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The War Games
''The War Games'' is the seventh and final serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969. In the serial, an unnamed alien race led by the War Lord (Philip Madoc) kidnap and brainwash soldiers from wars throughout Earth's history to fight in war games on another planet as part of the aliens' plot to conquer the galaxy. The time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury) form a resistance army to stop this plot and to return the kidnapped soldiers home. ''The War Games'' was the last regular appearance of Troughton as the Doctor and the last serial to be recorded in black and white. It also marks the last regular appearances of Padbury and Hines as companions Zoe and Jamie, and sees both the first naming and first appearance of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (; 25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor who was classically trained for the stage but became known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972–1973, 1983 and 1985. Although he is most well known for his television career and was loved by audiences for his versatility in roles, many of the productions Troughton performed in between 1947 and 1971 were amongst those either never recorded or destroyed by UK broadcasters, most notably his stint on ''Doctor Who''. Many of his appearances, including most of his personal favourites, remain missing to this day. Early life Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stanton (actor)
James Peter Stanton (born 23 April 1940) is an Australian landscape ecologist, fire ecologist, botanist and biogeographer who individually conducted systematic environmental resource surveys throughout Queensland whilst working for the National Parks department of Forestry (Qld.) from 1967–1974. He carried out his assessments in a range of dissimilar landscapes leading to the identification and protection of many critically threatened ecosystems across the state during a period of rapid and widespread land development under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government. For this work he became the first Australian to receive the IUCN Fred M. Packard Award in 1982. He was involved in two incidents where implemented or proposed disciplinary actions became prominent controversies. The first began with him standing in the path of bulldozers, the other with ordering that a vehicle and items seized from a smuggler be turned over to the police rather than being handled by higher-ups in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Schofield
Leslie Schofield (born 12 December 1938) is an English actor who is most famous in the UK for his role as Jeff Healy in the soap opera ''EastEnders'', whom he played from 1997 to 2000. His character was famous for unsuccessfully proposing to Pauline Fowler (played by Wendy Richard). He also appeared in ''EastEnders'' briefly in 1988 and 1989 playing a different character named Brian Wicks. Schofield appeared as Chief Bast, an Imperial Officer aboard the doomed Death Star in George Lucas's first released ''Star Wars'' film, '' Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'', in 1977. He also appeared in ''Star Wars Holiday Special'', as the producers used deleted scenes and stock footage from ''A New Hope''. His other film appearances included ''The Body Stealers'' (1969), '' Twinky'' (1969), ''Villain'' (1971), '' The Ruling Class'' (1972), ''The Glitterball'' (1977), ''The Wild Geese'' (1978), '' Force 10 from Navarone'' (1978), '' Silver Dream Racer'' (1980) and ''Dead Man's Folly'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Adams (actor)
Terry Adams may refer to: * Terry Adams (baseball) (born 1973), former Major League Baseball pitcher * Terry Adams (BMX rider) (born 1983), professional flatland BMX rider * Terry Adams (musician) (born 1948), American pianist/composer * Terry Adams (rugby league) (fl. 1973–1979), Australian professional rugby league footballer *Terry Adams, British criminal connected to the Clerkenwell crime syndicate See also *Adams (surname) Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "son of the soil (Adama)". Variations include Addams, McAdam and MacAdam. People with the surname Politics and law * A. A. Adams (1900–1985), American politician *Abigail Ad ... *'' Terry v. Adams'', 1953 United States Supreme Court decision {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Terry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Hutchinson (actor)
William, Willie, Willy, Billy or Bill Hutchinson may refer to: Politics and law * Asa Hutchinson (born 1950), full name William Asa Hutchinson, 46th governor of Arkansas * William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge) (1586–1641), merchant, judge, co-founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and husband of Anne Hutchinson * William Hutchinson (topographer) (1732–1814), English lawyer and antiquary * William Alston Hutchinson (1839–1897), Australian politician * William Easton Hutchinson (1860–1952), Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court * William Hutchinson (Victorian politician) (1864–1924), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1902–1920 * William Harold Hutchinson (1870s–1965), British trade unionist and Labour Party activist * William Hutchinson (Australian politician) (1904–1967), member of the Australian House of Representatives, 1931–1949 * William D. Hutchinson (1932–1995), U.S. federal judge * Billy Hutchinson (born 1955), Northern Irish polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Pemberton
