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The Bofors Gun
''The Bofors Gun'' is a 1968 British drama film directed by Jack Gold and starring Nicol Williamson, David Warner, Ian Holm and John Thaw. It was based on the play ''Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun'' by John McGrath. It is set in 1954, during the British peacetime occupation of West Germany following the Second World War. It portrays the increasingly violent interaction between members of a squad of soldiers during a single night of guard duty. Its budget was an estimated $800,000.Alexander Walker, ''Hollywood, England'', Stein and Day, 1974, p. 345 Plot West Germany, 1954. Lance Bombardier Evans, a sheltered middle-class National Serviceman, is about to be sent back to England to undertake a second attempt at officer training. But first he has to get through one night of guard duty without incident. Evans is in charge of a section of six men detailed to guard an anti-aircraft Bofors gun at a British military base. It soon becomes clear that none of the section, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gold
Jacob M. "Jack" Gold (28 June 1930 – 9 August 2015) was a British film and television director. He was part of the Kitchen sink realism, British realist tradition which followed the Free Cinema movement. Career Jacob M. Gold was born in London, the son of Charles and Minnie (née Elbery) Gold. He attended University College London. After leaving UCL, he began his career as a film editor on the BBC's ''Tonight (1957 TV series), Tonight'' programme. Gold became a freelance documentary filmmaker, making dramas as a platform for his social and political observations. For television, his best known work is ''The Naked Civil Servant (film), The Naked Civil Servant'' (1975), based on Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant (book), 1968 book of the same name and starring John Hurt. He had previously directed the 1964 crime series ''Call the Gun Expert'' for the BBC. Other television credits include ''The Visit'' (1959), the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of ''The Merch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bofors 40 Mm L/60 Gun
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range small calibre anti-aircraft guns and slower firing long-range high calibre anti-aircraft guns, a role which previously was filled by older outdated guns. The Bofors 40 mm L/60 was for its time perfectly suited for this role and outperformed competing designs in the years leading up to World War II in both effectiveness and reliability. It entered the export market around 1932 and was in service with 18 countries by 1939. Throughout World War II it became one of the most popular and widespread medium-weight anti-aircraft guns. It was used by the majority of the western Allies and some Axis powers such as Nazi Germany and Hungary. In the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Press Holdings
Press Holdings and May Corporation Limited are two Jersey-registered holding companies owned by Frederick Barclay, which control the UK holding company Press Acquisitions Limited, which in turn owns the Telegraph Media Group, parent company of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph''. In December 2005, Press Holdings sold The Scotsman Publications to the Edinburgh-based Johnston Press for £160m,''Daily Telegraph'', 19 December 2005Johnston Press buys The Scotsman/ref> having paid £82m for the group in 1995. The company also owns ''The Spectator'', a weekly British political magazine, and ''Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...'', an art magazine. References Holding companies of the United Kingdom David and Frederick Barclay {{UK- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world. It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The Daily Telegraph'' newspaper, via Press Holdings. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture. It is politically conservative. Alongside columns and features on current affairs, the magazine also contains arts pages on books, music, opera, film and TV reviews. Editorship of ''The Spectator'' has often been a step on the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Ian Gilmour (1954–1959), Iain Macleod (1963–1965), and Nigel Lawson (1966–1970). Since 2009, the magazine's editor has been journalist Fraser Nelson. ''The Spectator Australia'' offers 12 pages on Australian politics and affairs as well as the full UK maga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000. He reviewed more than one thousand films during his tenure there. Early life Canby was born in Chicago, the son of Katharine Anne (née Vincent) and Lloyd Canby. He attended boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, with novelist William Styron, and the two became friends. He introduced Styron to the works of E.B. White and Ernest Hemingway; the pair hitchhiked to Richmond to buy ''For Whom the Bell Tolls''. He became an ensign in the United States Navy Reserve on October 13, 1942, and reported aboard the Landing Ship, Tank 679 on July 15, 1944. He was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade) on January 1, 1946, while on LST 679 sailing near Japan. After the war, he attended Dartmouth College, but did not graduate. Career He obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynn Edwards
