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Adrian Hall (actor)
Adrian Hall (born 1 January 1959) is an English former actor and co-director. He is best known for the film ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 children's film, children's Musical film, musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, ...'' (1968), in which he portrayed the part of Jeremy Potts. He was later Principal of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) until 2020, 2 years before ALRA closed. Filmography References External links * * 1958 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male child actors English male film actors People from Staines-upon-Thames {{england-actor-stub Male actors from Surrey Actors from the Borough of Spelthorne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Lea to the east and the River Colne, Hertfordshire, Colne to the west. A line of hills formed its northern boundary with Hertfordshire. The county was the List of counties of England by area in 1831, second smallest of the historic counties of England, after Rutland. The name of the county derives from its origin as a homeland for the Middle Saxons in the early Middle Ages, with the county subsequently part of that territory in the ninth or tenth century. The City of London, formerly part of the county, became a self governing county corporate in the twelfth century; the City was still able to exert influence as the sheriffs of London maintained their jurisdiction in Middlesex, though the county otherwise remained separate. To the east of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 children's film, children's Musical film, musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall (actor), Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car'' by Ian Fleming, with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music for the film based on songs written by the Sherman Brothers, Richard M. Sherman, Richard and Robert B. Sherman, Robert, and the musical numbers were Choreography, staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song), film's title song was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song at the 41st Academy Awards. Plot In the 1910s in rural England, two young children, Jemima and Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Live And Recorded Arts
The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) was a British drama school. It had two sites: ALRA South on Wandsworth Common in south London and ALRA North in Wigan, Greater Manchester. It was founded in 1979 by director and actors Sorrel Carson and Caryll Ziegler who then directed the school as its principal until 2001. ALRA was a member of Federation of Drama Schools an iteration of the formerly known as Drama UK, and before that the Conference of Drama Schools, and National Council for Drama Training, both organizations since dissolved, and received funding from the Young People's Learning Agency. The school closed in April 2022. Origins and locations ALRA South was in the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, a Victorian Gothic Grade 2 listed building on the edge of Wandsworth Common. The first school was opened in a Church Hall in East Finchley in 1979. ALRA North opened in September 2010 at a former church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, moving in 2012 to Trencherfiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
''The Man Who Had Power Over Women'' is a 1970 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Rod Taylor, Carol White and James Booth. It was written by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott. A successful talent agent grows disenchanted with his life and begins an affair with his best friend's wife. Plot Peter Reaney is a successful public relations executive, managing pop singer Barry Black, a difficult client. Peter's neglected wife Angela leaves him, taking most of their money, and he begins an affair with Jody, the wife of his best friend Val. Peter finds out that Black has made a fan called Mary Gray pregnant, and is shocked that his agency is arranging a clandestine abortion. When Jody and Peter go to see Val to tell him of their affair, they find Val in bed with Jody's friend Francis. The next day, Val is killed in an accident. Jody and Peter decide to stay together. Peter learns that Mary has died. He resigns from his job and assaults Black in front of a crowd of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason King (TV Series)
''Jason King'' is a British television series starring Peter Wyngarde as the eponymous character. It was produced by ITC Entertainment and had a single season of 26 one-hour episodes that aired from 1971 to 1972. It was shown internationally as well, and has been released on DVD in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Germany. Overview The series featured the further adventures of the title character who had first appeared in ''Department S (TV series), Department S'' (1969). In that series he was a Amateur, dilettante dandy and author of a series of adventure novels, working as part of a team of investigators. In ''Jason King'' he had left that service to concentrate on writing the adventures of Mark Caine, who closely resembled Jason King in looks, manner, style, and personality. None of the other regular characters from ''Department S'' appeared in this series, although Department S itself is occasionally referred to in dialogue. In the course of visiting int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Play Of The Month
''Play of the Month'' is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted regularly from October 1965 to May 1979, before returning for the summer seasons of 1982 and 1983. The producer most associated with the ''Play of the Month'' series was Cedric Messina. Thirteen productions were also shown previously or subsequently on BBC2 in the period 1971-73 under '' Stage 2''. Productions were broadcast in colour from November 1969. Archive status Of the 128 productions, 40 are missing from the archives (except for short sequences in several cases), having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. One colour production exists only as a black & white telerecording. 4/9 episodes from series one are archived, only the first epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemima Shore Investigates
''Jemima Shore Investigates'' is a British mystery television series which originally aired in twelve episodes in 1983. It is based on a series of novels by Antonia Fraser about Jemima Shore, a crime-solving television presenter.Brunsdale p.361-63 Actors who appeared in episodes of the series include Anthony Steel, Constance Cummings, Lysette Anthony, Stratford Johns, Patrick Newell, Tom Baker, Malcolm Stoddard, Michael Balfour, Billy Milton, Hugh Burden, Oliver Cotton, Don Henderson, Bill Nighy, Zena Walker, Brian Cox, Donald Houston, Larry Lamb, Brian Oulton, Derek Francis, Nicholas Le Prevost, George Coulouris and Elizabeth Counsell. Main cast * Patricia Hodge as Jemima Shore * Sally Watts as Cherry Bronson * Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of '' The Avengers'' and '' The Lotus Eaters.'' He was no . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Births
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic. * February 2 – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Zafar Masud (air commodore), Mitty Masud set a World record loop, world record performing a 16 aircraft diamon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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21st-century English Male Actors
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