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One For The Road (The Bill)
The sixth series of '' The Bill'', a British television drama, consisted of 104 episodes, broadcast between 2 January and 27 December 1990. The series was first released on DVD as part of the Collection 5 and Collection 6 DVD boxsets in Australia, made available on 9 April – 8 October 2008, respectively. The series was later reissued as two-half series boxsets in Australia, released on 7 March 2012. The above artwork is taken from the most recent Australian release. It features images of DC Tosh Lines and DI Frank Burnside. The original Collection boxsets contained sole images of PC Reg Hollis and DS Ted Roach. In the UK, the first nine episodes were released on DVD under the title Volume 7, on 2 September 2013. Series 6 marked a significant period of change on the series, the most notable being the move to its third and ultimately final set at Merton, accounting for the move with a station fire plot, the first of three on the series. PC Ken Melvin was killed as a result of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lonsdale
David Lonsdale (born 21 May 1963) is an English people, English actor. He is best known for playing Peter Barlow (Coronation Street), Peter Barlow in ''Coronation Street'' and David Stockwell in the ITV (TV network), ITV period drama, period police drama series ''Heartbeat (British TV series), Heartbeat''. Career Television Lonsdale's first major role on television occurred in 1986 when he played Peter Barlow (Coronation Street), Peter Barlow in ''Coronation Street.'' He has subsequently re-appeared in the show on two further occasions. He first returned in 2011 in a minor role working for a solicitor and again in May 2012, this time playing Edwin Soames. Other, more minor television appearances, have seen Lonsdale take roles in the 1989 ''Inspector Morse (TV series), Inspector Morse'' episode ''Driven to Distraction'' in which he played a Detective; in the medical drama ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'' (2011) and in the soap opera ''Emmerdale'' (2018) in which he played a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Lombard
Louise Lombard (born Louise Marie Perkins; 13 September 1970) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Evangeline Eliott in the BBC drama series ''The House of Eliott'' (1991–94) and Sofia Curtis in the CBS drama series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2004–11). Early life and education Lombard was born in Redbridge, London, England, the fifth of seven children. One of her siblings is former footballer Declan Perkins. Lombard began taking drama lessons when she was eight. She attended Trinity Catholic High School, a Roman Catholic school, from which she achieved nine O Levels. Lombard studied English literature at Cambridge University. Career Lombard is best known for playing Evangeline Eliott in the 1990s television drama ''The House of Eliott''. Her first big break was in the hit series '' Chancer'', after which Lombard went on to star in the television dramas ''Bodyguards'' and ''Metropolis'' and several films including ''Gold in the Streets'', '' My Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff McQueen
Geoffrey McQueen (24 July 1947 – 6 July 1994) was a British television screenwriter. He is best known for creating Thames Television's long-running police procedural ''The Bill'' and the popular comedy-dramas '' Give Us a Break'', '' Big Deal'' and '' Stay Lucky''. A carpenter and joiner by trade he worked abroad for many years before he began writing in 1978. His first success was in 1982 when an episode of ''The Gentle Touch'' he had written was broadcast. He wrote for other shows, including ''Boon'', and two Jim Davidson sitcoms. He died on 6 July 1994, aged 46, from an aneurysm An aneurysm is an outward bulging, likened to a bubble or balloon, caused by a localized, abnormal, weak spot on a blood vessel wall. Aneurysms may be a result of a hereditary condition or an acquired disease. Aneurysms can also be a nidus ( .... He was survived by his wife Jan and their two children External links * 1947 births 1994 deaths British television writers The B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Rogers (actor) , director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Malcolm Rogers may refer to: * Malcolm Rogers (actor), British television actor in ''For the Love of Ada'' etc. *Malcolm Jennings Rogers, archaeologist *Malcolm Rogers (curator) Malcolm Austin Rogers, CBE (born 1948 in Yorkshire) is a British art historian and museum administrator who served as the inaugural Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1994 through 2015, the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symond Lawes
Symond Lawes is an English actor, photographer, businessman, and music manager, events producer, best known for his work in several features of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as being an artist manager of Ska bands along with supporting the style and culture of skinheads. Life and career A native of the United Kingdom, he began his career modeling at 13 and went onto appear in several features of the 1980s and 1990s, including being an accredited actor in ''Doctor Who'', '' The Getaway'', '' Dear John'' and '' The Drugs Game''. He also was a high demand men's fashion model for Merc Clothing.In 2007 he produced X-Ray Spex show live at Camden Roundhouse In 2011, he began the Great Skinhead Reunion in Brighton, England, and is the owner and administrator of subcultz.com. He played a character called Henry in ''The One Game'' released in 2020 on Amazon prime. He is also the manager of Jamaican ska band'' Pyramids Symarip'' He currently resides in his native Brighton with his two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Van Der Plank
