dates from the 8th century. It was an important trading and ecclesiastical centre in the Middle Ages, the site of Reading Abbey, one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Course
''The Middle Course'' is a low budget 1961 British war film. Plot During World War II, a Canadian pilot crash lands in a small French village occupied by German forces. The villagers find a useful ally in the young flyer, but the Germans become anxious to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. Cast *Vincent Ball - Cliff *Lisa Daniely - Anna *Peter Illing - Gromik *Roland Bartrop - Paul *Marne Maitland - Renard *Robert Rietti - Jacques *André Maranne - Franz *André Mikhelson - Commandant *Jan Conrad - Herman *John Serret - Leverne * William Abney - Jaghorst *Yvonne André - Martine *Julian Sherrier - Villager *Donald Tandy - Sgt. Wilhelm *Jacques Cey - Pierre Critical reception ''TV Guide'' called the film "a predictable type of war drama that went out of fashion in the US ten years before this was made, but probably will always be resurrected in a nation that suffered so much at the time." References External links *''The Middle Course''at TCMDB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Yard (film Series)
''Scotland Yard'' is a series of 39 half-hour episodes produced by Anglo-Amalgamated. Produced between 1953 and 1961, they are short films, originally made to support the main feature in a cinema double-bill. Each film focuses on a true crime case with names changed, and feature an introduction by the crime writer Edgar Lustgarten. The earlier films were produced by Alec C. Snowden, who was succeeded by Jack Greenwood. Directors included Ken Hughes and Montgomery Tully. The principal character in each film is a Detective Inspector, played by a variety of actors but most frequently by Russell Napier (usually portraying DI Duggan). Many of the films feature, in supporting roles, actors later to become well-known. They include Jill Bennett, Peter Arne, Harry H. Corbett, James Villiers, Arthur Lowe, Peter Halliday, Wilfrid Brambell, Rita Webb, Peter Bowles and Roger Delgado. All of the episodes were shot at Merton Park Studios in London and on location on monochrome 35mm film. Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Tomorrow
''Danger Tomorrow'' is a 1960 British noir crime film directed by Terry Bishop and starring Zena Walker, Robert Urquhart and Rupert Davies. Plot A doctor and his wife move into an old house in an English village where he is to start a new job, but over the next few days his wife (who has second sight) begins to experience strange visions, in which she foresees a murder, and starts feeling frightened that her life is in danger. Cast * Zena Walker - Ginny Murray * Robert Urquhart - Bob Murray * Rupert Davies - Dr. Robert Campbell * Annabel Maule - Helen * Russell Waters - Steve * Lisa Daniely - Marie * Maggie Flint - Florist * Charles Houston - Messenger * Dennis Warden - Johnson * Robert Dougall - News reader * Neil Hallett - Police Inspector * Kenneth J. Warren Kenneth John Warren (25 September 1929 – 27 August 1973) was an Australian actor. Bald and heavily built, Warren went to North Sydney Boys High School. He started acting in 1949. He emigrated to the UK in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vicious Circle (1957 Film)
''The Vicious Circle'' is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring John Mills, Noelle Middleton, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Lionel Jeffries. The screenplay concerns a leading Harley Street specialist who is forced to work with the police to nail a gang of international criminals, after being falsely accused of murder. It was based on ''My Friend Charles'' (1956), a TV serial written by Francis Durbridge. Plot Doctor Howard Latimer answers what he believes to be a request for a favour from an American friend by picking up a famous German actress from London Airport. He goes in the company of a journalist Geoffrey Windsor who tags along after failing to gain an interview with Latimer about recent medical research. As Latimer is already late for a date with his fiancée at the Royal Festival Hall, he lets Windsor take the actress to Claridges Hotel. When her body is later discovered in Latimer's flat, with absolutely no trace of Windsor, he is faced with qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In The Road
''The Man in the Road'' is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit and Cyril Cusack. The film was shot at Beaconsfield Studios. It was based on a popular contemporary novel ''He Was Found in the Road'' by Anthony Armstrong. Plot A brilliant scientist suffering from amnesia is hunted by Communist agents in search of a secret formula. Cast * Derek Farr as Ivan Mason/Doctor James Paxton * Ella Raines as Rhona Ellison * Donald Wolfit as Professor Cattrell * Lisa Daniely as Nurse Mitzi * Bruce Beeby as Doctor Manning * Russell Napier as Superintendent Davidson of Scotland Yard * Cyril Cusack as Doctor Kelly * Frederick Piper as Inspector Hayman * Karel Stepanek as Dmitri Balinkev * Olive Sloane as Mrs Lemming, the landlady * Alfred Maron as Ambulance driver * John Welsh as Employer * Robert Bruce as Scotland Yard Detective Critical reception * ''Britmovie'' called the film a "fast-paced, implausible, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Diplomat (film)
''Operation Diplomat'' is a 1953 British drama film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Ernest G. Roy. It was one of Guillermin's earliest movies. A profile on the director called it "perhaps the first example of prime Guillermin... a 70-minute programmer so tautly directed that every image counts, every detail matters, every actor's movement feels perfectly timed – a true gem." Plot summary A surgeon operating on an unknown patient discovers he is involved in the kidnapping of a British diplomat. When his personal secretary is murdered for revealing the patient's identity, the police are called in. Cast Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' called it an "energetic yet improbable figure with too many points left unexplained." ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Marlene (film)
''Lilli Marlene'' is a 1950 British war film aimed for the US market and directed by Arthur Crabtree. It stars Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, and Richard Murdoch. Stanley Baker is seen in one of his early support roles. Plot A French girl named Lilli Marlene, working in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song ''Lili Marleen'' had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. The Germans try to snatch her at one point, but don't succeed, and she performs several times for the British troops and also appears in radio broadcasts to the USA, arranged by Steve, an American war correspondent embedded with the British Eighth Army, who eventually becomes her boyfriend. Later, the Germans successfully kidnap her in Cairo and she is taken to Berlin, where she is interrogated and repeatedly told that she had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of List of sovereign states headed by Elizabeth II, 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longest of any British monarch and the List of longest-reigning monarchs, longest verified reign of any female monarch in history. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon Abdication of Edward VIII, the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
''Sherlock Holmes'' is the overall title given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by the British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994. The first two series were shown under the title ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' and were followed by subsequent series with the titles of other short story collections by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Of the 60 Holmes stories written by Doyle, 43 were adapted in the series, spanning 36 one-hour episodes and five feature-length specials. (Episode 40 incorporates the plot lines of both "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" and "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs". Episode 35 "The Eligible Bachelor" has material from both "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" and "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger".) The series was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK and starred Jeremy Brett as Holmes. Watson was played by David Burke in the first series (''Adventures'') and by Edward Hardwicke from the second series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Der Valk (TV Series)
''Van der Valk'' is a British television crime drama series produced for the ITV network. The first series ran from 1972 to 1992; followed by a remake in 2020. Created by Nicolas Freeling and based on his novels about a detective in Amsterdam, Barry Foster played the titular character, Simon "Piet" van der Valk, in the original series. The updated version was created and written by Chris Murray, with Marc Warren reviving the van der Valk role. The first three series were produced between 1972 and 1977, with two more being commissioned in 1991 and 1992. The 2020 remake was again produced for ITV. The new series debuted in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2020, and the second series began airing in the UK on 7 August 2022. The third series has completed filming and is due for release in 2023. Cast and characters 1972–1992 * Barry Foster as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk * Michael Latimer as Inspecteur Johnny Kroon (Series 1–2) * Susan Travers as Arlette van der Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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