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Trouble At Totleigh Towers
"Trouble at Totleigh Towers" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of the 1990s British comedy television series ''Jeeves and Wooster''. It is also called "Totleigh Towers". It first aired in the UK on on ITV. Some of the external scenes were filmed at Highclere Castle. In the US, it was one of five episodes of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' that were not aired as part of the original broadcast of the television series on ''Masterpiece Theatre'', though all episodes were made available on US home video releases. " The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball" aired as the fifth episode of the fourth series of ''Jeeves and Wooster'' instead. In the episode, Wooster appears in blackface and uses racial stereotypes to impersonate a visiting dignitary. Background Adapted from ''Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves''. The filming location for Totleigh Towers, where much of the episode takes place, was Highclere Castle. Cast * Bertie Wooster – Hugh Laurie * Jeeves – Stephen Fry * Roderick Spode – John Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves And Wooster
''Jeeves and Wooster'' is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the UK and the US in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves. When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular comedic double act for their regular appearances on Channel 4's '' Saturday Live'' and their own show ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'' (BBC, 1987–95). In the television documentary ''Fry and Laurie Reunited'' (2010), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turner (actor)
John Turner (born 7 July 1932) is a British television actor. Career One of Turner's most recognisable roles was that of Roderick Spode (6 episodes, 1991–1993) in the ITV television series ''Jeeves and Wooster'', based on the P. G. Wodehouse novels. He had performed the same role earlier in his career at Her Majesty's Theatre, London in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical flop ''Jeeves''. Turner made his television debut in 1957, playing a hillbilly in ''Operation Fracture''. In 1963 he appeared in 5/13 episodes of ''The Sentimental Agent'' as Bill Randall and in four episodes replaced the lead character played by Carlos Thompson. In a career that lasted more than 40 years, he also appeared in 36 episodes of ''Knight Errant Limited'' as Adam Knight (1959–1960), as well as in episodes of ''Z-Cars'' (1967), ''The Saint'' (1968), ''The Champions'' (1968), ''Fall of Eagles'' (1974), the TV mini series ''Lorna Doone'' (1976), '' Heartbeat'' (1992), ''The Adventures of Young India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Hewitt (actress)
Emma Louise Hewitt (born 28 April 1988) is an Australian singer. Biography Hewitt was the lead singer of the Australian rock band Missing Hours, with whom she released an eponymous debut album in October 2008 through Sony Australia. The band that she formed with her brother Anthony is no longer active; in 2010, she and her brother were based in Europe and writing electronic dance music. Now she's a resident of Miami, FL. Although Hewitt had a musical background in rock music, she released her debut single in 2007 in the field of progressive house: "Carry Me Away" was a collaboration with British DJ Chris Lake. The single reached number 11 in the Spanish singles charts, and number 12 in Finland. The single spent a total of 50 weeks in the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay charts in the United States and reached number 1 in December 2007. After the success of her first single, she became a trance singer, working with several trance artists such as Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Livingstone
Sidney Frederick Livingstone (born 29 March 1945) is an English stage, television, and film character actor. He has sometimes been credited as Sydney Livingstone. Early life Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, Livingstone was an apprentice chef, a salesman, and a plumber's merchant, before gaining a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and training as an actor. He graduated in 1969. Career Livingstone's acting career began on stage, and by 1973 he was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He appeared in several productions directed by Trevor Nunn, including ''Richard II'', ''Hamlet'', ''Timon of Athens'' and ''The Blue Angel''. An early film role came in ''The Ragman's Daughter'' (1972). In 1974 he played Mardian in the television film ''Antony and Cleopatra''. His many other television credits include ''Jeeves and Wooster, Crown Court, Shine on Harvey Moon, Minder'', and ''Boon.'' In 2016, he starred as Brian Reader in the British film '' Hatton Garden: the Heist''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Rodway
Norman John Frank Rodway (7 February 1929 – 13 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish actor. Early life Rodway was born at the family home, Elsinore (named after the castle where Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' is set), on Coliemore Road, Dalkey, Dublin, to Lillian Sybil (née Moyles) and Frank Rodway, who ran a shipping agency. His parents were English, and had moved to Dublin two years before he was born because his father had been posted there for work. He was educated at St Andrew's Church of Ireland National School and the High School, then studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in classics in 1948. He worked as an accountant, teacher, and lecturer in Latin and Greek at Trinity before acting. Career He made his stage debut in May 1953 at the Cork Opera House. There, he portrayed General Mannion in ''The Seventh Step''. He made his first appearance in London's West End in 1959, as The Messenger in ''Cock-A-Doodle Dandy'', and moved to England the follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Plank
Major Brabazon-Plank (possibly later Major Plank) is a fictional character created by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a famed explorer who led an expedition up the Amazon but is afraid of babies. Major Brabazon-Plank (who appears in the Uncle Fred novel ''Uncle Dynamite'') and Major Plank (who appears in the Jeeves novels ''Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'' and ''Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'') have been interpreted by some Wodehouse scholars as being the same character, while others have described them as being two similar but separate characters. Overview In ''Uncle Dynamite'', Major Brabazon-Plank (also called Major Plank) is a famed explorer who led at least one expedition up the Amazon River in Brazil. He is a fat, pear-shaped man and a perpetual eater. He was educated at Eton, where he was called "Bimbo", and is a former Governor of a Crown colony. While in Peru, Major Plank judged a bonny baby competition, where the mother of one of the honourable mentions was unhappy with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Treves
Frederick Simon Treves (born 19 June 1957) is an England, English actor, theatre director, director and writer, best known for playing Harold Pinker, Harold 'Stinker' Pinker in three series of ITV Network, ITV's ''Jeeves and Wooster''. In 2018 he played Aleister Crowley in the short film ''Boca do Inferno'', directed by Luis Porto and shot in Porto and Cascais, Portugal. Biography Born 19 June 1957 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Treves is the eldest son of actor Frederick Treves (actor), Frederick Treves and the great-great nephew of Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon who treated Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Educated first at Rokeby Preparatory School, Rokeby School, then King's College School in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon and finally Birkbeck, University of London, he trained as an actor at the National Youth Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre As an actor, he has played at many of the leading regional United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Braine (actor)
Richard Braine (born 1956) is a British television actor, playwright, and theatre director. One of his most recognisable roles was that of Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle in the ITV television third and fourth series ''Jeeves and Wooster'' based on the P.G. Wodehouse novels. In an earlier episode of the first series, he played the character Rupert Steggles. In Germany, Braine is known for appearing in a series of adverts for the Dinkel-Mini snack, after an outtake of his work on an advert for the brand appeared on a television bloopers programme and he was asked back to appear in subsequent ads.Maxwell, Dominic (21 October 2006)Hmm, smells like a hit to me ''The Times''. His varied television career includes parts in ''EastEnders'', ''Only Fools and Horses'', ''The Brittas Empire'' and '' So What Now?'' and he has appeared in film roles in '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004), '' Finding Neverland'' (2004) and ''Calendar Girls'' (2003). He also played the character of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gussie Fink-Nottle
Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a recurring fictional character in the ''Jeeves'' novels of comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a country member of the Drones Club. He wears horn-rimmed spectacles and studies newts. Life and character A small and shrimp-like young man, Gussie Fink-Nottle (called "Spink-Bottle" by Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia) is one of Bertie's friends. He is described as fish-faced (which jokingly means that he has a small chin). Usually described as wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, he also wears tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles. He went to private school with Bertie Wooster, where they were close enough friends that they shared Bertie's last bar of chocolate.Ring & Jaggard (1999), pp. 86–90. He had not been in London for over five years before meeting Madeline.Cawthorne (2013), p. 216. Generally a teetotaller, he drinks whisky once, and says that it tastes unpleasantly like medicine, burns the throat an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Attenborough
Charlotte Isabel Attenborough (born 29 June 1959) is a British stage, film and television actress known for her appearances in ''Jane Eyre'' (1996) and ''Jeeves and Wooster'' (1991, 93). She is the daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. Biography Family Attenborough was born in 1959, the daughter of actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough and the film and theatre actress Sheila Sim. She has one brother, director Michael Attenborough. Her sister Jane and her 14-year-old niece Lucy were killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami as it struck their villa on the coast of Thailand on 26 December 2004. Another niece, Alice, was seriously injured. Charlotte Attenborough is the niece of television naturalist Sir David Attenborough, John Attenborough and actor Gerald Sim. Career Attenborough had an uncredited role as a small child in the crowd in '' Whistle Down the Wind'' (1961) and made a brief cameo appearance in ''Oh! What a Lovely War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jeeves Characters
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in " Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers postp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Morton
Elizabeth Heery (born 1961) is a British actress, screenwriter and novelist. As an actress and author she works under the name Elizabeth Morton and is known for playing Madeline Bassett in ITV series ''Jeeves and Wooster'' Since 2016, she has been an ambassador for the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. She trained at the Guildhall School of Drama and The Royal Court Young Writers Group. She is a short story writer and has written for BBC Radio 4, Channel 4, ITV and BBC Films and TV. In 2018, she secured a two book deal with Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her novel ''A Liverpool Girl'' was published in 2019, followed by in August 2020, ''A Last Dance in Liverpool''. Both books reached Number 1 and Number 3 respectively in ''The Bookseller''s Heatseekers Charts. August 2020 she secured a book deal with Pan Macmillan for two more Liverpool sagas. ''Angel of Liverpool'' was published in 2021 and was a number 3 Heatseeker, People’s Friend Recommendation and reache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
