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Nicholas Nickleby (1957 TV Series)
''Nicholas Nickleby'' is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1957. It is based on the novel ''Nicholas Nickleby'' by Charles Dickens. Broadcast live, all ten episodes were recorded, but are now considered lost. Cast * William Russell as Nicholas Nickleby (10 episodes) * Jennifer Wilson as Kate Nickleby (10 episodes) * Malcolm Keen as Ralph Nickleby (9 episodes) * Richard Wordsworth as Newman Noggs (9 episodes) * Gillian Lind as Mrs. Catherine Nickleby (8 episodes) * Brian Peck as Smike (8 episodes) * Esmond Knight as Wackford Squeers. Sr (6 episodes) * Rosamund Greenwood as Miss La Creevy (5 episodes) * George Howe as Mr. Charles Cheeryble (5 episodes) * Keith Davis as Wackford Squeers. Jr (4 episodes) * Barry Foster as Frank Cheeryble (4 episodes) * Anthony Jacobs as Arthur Gride (4 episodes) * Lyn James as Madeline Bray (4 episodes) * Bartlett Mullins as Tim Linkinwater (4 episodes) * Douglas Wilmer as Sir Mulberry Hawk (4 episodes) * Graham C ...
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Nicholas Nickleby
''Nicholas Nickleby'', or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', is the third novel by Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. Background ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family'' saw Dickens return to his favourite publishers and to the format that proved so successful with ''The Pickwick Papers''. The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. Dickens began writing ''Nickleby'' while still working on '' Oliver Twist''. Plot Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the ...
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Keith Davis (actor)
Keith Davis may refer to: * Keith Davis (safety) Keith Lamont Davis (born December 30, 1978) is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Sam Houston State University. Early years Davis attended Italy High School. I ... (born 1978), former American football safety * Keith Davis (linebacker), former American football linebacker and current motivational speaker * Keith Davis (cricketer) (born 1935), English cricketer * Keith Davis (rugby union) (born 1930), former international New Zealand rugby union player * Keith F. Davis (born 1952), American photography curator See also * Shooting of Keith Davis, Jr. * Keith Davies, Welsh Labour politician * Keith Davies (footballer), footballer for Tranmere Rovers {{hndis, Davis, Keith ...
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1957 British Television Series Endings
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is rele ...
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1957 British Television Series Debuts
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is rel ...
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BBC Television Dramas
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Rosalind Knight
Rosalind Marie Knight (3 December 1933 – 19 December 2020) was an English actress. Her career spanned 70 years on stage, screen, and television. Her film appearances include ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'' (1957), ''Carry On Nurse'' (1959), ''Carry On Teacher'' (1959), '' Tom Jones'' (1963), and '' About a Boy'' (2002). Among her TV roles were playing Beryl in the BBC sitcom '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' (1999–2001) and Cynthia Goodman aka "Horrible Grandma" in ''Friday Night Dinner'' (2012, 2016–2020). Career Knight was born in Marylebone, London. She was the daughter of actor Esmond Knight and his first wife, Frances Clare, and the stepdaughter of actress Nora Swinburne. Being from a theatrical family, she was introduced to theatre at an early age. She was inspired by a visit to the bombed-out Old Vic Theatre in 1949 with her father to see performances of ''The Snow Queen'' and ''As You Like It''. After studying there for two years under Glen Byam Shaw and George Devine, she wa ...
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Fay Compton
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage performances. She was known for her versatility, and appeared in Shakespeare, drawing room comedy, pantomime, modern drama, and classics such as Ibsen and Chekhov. In addition to performing in Britain, Compton appeared several times in the US, and toured Australia and New Zealand in a variety of stage plays. Life and career Early years Compton was born in Fulham, London, the sixth and youngest child and fourth daughter of Edward Compton (1854–1918), actor and manager (whose real surname was Mackenzie), and his wife, the actress Virginia Frances Bateman (1853–1940) daughter of the actor Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman, of Baltimore, US. One of her brothers became well known as the author Compton Mackenzie. Trewin, J. C.br>"Compton, Fay (real ...
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Roddy Hughes
Rhodri Henry Hughes (19 June 1891 – 22 February 1970) was a Welsh theatre, film and television actor, who appeared in over 80 films between 1932 and 1961. Selected filmography * ''Mr. Bill the Conqueror'' (1932) * ''Reunion'' (1932) * '' Say It with Flowers'' (1934) - Sam - Newspaper Seller (uncredited) * ''How's Chances?'' (1934) - (uncredited) * '' Music Hall'' (1934) * '' A Glimpse of Paradise'' (1934) - Walter Fielding * ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' (1934) - Short * '' Lest We Forget'' (1934) - Taffy * '' Kentucky Minstrels'' (1934) - Town Clerk * ''Breakers Ahead'' (1935) - Will * ''A Real Bloke'' (1935) - Taffy * ''The Small Man'' (1935) - David * ''Cock o' the North'' (1935) - Taffy * '' Honeymoon for Three'' (1935) - Toomes * ''The River House Mystery'' (1935) - Higgins * '' Cheer Up'' (1936) - Dick Dirk * '' Twelve Good Men'' (1936) * '' Men of Yesterday'' (1936) * '' Make-Up'' (1937) - Mr. Greenswarter * ''Captain's Orders'' (1937) - Cookie * ''Little Miss Somebody'' (1 ...
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Fabia Drake
Fabia Drake OBE (born Ethel McGlinchy; 20 January 1904 – 28 February 1990) was a British actress whose professional career spanned almost 73 years during the 20th century. Drake was born in Herne Bay, Kent. Her first professional role in a film was in Fred Paul's ''Masks and Faces'' (1917), and her last role was as Madame de Rosemonde in Miloš Forman's ''Valmont'' (1989). Drake was a lifelong friend of Noël Coward and Laurence Olivier. Early life Born Ethel McGlinchy, the actress's Irish father, a caterer, was an actor manqué. She passed an entrance test to the Academy of Dramatic Art (later to become RADA) in December 1913. (It was the high-ups at the ADA who decided McGlinchy was too difficult to pronounce and too hard to remember for a stage name so she changed it, ultimately by deed-poll, to Drake which was the second of her father's Christian names and to Fabia which was the second of her baptismal names, chosen because she was born on St Fabian's Day) (Pope ...
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Graham Crowden
Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric "offbeat" scientist, teacher and doctor characters. Early life Crowden was born on 30 November 1922 in Edinburgh, the son of University of Edinburgh-educated schoolmaster Harry Graham Crowden (d. 1938) and Anne Margaret (née Paterson).Who's Who In The Theatre: a biographical record of the contemporary stage, seventeenth edition, vol. I, ed. Ian Herbert, Gale Research Company, 1981, p. 154 He was educated at Clifton Hall School and the Edinburgh Academy before serving briefly in the Royal Scots Youth Battalion of the army until he was injured in an accident. During arms drill he was shot by his platoon sergeant, when the sergeant's rifle discharged. The sergeant reportedly enquired "What is it now, Crowden?", to which Crowden replied "I think you've shot me, sergeant." He later found work in ...
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Douglas Wilmer
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series ''Sherlock Holmes''. Early life Wilmer was born in Brentford, Middlesex, and received his education at King's School, Canterbury, and Stonyhurst College. A performance as the Archbishop of Canterbury in a school play at King's School was seen by Dame Sybil Thorndike who afterward told the headmaster "If that boy, playing the Archbishop, were to take to the stage, I think that he could well make a go of it." After completing school, Wilmer applied for a scholarship at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was accepted. Whilst in training at RADA, he was conscripted into the British Army for military service with the Royal Artillery in the Second World War. After training, he was posted to an anti-tank battery, and saw war service in Africa with the Royal West African Frontier Force. He was later invalided out of the Armed Forces, having contracted tu ...
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Bartlett Mullins
Bartlett Mullins (13 August 1904 – 15 May 1992) was a British actor. Career He is best remembered by British TV viewers as Mr Clough ''"Cloughie"'', Bob and Terry's workmate in the sitcom ''The Likely Lads''. He also appeared on episodes of ''Z-Cars'', ''Danger Man'', ''Maigret'', ''The Saint'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', '' Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''The Sensorites''), ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''The Prisoner'', ''On the Buses'', ''Steptoe and Son'', '' Secret Army'' and ''Worzel Gummidge''. His stage work included Dorothy L. Sayers '' The Zeal of Thy House'' at London's Garrick Theatre in 1938; and Sacha Guitry's ''Don't Listen, Ladies'' at the Booth Theatre on Broadway in 1948–49. Selected filmography * ''Dancing with Crime'' (1947) - Club Barman (uncredited) * '' Daughter of Darkness'' (1948) - Irish Shopkeeper (uncredited) * ''The Three Weird Sisters'' (1948) - Dispenser * ''No Room at the Inn'' (1948) - Councillor Medlicott (uncredited) * '' The Case of Charles Pea ...
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