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The Girl In A Swing (1988 Film)
''The Girl in a Swing'' is a 1988 American supernatural erotic drama film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Meg Tilly, Rupert Frazer, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Elspet Gray. Based on the 1980 novel '' The Girl in a Swing'' by Richard Adams, the film is about an English antique dealer who travels to Copenhagen where he meets and falls in love with a mysterious German-born secretary, whom he marries. Knowing nothing about her family or background, he soon discovers a darker side to his new bride. Plot Alan Desland (Rupert Frazer) is an English antique dealer who specializes in ceramics. A solitary man, he is a bachelor with no romantic ties. On a business trip to Copenhagen, he hires a German-born secretary, Karin Foster (Meg Tilly), to do some clerical work—she is fluent in English, Danish, and German. Alan's attraction to Karin is immediate, and over the coming days, he falls deeply in love with her. Karin is an attractive, sensuous, and mysterious woman who reveals little a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Hessler
Gordon Hessler (12 December 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a German-born British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. Biography Early Years Born in Berlin, Germany,Ephraim Katz, Katz, Ephraim. ''The Film Encyclopedia'', Harper Perennial, 1994, 2nd Edition, pg. 622. he was raised in England and studied at the University of Reading. While a teenager, he moved to the United States and directed a series of short films and documentaries.McGee, Mark Thomas. ''Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures'', McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996, pgs. 278–281. Television Universal Studios hired Hessler as a story publisher's reader, reader for the ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' television series. He became story editor for two seasons (1960–1962) for that series, then served as the associate producer for ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' from 1962 until its cancellation in 1965. He also directed episodes of that series. Hessler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su Elliot
Su Elliott (born 18 December 1950) is a British actress. She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England. Her film roles include Alice in ''The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1984), a nurse in '' The Girl in a Swing'' (1988), Marthe in '' Giorgino'' (1994), Mrs Brabin in ''Purely Belter'' (2000), a pub customer in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (2005), a Ministry of Magic witch in '' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005), and Hannah in ''Jane Eyre'' (2011). Elliott has appeared in numerous British television productions, including ''The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole'', Travelling Man, ''Hi-de-Hi!'', ''The Bill'', ''This Life'', ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'', ''Inspector Morse'', ''Black Books'', '' Coronation Street'', '' King Leek'' and '' EastEnders''. She also appeared in Central Independent Television's Halloween special ''The Worst Witch ''The Worst Witch'' is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy. The series a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masquerade (1988 Film)
''Masquerade'' is a 1988 American romantic mystery thriller film directed by Bob Swaim and starring Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall and Doug Savant. Written by Dick Wolf, the film is about a recently orphaned millionairess who falls in love with a young yacht racing captain who isn't completely truthful with her about his past. The film was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best (Mystery) Motion Picture in 1989. Plot Young yachting captain Tim Whalen is having an affair with Brooke Morrison, the wife of his boss, Granger Morrison, in the upscale town of Southampton, Long Island. Tim is the new captain of Granger's racing sailboat ''Obsession''. Young heiress Olivia Lawrence, following the recent death of her mother, returns home to Southampton after graduating from college. At a party, Olivia is introduced to Tim, who asks her to dance. Impressed with her knowledge of sailing, Tim asks her to go sailing with him, and she accepts. Olivia is living in the family mansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun-Times Media Group
Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher. History Sun-Times Media Group was founded in 1986 under the name ''American Publishing Company'', as a holding company for Hollinger Inc.'s American properties. It focused on newspapers, mostly in smaller markets. In February 1994, it acquired the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', holding an initial public offering (IPO) to fund the acquisition. At the time, it was the fifteenth-largest U.S. newspaper group. It changed its name to ''Hollinger International'' in 1994. Hollinger's non-American properties, which included ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Jerusalem Post'' were added to the company in 1996, and its Canadian papers in 1997. It created the ''National Post'' from the ''Financial Post'' in 1998. That year, it began a process of shrinking the company, selling many of its small papers to the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners, who formed Liberty Group Publishing. In 2000, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan of the ''Los Angeles Times'' called him "the best-known film critic in America." Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing voice and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. While a populist, Ebert frequently endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, which often resulted in such film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Sun-Times
The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the ''Chicago Tribune''. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the ''Chicago Sun'' and the ''Chicago Daily Times''. Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer prizes, mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was film critic Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. Long owned by the Marshall Field family, since the 1980s ownership of the paper has changed hands numerous times, including twice in the late 2010s. History The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' claims to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the ''Chicago Daily Journal'', which was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Strøbye
