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Nicholas Nickleby (1977 TV Series)
''Nicholas Nickleby'' is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1977. It is based on the novel ''Nicholas Nickleby'' by Charles Dickens.Pointer p.91-92 Cast * Nigel Havers as Nicholas Nickleby * Peter Bourke as Smike * Derek Godfrey as Ralph Nickleby * Robert James as Newman Noggs * Kate Nicholls as Kate Nickleby * Hilary Mason as Mrs. Nickleby * Malcolm Reid as Mr. Alfred Mantalini * Derek Francis as Wackford Squeers * Patricia Routledge as Madame Mantalini * Patsy Smart as Miss La Creevy * Anthony Ainley as Sir Mulberry Hawk * Nigel Hughes as Lord Frederick Verisopht * Denis Gilmore as Wackford Jnr * Raymond Mason as Charles Cheeryble * David Griffin as Frankie Cheeryble * Preston Lockwood as Tim Linkinwater * Andrew McCulloch as John Browdie * John Hewer as Edwin Cherryble * Ron Pember as Mr. Snawley * Isabelle Amyes as Miss Fanny Squeers * Hetty Baynes as Matilda Price * Patricia Brake as Madeline Bray * Edward Burnham as Mr. Lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Smart
Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress, best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. She also appeared in: ''Danger Man'', '' Only When I Laugh'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Prisoner'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Sweeney'', ''Doctor Who'' (''The Talons of Weng-Chiang''), ''Blake's 7'', ''Danger UXB'', ''The Chinese Detective'', ''Minder'', ''Rentaghost'', ''Terry and June'', '' Farrington of the F.O.'', ''Casualty'', '' Hallelujah!'', and ''The Bill''. In her later roles, she was expert at playing dotty old ladies, her Mrs Sibley and Miss Dingle characters in ''Terry and June'' being examples. Another example was as the wife of the gardener in the ''Miss Marple'' episode "The Moving Finger" which starred Joan Hickson. Her films included ''Sons and Lovers'' (1960), '' The Tell Tale Heart'' (1960), '' Return of a Stranger'' (1961), '' What Every Woman Wants'' (1962) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Burnham
Edward Burnham (25 December 1916 – 30 June 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned over 60 years. Early years Burnham was born in Lincolnshire, England, 25 December 1916. After training at RADA and briefly at the Comédie-Française in Paris, he worked on stage in regional repertory theatre, the Liverpool Playhouse, the Old Vic, and in London's West End. Career Burnham is best known for the films '' To Sir, with Love'' (1967), ''The Abominable Dr. Phibes'' (1971) and ''10 Rillington Place'' (1971), and for twice appearing in ''Doctor Who'' in '' The Invasion'' (1968) and '' Robot'' (1974/5). His other television roles include ''Z-Cars'', '' The Saint'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Troubleshooters'', '' Special Branch'', ''Crown Court'', ''Thriller'', '' Rumpole of the Bailey'', ''Crossroads'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', ''The Gentle Touch'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''The Bill'', ''Swiss Toni'' and ''Black Books''. His other films have included '' When Ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Brake
Patricia Ann Brake (25 June 1942 – 28 May 2022) was an English actress. From the age of 16, Brake trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, before joining the Salisbury Playhouse. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where (among other roles) she played Hermia in a production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', directed by Peter Hall, which also featured Judi Dench, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson and Ian Holm. This was followed by a period in the West End. She began appearing on television in such series as ''Emergency – Ward 10'', ''No Hiding Place'' and ''A Sharp Intake of Breath'' with David Jason, and also had film roles in '' My Lover, My Son'' (1970), '' The Optimists of Nine Elms'' (1973). Brake played Ingrid Fletcher, the daughter of Norman Stanley Fletcher, in the BBC sitcom ''Porridge'', and its sequel ''Going Straight''. In 2015, she guest-starred in the BBC ongoing drama ''Casualty'' and in ''Midsomer Murders'' for ITV. Alongside her extensive body of wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Baynes
Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She began her career in ballet by training from the age of 10 at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut, at the age of 12, in Rudolf Nureyev's ''The Nutcracker'' followed by '' The Sleeping Beauty'' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In her mid-teens she moved from dance to acting. She began her acting career at 17, as an acting ASM in repertory theatre. She was married to film director Ken Russell from 1992 to 1999; they had one son. Early life and education Baynes was born in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, the daughter of aeronautical engineer Leslie Baynes, who designed what is believed to be the oldest flying glider in the United Kingdom, and Margot (née Findlay). Baynes attended the Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley in Surrey, where a contemporary was the actress Laura Hartong. Hetty graduated in a Creative Writing MA in 2015 from Birkbeck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Amyes
Isabelle Amyes (born 13 June 1950) is an English actress best known for her role as Barbara Hunt in the British TV drama '' Bad Girls'' from 2000 to 2003. Another prominent role was as Fanny in ''Love in a Cold Climate'' (1980). Her various guest appearances on other television programmes include ''The New Statesman'', ''House of Cards'', '' The Darling Buds of May'', ''A Touch of Frost A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes' ...'' and '' As Time Goes By''. Personal life Her father was Julian Amyes; a British film and television director and producer. Filmography External links * 1950 births Living people English television actresses People from Grappenhall and Thelwall 21st-century English actresses {{england-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Pember
Ronald Henry Pember (11 April 1934 – 8 March 2022) was an English actor, stage director and dramatist. In a career stretching over thirty years, he was a character actor in British television productions in the 1970s – 1980s, usually in bit-parts, or as a support playing a worldly-wise everyman. He played the role of Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series '' Secret Army'', and wrote a stage musical entitled '' Jack the Ripper'' (1974), about the Victorian murder spree in London in the late 1880s, which is regularly produced by amateur theatre groups and companies around the globe. Early life Pember was born in Plaistow, then in the county of Essex, on 11 April 1934, the son of Gladys and William Pember. He received his formal education at Eastbrook Secondary Modern School, in Dagenham. In the mid-1950s, he enlisted as an Aircraftman with the Royal Air Force as part of the United Kingdom's National Service military training system, being stationed in Egypt. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewer
John Hewer (13 January 1922 – 16 March 2008) was an English actor and business manager who became familiar with audiences for playing Captain Birdseye in ads for Birds Eye. Biography Hewer was born in Leyton, Essex, the son of an engine driver. He attended Leyton High School following which he worked for the Social Services Department for London County Council (LCC) dealing with people who had problems paying their rent. During World War II when he served as a navigator in the Fleet Air Arm, with which he travelled to Vancouver and the Caribbean and witnessed the result of the Hiroshima bombing. During the war Hewer performed with a group that entertained other service personnel.John Hewer: Icon of TV advertisements - '' |
Andrew McCulloch (writer)
Andrew McCulloch (born 1945), often credited as Andy McCulloch, is a Scottish television writer and actor. Biography Born on 27 October 1945 in Ayr, Scotland, Andrew McCulloch was educated at Bedford School and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Career McCulloch's film credits include the 1969 version of ''David Copperfield'', where he played Ham Peggotty, ''Cry of the Banshee'' (1970), '' The Last Valley'' (1971), Roman Polanski's ''Macbeth'' (1971), ''Kidnapped'' (1973), '' Nothing But the Night'' (1973), '' The Land That Time Forgot'' (1974) and ''Cry Freedom'' (1987). His television credits include Colonel Leckie in the BBC series '' By the Sword Divided'' and parts in '' Taggart'', '' Softly, Softly: Taskforce'', ''Messiah'' and the cult comedy ''Father Ted''. McCulloch's first television writing credit was for the ''Doctor Who'' story " Meglos" in 1980, penned with John Flanagan, with whom he retains a regular writing partnership. A second sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston Lockwood
Reginald Herbert Lockwood (30 October 1912 – 24 April 1996), known professionally as Preston Lockwood, was an English radio and television actor. The only son of bus driver Herbert Lewis Lockwood and his wife Ethel May (née Preston), Lockwood was born in Essex; he had two elder sisters, Sylvia (born 1908) and Phyllis (born 1909). He used his mother's maiden name as his stage name. His television credits include the role of Butterfield the butler in several episodes of ''Jeeves and Wooster''. He also appeared in the first episode of ''The Vicar of Dibley'' as Reverend Pottle, whose death midway through the service served as the catalyst for Geraldine Granger's (Dawn French) arrival. Other appearances include Other appearances include ''The Ash Tree'', ''Poldark'', ''Shoestring'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Keeping Up Appearances'', '' Tenko'', ''Miss Marple'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'' and ''Inspector Morse''. His performances on BBC Radio include Dennis the Dachshund in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Griffin (actor)
David Griffin (born 19 July 1943) is an English actor best known for both his roles as Squadron Leader Clive Dempster DFC in ''Hi-de-Hi!'' between 1984 and 1988 and Emmet Hawksworth in ''Keeping Up Appearances'' between 1991 and 1995. Career His first screen role was in 1960 in the film ''A French Mistress,'' and roles like Ricketts in ''The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's'' in 1961, David Ashton in ''Outbreak of Murder'' in 1962 and Mark Dennison in ''Quick Before They Catch Us'' in 1966 followed soon after and became both popular and familiar with viewers. Griffin would appear in the smash hit film ''Battle of Britain'' in 1969 as Sergeant Pilot Chris and in popular television series including '' Dixon of Dock Green'' in 1968 and then again in 1974, ''Z-Cars'' in 1970. Other television appearances include a guest role in an episode of ''Doctor Who'' ("The Sea Devils"), '''Allo 'Allo!'', '' Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Emmerdale Farm'' and two episodes of '' Ripping Yarns''. After fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Mason (actor)
Raymond Mason may refer to: * Raymond Mason (sculptor) Raymond Grieg Mason (2 March 1922, in Birmingham, England – 13 February 2010 in Paris, France) was a sculptor. He trained at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts under William Bloye, the Royal College of Art (for one term), and Slade S ... * Raymond A. Mason, CEO of Legg Mason * Raymond K. Mason, businessman * Raymond Mason (actor), see The Kipper and the Corpse {{hndis, Mason, Raymond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
