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The Second Man (Playhouse 90)
"The Second Man" was an American television play broadcast live on February 12, 1959 as the 100th episode of the CBS television series, ''Playhouse 90''. The cast was led by James Mason. The teleplay was written by Leslie Stevens as an adaptation of the novel, ''The Second Man'', by Edward Grierson. Plot A woman barrister at a prestigious London chambers tries to save a young man accused of murdering his wealthy aunt. Cast The cast included the following: * James Mason - Hesketh * Margaret Leighton - Miss Kerrison * Hugh Griffith - Jaggers * Diana Wynyard - Jane Birman * Kenneth Haigh - Maudsley Production The program was presented live from Television city in Hollywood on February 19, 1959, on the CBS television series ''Playhouse 90''. The teleplay was written by Leslie Stevens as an adaptation of the novel, ''The Second Man'' (1956), by Edward Grierson. Reception Television critic William Ewald of the UPI wrote: "The play was the sort of thing I believe Britons refer to as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton, CBE (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included (her first credited debut feature) in Anatole de Grunwald's ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948). For ''The Go-Between'' (1971), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Leighton began her career on stage in 1938, before joining the Old Vic and making her Broadway debut in 1946. A four-time Tony Award nominee, she twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the original Broadway productions of ''Separate Tables'' (1957) and ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1962). She also won an Emmy Award for a 1970 television version of ''Hamlet''. Life and career Born in Barnt Green, Worcestershire, Leighton made her stage debut as Dorothy in ''Laugh with Me'' (1938), which also was performed that year for BBC Television. She became a star of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Haigh
Kenneth William Michael Haigh (25 March 1931 – 4 February 2018) was an English actor. He first came to public recognition for playing the role of Jimmy Porter in the play ''Look Back in Anger'' in 1956 opposite Mary Ure in London's West End theatre. Haigh's performance in the role on stage was critically acclaimed as a prototype dramatic working-class anti-hero in post-Second World War English drama. Early life Born in Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, Haigh studied drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama, at the time based at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Career He played the central role of Jimmy Porter in the premiere production of John Osborne's play ''Look Back in Anger'' in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre. His performance in a 1958 Broadway theatre production of that play so moved one young woman in the audience that she mounted the stage and slapped him in mid-performance. For the film version released in 1959, he was passed over in favour of Richard B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playhouse 90
''Playhouse 90'' was an American television anthology series, anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. The show was produced at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s usually were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual: a weekly series of hour-and-a-half-long dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Background The producers of the show were Martin Manulis, John Houseman, Russell Stoneman, Fred Coe, Arthur Penn, and Hubbell Robinson. The leading director was John Frankenheimer (27 episodes), followed by Franklin J. Schaffner (19 episodes). Other directors included Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Delbert Mann, and Robert Mulligan. With Alex North's opening theme music, the series debuted October 4, 1956 with Rod Serling's Forbidden Area (Playhouse 90), adaptation of Pat Frank's novel ''Forbidden Area (Playhouse 90), Forbidden Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, '' The Outer Limits'' (1963–1965) and '' Stoney Burke'' (1962–63), and ''Search'' (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film ''Incubus'' (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, '' est: The Steersman Handbook'' (1970). Biography Stevens was born in Washington, D.C. His interest in science was sparked when he studied for the United States Naval Academy at the behest of his father, Leslie Clark Stevens III, an admiral in the United States Navy. But the Broadway theater intrigued him more than a military career, and he headed for New York as a fledgling writer. He sold his play ''The Mechanical Rat'', to Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre and ran away from home to join the troupe before being returned ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Grierson
Edward Grierson (9 March 1914 - 24 May 1975) was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding ''Reputation for a Song'', a classic inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P. Stevenson. Works ; Crime novels * ''Shall Perish with the Sword'' (as Brian Crowther). London, Quality Press, 1949. * ''Reputation for a Song''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1952. See also the film '' My Lover, My Son'' * '' The Second Man''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1956. Gold Dagger Award (dramatised on television: 'The Second Man' on Playhouse 90 in 1959 - starred James Mason and Diana Wynyard) * '' The Massingham Affair''. London, Chatto and Windus, 1962; New York, Doubleday, 1963. * '' A Crime of One's Own''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Putnam, 1967. ; Novels * ''The Lilies and the Bees''. London, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Brodkin
Herbert Brodkin (November 9, 1912 – October 29, 1990) was an American producer and director of film and television. Brodkin was best known as the producer of the television shows '' Playhouse 90'', '' The Defenders'', the miniseries ''Holocaust'' and the short-lived series ''Coronet Blue''. Brodkin was also the founder and president of Plautus Productions and also the co-founder of Titus Productions with Robert Berger in 1965. Early life and education Brodkin was born to a Jewish family on November 9, 1912 in New York City, the youngest of six children born to parents Adolph (1873 – 1946) and Rose (Hunter) Brodkin. Brodkin's parents were both born in Russia. His father immigrated from Russia in 1887 and his mother in 1894. Brodkin had two older brothers; Nathanal and Milton (1904–1970), and three older sisters; Gertrude, Ethel, and Beatrice. Brodkin graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in 1934 and from the Yale School of Drama in 1940. Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mason
James Neville Mason (; 15 May 190927 July 1984) was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was the top box-office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945; his British films included ''The Seventh Veil'' (1945) and ''The Wicked Lady'' (1945). He starred in ''Odd Man Out'' (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Mason starred in such films as George Cukor's '' A Star Is Born'' (1954), Alfred Hitchcock's ''North by Northwest'' (1959), Stanley Kubrick's ''Lolita'' (1962), Warren Beatty's '' Heaven Can Wait'' (1978), and Sidney Lumet's ''The Verdict'' (1982). He also starred in a number of successful British and American films from the 1950s to the early 1980s, including: '' The Desert Fox'' (1951), ''Julius Caesar'' (1953), ''Bigger Than Life'' (1956), ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1954), ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1959), ''Georgy Girl'' (1966), and '' The Boys from Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Of Our Time (Playhouse 90)
"Child of Our Time" was an American television play broadcast on February 5, 1959 as part of the CBS television series, ''Playhouse 90''. The cast included Robert L. Crawford Jr., Liliane Montevecchi, and Maximillian Schell. George Roy Hill was the director. The teleplay was written by Irving Gaynor Neiman as an adaptation of the book by Michel del Castillo. Plot A young Spanish boy, Tanguy, is deprived of childhood by World War II. He is left in France when his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime. Cast The cast included the following: * Robert L. Crawford Jr. - Tanguy * Liliane Montevecchi - the Mother * Maximilian Schell - Gunther * George Dolenz - the Father * Lou Jacobi - Delivol * Marc Lawrence - Pardo * Theo Marcuse - Rouge * John Wengraf - Mr. Cohen * Ben-Ari - Misha * Orlando Rodriguez - Firmin * Rene Korper - Guy * Naomi Stevens - Nita * Felipe Turich - the Doctor * Beppy Devries - the Concierge * Voytek Dolinski - Antoine * Guy De Vestel - Dulac * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Raider (Playhouse 90)
"The Raider" was an American television play broadcast on February 19, 1959 as part of the CBS television series, ''Playhouse 90''. The cast included Frank Lovejoy, Donald Crisp, and Rod Taylor. Franklin Schaffner was the director and Loring Mandel the writer. Plot The Harman Corp. is the subject of a takeover attempt by a corporate raider. Cast The cast included the following: * Frank Lovejoy - Arthur Hennicut * Donald Crisp - Samuel Harman * Leif Erickson - James Mayberry * Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including ''The Time Machine'' (1960), ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961), '' The Birds'' (1963), and ''In ... - Robert Castillo * Leon Ames - Leland Wolff * Louis Jean Heydt - Marvin Tannis * Carl Benton Reid - Mr. Church * Paul Douglas - David Ringler * George Mitchell - Corey Palmer * Jennifer Howard - Rona Ringler * Raymond Bailey - Mr. Stern * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Play
A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape. This is in contrast to a television movie, which employs the single-camera setup of film production. United Kingdom From the 1950s until the early 1980s, the television play was a television programming genre in the United Kingdom. The genre was often associated with the social realist-influenced British drama style known as "kitchen sink realism", which depicted the social issues facing working-class families. ''Armchair Theatre'' (ABC, later Thames, 1956–1974), ''The Wednesday Play'' (BBC, 1964–1970) and ''Play for Today'' (BBC, 1970–1984) received praise from critics for their quality. ''Armchair Theatre'': 1956–1974 ''Armchair Theatre'' was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Man
''The Second Man'' is a 1956 crime novel by the British writer Edward Grierson. It won the Gold Dagger award of the Crime Writers' Association. Synopsis A new female barrister Marion Kerrison defends a man accused of murdering his aunt to get his hands of her jewels. Adaptation It was adapted for a 1959 episode of the American television series ''Playhouse 90'' that starred James Mason, Diana Wynyard, Margaret Leighton and Hugh Griffith.Roberts p.214 References Bibliography * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * Roberts, Jerry. ''Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. * White, Terry. ''Justice Denoted: The Legal Thriller in American, British, and Continental Courtroom Literature''. Praeger, 2003. 1956 British novels Novels by Edward Grierson British crime novels Chatto & Windus books Novels set in London British novels adapted into television shows {{1950s-crime-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Griffith
Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh film, stage, and television actor. He is best remembered for his role in the film '' Ben-Hur'' (1959), which earned him critical acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Some of his other notable credits include ''Exodus'' (1960), ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962), '' Tom Jones'' (1963), and ''Oliver!'' (1968). Early life Griffith was born in Marian-glas, Anglesey, Wales, the youngest son of Mary and William Griffith. He was educated at Llangefni County School and attempted to gain entrance to university, but failed the English examination. He was then urged to make a career in banking, becoming a bank clerk and transferring to London to be closer to acting opportunities. Just as he was making progress and gained admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he had to suspend his plans in order to join the British Army, serving for six years with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in India and the Burma Camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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