Axel Strøby Jacobsen (22 February 1928 – 12 July 2005), known as Axel Strøbye was a Danish stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1951 and 2000. He was born in the Copenhagen borough Frederiksberg and died in Charlottenlund. Strøbye was married twice, first to the actress and dancer Kirsten Jessen from 1953 to 1961, and to the actress Hanne Borchsenius from 1978 until his death. From 1962 to 1975, Strøbye cohabited with the actress Lone Hertz, with whom he had two children. Selected filmography * ''This Is Life'' (1953) * ''I kongens klæ'r'' (1954) * ''Pigen og vandpytten'' (1958) * ''The Poet and the Little Mother'' (1959) * '' The Last Winter'' (1960) * '' Han, Hun, Dirch og Dario'' (1962) * ''Crazy Paradise'' (1962) * ''Oskar'' (1962) * ''Duellen ''Duellen'' (''The Duel'') is a 1962 Danish drama film directed by Knud Leif Thomsen. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Frits Helmuth - Mikael * Malene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Pagh
Klaus Pagh (29 July 1935 – 8 December 2020) was a Danish actor, film producer and director. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1956 and 2001. Selected filmography * '' Kira's Reason: A Love Story'' (2001) * ''Girls at Arms 2'' (1976) * ''Me and the Mafia'' (1973) * ''Sunstroke at the Beach Resort ''Sunstroke at the Beach Resort'' ( da, Solstik på badehotellet) is a 1973 Danish comedy film directed by Klaus Pagh and starring Daimi. Cast * Daimi as Vibeke / Viggo * Lisbet Lundquist as Mona Miller * Lise-Lotte Norup as Eva Linde * Kla ...'' (1973, also directed) * ''Amour (1970 film), Amour'' (1970) * ''Soldaterkammerater rykker ud'' (1959) References External links * 1935 births 2020 deaths Danish male film actors Danish film producers Danish film directors 20th-century Danish male actors People from Hørsholm Municipality {{Denmark-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilary Minster
Roger Michael Hilary Minster (21 March 1944 – 24 November 1999) was an English character actor. Life and career Born in Surrey, England, he is best known for playing General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen in the sitcom '' 'Allo 'Allo!'' between 1984 and 1992. Other credits include ''Crossroads''; ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy''; and a semi-regular role in '' Secret Army'' as Hauptmann Muller. Minster also had a brief period writing scripts with Kenneth Williams for the latter's ''International Cabaret'' television show. In 1974, Minster appeared as Lieutenant Lightfoot in the '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' episode " Facing Fearful Odds". He played the motorcyclist in the TV series The Long Chase. He also appeared twice in ''Doctor Who'', as the Thal soldier Marat in ''Planet of the Daleks'' (1973) and as an unnamed Thal soldier who dangles Sarah Jane Smith from the rocket gantry in ''Genesis of the Daleks'' (1975) alongside fellow 'Allo 'Allo actor Guy Siner. This makes him one of the few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trine Michelsen
Katrine Michelsen (21 January 1966 – 17 January 2009) was a Danish model and actress. Career Michelsen's first role as an actress was a small role in ''Cyklen'', a project film at the Danish film academy. Shortly after school she got a role in a TV play by Franz Ernst and Astrid Saalbach. In the play, she is a strong and politically committed woman. Later she became a nude model in ''Ekstra Bladet'' and '. This gave her roles in two horror films and two erotic films in Italy from 1986. In ''La Bonne'' by Salvatore Samperi, Trine Michelsen is a maid who arouses the inhabitants of a house erotically. The film was a success in Italy. The following year came Sergio Bergonzelli's ' which was even more erotic. The same year she played opposite Donald Pleasence in the splatter film '' Spettri'' directed by . Her last Italian film was the 1987 thriller ''Le foto di Gioia'' by Lamberto Bava. Her only American film came in 1988 in a small role in '' The Girl in a Swing'', Gordon Hess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Melia
Michael Melia (born 1945) is a British actor best known for his work on television. He appeared as Queen Vic landlord Eddie Royle in BBC One soap opera EastEnders between 1990 and 1991. Early life Melia was born in Berkshire and attended St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, the oldest Roman Catholic college in England. Before taking up acting he was a teacher. At one stage he ran a bar in Spain and thought about applying for a pub tenancy in England. However the idea was vetoed by his wife, former actress turned teacher, Celia Melia. Career He began acting in television in the early 1970s, usually playing heavies or policemen, though he spent four years performing classic plays with the National Theatre. In 1990, he joined the BBC One soap opera ''EastEnders'' as pub landlord Eddie Royle; however, he only lasted just over a year in this role as his character was killed off in September 1991. His character was stabbed by Nick Cotton ( John Altman) who was later tried for the murd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Maguire
Leonard Maguire (26 May 1924 – 12 September 1997) was a British actor, born in England but most renowned in Scotland where he lived for much of his life. Maguire had a long career, beginning in the 1940s. He died in 1997, aged 73, after a lengthy illness. Early life Maguire was born in Manchester, England, to Scottish parents. His father was Thomas Maguire, a former consul in Valparaíso, Chile, who was of Irish descent. Maguire's family moved to Antwerp, Belgium in 1926 before moving to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1932. He was educated at St Mungo's Academy in Glasgow. Maguire was one of the founding members of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre in 1943, after being invalided out of the RAF during World War II. He began in the company as an Assistant Stage Manager with walk on parts. Career In 1945, he auditioned for and joined Laurence Olivier's company at the Phoenix Theatre in London, in a production of Thornton Wilder's ''The Skin of Our Teeth'', starring Vivien Leigh. Other product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
