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Railway Children
''The Railway Children'' is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in '' The London Magazine'' during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known. Setting and synopsis The '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' credits Oswald Barron, who had a deep affection for Nesbit, with having provided the plot. The setting is thought to be inspired by Edith's walks to Grove Park nature reserve, close to where she lived on Baring Rd. Grove Park station, near the reserve, now has a mural commemorating this connection. The story concerns a family who move from London to 'The Three Chimneys', a house near a railway, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children, Roberta (nicknamed "Bobbie"), Peter and Phyllis, befriend an old gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15am train near their home; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Railway Children (1970 Film)
''The Railway Children'' is a 1970 British family drama film based on the 1906 novel of the same name by E. Nesbit. The film was directed by Lionel Jeffries and stars Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter (who had earlier featured in the BBC's 1968 dramatisation of the novel), Sally Thomsett and Bernard Cribbins in leading roles. The film was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 21 December 1970. The film rights were bought by Jeffries. It was his directorial debut and he wrote the screenplay. ''The Railway Children'' was a critical success, both at time of release and in later years. Plot The storyline is episodic, reflecting the original serialisation of the novel. In 1905, the Waterburys are an affluent family who live in a luxurious villa in the suburbs of London. Charles Waterbury, the father, works at the Foreign Office. The day after Christmas, he is arrested on suspicion of being a spy. This is hidden from the rest of the family by his wife. The family become impoveri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels/Novel Categorisation
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the foremost Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia. Grieg is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues which depict his image, and many cultural entities named after him: the city's largest concert building (Grieg Hall), its most advanced music school (Grieg Academy) and its professional choir (Edvard Grieg Kor). The Edvard Grieg Museum at Grieg's former home Troldhaugen is dedicated to his legacy. Background Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway (then part of Sweden–Norway). His parents were Alexander Grieg (1806–1875), a merchant and the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JJ Feild
John Joseph Feild (born 1978) is a British-American film, television and theatre actor. He started his television career in 1999. Feild played Fred Garland in Philip Pullman's ''The Ruby in the Smoke'' and ''The Shadow in the North'' television adaptations. In 2007, he starred as Henry Tilney in the television film ''Northanger Abbey''. The following year, he made his West End debut in a production of ''Ring Round the Moon''. From 2014 to 2016, Feild portrayed Major John André in '' Turn: Washington's Spies''. Feild's film credits include ''Telstar'' (2009), '' Captain America: The First Avenger'' (2011), ''Austenland'' (2013), and ''Professor Marston and the Wonder Women'' (2017). Early life and education John Joseph Feild was born in Boulder, Colorado, to English writer and former musician Reshad Feild and his American wife. Feild and his parents moved to London when he was six months old (he says he "never walked in America"). His parents later divorced and both remarried. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Blumenau
Dr. Jack Blumenau (born 22 November 1986) is a British actor and a lecturer. Biography Blumenau was born to casting director Debbie O'Brien, and director/actor Colin Blumenau, so it was natural for him to follow an acting career. He began acting at age 12. He spent his early youth in Ashwell, Hertfordshire, attending Ashwell JMI until 1998, and The Highfield School in Letchworth from 1998 to 2008. Blumenau has two brothers, Dan and Harry. Education In 2009, Bluemanu gained his B.Sc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2012 he gained his M.Phil in European Politics and Society from Oxford University. In 2016 he gained his Ph.D in Political Science from London School of Economics and Political Science. Today, Blumenau is an assistant professor in the Department of political science at University College London. Selected credits Theatre *''Peter Pan'' (2003–04, Savoy) - Peter Pan *'' The Prisoner's Dilemma'' (RSC Barbican) - Jan *''The Pirates of Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Rooper
Jemima Rooper (born 24 October 1981) is a British actress. Having started as a child actress in television series, she has appeared in numerous film and theatre roles. Background Born in Hammersmith, London, Rooper is the daughter of TV journalist Alison Rooper. She attended Redcliffe Primary School in Chelsea, London, Chelsea and the Godolphin and Latymer School. While working on ''The Famous Five (1995 TV series), The Famous Five'', she passed eight General Certificate of Secondary Education, GCSEs with A* and A grades. From there she went to MPW sixth form college where she got three A-grade Advanced Level (UK), A levels. Rooper bought her first home at the age of 19. Early career Rooper expressed a wish to be an actress at the age of nine and contacted an agent. Her first professional roles were in the 1993 film ''The Higher Mortals'' and the 1994 film ''Willie's War''. In 1996, she appeared in all episodes as George in Enid Blyton's ''The Famous Five''. She said: Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was for four decades a network of separate companies which provided regional television services and also shared programmes between each other to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs the ITV1 channel, and STV Group, which runs the STV channel. The ITV network is a separate entity from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. ITV plc holds the Channel 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Douglas (conductor)
Johnny Douglas (19 June 1920 – 20 April 2003) was an English composer, pianist, musical director, conductor, and string arranger primarily working with film scores and orchestras. He recorded more 500 tracks for Decca Records, over 80 albums for RCA Records, and provided music for 36 films during his career. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his soundtrack for the 1970 film ''The Railway Children'' and led RCA'S ''Living Strings'' for many years. In addition to films, Douglas composed and conducted music for television series including ''Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends'', ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''The Incredible Hulk'', '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', and '' The Transformers''. Early years John Henry Douglas was born in the Hackney district of London, England on 19 June 1920, the eldest of two sons. In Douglas' early years, the family moved to Bermondsey, another district of London, where his mother May was a housewife and his father John was later an alderman for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinah Sheridan
Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg; 17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012) was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films ''Genevieve'' (1953) and ''The Railway Children'' (1970); the long-running BBC comedy series '' Don't Wait Up'' (1983–1990); and for her distinguished theatre career in London's West End. Early life and career Sheridan was born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg in Finchley,Brian McFarlane, "Sheridan, Dinah ée Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg(1920–2012)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 201available online Retrieved 26 August 2020. London, to Charlotte Lisa Ginsburg (née Everth; 1893–1966) and James Ginsburg (1893–1958).Barker, DennisDinah Sheridan ''The Guardian'', film obituary. Retrieved 26 November 2012 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Jeffries
Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, director, and screenwriter. He appeared primarily in films and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award nomination during his acting career. Early life Jeffries was born in Forest Hill, London, Forest Hill, south London. Both his parents were social workers with the Salvation Army. As a boy, he attended the Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wimborne Minster in Dorset. In 1945, he received a Queen's Commission, commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served in British Burma, Burma at the Rangoon radio station during the World War II, Second World War, being awarded the Burma Star. (He blamed the humidity there for his hair loss at the age of 19.) He also served as a captain in the Royal West African Frontier Force. Career He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Television Broadcast
Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant proportion of early television programming was never recorded in the first place. Early broadcasting in all genres was live and sometimes performed repeatedly. Due to there being no means to record the broadcast or, later, because the content itself was thought to have little monetary or historical value it was not deemed necessary to save it. In the United Kingdom, early programming was lost due to contractual demands by the actors' union to limit the rescreening of performances. Apart from Phonovision experiments by John Logie Baird, and some 280 rolls of 35mm film containing some of Paul Nipkow television station broadcasts, no recordings of transmissions from 1939 or earlier are known to exist. In 1947, Kinescopes (preserving the image on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Bailey
Gillian Bailey (born 14 June 1955 in Wimbledon, London), also known as Gilli Bush-Bailey, is a British academic and former actress. She was a child actress and appeared as Billie in ''Here Come the Double Deckers'' (1970–71). Other roles included Phyllis in a television version of ''The Railway Children'' (1968), Janey in '' The Witch's Daughter'' (1971), Lavinia in '' Thursday's Child'' (1972–73) and Callie in ''Follyfoot'' (1971–73). As an adult actress she was cast in roles such as Jinny Carter in series 1 of ''Poldark'' (1975), Ravella in the first episode of ''Blake's 7'' " The Way Back" (1978), Southern TV Live: (1980)‘Together’ Julie Dunn and Maureen Galbraith in the BBC TV series ''County Hall'' (1982). In the 1990s she found that work dried up and began working as a script reader. In 1992, she returned to complete her education at Kingston University. After a period at the Drama and Theatre department at the Royal Holloway, University of London she is now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
