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Starr And Company
''Starr and Company'' was a BBC television drama series aired in 1958. It was a soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ..., aired two times a week, Monday and Thursday. 77 episodes were made, of which only a single episode (episode 1) is known to survive. Most of the cast were not known before or after, but there were several well-known players – – either already established or later became well-known. In those times, all programmes were live, there were no telerecordings, no repeats – any repeat was another live programme, sometimes with changes of cast. Episodes References External links * {{Soap operas in the United Kingdom 1950s British television soap operas 1958 Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is '' Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by '' Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lincoln
Henry Soskin (12 February 1930 – 23 February 2022), better known as Henry Lincoln, was a British author, television presenter, scriptwriter, and actor. He co-wrote three '' Doctor Who'' multi-part serials in the 1960s, and — starting in the 1970s — inspired three Chronicle BBC Two documentaries on the alleged mysteries surrounding the French village of Rennes-le-Château (on which he was writer and presenter) — and, from the 1980s, co-authored and authored a series of books of which ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' was the most popular, becoming the inspiration for Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel, ''The Da Vinci Code''. He was the last living person to have written for '' Doctor Who'' in the 1960s. Early career Lincoln was born in London in 1930 and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Under his original name of Henry Soskin, he worked as both screenwriter and supporting actor. In 1964 he wrote one of the episodes of ''The Barnstormers'' (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Collins (English Actor)
Roy Michael Collins (21 May 1922 – 25 December 1979) was an English television actor. He appeared in many British television series and films, which include ''Quatermass II'', ''The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'', ''No Hiding Place'', ''Emergency – Ward 10'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Goldfinger (film), Goldfinger'', ''The Saint (TV series), The Saint'', ''Danger Man'', ''The Newcomers (TV series), The Newcomers'', ''Bear Island (film), Bear Island'' and others. It was later revealed that he did most of the uncredited English-language dubbing for Gert Fröbe's appearances in many of his films such as ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' and ''Goldfinger''. Acting credits References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Michael 1922 births 1979 deaths English male television actors 20th-century English male actors People from Isleworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard White (producer)
Leonard White (5 November 1916 – 2 January 2016) was a British actor and television producer. In the latter role he was responsible for '' The Avengers'' and ''Armchair Theatre''. Early life White was born in Newhaven, East Sussex. His father was a bookmaker and racehorse owner, and his mother ran a wholesale newsagents business. He was introduced to acting by the headmaster of his school, who ran a boys' Shakespearean acting troupe. Career After leaving school, White pursued a career as a stage actor in London. Initially, he supported himself with a clerical job while performing with the Tavistock Repertory Company (now the Tower Theatre Company). During World War II, he served in the British Army in Signals; following the end of World War II in Europe, he did the remainder of his service acting in plays produced by the Army Bureau of Current Affairs. On being demobilised in 1946, he made the transition to full-time professional acting. In 1951 he was one of the original leads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Cast
Edward Raymond Cast (1925–1994) was a British stage, film and television actor. Selected filmography * '' The Dam Busters'' (1955) - Crew Member (uncredited) * ''Private's Progress'' (1956) - Intelligence Officer (uncredited) * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) - Driver - Hucknall (uncredited) * ''Tiger Bay'' (1959) - Det. Con. Thomas * '' Deadly Record'' (1959) - Constable Ryder * '' The Professionals'' (1960) - Clayton * ''Linda'' (1960) - Vicar * ''Payroll'' (1961) - Detective Sergeant Bradden * '' It's All Happening'' (1963) - Hugh * ''Dr. Crippen'' (1963) - Warder Harding * ''Seventy Deadly Pills'' (1964) - Police Constable Weaver * ''Doctor Dolittle'' (1967) - Prison Guard (uncredited) * '' The Chairman'' (1969) - Audio Room Technician * ''10 Rillington Place ''10 Rillington Place'' is a 1971 British crime film. The film stars Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt and Pat Heywood and was directed by Richard Fleischer, produced by Leslie Linder and Martin Ranso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Johnson
Rosemary Johnson (1913–1972) was a British actress. Ann Rosemary Johnson was born on 18 January 1913 in Balham in South West London. She was always known by her second name of Rosemary (and to many of her friends as ‘Rosie’). Her mother, Grace, was the daughter of a Presbyterian Minister, Rev John More. Her father, John Charles Johnson, was a physician and surgeon (practising in the partnership of Ker and Johnson) and from 1912-1919 the family resided at Gothic Lodge, 1 Old Devonshire Road. After the First World War the Johnson family moved to Southbourne in Bournemouth. They lived in Pinewood Lodge, a substantial house in Stourwood Road, a couple of minutes walk from the sea. Rosemary Johnson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from January 1930 to December 1931. Her professional career began in repertory theatre and she is mentioned in ''Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist'' by Oliver Sandys. Johnson worked mostly in repertory theatre and a lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cater
