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Tony Wright (actor)
Paul Anthony "Tony" Wright (10 December 1925 – 6 June 1986) was an English film actor. The son of actor Hugh E. Wright, he was a Rank Organisation contract player for some years. He married actress Janet Munro in 1957, though the couple were divorced in 1959. He played the role of London-based private detective Slim Callaghan in several French films. Selected filmography * ''The Flanagan Boy'' (1953) - Johnny Flanagan *'' Your Turn, Callaghan'' (1955) - Slim Callaghan * ''More Whiskey for Callaghan'' (1955) - Slim Callaghan * '' Jumping for Joy'' (1956) - Vincent * ''Jacqueline'' (1956) - Jack McBride * ''Tiger in the Smoke'' (1956) - Jack Havoc * ''Et par ici la sortie '' (1957) - Slim Maden / Carlos * '' Seven Thunders'' (1957) - Jim * '' The Spaniard's Curse'' (1958) - Charlie Manton * ''Broth of a Boy'' (1959) - Tony Randall * ''In the Wake of a Stranger'' (1959) - Tom Cassidy * ''The Rough and the Smooth'' (1959) - Jack * '' And the Same to You'' (1960) - Percy 'Perce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spaniard's Curse
''The Spaniard's Curse'' is a 1958 British thriller film directed by Ralph Kemplen and starring Tony Wright, Lee Patterson, Michael Hordern, Susan Beaumont and Henry Oscar. It was shot at Walton Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Anthony Masters. It is based on the novella ''The Assize of the Dying'' by Edith Pargeter. Plot Guy Stevenson is a British man of Spanish heritage, in poor health and on trial for the murder of an actress called Zoe Trevor. He is convicted and given the death sentence. He protests his innocence and places a curse on the trial judge, Justice Manton; the prosecuting counsel, Sir Robert Wyvern; the foreman of the jury; and the real murderer. The curse is a summons to attend the 'Assize of the Dying'. Watching the proceedings from the court gallery are Justice Manton's ward, Margaret, his son Charlie, and Zoe Trevor's half-brother, Mark Brett. Charlie is covering the case as a newspaper reporter. We learn that he is a much deco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Coppers Are
All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners English determiners (also known as determinatives) are words – such as ''the'', ''a'', ''each'', ''some'', ''which'', ''this'', and ''six'' – that are most commonly used with nouns to specify their referents. The determiners form a closed ... * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * All (All album), ''All'' (All album), 1999 * All (Descendents album), ''All'' (Descendents album) or the title song, 1987 * All (Horace Silver album), ''All'' (Horace Silver album) or the title song, 1972 * All (Yann Tiersen album), ''All'' (Yann Tiersen album), 2019 * All (song), "All" (song), by Patricia Bredin, representing the UK at Eurovision 1957 * "All (I Ever Want)", a song by Alexander Klaws, 2005 * "All", a song by Collective Soul from ''Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid'', 1994 Science an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinic Exclusive
''Clinic Exclusive'' (UK theatrical title: ''Clinic Xclusive''; working title ''With These Hands''; re-released as ''Sex Clinic'') is a 1971 British erotic film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Georgina Ward, Alexander Davion, Carmen Silvera and Windsor Davies. Plot Julie Mason ( Georgina Ward) abuses her position as the owner of a private health clinic by selling sexual favours to her male clients, whom she then blackmails for large amounts of money. At the same time, she resists the sexual advances of Elsa Farson (Carmen Silvera), a lonely, older woman. When businessman Lee Maitland ( Alexander Davion) engages her services, Julie, who wants to make a new life for herself, is taken by her new client and quickly becomes his fiancée. Meanwhile, barred from visiting Julie, Farson is driven to suicide. Julie is drawn into Maitland's plan to make them both rich, unaware that he is actually Farson's son and intends to avenge his mother. The film ends with Maitland, having fake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnificent Six And 1/2
''The Magnificent Six and 1/2'' was a British comedy film series for the Children's Film Foundation. Based on Hal Roach's popular Our Gang series of shorts, "Six and 1/2" followed a group of seven children on their fun misadventures. Created by Harry Booth and Roy Simpson, the series ran in cinemas from 1968 to 1972, with three series and eighteen half-hour episodes in all. Following the first two series, Booth and Simpson decided to bring their children's series to television, eventually creating a very similar series called ''Here Come the Double Deckers!''. The final "Six and 1/2" series was produced by a different company and featured an entirely new group of children in the cast. Series One (1968) The first series of ''The Magnificent Six and 1/2'' starred Len Jones as the group's leader, Steve, Brinsley Forde as prankster Toby, Suzanne Togni as tomboy Liz, Ian Ellis as rather large Dumbo, Michael Audreson as the clever Whizz, Lionel Hawkes as the always hungry Stodger, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Haunted Himself
''The Man Who Haunted Himself'' is a 1970 British psychological thriller film written and directed by Basil Dearden (his final film prior to his death by automobile accident in 1971) and starring Roger Moore. It is based on the 1957 novel ''The Strange Case of Mr Pelham'' by Anthony Armstrong, and is a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde story. The story was previously filmed as a 30 minute short for television as part of the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Series 1 Episode 11: The Case of Mr Pelham. In 2011 Moore said his role in the film was his favourite. "It was a film I actually got to act in, rather than just being all white teeth and flippant and heroic." Plot While driving home from his London office in his Rover P5B, Harold Pelham, a director of Freeman, Pelham & Dawson, a marine technology company and very conservative creature of habit, seems to undergo a sudden personality change and starts to drive both fast and recklessly on his way home, imagining himself in a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Liquidator (1965 Film)
