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Flannelfoot
''Flannelfoot'' is a 1953 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ronald Howard, Mary Germaine and Jack Watling.Chibnall & MacFarlane p.119 It was made at Walton Studios. The film's sets were designed by John Stoll. The film reflects the media interest in the notorious and elusive cat burglar of the 1930s Harry Edward Vickers who was nicknamed Flannelfoot because he would cover his boots with cloth to silence his footsteps. The title and the burglar's use of cloth on his boots are the only two resemblances between the actual case and the film's plot, with the latter instead mainly set in the early 1950s. Plot At New Scotland Yard Inspector Duggan returns to duty, still suffering from memory loss after having a wall toppled on him in the American sector of post-war Berlin many years previously whilst trailing a jewel thief. He is assigned to the 'Flannelfoot' jewel-thief case, which bears many similarities to the thief in Berlin. Offering information on 'Flanne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers (13 July 1899 – 4 January 1962) was a British film director and screenwriter. Selected filmography Director * '' The Third Eye'' (1929) * ''The Mayor's Nest'' (1932) * '' Up for the Derby'' (1933) * ''The Crime at Blossoms'' (1933) * '' Trouble'' (1933) * ''Summer Lightning'' (1933) * '' It's a Cop'' (1934) * '' Virginia's Husband'' (1934) * '' The Scoop'' (1934) * '' The Feathered Serpent'' (1934) * '' The Right Age to Marry'' (1935) * ''Old Faithful'' (1935) * '' Marry the Girl'' (1935) * '' A Little Bit of Bluff'' (1935) * ''All That Glitters'' (1936) * '' Twice Branded'' (1936) * '' A Wife or Two'' (1936) * '' Nothing Like Publicity'' (1936) * '' Not So Dusty'' (1936) * '' Busman's Holiday'' (1936) * '' Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith'' (1937) * '' The Heirloom Mystery'' (1937) * '' Why Pick on Me?'' (1937) * '' Farewell to Cinderella'' (1937) * '' Racing Romance'' (1937) * '' Father Steps Out'' (1937) * ''His Lordship Regrets'' (1938) * '' Easy Riches'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Anderson (actress)
Gene Anderson (28 March 1931, London — 5 May 1965, London) was an English actress who had a career in television, film, and theatre from the early 1950s up until her death in 1965 at the age of 34. The first wife of actor Edward Judd, she is best known for her performances in the films '' The Long Haul'' (1957) and ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961). A main cast member of the 1950s British television dramas '' The Crime of the Century'' and ''A Mask for Alexis'', she was a frequent guest actress on British television series in the 1950s and 1960s. Also active as a stage actress, she created the role of Marie Charlet in the world premiere of Pierre La Mure's ''Monsieur Toulouse'' at the Connaught Theatre in 1957 and performed the role of Euphrenia in the first modern revival of John Ford's 1633 tragedy ''The Broken Heart'' at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1962; a production directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. In the West End she portrayed the central role of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Crime Films
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British Crime 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) * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Coupland
Betty Diana Coupland (5 March 1928 – 10 November 2006), billed as Diana Coupland, was an English actress and singer, best remembered for her role in the sitcom '' Bless This House'', as Jean Abbott, the wife of Sid James character Sid, which she played from 1971 to 1976. Early life Coupland was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1928, the only child of Elsie (''née'' Beck) and Denis Coupland. She originally wanted to be a ballet dancer but could not fulfil this ambition, owing to a horse-riding accident. Her music career began when she was 15; Barney Colehan, a BBC producer, heard her sing and invited her onto one of his radio shows. By the time she reached the age of 18, she was singing full-time at the Mecca Locarno in Leeds, and the following year, moved to London with her parents, where she became a resident singer at Mecca's Tottenham Court Road ballroom. Coupland became a leading singer of the 1940s and 1950s, working at the Dorchester Hotel and the Savoy Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McCarthy (actor)
Michael, Mike or Mick McCarthy may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Michael McCarthy (choirmaster), British-American choral director *Michael McCarthy (film director) (1917–1959), director of ''It's Never Too Late'' * Michael McCarthy (singer) (born 1966), Irish musical theatre performer *Michael McCarthy (1942–1979), British rock musician better known as Mike Patto * Mike McCarthy (producer) (born 1965), American record producer * Mike McCarthy (Australian singer-songwriter) Politicians *Michael McCarthy (politician) (born 1976), Irish Labour Party politician * Michael J. McCarthy (politician) (1890–1955), American politician in Massachusetts * Mike McCarthy (Vermont politician), member of the Vermont House of Representatives Sportsmen * Michael McCarthy (Australian footballer) (born 1957), Hawthorn premiership player * Michael McCarthy (cyclist) (born 1968), American cyclist *Michael McCarthy (Gaelic footballer), Irish Gaelic footballer from Kerry * Michael W. McCarthy ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Fancey
Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria." * Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer * Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress * Adrienne Armstrong (born 1969), wife of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong * Adrienne Arsenault (born 1967), Canadian journalist * Adrienne Bailon (born 1983), member of girl group The Cheetah Girls and host of the Real Talk Show * Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945), American actress * Adrienne Beames (born 1942), Australian long-distance runner * Adrienne Bolland (1896–1975), French test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes * Adrienne Clarke (born 1938), Australian botanist and former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria * Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Canadian journalist and former Governor General of Canada * Adrienne Corri (born 1933), Scottish actress * Adrienne Fazan (1906–1986), American Academy Award-winning film editor * Adrienne Frantz (born 1978), American actress a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanda Godsell
Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 2 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, "Vanda Godsell specialised in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies and blowsy domestics." She appeared as Mrs Weaver in ''This Sporting Life'' (1963), Mrs Pitt in '' Bitter Harvest'' (1965), Mrs Goodge in ''The Wrong Box'' (1967) Early life She was born in Bognor Regis into the Godsell family, best known for its brewery based in Stroud. Her father was an officer in the Navy and served in the Battle of Jutland whilst her mother, Muriel, was the sister of novelist and actress Naomi Jacob. Godsell's sister Felicia was also an actress, and her other sister was an editor in the publishing world. Career Godsell began acting when she joined the Bristol Repertoire aged 14 making her film debut in 1953 in ''Flannelfoot'' starring Ronald Howard. She also appeared in ''Hell Is a City'', '' A Shot in the Dark'', ''The Earth Dies Screaming'', ''The Wrong Box'', '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Hunter
Alistair is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic ''Alasdair''. The latter is most likely a Scottish Gaelic variant of the Norman French Alexandre (given name), Alexandre or Latin Alexander, which was incorporated into English in the same form as Alexander. The deepest etymology is the Greek Alexandros (other), Ἀλέξανδρος (man-repeller): ἀλέξω (repel) + ἀνήρ (man), "the one who repels men", a warrior name. Another, not nearly so common, Anglicization of ''Alasdair'' is ''Allaster''.#H2, Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 399. People Alastair * Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914–1943), a great-grandson of Queen Victoria * Alastair Bray, Australian footballer * Ali-A, Alastair Aiken, British YouTuber * Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications * Alastair Clarkson, head coach of Hawthorn Football Club * Alastair Cook, English cricketer * Alastair Fothergill, British film produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Richfield
Edwin Richfield (11 September 1921 – 2 August 1990) was an English actor. Career Richfield starred in the television series ''Interpol Calling'' (1959). He was ''The Odd Man'' in Granada Television's series of the same name in the early 1960s. Richfield played regular guest roles in the 1960s spy series '' The Avengers'', frequently cast as a villain. He was the only actor – other than Patrick Macnee – to appear in each of the six seasons of the programme. Richfield's other television roles include: '' R3'', '' 199 Park Lane'', ''Gideon's Way'', ''Danger Man'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', '' The Baron'', '' Champion House'', ''Out of the Unknown'', ''The Owl Service'', ''UFO'', '' Bergerac'', ''Crossroads'', ''Harriet's Back in Town'', ''Doctor Who'' (''The Sea Devils'' and ''The Twin Dilemma''), and '' All Creatures Great and Small''. His film credits include: ''X the Unknown'', ''Quatermass 2'', ''The Camp on Blood Island'', ''The Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Stark
Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) was an English comedian, actor, writer and director. Early life The son of a purser on transatlantic liners, telegraph.co.uk, 31 October 2013 Stark was born in New BrightonRobert Seller "Graham Stark: Actor, author and director who graduated from music hall to the big screen" ''The Independent'', 31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
