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The Boys (1962 British Film)
''The Boys'' is a 1962 British courtroom drama film, directed by Sidney J. Furie and with a screenplay by Stuart Douglass. Plot Four youth Teddy boys are on trial for the murder of a garage night watchman in the course of a burglary on the night of January 15. Witnesses and the accused give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, a dispiriting and frustrating evening out in London. Flashbacks of the teenagers' insecure and sometimes alienated lives contrast strongly with the austere legality of the courtroom as, by degrees, the truth emerges. The film acts as a series of vignettes, relating to the evidence of each witness, who saw the boys on the evening in question. Each story helps to build an overall picture of their character. The overall ambience is that adults presumed they were bad without basing this on any actual observation. Most witnesses admit they prejudged the boys' character based on appearance. The boys admit to their defence that they are hooligans an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney J
Sidney may refer to: People * Sidney (surname), English surname * Sidney (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Sidney (footballer, born 1972), full name Sidney da Silva Souza, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Sidney (footballer, born 1979), full name Sidney Santos de Brito, Brazilian football defender Characters *Sidney Prescott, main character from the ''Scream'' horror trilogy * Sidney (''Ice Age''), a ground sloth in the ''Ice Age'' film series * Sidney (''Pokémon''), a character of the ''Pokémon'' universe *Sidney, one of ''The Bash Street Kids'' * Sidney Jenkins, a character in the British teenage drama '' Skins'' *Sidney Hever, Edward's fireman from ''The Railway Series'' and the TV series ''Thomas and Friends'' *Sidney, a diesel engine from the TV series ''Thomas and Friends'' *Sidney Freedman, a recurring character in the TV series ''M*A*S*H'' Places Canada *Sidney, British Columbia *Sidney, Manitoba United Kingdom * Sidney Sussex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensley Pithey
Wensley Ivan William Frederick Pithey (21 June 1914 – 10 November 1993) was a South African character actor who had a long stage and film career in Britain. Biography Pithey was born in Cape Town, South Africa. A graduate of the University of Cape Town where he studied music and drama, he travelled to Britain in 1947. He appeared in various Shakespearean roles in his long career (memorably as Sir Toby Belch) as well as appearing in Eugene O'Neill's ''Anna Christie''. He also directed and produced plays in the West End and appeared in a range of roles on television including the 1976 drama ''Edward and Mrs Simpson'' (as Winston Churchill – a role he also played in the miniseries ''Ike'') as well as ''Special Branch'' and ''Poldark''. His British television appearances included ''Danger Man'' (1961) among others. He also played the title role Detective Superintendent Charlesworth in a number of BBC series including '' Charlesworth at Large'' (1958) and its sequel '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Moon
George Moon (19 March 1909 – 17 December 1981) was an English Theatre, stage, film actor, film and television actor. During the late 1950s he appeared as Ginger Smart in the television series ''Shadow Squad'' and its sequel ''Skyport''. Moon's largest television role came in 1977 when he played Tipping the butler in the short lived television series Lord Tramp alongside Hugh Lloyd and Joan Sims. His daughter is the actress Georgina Moon. Selected filmography * ''Diggers (1931 film), Diggers'' (1931) - Joe Mulga * ''A Co-respondent's Course'' (1931) * ''Diggers in Blighty'' (1933) - Joe Mulga * ''Lightning Conductor (film), Lightning Conductor'' (1938) - George * ''Me and My Pal (1939 film), Me and My Pal'' (1939) - Hal Thommson * ''Time Flies (1944 film), Time Flies'' (1944) - Bill Barton * ''What Do We Do Now?'' (1945) - Wesley - (with Leslie Fuller) * ''An Alligator Named Daisy'' (1955) - Al * ''It's a Wonderful World (1956 film), It's a Wonderful World'' (1956) - Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Scott (actor)
Harold Scott (21 April 1891 – 15 April 1964) was an English actor of stage and screen. His stage work ran from the 1910s to the 1960s, and included the original West End productions of '' The Constant Nymph'' (1926–1927), ''Grand Hotel'' (1931–1932), ''Waters of the Moon'' (1951–1953) and Agatha Christie's '' Spider's Web'' (1954–1956). Scott's television appearances included ''The Children of the New Forest'', ''ITV Television Playhouse'', ''BBC Sunday Night Theatre'', ''The New Adventures of Charlie Chan'', ''William Tell'', ''Armchair Theatre'', ''Maigret'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', '' The Avengers'' and ''Martin Chuzzlewit''. Filmography * '' The Water Gipsies'' (1932) as Mr Bell * ''Discord'' (1933) as Harold * '' Return of a Stranger'' (1937) as Peters * '' Edward, My Son'' (1949) as Coppingham (uncredited) * ''Trottie True'' (1949) as Mr True * '' No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) as Man in underground * ''The Woman with No Name'' (1950) as Waiter * ''The 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chatto
Tom Chatto (born Thomas Chatto St George Sproule; 1 September 1920 – 8 August 1982) was an English actor who made numerous appearances on television, film, and stage between 1957 and his death in 1982. Early life and career Chatto is a great-grandson of Andrew Chatto (1840–1913) the founder of the publishers Chatto and Windus. According to a London Palladium souvenir brochure from a 1970 production of ''Aladdin'', he was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the war he was commissioned in the Indian Army. After the war he maintained the family interest in books and became a director of the firm of booksellers Pickering and Chatto. Chatto appeared mostly in films, including ''Oscar Wilde'' (1960) in which he played the Clerk of Arraigns. He was well known for his role in the 1969 Guy Hamilton film ''Battle of Britain''. His work in the theatre includes ''Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'', ''My Fair Lady'', ''Number 10'', ''The Young Visiters'' and ''Hushabye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Webb
Olive Rita Webb (25 February 1904 – 30 August 1981), later known as Olive Rita Thompson, was an English character actress, mainly in comedy roles. She was the eldest child of Henry Augustus Webb (1880–1926) and Rose Jeannette Keysor. She had a younger brother, Henry Richard Webb, also an actor, and two elder identical twin half-brothers, Leslie and Gordon Durlacher, from her mother's first marriage to Samuel Durlacher. She was the niece of Leonard Keysor, the first Jewish serviceman to win the Victoria Cross in the First World War. A half-brother was the actor George Webb. Career Born in Willesden, Middlesex, United Kingdom, she is best known for her appearances as a stooge for Benny Hill in his long-running Thames Television series. At under five feet tall, with a booming voice and dyed flame-red hair, she was often cast as a blowsey mother-in-law or Cockney type character. Following her separation from her husband, she lived with Al Jeffery "Jeffie", an accomplished banj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Newell
Patrick David Newell (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988) was a British actor, known for his large size. Early life and education The second son of Eric Llewellyn Newell, of High Lodge, Hadleigh, Suffolk, an Oxford-educated physician who served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Newell was educated at Taunton School and completed his National Service, where a fellow recruit was Michael Caine, before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, alongside Albert Finney and Peter O'Toole. Career Newell began to be seen frequently on TV, usually cast as a fat villain or in comic roles. Given his rotund appearance and ability for playing slightly stuffy types, he was a natural stooge in several comedy shows, first for Arthur Askey, in ''Arthur's Treasured Volumes'' (ATV, 1960), then for Jimmy Edwards in ''Faces of Jim'' (BBC, 1962), with Ronnie Barker also supporting. He was originally cast as one of the inept recruits in the first of the ''Carry On'' films, 1958's ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol White
Carole Joan White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was an English actress. She achieved a public profile with her performances in the television play ''Cathy Come Home'' (1966) and the films ''Poor Cow'' (1967) and '' I'll Never Forget What's 'isname'' (1967), but alcoholism and drug abuse damaged her career, and from the early 1970s she worked infrequently. Life and career White, the daughter of a scrap merchant, was born in Hammersmith, London, and attended the Corona Stage Academy. She played minor roles in films from 1949 until the late 1950s, when she began to play more substantial supporting roles in films such as ''Carry on Teacher'' (1959) and ''Never Let Go'' (1960) in which she played the girlfriend of Peter Sellers. She also acted the part of Evelyn May, a ‘girl in the bar’ and court witness in Sidney J Furie’s “The Boys” (1962) She continued working regularly, and drew attention for her performances in the television version of Nell Dunn's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Morgan (actor)
Charles Morgan (21 July 1909 – May 1994) was a Welsh actor. Selected filmography * ''Train of Events'' (1949) – Second plain clothes man (segment "The Actor") * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) – J. L. MacLaren * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) – Manager at Hucknall (uncredited) * ''Hell Is a City'' (1960) – Laurie Lovett * ''Cash on Demand'' (1961) – Det. Sgt. Collins (uncredited) * ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961) – Foreign Editor (uncredited) * ''The Pot Carriers'' (1962) – Chief Disciplinary Prison Officer * '' The Boys'' (1962) – Samuel Wallace * ''Doctor Who'' (1967–1978) – Songsten / Gold Usher * ''Duffer'' (1971) – Man Fighting * '' Au Pair Girls'' (1972) – Fred * ''Armaguedon'' (1977) * ''Quincy's Quest'' (1979) – Narrator * ''The Return of the Soldier ''The Return of the Soldier'' is the debut novel of English novelist Rebecca West, first published in 1918. The novel recounts the return of the shell shocked Captain Chris Baldry from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Hardy (actor)
Laurence Hardy, PC (14 April 1854 – 21 January 1933) was a Conservative Party British politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashford from 1892 to 1918. Biography Hardy was the fourth son of Sir John Hardy, 1st Baronet, of Dunstall Hall, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in history. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1892, representing Ashford as a Conservative. He was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means from 1905 to 1906, and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1911. From 1917 to 1920, he was a member of the Defence Of The Realm Losses Commission. He was an Ecclesiastical Commissioner from 1918 and Seneschal of Canterbury Cathedral from 1930. Family Hardy married Evelyn Wood, daughter of J. G. Wood of Thedden Grange, Alton, in 1886; she died in 1911. They had two sons and a daughter. References 1854 births 1933 deaths 19th-century British people 20th-century British people UK MPs 1892 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Marsden
Betty Marsden (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. She is particularly remembered as a cast member of the radio series ''Beyond Our Ken'' and ''Round the Horne''. Marsden also appeared in two Carry On films, ''Carry On Regardless'' (1961) and ''Carry On Camping'' (1969). Early life Marsden was born in West Derby, Liverpool, and grew up in near poverty in Somerset. Her music teacher recognised her talent at the age of six, and became her guardian. She attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and during World War II she entertained the troops as a member of ENSA. It was at this time that she met and married her husband, Dr Jimmy Wilson Muggoch, an army doctor from Edinburgh. Career From 1958 to 1968, Marsden was among the cast of the radio series ''Beyond Our Ken'' and ''Round the Horne'', where she played most of the female characters. Perhaps her most famous catchphrase was "many, many, many times", delivered in the dry, reedy tones of Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Villiers
Mavis Villiers (born Mavis Clare Cooney; 10 December 190923 February 1976) was an Australian-born British actress of stage, film and television. Her parents were John Cooney and Clara Smythe. Her brother, Cecil Cooney, was a camera operator and cinematographer.Canadian Passenger Lists, 'Niagra' May 1921 Ancestry.com; accessed 25 July 2015. Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather. Life and career Mavis emigrated to the with her family in 1921, aged 11. The family settled in |