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Robert Hartley
Robert Hartley (1915-1998) was a British stage, film and television actor. Selected filmography Film * ''At the Stroke of Nine'' (1957) * '' Bread'' (1971) Television * ''Z-Cars'' (1962–1974) * '' The Avengers'' (1963) * ''David Copperfield'' (1966) * '' The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (1970, played Bishop Fox, episode 'Catherine of Aragon') * '' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'' (1971–73) * ''New Scotland Yard'' (1972) * ''The Onedin Line'' (1972) * '' Lillie'' (1979) * '' Crown Court'' (1973, played defendant Dominic Collins in episode 'Infanticide or Murder') * ''Prince Regent'' (1979) * '' A Kind of Loving'' (1982) * ''Grange Hill ''Grange Hill'' is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running progra ...'' (1979–1983) * '' The Charmer'' (1987) * '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (played a coroner in an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Stroke Of Nine
''At the Stroke of Nine'' is a 1957 British crime film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Patricia Dainton, Stephen Murray, Patrick Barr and Dermot Walsh. The plot follows a high-flying female journalist who is kidnapped by a madman. He forces her to write articles about him and threatens to kill her. Cast * Patricia Dainton - Sally Bryant * Stephen Murray - Stephen Garrett * Patrick Barr - Frank * Dermot Walsh - MacDonnell * Clifford Evans - Inspector Hudgell * Leonard White - Thompson * Reginald Green - Toby * Alexander Doré - Carter * Leonard Sharp - News Vendor * Robert Hartley - Westcott * Frank Atkinson - Porter * William Moore - Campion * Marianne Stone - Secretary * George Lee - Young Reporter * William Hepper - Clerk * Donald B. Edwards - Gray Reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kind Of Loving (TV Series)
''A Kind of Loving'' is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. It has also been translated into a film of the same name, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. Published in 1960, ''A Kind of Loving'' was the first of a trilogy, published over the course of sixteen years, that followed hero Vic Brown through marriage, divorce and a move from the mining town of Cressley to London. The other two parts are ''The Watchers on the Shore'' (1966) and ''The Right True End'' (1976). Plot summary The story presents to us Vic Brown, a young working class man from Yorkshire, England, who is slowly inching his way up from his working-class roots through a white-collar job. Vic finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend Ingrid's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town. The story is about love and loneliness. Vic meets and is very attracted to the beau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Television Actors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Stage Actors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Film Actors
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors From Liverpool
Male (Mars symbol, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including Homo sapiens, humans, sex is determined genetics, genetically; however, species such as ''Cymothoa exigua'' change sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a '' femme fatale''; she quickly become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV Series)
''Upstairs, Downstairs'' is a British television drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV. It ran for 68 episodes divided into five series on ITV from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse at 165, Eaton Place in Belgravia in central London, the series depicts the servants—"downstairs"—and their masters, the family—"upstairs"—between the years 1903 and 1930, and shows the slow decline of the British aristocracy. Great events feature prominently in each episode but minor or gradual changes are also noted. The show may be regarded as a document of the social and technological changes that occurred during those 27 years, including the Edwardian period, women's suffrage, the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Wall Street Crash. It was a ratings success for ITV and received outstanding acclaim worldwide, winning multiple awards. A BBC Wales and ''Masterpiece''-produced continuation, ''Upstairs Downstairs'', was broadcast by BBC One in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charmer (TV Series)
''The Charmer'' was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV, and loosely based on the 1953 novel '' Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse'' by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 1:45 a.m. from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05 a.m. It was broadcast in the US on '' Masterpiece Theater'' starting April 30, 1989. Cast *Nigel Havers – Ralph Ernest Gorse *Rosemary Leach – Joan Plumleigh-Bruce *Bernard Hepton – Donald Stimpson *Fiona Fullerton – Clarice Mannors * George Baker – Harold Bennett *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grange Hill
''Grange Hill'' is a British Children's television series, children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical Comprehensive school (England and Wales), comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running programmes on British television when it ended on 15 September 2008 after 31 series. It was created by Phil Redmond, who is also responsible for the Channel 4 dramas ''Brookside (television programme), Brookside'' and ''Hollyoaks''; other notable production team members down the years have included Television producer, producer Colin Cant and script editor Anthony Minghella. The show was cancelled in 2008, having run every year for 30 years. It was felt by the BBC that the series had run its course."BBC to shut g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Regent (TV Series)
''Prince Regent'' is a British period television series made and transmitted by the BBC in 1979. It depicts the life of George IV from his youth time as prince regent and his reign as King. It consists of eight episodes of 50 minutes. The series stars Peter Egan as George IV throughout his youth, regency, and first year of his reign, with Nigel Davenport as King George III, and Susannah York as Maria Fitzherbert. It was primarily directed by Michael Simpson, with Michael Hayes directing the fourth episode, and primarily written by Robert Muller, as well as Nemone Lethbridge, Ian Curteis, and Reg Gadney in other episodes. Episodes Cast * Peter Egan as George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV * Nigel Davenport as King George III * Keith Barron as Charles James Fox * Frances White as Queen Charlotte * Susannah York as Maria Fitzherbert * Dinah Stabb as Princess Caroline, later Queen Caroline * Bosco Hogan as Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany * David Horovitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bread (1971 Film)
''Bread'' is a 1971 British film directed by Stanley Long. The BFI called it "an unusual mixture of pop festival documentary and saucy teen comedy." It was the first film Long directed and he would direct most of his subsequent films. Long called it "a terrible film in a way." Plot Some friends leave a musical festival and squat on the estate of a rich man. They get permission to stay there provided they paint the house. The friends decide to organise a pop festival. Cast *Anthony Nigel as Mick *Peter Marinker as Jeff *Dick Haydon as Trev *Noelle Rimmington as Cathy *Liz White as Marty *Yocki Rhodes as Terry *Michael McStay as Rafe *Penny Brahms as Jan *Sean Lynch as Danny Production The movie was financed by the backers of ''Groupie Girl''. The film was based on the real life exploits of the co writer Suzanne Mercer. The film opens with footage from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival. Long says the distributors were "really into sex films" and "didn't quite understand the pop cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
