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Pat Heywood
Patricia Heywood (born 1 August 1931 in Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland), is a Scottish character actress who has appeared in stage productions, films and television. She is married to Oliver Neville, the former principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career She was one of five children of engineer John David Heywood. She was educated at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, transferring to the theatre company afterwards and appearing in their production of ''Salad Days'' as Rowena in 1954. The same year the entire production transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London, where it played for five years, a record for a musical at the time. In 1968 her film debut at the age of 36 was as Juliet's nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's ''Romeo and Juliet'', followed by small roles in '' Staircase'' (1969) and ''Battle of Britain'' (1969). Her next role was as a maid in the psychodrama ''Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly'' (1970) by Freddie Francis. After that film she was seen (oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretna Green
Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Scottish side of the border between Scotland and England, defined by the small river Sark, which flows into the nearby Solway Firth. It was historically the first village in Scotland, when following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh. Gretna Green railway station serves both Gretna Green and Gretna.1:50,000 OS map 85 The Quintinshill rail disaster, the worst rail crash in British history, in which over 220 died, occurred near Gretna Green in 1915. Gretna Green sits alongside the main town of Gretna. Both are accessed from the A74(M) motorway. Gretna Green is most famous for weddings. The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753 prevented couples under the age of 21 marrying in England or Wales without their parents' consent. As it was still legal in Scotland to marry without such consent, couples began crossing the border into Scotland to marry. Marriage Gretna's "runaway marria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (U.S. title: ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'') is a 1972 horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, and Sir Ralph Richardson. Based partly on the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", the film focuses on a demented American widow living in her husband's English manor who becomes obsessed with a young orphan girl who resembles her dead daughter. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film was shot at Shepperton Studios in London. Like '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'', '' Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', ''What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice'', and ''What's the Matter with Helen?'', it is one of the many films in the psycho-biddy subgenre. ''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' and the latter film, also starring Winters, were released on DVD as a MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature, and Winters requested that ''Helens director Harrington direct the picture. Plot Every year, Rosie Forrest, know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root Into Europe
''Root Into Europe'' is an ITV comedy-drama based on the character from William Donaldson's book '' The Henry Root Letters''. Five episodes Written by Donaldson and Mark Chapman and produced by Aspect Film & TV for Central Independent Television, were first broadcast in May and June 1992. The series starred George Cole as Henry Root, and Pat Heywood as his wife, Muriel. Henry Root, a fish dealer who disapproves of the impending European Union, declares himself England's 'European regulator' in a letter to the British Prime Minister, then John Major. He takes his wife Muriel (Pat Heywood) on a tour of Europe to represent English values to mainland Europe. His adventures are captured on a camcorder by his wife to be sent to the BBC upon his return for a future documentary, which one expects will never be made. The episodes bring him to France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands. External linksComedy Guide – ''Root Into Europe''at bbc.co.uk BBC Online, form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuthering Heights (1978 Television Serial)
''Wuthering Heights'' is a 1978 British film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ''Wuthering Heights'', starring Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, Pat Heywood, and John Duttine, originally broadcast on BBC Two as a 5-part mini-series, beginning 24 September 1978. Location filming took place on the Yorkshire Moors. This BBC version is regarded as being the one most faithful to the original novel because it does not end with Cathy's death but continues into the next generation, with Heathcliff seeking revenge against those he felt had wronged him. Plot summary Cast * Heathcliff – Ken Hutchison * Cathy – Kay Adshead * Joseph – Brian Wilde * Ellen Dean – Pat Heywood * Hindley – John Duttine * Frances – Maggie Wilkinson * Mr Linton – Dennis Burgess * Mrs Linton – Wendy Williams * Lockwood – Richard Kay * Mr Earnshaw – John Collin * Mrs Earnshaw – Patricia Healey * Servant Girl – Judith Byfield * Dr Kenneth – John Golightly * Edgar – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ''Wuthering Heights'', now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte and Anne Brontë, Anne titled ''Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell'' with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë family, Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell Brontë, Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Early life Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. The family was living on Market Street in the village of Thornton, West Yorkshire, Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Emily was the second youngest of six siblings, preceded by Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparrow (1993 Film)
''Sparrow'' ( it, Storia di una capinera) is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is an adaptation of Giovanni Verga's novel, ''Storia di una capinera'' and was filmed in Sicily in 1993. It stars Angela Bettis, and premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 1993. It was the final film performance of Valentina Cortese. Plot In the Two Sicilies, in cholera-ridden Sicily of 1854, Maria, a future nun, is evacuated from her convent home in Catania to her father's Mount Etna-shadowed villa. During her stay she falls in love with Nino, a family friend. But things fall apart when Catania is declared safe for her to return to Sicily, meaning she must renounce her love and concentrate on serving God. Cast * Angela Bettis as Maria * Johnathon Schaech as Nino * Vanessa Redgrave as Sister Agata * Valentina Cortese as Mother Superior * Frank Finlay as Father Nunzio * Sinéad Cusack as Matilde * Denis Quilley as Baron Cesaro * Pat Heywood as Sister Tere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getting It Right (film)
''Getting It Right'' is a 1989 British-American comedy-drama film starring Jesse Birdsall, Jane Horrocks, and Helena Bonham Carter. The tagline was: "Gavin is 31... and a virgin. One wild night and three women later, he's finally... Getting It Right" Synopsis The film concerns the late coming of age of protagonist Gavin Lamb (Birdsall), a painfully shy 31-year-old virgin still living at home with his parents and who works as a hairdresser in a West End salon. The socially awkward Gavin forges sudden romantic connections with three very different women: a sultry millionairess ( Redgrave), an idiosyncratic recluse ( Bonham Carter), and a single mother ( Horrocks) who is a junior hairdresser at his salon. Cast * Jesse Birdsall as Gavin Lamb * Jane Horrocks as Jenny * Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Minerva Munday * Pat Heywood as Mrs. Lamb * Bryan Pringle as Mr. Lamb * Lynn Redgrave as Joan * Richard Huw as Harry * John Gielgud as Sir Gordon Munday * Judy Parfitt as Lady Stell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Toscanini
''Young Toscanini'' (original title: ''Il giovane Toscanini'') is a 1988 Italian-French biographical drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring C. Thomas Howell and Elizabeth Taylor. Premise The film charts the early career and romances of the conductor Arturo Toscanini in Rio de Janeiro in 1886. Cast * C. Thomas Howell as Arturo Toscanini * Elizabeth Taylor as Nadina Bulichoff (singing voice was dubbed by Aprile Millo) * Sophie Ward as Sorella Margherita * Philippe Noiret as Dom Pedro II * Franco Nero as Claudio Toscanini * Pat Heywood as Mother Allegri * Jean-Pierre Cassel as Maestro Miguez * John Rhys-Davies as Claudio Rossi * Valentina Cortese Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019) was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut's ''Day for Night'' (1973). Personal life Cortese was born ... ( cameo) External links * * 1988 films 1980s biographical film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wish You Were Here (1987 Movie)
''Wish You Were Here'' is a 1987 British comedy-drama film written and directed by David Leland and starring Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Geoffrey Hutchings, and Jesse Birdsall. The film follows a girl's coming-of-age in a small coastal town in postwar England. It is loosely based on the formative years of British madam Cynthia Payne. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers. The film received acclaim from critics, winning the International Federation of Film Critics prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay for director Leland, and the Best Actress Award for Lloyd from the National Society of Film Critics. Plot In the early 1950s, sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell lives in a small English seaside town with her widowed father Hubert and younger sister, Margaret. Feisty, outspoken, and precocious, Lynda likes to shock other people with her histrionic behavior (such as bicycling at the boardwalk with her skirt hiked up, inviting young men to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bequest To The Nation (film)
''Bequest to the Nation'' is a 1973 British historical drama film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston and Margaret Leighton. It is based on the 1970 Terence Rattigan play ''A Bequest to the Nation''. In the United States, it was released as ''The Nelson Affair''. Plot summary The film depicts the relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and his mistress, Lady Hamilton, during the Napoleonic Wars plus others they would meet, including Nelson's nephew, George Matcham Jr. Much of the story takes place at Merton Place, Nelson & Hamilton's estate, before Nelson's heading out to sea for the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. Cast Critical reception ''The New York Times'' found the film "thoroughly genteel", and wrote that Rattigan's dialogue was written "in the manner of someone regurgitating the cadences of a 19th-century schoolgirl's diary... Peter Finch plays Lord Nelson with a reserved passion that seems intelligently thought out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five UK Parliament constituency, constituencies. Ideologically an Economic liberalism, economic liberal and British Empire, imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to Spencer family, a wealthy, aristocratic family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British Raj, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Winston
''Young Winston'' is a 1972 British biographical adventure drama war film covering the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, based in particular on his 1930 book, '' My Early Life''. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father. The second half covers his service as a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, during which he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman, his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War, during which he is captured and escapes, and his election to Parliament at the age of 26. Churchill was played by Simon Ward, who was relatively unknown at the time but was supported by a distinguished cast including Robert Shaw (as Lord Randolph Churchill), John Mills (as Lord Kitchener), Anthony Hopkins (as David Lloyd George) and Anne Bancroft as Churchill's mother Jennie. Other actors included Patrick Magee, Robert Hardy, Ian Holm, Edward Woodward and Jack Hawkins. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
