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The Smile Behind The Veil
"The Smile Behind the Veil" is the final episode of the 1969 ITC British television series ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 13 March 1970 on the ITV and was directed by Jeremy Summers. Synopsis Cast * Mike Pratt as Jeff Randall *Kenneth Cope as Marty Hopkirk *Annette Andre as Jeannie Hopkirk *John Bott ... Dyson * David Forbes ... Police Constable *Robin Hawdon ... Grant * George Howe ... Brooks *Freda Jackson ... Mrs. Evans *Clare Jenkins ... Female Hiker *Peter Jesson ... Hooper * Peter Lawrence ... Policeman *Michael Radford ... Male Hiker * Alex Scott ... Seaton *Hilary Tindall ... Cynthia *Gary Watson Gary Watson (born Garrowby Watson, 13 June 1930) is a British retired actor. Early in his career he appeared in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play '' Judith'' at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, with Sean Connery. He made more than 40 appearances i ... ... Donald Seaton P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased)
''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman, and was first broadcast in 1969 and 1970. In the United States, it was given the title ''My Partner the Ghost''. ITC Entertainment produced a single series of 26 episodes in 1968 and 1969, which was aired from September 1969 to March 1970. The pilot episode was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1969 by ATV in the Midlands. London Weekend Television broadcast the pilot two days later on 21 September 1969. The series was remade in 2000, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. The show was parodied as "Curtis & Ballard (Deceased)" in the 1996 BBC Radio 4 comedy series ''Fab TV''. Plot In the initial episode, Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation but returns as a ghost. Randall is the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was for four decades a network of separate companies which provided regional television services and also shared programmes between each other to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs the ITV1 channel, and STV Group, which runs the STV channel. The ITV network is a separate entity from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. ITV plc holds the Channel 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Radford
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation ''The Merchant of Venice'', the true crime drama '' White Mischief'', and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama '' Il Postino: The Postman'', for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life and career Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he went to the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lawrence (actor)
Peter Lawrence may refer to: *Peter Lawrence (pirate) (fl. 1693–1705), Dutch privateer and pirate (real name Pieter Laurens) *Peter Lawrence (anthropologist) (1921–1987), British-born Australian anthropologist *Peter Lawrence (author), American author and screenwriter *Peter Anthony Lawrence (born 1941), English developmental biologist * Peter Lawrence (politician), New York State Assembly member elected 2014 *Peter Lawrence (teacher) (1913–2005), British teacher and author *Peter Lee Lawrence (1945–1974), German actor * Peter Max Lawrence (born 1977), American contemporary artist *Peter B. Lawrence, British amateur astronomer *Pete Lawrence (born 1957), musician * Peter Gordon Lawrence, founder of PGL, a provider of school activity courses and summer camps *Peter Godfrey Lawrence Cdr Peter Godfrey Lawrence (192011 June 1953) was a Fleet Air Arm pilot during the second world war, and an air race pilot and test pilot in the post war period. In 1953 he was killed, test fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jesson
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Jenkins
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Freda Jackson
Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and television. Early life and career Jackson was born in Nottingham in 1907. She made her stage debut on 1 January 1934 at the Northampton Repertory Theatre in '' Sweet Lavender''. During this period, she reputedly had a relationship with Errol Flynn, a fellow company member. After two years with the Northampton Rep, she first appeared in London on 13 July 1936 in '' The Sacred Flame'' at the Q Theatre, afterwards touring with Emlyn Williams in Williams' play ''Night Must Fall''. In 1938 she joined the Old Vic company, touring with them the following year in Europe and Egypt, and in 1940 she became part of the Stratford Memorial Theatre company. Her film debut was in ''Mountains O'Mourne'' (1938); other early films included Powell and Pressburger's ''A Canterbury Tale'', Laurence Olivier's ''Henry V'' (both 1944) and David Lean's ''Great Expectations'' (1946). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Howe (actor)
George Winchester Howe (19 April 1900 – 24 June 1986) was an English actor who played numerous stage roles, was a frequent broadcaster on radio and television and appeared in four feature films. Howe acted in a wide range of plays, including new and classic comedies and historical dramas and was frequently seen in works by Chekhov and Shakespeare. He was particularly known for playing Polonius in ''Hamlet''. Most of his work was in the West End, but he also appeared in New York and toured extensively during the Second World War entertaining the troops. Life and career Early years Howe was born in Valparaiso, Chile, on 19 April 1900, the son of Edgar Winchester Howe and his wife Beatrice, ''née'' Macqueen. He was educated at Harrow School, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Christ Church, Oxford, before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.Gaye, pp. 759–761 He made his first professional appearance on the stage at the Regent Theatre in August 1923, as Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hawdon
Robin Hawdon (born 28 March 1939) is an English playwright and novelist, with previous additional careers as actor and theatre director. He is best known for his stage comedies and novels. Education Robin Hawdon was educated at Whitgift Grammar School and Uppingham public school. He later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. Career Acting His career as an actor was first established with seasons at Chesterfield, York, Guildford and Bristol Old Vic repertory theatres, and in London's West End in a variety of roles including ''Roar Like A Dove'' (Phoenix), ''The Last Joke'' (Phoenix), ''The Easter Man'' (title role - Globe), ''Misalliance'' (Royal Court), ''One Over The Eight'' (Duke of Yorks). He also played ''Hamlet'' in Cape Town, Prince Hal and ''Henry V'' at York, and Henry Higgins in ''Pygmalion'' at Salisbury. He made many TV appearances, in particular in the series ''Compact'' (BBC 1964), ''The Flying Swan'' (BBC 1965), ''Spasms'' (co-star w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Forbes (actor)
David Forbes may refer to: *David Forbes (British Army officer) (1777?–1849), Scottish soldier *David McHattie Forbes (1863–1937), Scottish agriculturalist, and plantation manager, judge, explorer in the territory of Hawaii *David Forbes (mineralogist) (1828–1876), British mineralogist *David Forbes, singer for Canadian band Boulevard *David Forbes (sailor) (1934–2022), Australian Olympic sailor *David Forbes (politician) (born 1956), Canadian provincial politician * Dave Forbes (born 1948), retired Canadian ice hockey player See also *David Forbes Hendry (born 1944), British economist *David Forbes Martyn David Forbes Martyn Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, FAA Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (27 June 1906 – 5 March 1970) was a Scotland, Scottish-born Australian physicist and radiographer.R. W. Home,Martyn, David Forbes (1906–19 ... (1906–1970), Scottish-Australian physicist * Forbes (name) {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bott (actor)
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Andre
Annette Andre (born 24 June 1939) is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Early life and early career The daughter of an upholsterer, Annette Andre was born in Drummoyne, Australia, as Annette Christine Andreallo. She was brought up in Sydney and educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. She began work as a ballet dancer at the age of 4 at an academy linked to the Australian Ballet. At 15, she decided to stop ballet and pursue acting because she realised that she was not yet 16, the legal age to work in acting. Andre enrolled in a radio training school and her first radio role was in the serial radio drama called ''Kid Grayson Rides the Range''. Her first role was in the television movie '' If It's a Rose''. Her other Australian television performances included ''Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. Later career She went to the UK in 1963 and was cast in ''Emerald Soup''. Her first film role was in '' This Is My Street'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
