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The Steel Bayonet
''The Steel Bayonet'' is a 1957 British war film directed by Michael Carreras and starring Leo Genn, Kieron Moore and Michael Medwin. Michael Caine also had a small role in the film, early in his career. It is set during the Second World War, in the Tunisian desert when a small British observation force are surrounded in a farm by overwhelming forces of the German Afrika Korps. Filming took place on Salisbury Plain, which doubled for North Africa. Plot ''Tunisia 1943'' As the North African Campaign draws to a close, and the German and Italian forces are being pushed back on Tunis, a company of British Infantry are tasked with holding a small Arab farm against an expected last-ditch counter-attack; the farm's water tower will be used as an observation point by a few Royal Artillery spotters. To defend the farm British Lt. Colonel Derry picks a company led by Major Alan Gerrard; these men have been in the thick of the fighting around Tunis and are greatly reduced in number (desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Carreras
Michael Henry Carreras (21 December 1927 – 19 April 1994) was a British film producer and director. He was known for his association with Hammer Film Productions, Hammer Films, being the son of founder James Carreras, and taking an executive role in the company during its most successful years. As producer, he worked on ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), ''Dracula (1958 film), Dracula'' (1958) and ''The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1960) and ''She (1965 film), She'' (1965) among over sixty other films. He also wrote a smaller number of screenplays. He later turned to directing, with ''Savage Guns (1961 film), The Savage Guns / Tierra brutal'' (1961), ''Maniac (1963 film), Maniac'' (1963), ''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'' (1964), ''Prehistoric Women (1967 film), Slave Girls'' (1967), ''The Lost Continent (1968 film), The Lost Continent'' (1968) and ''Shatter (film), Shatter'' (1975) among others. In 1971, he took over directing ''Blood from the Mummy's Tomb'' after directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = , utc_offset1_DST = , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 1xxx, 2xxx , area_code_type = Calling code , area_code = 71 , iso_code = TN-11, TN-12, TN-13 and TN-14 , blank_name_sec2 = geoTLD , blank_info_sec2 = .tn , website = , footnotes = Tunis ( ar, تونس ') is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as " Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Francis
Raymond Francis (6 October 1911- 24 October 1987) was a British actor best known for his role as Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart in the Associated-Rediffusion detective series ''Murder Bag'', ''Crime Sheet'' and ''No Hiding Place''. He played the role of Lockhart in these series from 1957 to 1967, and the character was one of the first recurring television detectives. Career Born in London as Reginald George Thompson, his first listed television role was as Dr. Watson alongside Alan Wheatley's Holmes in a 1951 BBC TV series entitled '' We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr Sherlock Holmes in...'', the earliest TV adaptation of the tales. He later reprised the role in a 1984 film ''The Case of Marcel Duchamp''. His distinguished appearance often led to roles as senior policemen, military men and English aristocrats; he played such parts in series including ''Dickens of London'', '' Edward & Mrs. Simpson'', ''The Cedar Tree'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', ''After Julius'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Balfour (actor)
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's ''The Marvellous History of St Bernard'', in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical villain, heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker (director), Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman (director), Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Alberto Cavalcanti, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young (director), Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Joyce
Patrick Francis Joyce (31 May 1923 — 27 July 2000) was an actor in film and television. Biography Joyce was born in Trieste, Italy. His father was Frantisek Schaurek, a Czech banker who had stolen money from the Živnostenská Bank in Trieste where he worked and committed suicide in 1926. His mother was Eileen Schaurek (nee Joyce), the sister of the author James Joyce. After his father's death, his mother returned to Ireland with Joyce and his two elder sisters, Nora and Bozena.Delimata, Bozena Berta, and Virginia Moseley. ''Reminiscences of a Joyce Niece.'' James Joyce Quarterly 19, no. 1 (1981): 45-62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476405. Joyce appeared in nearly 90 film and television productions, and played Tommy Deakin on the British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1968–74). In his later years he also played John Royle in another long-running British soap opera, ''EastEnders'' (1990–91, 1993). His other credits date back to the 1950s, his screen debut being i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Herbert (actor)
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema. Biography He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship. His acting career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company. Beginning in 1954, he went on to make nearly seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in ''The Cockleshell Heroes'', ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (for which he also worked as consultant as well as suggesting the use of the well-known "Colonel Bogey March" which the prisoners whistled in the film), ''Sea of Sand'', ''Tunes of Glory'', '' The Guns of Navarone'', ''Guns at Batasi'', ''Tob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Lovegrove
