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Morning Story
''Morning Story'' is a British film made by BBC Television in 1969 and first broadcast in January 1970, directed by Gareth Davies and starring Lee Montague. Outline A door-to-door salesman finds a young girl playing in the street, which leads him into unexpected adventures.'' Radio Times'', Volume 186, issue dated 4 January 1970, p. 25 Cast *Lee Montague as Danny Robbins *Hilary Mason as Mrs. McIsaac * Stephanie Turner as Mrs. Woolford * Bella Emberg as Mrs. Shaw * Alex Marshall as Mrs. Allan * Gilly Flower as Mrs. Johnson * Heather Canning as Mrs. Valentine *Ann Mitchell Ann Mitchell (born 22 April 1939) is a British stage and television actress. She came to prominence in the 1980s when she starred as Dolly Rawlins in the crime series '' Widows'' as well as the sequels '' Widows 2'' and ''She's Out'', all writt ... as Mrs. Harris *Jo Richardson as Mrs. Lloyd *Sue Walker as Mrs. Vernon *Pamela Miles Mrs. Blackett *Edna Landor as Mrs. Davis *Jill Brooke as Mrs. Robertson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 1932, although the start of its regular service of television broadcasts is dated to 2 November 1936. The BBC's domestic television channels have no commercial advertising and collectively they accounted for more than 30% of all UK viewing in 2013. The services are funded by a television licence. As a result of the 2016 Licence Fee settlement, the BBC Television division was split, with in-house television production being separated into a new division called BBC Studios and the remaining parts of television (channels and genre commissioning, BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer) being renamed as BBC Content. History of BBC Television The BBC operates several television networks, television stations (although there is generally very little distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Davies (director)
Gareth Davies is a British television director and actor. Davies began his career as an actor with stage roles at the Royal Court Theatre in London and a recurring role in the early BBC soap opera ''Compact''. It is though as a television director where Davies made his greatest impact. He directed several of television dramatist Dennis Potter's earliest plays, such as '' The Nigel Barton Plays'' (1965), ''Moonlight on the Highway'', and '' Son of Man'' (both 1969). Davies's other work included serial adaptations of literary classics, such as Balzac's ''Cousin Bette'' (1971), ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'' (also 1971), which won several Emmys after it was screened in the United States, and ''Oliver Twist ''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...'' (1985).Jerry Roberts ''Encyclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Montague
Lee Montague (born Leonard Goldberg; 16 October 1927) is an English actor noted for his roles in film and television, usually playing tough guys. Montague was a student of the Old Vic School. Montague's film credits include ''The Camp on Blood Island'', '' Billy Budd'', '' The Secret of Blood Island'', ''Deadlier Than the Male'', ''Brother Sun, Sister Moon'', '' Jesus of Nazareth'', ''Mahler'' and '' The Legacy''. His theatre credits include: ''Who Saw Him Die'' by Tudor Gates staged in 1974 at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket in which he played the part of John Rawlings, the nemesis of former police Superintendent Pratt played by Stratford Johns. On Broadway, he portrayed Gregory Hawke in ''The Climate of Eden'' (1952), and Ed in '' Entertaining Mr. Sloane'' (1965). Montague's television credits include: '' Somerset Maugham TV Theatre'', ''Espionage'', '' The Four Just Men'', ''Danger Man'', '' The Baron'', ''The Troubleshooters'', '' Department S'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ... programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company (from 1 January 1927, the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation), it was the world's first broadcast listings magazine. It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 16 August 2011, when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the Germany, German media group Hubert Burda Media, Hubert Burda. The magazine is published on Tuesdays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Mason
Hilary Lavender Mason (4 September 1917 – 5 September 2006) was an English character actress who appeared in a wide variety of roles, mainly on UK television. Mason was born in Birmingham and trained at the London School of Dramatic Art, before performing with repertory theatres throughout Britain. She is probably best known internationally for her performance as the blind psychic in Nicolas Roeg's film ''Don't Look Now''. Mason had the starring role in ''Mistress of Hardwick'', a 10-part BBC series broadcast in 1972, which followed the life of Bess of Hardwick. Most of the episodes are now lost. She appeared in "Gunfight at the O.K. Laundrette", the pilot episode of ITV's critically acclaimed drama ''Minder (TV series), Minder''. She also made regular appearances in ''Z-Cars'' and ''Dixon of Dock Green'', and made an appearance in ''Ripping Yarns''. In the 1985 TV movie ''Marple: The Moving Finger'', she appeared as Emily Barton, and in 1986 she appeared as Mrs Gummid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Turner (British Actress)