Wendy Alison van der Plank is an English actress best known for playing the title role in the ITV (TV network), ITV children's series ''Wizadora''. Career Van der Plank's first television appearance was in the BBC comedy series ''Spin Off''. After appearing in one episode of ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'', she played the role of ''Hilly'' in the ITV drama ''Forever Green'' before being cast as ''Wizadora''. In addition she appeared as ''Sharon'' in the radio sitcom ''All That Jazz'', in which the creator commented that he was "...knocked out by Wendy van der Plank", and that "She'd never done any radio before and was largely unknown, but she came close to stealing the show. She really threw herself into it and I thought she was hilarious... She was just great!". She has also appeared in various theatrical shows, including ''The King and I'' in 1987, and ''Quasimodo, Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame'' in 1988, both at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, Queen's Theatre in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Fielder
Henry Arthur Fielder (26 April 1940 – 6 February 2021), sometimes credited as Harry H. Fielder or Harry Aitch Fielder, was an English actor who worked extensively in British film and television from the 1960s to the 1990s. Career Fielder was born in Islington, London. He appeared as an extra in many American films due to filming taking place partly or entirely in Britain. His film credits include '' Oliver!'', '' Star Wars: A New Hope'', '' McVicar'', and '' Highlander''. He appeared as an extra in a wide range of TV shows including '' Doctor Who'', ''Blake's 7'', '' Shoestring'', '' The Sweeney'', ''Minder'' and '' The Professionals''. Fielder co-presented '' CBTV'', a Thames TV programme for younger viewers, in the 1980s where he played the Security Guard, Harry, who Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen would have to sneak past at the gates of Teddington Studios Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Downes
Terry Downes, BEM (9 May 1936 – 6 October 2017) was a British middleweight boxer, occasional film actor, and businessman. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style. At the time of his death, Downes was Britain's oldest surviving former world champion. He held the world middleweight title (the version recognised by Europe, New York, and Massachusetts) for ten months from 1961-62. Early life Terry Downes was born in Paddington, London. His father Richard worked as a mechanic, and his mother Hilda in a department store.Maume, Chris (2017)Terry Downes: The ‘whirlwind’ boxer who was king for a day and retired aged 28, ''The Independent'', 13 October 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017 Downes boxed as a junior for the Fisher ABC.Rawling, John (2017)Terry Downed Obituary, ''The Guardian'', 8 October 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2017 He moved with his parents to the United States in 1952, while still a teenager, to live with his trapeze artist sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Aldous
Robert Aldous (born 1934 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...) is an English stage and television actor. Robert (Bob) trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1953–55. In a long and varied career, his main priority was the stage and he has acted with most of the major regional theatre companies and toured extensively in the UK and overseas. He was for two years associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and appeared in The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and in An Enemy of the People and Peter Pan at the National Theatre. For thirty years he was the “baddie” in big provincial pantomimes! On television he can claim appearances in Dad's Army, Dr Who, “Allo,” ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Holder
Roy Trevor Holder (15 June 1946 – 9 November 2021) was an English film and television actor who appeared in various programmes including '' Ace of Wands'', ''Z-Cars'', '' Spearhead'', the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Caves of Androzani''. His first notable appearance on the screen was in the 1961 film '' Whistle Down the Wind'' and he then appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1967), and '' Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush'' (1967). Career In 1968 he played Peter in Zeffirelli's ''Romeo and Juliet''. Appearances in '' The Virgin Soldiers'' (1969), '' Loot'' (1970), ''The Virgin and the Gypsy'' (1970), ''Psychomania'' (1973), '' The Land That Time Forgot'' (1974), and ''Trial by Combat'' (1976) followed, and he worked with Zeffirelli for a third time in the '' Jesus of Nazareth'' miniseries in 1977. He also played the recurring role of Frank Baker in the BBC TV series Sorry! from 1981 to 1988. Holder also appeared as Mr Callard in "Precious Bane", as Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Maddern
Victor Jack Maddern (16 March 1928 – 22 June 1993) was an English actor. He was described by ''The Telegraph'' as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema." Life and career Born in Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, Maddern attended Beal Grammar Boys school and afterwards joined the Merchant Navy at the age of 15 and served in the Second World War from 1943 until its end and was medically discharged in 1946. He subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He made his first screen appearance in '' Seven Days to Noon'' in 1950, playing a reluctant soldier obliged to shoot a psychotic scientist. One of his earliest stage roles was as Sam Weller in '' The Trial of Mr Pickwick'' (1952). Appearing as Helicon in a production of Albert Camus' play ''Caligula'' (1964), Maddern was singled out for critical praise, and in '' My Darling Daisy'' (1970) portrayed the notorious Frank Harris. He also did two stints in the highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |