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Shadow Of The Noose
''Shadow of the Noose'' is a BBC television legal drama series about the life and career of barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall. It starred Jonathan Hyde as Marshall Hall; Michael Feast as his clerk, Edgar Bowker; Leslee Udwin as Henriette Marshall Hall; and Terry Taplin as solicitor Arthur Newton. All eight episodes were written by Richard Cooper, produced by Colin Tucker, and first transmitted between 1 March and 19 April 1989 on BBC Two. It was a co-production with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Television New Zealand. Main cast * Jonathan Hyde as Edward Marshall Hall * Michael Feast as Edgar Bowker * Leslee Udwin as Henriette Marshall Hall * Terry Taplin as Arthur Newton * Trevor Ray as Harry Bishop * Julian Firth as Wellesley Orr * Gary Files as Mr. Justice Wills * Phil McCall Phil McCall (born Philip McColl; 26 November 1925 – 29 January 2002) was a Glaswegian actor who appeared in numerous films and television productions over a 40-year period. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legal Drama
A legal drama is a genre of film and television that generally focuses on narratives regarding legal practice and the justice system. The American Film Institute (AFI) defines "courtroom drama" as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film's narrative. Legal dramas have also followed the lives of the fictional Lawyer, attorneys, defendants, plaintiffs, or other persons related to the practice of law present in television show or film. Legal drama is distinct from Police procedural, police crime drama or detective fiction, which typically focus on police officers or detectives investigating and solving crimes. The focal point of legal dramas, more often, are events occurring within a courtroom, but may include any phases of legal procedure, such as jury deliberations or work done at law firms. Some legal dramas Film à clef, fictionalize real cases that have been litigated, such as the play-turned-movie, Inherit the Wind (play), ''Inherit the Wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Duffett
Nicola Duffett (born 22 January 1963) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Debbie Bates on ''EastEnders'' and Cat MacKenzie on ''Family Affairs''. Career Duffett had a supporting role in the Oscar-winning film ''Howards End'' (1992) by James Ivory. She is known for two long-running soap opera roles. After appearing as Debbie Bates in ''EastEnders'' from 1993 to 1995, she went into the role of boozy floozie Cat Matthews in ''Family Affairs''. Cat first appeared in ''Family Affairs'' in late 1998, and was a key character in the show's story lines until the series ended in December 2005. She has appeared on stage in Simon Gray's ''Simply Disconnected'' at Chichester Festival Theatre; as Titania in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Helen of Troy in ''Troilus and Cressida'' at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; and in ''Coming Up'' by James Martin Charlton at the Warehouse Theatre. Duffett also took part in the reality series ''Celebrity Fit Club'', and appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bradley (English Actor)
David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'', Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series ''The Strain'', and for voicing Merlin in Guillermo del Toro’s animated Netflix series ''Tales of Arcadia'' (for which he won an Annie Award for Best Voice Actor in a Television Series). A character actor, Bradley's screen roles include parts in ''Our Friends in the North'' (1996), the ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy and '' After Life'' (2019–2022). He has made several appearances as the First Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2017–2022), having portrayed the role's originator, William Hartnell, in the docudrama ''An Adventure in Space and Time'' (2013). An alumnus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bradley is also an established stage actor, with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of ''King Lear'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Quentin
Caroline Quentin (born Caroline Jones; 11 July 1960) is an English actress, broadcaster and television presenter. Quentin became known for her television appearances: portraying Dorothy in ''Men Behaving Badly'' (1992–1998), Maddie Magellan in ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2000), and DCI Janine Lewis in '' Blue Murder'' (2003–2009). Early life Quentin was born in Reigate, Surrey, to Kathleen Jones and her husband Fred, a Royal Air Force pilot. She has three older sisters. She was educated at the independent Arts Educational School, in Tring, Hertfordshire, and appeared locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival. Career Television One of her earliest roles was in the Channel 4 comedy drama ''Hollywood Hits Chiswick'', alongside Derek Newark as W.C. Fields. Between 1992 and 1998, Quentin appeared as Dorothy in all 42 episodes of the sitcom ''Men Behaving Badly''. From 1997 until 2000, Quentin starred alongside Alan Davies in ''Jonathan Creek'' playing investigative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Riotta
Vincenzo Ricotta (born 14 October 1959), professionally known as Vincent Riotta, is a British actor. Career Riotta studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He went on to perform in various stage plays, such as Shakespeare's ''Romeo'', which was held at the Young Vic, Tennessee Williams' ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', held at the Leicester Haymarket. Also, the twin roles of ''The Corsican Brothers'' at the Abbey in Dublin, and the lead role of ''Fridays at Seven'' at the Court Theatre in West Hollywood. His more notable television appearances include UK soap ''Coronation Street'', ''The Bill'' (1990, series 6 episode 52 ''Close to Home'') for Thames Television, '' New Tricks'' (2013, series 10 episode ''Rock the Boat'' parts one & two) for the BBC, '' JAG'' for NBC, ''Monk'' for USA Network, and ''Alias'' for ABC. In 2016 Riotta appeared in British mystery series ''Endeavor.'' Riotta's film credits include the independent mafia film ''Al Capone'', for which he won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny ( ; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom ''Blackadder''. Early life McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world. Career Television McInnerny's first role was in ''Blackadder'' during the 1980s. He played the two bumbling related aristocrats with the same name of Lord Percy Percy in the first series (''The Black Adder'') and the second series (''Blackadder II''); he declined to appear in the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode and retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Brook
Irina Brook (born 5 April 1962) is a Franco-British stage director, producer, and actress. She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 by the French Ministry of Culture. In May 2017 Brook was upgraded to Officier de l'ordre des Arts et Lettres and awarded the Légion d'honneur. Personal life Brook was born in Paris to film and theatre director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry and grew up between England and France. Her family is of Lithuanian Jewish descent. She was educated at Bedales School and went to New York City to study drama with Stella Adler. Career She played in several off-Broadway shows, including the lead in ''Irish Coffee''. She returned to Paris to act in her father's production of ''The Cherry Orchard'' followed by Molière's ''Dom Juan'' at the Bouffes du Nord. She then moved to London, where she appeared in films, TV (including an episode of Bergerac 'My Friend Charlie' in 1990) and theatre productions. Her film roles include '' The Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rintoul
David Rintoul (born David Wilson; 29 November 1948) is a Scottish stage and television actor. Rintoul was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, and won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Theatre career Rintoul has worked extensively in theatre with companies including the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. His appearances have included Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', '' Henry IV'', ''As You Like It'', and the title role in ''Macbeth''. Other stage appearances include George Bernard Shaw's '' Candida'' and '' Funny Girl''. In 2010 he played Charles Dickens in ''Andersen's English'', the new play by Sebastian Barry. Selected theatre roles *''Epsom Downs'', Joint Stock Theatre Company, 1977 *''The Speculator'' by David Greig – 1999 Traverse Theatre production at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, played John Law, and other roles *''Remembrance of Things Past'', Cottesloe and Olivier th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell
John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, known as Frank Russell (12 August 18653 March 1931), was a British nobleman, barrister and politician, the elder brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, and the grandson of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who was twice prime minister of Britain. The elder son of Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, Russell became well-known for his marital woes, and was convicted of bigamy before the House of Lords in 1901, the last peer to be convicted of an offence in a trial by the Lords before that privilege of peerage was abolished in 1948. Russell was raised by his paternal grandparents after his unconventional parents both died young. He was discontented living with his grandparents, but enjoyed four happy years at Winchester College. His academic education came to a sudden end when he was sent down from Balliol College, Oxford, probably because authorities there had suspicions concerning the nature of his relationship with the future p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal Libel
Criminal libel is a legal term, of English origin, which may be used with one of two distinct meanings, in those common law jurisdictions where it is still used. It is an alternative name for the common law offence which is also known (in order to distinguish it from other offences of libel) as "defamatory libel" or, occasionally, as "criminal defamatory libel". It is also used as a collective term for all offences which consist of the publication of some prohibited matter in a libel (in permanent form), namely defamatory libel, seditious libel, blasphemous libel and obscene libel. The common law offences of seditious libel, defamatory libel, and obscene libel were abolished in England and Wales and Northern Ireland on 12 January 2010 when section 73 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 came into force, blasphemous libel having already been abolished in England and Wales on 8 July 2008 by the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siân Phillips
Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips ( ), is a Welsh actress. She has performed the title roles in Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabler'' and George Bernard Shaw's '' Saint Joan''. Early life Phillips was born on 14 May 1933 in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales, the daughter of Sally (''née'' Thomas), a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker who became a policeman. She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography ''Private Faces'' (1999) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio. Phillips attended Pontardawe Grammar School and originally was known there as Jane, but her Welsh teacher called her Siân, the Welsh form of Jane. Later she took up English and philosophy at University College Cardiff. Phillips graduated from the University of Wales in 1955. She entered the RADA with a scholarship in September 1955, the same year as Diana Rigg and Glen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
