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Sorrell And Son (TV Series)
''Sorrell and Son'' is a British television miniseries which aired on ITV in six, hour-long episodes from 6 to 11 July 1984. The story is taken from the 1925 novel of the same name by Warwick Deeping. The story was previously filmed as a silent film in 1927 and again in 1934. The television miniseries was produced by Yorkshire Television and it starred Richard Pasco and John Shrapnel Plot summary In post-World War I England, impoverished Captain Stephen Sorrell, M.C. (Richard Pasco) must raise his son Kit (Paul Critchley) by himself, after his wife walks out on him. Captain Sorrell's years of devotion and sacrifice for his son come to fruition years in the future. Cast * Richard Pasco as Stephen Sorrell, M.C. (6 episodes) * John Shrapnel as Thomas Roland (6 episodes) * Gwen Watford as Dora Sorrell (4 episodes) * Peter Chelsom as Kit Sorrell (4 episodes) * Prunella Ransome as Fanny Garland (4 episodes) * Sarah Neville as Molly Pentreath (3 episodes) * Michael Trou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Deeping
George Warwick Deeping (28 May 1877 – 20 April 1950) was an English novelist and short story writer, whose best-known novel was '' Sorrell and Son'' (1925). Life Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of physicians, Warwick Deeping was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study medicine and science (receiving his MA in March 1902), then went to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a physician to become a full-time writer. He married Phyllis Maude Merrill and lived for the rest of his life in "Eastlands" on Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey. He was one of the best-selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s, with seven of his novels making the best-seller list. Deeping was a prolific writer of short stories, which appeared in such British magazines as ''Cassell's'', ''The Story-Teller'', and ''The Strand'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sinclair
Elizabeth McHutcheson Sinclair (26 April 180016 October 1892) was a Scottish homemaker, farmer, and plantation owner in New Zealand and Hawaii, best known as the matriarch of the Sinclair family that bought the Hawaiian island of Niihau in 1864. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she married Francis Sinclair, a ship's captain. With six children in tow, the family moved to New Zealand. Her husband and eldest son (and much of the family's property) were later lost at sea. After years of farming, mainly at Pigeon Bay on the Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of the South Island, she decided to relocate to Canada. Unhappy with the conditions she found on Vancouver Island, she considered California but instead went to Hawaii where she bought the Hawaiian island of Niihau for . She later bought additional lands at Hanapepe and Makaweli on the island of Kauai.Novitz 2010 Her descendants, the Robinson family, continue to own and maintain the island of Ni'ihau. Early life Eliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Johnson
Noel Frank Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor. He was the voice of special agent Dick Barton on BBC Radio and Dan Dare on Radio Luxembourg. Life Johnson was born 28 December 1916 in Birmingham, England and attended Bromsgrove School, where his fictional character Dick Barton was listed on the honours boards.''Daily Mail'' 17 March 1947 p.3 "Dick Barton wins - at his old school!" He married Leonora Peacock in 1942: they had one son Gareth Johnson. He died 1 October 1999.''Daily Mail'' 5 October 1999 p 18 "Noel Johnson, voice of Dick Barton, dies at 82" Career After wartime service in the Royal Army Service Corps, including evacuation from Dunkirk, he was invalided out, and joined the BBC Repertory Company in 1945. He was the original voice of Dick Barton from 7 October 1946, performing over 300 episodes before quitting in 1949 to pursue a stage career.''Daily Mail'' 3 January 1949 p. 1 "Dick Barton Quits - but the show goes on" He was paid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ivatts
Peter Ivatts is an English actor whose career has spanned over forty years. He has mainly appeared in British television series. His first appearance was in a 1972 episode of ''Coronation Street'' as Sid Bolton. In 1978 he appeared in ''The Sandbaggers''. Four years later, he had minors role in ''Strangers'' and ''Juliet Bravo''. After a few more similar roles, he appeared in five episodes of '' One by One'' as "Harry". In 1980 he appeared as Mr. Blackburn, a farmer, in an episode of '' All Creatures Great and Small'' entitled "A Dying Breed". In 1982 he appeared as a policeman in '' How We Used to Live''. Three years later he appeared as another character, Fred Marshall. Another run of bit-parts ensued, before he returned, in 1988, to ''All Creatures'', this time as farmer Tom Maxwell. He appeared in the episodes "The Bull With the Bowler Hat" and "Against the Odds". After several small roles, he appeared in twelve episodes of ''Heartbeat'' as Bill Galloway and three episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Horsley (actor)
John Lovell Horsley (21 July 1920 – 12 January 2014) was a British actor. He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. The son of a doctor, he made his acting debut at the Theatre Royal in Bournemouth. After appearing in repertory theatres he was called up for military service in the Royal Devon Yeomanry, in which he served in Sicily and Italy during the Second World War. He then contracted hepatitis and become a member of an Army drama company that toured military units. Horsley's early career as a professional career saw him playing a succession of doctors and policemen, including a doctor in the film '' Hell Drivers'' (1957) and a policeman in the television show '' Big Breadwinner Hog'' (1969). He was more prolific in television from the 1960s, and played character roles in many series and programmes including '' The Lotus Eaters'' (1972–73) and ''The Duchess of Duke Street'' (1976–77). He is perhaps best known for his role as Doc Morrissey in the BBC sitcom ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Bramwell
Christopher Bramwell is a British actor who was active on television from 1977 until 1996. He appeared in several TV dramas including ''Grange Hill'', '' Enemy at the Door'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', '' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (in a brief appearance as the adult Peter Pevensie) and ''Van der Valk''. He was also a presenter on Playschool in the early 1980s. In a non-speaking role, he portrayed the young George Frideric Handel in Tony Palmer's television film '' God Rot Tunbridge Wells!'' (1985). His most recent television appearance was in ''This Life This may refer to: * ''This'', the singular proximal demonstrative pronoun Places * This, or ''Thinis'', an ancient city in Upper Egypt * This, Ardennes, a commune in France People with the surname * Hervé This, French culinary chemist Arts, e ...''. External links * British male television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Eden
