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The Lady From The Sea (1953 Film)
"The Lady from the Sea" is a 1953 episode of '' Sunday Night Theatre'' that is significant as one of the earliest extant examples of British television drama, along with an earlier episode of the series titled "It is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer" and the first two episodes of '' The Quatermass Experiment''. An adaptation of the 1888 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, it was performed twice, first on 10 May 1953 and again on the 14th. One of these live transmissions was recorded using the then-experimental telerecording Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940 ... process. Cast * Irene Worth as Ellida * Robert Harris as Wangel * Hamlyn Benson as Ballested * Eric Berry as Arnholm * Douglas Campbell as The Stranger * Paul Harding as Lyngstrand (as Brian Harding) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Night Theatre
''Sunday Night Theatre'' was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Kneale were produced for this series, including ''Arrow to the Heart'' (1952, 1956) and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1954). The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed ''The Sunday-Night Play'' which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of ''Sunday Night Theatre'' between 1969 and 1974. Archive status The overwhelming majority of the run (1950–1959) of 721 plays are missing from television archives; only 27 are believed to still exist as telerecordings. The Thursday 'repeat performance; of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady From The Sea
''The Lady from the Sea'' ( no, Fruen fra havet, link=no) is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen inspired by the ballad '' Agnete og Havmanden''. The drama introduces the character of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's later play ''The Master Builder''. The character portrayal of Hilde Wangel has been portrayed twice in contemporary film, most recently in the 2014 film titled ''A Master Builder''. Characters * Doctor Edvard Wangel *Ellida Wangel, his second wife *Bolette, his elder daughter from a previous marriage *Hilda, his younger daughter from a previous marriage *Lyngstrand, a dying would-be sculptor and friend of the Wangels *Arnholm, Bolette's former tutor and possible suitor, and Ellida's former suitor *Ballestad, a painter and friend of the Wangels *The Stranger, a man whom Ellida has a history with and the antagonist Synopsis This play is centred on a lady called Ellida. She is the daughter of a lighthouse-keeper, and grew up where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include ''Brand'', '' Peer Gynt'', '' An Enemy of the People'', ''Emperor and Galilean'', ''A Doll's House'', ''Hedda Gabler'', '' Ghosts'', ''The Wild Duck'', ''When We Dead Awaken'', ''Rosmersholm'', and ''The Master Builder''. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and ''A Doll's House'' was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play ''Peer Gynt'' has strong surreal elements. After ''Peer Gynt'' Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quatermass Experiment
''The Quatermass Experiment'' is a British science fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television during the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the spaceship that carries the first successful crew returns to Earth, two of the three astronauts are missing, and the third – Victor Carroon – is behaving strangely. It becomes apparent that an alien presence entered the rocket during its flight, and Quatermass and his associates must prevent the alien from destroying the world. Originally comprising six half-hour episodes, it was the first science fiction production to be written especially for a British adult television audience. Previous written-for-television efforts such as ''Stranger from Space'' (1951–52) were aimed at children, whereas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telerecording
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s for the preservation, re-broadcasting and sale of television programmes before the introduction of quadruplex videotape, which from 1956 eventually superseded the use of kinescopes for all of these purposes. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to videotape. Typically, the term Kinescope can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. The term originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television receivers, as named by inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin in 1929. Hence, the recordings were known in full as kinescope films or kinesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Worth
Irene Worth, CBE (June 23, 1916March 10, 2002) was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the British and American theatre. She pronounced her given name with three syllables: "I-REE-nee". Worth made her Broadway debut in 1943, joined the Old Vic company in 1951 and the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. She won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1958 film ''Orders to Kill''. Her other film appearances included ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and '' Deathtrap'' (1982). A three-time Tony Award winner, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for ''Tiny Alice'' in 1965 and ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' in 1976, and won the 1991 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ''Lost in Yonkers'', a role she reprised in the 1993 film version. One of her later stage performances was opposite Paul Scofield in the 2001 production of ''I Take Your Hand in Mine'' at the Almeida Theatre in London. Early life Harriett Elizabeth Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harris (English Actor)
Robert Harris (28 March 1900 – 18 May 1995) was a British actor. He graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925, and his stage work included seasons at Stratford, the Old Vic, and on Broadway as Marchbanks in Bernard Shaw's '' Candida'' in 1937, opposite Katharine Cornell Katharine Cornell (February 16, 1893June 9, 1974) was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York. Dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre" by critic A ...; He also appeared in more than sixty films from 1930 to 1982. He was the castaway on '' Desert Island Discs'' on 10 February 1955. Filmography References External links * * * 1900 births 1995 deaths British male stage actors British male film actors People from Weston-super-Mare Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Berry (actor)
Eric Berry (9 January 1913 – 2 September 1993) was a British stage and film actor. Biography Eric Berry was born in London on 9 January 1913 to parents Frederick William Berry and Anna Lovisa Danielson. He attended the City of London School and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen .... Berry was briefly married to actress Constance Carpenter. He died of cancer on 2 September 1993 in Laguna Beach, California. Career Eric Berry made his first stage appearance in April 1931 in a production of ''Spilt Milk'' at what was then known as the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead. He made his West End theatre debut the following year in a production of ''The Cathedral'' at what is now the Noël Coward Theatre, then referred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Campbell (actor)
Douglas Campbell, CM (11 June 1922 – 6 October 2009) was a Canadian-based stage actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Acting career Campbell's interest in the theatre began at London's Old Vic Theatre at age 17, where working as a stage hand he saw Tyrone Guthrie's production of ''King John''. He first performed in the 1941 Old Vic touring productions of ''Medea'' and ''Jacob's Ladder''. He was invited to Canada in 1953 by Guthrie, who had just been appointed the first artistic director of the fledgling Stratford Festival of Canada. Campbell played Hastings in the opening production of ''Richard III'' in 1953, and King Oedipus in the stage and screen production of ''Oedipus Rex'' in 1954. He appeared many times at Stratford in the fifty years that followed, drawing great acclaim in the role of Othello in 1959, and in many appearances as Falstaff. Campbell founded the Canadian Players in 1954, and was artistic director at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1966 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Lawson (actress)
Sarah Elizabeth Lawson (born 6 August 1928) is an English actress best known for her film and television roles. Early life Lawson is the youngest of three children born to Edith (née Monteith) and Noel John Charles Lawson (1887–1964), a naval officer of Irish heritage. She trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then worked in Perth, Ipswich, Felixstowe and London's West End. Film Lawson's films have included '' The Browning Version'' (1951), ''The World Ten Times Over'' and ''The Devil Rides Out''. Her radio work included ''The Hostage'', ''Inspector West'' and ''Kind Sir''. Among her most memorable film appearances was as Marie Eaton in Hammer's ''The Devil Rides Out'' (1968), in which her husband Patrick Allen provided the dubbing for actor Leon Greene. She and Allen also starred together in the science fiction thriller ''Night of the Big Heat'' (1967). Both films were directed by Terence Fisher. Television Lawson's work on television included ''Time and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Wenham (actress)
Ann Jane Wenham Figgins (26 November 1927 – 15 November 2018), known professionally as Jane Wenham, was an English film and television actress born in Southampton, Hampshire. Wenham made her film debut in the adaptation of J. B. Priestley's ''An Inspector Calls'' (1954). From 1957 to 1961, she was married to the actor Albert Finney, with whom she had a son, Simon, who is a cameraman A camera operator, or depending on the context cameraman or camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film camera or video camera as part of a film crew. The term "cameraman" does not imply that a male is performing the task. In filmmakin .... Wenham died in November 2018, eleven days before her 91st birthday. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1927 births 2018 deaths Actresses from Southampton English film actresses English stage actresses English television actresses {{England-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Volpi Cup and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of ' in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy ''As You Like It'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
