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Port Afrique
''Port Afrique'' is a 1956 British drama film based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Bernard Victor Dryer (1918–1995). The colour film was directed by Rudolph Maté and the adapted screenplay was written by John Cresswell. The film was made at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Wilfred Shingleton. It was filmed on location in the Casbah in Algiers and in Tangiers and Morocco. Synopsis Set in July 1945, the film tells the story of a returning American pilot named Rip Reardon who lost his leg during the war and a young woman, Ynez, who is accused of the murder of Rip's wife. Cast * Pier Angeli as Ynez * Philip Carey as Rip Reardon * Dennis Price as Robert Blackton * Eugene Deckers a Colonel Moussac * James Hayter (actor), James Hayter as Nino * Anthony Newley as Pedro * Richard Molinas as Captain * Christopher Lee as Franz Vermes * Guy De Monceau as Police Driver * Jacques Cey as Waiter * Dorothy White as Berber Girl * Denis Shaw as Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté (born Rudolf Mayer; 21 January 1898 – 27 October 1964) was a Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood in the mid 1930s. Life and career Born in Kraków (then in the Grand Duchy of Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Poland) into a Jewish family, Maté began in the film business after his graduation from the Eötvös Loránd University, University of Budapest. He worked as an assistant cameraman in Hungary and later throughout Europe, sometimes with colleague Karl Freund. Maté worked on several of Carl Th. Dreyer's films, including ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' (1928) and ''Vampyr'' (1932). He worked as cinematographer on Hollywood films from the mid-1930s, including ''Dodsworth (film), Dodsworth'' (1936), the Laurel and Hardy feature ''Our Relations'' (1936) and ''Stell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangiers
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Ṭanja-Aẓila Prefecture of Morocco. Many civilisations and cultures have influenced the history of Tangier, starting from before the 10th centuryBCE. Between the period of being a strategic Berber town and then a Phoenician trading centre to Morocco's independence era around the 1950s, Tangier was a nexus for many cultures. In 1923, it was considered as having international status by foreign colonial powers and became a destination for many European and American diplomats, spies, bohemians, writers and businessmen. The city is undergoing rapid development and modernisation. Projects include tourism projects along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Leech (actor)
George Leech (6 December 1921 – 17 June 2012) was a British film actor and stunt performer who was notable for his work on eleven James Bond films. Biography Leech was born in London and left school at 14. He was a boxer who won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 as a welterweight and he joined the Royal Navy in 1943. Film career His first job in movies was performing a stunt involving falling down steps doubling for James Mason in ''Odd Man Out'' (1947). He was notable for his contributions to James Bond films from 1962 to 1985 as a stunt performer and in small acting roles (usually as a henchman) including: '' Dr. No'' (1962), '' Goldfinger'' (1964), '' Thunderball'' (1965), '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (1969), where he was promoted to stunt arranger when Bob Simmons was working on another film, '' For Your Eyes Only'' (1981), and ''A View to a Kill'' (1985). He also worked on '' The Guns of Navarone, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Kelly's Heroes, The Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Taylor (actor)
Larry Taylor (13 July 1918 – 6 August 2003) was an English actor and stuntman. He spent a dozen years in the army before World War II. After demobilization he got a job in the film industry. He was the father of Rocky Taylor. Taylor mainly played villainous supporting roles in dozens of UK films and television episodes from the 1950s until the early 1970s, when he moved to South Africa in the mid-1970s, and from then on he appeared in a mixture of international movies filmed there and domestic South African films and television episodes. Selected filmography * '' The Captive Heart'' (1946) - Sergeant (uncredited) * '' No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' (1948) - Cop (uncredited) * '' Silent Dust'' (1949) - Lorry driver in flashback sequence (uncredited) * '' The Glass Mountain'' (1949) - Sleeping Man (uncredited) * ''Cardboard Cavalier'' (1949) - Rider (uncredited) * ''The Case of Charles Peace'' (1949) - Prison Guard on train (uncredited) * ''Dick Barton Strikes Back'' (1949) - Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Connell
Maureen Connell (born 2 August 1931) is a British actress. Personal life On 20 July 1956, Connell married British film director, writer and producer John Guillermin. They resided in the Los Angeles area beginning 1968. They had two children, Michelle and Michael-John, the latter of whom died in 1984 in a car accident in Truckee, California. Selected filmography * '' Golden Ivory'' (1954) * ''Port Afrique'' (1956) * '' The Rising of the Moon'' (1957) * ''Lucky Jim'' (1957) * ''Town on Trial'' (1957) * ''Kill Her Gently'' (1957) * '' The Abominable Snowman'' (1957) * '' Stormy Crossing'' (1958) * '' The Man Upstairs'' (1958) * '' Next to No Time'' (1958) * ''The Crowning Touch'' (1959) * ''Never Let Go'' (1960) * '' Danger by My Side'' (1962) * '' Skyjacked'' (1972) Television * ITV Television Playhouse (1955) * The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1956) (Episode 4: 'A Tale of Two Pigtails') * ''Espionage (TV series)'' ('Snow on Mount Kama', episode) (1964) (as Eva Marston) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Maranne
André Maranne (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-English actor best known for playing roles in English-language films beginning in the mid-1950s. Life and career Born André Gaston Maillol in Toulouse, France, Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six of ''The Pink Panther'' films alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Before the Pink Panther, he appeared as a French officer in ''The War Lover'' (1962) and had a cameo role in the James Bond movie '' Thunderball'' (1965). He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Merton Park Studios' ''Scotland Yard'' (as a gendarme in 1956 episode "Wall of Death" and credited as André Maillol & the 1957 episode "Night Crossing" as Detective Nouvel credited as Andre Maranne), '' Jason King'' ("Wanna buy a television series?", 1971), ''Fawlty Towers'' (as André in the 1975 "Gourmet Night" episode), ''Lord Peter Wimsey'' ("Clouds of Witness", 1972), ''Yes Minister'' (as European Agricultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Lorraine
Guido Lorraine (2 September 1912 – 31 December 2009) was a Polish-born actor, musician and singer, known primarily for his roles in war films. He was also sometimes known by the stage name Guy Borucki. Lorraine appeared in twenty-eight films during his career, as well as many theatre productions. Lorraine was born Gwidon Alfred Gottlieb in present-day Kraków, Poland in 1912. He studied at the School of Foreign Trade in Lwów (Lviv), where he sang in restaurants to earn money. He learned to play the accordion and piano as a child. Lorraine founded a military theatre group during World War II. He is credited as the first singer to perform the song, "Red Poppy Flowers of Monte Cassino", in public. He adopted the pseudonym Guy Borucki after World War II and moved to London. He appeared on BBC radio, television and film. His film credits during the era included ''Hotel Sahara'' in 1951, 1955's ''The Colditz Story'' and ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's'' in 1957. He also starred in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Gurney
Rachel Gurney (5 March 1920 – 24 November 2001) was an English actress. She began her career in the theatre towards the end of World War II and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active, mostly in television and theatre work, into the early 1990s. She is best remembered for playing the elegant Lady Marjorie Bellamy in the ITV period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Biography Early life and education Rachel Gurney was born in Buckinghamshire, England on 5 March 1920. Her father, Samuel Gurney Lubbock, was a housemaster at Eton ''The Daily Telegraph'', 29 November 2001 and her mother, , was a concert pianist. Due to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Shaw
Denis Shaw (7 February 1921 – 28 February 1971) was a British character actor specialising in slimy villains. Born in Dulwich as Douglas Findlay Shaw, he was a rotund man, with dark, wavy hair and slanty eyes. This appearance meant he would often be found troubling countless heroes of the 1950s and 1960s on film and television, most memorably as the German guard Priem in ''The Colditz Story'' (1955). Alternatively, he could also be found propping up the tavern bar in a number of British horror films. These include ''Jack the Ripper'' (1959), ''The Mummy'' (1959) and ''The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1961). He was cast in the leading role of '' The Great Van Robbery'' (1959) as the judo-throwing Interpol detective Caesar Smith. In the film he travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome, and Paris, tracking the robbers of a Royal Mint van. Shaw's many television credits include, ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', '' The Avengers'', ''Danger Man'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Prisoner'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor and singer. In a long career spanning more than 60 years, Lee often portrayed villains, and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films, ultimately playing the role nine times. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film '' The Man with the Golden Gun'' (1974), Count Dooku in several ''Star Wars'' films (2002–2008), and Saruman in both the ''Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' film trilogy (2012–2014). Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. He credited three films for making his name as an actor, ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1958), in which he played the villainous marquis, and two horror films, ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), and '' Dracula'' (1958). He considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Molinas
Richard Molinas (17 November 1911 – 1975) was a British stage and film actor. A character actor, he appeared in a number of supporting role A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo ap ...s in postwar British cinema as well as occasional television appearances. Filmography References Bibliography * James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Hollywood on Hollywood''. Scarecrow Press, 1978. External links * 1911 births 1975 deaths British male film actors People from London {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Top 40 chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for " What Kind of Fool Am I", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote " Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been performed by a wide variety of artists including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbara Streisand, Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey. With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley won an Academy Award for the film score of ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971), featuring "Pure Imagination", which has been covered by dozens of artists. He collaborated with John Barry on the title song for the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'' (1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
