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Never Say Die (TV Series)
''Never Say Die'' is a British television series, which aired in 1970. Cast included Reginald Marsh, Patrick Newell, Noel Purcell, Teddy Green, Larry Noble, Wilfrid Brambell, Ken Parry Ken Parry (20 June 1930 – 5 December 2007), was an English actor, born in Wigan, Lancashire. Bald, portly and cherubic, Parry portrayed mainly comic character parts in a number of films, but was more prolific on television, in such series as ''Th ..., Mary Healey and Hugh Walters. It was a comedy produced by Yorkshire Television. Of the six episodes produced, 2 are missing from the archives.http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=3910f194-2e1e-44ef-8181-848c511dad75 References External links''Never Say Die'' on IMDb 1970s British sitcoms 1970 British television series debuts 1970 British television series endings English-language television shows ITV sitcoms Television series by Yorkshire Television {{UK-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Marsh (actor)
Reginald Albert Saltmarsh, known by the stage name Reginald Marsh (17 September 1926 – 9 February 2001), was an English actor who is best remembered for supporting roles in many British sitcoms from the 1970s onwards. Early life and career Marsh was born in London in 1926 and he grew up on the Sussex coast at Worthing. After he left school he worked in a bank. After realising how serious he was about acting, his father introduced him to a retired actress, who introduced him to an agent who got his first acting role, at the age of 16, as a juvenile in ''Eden End'' by J.B. Priestley. He then worked in rep. In 1958, he started working behind the scenes of Granada Television, but he soon went back to acting. From the 1960s he appeared in many films, including ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961), '' Jigsaw'' (1962), ''Berserk!'' (1967), '' The Ragman's Daughter'' (1972), ''Young Winston'' (1972) and ''The Best Pair of Legs in the Business'' (1973), and on television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Newell
Patrick David Newell (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988) was a British actor, known for his large size. Early life and education The second son of Eric Llewellyn Newell, of High Lodge, Hadleigh, Suffolk, an Oxford-educated physician who served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Newell was educated at Taunton School and completed his National Service, where a fellow recruit was Michael Caine, before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, alongside Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole. Career Newell began to be seen frequently on TV, usually cast as a fat villain or in comic roles. Given his rotund appearance and ability for playing slightly stuffy types, he was a natural stooge in several comedy shows, first for Arthur Askey, in ''Arthur's Treasured Volumes'' (ATV, 1960), then for Jimmy Edwards in ''Faces of Jim'' (BBC, 1962), with Ronnie Barker also supporting. He was originally cast as one of the inept recruits in the first of the ''Carry On'' films, 1958's ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Purcell (actor)
Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (23 December 1900 – 3 March 1985) was a distinguished Irish actor of stage, screen, and television. He appeared in the 1956 film ''Moby Dick'' and the 1962 film ''Mutiny on the Bounty''. Early life and education Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell was the son of Dublin auctioneer Pierce Purcell and his second wife Catherine (''née'' Hoban), an antique dealer. He was born at 11a, Lower Mercer Street, one of two houses owned by his mother's family. Purcell was educated at Synge Street CBS. He lost the tip of his right index finger while making cigarette vending machines, and was also missing his entire left index finger due to a different accident while he was an apprentice carpenter, a feature which he exploited for dramatic effect in the film ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962). Career Purcell began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Later, he toured Ireland in a vaudeville act with Jimmy O'Dea. Stage-trained in the clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Green
Teddy Green is an English actor, choreographer, and dancer probably best known for playing supporting roles in two Cliff Richard films, '' The Young Ones'' and '' Summer Holiday''. Career His film roles include Chris in The Young Ones with Cliff Richard (1961), Steve in Summer Holiday, again with Cliff Richard (1963), and Muleteer in ''Man Of La Mancha'' (1972). He also became a choreographer and performed in the West End stage musical '' Pickwick'' with Harry Secombe in 1963, and in the 1960s appeared in the Broadway musicals ''Baker Street'' and ''Darling Of The Day'' (alongside Vincent Price). Green later returned to acting in television, with roles in '' The Professionals'', ''The Bretts'', and ''Holby City''. He also appeared on BBC TV 's long running variety show The Good Old Days. Selected Stage Work *''The Pajama Game'', 1955, London *'' When in Rome'' 1959-60, Adelphi Theatre, London *'' Pickwick'' 1963, Saville Theatre, West End *''Baker Street'' (Wiggins) 1965, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Noble (actor)
Larry Noble (born 13 December 1914 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire) was a stage comedian and actor best known for starring in the Whitehall farces with Brian Rix. He starred in the original production of ''Reluctant Heroes'' and as the chirpy French jockey in ''Dry Rot''. On television, he made guest appearances in ''Last of the Summer Wine'' in 1975 and ''Blake's 7'' in 1981. He died on 9 September 1993, aged 78. Selected filmography * ''Not Wanted on Voyage ''Not Wanted on Voyage'' is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix and Catherine Boyle. The film was made at British National Studios. It is based on a play by Ken Attiwill and his wife ...'' (1957) References External links * English male stage actors 1993 deaths English male comedians 1914 births 20th-century English comedians Male actors from Huddersfield {{England-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Brambell
Henry Wilfrid Brambell (22 March 1912 – 18 January 1985) was an Irish television and film actor, best remembered for playing the grubby rag-and-bone man Albert Steptoe alongside Harry H. Corbett in the long-running BBC television sitcom ''Steptoe and Son'' (1962–65, 1970–74). He achieved international recognition in 1964 for his appearance alongside the Beatles in '' A Hard Day's Night'', playing the fictional grandfather of Paul McCartney. Early life Brambell was born in Dublin, the youngest of three sons born to Henry Lytton Brambell (1870–1937), a cashier at the Guinness Brewery, and his wife, Edith Marks (1879–1965), a former opera singer. The family surname was changed from "Bramble" by Wilfrid's grandfather Frederick William Brambell. His two older brothers were Frederick Edward Brambell (1905–1980) and James Christopher Marks "Jim" Brambell (1907–1992). His first appearance was as a child, entertaining the wounded troops during the First World War. After l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Parry
Ken Parry (20 June 1930 – 5 December 2007), was an English actor, born in Wigan, Lancashire. Bald, portly and cherubic, Parry portrayed mainly comic character parts in a number of films, but was more prolific on television, in such series as ''The Army Game'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Baron'', '' The Newcomers'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', '' Nearest and Dearest'', '' Love Thy Neighbour'', ''Z-Cars'', '' The Sweeney'', '' Coronation Street'', '' Hazell'' and ''Children's Ward''. Selected filmography * ''Friends and Neighbours'' (1959) - Sid * '' Just For Fun'' (1963) - Lift Attendant * '' The Liquidator'' (1965) - Tailor (uncredited) * ''Out of the Unknown'' ('Time in Advance', episode) (1965) - Ballaskia * '' The Brides of Fu Manchu'' (1966) - Hospital Receptionist (uncredited) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1967) - Tailor * ''Otley'' (1968) - 3rd Businessman * '' Start the Revolution Without Me'' (1970) - Dr. Boileau * '' Spring and Port Wine'' (1970) - Pawnbroker * '' Burke & Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Walters (actor)
Hugh Thornton Walters (2 March 1939 – 13 February 2015) was a British actor. During the early 1990s, Hugh Walters appeared regularly on ''The Russ Abbot Show'', and he played a recurring role in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Chance in a Million''. His films include ''Catch Us If You Can'' (1965), ''Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon'' (1967), ''Alfie Darling'' (1975), ''George and Mildred'' (1980), '' Brimstone and Treacle'' (1982), ''The Missionary'' (1982), ''1984'' (1984), '' The Innocent Sleep'' (1995) and ''Firelight'' (1997). In 1975, Hugh Walters replaced Terry Scully in the role of Vic Thatcher late in the first series of the BBC series '' Survivors''. Scully had appeared in 4 episodes, but then suffered a nervous breakdown, leaving the ''Survivors'' production team no choice but to recast the role of Vic with Vic's big episode ''Revenge'' coming up. Walters played Vic in episodes 11 and 13 of the first series. Filmography *''Catch Us If You Can'' (1965) - Grey *''Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s British Sitcoms
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 British Television Series Debuts
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 British Television Series Endings
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Television Shows
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