John Edward Cater (17 January 1932 – 21 March 2009) was an English actor. His television credits include: ''Danger Man''; ''Z-Cars''; '' The Avengers''; '' The Baron''; ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''The War Machines''); ''Follyfoot''; '' Softly, Softly''; '' Department S''; ''Up Pompeii!''; ''Dad's Army''; '' The Naked Civil Servant''; ''I, Claudius''; ''Alcock and Gander''; ''The Duchess of Duke Street''; '' Thriller'' (1975), ''The Sweeney''; ''Inspector Morse''; '' Bergerac''; ''One Foot in the Grave''; ''Lovejoy''; ''Jeeves and Wooster''; ''Midsomer Murders'' and ''Doctors''. His film appearances include: '' The Abominable Dr. Phibes'', '' Dr. Phibes Rises Again'' and ''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter ''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter'' is a 1974 British swashbuckling action horror film, written and directed by Brian Clemens, produced by Clemens and Albert Fennell for Hammer Film Productions, and starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane ...''. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Derby (actor)
Brown Derby (5 May 1914 – 17 July 2000) was a Scottish film and television actor. He made his film debut as Edith Evans's footman in Thorold Dickinson's classic '' The Queen of Spades'' (1949). He played Sergeant Roberts, too, in Suspended Alibi. Derby had a regular role as Scott-Erskine in the BBC's ''The Omega Factor'', and also starred in ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Saint'', '' Sutherland's Law'', '' Play for Today'', ''Take The High Road ''Take the High Road'' (renamed ''High Road'' from 1994 to 2003) was a Scottish soap opera produced by Scottish Television, which started in February 1980 as an ITV network daytime programme, and was broadcast until 2003. It was set in the ficti ...'' and many other British television shows. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Derby, Brown 1914 births 2000 deaths Scottish male film actors Scottish male television actors 20th-century Scottish male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Alan Taylor
Kenneth Alan Taylor (born 1937) is a British pantomime writer and actor. He is best known for having played the pantomime dame for thirty years in his own productions at Nottingham Playhouse. Career He started writing Pantoes in 1962 in Oldham, and then moved to the Nottingham Playhouse to write there for more than 30 years. He was artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse for seven years. According to Nick Clark of ''The Stage'' magazine, "He is one of the UK’s foremost pantomime writers, directors and, until recently, dames." He also played Cecil Newton in '' Coronation Street'' from 1987 to 1988 and again in 1990. Awards and recognitionhe was awarded best actor in a lead role MT A for The Father Was also awarded B EM for services to theatre His awards include the Manchester Evening News best supporting actor for Price and a Nottingham University honorary doctor of letters in 2011. In January 2019, Nottingham City Transport named one of their buses after him to m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Dickie
Olga Helen Fowler Dickie (28 August 1900 – 7 March 1992) was a British and later Australian actress best known for her numerous film roles, especially in the horror and suspense genre, and radio announcer. Life and career Dickie was born in British India, to Scottish parents, on 28 August 1900. After living in the UK, and working as a radio announcer, she subsequently appeared in British film productions in cameo type roles from 1949 until 1964 and was best known for her role as ''Gerda'' in the English version of ''Dracula'' starring Sir Christopher Lee in 1958. She emigrated to Australia, where she had roles in TV series and television films from the 1970s onwards, including ''A Country Practice'', ''Return to Eden'' and ''The Flying Doctors'', and in film such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' and a 1987 adaptation of Neville Shute's '' The Far County''. Dickie was married to British actor Patrick Susands in 1927 and divorced, she married Erik Ernest Swann from 1942 until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mahoney
Charles John Mahoney (June 20, 1940 – February 4, 2018) was an English-born American actor. He was known for playing Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'' (1993–2004), and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role in 2000. Mahoney started his career in Chicago as a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company alongside John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He received the Clarence Derwent Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer in 1986. Later that year, his performance in the Broadway revival of John Guare's ''The House of Blue Leaves'' earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Mahoney first became known for his roles in such films as John Patrick Shanley's romantic comedy ''Moonstruck'' (1987), Barry Levinson's comedy ''Tin Men'', John Sayles' sports drama ''Eight Men Out'' (1988), Cameron Crowe's romantic drama '' Say Anything...'' (1989), the Coen brothers' ''Barton Fink'' (1991), and ''The Hudsucker Proxy'' (1994), Clint Eastwood's ''In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forbes-Robertson (actor)
John Forbes-Robertson (10 May 1928 – 14 May 2008) was a British actor best known for being the only actor other than Christopher Lee to play Count Dracula for Hammer Film Productions. He was born in Worthing, Sussex. He was not the son of actor-manager Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, as erroneously stated in the press at the time of his death; he was the grandson of one of Sir Johnston's brothers. He began his acting career on the stage, starting at the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green, before pursuing a film and TV career in the 1950s and 1960s, usually in minor roles, in films such as '' The Battle of the River Plate'' (1956), ''Bunny Lake Is Missing'' (1965) and ''The Spy with a Cold Nose'' (1966). He made two films for Hammer - ''The Vampire Lovers'' (1970), as the Man in Black, and '' The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'' (1974), as Dracula. Other film credits include ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971), '' The Vault of Horror'' (1973), ''Venom'' (1981) and '' Lifeforce'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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