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atterbury
John Atterbury (born 4 August 1941) is a British actor. Filmography * ''Doctor Who'' (TV series) (1968–1969) (4 episodes) ** ''The Mind Robber: Episode 1'' (1968) ** ''The Mind Robber: Episode 4'' (1968) ** ''The Mind Robber: Episode 5'' (1968) ** ''The War Games: Part 4'' (1969) * '' Scarlett'' (TV miniseries) (1988) (1 episode) ** Episode #1.4 as Clerk of the Court * ''NASSER'' (1997) * ''The Parent Trap'' (1998) as Gareth * '' The Jump'' (TV series) (1998) (1 episode) ** Episode #1.1 as the judge * ''Gosford Park'' (2001) as Merriman * ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007) as Phineas Nigellus Black * '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007) as the marriage priest *''Midsomer Murders'' (2009) ** Episode: The Great and the Food as Mr Fuller * ''Robin Hood'' (2010) as Exchequer *''Love's Kitchen'' (2011)http://www.englishtheatre.at/english/season-201819/tuesdays-with-morrie/cast/john-atterbury.html * ''Darkest Hour'' (2017) as Sir Alexander Cadogan Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions. Biography Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the '' Doctor Who'' series ''The War Games'' in 1969, in which he became the first actor ever to mention the Time Lords by name. He appeared in the ''Blake's 7'' episode "Shadow" as the Chairman of the Terra Nostra in 1979. He has appeared in such films as ''The Day of the Jackal'' (1973), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989), and ''Before Sunset'' (2004). In his 2006 memoir, ''Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins'', British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bree (actor)
James Rutherfoord Worsfold Thomson (20 July 1923 – 1 December 2008), known professionally as James Bree, was a British actor who appeared on stage, and played many supporting roles in both film and television. Bree was educated at Radley College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire and during the Second World War served in the RAF. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He changed his surname to Thomson-Bree after inheriting land from his great-uncle, Archdeacon William Bree. On stage, Bree was in the original productions of Thornton Wilder's ''The Matchmaker'' in London's West End in 1954; and in John Arden's ''Sergeant Musgrave's Dance'' at the Royal Court in 1959. He was also one of the founder members of Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1960. On screen, he was cast as Blofeld's attorney Gumbold in the 1969 James Bond film ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', and for his role as Uncle Arthur in '' The Jewel in the Crown''. Bree perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Brayshaw
Edward John Brayshaw (18 October 1933 – 28 December 1990) was an Australian actor who worked in Australia and England. Australian career He was a Melbourne-based actor in the 1950s and 1960s and often appeared on television and stage. He left Australia for England in May 1963. British career His television roles include the part of Rochefort in the 1966 serial ''The Three Musketeers'' and 1967's ''The Further Adventures of the Musketeers''. He is perhaps most recognised for playing Harold Meaker in the children's series '' Rentaghost'', throughout its eight-year run on BBC1. He often appeared in TV adventure series, taking roles in several ITC series including '' The Saint'', '' The Baron'' (in two episodes but in different roles), ''The Champions'' and ''Return of the Saint'', often in villainous roles. In ''The Champions'', for example, he played a mob boss. He appeared twice in '' Doctor Who'': first as Léon Colbert in 1964's '' The Reign of Terror'', and second as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc (born Philip Arvon Jones; 5 July 1934 – 5 March 2012) was a Welsh actor. He performed many stage, television, radio and film roles, and was recognised for having a "rich, sonorous voice" and often playing villains and officers. On television, he starred as David Lloyd George in '' The Life and Times of David Lloyd George'' (1981) and DCI Noel Bain in the detective series '' A Mind to Kill'' (1994–2002). His guest roles included multiple appearances in the cult series '' The Avengers'' (1962–68) and ''Doctor Who'' (1968–1979), as well as playing the U-boat captain in the '' Dad's Army'' episode "The Deadly Attachment" (1973). He was also known to be an accomplished linguist. Early life Madoc was born near Merthyr Tydfil and attended Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School, where he was a member of the cricket and rugby teams, and displayed talent as a linguist. He then studied languages at University College Cardiff and the University of Vienna. He eventually s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Davies
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English reflex was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced by the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). Bernard is the second most common surname in France. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1.2% of German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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