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The Purity Of The Turf
"The Purity of the Turf" is the third episode of the first series of the 1990s British comedy television series ''Jeeves and Wooster''. It is also called "The Village Sports Day at Twing" or "The Gambling Event". It first aired in the UK on on ITV. The episode aired in the US on 25 November 1990 on ''Masterpiece Theatre''. Background Adapted from "Indian Summer of an Uncle" (collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'') and " The Purity of the Turf" (collected in ''The Inimitable Jeeves''). Cast * Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie * Jeeves – Stephen Fry * Aunt Agatha – Mary Wimbush * Uncle George – Nicholas Selby * Maud Wilberforce – Paula Jacobs * Bingo Little – Michael Siberry * Rupert Steggles – Richard Braine (as Richard Brain) * Freddie Widgeon – Charles Millham * Lord Wickhammersley – Jack Watling * Lady Wickhammersley – Richenda Carey * Cynthia – Helena Michell * Vicar – Jack May * Drones Porter – Michael Ripper Michael George Ripper (27 January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves And Wooster
''Jeeves and Wooster'' is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves. When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular comedic double act for their regular appearances on Channel 4's '' Saturday Live'' and their own show ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'' (BBC, 1987–95). In the television documentary ''Fry and Laurie Reunited'' (2010), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jeeves Characters
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in " Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers postp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jeeves And Wooster Characters
This is a list of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' characters from the TV series, based on the Jeeves books by P. G. Wodehouse. Main characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster are in all the episodes. Actors Actors' names are given with the series in which they appeared. * Bertie Wooster — Hugh Laurie * Jeeves — Stephen Fry Recurring characters Minor characters Character — Actor (Series) * Anatole — John Barrard (2) * Rosie M. Banks — Anastasia Hille (4) * Cyril Bassington-Bassington — Nicholas Hewetson (3) * Cora Bellinger — Constance Novis (1) * Francis Bickersteth ("Bicky") — Julian Firth (3) * Edgar Gascoyne Bickersteth, father of "Bicky" — John Savident (3) * Charles Edward Biffen ("Biffy") — Philip Shelley (2) * Mabel, fiancée of "Biffy" — Jenny Whiffen (2) * Rev. Beefy Bingham — Owen Brenman (1) * Mortimer Little, Lord Bittlesham — Geoffrey Toone (2,3,4) * Mr. Blumenfield — Billy J. Mitchell (1,3) * Sydney Blumenfield — Anatol Yusef (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ripper
Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 – 28 June 2000) was an English character actor. He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. Along with Michael Gough he played one of the two murderers in Laurence Olivier's film version of ''Richard III'' (1955). Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions playing supporting character roles: coachmen, peasants, tavern keepers, pirates and sidekicks. Appearing in more of the company's films than any other performer, these included ''The Camp on Blood Island'' (1958), ''The Revenge of Frankenstein'' (1958), ''The Mummy'' (1959), ''The Brides of Dracula'' (1960), '' Captain Clegg'' (1962), ''The Scarlet Blade'' (1963), ''The Reptile'' (1966), ''The Plague of the Zombies'' (1966) and ''The Mummy's Shroud'' (1967). Some of his parts were little better than glorified bits (as in ''The Curse of the Werewolf''), but his penultimate role for Hammer Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack May
Jack Wynne May (23 April 1922 – 19 September 1997) was an English actor. Early life and education May was born in 1922 in Henley-on-Thames, and was educated at Forest School in Walthamstow. After war service with the Royal Indian Navy in British India, he was offered a place at RADA, but instead went to Merton College, Oxford. Here, with the OUDS, he played parts that included John of Gaunt in '' Richard II'' and Polonius in ''Hamlet''. Career May became familiar on television as the butler William E. Simms in two series of the BBC 1 fantasy/adventure television series ''Adam Adamant Lives!'' from 1966 to 1967. He provided the voice for Igor, long-suffering butler to Count Duckula in the cartoon series of the same name. He also appeared as the waiter Garkbit in the television version of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', Théoden in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings'', as General Hermack in the 1969 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Space Pirates'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Michell
Helena Elizabeth Anne Michell is an Australian-born English actress. She is the daughter of the actors Keith Michell and Jeanette Sterke. Helena was born in Australia in 1963, but moved to England at an early age. She began her career as a child in the film drama ''Moments'' with her parents and her brother, Paul. After three years training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School she secured a part in 1986 in the BBC television sitcom ''Brush Strokes''. Early film work included parts in ''Prick Up Your Ears'', and alongside her father in '' The Deceivers'' (1988). Television parts came with the '' Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple'' episode "At Bertram's Hotel" (1987), starring Joan Hickson, and in the LWT television series '' Piece of Cake'' the following year. Helena Michell had numerous television roles in the 1990s, including ''Jeeves and Wooster'' and ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' “The Theft of the Royal Ruby” (1990), a pivotal role in the television version of P.D. Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richenda Carey
Richenda Carey (born 9 April 1948 in Bitton, Gloucestershire) is a British actress who is mostly known for her roles in '' Monarch of the Glen'', ''Jeeves and Wooster'', Darling Buds of May, '' Crush'' and more recently, '' Separate Lies'' and ''Criminal Justice''. Carey was the third wife of actor Nigel Stock, whom she married in Bristol in 1979. After Stock's death in 1986, Carey married John Foley in 1999. From July 2009 she appeared in ''Calendar Girls'' at the Noël Coward Theatre The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's .... Filmography Film & Television Radio and voice work References External links * 1948 births Living people English film actresses English radio actresses English stage actresses English television actresses Actresses from Glouce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Watling
Jack Stanley Watling (13 January 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an English actor. Life and career The son of a travelling scrap metal dealer, Watling trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts as a child; and made his stage debut in ''Where the Rainbow Ends'' at the Holborn Empire in 1936. He made his first film appearances (all uncredited) in ''Sixty Glorious Years'', ''Housemaster'' (both 1938) and ''Goodbye, Mr Chips'' (1939).Anthony HaywarObituary: Jack Watling ''The Independent'', 24 May 2001. In 1941, he played Bill Hopkins in ''Once a Crook'' in his West End debut. He starred as Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham in the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's ''Flare Path''. Watling had a long career in low-key British films, originally in easy-going boyish roles. His early appearances were in ''Cottage to Let'' (1941). ''We Dive at Dawn'' (1943), ''The Demi-Paradise'' (1943) opposite Laurence Olivier, ''The Way Ahead'' (1944) with David Niven, ''The Winslow Boy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Millham
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Braine (actor)
Richard Braine (born 1956) is a British television actor, playwright, and theatre director. One of his most recognisable roles was that of Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle in the ITV television third and fourth series ''Jeeves and Wooster'' based on the P.G. Wodehouse novels. In an earlier episode of the first series, he played the character Rupert Steggles. In Germany, Braine is known for appearing in a series of adverts for the Dinkel-Mini snack, after an outtake of his work on an advert for the brand appeared on a television bloopers programme and he was asked back to appear in subsequent ads.Maxwell, Dominic (21 October 2006)Hmm, smells like a hit to me ''The Times''. His varied television career includes parts in ''EastEnders'', ''Only Fools and Horses'', ''The Brittas Empire'' and '' So What Now?'' and he has appeared in film roles in '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004), '' Finding Neverland'' (2004) and ''Calendar Girls'' (2003). He also played the character of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Steggles
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in "Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Siberry
Michael Siberry (born 1956) is an Australian stage and screen actor. Life and career Siberry was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia and began his career in Adelaide at the State Theatre Company of South Australia before moving to England to perform for the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, Siberry has performed the likes of Nicholas Nickleby in ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', Gratiano in ''The Merchant of Venice'', Captain Georg von Trapp in ''The Sound of Music'' and Shakespeare in ''The Frogs'' (Lincoln Center). Other theatre credits include Morrell in '' Candida'' and Astrov in ''Uncle Vanya'' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey and Osbourne in ''Journey's End'', Oberon in ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'' and Billy Flynn in ''Chicago'' at London's West end theatre. He portrayed King Arthur in the U.S. National Tour of ''Monty Python's Spamalot'' for two yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |