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Mousey
''Mousey'' (released as ''Cat and Mouse'' in theaters and on UK television) is a 1974 Canadian thriller action drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg and John Vernon. Although made for television, it was released theatrically outside of the U.S. In London, it was shown as part of a double feature with '' Craze''. Plot In Halifax, Novia Scotia, biology teacher George Anderson (Douglas) earns the nickname "Mousey" from his students when he is unable to dissect a frog. However, when he learns that the child that his pregnant wife (Seberg) is expecting is not his, he follows her to Montreal, where he plans to kill her and her lover. Cast Production ''Mousey'' was filmed on location in Montreal, Canada and at Pinewood Studios in England. Filming commenced in November 1973. Reception The film received mixed reviews. Steven H. Scheuer was negative, saying that, "It's complicated and not very interesting;" and the ''Los Angeles Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Negin
Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011. Career Born in London, England, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Negin had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series ''First Performance'', and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthrie's 1957 film of the Stratford Festival production of ''Oedipus Rex''. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of '' Tamburlaine'', which had a run on Broadway in 1956,Louis Negin at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. and later appeared in London productions of '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' and his own play '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Seberg
Jean Dorothy Seberg (; ; November 13, 1938August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half of her life in France. Her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film ''Breathless'' immortalized her as an icon of French New Wave cinema. Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including '' Saint Joan'', '' Bonjour Tristesse'', ''Lilith'', ''The Mouse That Roared'', '' Breathless'', '' Moment to Moment'', ''A Fine Madness'', '' Paint Your Wagon'', ''Airport'', '' Macho Callahan'', and ''Gang War in Naples''. Seberg was among the best-known targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party, a smear directly ordered by J. Edgar Hoover. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death at which he blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her death. Gary mentioned the FBI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Wanamaker
Samuel Wanamaker, (born Wattenmacker; June 14, 1919 – December 18, 1993) was an American actor and director who moved to the United Kingdom after becoming fearful of being blacklisted in Hollywood due to his communist views. He is credited as the person most responsible for saving The Rose Theatre, which led to the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, where he is commemorated in the name of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the site's second theatre. Early life Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of tailor Maurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) and Molly (''née'' Bobele). His parents were Ukrainian Jews from Mykolaiv. He was the younger of two brothers, the elder being William, long-term cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He trained at the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) and at Drake University and began working with summer stock theatre companies in Chicago and northern Wisconsin, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Henderson (actor)
Robert Henderson (December 19, 1904 Ann Arbor, Michigan - September 9, 1985 London, England) was an American actor. He was known for ''Superman'' (1978), ''Superman III'' (1983), and '' Phase IV'' (1974). He played an important role in the early career of Sean Connery Sir Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Origina .... According to the Guardian's obituary of Connery: while he was touring as a chorus member in South Pacific "An American actor in the cast, Robert Henderson, gave him onnerya reading program that included all the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen, along with the novels of Thomas Wolfe, Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” and Joyce's “Ulysses.” Filmography References 1904 births 1985 deaths 20th-century American male acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Porter
Beth Jane Porter (born May 23, 1942) is an American stage, film and television actress and writer, who has worked in Britain for most of her career. She became a British citizen in 2014. Early life Beth Porter made her first professional appearance at age 12 in a Westchester County touring company. She studied acting on scholarship at the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival and with Helen Menken at the American Theatre Wing before completing dramatic studies at Bard College, New York University, and Hunter College at The City University of New York UNY Career After appearing in the American premiere of Jules Romain's Donogoo in 1961 at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Isaac Babel's Sunset at the Chelsea Theater Center in 1966, and later that year as the star of David Starkweather's Ascent at The Playwrights Workshop, Porter was chosen as a member of original Obie Award-winning New York LaMaMa Troupe under director Tom O'Horgan ('' Hair''), where she starred in the play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Petrie
Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian film director, film, television director, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human drama film, dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter. He was one of several Canadian-born expatriate filmmakers, including Norman Jewison and Sidney J. Furie, to find critical and commercial success overseas in the 1960s due to the limited opportunities in the Canadian film industry at the time. He was the patriarch of the Petrie filmmaking family, with four of his children all working in the film industry. Beginning his career in television, he made his critical and popular breakthrough directing the A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film), 1961 film version of the Lorraine Hansberry play ''A Raisin in the Sun'', which won the Gary Cooper Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He directed over 90 films and television programs until his retirement i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Grainer
Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for ''Doctor Who'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Steptoe and Son'' and '' Tales of the Unexpected''. Biography Early life Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster. For the first eight years of Ron's life the Grainer family lived in Mt Mulligan, a small town built around the extraction of coal from three seams which lay beneath a 400-metre-high sandstone monolith, located 100 km west of Cairns. Apart from the industrial noise and dust, the family sometimes had to contend with the after effects of a high consumption of alcohol by the shift miners. On one such occasion a stray bullet flew through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Vertue
Beryl Frances Vertue (''née'' Johnson; 8 April 1931 – 12 February 2022) was an English television producer, media executive, and agent. She was founder and chairman of the independent television production company Hartswood Films. Early life and career Vertue was born in Croydon, Surrey on 8 April 1931. She attended Mitcham county school, and left at 15 to take a typing course. She began her working life as a secretary in a shipping firm, and remained here for six years until she contracted tuberculosis. She was sent to a sanatorium on the Isle of Wight. Shortly after her recovery, a school friend, Alan Simpson, invited her to join Associated London Scripts (ALS) as a secretary and she began working with the writers' cooperative in 1955. She wasn't keen to start work here, as she dreaded the hour-long commute. She asked for what she thought would be a prohibitive sub of ten pounds a week, and to her horror they agreed. She started by typing up Spike Milligan's scripts f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Corbett
John Joseph Corbett Jr. (born May 9, 1961) is an American actor and country music singer. On television, he is best known for his roles as Chris Stevens on '' Northern Exposure'' (1990–1995), Aidan Shaw on ''Sex and the City'' (2000–2003), Max Gregson on ''United States of Tara'' (2009–2011), and Seth Holt on '' Parenthood'' (2011–2015). In film, he is known for roles in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' (2002), ''Raising Helen'' (2004), '' The Messengers'' (2007), ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010), '' Ramona & Beezus'' (2010), ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2'' (2016), the '' To All the Boys'' film trilogy (2018–2021), and others. In addition to acting, Corbett has pursued a career in country music, releasing the studio albums ''John Corbett'' (2006) and ''Leaving Nothin' Behind'' (2013) with the former reaching number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Country Albums chart. Early life Corbett was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S. He grew up in an apartment block near the Ohio Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Fellows
Don Fellows (December 2, 1922 – October 21, 2007) was an American actor known for his roles in British theater and television. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Fellows served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Actors Studio. He moved to London in 1973 to further his stage career. Fellows' TV appearances included '' Space: 1999'', ''Z Cars'', '' Lillie'', ''The Sandbaggers'', ''The Citadel'', ''The Beiderbecke Tapes'', ''The Bill'' and ''Inspector Morse''. His film appearances included '' Spy Story'' (1976), ''The Omen'' (1976), ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'' (1977), '' Valentino'' (1977), ''Licensed to Love and Kill'' (1979), ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981), '' Eye of the Needle'' (1981), ''Who Dares Wins'' (1982), '' Electric Dreams'' (1984), '' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'' (1987) and ''Velvet Goldmine'' (1998). He featured alongside fellow Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craze (film)
''Craze'' is a 1974 horror film directed by Freddie Francis. It stars Jack Palance as a psychotic antiques dealer who sacrifices women to the statue of Chuku, an African idol. It was the last film produced by Herman Cohen. Cast * Jack Palance as Neal Mottram * Diana Dors as Dolly Newman * Julie Ege as Helena * Edith Evans as Aunt Louise * Hugh Griffith as Solicitor * Trevor Howard as Bellamy * Suzy Kendall as Sally * Michael Jayston as Wall * Martin Potter as Ronnie * Percy Herbert as Detective Russet * David Warbeck as Detective Wilson * Kathleen Byron as Muriel Sharp Production The film was based on a 1967 novel ''The Infernal Idol''. In 1972 it was reported Herman Cohen had the rights and a script was being written. In March 1972 it was announced Jack Palance would star in a film version, which would be a co production between Herman Cohen and Joe Solomon. Freddie Francis had made a number of horror movies for Amicus and other producers, including Herman Cohen for whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Sherman (actor)
Robert "Bob" Sherman (November 16, 1940 in Redwood City, California – August 30, 2004 in London) was an American-born dramaturge, playwright and film and television actor, best remembered for his role as CIA agent Jeff Ross in the British television series ''The Sandbaggers''. Select films *''Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things'' (1972) - Ghoul *'' The Cherry Picker'' (1974) - James Burn III *''The Great Gatsby'' (1974) - Detective at Pool *''Feelings'' (1975) - Michael *'' The Ritz'' (1976) - Patron (scenes deleted) *''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' (1976) - C.I.A. Agent *'' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977) - Executive Officer (USS Wayne Crewman) *''First Monday in October'' (1981) - Senator #2 *''Ragtime'' (1981) - Policeman No. 10 *''Who Dares Wins'' (1982) - Hagen *''Krypskyttere'' (1982) - Streufert, major *'' Sheena'' (1984) - Grizzard *''Haunters of the Deep'' (1984) - Mr. Roche *'' Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986) - Agent *'' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
