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The Long Dark Hall
''The Long Dark Hall'' is a 1951 British mystery, suspense, courtroom-drama, crime film directed by Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell and starring Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer and Raymond Huntley. It was based on the 1947 novel ''A Case to Answer'' by Edgar Lustgarten. It was made at Walton Studios. Plot After a showgirl begins an affair with Arthur Groome, a married man, she is found murdered. Groome discovers her body but fearing his wife's knowledge of his affair he does not summon the police; he soon becomes the prime suspect for the murder. Most of the film portrays the trial of Groome at the Old Bailey, London. Cast * Rex Harrison - Arthur Groome * Lilli Palmer - Mary Groome * Tania Heald - Sheila Groome * Henrietta Barry - Rosemary Groome * Dora Sevening - Mary's mother * Ronald Simpson - Mary's father * Raymond Huntley - Chief Inspector Sullivan * William Squire - Sergeant Cochran * Ballard Berkeley - Superintendent Maxey * Anthony Dawson - The Man * Deni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Beck
Reginald Beck (5 February 1902 – 12 July 1992) was a British film editor with forty-nine credits from 1932 to 1985. He is noted primarily for films done with Laurence Olivier in the 1940s and with Joseph Losey in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the brother of Violet Helen Beck Cushing, wife of actor Peter Cushing. Early life and career Beck was born in Russia to a British father and Finnish mother. His family moved back to Britain when Beck was thirteen. He began working in the film industry in 1927 when he joined Gainsborough Pictures before going on to work on "quota quickies" at Wembley Studios. He later worked with a number of directors including Carol Reed, David Lean, Laurence Olivier and Joseph Losey. From Collaboration with Joseph Losey Joseph Losey was an American film and theater director who emigrated to Britain in the 1950s after being blacklisted for work in the entertainment industry in the United States. Beck and Losey collaborated on sixteen films from ''The Gyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Dawson
Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954) and ''Midnight Lace'' (1960), and playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film '' Dr. No'' (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in '' From Russia with Love'' (1963) and '' Thunderball'' (1965). Life Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet (Kittel) and Eric Francis Dawson. Career Following Royal Academy of Dramatic Art training and World War II service, he made his film debut in 1943's '' They Met in the Dark''. He went on to appear in such classic British films as '' The Way to the Stars'' (1945), '' The Queen of Spades'' (1948) and '' The Wooden Horse'' (1950), before moving to America in the early 1950s. It was while there that he appeared on Broadway in the play, and then the subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film of ''Dial M for Murder'' (1954), playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Bennett (British Actress)
Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was a British actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne. Early life Bennett was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in ''The Long Dark Hall'' (1951) with Rex Harrison. Career Bennett made many appearances in British films including '' Lust for Life'' (1956), ''The Criminal'' (1960), ''The Nanny'' (1965), ''The Skull'' (1965), '' Inadmissible Evidence'' (1968), ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1968), '' Julius Caesar'' (1970), ''I Want What I Want'' (1972), '' Mister Quilp'' (1975), '' Full Circle'' (1977) and ''Britannia Hospital'' (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film '' For Your Eyes Only'' (1981), '' Lady Jane'' (1986) and ''Hawks'' (1988). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Laird
Phyllis Edith Mary Blythe (13 February 1912 – 31 October 2001), known professionally as Jenny Laird, was a British stage, film and television actress. Early life and education Born in Manchester, Laird and her parents moved to the south, and she was educated at Maidstone grammar school and London University. She worked briefly as an advertising copywriter while studying acting with teachers such as the Central School's legendary Elsie Fogerty and in 1937 she made her repertory debut at the Brixton Theatre in '' A Bill of Divorcement''. Theatre Laird worked with director Alec Clunes at the Arts Theatre Club during its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s. What the actor-manager sought for the little underground playhouse in London's Great Newport Street was an audience "eager for intelligent and entertaining plays". Laird's acting went from strength to strength in Farquhar, Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and other modern plays. While at the Arts Theatre, she periodically returned to "comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Macaulay
Tom Macaulay (17 March 1906 - 19 June 1979) was a British actor. Born Chambré Thomas MacAulay Booth, and Harrow educated, he was married to the actress Tucker McGuire. Selected filmography * '' I See a Dark Stranger'' (1946) - Lieut. Spanswick * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) - Cleghorn * ''The Woman in Question'' (1950) - Flashy Man (uncredited) * ''The Long Dark Hall ''The Long Dark Hall'' is a 1951 British mystery, suspense, courtroom-drama, crime film directed by Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell and starring Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer and Raymond Huntley. It was based on the 1947 novel ''A Case to Answer ...'' (1951) - Ironworks manager * '' Mother Riley Meets the Vampire'' (1952) - Robot Mark 1 * '' Penny Princess'' (1952) - Grieves (uncredited) * '' The Planter's Wife'' (1952) - Jack Bushell * '' Murder at Scotland Yard'' (1953) - Insp. Grant * '' Skid Kids'' (1953) - (uncredited) References External links * 1906 births 1979 deaths British male film ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of the ''James Bond'' series, in the films '' From Russia with Love'' and '' Thunderball''. Early life Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Pohlmann was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, actress Lieselotte Goettinger (best known in the UK for playing the concentration camp guard in the war films, '' Odette'' and ''Carve Her Name With Pride''), into exile in London. Until mid-1941, both were kept in an internment camp. After their release, Eric took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC World Servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Murton
William Lionel Murton (2 June 1915 – 26 September 2006) was an English character actor. Born in Wandsworth, London, he was resident at Little Orchard, Weston Road, Upton Grey, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, before his death at age 91. He was cremated at Basingstoke Crematorium on 6 October 2006. He is commemorated with his wife, Anita, in Upton Grey Churchyard, Grave 1 E-3. Having grown up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he most often played Americans and Canadians in films and in various television series, from the late 1940s. He also appeared in episodes of several TV series, including ''The Persuaders!'' and ''Danger Man'' and was a regular cast member of the '' Dickie Henderson Show'', playing Dickie's friend Jack. Selected filmography * '' Meet the Navy'' (1946) - Johnny * '' Brass Monkey'' (1948) - Detective Mann * '' Badger's Green'' (1949) - Albert * ''The Girl Is Mine'' (1950) * '' Dangerous Assignment'' (1950) - Joe Wilson * '' The Long Dark Hall'' (1951) - Jefferson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon (27 April 1911 – 4 October 1972) was a British actor born in Ceylon. Biography He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford. He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of a horse in a production of ''Toad of Toad Hall''. From 1936 to 1939 he was a director with the Fred Melville Repertory Company in Brixton. He served in the army during the Second World War for six years. Film career Gordon had a long career in British cinema and television from the 1940s to the 1970s, often playing government officials. His films include '' The Pink Panther'' and '' Casino Royale'' (both with Peter Sellers, alongside whom he made five films). In the ITC series '' The Prisoner'' (1967) he portrayed Number Two twice, in "A. B. and C." and later in " The General". Gordon was a regular in another ITC production, ''The Baron'', playing civil servant Templeton-Green opposite Steve Forrest. He also starred in '' The Invisible Man (1958 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Medwin
Michael Hugh Medwin, OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer. Life and career Medwin was born in London. He was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940. Medwin's West End theatre credits include ''Man and Superman'', ''The Rivals'', ''Love for Love'', ''Duckers and Lovers'', ''Alfie'', ''St Joan of the Stockyards'', and '' What the Butler Saw''.Biographical note for Michael Medwin, from programme for ''Noises Off'', Savoy Theatre, December 1984. At the National Theatre he played a season which included ''Weapons of Happiness'' (Ralph Makepeace), ''Volpone'' (Corvino) and ''The Madras House''. He appeared in ''Black Ball Game'' at the Lyric Hammersmith. He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of ''Noises Off'' in the early 1980s. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Jefferies
Douglas Jefferies (1884–1959) was a British stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''A Safe Affair'' (1931) - Henry * '' Channel Crossing'' (1933) - Dr. Walkley * ''What Happened to Harkness?'' (1934) - (uncredited) * ''The Cardinal'' (1936) - Baglioni * ''While the Sun Shines'' (1947) - The Duke of Ayr and Stirling * '' The Loves of Joanna Godden'' (1947) - Huggett * '' Frieda'' (1947) - Hobson * '' The Long Dark Hall'' (1951) - Dr. Conway Selected stage roles * '' Lean Harvest'' by Ronald Jeans (1931) *'' Victoria Regina'' by Laurence Housman (1937) * ''While the Sun Shines'' by Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background.Geoffrey Wa ... (1943) * '' Cry Liberty'' by Esther McCracken (1950) * '' The Seventh Veil'' by Sydney Box (1951) References Bibliograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meriel Forbes
Meriel Forbes, Lady Richardson (13 September 1913 – 7 April 2000) was an English actress. She was a granddaughter of Norman Forbes-Robertson and great-niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. After making her stage debut with her father's touring company in 1929 she progressed via provincial repertory to the West End, where she appeared continually from the 1930s to the 1970s. She married the actor Ralph Richardson in 1944, and the couple regularly appeared together in London, and on tour in the UK, continental Europe, Australia and North and South America. She appeared in fifteen films between 1934 and 1969. Life and career Forbes was born Muriel Elsa Florence Forbes-Robertson in Fulham, London, daughter of Frank Forbes-Robertson and his wife Honoria, ''née'' McDermot.Morley, Sheridan"Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902–1983)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2014 She was educated in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |