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Austin Willis
Alexander Austin Willis, (30 September 1917 – 4 April 2004) was a Canadian actor and television host. Biography Austin was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to parents Alexander Samuel and Emma Graham (Pushie) Willis. His older brother, J. Frank Willis, was a radio broadcaster with the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (later the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In 2002, Austin was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He is best known internationally for his appearance as Simmons, the man whom Auric Goldfinger beats at cards in the opening scenes of the James Bond film, '' Goldfinger''. Originally he was to have played Felix Leiter but, at the last minute, fellow Canadian Cec Linder switched roles with him. In Canada, he had a varied film and TV career, ranging from the early science-fiction series '' Space Command'', to hosting '' Cross-Canada Hit Parade'' for several years in the 1950s. In the 1970s he found new fans as the host of the humorous game show '' This I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Halifax
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and Urban density, densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, Public utilities, utilities, land use, Manufacturing, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Pilot (film)
''Bush Pilot'' is a 1947 drama film directed by Sterling Campbell. The film, produced by Campbell's Dominion Productions, was noted for being one of the first full-length feature films outside Quebec in which a Canadian production company held the primary role."Soaring into the stratosphere of nationalist melodrama". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 1, 1998. Plot summary Red North is a bush pilot in the village of Nouvelle, part of Canada's north. His half-brother, Paul Gerard decides to relocate his bush pilot business to the same lake, competing with Red's business and romantic interests. Cast Production The film was one of the first narrative feature films produced in English by a Canadian film production company, and touted as "the first all-Canadian movie". The company was Dominion Productions Limited. Director Sterling Campbell was a partner in the company along with the film's producer Larry Cromien and the stars, Austin Willis and Geoffrey Wood. The main backer was Wood, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight On The Lam
''Eight on the Lam'' is a 1967 American comedy film directed by George Marshall. It stars Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller. Plot Bank teller Henry Dimsdale (Bob Hope) finds ten $1,000 bills. He is a widower with seven kids and could use the money, and housekeeper Golda (Phyllis Diller) tells him it's a case of finders keepers. Henry waits two weeks to see if anyone claims the missing money. No one does, so he splurges on a new car and a diamond ring for Ellie Barton (Shirley Eaton), his fiancee. But when the bank discovers a $50,000 shortage, Henry becomes a prime suspect. He, his family and Ellie take it on the lam to Arizona. A detective, Jasper Lynch (Jonathan Winters), the boyfriend of Golda, is assigned to investigate. Henry's boss at the bank, Pomeroy (Austin Willis), is seen with a sexy younger woman, Monica ( Jill St. John), who has expensive tastes. After a chase, Henry is placed under arrest. His kids hide a tape recorder in Pomeroy's pocket, though, and get an admission of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaway (TV Series)
''Seaway'' is a Canadian drama series that aired on CBC Television for the 1965–1966 season. The series was a Seaway Films production in collaboration with the UK's ATV, with production money provided by the CBC. It was presented by ASP and distributed internationally by ITC Entertainment (for international screenings ITC replaced the theme music by John Bath with another composition by Edwin Astley, and prepared a different title sequence). Although officially Canadian, many of the show's writers and directors were American (as was the series creator/script supervisor Abraham Polonsky), with some British contributors as well (such as Ian McLellan Hunter and Donald James). It was the most expensive series produced in Canada to that time with a total cost of $3 million ($ million today), and although it did well enough for the CBC in terms of viewers, a hoped-for sale to American network television never happened because the series was shot in black-and-white, and U.S. netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Howe
Joseph Howe (December 13, 1804 – June 1, 1873) was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, public servant, and poet. Howe is often ranked as one of Nova Scotia's most admired politicians and his considerable skills as a journalist and writer have made him a provincial legend. He was born the son of John Howe (loyalist), John Howe and Mary Edes at City of Halifax, Halifax and inherited from his loyalist father an undying love for Great Britain and her British Empire, Empire. At age 23, the self-taught but widely read Howe purchased the ''Novascotian'', soon making it into a popular and influential newspaper. He reported extensively on debates in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and travelled to every part of the province writing about its geography and people. In 1835, Howe was charged with seditious libel, a serious criminal offence, after the ''Novascotian'' published a letter attacking Halifax politicians and police for pocketing public money. Howe addressed the jury for mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revak The Rebel
''Revak the Rebel'' (a.k.a. ''The Barbarians'', a.k.a. ''Rivak the Barbarian'') is a 1960 film set in Iberia in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Punic War. Jack Palance plays an Iberian prince whose nation and family are so abused by the Carthaginians that he turns to the Romans for help in achieving his revenge. This film was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin from ''The Barbarians'', a novel written by F. Van Wyck Mason (although making significant changes to the plot like renaming the hero from Cealwyn to Revak and turning him from a Cassiterides Celtic princeThe Pulp Swordsmen: Cealwyn "Morgan", Cataliahouse.com, 3 May 2015 to an Iberian prince from fictional Penda island, named after Cealwyn's father in the novel). The film also only followed the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Aim At The Stars
''I Aim at the Stars'' is a 1960 West German-American biographical film which tells the story of the life of Wernher von Braun. The film covers his life from his early days in Germany, through Peenemünde, until his work with the U.S. Army, NASA, and the American space program. The film stars Curt Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala, and James Daly, and was written by Jay Dratler based on a story by George Froeschel, H. W. John, and Udo Wolter. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich, with sets designed by the art director Hans Berthel. The film premiered in Munich on 19 August 1960; it subsequently opened in New York City and Los Angeles on 19 October and London on 24 November. In Germany the film was titled ''Ich greife nach den Sternen'' ("I Reach for the Stars"). In Italy the film was released as ''Alla Conquista dell' Infinito''. Satirist Mort Sahl and others are often credited with suggesting the subtitle "(B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crack In The Mirror
''Crack in the Mirror'' is a 1960 drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The three principal actors, Orson Welles, Juliette Gréco, and Bradford Dillman, play dual roles in two interconnected stories as the participants in two love triangles. The script was credited to by producer Darryl F. Zanuck (under his frequent pseudonym "Mark Canfield"), but in his 1993 autobiography ''Just Tell Me When to Cry'', Fleischer revealed that it was ghostwritten by the blacklisted Jules Dassin. In an interview with American Legends website, the late Bradford Dillman revealed that on the set Orson Welles could be "hell on wheels" and that director Fleischer "didn't fool around with Orson. Nobody fooled around with Orson. He did his own thing." Plot In a run-down Paris dwelling, an angry Hagolin accuses mistress Eponine of seeing a man named Larnier behind his back. In a party at a stately home, prosperous attorney Lamerciere's guests include his longtime mistress Florence and his young law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Young To Love (film)
''Too Young to Love'' is a 1960 British drama film set in New York. It was directed by Muriel Box and starring Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller, and Austin Willis. It was based on the play ''Pickup Girl'' by Elsa Shelley. An adaptation of the story was broadcast on British TV on 6 December 1957 in the '' ITV Television Playhouse'' series. Plot In New York, a policeman and a neighbour watch as a middle-aged man and a young man enter a house where a young girl can be seen getting ready for bed. After the young man leaves, the policeman enters the house to make an arrest. In a juvenile court hearing, it emerges that the 15-year-old Elizabeth has been found in a compromising position in her bedroom with a 47-year-old man, Mr Elliot. Elizabeth is one of four children in a struggling working-class family, her mother a hard-working cook, her father ran into debt while he was unemployed and found a job working in California. In the evenings, at the home of an older girl Ruby Lockwood, teena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upstairs And Downstairs
''Upstairs and Downstairs'' is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims, Joan Hickson and Sid James. It features the first English-language performance of Claudia Cardinale. Plot Richard Barry marries Kate, the daughter of his boss, Mr Mansfield. Mansfield tells Richard that he needs to take over the entertaining for their firm. Richard decides this will require hiring some domestic help at home, but there then follows a series of very unsuitable servants. Eventually, he hires a young Swedish blonde woman, Ingrid, who is most competent and liked, not only by Richard and Kate and their two children, but also by their male friends. But Ingrid likes Richard... Cast * Michael Craig as Richard Barry * Anne Heywood as Kate Barry * Mylène Demongeot as Ingrid * James Robertson Justice as Mansfield * Claudia Cardinale as Maria * Sid James as P.C. Edwards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Secretary Of Defense
The United States secretary of defense (acronym: SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the United States federal executive departments, executive department of the United States Armed Forces, U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the Cabinet of the United States, federal cabinet.#5100.1, DoDD 5100.1: Enclosure 2: a. The secretary of defense's position of command and authority over the military is second only to that of the president of the United States, who is the Powers of the president of the United States#Commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister, defense minister in many other countries. The president appoints the secretary of defense with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, Senate, and is by custom a member of the Cabinet and by law a member of the United States National Security Council, National Security Council. To ensure civilian control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mouse That Roared
''The Mouse That Roared'' is a 1955 satirical novel by Irish-born American writer Leonard Wibberley, the first of his series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. Wibberley used the premise to make commentaries about modern politics and world situations, including the nuclear arms race, nuclear weapons in general, and the politics of the United States. The novel originally appeared as a six-part serial in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' from December 25, 1954 through January 29, 1955, under the title ''The Day New York Was Invaded''. It was published as a book in February 1955 by Little, Brown. The British edition used the author's original intended title, ''The Wrath of Grapes'', a play on John Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''. Wibberley wrote one prequel (1958's ''Beware of the Mouse'') and three sequels: ''The Mouse on the Moon'' (1962), ''The Mouse on Wall Street'' (1969), and ''The Mouse That Saved the West'' (1981). E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
