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Someone At The Door (play)
''Someone at the Door'' is a British comedy thriller play by Campbell Christie and Dorothy Christie which was first staged in 1935, and ran successfully at the Aldwych, New and Comedy theatres in London's West End. Original cast *Ronnie Martin - Henry Kendall *Bill Reid - Ivan Samson *Price - George Devine *P.C. O'Brien - Gilbert Davis *Harry Kapel, J.P. - Basil Radford *Sergeant Spedding - Walter Fitzgerald *Stranger - Frank Chaytor *Sally Martin - Diana Churchill Adaptations The play has been adapted twice into films. In 1936 '' Someone at the Door'' directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Aileen Marson and Billy Milton and in 1950 '' Someone at the Door'' directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin and Garry Marsh. It was also made into a 1939 television film for the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Christie (writer)
Campbell Christie (1893–1963) was an Indian-born British playwright and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with his wife Dorothy Christie on plays such as '' Carrington V.C.'', ''His Excellency'' and '' Someone at the Door''. Early life "Campbell Manning Christie was born at Murree in the Punjab on October 8, 1893, the younger son of Archibald Christie. He attended Clifton Preparatory School from April 1901 to June 1902 and then re-entered the college as a junior in January 1905, and left in September 1911." His brother, Archie Christie, married Agatha Christie. Career "From July 11, 1940 to October 21, 1941 Christie was a Brigadier and Commander, Royal Artillery of 53 (Welch) Division and from October 22, 1941 to December 11, 1942 was Brigadier, Royal Artillery, VIII Corps. As a Major General he was General Officer Commanding, Anti-Aircraft Defenses, Malta from December 12, 1942 to May 23, 1944. On May 16, 1946 he retired as a Major General. During his career he rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Churchill (actress)
Diana Josephine Churchill (21 August 19138 October 1994) was an English actress. Churchill was a crisp, classy blonde with blue eyes who appeared in several British films, playing the sardonic heroine in a handful of comic chillers during the early 1930s. She was mainly a theatre actress into the war years and after, an actress for "all theatrical seasons" who was "renowned for her versatility in playing Shakespeare, Restoration comedy, farce, Chekhov and revue". Early life and education Churchill was born on 21 August 1913 in Wembley, London, where her family resided in Crawford House. One of three sisters, she was the daughter of Ethel Mary Churchill (née Nunn), of the substantial "Nunn" coal merchant family, and Joseph Henry "Harry" Churchill, a doctor of medicine. She is of distant relation to Winston Churchill and his daughter, Diana, who was also an actress. Her father descended from a younger brother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who "had an affair with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Marsh
Garry Marsh (21 June 1902 – 6 March 1981) was an English stage and film actor. Born Leslie Marsh Gerahty in St Margarets, Surrey, his parents were George and Laura. His elder brothers were the author Digby George Gerahty and the journalist Cecil Gerahty. Marsh began acting on the stage at the age of fifteen. He started off in films as a leading man but later became a character actor playing self-important roles. During the War he served as a Flying Officer in the RAF. In the mid-1950s, he chronicled his wartime adventures in North Africa in the memoir ''Sand in My Spinach''. Marsh married Adele Lawson in 1920 in Kensington, London. He married for the second time to Muriel Martin-Harvey in 1926 in Chelsea, London before divorcing in 1935. Selected filmography * '' Long Odds'' (1922) – Pat Malone * '' Night Birds'' (1930) – Archibald Bunny * ''The Professional Guest'' (1931, Short) – Seton Fanshawe * ''Uneasy Virtue'' (1931) – Arthur Tolhurst * '' Third Time Luc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Medwin
Michael Hugh Medwin, OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer. Life and career Medwin was born in London. He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940. Medwin's West End theatre credits include ''Man and Superman'', ''The Rivals'', ''Love for Love'', ''Duckers and Lovers'', ''Alfie'', ''St Joan of the Stockyards'', and '' What the Butler Saw''.Biographical note for Michael Medwin, from programme for ''Noises Off'', Savoy Theatre, December 1984. At the National Theatre he played a season which included ''Weapons of Happiness'' (Ralph Makepeace), ''Volpone'' (Corvino) and ''The Madras House''. He appeared in ''Black Ball Game'' at the Lyric Hammersmith. He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of ''Noises Off'' in the early 1980s. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Searle
Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer. He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry. Amongst the films he directed were ''The Lady Craved Excitement'' (1950), '' One Way Out'' (1955) and '' It All Goes to Show'' (1969). Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1972. Selected filmography * ''A Girl in a Million'' (1946) * ''Things Happen at Night'' (1947) * '' Man in Black'' (1949) * '' Celia'' (1949) * ''A Case for PC 49'' (1951) * ''Cloudburst'' (1951) * ''Love's a Luxury'' (1952) * '' Never Look Back'' (1952) * ''Profile'' (1954) * ''Undercover Girl'' (1958) * ''The Diplomatic Corpse'' (1958) * ''Freedom to Die'' (1961) * '' Ticket to Paradise'' (1961) * ''Gaolbreak'' (1962) * ''Emergency'' (1962) * ''Dead Man's Evidence'' (1962) * ''Night of the Prowler'' (1962) * ''The Marked One ''The Marked One'' is a 1963 British crime film directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone At The Door (1950 Film)
''Someone at the Door'' is a 1950 British crime comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh and Yvonne Owen. Basis The film was based on Someone at the Door (play), a hit West End play by Campbell Christie (writer), Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy, which had Someone at the Door (1936 film), previously been turned into a film in 1936. Plot A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place. Cast * Michael Medwin as Ronnie Martin * Garry Marsh as Kapel * Yvonne Owen as Sally Martin * Hugh Latimer (actor), Hugh Latimer as Bill Reid * Danny Green (actor), Danny Green as Price * Campbell Singer as Inspector Spedding * John Kelly as Police Constable Critical reception The ''Radio Times'' wrote, "this is Hammer hokum of the hoariest kind. There isn't a semblance of suspense...Not even the arrival of jewel thieves at the haunted house... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Milton
