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Piccadilly Third Stop
''Piccadilly Third Stop'' is a 1960 British thriller film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani and John Crawford. The screenplay concerns a wealthy playboy who hires a gang of criminals to help him steal £100,000. It was shot at Pinewood Studios and on location around London, including numerous locations around Belgravia. Holborn tube station filled in as the fictional "Belgravia station" on the Piccadilly line. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernest Archer. Plot Crook Dominic Colpoys-Owen (Terence Morgan) has his eye on the loot inside an embassy in London after an ambassador's daughter, Seraphina (Yoko Tani), unwittingly reveals that her father, away on business, has left big money behind in the safe. Colpoys-Owen works his smooth-talking charm on the innocent girl, who becomes so infatuated that she agrees to help his gang with its plan. This involves a robbery from the embassy, which is in Knightsbridge, via the London Underground ...
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Nicola Simbari
Nicola Simbari (July 13, 1927 - December 11, 2012) was an Italian painter. Life and career Though born in San Lucido, Calabria, Nicola Simbari was raised in Rome, where his father was an architect for the Vatican. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome. Simbari's early exposure to the architectural world had a lasting impression on his art, as he incorporated geometric forms and architectural structures into almost all of his paintings. He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature, and the Mediterranean, impressions which abstractly reflect themselves in the purely vivid and passionate colors of his work. Simbari's originality and commercial appeal brought his art to exhibitions in London and New York by the 1950s, solidifying his international reputation. Nicola Simbari is considered by many to be Italy's most important modern a ...
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Holborn Tube Station
Holborn ( ) is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway. It is served by the Central and Piccadilly lines. On the Central line the station is between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane stations; on the Piccadilly line it is between Covent Garden and Russell Square and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Close by are the British Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury Square, London School of Economics and Sir John Soane's Museum. Located at the junction of two earlier tube railway schemes, the station was opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR). The station entrances and below ground circulation were largely reconstructed for the introduction of escalators and the opening of Central line platforms in 1933, making the station the only interchange between the lines. Before 1994, Holborn was the northern terminus of the short and little-frequented Piccadilly ...
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Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was a German-born British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. The son of Ernst L. Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement moved to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer. He became known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. Freud was the longest serving panellist on the BBC Radio 4 panel show '' Just a Minute'', appearing in each of the first 143 episodes, and making subsequent regular appearances up until his death in 2009. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament in 1973, retaining his seat until 1987, when he received a knighthood. In 2016, seven years after his death, three women made public allegations of child sexual abuse and rape by Freud, which led to police investigations. Early life Clement Freud was born Clemens Rafael Freud in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst L. Freud (an architect) and Lucie Fr ...
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Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (5 October 1920 – 12 September 2005) was a British film and television actor. His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army. Though never a major star, he appeared in over a hundred television and film productions over a forty-year period, including as King Arthur in ''The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'' in the mid-1950s, and ''General Hospital'' in the early 1970s. He appeared in ''Danger Man'' and twice in ''Doctor Who'', as Commander Radnor in ''The Seeds of Death'' (1969) and as Commander Stevenson in ''Revenge of the Cybermen'' (1975); and starred as Colonel Buchan in every episode of the 1960s and 1970s children's TV series ''Freewheelers''. Later he appeared in "You Lose Some, You Win Some", an episode of series 2 of ''Minder''. His film appearances included ''The League of Gentlemen'' (1960), ''Le Mans'' (1971) and ''The Omen'' (1976). In his later years he was a familiar sight at the ...
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Trevor Reid
Trevor Reid (25 January 190816 April 1965) was an English actor. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He acted in 47 films from 1938 to 1965. He died at age 57 in London. Selected filmography * ''Dangerous Cargo'' (1954) - Watson * ''Meet Mr. Callaghan'' (1954) - Det. Inspector Gringall * ''Delayed Action'' (1954) - Goodman (uncredited) * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) - Commissioner * '' The Gilded Cage'' (1955) - Inspector Brace * ''The Hornet's Nest'' (1955) - Detective Sergeant Filson * ''The Narrowing Circle'' (1956) -Inspector 'Dumb' Crambo * ''Private's Progress'' (1956) - Adjutant (uncredited) * ''Bond of Fear'' (1956) - Dover Police Inspector * '' Behind the Headlines'' (1956) - Bunting * ''Satellite in the Sky'' (1956) - Simmons - Technician (uncredited) * ''How to Murder a Rich Uncle'' (1957) - Inspector Harris * ''A Question of Adultery'' (1958) - Reporter (uncredited) * ''Bobbikins'' (1959) - Cavendish (uncredited) * ''Piccadilly Third Stop'' (1960) - Bride's ...
