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The Way We Live Now (1969 TV Serial)
''The Way We Live Now'' is an adaptation of the 1875 novel ''The Way We Live Now'' by Anthony Trollope as a five-part serial for television. Adapted by Simon Raven and directed by James Cellan Jones, it was first broadcast in weekly episodes each Saturday evening on BBC Two, from 5 April to 3 May 1969. Partial cast *Colin Blakely - Augustus Melmotte *Rachel Gurney - Lady Carbury *Sharon Gurney - Henrietta Carbury *Cavan Kendall - Sir Felix Carbury *Irene Prador - Madame Melmotte *Angharad Rees - Marie Melmotte *Sarah Brackett Sarah Evershed Brackett (13 May 1938 – 3 July 1996) was an American-born television and film actress who worked mostly in Britain. Brackett's parents were William Oliver Brackett, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Nancy Alexis Thompson, ... - Mrs Hurtle References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Way We Live Now 1969 British television series debuts 1969 British television series endings 1960s British drama television series Television shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way We Live Now
''The Way We Live Now'' is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. The novel is Trollope's longest, comprising 100 chapters, and is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s; Trollope had just returned to England from abroad, and was appalled by the greed and dishonesty those scandals exposed. This novel was his rebuke. It dramatised how such greed and dishonesty pervaded the commercial, political, moral, and intellectual life of that era. Writing and publication Trollope began writing ''The Way We Live Now'' on 1 May 1873, five months after returning from an extended trip to Australia and New Zealand. He paused work in order to write the shorter novel ''Harry Heathcote of Gangoil'', a Christmas novel he had already promised his publisher, but he resumed work on ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the '' Chronicles of Barsetshire'', which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he had regained the esteem of critics by the mid-20th century. Biography Anthony Trollope was the son of barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope and the novelist and travel writer Frances Milton Trollope. Though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Thomas Trollope failed at the Bar due to his bad temper. Ventures into farming proved unprofitable, and he did not receive an expected inheritance when an elderly childless uncle remarried and had children. Thomas Trollope was the son of Rev. (Thomas) Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Raven
Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter. He is known for his louche lifestyle as much as for his literary output. Expelled from Charterhouse School, he was commissioned in the infantry in National service, before studying at King's College, Cambridge. Unable to earn a living as a writer, he rejoined the Army, but soon resigned, rather than be court-martialled for 'conduct unbecoming' on account of his gambling debts. Declaring that he wrote only for people who shared his own standards, he never attracted the mass market, and had to be rescued by publisher Anthony Blond, who paid him a regular wage on condition that he stayed out of London and concentrated on his writings, many of which Blond published. The arrangement lasted for over 30 years. Raven is remembered for his ten-novel sequence ''Alms for Oblivion'' and its baroque, supernatural sequels ''The Roses of Picardie'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cellan Jones
Alan James Gwynne Cellan Jones (13 July 1931 – 30 August 2019) was a British television and film director. From 1963, he directed over 50 television series and films, specialising in dramas. He was particularly associated with the "Classic Serial" during the golden age of BBC drama,"James Cellan Jones and the Classic Serial" ''''. November 1969; Vol. 10, Issue 6: pp. 33-44. and some of his most significant work was in televising late 19th-century and 20th-century British literary works. Two of his most ambitious and successful directorial adaptations were the miniseries '' |
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Blakely
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films '' A Man for All Seasons'' (1966), ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' (1970), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), and '' Equus'' (1977). Early life Born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, Blakely attended Sedbergh School in Yorkshire (now Cumbria), England. At the age of 18 he started work in his family's sports goods shop in Belfast, before going on to work as a timber-loader on the railways. In 1957, after a spell of amateur dramatics with the Bangor Drama Club, he turned professional with the Group Theatre, Belfast. Career In 1957, at the age of 27, Blakely made his stage debut as Dick McCardle in ''Master of the House''. He also appeared in several Ulster Group Theatre productions, including Gerard McLarnon's ''Bonefire'' (1958) and Patricia O'Connor's ''A Sparrow Falls'' (1959). From 1957 to 1959 he was at the Royal Court Theatre, appearing in ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Gurney
Rachel Gurney (5 March 1920 – 24 November 2001) was an English actress. She began her career in the theatre towards the end of World War II and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active, mostly in television and theatre work, into the early 1990s. She is best remembered for playing the elegant Lady Marjorie Bellamy in the ITV period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Biography Early life and education Rachel Gurney was born in Buckinghamshire, England on 5 March 1920. Her father, Samuel Gurney Lubbock, was a housemaster at Eton ''The Daily Telegraph'', 29 November 2001 and her mother, , was a concert pianist. Due to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavan Kendall
Cavan Spencer Kendall McCarthy (22 May 1942 – 29 October 1999) was a British actor. Life Kendall was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was the son of music hall comedian and actress Marie Kendall. Through his father, Kendall was also a half-brother of actress Kay Kendall. He died of cancer in Gloucestershire at the age of 57. Career Amongst his theatre work, Kendall appeared opposite Sarah Miles in the original West End production of '' Vivat! Vivat Regina!'' at the Piccadilly Theatre, and in ''Justice is a Woman'' at the Vaudeville (as well as its subsequent TV version opposite Margaret Lockwood). He acted in many television series, including the BBC's 1957 version of ''The Railway Children'', and the '' Doctor Who'' story ''The Myth Makers'' in the role of Achilles. He appeared in the films '' Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush'' (1968), ''Eureka'' (1983), ''The Clandestine Marriage'' (1999) and ''Sexy Beast ''Sexy Beast'' is a 2000 British crime film direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Prador
Irene Prador (née Peiser; 16 July 1911, in Vienna – 8 July 1996, in Berlin) was an Austrian-born actress and writer. Biography Prador was born as Irene Peiser, the daughter of Dr. Alfred Peiser and actress Rose Lissmann, and sister of actress Lilli Palmer. She emigrated to France in 1933, following the rise of Nazism; and appeared in cabaret there with her sister. She later worked in revue, film and theatre in England, America and Germany, and appeared in several programmes on BBC Television. Filmography *1937: ''Let's Make a Night of It'' - Specialty Act (uncredited) *1937: ''Ad Lib'' (TV Movie) *1939: ''Rake's Progress'' (TV Movie) - Maria Bellini, of the Neapolitan Opera *1948: '' No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' - Olga-Johnny's Girl *1950: ''The Compelled People'' (TV Movie) - Emmy *1950: ''Lilli Marlene'' - Nurse Schmidt *1952: ''Something Money Can't Buy'' - German maid *1956: ''Lost'' - Mitzi *1956: ''The Battle of the River Plate'' - (uncredited) *1958: '' Carve Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angharad Rees
Angharad Mary Rees, The Hon. Mrs David McAlpine, CBE (16 July 1944 – 21 July 2012) was a British actress, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama ''Poldark''. Early life Rees was born at Redhill Hospital (now Edgware Community Hospital), Edgware, Middlesex, to Welsh psychiatrist William Linford Rees and his wife Catherine Thomas. When she was two, in 1946, her family moved from 13 Engel Park, Mill Hill, to Cardiff. Rees had two brothers and a sister. She attended the independent Commonweal Lodge School, then the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England. Throughout her professional life, her birth year was given as 1949, but she was born in 1944. Acting career Rees made her television debut as a parlour maid in 1968 in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Brackett
Sarah Evershed Brackett (13 May 1938 – 3 July 1996) was an American-born television and film actress who worked mostly in Britain. Brackett's parents were William Oliver Brackett, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Nancy Alexis Thompson, who had been born in Scotland. They were married in Edinburgh in 1931, and Brackett was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1945, her father died, and her mother decided to return home, so that from the age of seven Brackett was brought up in Scotland.''National Geographic'', 1961 volume, p. 539 She trained for an acting career at the Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama. Her entry in ''Spotlight'' in 1966 reported that she spoke fluent French and German.''Spotlight'' Issue 118, Part 2 (1966), p. 1459 Brackett began her career in the theatre. In 1960 she was in repertory at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, and in 1961 played Portia in a production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' at the Colchester Repertory Theatre. She also appeared in West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 British Television Series Debuts
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is First inauguration of Richard Nixon, sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Leonid Brezhnev, Brezhnev es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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