Billy Milton (8 December 190522 November 1989) was a British stage, film and television actor. Born in Paddington, Middlesex, (now in London), as William Thomas Milton, he was the son of Harry Harman Milton (1880-1942), a commission agent, and his wife Hilda Eugenie Milton, née Jackson, (1878-1935). Partial filmography *'' The Flag Lieutenant'' (1927) - (uncredited) *'' Young Woodley'' (1931) - Vining *''The Man from Chicago'' (1931) - Barry Larwood *'' The Great Gay Road'' (1931) - Rodney *''The Dressmaker of Luneville'' (1932) *''Three Men in a Boat'' (1933) - Jimmy *''Aunt Sally'' (1933) - Billy *''Music Hath Charms'' (1935) - Jack Lawton *'' King of the Castle'' (1936) - Monty King *''Once in a Million'' (1936) - Prince *'' Someone at the Door'' (1936) - Ronnie Martin *'' A Star Fell from Heaven'' (1936) - Douglas Lincoln *'' No Escape'' (1936) - Billy West *'' Aren't Men Beasts!'' (1937) - Roger Holly *''The Dominant Sex'' (1937) - Alec Winstone *''Spring Handicap'' (1937) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aileen Marson
Aileen Marson (13 September 1912 – 4 May 1939) was a British stage and film actress. Born in Egypt where her father was a consular official with the diplomatic service, she travelled extensively due to her father's job (including a stay in Bucharest) and spoke five languages including Arabic. She came to England with her family when she was 13. Winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she appeared in regional and West End plays, (including mounting her own productions), and also starred in a number of leading roles in British films. She toured South Africa with Seymour Hicks where she met her husband, Jack Scott, a Johannesburg businessman, who she married in 1937. She died at the age of 26 in a London nursing home less than a day after giving birth to twins - a boy and a girl. Filmography * ''The Green Pack'' (1934) * '' Road House'' (1934) * ''Lucky Loser'' (1934) * '' Passing Shadows'' (1934) * '' My Song for You'' (1934) * '' The Way of Youth'' (1934) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s. Brenon was among the early filmmakers who, before the rise of corporate film production, was a genuine “auteur”, controlling virtually all creative and technical components in crafting his pictures. The quality of Brenon's artistic output rivaled that of film pioneers D. W. Griffith. Brenon was among the first directors to achieve celebrity status among moviegoers for his often spectacular cinematic inventions. Among his most notable films are Neptune's Daughter (1914), Peter Pan (1925), A Kiss for Cinderella (1925), and the original film version of Beau Geste (1926). Early life Brenon was born at 25 Crosthwaite Park, in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Dublin to Edward St. John Brenon, a journalist, poet, and politician and his wife Francis Harries. In 1882, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someone At The Door (1936 Film)
''Someone at the Door'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Aileen Marson, Billy Milton, Noah Beery, John Irwin and Edward Chapman. A journalist comes up with a scheme to boost his career by inventing a fake murder but soon becomes embroiled in trouble when a real killing takes place. It is based on a successful West End play by Campbell Christie and his wife Dorothy. Plot When penniless Sally (Aileen Marson) inherits a decrepit country manor, formerly her childhood home, she moves in with her younger brother Ronald (Billy Milton). An ambitious young journalist, Ronald comes up with an outlandish scheme to get his first big story. He plans to hide Sally in the house, to fake her death, and then get himself arrested for her murder. When Sally suddenly reappears at his trial, it will prove his innocence, and leave Ronald to supply his paper with an exclusive story. However, the siblings uncover a real mystery when they become mixed up with jewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Fitzgerald
Walter Fitzgerald Bond (18 May 1896 – 20 December 1976) was an English character actor. Early life Born in Stoke, Plymouth, Fitzgerald was a former stockbroker before he began his theatrical training at RADA. He joined the British Army during World War I, serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, the Devonshire Regiment, and the Somerset Light Infantry. Career Fitzgerald made his professional stage bow in 1922 and his first film appearance in 1930. He toured with Sir John Martin-Harvey and Sir Seymour Hicks. He was understudy to Sir Gerald du Maurier (1928–29). Fitzgerald appeared in films from the 1930s, often in 'official' roles (policemen, doctors, lawyers). He appeared on British television in the 1950s and 1960s before his retirement. His best-remembered film roles include Simon Fury in ''Blanche Fury'' (1948), Dr. Fenton in '' The Fallen Idol'' (1948), and Squire Trelawney in ''Treasure Island'' (1950). In the opening scenes of '' H.M.S. Defiant'' (1962) he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Christie
Campbell Christie (1893–1963) was an Indian-born British playwright and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with his wife Dorothy Christie on plays such as ''Carrington V.C. (play), Carrington V.C.'', ''His Excellency (play), His Excellency'' and ''Someone at the Door (play), Someone at the Door''. Early life "Campbell Manning Christie was born at Murree in the Punjab on October 8, 1893, the younger son of Archibald Christie. He attended Clifton Preparatory School from April 1901 to June 1902 and then re-entered the college as a junior in January 1905, and left in September 1911." His brother, Archie Christie, married Agatha Christie. Career "From July 11, 1940 to October 21, 1941 Christie was a Brigadier and Commander, Royal Artillery of 53 (Welch) Division and from October 22, 1941 to December 11, 1942 was Brigadier, Royal Artillery, VIII Corps. As a Major General he was General Officer Commanding, Anti-Aircraft Defenses, Malta from December 12, 1942 to May 23, 1944. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