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Charles Kay
Charles Kay (born Charles Piff, 31 August 1930) is an English actor. Early life Kay was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the son of Frances (née Petty) and Charles Beckingham Piff. Originally educated at Warwick School, Kay went on to study medicine, then decided to train for the stage. He went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and in 1957, after graduation, joined the Radio Drama Company by winning the Carlton Hobbs Bursary.Carlton Hobbs Bursary winners
at BBC.co.uk, accessed 23 January 2018 He went on to join the at the

Ann Lynn
Elizabeth Ann Lynn (7 November 1933 – 30 August 2020) was a British actress, especially prominent during the British New Wave of the 1960s, appearing in many films that represented what is known as kitchen sink realism. Lynn's career spanned 40 years and included roles in many British TV series, including ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1956), ''The Vise'' (1959–1960), ''Danger Man'' (1965), ''The Saint'', ''Gideon's Way'' (1965), ''Public Eye'' (1966), ''The Champions'' (episode: ''The Body Snatchers'') (1969), ''Family at War'' (1972), ''Special Branch'' (1973), ''Just Good Friends'', ''Minder'' and ''Only Fools And Horses''. Film Lynn's films included ''Flame in the Streets'' (1961); ''Strongroom'' (1961); '' A Shot in the Dark'' (1964); '' Four in the Morning'' (1965); ''I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967); ''Baby Love'' (1968); and ''Screamtime'' (1983), alongside Dora Bryan and Robin Bailey. Personal life Lynn was a grand niece of the comedy actor Ralph Lynn. S ...
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Dennis Price
Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949) and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories. Biography Early life Price was born in Ruscombe in Berkshire. He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price (1875–1949) CMG DSO (who was a great-grandson of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet and, through his mother, a descendant of the Baillie baronets of Polkemmet, near Whitburn, West Lothian) and his wife Dorothy, née Verey, daughter of Sir Henry Verey, Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature."Mr Dennis Price – An actor of style", ''The Times'', 8 October 1973, p. 19Gaye, p. 1076 He attended Copthorne Prep School, Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford. He studied acting at the Embassy Theatre ...
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William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the First Doctor, first incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' from 1963 to 1966. In film, Hartnell notably appeared in ''Brighton Rock (1948 film), Brighton Rock'' (1949), ''The Mouse That Roared (film), The Mouse That Roared'' (1959) and ''This Sporting Life'' (1963). He was associated with military roles, playing Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the ITV sitcom ''The Army Game'' (1957, 1961) and Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character in the first ''Carry On'' film ''Carry On Sergeant'' (1958). Early life Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908 in the slums of the district of St Pancras, London, England, the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. Hartnell never discovered the identity of his father, whose particulars were left blank on his birth certificate, despite his efforts to trace him. In various intervie ...
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London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent ceremonial counties of England, counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway. Opened on 10 January 1863, it is now part of the Circle line (London Underground), Circle, District line, District, Hammersmith & City line, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. The first line to operate underground electric locomotive, electric traction trains, the City & South London Railway in 1890, is now part of the Northern line. The network has expanded to 11 lines, and in 2020/21 was used for 296 million passenger journeys, making it List of metro systems, one of the world's busiest metro systems. The 11 lines collectively handle up to 5 million passenger journeys a day and serve 272 ...
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Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End of London, West End. Toponymy Knightsbridge is an ancient name, spelt in a variety of ways in Saxon and Old English, such as ''Cnihtebricge'' (c. 1050); ''Knichtebrig'' (1235); ''Cnichtebrugge'' (13th century); and ''Knyghtesbrugg'' (1364). The meaning is "bridge of the young men or retainers," from the Old English ''cniht'' (genitive case plural –a) and ''brycg''. ''Cniht'', in pre-Norman days, did not have the later meaning of a warrior on horseback, but simply meant a youth. The allusion may be to a place where ''cnihtas'' congregated: bridges and wells seem always to have been favourite gathering places of young people, and the original bridge was where one of the old roads to the west crossed the River Westbourne. However, there is possibly a more spec ...
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Embassy
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes an embassy, which is the main office of a country's diplomatic representatives to another country; it is usually, but not necessarily, based in the receiving state's capital city. Consulates, on the other hand, are smaller diplomatic missions that are normally located in major cities of the receiving state (but can be located in the capital, typically when the sending country has no embassy in the receiving state). As well as being a diplomatic mission to the country in which it is situated, an embassy may also be a nonresident permanent mission to one or more other countries. The term embassy is sometimes used interchangeably with chancery, the physical office or site of a diplomatic mission. Consequently, the terms "embassy reside ...
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