''The Liquidator'' is a 1965 British thriller film starring Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes, Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John. It was based on the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner (thriller writer), John Gardner, ''The Liquidator (novel), The Liquidator''. The film follows the 1964 novel closely. Due to a legal dispute, the film's original November 1965 release was delayed to the end of 1966, by which time the spy film craze was waning. Plot In 1944 during World War II, Royal Armoured Corps, tank corps Sergeant "Boysie" Oakes (Rod Taylor) stumbles and unwittingly shoots and kills two men attempting to assassinate British Intelligence Major Mostyn (Trevor Howard) in Paris, France, Paris. Mostyn mistakenly believes Oakes was lethal on purpose. Twenty-one years later, Mostyn (now a colonel in British Intelligence) and his boss (Wilfred Hyde-White) are in trouble due to a series of embarrassing security disasters. To save his job, the chief o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey Into Nowhere
Journey or journeying may refer to: * Travel, the movement of people between distant geographical locations ** Day's journey, a measurement of distance ** Road trip, a long-distance journey on the road Animals * Journey (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Journey (wolf) or OR-7, a gray wolf being electronically tracked in the Northwest United States Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Journey'' (1972 film), a 1972 Canadian film directed by Paul Almond * ''Journey'' (1995 film), a 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film * ''Journey'' (2004 film), a 2004 short film written and directed by Christine Shin * ''Journey'', a Telugu dubbed movie of original Tamil movie ''Engaeyum Eppothum'' Literature * ''Journey'' (novel), a 1989 historical novel by James Michener * ''A Journey'' (2010), Tony Blair's memoirs * ''Journey'' (picture book), a 2013 children's book by Aaron Becker * '' Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire'', a 1983 comic by William Messner-Loebs Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attempt To Kill
''Attempt to Kill'' is a 1961 British film. It was a rare feature directed by Royston Morley, and based on a story by Edgar Wallace, ''The Lone House Mystery''. It was one of a series of ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'', British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s. Premise A businessman fires one of his employees, then someone tries to murder him. The fired man becomes the prime suspect. Cast * Derek Farr as Det. Insp. Minter * Tony Wright as Gerry Hamilton * Richard Pearson as Frank Weyman *Freda Jackson as Mrs. Weyman *Patricia Mort as Elisabeth Gray *J.G. Devlin as Elliott *Clifford Earl as Sgt. Bennett *Denis Holmes as Fraser *Allan Jeager as Gardener *Grace Arnold as Housekeeper *Trevor Reid as Bank Manager *Frances Bennett as Barmaid References External linksAttempt to Killat BFIAttempt to Killat Letterbox DVDAttempt to Killat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faces In The Dark
''Faces in the Dark'' is a 1960 black and white British thriller film directed by David Eady and starring John Gregson, Mai Zetterling and John Ireland. The film is based on the 1952 novel ''Les Visages de l'ombre'' by Boileau-Narcejac. Plot Richard Hammond, an aggressive and ambitious business mogul and inventor with little or no time for his wife, friends or family, is blinded in an explosion on the same day that his long-suffering wife had planned to leave him. He becomes bitter at life. His wife is a devious woman and is plotting, with her lover, in an attempt to make her husband think he's going insane, in the hope that he will take his own life and leave them free to pursue their illicit affair in peace. As he is blind when he encounters the lovers in bed the man just has to stay silent to evade detection. Hammond gets wise to their plan. Cast * John Gregson as Richard Hammond * Mai Zetterling as Christiane Hammond * John Ireland as Max Hammond * Michael Denison a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House In Marsh Road
''The House in Marsh Road'', known on American television as ''Invisible Creature'', is a 1960 British horror suspense film produced by Maurice J. Wilson, directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton and Sandra Dorne. The plot centres on a benevolent poltergeist in a country home which protects a woman from her homicidal husband. It may be one of the first films to use the word 'poltergeist' in reference to a spirit or ghost. The film was never released to theatres in the US, and instead went straight to television. The screenplay, also by Wilson, is based on the 1955 novel ''The House in Marsh Road'' by Laurence Meynell. Plot David and Jean Linton move from rented flat to rented flat, leaving each with unpaid bills. David is a would-be author with an alcohol problem, and also involved in passing counterfeit notes. He has had several affairs during his marriage to Jean. Their luck changes when Jean inherits a house and £1000 from a distant aunt. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And The Same To You
''And the Same to You'' is a 1960 British boxing-themed comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Brian Rix and William Hartnell. It is based on a stage farce by A.P. Dearsley. Premise Stuck with the nickname "Dreadnought", Dickie Marchant (Brian Rix) feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. However, to mollify his uncle (Leo Franklyn), Marchant pretends to be the soul of religiosity, while his tough-talking manager, Walter 'Wally' Burton (William Hartnell), poses as a man of the cloth. Cast * Brian Rix as Dickie 'Dreadnought' Marchant * William Hartnell as Walter 'Wally' Burton * Leo Franklyn as Rev. Sydney Mullett * Tommy Cooper as Horace Hawkins * Vera Day as Cynthia Tripp * Sid James as Sammy Gatt * Miles Malleson as Bishop * Arthur Mullard as Tubby * Renee Houston as Mildred Pomphret * Dick Bentley as George Nibbs * John Robinson as Archdeacon Humphrey Pomphret * Terry Scott as Police Constable * Shirley Anne Field as Iris Collins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