Douglas John Malin (14 February 1928 – 1 January 2021), known professionally as Mark Eden, was an English actor. He was best known for his portrayal of villainous Alan Bradley in ''Coronation Street'' from 1986 to 1989. Early life Mark Eden was born Douglas John Malin in St Pancras, London, England on 14 February 1928. Career As Mark Eden, he appeared at the Royal Court Theatre and in repertory theatre in England and Wales. His television and film roles include the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Marco Polo'' (1964) in which he played Marco Polo, a reporter in ''Quatermass and the Pit'' in 1958, Number 100 in ''The Prisoner'' in 1967, and Inspector Parker in the TV adaptations of several Lord Peter Wimsey stories in the 1970s. Having briefly played a short lived character named Wally Randle in 1981, he returned for a long-running role in ''Coronation Street'', in which he played Alan Bradley. Eden's time in ''Coronation Street'' came to an end in December 1989 after Bradley was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Pember
Ronald Henry Pember (11 April 1934 – 8 March 2022) was an English actor, stage director and dramatist. In a career stretching over thirty years, he was a character actor in British television productions in the 1970s – 1980s, usually in bit-parts, or as a support playing a worldly-wise everyman. He played the role of Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series '' Secret Army'', and wrote a stage musical entitled ''Jack the Ripper'' (1974), about the Victorian murder spree in London in the late 1880s, which is regularly produced by amateur theatre groups and companies around the globe. Early life Pember was born in Plaistow, then in the county of Essex, on 11 April 1934, the son of Gladys and William Pember. He received his formal education at Eastbrook Secondary Modern School, in Dagenham. In the mid-1950s, he enlisted as an Aircraftman with the Royal Air Force as part of the United Kingdom's National Service military training system, being stationed in Egypt. In the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Wooland
Norman Wooland (16 March 19053 April 1989) was an English character actor who appeared in many major films, including several Shakespearean adaptations. Wooland was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to British parents. During the Second World War he was a junior radio announcer, reporting the news for the BBC. His acting break came when he played Horatio in Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' (1948), and in which his "fine work" was noted by ''The New York Times''. Then came Catesby in Olivier's film of ''Richard III'', and Paris in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1954). He also had supporting roles in ''Quo Vadis'' (1951), ''Ivanhoe'' (1952), ''Background'' (1953), '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), ''Life for Ruth'' (1962) and '' International Velvet'' (1978). Wooland kept a herd of cows, each of which was named after a Shakespearean character. He died in 1989, aged 84. Filmography * ''The Five Pound Man'' (1937) as Lodge Keeper * '' This England'' (1941) as (uncredited) * ''Escape'' (1948) as Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Shepherd
Simon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in eight series of ITV's ''Peak Practice'' and Doctor Jonathan Barling in ''Casualty''. Shepherd was born in Bristol. He went to school at Clifton College in Bristol and was a contemporary of the director Roger Michell in Brown's House. He subsequently attended Manchester Metropolitan University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was a member of the National Youth Theatre. As well as his television appearances, such as playing Patrick Simmons in the 1984 Miss Marple adaptation 'A Murder is Announced', he has had many notable stage and film roles since 1980, including as Lord Ashbrook in the 2011 Bristol Old Vic production of Helen Edmundson's ''Coram Boy''. In popular culture Simon Shepherd was regularly mentioned in the BBC comedy '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' as Tom's crush and appeared as himself in an episode of each series. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Peel
Edward Peel is an English television and stage actor. He was described by ''The Times'' in 2010 as a "veteran star of TV dramas" and "a familiar face on television for the past 40 years". Early life and education Peel trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College. Career His television roles include Lennie in ''The Sweeney'' episode "Bait" with George Sewell (1978), Pieterzoon in ''Shogun'' (1980) and Ted Turton in ''Minder'' episode "Broken Arrow" (1982). He played police officers in ongoing episodes of both ''Juliet Bravo'' (1983–1985) and '' Cracker'' (1993–1995) and played two different roles in ''Emmerdale Farm'' (Tom Merrick: 1981-1982, Tony Cairns: 1997-1998). He played Kane, the main villain in the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' Dragonfire'' (1987). He also appeared as different characters in two episodes of '' Heartbeat'', playing the part of a bank manager in the first series and later appearing as Clifford Chappell in episode 17 of series 15 entitled "Get Back". Peel als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Terris
Malcolm Hope Terris (11 January 1941 – 6 June 2020) was an English actor. He acted in many television programmes, including possibly his best-known role as Matt Headley in ''When the Boat Comes In'', a popular 1970s series. His film career includes appearances in ''Special Branch'' (1973), ''The First Great Train Robbery'' (1978), '' McVicar'' (1980), ''The Plague Dogs'' (1982, voice only), ''Slayground'' (1983), '' The Bounty'' (1984) as Thomas Huggan, ship's surgeon, ''Mata Hari'' (1985), ''Revolution'' (1985), ''Scandal'' (1989), and ''Chaplin'' (1992). His TV appearances include: "The Horns of Nimon" episodes of ''Doctor Who (season 17)'' (1979-80). One episode of ''Rooms'' (1974) and four episodes of the mini-series ''Reilly, Ace of Spies'' (1983). Regular episodes of ''Coronation Street'', mostly as Eric Firman in the early 1990s. In April 2011 he appeared as Len Merryman in an episode of ''Midsomer Murders''. In 1958, and prior to going to drama school, Terris was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
