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So Little Time (film)
''So Little Time'' is a 1952 British World War II romantic drama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring Marius Goring, Maria Schell and Lucie Mannheim. The film is based on the novel ''Je ne suis pas une héroïne'' by French author Noëlle Henry. ''So Little Time'' is unusual for its time in portraying its German characters in a mainly sympathetic manner, while the Belgian Resistance characters are depicted in an aggressive, almost gangster-type light. So soon after the war, this was not a narrative viewpoint British audiences and critics expected in a British film and there was considerable protest about the film's content. Marius Goring considered it as one of his favourite films and was a rare romantic leading role for him, though one of several films in which he played a German officer. The film was made at Elstree Studios with sets designed by Edward Carrick. Location shooting was done over twenty days in Belgium and the Château de Sterrebeek at Zoutleeuw (Léau) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compton Bennett
Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an England, English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film ''The Seventh Veil'' and the 1950 version of the film ''King Solomon's Mines (1950 film), King Solomon's Mines'', an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story. Biography Bennett was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells, England. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a band leader and a commercial artist before trying his hand at amateur filmmaking. One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda's London Films in 1932. There, he became a film editor; later he would help make instructional and propaganda films for the British armed forces during World War II. Bennett's films tended to be sombre, but were very popular with the moviegoing public. In 1946, Bennett accepted an invitation to go to Cinema of the United States, Hollywood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoutleeuw
Zoutleeuw (; french: Léau ) is a municipality and city in the Hageland, in the extreme east of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. On 1 January 2018 the municipality had 8,498 inhabitants. The total area is 46.73 km2, giving a population density of 182 inhabitants per km2. The name ''Leeuw'' means "lion", to which ''Zout'' ("salt") was added from the 16th century in recognition of the town's right to levy a salt tax. In 1999, UNESCO included the historical St. Leonard's Church as part of the World Heritage Site Belfries of Belgium and France The Belfries of Belgium and France are a group of 56 historical buildings designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, in recognition of the civic (rather than church) belfries serving as an architectural manifestation of emerging civic indep .... Other centres As well as Zoutleeuw proper, the municipality also comprises the '' ancienne communes'' of: *Budingen *Dormaal * Halle-Booienhoven *Helen-Bos *Ossenweg References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Frees
Wolf Frees, also credited as Wolfgang Müller-Frees, (8 October 1909 – 1974) was a German actor from Potsdam who worked in the British film industry. Frees left Germany in the mid-1930s as his wife was Jewish and persecuted by the Nazis.Frithjof Trapp et al. (Hrsg.): Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheaters 1933-1945. K.G. Saur Verlag, München 1999, . In films he usually played German military men. He had roles in '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), ''Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' (1962), Dr. Zhivago (1965) and The Saint The Saint may refer to: Fiction * Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", the protagonist of a book series by Leslie Charteris and subsequent adaptations: ** ''The Saint'' (film series) (1938–43), starring Louis Hayward, George Sanders an ... TV series in the 1960s. His last acting credit dates to 1971. Filmography References External links Wolf FreesKinotv) 1909 births 1974 deaths German male film actors German male television act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Mullard
Arthur Ernest Mullard (né Mullord; 19 September 1910His obituary in ''The Times'' gives his date of birth as 10 November 1910 but conflicts with the birthdate given in his death registration. His year of birth appears as 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1913 in various sources. However online records ashow that the birth of an Arthur E Mullord was registered in Islington in October–December 1910, which is probably him. – 11 December 1995) was an English actor and singer. Following military service and a brief boxing career, Mullard found work as a cockney character actor in film and TV comedy, notably in the series ''Romany Jones''. Early life Mullard was born to a humble background in Islington, London, named Arthur Mullord. He started work at the age of 14 as a butcher's assistant and joined the army at 18. It was there that he began boxing, becoming champion of his regiment. When he left the army after three years, he had a short stint at boxing professionally. This ended after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Geidt
Charles Jeremy Wollaston Geidt (25 February 1930 – 6 August 2013) was a British-born American stage actor, comedian and acting coach. He was a Professor of Acting at Yale University, and later at Harvard University, being a founding member of both the American Repertory Theater and the Yale Repertory Theatre. Biography Jeremy Geidt was born in London in 1930, to financier Frederick Bernard Geidt, (1892-1955) and (Caroline) Audrey Willmer (1897-1992), daughter of Charles P. White, , a physician to the Royal Family. His first cousin, Mervyn Bernard Geidt (1926-1991), was father of Christopher Geidt, Baron Geidt, private secretary to Elizabeth II from 2007 to 2017. Diagnosed as dyslexic in his youth, he left Wellington College at the age of 16. He auditioned and was accepted into The Old Vic School, where he would later teach under Michel Saint-Denis. He married, had a daughter with actress Patricia Kneale, and divorced. Around 1961, after appearing in stage and television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lang (actor)
