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The Rough With The Smooth
''The Rough with the Smooth'' is a British television sitcom which aired on BBC One. After appearing in 1971 as an episode of the Comedy Playhouse, a single series of six episodes was broadcast in 1975.Perry p.45 The plot revolves two writers, one from East London and the other an Old Etonian, who live and work together on a radio serial. The serial, about a vicar running an urban church, is called "Concrete Pastures". Cast Recurring * Tim Brooke-Taylor as Richard Woodville * John Junkin as Harold King * Richard Hurndall as Mervyn Thackeray * Jenny Till as Veronica * Richard McNeff as Policeman * Michael Knowles as Vicar Single episodes * Keith Skues as Radio actor * Jonathan Cecil as George Robinson * Allan Cuthbertson as The Salesman * Robert Dorning as Mr. Andrews * Sheila Fearn as Sally Thackeray * Cyd Hayman as Leonie * Reginald Marsh as Mr. Green * Annette Andre as Irene Fellowes * David Daker as Rudolph Culpepper * Elaine Delmar as Marie * Sue Lloyd as The Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Franklin (director)
Jim Franklin is a British television director and producer. He has directed many British television comedy programmes, including ''The Goodies'', ''Broaden Your Mind'' and ''Ripping Yarns ''Ripping Yarns'' is a British television adventure comedy anthology series. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. It was transmitted on BBC 2. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two ser ...''. External links * British television directors British television producers Year of birth missing Possibly living people {{UK-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Fearn
Sheila Fearn (born 3 October 1940 in Leicester) is an English retired actress best known for playing Audrey, the sister of Terry Collier in BBC situation comedies ''The Likely Lads'' and ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'', and also later on as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the Thames Television sitcom ''George and Mildred''. Early life She attended Gateway Girls Grammar School on Elbow Lane in Leicester, which closed in 1960. Career On film she appeared in '' Billy Liar'' (1963), ''Catch Us If You Can'' (1965) and ''Time Bandits'' (1981), as well as the film versions of both ''The Likely Lads'' (1976) and ''George and Mildred'' (1980). Fearn's other television credits include ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''Paul Temple'', '' Crown Court'', ''East of Ipswich'' by Michael Palin, ''Emergency – Ward 10'', '' Thriller'' (1 episode, 1974), ''Walter'', ''Z-Cars'' and '' The Avengers''. She also played Freddie, a girlfriend of Ronnie Corbett's character Timothy, in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Manson
Pamela Manson (30 September 1928 – 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30–year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political activist who was a member of Equity, and the International Committee for Artists' Freedom, and a committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts. Early years Born as Pamela J. Cowan, and originally from Leeds, before turning to an acting career she worked as a secretary on the '' News Chronicle'' and at one time also worked as a public relations officer in the fashion industry and managed theatrical artists for a period.Richard Webber, Jimmy Perry and David Croft, ''The Complete A-Z of Dad's Army'' – Orion Media (2000) pg 136 In 1949 at Kensington she married Louis Manson, later the Chairman of Cope Allman International; they had two sons and two daughters. The marriage was later dissolved. Acting career Manson's first acting role was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacki Piper
Jacqueline Crump (born 3 August 1946), known professionally by her stage name Jacki Piper, is an English actress, best known for her appearances as the female juvenile lead in the British film comedies '' Carry On Up the Jungle'' (1970), ''Carry On Loving'' (1970), ''Carry On at Your Convenience'' (1971), and ''Carry On Matron'' (1972). Career Born in Birmingham, she trained at the Birmingham Theatre School. Her career began on stage in the mid-1960s, playing in repertory theatre in Rhyl, Wales, where she was billed as Jackie Crump. Her film career began with an appearance with Roger Moore in the film ''The Man Who Haunted Himself'' in 1970. Her other film roles not already mentioned include ''Doctor in Trouble'' (1970) and ''The Love Ban'' (1973). For her film roles she decided to use a stage name, becoming Jacki Piper. Additionally she has had roles in several television series, including ''Z-Cars'', the situation comedy ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' (in which she p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Logan
Jenny Logan (born 1942) is an English actress, trained dancer and singer. Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the television series ''Dixon of Dock Green'' between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances in the TV commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979 and ran from 1980 to 1986. The advert featured Logan dancing around a typical British living room in high heels, shaking the powder onto the carpet and vacuuming it up, while singing a musical jingle. The main lyric is "do the Shake n' Vac, and put the freshness back". In 2005, ITV named it one of their best ever commercials as part of its 50th birthday celebrations. At the time this advert was being made Logan was in a leading role at the London West End's Cambridge Theatre as Velma Kelly in the first British production of ''Chicago''. Logan continued to work in the theatre both in the West End and in national tours. She appeared in '' Stepping Out'', ''Cowardy Custard'', ''Iren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cater
John Edward Cater (17 January 1932 – 21 March 2009) was an English actor. His television credits include: ''Danger Man''; ''Z-Cars''; '' The Avengers''; '' The Baron''; ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''The War Machines''); ''Follyfoot''; '' Softly, Softly''; '' Department S''; ''Up Pompeii!''; ''Dad's Army''; '' The Naked Civil Servant''; ''I, Claudius''; ''Alcock and Gander''; ''The Duchess of Duke Street''; '' Thriller'' (1975), ''The Sweeney''; ''Inspector Morse''; '' Bergerac''; ''One Foot in the Grave''; ''Lovejoy''; ''Jeeves and Wooster''; ''Midsomer Murders'' and ''Doctors''. His film appearances include: '' The Abominable Dr. Phibes'', '' Dr. Phibes Rises Again'' and ''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter ''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter'' is a 1974 British swashbuckling action horror film, written and directed by Brian Clemens, produced by Clemens and Albert Fennell for Hammer Film Productions, and starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane ...''. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Tilvern
Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was an English actor. He was known for usually playing "tough-guy" roles. Life Tilvern was born 5 November 1918 in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish-Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilevitch. War and film career After leaving school, he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War, he served in the Army but was invalided out before its end in 1945. A year later, he began an acting career (''Danger by My Side'' being a good example), that lasted until the late 1980s. He is possibly best known for his role as R. K. Maroon in his last film, ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1 ...''. Death Tilvern died on 17 December 2003, at the age of 85. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Holley
Bernard John Holley (9 August 1940 – 22 November 2021) was a British actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Life and career Holley was born in Eastcote, Middlesex. He attended Kilburn Grammar School and the Rose Bruford Drama School, and made his first professional stage appearance at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, in 1963. Holley came to notice in the long-running UK police drama series ''Z-Cars'' as PC Newcombe, a character he played for four years. He also appeared in ''Doctor Who'', first as Peter Haydon in ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'' (1967), starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, and later as the Axon Man in ''The Claws of Axos'' (1971), starring Jon Pertwee. Holley reprised his role as Axos in a new Doctor Who audio drama, ''The Feast of Axos'', opposite Colin Baker, which was released on CD in February 2011. Other regular roles included Detective Inspector Mike Turnbull in ''The Gentle Touch'' (1982–84), a character he also played in the follow-up seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Cryer
Barry Charles Cryer (23 March 1935 – 25 January 2022) was an English writer, comedian, and actor. As well as performing on stage, radio and television, Cryer wrote for many performers including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Ronnie Corbett, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, ''The Two Ronnies'' and Morecambe and Wise. Early life Cryer was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to John Cryer, an accountant, who died when Barry was five, and his wife, Jean. After an education at Leeds Grammar School, he began studying English literature at the University of Leeds. He later described himself as a university dropout: "I was supposed to be studying English Literature at Leeds, but I was in the bar and chasing girls and my first-year results showed it. So I'm 'BA Eng. Lit. failed' of Leeds." Career Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Lloyd
Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islands, Australia * Sue, Fukuoka, a town in Japan ** Sue Station (Fukuoka), a railway station * Sue Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States Other uses * Suing (to sue), a type of lawsuit * Sue (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) * Sué, a god of the Andean Muisca civilization * Sue (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * '' Sue Lost in Manhattan'' or ''Sue'', a 1998 film * Subsurface Utility Engineering * Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery * ARC (file format) or .sue * Door County Cherryland Airport's IATA code * Mary Sue or Sue, an idealized fictional character * Yoshiko Tanaka or Sue (1956–2011), Japanese actress People with the surname * Carolyn Sue, Australian physician-scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Delmar
Elaine Delmar (born 13 September 1939) is a British singer and actress, with a long career in stage acting, music recording and concert performances. Born in Harpenden, she is the daughter of Jamaican jazz trumpeter Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson. After learning the piano as a child, Delmar became a singer and toured with her father's band from the age of sixteen. In 1952, she appeared in ''Finian's Rainbow'' in Liverpool. She sang with Coleridge Goode's group The Dominoes for a month in Germany in the mid-1950s, before going solo. She appeared in the Ken Russell film ''Mahler'' (1974). Early life Elaine Delmar was born on 1 September 1939 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Her parents were father Jiver Hutchinson, a jazz trumpeter born in Jamaica, and mother Phyllis, both of whom moved to the UK in the 1930s. She spent her childhood with her younger brother and sister living in North London, where she attended the Trinity Grammar School in Wood Green (now known as Woodside High School. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Daker
Colin David Daker (born 29 September 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series ''Boon''. He also played Tommy Mackay in ''Only Fools and Horses'' and Jarvis in '' Porridge''. He has made two appearances in ''Minder'', the first in the second episode of the second series (''Who's Wife Is It Anyway'') in which he played Alex, an owner of an antique shop; his second appearance being in the second episode of the sixth series (''Life In The Fast Food Lane'') in which he played Sir Ronald Bates, the tyrannical owner of a fast food chain. He also appeared in ''Kill Two Birds'', a 1976 episode of '' Thriller'' as Charlie Draper, a released prisoner who finds himself embroiled in an attempt to recover stolen loot, as Dave Ryman, an ex-colleague of James Hazell, in a 1978 episode (''Hazell and the Rubber-Heel Brigade'') of the series '' Hazell'', and as Jim Brent, father of baby David, in ''That's My Boy'', a 1977 episode of ''Rising Damp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |