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Peter Bowles
Peter Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an English television and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as '' Callan: A Magnum for Schneider'' and ''I, Claudius''. He is however, best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television dramadies, including: ''Rumpole of the Bailey'', '' Only When I Laugh'', ''To the Manor Born'', ''The Bounder'', ''The Irish R.M.'', ''Lytton's Diary'', ''Executive Stress'' and ''Perfect Scoundrels''. Early life and education Bowles was born in London, England. His father, Herbert Reginald Bowles, was a valet-companion and chauffeur to Drogo Montagu, son of the George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich, and later butler to Montagu’s widow, a daughter of Lord Beaverbrook. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Harrison), was from Scotland, and served as a nanny to the family of the Duke of Argyll, before working for Beaverbrook's family in England, which is how they met. In October 1939, the family lived in Brackley, Northa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Magnum For Schneider
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Tobacco industry, tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Nottingham is a tourist destination; in 2018, the city received the second-highest number of overnight visitors in the Midlands and the highest number in the East Midlands. In 2020, Nottingham had an estimated population of 330,000. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taste Of Excitement
''Taste of Excitement'' is a 1970 British mystery thriller film directed by Don Sharp and starring Eva Renzi, David Buck and Peter Vaughan. It was shot during 1968 on location around Nice on the French Riviera, but not given a general release until 1970. It had an X certificate for violence and brief nudity. In the United States it was released under the alternative title ''Why Would Anyone Want to Kill a Nice Girl Like You?''. Premise A series of attempts are made on the life of a young woman. Cast *Jane Kerrell - Eva Renzi *Paul Hedley - David Buck *Inspector Malling - Peter Vaughan *Hans Beiber - Paul Hubschmid *Michela - Sophie Hardy *Miss Barrow - Kay Walsh *Mr Breese - Francis Matthews *Dr Forla - George Pravda *Alfredo Guardi - Peter Bowles *Police Inspector - Alan Rowe *Mr Camot, French Detective - Alan Barry *French Police Officer - Tom Kempinski *Hotel Proprietor - Yves Brainville *Receptionist - Catherine Berg Production ''Taste of Excitement'' was based on Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Oliver (judge)
Sir Roland Giffard Oliver, MC (5 May 1882 – 14 March 1967) was an English barrister and High Court judge. Biography Early life and legal career Roland Oliver was the third son of Edmund Ward Oliver of Orlestone, Kent. He was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained second-class honours in Jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1909 and joined the South-Eastern Circuit. He was the pupil, and then the devil, of Travers Humphreys (later Mr Justice Humphreys) whose son, Christmas Humphreys, would later become Oliver's own pupil. During the First World War, Oliver served with the Royal Field Artillery, and received the Military Cross. In 1921, he was appointed Third Junior Prosecuting Counsel for the Crown at the Central Criminal Court, and thereafter he took part in many notable criminal trials. These included the 1922 trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters for murder, and the "Mr A." case, which aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughter In The Dark (film)
''Laughter in the Dark'' (french: La Chambre obscure) is a 1969 French-British romantic drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina. It was based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Plot For the film, the story's setting was changed from 1930s Berlin to the Swinging London of the 1960s. A wealthy married 40-year-old art critic called Sir Edward More (Nicol Williamson) falls in love with a sixteen-year-old girl called Margot (Anna Karina). However, she later cheats on him with another man (Jean-Claude Drouot) which eventually leads to him losing his eyesight while they argue in his car about it and crash into another car when he finds out about it. She continues with the affair but as Edward is now blind, she can have it right in front of him. Eventually, he finds out about the still ongoing affair and confronts her with a gun. But she fatally shoots him with it and then runs off while his dead body lies on the floor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Assassination Bureau
''The Assassination Bureau Limited'' (also known as ''The Assassination Bureau'' in the United States) is a 1969 British Technicolor black comedy adventure film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens. It was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures and is based on Jack London's unfinished novel, ''The Assassination Bureau, Ltd'', posthumously published in 1963. Unlike the novel, which is set in the United States, the film is set in Europe. ''The Assassination Bureau Limited'' was the penultimate film of Basil Dearden. Plot In London, in 1908, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed) for £20,000 after being bankrolled by her employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968 Film)
''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' is a 1968 British DeLuxe Color satirical war film made by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists, depicting parts of the Crimean War and the eponymous charge. It was directed by Tony Richardson and produced by Neil Hartley. Its animated credits and linking passages were created by Richard Williams, drawing on the satirical use of Victorian-era jingoistic images. This film features Richardson's daughters Natasha and Joely in their debuts. Plot The film is about the folly of war, and the poor state of the British Army and its leadership during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Britain had not fought in a European theatre since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and the army had become sclerotic and bound by bureaucracy. Tactical and logistical methodology had not advanced in forty years, and the whole ethos of the army was bound in outmoded social values. The anti-hero is a relatively competent officer, Captain Louis Nola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blowup
''Blowup'' (sometimes styled as ''Blow-up'' or ''Blow Up'') is a 1966 mystery drama thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story " Las babas del diablo" (1959). The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non- diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. The film is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, ''Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isadora Duncan, The Biggest Dancer In The World
''Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World'' is a BBC Television film based on the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan first broadcast on 22 September 1966. The film was directed and produced by Ken Russell and written by Sewell Stokes and Russell. It starred Vivian Pickles and Peter Bowles. Plot The film is a biopic of American dancer Isadora Duncan. Cast * Vivian Pickles as Isadora Duncan * Peter Bowles as Paris Singer * Alexei Jawdokimov as Sergei Yessenin * Murray Melvin as Photographer * Jeanne Le Bars as Wilma * Alita Naughton as Journalist * Sandor Elès as Bugatti * Michael Palin as Jazz Band Undertaker (uncredited) * Eric Idle as Jazz Band Chauffeur (uncredited) Production Sewell Stokes, a friend of the dancer towards the very end of her life when she was penniless and alone, wrote a memoir of his conversations with her, shortly after her death, entitled ''Isadora, an Intimate Portrait'' (1928). He narrates this film. Two years after the first broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be The Malpas Mystery while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see ''German crimis''), there was no atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Hats For Lisa
''Three Hats for Lisa'' or ''One Day in London'' is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Joe Brown, Sid James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs and Dave Nelson. Plot Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet Lisa Milan, an Italian movie star, at Heathrow airport. She travels with them and their taxi driver in search of some typically British hats. The rule of the game is to steal a hat from its wearer. Lisa wants a bobby's helmet, a businessman's bowler, and the bearskin cap off a palace guard. A musical chase ensues around Swinging Sixties London, evading press and police. Cast * Joe Brown - Johnny Howjego * Sophie Hardy - Lisa Milan * Una Stubbs - Flora * Sid James - Sid Marks * Dave Nelson - Sammy * Peter Bowles - Pepper * Seymour Green - Signor Molfino * Josephine Blake - Miss Penny * Jeremy Lloyd - Guards Officer * Michael Brennan - Police Sergeant * Eric Barker - Station Sergeant * Howard Douglas - Cinema caretaker * Dickie Ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Informers (1963 Film)
''The Informers'' (US title - ''Underworld Informers'') is a 1963 British crime film produced and distributed in the UK by The Rank Organisation and distributed in the USA by Continental Film Distributors. It was directed by Ken Annakin and produced by William MacQuitty, with the screenplay by Paul Durst and Alun Falconer from the novel ''Death of a Snout'' by Douglas Warner. It stars Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Harry Andrews, Derren Nesbitt and Colin Blakely. Cinematography was by Reginald H. Wyer. It was filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London. Plot The story concerns the uneasy relationship between a Scotland Yard Detective, Johnnoe, and the Squad Chief, Bestwick, over the formerly traditional use of " snouts" (paid informants). Despite being told that these should no longer be used and to adopt more scientific principles of detection, Johnnoe continues to do so until one of his informants is murdered. He again disobeys orders and pursues his own lines of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