Harold Lang (1923 – 16 November 1970) was a RADA-trained British character actor of stage and screen. During the 1950s, in particular, played many sly or menacing roles in B-films. At one time he managed his own theatrical company. From 1960, Lang, a devotee of Stanislavski, also taught acting at Central School of Speech and Drama; and director John Schlesinger filmed his work in a documentary, ''The Class'', for BBC TV's Monitor, in 1961. Partial filmography * ''The Man from Morocco'' (1945) – Soldier (uncredited) * '' Floodtide'' (1949) – Mac – the draughtsman (uncredited) * '' The Spider and the Fly'' (1949) – Belfort – The Pickpocket * ''Cairo Road'' (1950) – Humble * '' The Franchise Affair'' (1951) – Bus inspector * ''Calling Bulldog Drummond'' (1951) – Stan (uncredited) * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) – Mickie Fraser / Kid Python * ''Wings of Danger'' (1952) – Snell, the blackmailer * ''So Little Time'' (1952) – Lt. Seger * '' It Started in Paradise'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Lowe
Olga Lowe (14 September 1919 – 2 September 2013) was a British film, stage and television actress. She made her film debut in an uncredited role in the 1949 film ''Trottie True''. Described by ''The Stage'' as "an actress of extraordinary versatility," her credits included ''EastEnders'', ''Where Eagles Dare'', ''Carry On Abroad'', ''Steptoe and Son Ride Again'' and ''The Riddle of the Sands (film), The Riddle of the Sands''. Biography Lowe, who was of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side, was born in Durban, Union of South Africa, South Africa. Her father, Charles Lowe, led the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. She first moved to London from South Africa in 1935. She worked in Brazil as part of Carmen Miranda's cabaret, and in 1942 survived the torpedoing of her ocean liner, ''City of New York'', by a German submarine whilst returning to South Africa. After the Second World War, she returned to the United Kingdom and worked in regional Repertory theatre, rep, before appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Melly
Andrée Melly (15 September 1932 – 31 January 2020) was an English actress. Career Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, she performed at the Old Vic in ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and T.S. Eliot’s ''Murder in the Cathedral'' in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play '' Hot Summer Night'', a production which was later adapted for the ''Armchair Theatre'' series in 1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known interracial kiss on television. She continued to appear on British television until 1991. Her other stage work includes the original West End production of the farce '' Boeing-Boeing'' at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 with David Tomlinson and as Alice "Childie" McNaught in ''The Killing of Sister George'' at St Martin's in 1966. Melly appeared in British films, including the comedy '' The Belles of St. Trinian's'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Quitak
Oscar Morris Quitak (born 10 March 1926) is a British stage, film and television actor. Quitak's stage work includes roles at the Old Vic and the National Theatre; as well as the original West End and Broadway productions of the musical '' Pickwick'', in 1963 and 1965. His television credits include: ''Z-Cars'', ''Man in a Suitcase'', ''Doomwatch'', '' Ace of Wands'', ''Colditz'', '' The Changes'', '' The New Avengers'', ''Open All Hours'', ''Kessler'' as Josef Mengele, ''Chessgame'', ''Howards' Way'', ''A Very British Coup'', ''Yes, Prime Minister'', ''Saracen'', ''Lovejoy'' and '' Telltale''. Personal life Quitak lived in Ibiza with his wife of 62 years, the actress Andrée Melly, who died on 31 January 2020. The marriage produced two children. Partial filmography *'' The Guinea Pig'' (1948) - David Tracey *''It's Hard to Be Good'' (1948) - Man in Town Hall (uncredited) *''Cairo Road'' (1950) - Bedouin Boy *'' The Dark Man'' (1951) - 2nd Reporter *''Hell Is Sold Out'' (1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hurst
David Hurst (born Heinrich Theodor Hirsch; 8 May 1926 – 15 September 2019) was a German actor, best known for his role in the film ''Hello Dolly! (film), Hello, Dolly'' as Rudolph the headwaiter. Biography Early life and career Hurst grew up in a family of actors. As a Jewish child living in 1930s Germany, he faced persecution from the Nazi regime. After the pogroms of Kristallnacht, the British government allowed for the rescue of Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig. He was one of the nearly 10,000 children in 1938–1939 moved with the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom. He was separated from his mother at 12 years old, and never saw her again. Housed in a manor in Northern Ireland, he lived with other young emigrants in the care of the family of an estate manager. His first stage experience was in Belfast at a repertory theatre, where he also changed his name from Heinrich Hirsch to David Hurst. During the Second W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Mullen
Barbara Mullen (9 June 19149 March 1979) was an American born actress well known in the UK for playing the part of Janet McPherson, the housekeeper in ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook''. Although the role of Janet brought her fame in later years, she already had made her mark in the theatre. Mullen's parents were Pat and Bridget. Pat was from a fishing family on Inishmore island off the coast of County Galway, Ireland. He met his first wife, Bridget in South Boston, Massachusetts, where she had emigrated from Galway with her late husband, Patrick Crowe. Mullen was born in Boston. She made her stage debut as a dancer at the age of three. When her father returned to Aran, later contributing to the making of ''Man of Aran'', the classic documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, her mother stayed in the U.S. to bring up the 8 children. Mullen sang and danced in various theatres all over the U.S. and then moved to the UK in 1934, where she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gestapo
The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the (SiPo; Security Police). From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). It became known as (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organisation to the (SD; Security Service). During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Holocaust. After the war ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials. History After Adol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
