drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
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Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was one of the most prolific film directors in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year. He a ...
William Sylvester
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's '' 2001 A Space Odyssey'' (1968).
Life and career
William Sylve ...
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Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge (29 July 1914 – 29 August 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959.
Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China,blackmailer.
William Sylvester
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's '' 2001 A Space Odyssey'' (1968).
Life and career
William Sylve ...
as Jimmy
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Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge (29 July 1914 – 29 August 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959.
Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China,John Arnatt
John Edwin Arnatt (9 May 1917 – 21 December 1999) was a British actor.
Early life and education
John Arnatt was born in Petrograd, Russia on 9 May 1917. His parents were Francis and Ethel Marion (née Jephcott) Arnatt. He attended Epworth ...
as Pete Carter
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Denis Shaw
Denis Shaw (7 February 1921 – 28 February 1971) was a British character actor specialising in slimy villains. Born in Dulwich as Douglas Findlay Shaw, he was a rotund man, with dark, wavy hair and slanty eyes. This appearance meant he would ...
as Bassett
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Ingeborg von Kusserow
Ingeborg von Kusserow (28 January 1919 – 14 April 2014) was a German film actress.
Biography
Kusserow was born in Wollstein, Province of Posen, Germany (today Wolsztyn, Poland).
She starred in Nazi propaganda films during the Third Reich, w ...
as Emma
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Patricia Owens
Patricia Molly Owens (January 17, 1925 – August 31, 2000) was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood. She appeared in about 40 films and 10 television episodes in a career lasting from 1943 to 1968.
Early work
Owens moved ...
Hugo Schuster
Hugo Schuster (22 November 1886 – 10 July 1976) was a German-British actor.
Biography
Born in Aachen, Germany, Schuster began his career acting at Otto Brahm's Berlin Lessing Theater. In the 1920s, he acted in the leading German theat ...
as Dr. Welich
* Barry Wynne as Billy Blane
Critical reception
The Radio Times wrote, "not one of his (Maurice Elvey's) best efforts. We could do with more surprises, but the pace is unrelenting and there are typically solid performances from Mary Germaine, William Sylvester and John Arnatt"; and
TV Guide
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The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008.
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