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The Count Of Monte Cristo (1964 TV Series)
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' is a British 12-part dramatization of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel of the same name. It was made by the BBC and was screened in the autumn of 1964. The series starred Alan Badel in the title role. As well as being the only BBC version, the serial survived the corporation's junking policy intact and is available on DVD. Premise Edmond Dantes, a sailor, is falsely accused and imprisoned by three men who have various reasons to be jealous of him. After 14 years imprisoned in the Chateau d'If he escapes, and, after recovering a treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo revealed to him by the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner, he embarks on a campaign of revenge against those who have wronged him. Cast * Alan Badel as Edmond Dantes * Natasha Parry as Mercédès * Philip Madoc as Fernand Mondego * Morris Perry as Danglars * Michael Gough as Villefort * Michael Robbins as Caderousse * Anthony Newlands as M. Morel * John Wentworth as Abbe Faria * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Logan
Campbell Logan (1910–1978) was a British television producer and television director, director.Jane Austen on Screen p.261 He produced a large number of serials for the BBC, often based on classic works of literature. Selected filmography * ''BBC Sunday-Night Theatre'' (1950-1959) * ''The Warden (TV series), The Warden'' (1951) * ''Ann Veronica (film), Ann Veronica'' (1952) * ''Jane Eyre (1956 miniseries), Jane Eyre'' (1956) * ''Vanity Fair (1956 miniseries), Vanity Fair'' (1956) * ''Precious Bane (TV series), Precious Bane'' (1957) * ''The Royalty (TV series), The Royalty'' (1957-1958) * ''Charlesworth (TV series), Charlesworth'' (1959) * ''The Naked Lady'' (1959) * ''Emma (1960 TV series), Emma'' (1960) * ''Persuasion (1960 TV series), Persuasion'' (1960) * ''The Men from Room 13'' (1961) * ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' (1962-1964) * ''Kidnapped (1963 TV series), Kidnapped'' (1963) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo (1964 TV series), The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1964) * ''Martin Chuzzle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Calderisi
David Calderisi (born 21 June 1940) is a Canadian actor with a career in both Canada and the United Kingdom. Early life and education Calderisi was born in Montreal and attended McGill University. Career After training as an actor in London from 1959 to 1962, Calderisi made appearances in iconic British TV shows including '' The Saint'', ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', '' The Baron'', ''Doctor Who'' (serial: '' The Mind of Evil'') and ''The Protectors''. At the same time, he collaborated with David Halliwell to revolutionize British theatre by bringing lunchtime performances to the masses. They formed the company Quipu which from 1968 to 1973 operated at three venues: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA, where Calderisi studied for the stage), the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and the Little Theatre in Central London, off St. Martin's Lane. Calderisi has also acted and directed in theatres across the West End in productions such as ''The Experiment'' and ''The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinescope
Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940s for the preservation, re-broadcasting and sale of television programmes before the introduction of quadruplex videotape, which from 1956 eventually superseded the use of kinescopes for all of these purposes. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to videotape. Typically, the term Kinescope can refer to the process itself, the equipment used for the procedure (a movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate), or a film made using the process. The term originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television receivers, as named by inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin in 1929. Hence, the recordings were known in full as kinescope films or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quadruplex Videotape
2-inch quadruplex videotape (also called 2″ quad video tape or quadraplex) was the first practical and commercially successful analog recording video tape format. It was developed and released for the broadcast television industry in 1956 by Ampex, an American company based in Redwood City, California. The first videotape recorder using this format was built in the same year. This format revolutionized broadcast television operations and television production, since the only recording medium available to the TV industry until then was film used for kinescopes. Since most United States West Coast network broadcast delays done by the television networks at the time were done with film kinescopes that needed time for developing, the networks wanted a more practical, cost-effective, and quicker way to time-shift television programming for later airing on the West Coast than the expense and time consumption of the processing and editing of film caused. Faced with these challenges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Steven
Anthony Steven (3 August 1916 – 26 May 1990) was a British television scriptwriter whose career spanned over three decades. Notable works include '' All Creatures Great and Small'', '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' and ''The Forsyte Saga''. Career Anthony Steven began his career as a reporter on the '' Oxford Mail''. Later, he was discovered by John Grierson, the founder of the Crown Film Unit, who hired him as a writer. In 1957 Steven joined the BBC. A prolific writer, he wrote many television serials over a period of thirty years. Some of his scripts were original but many were adaptations of classic novels, including several episodes of ''The Forsyte Saga'' (1967). In 1984, he wrote the script for the '' Doctor Who'' story '' The Twin Dilemma'', the first to star Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor The Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Colin Baker. Although h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Sarruf
Valerie may refer to: People *Saint Valerie (other), a number of saints went by the name Valerie *Valerie (given name), a feminine given name Songs *"Valerie", a 1981 song by Quarterflash, from ''Quarterflash'' *"Valerie", a 1982 song by Jerry Garcia from ''Run for the Roses'' * "Valerie" (Stevie Winwood song), a 1982 song by Steve Winwood from ''Talking Back to the Night'' *"Valerie", a 1986 song by Bad Company from '' Fame and Fortune'' *"Valerie", a 1986 song by Joy from ''Hello'' *"Valerie", a 1986 song by Richard Thompson *"Valerie", a 1993 song by Patti Scialfa from '' Rumble Doll'' *"Valerie", a 2002 song by Reel Big Fish from '' Cheer Up!'' * "Valerie" (Zutons song), a 2006 song by the Zutons from ''Tired of Hanging Around''; covered by Mark Ronson, with lead vocals by Amy Winehouse *"Valerie", a 2011 song by the Weeknd from ''Thursday'' *"Valerie", a 2020 song by Bladee from '' 333'' *" Valleri", a 1968 song written by Boyce and Hart for the Monkees *"La Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kay (actor)
Richard Kay (1937–1987) was a British actor. Originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he was educated at Leighton Park School followed by Emmanuel College, Cambridge and is best known for his work in ''Déjà Vu'' (1985), '' Three Sisters'' (1970) and ''Wuthering Heights'' (1978). In television, he appeared in '' Coronation Street'' and ''Juliet Bravo ''Juliet Bravo'' is a British television police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes on BBC1. The theme of the series concerned a female police inspector who took over con ...'' amongst other programmes. Kay was married to Jacqueline Venetia Maxwell (married 1964). Their son is the actor Barnaby Kay. References 1937 births 1987 deaths Male actors from Newcastle upon Tyne 20th-century British male actors British male soap opera actors British male film actors Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Trevor
Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was an Irish actor who had a long career in film and television. He played the parson in John Galsworthy's ''Escape'' at the world premiere in London's West End in 1926 and was the only member of the cast to transfer to New York City for the Broadway production a year later. He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: ''Alibi'' (1931), '' Black Coffee'' (1931) and ''Lord Edgware Dies'' (1934). He subsequently turned up in a character part in a later Poirot adaptation '' The Alphabet Murders'' in 1965. He stated that he only got the Poirot role because he could speak with a French accent. During the 1960s he worked largely in television, appearing in series such as ''The First Churchills'' in which he played Lord Halifax. He appeared in an episode of the legal drama ''The Main Chance''. He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward De Souza
Edward James de Souza (born 4 September 1932) is a British character actor and graduate of RADA, who is of Portuguese-Indian and English descent. Early life De Souza was the only child of Annie Adeline Swift (née Calvert) and Edward Valentine De Souza Jr. (Rangoon 1881–1947), a graduate of the University of Cambridge who was of Portuguese-Indian descent (his father originated from Goa). De Souza was brought up primarily by his mother because his father died when De Souza was just 14. Career From 1961 to 1966, he starred in the sitcom ''Marriage Lines'' with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. De Souza had roles in the Hammer films '' The Phantom of the Opera'' and ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (both 1962). In the same year, he appeared in "Six Hands Across the Table", an episode of British television series '' The Avengers''. De Souza appeared as the lead character, space security agent Marc Cory, in the '' Doctor Who'' story '' Mission to the Unknown'' (1965) – the only s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Palk
Anna Palk (23 October 1941 – 1 July 1990) was an English actress. Palk was born in Looe, Cornwall, England and educated at Rise Hall Convent in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She followed this with rep at Bristol, Leatherhead, Derby, Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds before embarking on a successful film and television career. Her stage appearances included productions of 'Smith By Any Other Name', 'School for Scandal', ' Present Laughter', ' Butley' (in Vienna), 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago' and a number of national tours. She was married to stockbroker Derek Brierley with whom she had a son, Jonathan. Her film appearances included '' Play It Cool'' (1962), ''The Earth Dies Screaming'' (1964), '' The Skull'' (1965), ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1966), ''The Frozen Dead'' (1966), '' The Nightcomers'' (1971) and ''Tower of Evil'' (1972). She also appeared on TV in ''Witch Hunt'' (1967), ''The Persuaders!'' (episode " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Black
Isobel Anne Gatward ( Black; born 15 December 1942), known professionally as Isobel Black, is a British actress. She is the daughter of the screenwriter Ian Stuart Black. Isobel Black attended Queen Elizabeth's Girls’ Grammar School in Barnet, Hertfordshire. She is possibly best known for her parts in films such as '' The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1963), '' Twins of Evil'' (1971) (both horror films made by Hammer), ''The Magnificent Two'' (1967) with Morecambe and Wise, ''David Copperfield'' (1969), and ''10 Rillington Place'' (1971). She has also made many appearances on television, including ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Elephant Boy'', ''Danger Man'', ''The Plane Makers'', '' The Avengers'', ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''The Troubleshooters'', '' The Spies'', ''Mystery and Imagination ''Mystery and Imagination'' is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
