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Privates On Parade (film)
''Privates on Parade'' is a 1982 film adaptation of the Peter Nichols play of the same name about a fictional – and mostly gay – military entertainment group, the "Song and Dance Unit, Southeast Asia" assembled to entertain the troops in the Malayan jungle during the Malayan Emergency. Cast and characters * John Cleese – Maj. Giles Flack * Denis Quilley – Capt. Terri Dennis * Nicola Pagett – Sylvia Morgan * Patrick Pearson – Sgt. Steven Flowers * Michael Elphick – Sgt. Maj. Reg Drummond * David Bamber – Sgt. Charles Bishop * Bruce Payne – Flight Sgt. Kevin Cartwright * Tim Barlow – Commanding Officer * Ishaq Bux – Sikh Doorman * Steve Dixon – Drummer * David Griffin – Infantry Officer in the Bush * Peter Hutchinson – Trumpet Player * Jasper Jacob – Bass Player * Simon Jones – Sgt. Eric Young-Love * Brigitte Kahn – Mrs. Reg Drummond * Robin Langford – Electrician * Joe Melia – Sgt. Len Bonny * William Parker – Armed Escort * Neil Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blakemore
Michael Howell Blakemore OBE, AO (born 18 June 1928) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director who has also made a handful of films. A former Associate Director of the National Theatre, in 2000 he became the only individual to win Tony Awards for best Director of a Play and Musical in the same year for ''Copenhagen'' and ''Kiss Me, Kate''. Biography Early life and career Blakemore was born in Sydney, Australia, son of Conrad Howell Blakemore and his wife, Una Mary Litchfield. He married English actress Shirley Bush. Blakemore was educated at The King's School, Sydney, and went on to study medicine at the University of Sydney. Blakemore's first job in the theatre was as press agent for Robert Morley during the Australian tour of '' Edward, My Son'', who advised him to try drama school. In 1950 he came to London, enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and trained as an actor until 1952. He made his first professional stage appearance in 1952 at the Theatre Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishaq Bux
Ishaq Bux (15 June 1917 – 2 September 2000) was an Indian actor. His first screen appearance was in BBC TV's ''The English Family Robinson'', in 1957. On stage, he appeared with the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in Tony Harrison's ''Phaedra Britannica'' in 1975. He is best remembered by his roles of Omar in '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981) and the fakir in '' Octopussy'' (1983). Bux was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in July 2000 and died in a London hospice on 2 September 2000, aged 83. Career Film *''Nine Hours to Rama'' (1963) - Gardener *'' Man in the Middle'' (1963) - Indian bearer *'' Inadmissible Evidence'' (1968) - Watson's Guest *''Leo the Last'' (1970) - Supermarket Manager *''The Raging Moon'' (1971) - Pakistani *'' The Horseman'' (1971) - Amjad Kahn (uncredited) *'' The Vault of Horror'' (1973) - Fakir (segment 3 "This Trick'ill Kill You") *''S*P*Y*S'' (1974) - Indian Agent (uncredited) *''Barry McKenzie Holds His Own'' (1974) *''The Rocky H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there. Early life Canby was born in Chicago, the son of Katharine Anne (née Vincent) and Lloyd Canby. He attended boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, with novelist William Styron, and the two became friends. He introduced Styron to the works of E.B. White and Ernest Hemingway; the pair hitchhiked to Richmond to buy '' For Whom the Bell Tolls''. He became an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve on October 13, 1942, and reported aboard the Landing Ship, Tank 679 on July 15, 1944. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on January 1, 1946, while on LST 679 sailing near Japan. After the war, he attended Dartmouth College, but did not graduate. Career He obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Wong (UK Actor)
Vincent Wong born ''Vivian Warren Chen'' (4 February 1928 – 13 March 2015) was a British-Chinese actor who had a long career (over 50 years) in television and films. He acted in four James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ... films and in two Batman films. Filmography Films TV series References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Vincent 1928 births 2015 deaths British male stage actors British male television actors British people of Chinese descent 20th-century British male actors 21st-century British male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Standing
Sir John Ronald Leon, 4th Baronet (born 16 August 1934) is an English actor and baronet who is known as John Standing. He is the stepson of John Clements. Early life Standing was born in London, the son of Kay Hammond (née Dorothy Katherine Standing), an actress, and Sir Ronald George Leon, 3rd Baronet; a stockbroker descended from Sir Herbert Leon, the builder of Bletchley Park. He succeeded his father as the 4th baronet in 1964, but does not use the title. The Leon family were, until 1937, owners of Bletchley Park, the country house in Buckinghamshire used in the Second World War as a code-breaking centre. He was educated at Eton College and Millfield School, Somerset, later serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a second lieutenant, before going to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Career He began his career in Peter Brook's 1955 production of ''Titus Andronicus'' starring Laurence Olivier and wife Vivien Leigh and later played leading parts in Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Sands
Julian Richard Morley Sands''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005'' Retrieved 4 May 2014. (born 4 January 1958) is an English actor based in the United States. He is known for his roles in films such as '''', '''', '''', '' |
John Quayle (actor)
John Quayle (born 21 December 1938) is an English actor who had roles in many sitcoms including ''All Gas and Gaiters'', ''Terry and June'', ''Steptoe and Son'' and ''The Liver Birds''. TV career Quayle's first main TV role was that of Jim Hawkins in the 1951 BBC serialisation of ''Treasure Island'' alongside Bernard Miles as Long John Silver. He also appeared in a 1952 episode of ''Billy Bunter'' of ''Greyfriars School''. His roles in the 1960s included appearances in ''The Power Game'' and ''No Hiding Place''. He also appeared in a 1964 episode of '' Coronation Street'' as an army bomb disposal officer. He appeared in the sitcom ''All Gas and Gaiters'' in 1970. Later appearances included ''Steptoe and Son'', ''The Liver Birds'', ''Doomwatch'', ''The Dick Emery Show'', '' The Good Life'', ''The Duchess of Duke Street'', '' Happy Ever After'', ''Rising Damp'', ''Citizen Smith'', ''Mind Your Language'' and ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin''. Quayle also made numerous appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Pearson
Neil John Pearson (born 27 April 1959) is a British actor, known for his work on television. He was nominated for the 1994 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for '' Between the Lines'' (1992–1994). His other television roles include ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' (1990–1998), '' All the Small Things'' (2009), '' Waterloo Road'' (2014–2015), and '' In the Club'' (2014–2016). His film appearances include all three of the ''Bridget Jones'' films. He is also an antiquarian book dealer who specialises in the expatriate literary movement of Paris between the World Wars. Early life Pearson grew up in Battersea and Balham, London. His father, a panel beater, left home when he was five; his mother was a legal secretary. He was a boarder at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, Suffolk, where he first learned to act. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1977 to 1980. Stage, television and film work One of Pearson's early appearances was in 1984 alongside Leonard R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Melia
Joe Melia ( Giovanni Philip William Melia; 23 January 1935, Camden, London - 20 October 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) was a British actor. Educated at the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English, he first came to notice in Peter Nichols’s ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' (Glasgow Citizens, 1967). Filmography Film * '' Too Many Crooks'' (1959) - Whisper * ''Follow a Star'' (1959) - Stage Manager * ''The Intelligence Men'' (1965) - Conductor * '' Four in the Morning'' (1965) - Friend * ''Modesty Blaise'' (1966) - Crevier * '' Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969) - The Photographer * '' A Talent for Loving'' (1969) - Tortillaw * '' Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972) - Messenger No. 1 * '' Sweeney!'' (1977) - Ronnie Brent * ''Leonardo's Last Supper'' (1977) * ''The Odd Job'' (1978) - Head Waiter * '' The Wildcats of St Trinians'' (1980) - Flash Harry * ''Privates on Parade'' (1982) - Sergeant Len Bonny * '' The Sign of Four' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Langford
Robin W. J. Langford (12 September 1953 – 22 November 2014) was an English actor, writer and director. His acting work included with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company in Stratford-upon-Avon; at the Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia at the age of 12; and in his first film, '' The Comedians'', at the age of 12, as Elizabeth Taylor’s son (with Richard Burton, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Peter Ustinov). He subsequently played many film and television roles, as well as directed in the theatre. Notable TV credits include the leading role in a BBC adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''The Black Arrow''; as well as appearances in ''The Duchess of Duke Street'', ''Smiley's People'', ''The Tripods'' and ''War and Peace ''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...''. Filmogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Kahn
Brigitte Kahn is a German-born British actress who has appeared on several television shows in the UK. She is well known for her part in the '' Star Wars'' film ''The Empire Strikes Back'', where she plays an originally unnamed rebel officer who was later named Toryn Farr in other Star Wars media, as one of three female characters with a speaking part in the original Star Wars trilogy other than Princess Leia. Kahn played Dagmar in ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet''. Other TV credits include: '' Secret Army'', ''The Sandbaggers'', ''The Gentle Touch'', '' The Professionals'', '' C.A.T.S. Eyes'', ''Taggart'', ''The Bill'' and ''The New Statesman''. She starred as the German Baroness in the film ''The Remains of the Day''. She played Hippolyta In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte (; grc-gre, Ἱππολύτη ''Hippolytē'') was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' ''zoster'', the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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