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Wallis And Edward
''Wallis & Edward'' (in Canada also known as ''Her Royal Affair'') is a 2005 British television film, scripted by Sarah Williams, dramatising the events of the Edward VIII abdication crisis. It was billed as the first scripted account of the romance between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII to view events from Wallis Simpson's point of view. Joely Richardson played Wallis, and Steven Campbell Moore played Edward. Cast *Joely Richardson - Wallis Simpson * Steven Campbell Moore - Edward VIII *David Westhead - Ernest Simpson, Wallis's second husband *Richard Johnson - Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin *Clifford Rose - George V, Edward's father *Margaret Tyzack - Mary of Teck, Edward's mother *Bill Champion - George VI, Edward's brother *Monica Dolan - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Edward's sister-in-law * David Calder - Winston Churchill *Miriam Margolyes - Bessie Merryman, Wallis' aunt *Lisa Kay - Mary Raffray, Ernest Simpson's wife after Wallis *Helena Michell - Thelma Furness, Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Williams (screenwriter)
Sarah Williams is a British producer and screenwriter perhaps best known for writing the scripts to the 2005 television film ''Wallis & Edward'' and co-writing the 2007 feature film ''Becoming Jane''. For her work adapting the novels '' Poppy Shakespeare'' and '' Small Island'' for television, Williams received two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award nominations. Career In 1992 Williams produced a series of documentary films for the BBC and Showtime USA '' Funny Business'', which starred Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Roseanne Barr and Bill Hicks. Williams worked as a co-producer in the film '' Up on the Roof'' in 1997, and the following year was a producer for the 1998 television film ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' starring Paul Merton. She also produced the wildlife documentary 'Operation Lemur" starring John Cleese, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award. The first authorial credit of Williams was the 2005 ITV television production ''Wallis & Edward'', starring Joely Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Dolan
Monica Margaret Dolan (born 15 March 1969) is an English actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Rosemary West in ''Appropriate Adult'' (2011). Career Dolan was born in Middlesbrough and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her credits include ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', ''Tipping the Velvet'' (with Rachael Stirling) and ''Judge John Deed''. She also starred in ITV drama ''U Be Dead''. Her stage appearances include ''She Stoops to Conquer'', ''King Lear'' and ''The Seagull'', the latter two with Ian McKellen. Dolan played British serial killer Rosemary West in the controversial ITV drama ''Appropriate Adult'' in 2011, receiving critical acclaim and a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. On stage, she starred as Loretta in ''Chalet Lines'', written by Lee Mattinson, at the Bush Theatre. In 2013, she portrayed twin sisters Meg and Maeve Carter in the BBC TV series ''Call the Midwife''. She appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Biographical Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Films
2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts. Evaluation of the year Renowned American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy stated on his website, "Despite films like “Crash,” which deals with racism in contemporary America, and geopolitical exposes like ''Syriana'' and ''Munich'', the 2005 movie year may go down in film history as the year of sexual diversity." He went on to emphasize, "It's hard to recall a year in which sex, sexuality, and gender have featured so prominently in American films, both mainstream Hollywood and independent cinema. I am deliberately using the concepts of sexual diversity and sexual orientation, rather than gay-themed movies, because the rather new phenomenon goes beyond homosexuality or lesbianism. For decades, American culture has been both puritanical and hypocritical as far as sexual matters are con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Television Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertie And Elizabeth
''Bertie & Elizabeth'' is a 2002 television film directed by Giles Foster and produced by Carlton Television. The film explores the relationship between King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth from their first meeting to the King's death in the winter of 1952. ''Bertie & Elizabeth'' was commissioned especially for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II and was first broadcast on ITV1 on 4 June 2002, only two months after the death of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. The role of Queen Mary was portrayed by Dame Eileen Atkins, a role she again played in season one of the part-fact, part-fictional royal TV drama ''The Crown'' in 2016. Plot The film begins with the initial meeting between the then Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. The television drama then moves on through their courtship, marriage, and succession to the throne after the abdication of Edward VIII. We also see the two royals dealing with the events of the Second World War, as Buckingham Palace is hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equerry
An equerry (; from French ' stable', and related to 'squire') is an officer of honour. Historically, it was a senior attendant with responsibilities for the horses of a person of rank. In contemporary use, it is a personal attendant, usually upon a sovereign, a member of a royal family, or a national representative. The role is equivalent to an aide-de-camp, but the term is now prevalent only in the Commonwealth of Nations. Australia Australian equerries are commissioned officers in the Australian Defence Force, appointed on an ''ad hoc'' basis to the King of Australia, Governor General, state governors or to visiting foreign heads of state. Canada Canadian equerries are drawn from the commissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces, and are most frequently appointed to serve visiting members of the Canadian Royal Family. The equerry appointed for the King of Canada is a senior officer, typically a major or a lieutenant-commander, while the equerry appointed for a child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow
Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (27 April 1899 – 28 July 1978), often known as Perry Brownlow, was a British peer and courtier. He was the son of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow, and his wife Maud Buckle. Early life He was educated at Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, later being commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. He fought in the First World War and left the Army in 1926 with the rank of lieutenant. In 1927, he succeeded his father as 6th Baron Brownlow and to Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. Inter-war years Brownlow was Mayor of Grantham from 1934 to 1935. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire from 1936 to 1950. During the 1930s, Brownlow was a close friend and equerry to the Prince of Wales, and later Lord-in-waiting when he became King Edward VIII. The Prince spent many weekends at Brownlow's country house, Belton House, but it is not known whether his future wife, Wallis Simpson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness ( Morgan, 23 August 1904 – 29 January 1970), was a mistress of King Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. She was supplanted in his affections by Wallis Simpson, for whose sake Edward abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. She was the maternal aunt of the writer, fashion designer, and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. During most of Furness's relationship with the Prince of Wales, she was married to British nobleman Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness. They married in 1926 and divorced in 1933, the year before Thelma's relationship with the Prince of Wales ended. Furness's first name was pronounced in Spanish fashion as "TEL-ma". Early life Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, Thelma Morgan was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr., an American diplomat who was U.S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick. Married in 1893, they were divorced in 1927. Morgan's maternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Michell
Helena Elizabeth Anne Michell is an Australian-born English actress. She is the daughter of the actors Keith Michell and Jeanette Sterke. Helena was born in Australia in 1963, but moved to England at an early age. She began her career as a child in the film drama ''Moments'' with her parents and her brother, Paul. After three years training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School she secured a part in 1986 in the BBC television sitcom ''Brush Strokes''. Early film work included parts in ''Prick Up Your Ears'', and alongside her father in '' The Deceivers'' (1988). Television parts came with the '' Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple'' episode "At Bertram's Hotel" (1987), starring Joan Hickson, and in the LWT television series '' Piece of Cake'' the following year. Helena Michell had numerous television roles in the 1990s, including ''Jeeves and Wooster'' and ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' “The Theft of the Royal Ruby” (1990), a pivotal role in the television version of P.D. Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Kay
Lisa Kay, is an English actress who has also worked in Australia. Early life and education Kay grew up in Levisham on the North York Moors and has three sisters, Samantha, Sara and Caroline. Kay first trained as a dancer with Sandra Burnham and then at the Bush-Davies School. Career UK Kay performed professionally in many professional stage shows before retraining at the Bristol Old Vic as an actress with considerable distinction. Kay made her debut in ITV1's '' Heartbeat'' in 2004 the episode entitled ''Wrecked.'' She played the character of Emma Bryden, a lonely single mother who forms a friendship with PC Phil Bellamy. She then became a cast regular from October 2006 until the series' end in September 2010, playing Nurse Carol Cassidy. She appeared as Eleanor Ross Heaney in the 2001 romantic comedy film ''Bridget Jones's Diary''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam ( he, מִרְיָם ''Mīryām'', lit. 'Rebellion') is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as "Miriam the Prophetess" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: "For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam". According to the Midrash, just as Moses led the men out of Egypt and taught them Torah, so too Miriam led the women and taught them Torah. Biblical narrative Miriam was the daughter of Amram and Jochebed; she was the sister of Aaron and Moses, the leader of the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The narrative of Moses' infancy in the Torah describes an unnamed sister of Moses observing him b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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