Arthur Lovegrove (15 July 1913 – 7 November 1981) was a British actor and playwright. His comedy ''Goodnight Mrs Puffin'' starring Irene Handl, ran for 3 years in London's West End, from 1961. Filmography * ''Noose'' (1948) - Drummer (uncredited) * ''Passport to Pimlico'' (1949) - Tough Man on Underground Train (uncredited) * '' Meet Simon Cherry'' (1949) - Charlie Banks * ''The Adventures of PC 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel'' (1949) - Bill (uncredited) * ''Night and the City'' (1950) - Thug (uncredited) * '' Waterfront'' (1950) - Stoker (uncredited) * '' The Galloping Major'' (1951) - Punter (uncredited) * ''Emergency Call'' (1952) - Gunner Terry * '' The Ringer'' (1952) - Workman Installing Window Bars (uncredited) * ''Escape Route'' (1952) - Phillips (uncredited) * ''Three Steps to the Gallows'' (1953) - Tommy - coach * ''Genevieve'' (1953) - Hotel Doorman (uncredited) * ''The Steel Key'' (1953) - Gilchrist * '' Murder at 3 a.m.'' (1953) - Inspector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Horsfall
Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 28 January 2013) was an English actor of stage and screen. Early life Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles, including the title role in '' Campion'' (1959-1960), ''Pathfinders to Mars'' (1960), the second sequel to ''Target Luna'', ''Guns at Batasi'' (1964), '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (1969), ''Beasts'', as Sir Christopher Hatton in the 1971 BBC miniseries ''Elizabeth R'', '' Enemy at the Door'' (ITV, 1978–1980), ''Gandhi'' (1982), an episode of '' The Jewel in the Crown'' (ITV, 1984), the character Frankland in ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (ITV, 1988), and the character Balliol in '' Braveheart'' (1995). His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada Television dramatisation of the 1955 ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Whittaker
Ian Roy Whittaker (13 July 1928 – 16 October 2022) was a British set decorator and actor. He won an Academy Award and was nominated three more times in the category Best Art Direction. Whittaker died of prostate cancer on 16 October 2022, at the age of 94. Selected filmography Whittaker won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for three more: ;Won * ''Howards End'' (1992) ;Nominated * ''Alien'' (1979) * ''The Remains of the Day'' (1993) * ''Anna and the King ''Anna and the King'' is a 1999 American biographical period drama film directed by Andy Tennant and written by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes. Loosely based on the 1944 novel '' Anna and the King of Siam'', which gives a fictionalized account ...'' (1999) References External links * * 1928 births 2022 deaths British set decorators Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Film people from London {{UK-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Stewart (actor)
Jack Stewart (1913–1966) was a Scottish actor. In addition to his movie roles, he appeared in many British television series. Selected filmography * ''The Gorbals Story'' (1950) - Peter Reilly * ''Morning Departure'' (1950) - Leading Seaman Kelly * ''Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.'' (1951) - Seaman (uncredited) * '' The Dark Light'' (1951) - Matt * '' A Case for PC 49'' (1951) - Cutler * '' Hunted'' (1952) - Mr. Campbell * ''The Brave Don't Cry'' (1952) - Willie Duncan * ''Ghost Ship'' (1952) - 2nd Engineer * ''The Kidnappers'' (1953) - Dominie * '' Stryker of the Yard'' (1953) * ''The Maggie'' (1954) - Skipper * ''Trouble in the Glen'' (1954) - Thomas - the Gatekeeper (uncredited) * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) - Mac Gregson * ''Johnny, You're Wanted'' (1956) - Inspector Bennett * '' The Intimate Stranger'' (1956) - Constable Burton (uncredited) * '' The Spanish Gardener'' (1956) - Police Escort * ''The Steel Bayonet'' (1957) - Pvt. Wentworthy * ''The Heart Within'' (1957) - I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shay Gorman
Shay may refer to: People Shay is an Irish Gaelic name, a variant of the name Shea. It is derived from Seamus, which is anglicized from Ó Séaghdha. Shay is also a Hebrew unisex name, meaning gift, deriving as a variation of Shai. Mononym * Shay (singer), Shay Mooney, of American act "Dan + Shay" * Shay (rapper), Belgian rapper Given name * Shay Bushinsky, Israeli computer programmer Entertainment industry * Shay Astar (born 1981), American actress * Shay Carl (born 1980), American YouTuber * Shay Haley (born 1975), (presumed) N*E*R*D musician * Shay Hatten, American screenwriter * Shay Mitchell (born 1987), Canadian actress * Shay Roundtree (born 1977), American actor * Shay Youngblood, American creative writer Sports * Shay Abutbul, Israeli footballer * Shay Brennan, Irish footballer * Shay Doron (born 1985), (female) basketball player * Shay, Seamus Elliott, Irish road bicycle racer * Shay Gibbons, Irish footballer * Shay Given, Irish footballer * Shay Holtzman, Israeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paul (actor)
John Paul (20 April 1921 – 23 February 1995) was a British actor. He is best known for his television roles, particularly as Dr Spencer Quist in ''Doomwatch'' (1970–1972) and Marcus Agrippa in ''I, Claudius'' (1976), both for BBC Television. An early role was as the lead in the ITV series '' Probation Officer'' in the early 1960s. He appeared as ''Captain Flint'' in a BBC adaptation of Arthur Ransome's ''Swallows and Amazons'' in 1963. He had guest roles in episodes of popular television series such as ''Out of the Unknown'', ''Doctor Finlay's Casebook'', '' The Avengers'', '' Dixon of Dock Green'', '' The Saint'', ''Marked Personal'' and '' The New Avengers'', mostly during the 1960s and 1970s. One of his final TV appearances was in ''Selling Hitler'', based on the real-life attempts to sell fake diaries attributed to Adolf Hitler. During his career he also appeared in feature films such as '' Yangtse Incident'' (1957), ''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'' (1964), ''Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
