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Meier Tzelniker
Meier Tzelniker (1 January 1894 – 8 October 1980) was a Yiddish-speaking actor born in Hotin County, Romania. He appeared mainly in Yiddish theatre, but was sometimes a character actor in English-language plays and films, such as ''It Always Rains On Sunday'' (1947) and ''Expresso Bongo'' (1959). Biography Meier Tzelniker was born in Hotin-Bessarabia, Romania, the son of a yeast manufacturer. Meier was a boy chorister in a synagogue when he got his first stage role in Yiddish theatre, and toured eastern Europe with a Yiddish theatre company. Selected filmography * ''Mr. Emmanuel'' (1944) - Mr. Silver * ''It Always Rains on Sunday'' (1947) - Solly, his father * '' Last Holiday'' (1950) - Baltin * '' Venetian Bird'' (1952) - Mayor of Mirave * '' The Teckman Mystery'' (1954) - John Rice * ''Make Me an Offer'' (1954) - Wendl * ''The Woman for Joe'' (1955) - Sol Goldstein * ''The Extra Day'' (1956) - Lou Skeat * ''Stars in Your Eyes'' (1956) - Maxie Jago * '' The Long Haul'' (1957) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Street
''Jungle Street'' is a 1961 black and white British crime drama directed by Charles Saunders and starring David McCallum, Kenneth Cope, and Jill Ireland, about a young man who attempts to escape his working-class background and win the girl he loves through crime. The film was the first of three films produced by the Theatrecraft production company in the early 1960s. It was later released in the United States under the title ''Jungle Street Girls''. Plot The credits roll as a number 12 double decker bus headed for Harlesden drives through London. It stops in Shepherd's Bush. An elderly man gets off and is mugged by a young man in an alley. We then go to the Adam and Eve Club, where girls perform erotic dances on stage. In the club lobby car mechanic (and petty criminal) Terry Collins (David McCallum) speaks with Joe Lucas ( Brian Weske) at the outer bar and asks to see the owner - gangster Jacko Fielding (John Chandos). Jacko is with his main girl, Sue. Julie, the hatchec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
