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Paper Tiger (1975 Film)
''Paper Tiger'' is a 1975 British drama-adventure film starring David Niven and the child actor Kazuhito Ando, who later portrayed Teru Tendou in Ganbaron. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Jack Davies, who also wrote the screenplay. The title comes from a Chinese expression meaning a person who looks powerful or strong but is in fact ineffectual. Plot summary Walter Bradbury (David Niven) is an apparently well-educated, decorated ex-military Englishman. He informs strangers he is the son of a viscount, a Member of Parliament, and a nephew of a general, and walks with a limp and cane which he says is due to crashing in the Le Mans 24-hour race. A Japanese ambassador to a fictional Asian country ("Kulagong") is attracted to Bradbury's claims of receiving the Military Cross (MC) twice and the Croix de Guerre once during the Second World War and hires Bradbury to tutor to his son, Koichi (played by Kazuhito Ando). Despite Ambassador Kagoyama's growing skepti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Annakin
Kenneth Cooper Annakin, Order of the British Empire, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an England, English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 2002, and in the 1960s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'', ''Battle of the Bulge (1965 film), Battle of the Bulge'', ''The Biggest Bundle of Them All'' and ''Monte Carlo or Bust!''. During his career, Annakin directed nearly 50 pictures. Biography Annakin was born in and grew up in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire where he attended the local Beverley Grammar School, grammar school. After leaving school he became a trainee income tax inspector in the city of Hull. Annakin subsequently decided to emigrate to New Zealand, and travelled around the world in a variety of jobs. He was Compere (host), compere and stage manager of Eugene permanent wave, Permanent Waving Company's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Cross
The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level pre-1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The MC is granted in recognition of "an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy on land" to all members of the British Armed Forces of any rank. In 1979, the Queen approved a proposal that a number of awards, including the Military Cross, could be recommended posthumously. History The award was created on 28 December 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive rank of captain or below and for warrant officers. The first 98 awards were gazetted on 1 January 1915, to 71 officers, and 27 warrant officers. Although posthumous recommendations for the Military Cross were unavailable until 1979, the first awards included seven posthumous awards, with the word 'deceased' after the name of the recipient, from rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Kumalasari
Noor or Nour may refer to: People *Noor (name) *Queen Noor of Jordan Fiction * ''Noor'' (film), a 2017 Bollywood film * ''Noor'' (play), a 2009 play by Akbar Ahmed *''Noor'', a 2020 Pakistani television series with Usama Khan * ''Noor'' (novel), a 2022 Africanfuturist novel by Nnedi Okorafor *''Noor'', an album by the metal band Adorned Brood *''Noor'', the Arabic title for Turkish soap opera '' Gümüş'' and a character in the series Places *Noor (Meuse), a river in the Netherlands and Belgium *Noor, Iran, a city in northern Iran and capital of the Noor county *Noor County, a county in Mazandaran Province in Iran *Noor Palace, Sweden Other uses *Noor (horse), an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse *Nūr (Islam), a concept in Islam *Noor (missile), a version of C-802 *Noor (satellite), a series of satellites; included the first Iranian military satellite *NOOR photo agency, a documentary photography collective and foundation *Ouarzazate solar power station (Noor 1), a concentrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Fraser (actor)
Ronald Fraser (11 April 1930 – 13 March 1997) was a British character actor, who appeared in numerous British plays, films and television shows from the 1950s to the 1990s. An unusual appearance and unique delivery made him a natural comedic actor. Fraser was a familiar figure in West End clubs during the sixties, and despite a long-standing reputation as one of the hardest drinking of British actors he was still working in his last years. He was perhaps best known as Basil "Badger" Allenby-Johnson in the 1970s television series '' The Misfit''. Background Ronald Fraser was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the son of an interior decorator and builder from Scotland. He attended Ashton Grammar School. He was educated in Scotland and did national service as a lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders. While serving in Benghazi in North Africa, he appeared in the comic play ''French Without Tears'' by Terence Rattigan. He trained as an actor at RADA until 1953 and soon appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Donahue (actress)
Patricia Donahue (March 6, 1925 – June 11, 2012) was an actress who performed in television and films from 1956 to 1984. Career Donahue portrayed Lucy Hamilton, secretary to the title character in the '' Michael Shayne'' TV series. She also appeared in such television series as ''Death Valley Days'', ''Goodyear Theatre'', '' The Californians'', ''The Walter Winchell File'', '' Tales of Wells Fargo'', ''The Thin Man'', '' The Millionaire'', '' Mr. Adams and Eve'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''General Electric Theater'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Peter Gunn'', ''77 Sunset Strip'', ''Bat Masterson'', '' Mr. Lucky'', '' Bonanza'', ''The Wide World of Mystery'', '' Thriller'', ''Danger Man'' (AKA ''Secret Agent Man'' in USA) and dozens of other programs. Her film credits include '' The Fastest Guitar Alive'', '' A Boy Ten Feet Tall'', ''In the Money'', ''Paper Tiger'', ''Cutter's Way'', and others. For five years up to August 1966, Donahue pursued an acting career in England before her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Corey
Jeff Corey (born Arthur Zwerling; August 10, 1914 – August 16, 2002) was an American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s. Life and career Corey attended New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and was active in the school's Dramatic Society. In the mid-1930s, he acted with the Clare Tree Major Children's Theater of New York. When Corey began making films, his agent suggested that he change his name from Arthur Zwerling, and he did so. He worked with Jules Dassin, Elia Kazan, John Randolph and other politically liberal theatrical personalities. Although he attended some meetings of the Communist Party, Corey never joined. A World War II veteran, Corey served in the United States Navy. His memoir, ''Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How To Act'', which he wrote with his daughter, Emily Corey, is published by the University Press of Kentucky. His longtime friend and former student Leonard Nimoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miiko Taka
(born Miiko Shikata July 24, 1925 – January 2023) was an American actress, popular for her film and TV roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring opposite Marlon Brando in the Korean War drama ''Sayonara''. She also acted in several other films and TV shows with fellow performers such as Miyoshi Umeki, James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune. Early years Taka was born in 1925 in Seattle, but raised in Los Angeles, California as a Nisei; her parents had immigrated from Japan. In 1942, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, she was interned with her family at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona. Career After director Joshua Logan's first choice for the role of Hana-ogi, Audrey Hepburn, turned him down, he looked to cast an unknown actress. Taka, who at the time was working as a clerk at a travel agency in Los Angeles, was discovered by a talent scout at a local Nisei festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent. Early life Desny was born in Peking, China. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted in more than 150 films, both in Germany and France. Desny appeared in the 1950 film '' Madeleine'' by the English director David Lean, who was then the husband of star Ann Todd. Death Desny died in Ascona, Switzerland. Selected filmography * ''La fleur de l'âge'' (1947) * ''Bonheur en location'' (1949) - Gordon junior * '' Madeleine'' (1950) - Emile L'Anglier * ''Les mousquetaires du roi'' (1951) * ''La Putain respectueuse'' (1952) - Fred Clarke - le fils du sénateur * '' The Lady Without Camelias'' (''La signora senza camelie'', 1953) - Bernardo 'Nardo' Rusconi * ''Good Lord Without Confession'' (1953) - Maurice Fréjoul * '' No Way Back'' (''Weg ohne Umkehr'', 1953) - Michael Zorin aka Mischa * '' Act of Love'' (1953) - (uncredi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Tsu
Irene Tsu (; born November 4, 1945)Cf. Lisanti & Paul (2002), p.293 is a Chinese American actress who made her debut in the film adaptation of ''Flower Drum Song'' in 1961, and has had many subsequent roles in TV and films. She was featured playing the wiki wiki girl in the ''Wiki wiki dollar'' advertising campaign for Chevron Corporation in the 1960s. She speaks English and three varieties of Chinese. Early life and career Tsu was born in Shanghai, China to Z.M. and Dulcie Lynn Tsu. Her father was a banker and her mother a painter. After political changes in China in the 1940s, the family left for Taiwan, then Hong Kong. Her father remained behind in Taiwan while in 1957 she and the rest of her immediate family (sister and mother) emigrated to Larchmont, New York, a suburb of New York City, where her aunt lived. Irene attended Mamaroneck Elementary School in Mamaroneck, New York and studied ballet. In the late 1950s. she auditioned for a dancing job in Broadway's ''Flower Drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David De Keyser
David de Keyser (22 August 1927 – 20 February 2021) was an English actor and narrator. Life and career Born in London in August 1927, in the mid-sixties de Keyser worked twice with the writer, actor and director Jane Arden (director), Jane Arden. Their first collaboration, ''The Logic Game'' (January 1965), was directed by Philip Saville. They acted together again in another Jane Arden script in the film ''Separation (1967 film), Separation'' (Jack Bond (director), Jack Bond 1968) which was set in London and featured music by Procol Harum, Matthew Fisher (musician), Matthew Fisher and Stanley Myers. The themes of both pieces were marital strife and disintegrating relationships. De Keyser also worked on four occasions for the British director John Boorman, twice on screen in ''Catch Us If You Can (film), Catch Us If You Can'' (1965) and ''Leo the Last'' (1970), and on two further occasions Boorman has used de Keyser's rich voice, firstly as the Voice of the Tabernacle in ''Zar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (; – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I. Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He was the younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. Little is known of his early life, though in his late teens he spent some time in France taking part in the religious civil wars. In his 20s he took part in the suppression of rebellion in the colonisation of Ireland; he also participated in the siege of Smerwick. Later, he became a landlord of property in Ireland and mayor of Youghal in East Munster, where his house still stands in Myrtle Grove. He rose rapidly in the favour of Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
