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Robert Lang (actor)
Robert Lang (24 September 1934 – 6 November 2004) was an English actor. Early life Lang was born in Bristol, the son of Richard Lionel Lang and Lily Violet (née Ballard). He was educated at Fairfield Grammar School and St Simon’s Church School. Career His TV credits include ''Out of the Unknown'' ("Deathday", 1971), ''That Was The Week That Was'', '' Thriller'' (1 episode, 1974), '' The New Avengers'' ("The Last of the Cybernauts?", 1976), ''1990'', Raffles - The Last Laugh (1977), ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' (1979), '' Tales of the Unexpected'' (1979), ''King Lear'' (1983), ''Confessional'' (1989), ''Under the Hammer'' (1994), ''Rasputin'' (1996), ''A Dance to the Music of Time'' (1997), ''The Forsyte Saga'' (2002), '' Our Mutual Friend'' (1998), and '' Heartbeat'' (2002). He also appeared in ''The Return of the Borrowers'', as Mr Platter in 1993. His films include ''Interlude'' (1968), '' Dance of Death'' (1969), ''A Walk with Love and Death'' (1969), ''The House That Drip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England. The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as (Old English: 'the place at the bridge'). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497, John Cabot, a Venetia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Servant Of Destiny
Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low luminance. This is because the hue sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina are inactive when light levels are insufficient, in the range of visual perception referred to as scotopic vision. The emotional response to darkness has generated metaphorical usages of the term in many cultures, often used to describe an unhappy or foreboding feeling. Referring to a time of day, complete darkness occurs when the Sun is more than 18° below the horizon, without the effects of twilight on the night sky. Scientific Perception The perception of darkness differs from the mere absence of light due to the effects of after images on perception. In perceiving, the eye is active, and the part of the retina that is unstimulated produces a complementary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shout At The Devil (film)
''Shout at the Devil'' is a 1976 British war adventure film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Lee Marvin and Roger Moore. The film, set in Zanzibar and German East Africa in 1913–1915, is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith which is very loosely inspired by real events (see the sinking of the SMS ''Königsberg''). The supporting cast features Barbara Parkins and Ian Holm. Plot summary Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hearing news that the American has returned to poaching, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his ''Schutztruppe''. Fleischer has his warship ram and sink O'Flynn's Arab dhow loaded with poached ivory. Sebastian and O'Flynn recuperate at O'Flynn's house where Sebastian meets and falls in love with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Watch (1973 Film)
''Night Watch'' is a 1973 mystery thriller film directed by Brian G. Hutton from a screenplay by Tony Williamson, based on the 1972 play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher The film reunited Elizabeth Taylor with co-star Laurence Harvey from their 1960 collaboration ''BUtterfield 8''. It was the last time the pair acted together on screen. Some of the story elements recall the plot outline of the 1944 film ''Gaslight''. Plot One night, during a raging thunderstorm, Ellen Wheeler frantically tells her husband, John, that from the living room window she has seen a murder being committed in the large, old, deserted house next door. John calls the police, but a search of the old house turns up nothing. The next morning, Ellen notices a freshly planted bed of ''Laburnum'' in the garden next to the old house that was not there before. She calls the investigating detective, Inspector Walker, and suggests that the body of the murder victim she witnessed may be buried there. Inspector W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mackintosh Man
''The Mackintosh Man'' is a 1973 British Cold War neo noir spy thriller film, directed by John Huston and starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason. Huston called it "a spy thriller with some amusing moments" that was similar to his earlier ''The Kremlin Letter''. Plot Joseph Rearden, a British Intelligence agent, arrives in London and makes a rendezvous with Mackintosh, the head of his organisation, in a discreet office located just off Trafalgar Square. Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs Smith, inform him of a simple way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service to avoid attention. This he does, apparently getting successfully away after punching a postman, and making off with the diamond-filled parcel. However, that evening, in his hotel room he is paid a visit by two Metropolitan Police detectives who have received an anonymous phone call advising them about the robbery. They are unconvinced by Rearden's pretence to be an innocent Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Messiah (1972 Film)
''Savage Messiah'' is a 1972 British biographical drama film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, made by Russ-Arts and distributed by MGM. It was directed and produced by Ken Russell, with Harry Benn as associate producer, from a screenplay by Christopher Logue, based on the book ''Savage Messiah'' by H. S. Ede. Much of the content of Ede's book came from letters sent between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and his lover Sophie Brzeska. The musical score was by Michael Garrett – though music by Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Prokofiev was also used – and the cinematography by Dick Bush. The sets were designed by Derek Jarman. Cast * Dorothy Tutin as Sophie Brzeska * Scott Antony as Henri Gaudier * Helen Mirren as Gosh Boyle * Lindsay Kemp as Angus Corky * Michael Gough as M. Gaudier * John Justin as Lionel Shaw * Aubrey Richards as Mayor * Peter Vaughan as Museum Attendant * Ben Aris as Thomas Buff * Eleanor Fazan as Mdme. Gaudier * Otto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House That Dripped Blood
''The House That Dripped Blood'' is a 1971 British anthology horror film directed by Peter Duffell and distributed by Amicus Productions. It stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Nyree Dawn Porter, Denholm Elliott, and Jon Pertwee. The film is a collection of four short stories concerning a series of inhabitants of the eponymous building. All of the stories were originally written, and subsequently scripted, by Robert Bloch. Plot ''Framework part 1'' Shortly after renting an old country house, film star Paul Henderson mysteriously disappears and Inspector Holloway ( John Bennett) from Scotland Yard is called to investigate. Inquiring at the local police station, Holloway is told some of the house's history. ''Method for Murder'' (''Fury'' #7, July 1962) Charles Hillyer ( Denholm Elliott), a hack writer who specialises in horror stories, and his wife Alice ( Joanna Dunham), move into the house. Charles begins working on a novel focusing on Dominic, a murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Walk With Love And Death
''A Walk with Love and Death'' is a 1969 American adventure drama historical romance war film directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Assi Dayan. Plot The story is based on the 1961 novel by Hans Koningsberger, set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie. Heron of Fois (Assi Dayan), a student from Paris, crosses territory devastated by the upheaval and the ferocious reprisals of the nobility. He meets with Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the aristocratic daughter of a royal official killed by the peasants, and they attempt to reach Calais. In the novel Heron's intended final destination is Oxford University while in the film "the sea" less specifically comes to represent an abstract freedom. While differing in their views of the ''Jacquerie''—Heron sympathises with the exploited peasantry while Claudia sees their rising as mindless savagery—the young couple become lovers. In the end they fail to escape the chaotic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Of Death (1969 Film)
''The Dance of Death'' is a 1969 film version of the 1900 play ''The Dance of Death'' by August Strindberg as presented by the National Theatre Company. It stars Laurence Olivier and Geraldine McEwan. The play was directed by Glen Byam Shaw, and the film version was directed by David Giles. Olivier reprised the role of Edgar, Geraldine reprised her role of Alice, but Robert Stephens, who played Kurt, was replaced by Robert Lang. Previous filmed National Theatre productions include ''Uncle Vanya'' (1963) and ''Othello'' (1965). Both of these are available on DVD; however, as of 2017, ''The Dance of Death'' has never been released on DVD or video. Plot An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress off the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military life with Edgar, reveals on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, the ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interlude (1968 Film)
''Interlude'' is a 1968 British drama film directed by Kevin Billington and starring Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris and Virginia Maskell.Murphy p.154 The film is a loose remake of the 1957 American film '' Interlude'' directed by Douglas Sirk. It was Maskell's final film as she died in January 1968, five months before its release. Plot A famous male conductor gives an interview to an attractive young female reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and ends up being given an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude, and the accumulation of differences in their ages and background begins to mount. Cast * Oskar Werner as Stefan Zelter * Barbara Ferris as Sally * Virginia Maskell as Antonia * Donald Sutherland as Lawrence * Nora Swinburne as Mary * Alan Webb as Andrew * Bernard Kay as George Selworth * Geraldine Sherman as Natalie Selworth * John Cleese as PR Man * Humphrey Burton as TV Director * Gino Melvazzi as Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of The Borrowers
''The Return of the Borrowers'' is a BBC TV children's programme first broadcast in 1993 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. The series is adapted from the third and fourth novels of author Mary Norton's ''The Borrowers'' series: '' The Borrowers Afloat'' (1959) and '' The Borrowers Aloft'' (1961), respectively. The series is the sequel to ''The Borrowers'', another TV series that first aired in 1992 also on BBC2 and TNT. Like the first series, every episode (except the last one) ended on a cliffhanger. Both series follow the Clocks, a family of tiny people who have fled from their home under the floorboards in an old manor into the English countryside. Plot Once again the Clock Family (a teenage girl named Arrietty and her parents, Pod and Homily), tiny "borrowers" who live in a cottage of regular sized human beings, are forced to find a new place to live when they learn of the upcoming departure of the humans in whose house they reside. Hendreary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbeat (British TV Series)
''Heartbeat'' is a British police procedural period drama series, based upon the "Constable" series of novels written by Nicholas Rhea, and produced by ITV Studios (formerly Yorkshire Television until it was merged by ITV) from 1992 until 2010. The series is set during the 1960s around real-life and fictional locations within the North Riding of Yorkshire, with most episodes focused on stories that usually are separate but sometimes intersect with one another; in some episodes, a singular story takes place focused on a major incident. The programme initially starred Nick Berry, Niamh Cusack, Derek Fowlds, William Simons, Mark Jordon, and Bill Maynard, but as more main characters were added to the series, additional actors included Jason Durr, Jonathan Kerrigan, Philip Franks, Duncan Bell, Clare Wille, Lisa Kay, Tricia Penrose, Geoffrey Hughes, Peter Benson and Gwen Taylor. Production of episodes involved filming of outdoor and exterior scenes around the North Riding, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