Stephanie Turner (born 25 May 1944) is an English actress. She is best known for the lead role of Inspector Jean Darblay in the first three series of the 1980s television BBC police drama ''Juliet Bravo'' (1980–82). Turner was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. An early screen appearance was in ''Morning Story'' (1970), and she also played Dennis Waterman's screen wife, Alison Carter. In 1974 she appeared in an episode of '' Special Branch'' - also guest starring Dennis Waterman's on-screen sister. Turner also appeared in an early episode of '' The Sweeney'' (1975), and WPC Howarth in ''Z-Cars'' (1972–75), which stood her in good stead for her role as Inspector Darblay. She appeared in a 1975 episode of '' Public Eye'' as Julia Sissons, a 'missing' common-law wife-turned-barmaid. She also made an appearance in ''Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads'' and played a recurring role as Jessie Naylor, ''née'' Maugham, in Series 2 of ''Sam'' (1974). In the 1990s, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Emberg
Bella Emberg (born Sybil Dyke; 16 September 1937 – 12 January 2018) was an English comedy actress whose television career spanned 60 years. Early life and career Emberg was born in Brighton and grew up wanting to be an entertainer. Her professional debut was in weekly repertory in Ryde, Isle of Wight in the summer season of 1962, aged 25. She appeared in TV series such as '' The Benny Hill Show'', Robin's Nest, '' Softly, Softly'', '' Z Cars'', ''Bear Behaving Badly'' and ''Grange Hill''. Her best-known role was in '' The Russ Abbot Show'', where she played superheroine Blunderwoman alongside Abbot's Cooperman character. The show ran from 1980 to 1996, and at its peak attracted 18 million viewers. Emberg also starred in Mel Brooks' film '' History of the World, Part I'' (1981). She made a guest appearance in the first episode of the revived version of '' The Basil Brush Show'' in 2002, and also featured in ''Doctor Who'' four times. From 2008 to 2010 she appeared as Barney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Marshall (actor And Director)
Alex Marshall (born 1945) is an English actress and director, who was most active from the 1960s to the 1980s. She has acted and directed mostly on television, but has worked on stage in both careers. Work Beginning her career as an actress, Marshall had many roles in theatre and television productions. In 1966 she appeared on stage as Audrey Johnson in ''Countercrime'', a play directed by Hugh Goldie, a production later recorded for television. From 1969 to 1974 she was a storyteller for BBC Television’s '' Jackanory''.'' Radio Times'', Volume 202 (Newnes, 1974), pp. 36, 40 In 1970, she appeared on stage again, in ''Keep Out, Love in Progress'' by Walter Hall, taking the lead, opposite Robert Gillespie. In the BBC serial of ''Jude the Obscure'' (1971), Marshall took the leading role of Arabella Donn, a pig-keeper’s daughter who seduces and marries Jude. Reviewing the production in ''Life'', John Leonard found that “Alex Marshall as Arabella steals the series”. Marshal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilly Flower
Gilly Flower (26 August 1908 – 17 February 2001) was an English actress and model, best remembered as the elderly Miss Abitha Tibbs in the BBC sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''. Flower played Miss Tibbs in all twelve episodes of the show, which was produced in two six-episode series separated by a three-and-a-half-year interval. A native of London, Flower had her first film role in 1932 and, with the advent of television in Britain, she found a new outlet for her talents, continuing to appear in such programmes as ''Z-Cars'', ''Steptoe and Son'' and ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' is a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. It is based on a series of novels written by David Nobbs and produced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the first series ...''. Early in her career, Flower was also a model and seven portrait photographs taken by Bassano, in which she is modelling hats from Kembray, may to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Canning
Heather Joan Canning (5 January 1933 – 30 May 1996) was an English actress, who is best known for her television roles. She played Isabel Rockmetteller in " The Full House", the second episode of the third series of the 1990s British comedy television series ''Jeeves and Wooster''. Career Canning's stage work included appearances with the RSC, in the West End, and on Broadway. Her television roles included the soap opera '' Crossroads'' (1964), playing Shirley Coniston, and in ''Morning Story'' (1970). She was also known for '' Miss Julie'' (1972), ''Tis Pity She's a Whore'' (1980) and ''A Village Affair'' (1995). Personal life Canning was born in Epsom, Surrey. She was married to the Australian actor Leon Lissek Leon Lissek (19 January 1939 – 13 January 2022) was an Australian-born British actor. He appeared in over 80 films in his career, which started with ''Marat/Sade''. Lissek was well known for his television roles in ''The Sullivans'' and ''Eas .... She d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Mitchell
Ann Mitchell (born 22 April 1939) is a British stage and television actress. She came to prominence in the 1980s when she starred as Dolly Rawlins in the crime series '' Widows'' as well as the sequels '' Widows 2'' and ''She's Out'', all written by Lynda La Plante. In 2011, she was cast as Cora Cross in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', the mother of Tanya Branning and Rainie Cross. Mitchell has appeared in many roles in film, theatre and television and has played a significant number of major roles such as Mrs. Warren in ''Mrs. Warren's Profession'' and her Laurence Olivier Award nominated performance in ''Through the Leaves''. Personal life Mitchell attended Raine's Foundation School and went on to train at East 15 Acting School, having received the first ever scholarship to the school. She has since worked in theatre, television, film and radio, starting with "Diary of a Young Man", a series written for her by John McGrath and Troy Kennedy Martin, directed by Ken Loach. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
