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Nancy Nevinson
Nancy Nevinson (26 July 1918 – 25 January 2012) was a British actress. She was born Nancy Ezekiel, one of four children of Reemah (née Kadoorie) and David Ezekiel, members of the Baghdadi-Jewish community of Calcutta, India, during the Raj. The family moved to London in the 1930s, where Nancy trained at RADA and took the stage name Nancy Nevinson, which she retained after her subsequent marriage to Commander William Hoyes-Cock. Early life Nevinson was born in Chittagong, East Bengal, British India. Career Nevison worked on stage, in film and on television. She also dubbed voices for both young and old. She appeared in the films ''Foxhole in Cairo'' (1960), '' Light in the Piazza'' (1962), '' Mrs. Gibbons' Boys'' (1962), ''Ring of Spies'' (1964), '' The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' (1965), ''For the Love of Ada'' (1972), ''Symptoms'' (1974), ''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977), ''S.O.S. Titanic'' (1979), ''Le Pétomane'' (1979), ''Raise the Titanic'' (1980), ''Young Sherlock Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in Bengal region. It is the administrative seat of the eponymous division and district. It hosts the busiest seaport on the Bay of Bengal. The city is located on the banks of the Karnaphuli River between the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Bay of Bengal. The Greater Chittagong Area had a population of more than 5.2 million in 2022. In 2020, the city area had a population of more than 3.9 million. One of the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittagong appeared on ancient Greek and Roman maps, including on Ptolemy's world map. It was located on the southern branch of the Silk Road. In the 9th century, merchants from the Abbasid Caliphate established a trading post in Chittagong. The port fell to the Muslim co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Othello (1956 Film)
''Othello'' (russian: Отелло) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich, based on the play ''Othello'' by William Shakespeare. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, where Yutkevich received the Best Director Award. Cast * Sergei Bondarchuk (in makeup) as Othello * Andrei Popov as Iago * Irina Skobtseva as Desdemona * Vladimir Soshalsky as Cassio * Yevgeny Vesnik Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; 15 January 1923 in Petrograd – 10 April 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal pl ... as Roderigo * Antonina Maksimova as Emilia * Yevgeny Teterin as Brabantio * Mikhail Troyanovsky as Duke of Venice * Aleksei Kelberer as Montano * Nikolai Briling as Lodovico * Leila Ashrafova as Bianca References Further reading * . External links * 1955 films 1955 drama films Soviet drama films 1950s Russian-language films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulliver's Travels (1977 Film)
''Gulliver's Travels'' is a 1977 British-Belgian film based on the 1726 novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. Plot The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. The film ends with a cliffhanger: Having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel. Cast * Richard Harris as Gulliver * Catherine Schell as Mary * Norman Shelley as Father * Meredith Edwards as Uncle Voice cast * Michael Bates * Denise Bryer * Julian Glover * Stephen Jack * Bessie Love * Murray Melvin * Nancy Nevinson * David Prowse (uncredited) * Robert Rietti * Norman S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Miss Fred
''Our Miss Fred'' is a 1972 British comedy film starring Danny La Rue, set during World War II. The film was also known by its video release titles ''Beyond the Call of Duty'' (Canada) and ''Operation: Fred'' (US). In the 1960s, La Rue was one of the highest paid entertainers in Britain, but this represents his only starring role in a feature film. Plot English Shakespearean actor Fred Wimbush is called up to serve in the British army during World War II. His skills result in his being asked to entertain the troops in France- and is asked to perform in drag. However, the Germans capture his position. Unless he continues his disguise in women's clothes, Fred fears he will be shot as a spy. He has to fend off both French locals and German troops. The double entendres and bullets fly as he attempts his escape in the company of the pupils from an English girls' finishing school. On a country lane he encounters Miss Flodden and Miss Lockhart who run a nearby finishing school. They ask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is A Splendid Illusion
''Love is a Splendid Illusion'' is a 1970 British sex comedy concerning a businessman (Simon Brent) whose cheating ways come to a head in Italy when the secret lover of his equally cheating wife (Lisa Collings) turns out to be a potential business partner. It was also known as ''Bed and Don't Tell''.Simon Sheridan, ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'', Titan Books 2011 p 67-68 Cast *Simon Brent - Christian Dubarry *Andrée Flamand - Michelle Howard *Lisa Collings - Amanda Dubarry * Peter Hughes - Maurice Howard * Mark Kingston - Bernard Collins *Fiona Curzon - Liz *Maxine Casson - Debbie *Anna Matisse - Sophie *Carl Ferber - Jason *Nancy Nevinson - Amanda's Mother *Gay Soper - Blonde Girl in Red References External links''Love is a Splendid Illusion''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scales Of Justice
''The Scales of Justice'' was a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced between 1962 and 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine episodes were made in black and white, the last four in colour. The final episode, ''Payment in Kind'', was Merton Park's last production. They were based on actual criminal cases and each film was introduced by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, which is situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. In the opening narration she is described as having '...in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice'. The first six episodes' opening scenes were narrated by Michael Hordern. The end version of the theme music for the series (by Johnny Douglas) was performed by The Tornados. It was re-recorded and released as the 'B' side of their single " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smuggler's Bay
''Smuggler's Bay'' is a British period television drama series which aired on BBC One in 6 episodes in 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1898 adventure novel '' Moonfleet'' by J. Meade Falkner.''Radio Times, Volume 171''. No recordings of this production are known to exist. According to star Frazer Hines, the title was changed due to a perceived conflict with contemporaneous BBC series Moonstrike made by the same department. Main cast * Frazer Hines as John Trenchard * John Phillips as Elzevir Block * Suzanne Neve as Grace Maskew * Robert Brown as Sam Tewkesbury * Patrick Troughton as Ratsey * Robert James as Mr. Glennie * Alan Haywood as Tom Farley * Brian Jackson as Ben Field * Paul Curran as Magistrate Maskew * Nancy Nevinson as Mrs. Belmore * Margot Lister as Granny Tucker * Henry Oscar as Aldobrand * John Dawson as Johannes * Jean Anderson as Aunt Jane * Elizabeth Zinn as Rose Aldobrand * James Langley Lieutenant-Colonel James Maydon Langley (12 March 1916 – 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricochet (1963 Film)
''Ricochet'' is a 1963 British crime film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Maxine Audley, Richard Leech and Alex Scott (actor), Alex Scott. Part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is based on the 1922 novel ''The Angel of Terror''. Cast * Maxine Audley as Yvonne Phipps * Richard Leech as Alan Phipps * Alex Scott (actor), Alex Scott as John Brodie * Dudley Foster as Peter Dexter * Patrick Magee (actor), Patrick Magee as Insp. Cummings * Frederick Piper as Siddall * June Murphy as Judy * Virginia Wetherell as Brenda * Alec Bregonzi as Max * Keith Smith (actor), Keith Smith as Porter * Peter Torquill as Sgt. Walters * Nancy Nevinson as Elsie Siddall * William Dysart as First Skater * Barbara Roscoe as Pretty Girl Skater * Anne Godley as Wardress * Maris Tant as Girl Skater * Marian Horton as Waitress References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Das Geheimnis Der Gelben Narzissen
''The Devil's Daffodil'' (also known as ''Daffodil Killer'' or german: Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen/ ''Secret of the Yellow Daffodils'') is a 1961 British-West German black-and-white crime film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi. The film was produced in an English and a German version, starring different actors in the lead roles but otherwise featuring an almost identical cast and crew. It starred William Lucas in the English version and Joachim Fuchsberger in the German one. Cast Production The film is based on the novel ''The Daffodil Mystery'' by Edgar Wallace. It was adapted for film by Egon Eis. The screenplay was written by Basil Dawson and Donald Taylor. The German dialogue was written by Horst Wendlandt and . Wendlandt was also co-producer along with Preben Philipsen (both of Rialto Film). Cinematography took place in April and May 1961 in London and environments. The studio was Shepperton Studios/Middlesex. Reception In Germany, the FSK gave the film a rating of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Very Important Person (film)
''Very Important Person'' (retitled ''A Coming Out Party'' in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth. The cast includes several well-known British comedy and character actors, including James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, Eric Sykes, John Le Mesurier, Leslie Phillips and Richard Wattis. The film had its world premiere on 20 April 1961 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End and went on general release in late May on Rank's second string National circuit. It was released in the U.S. as ''Coming-Out Party''. Plot Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice), a brilliant but acerbic scientist, is the subject of a television programme based on '' This Is Your Life'' during which he is re-united with past acquaintances. He does not remember the senior British Army officer at all! A flashback ensues. In 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Train For Inverness
''Night Train for Inverness'' is a black and white 1960 British drama film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton and Dennis Waterman. It is notable as the film debut of Dennis Waterman. The film was referenced in an episode of the Minder Podcast. Plot Roy Lewis, just released from gaol, kidnaps his young son Ted and takes him on a train bound for Inverness. However, Lewis doesn't know that Ted is diabetic and faces death without regular insulin injections. Meanwhile, a police manhunt is launched. Partial cast * Norman Wooland - Roy Lewis * Jane Hylton - Marion Crane * Dennis Waterman - Ted Lewis * Silvia Francis - Ann Lewis * Valentine Dyall - Inspector Kent * Irene Arnold - Mrs Wall * Colin Tapley - Dr Jackson * Howard Lang - Sergeant * Kaplan Kaye - Charles Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starr And Company
''Starr and Company'' was a BBC television drama series aired in 1958. It was a soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ..., aired two times a week, Monday and Thursday. 77 episodes were made, of which only a single episode (episode 1) is known to survive. Most of the cast were not known before or after, but there were several well-known players – – either already established or later became well-known. In those times, all programmes were live, there were no telerecordings, no repeats – any repeat was another live programme, sometimes with changes of cast. Episodes References External links * {{Soap operas in the United Kingdom 1950s British television soap operas 1958 Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