John Glynn Edwards (2 February 1931 – 23 May 2018) was a British television and cinema character actor, who came to national prominence for his portrayal of the barman Dave Harris in the 1970s–1990s British television comedy-drama ''Minder''. Early life Edwards was born in Penang, Peninsular Malaysia, on 2 February 1931. His father, who spent little time on him, was a rubber planter at the time of his birth and died later in 1946. His mother died shortly after his birth and he was raised first by his grandparents in Southsea, Hampshire, and then by his father and stepmother, who ran a pub in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He received his early formal education at Clayesmore School in Dorset. In his childhood he read Arthur Ransome's adventure novel ''Swallows and Amazons'', which gave him a life-long passion for river-boating, which began with sailing expeditions along the River Avon in his tenth year. As a teenager he was an amateur actor, before going to Trinidad where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
Geoffrey Hughes DL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film '' Yellow Submarine'' (1968), and rose to fame for portraying much-loved bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera ''Coronation Street'' from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom ''Keeping Up Appearances'' (1990–1995); and 'Twiggy' in the sitcom ''The Royle Family'', playing the part from 1998 to 2000, and reprising his role for the specials in 2006 and 2008. From 2001 to 2005 he played Vernon Scripps, conman and loveable rogue, in the ITV police drama '' Heartbeat'', taking over as the show's main loveable rogue from Bill Maynard's Claude Greengrass, and returning to the show briefly in 2007. Hughes was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the 1990s, and in 2010 he suffered a cancer relapse which led him to retire from acting. He died f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Jefford
Mary Barbara Jefford, OBE (26 July 1930 – 12 September 2020) was a British actress, best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre and her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film of James Joyce's ''Ulysses''. Early life Mary Barbara Jefford was born in Plymstock, Devon, the daughter of Elizabeth Mary Ellen (née Laity) and Percival Francis Jefford. She was brought up in the West Country and attended Weirfield School in Taunton, Somerset. She attended the Hartly-Hodder School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal. In 1946, whilst still a student, she obtained small parts in the radio production of ''Westward Ho!'' and other radio plays, but her stage debut came in 1949, when she played the part of Viola in ''Twelfth Night'' at the Dolphin Theatre, Brighton. Theatre Stratford After spending just one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard O'Callaghan
Richard O'Callaghan (born Richard Brooke, 7 March 1940, London) is an English film, stage and television character actor. He is the son of actors Patricia Hayes and Valentine Brooke, whose stage name was Valentine Rooke. As a boy actor he was known as Richard Brooke. He has led a versatile career in film, stage and television in a wide range of roles. He is best known for his role in the British film ''Carry On at Your Convenience'' (1971). Personal life He is married to the American actress Elizabeth Quinn. He is Chairman of the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK) (CaAPA) (formerly the Catholic Stage Guild). Film credits * ''The Bofors Gun'' (1968) ... Rowe * ''Carry On Loving'' (1970) ... Bertram Muffet * ''Carry On at Your Convenience'' (1971) ... Lewis Boggs * '' Butley'' (1974) ... Joey Keyston * ''Galileo'' (1975) ... Fulganzio * ''Watership Down'' (1978) (voice) ... Dandelion * ''Dangerous Beauty'' (1998) ... Zealot Television credits * ''Out of the Unknown' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Jackson (actor)
Barry Jackson (29 March 1938 – 5 December 2013) was an English stage, film and television actor. Career His film career included roles in ''Ryan's Daughter'', ''Barry Lyndon'', '' Aces High'', ''The Raging Moon'', '' Mr. Love'', and ''Wimbledon''. His television credits included: '' A for Andromeda'', ''The Mask of Janus'', ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Special Branch'', ''The Troubleshooters'', '' Man at the Top'', ''Doomwatch'', ''Public Eye'', ''Poldark'', ''Oil Strike North'', '' The New Avengers'', ''Blake's 7'', '' The Professionals'', ''Coronation Street'', '' Enemy at the Door'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''Minder'', '' Bergerac'', ''Lovejoy'', ''Casualty'', ''Peak Practice'', ''Silent Witness'', ''Kavanagh QC'', ''The Bill'', ''A Touch of Frost'', ''Holby City'', '' Heartbeat'' and ''Midsomer Murders''. Jackson appeared in ''Doctor Who'' in the show's original run, including the stories '' The Romans'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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