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Backfire! (1962 Film)
''Backfire!'' (also known as ''Backfire'') is a 1962 second feature British film directed by Paul Almond and starring Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall and Oliver Johnston. Part of the long-running series of ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' films made at Merton Park Studios, it was based on a story by Edgar Wallace. Plot Long-established cosmetics company Venetia Beauty Preparations is in serious financial trouble, having been taken from success to near-ruin by the unscrupulous actions of the devious Mitchell Logan and his wife Pauline, who have inveigled their way to become business partners of the elderly founder Bernard Curzon. Against Curzon's wishes, Logan engages the services of a professional arsonist to burn the factory down, intending to claim on the insurance. But his plan goes horribly wrong. Cast *Alfred Burke as Mitchell Logan *Zena Marshall as Pauline Logan * Oliver Johnston as Bernard Curzon *Noel Trevarthen as Jack Bryce *Suzanne Neve as Shirley Curzon *Derek Francis as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Almond
Paul Almond (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the '' Up'' series. Life and career Paul Almond attended Bishop's College School, McGill University and Balliol College, Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics, Economics; edited the University magazine, Isis; played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club; and served as president of the university Poetry Society. At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he worked primarily as a director and producer, and also wrote several scripts. He did similar work in England for the BBC, ABC Weekend TV, and Granada TV, where he created the ground-breaking documentary '' Seven Up!'', before embarking on a career as a feature-length film-maker. In the late 1960s, he attempted to establish a high quality Canadian art cinema with his understated and highly interiorized films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Christie
Madeleine Elsie Jane Christie (18 January 1904 – 2 February 1996) was a Scottish actress. Madeleine Christie studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Christie was the mother of actress Amanda Walker, and mother-in-law of Patrick Godfrey. Selected filmography * '' The Old Lady Shows Her Medals'' (1952) * '' Electric Dreams'' (1984) Selected television * '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' (STV) * ''Take the High Road'' (1980) * ''The Play on One ''The Play on One'' (''Play on One'' in the final series) is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC Nations and Regions in its studios outside London, and transmitted on BBC1 BBC One is a British free-to-air pu ...: The Dunroamin' Rising'' (1988) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, Madeleine 1904 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Scottish actresses Actresses from Edinburgh Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Scottish film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s British Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s English-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white 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) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with '' Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca- Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's '' War and Peace'' begins and will continue for another 5 years. * October 5 – '' Dr. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with ''Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938Richard Roud (ed) ''Cinema: a Critical Dictionary; The Major Film Makers'', 1980, Secker & Warburg, p. v – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Ray
Philip Ray (born Roy Edgar Cochrane, 1 November 1898 – 11 May 1978) was a British stage, film and television actor. Occasionally credited as Phil Ray, he played numerous and varied supporting roles, particularly in films and on television. He also saw military service in both WWI and WWII. Selected filmography * '' Old Roses'' (1935) - Minor Role (uncredited) * '' Blue Smoke'' (1935) - Jan * ''Sexton Blake and the Bearded Doctor'' (1935) - Jim Cameron * ''Twelve Good Men'' (1936) - Higgs * '' Find the Lady'' (1936) - (uncredited) * '' Not So Dusty'' (1936) - Dan Stevens * ''Head Office'' (1936) - Gerrard * '' Dark Journey'' (1937) - Faber * '' The Perfect Crime'' (1937) - Newbold * '' Farewell Again'' (1937) - Moore * '' The Man Who Made Diamonds'' (1937) - Tompkins * '' Second Best Bed'' (1938) - Stanley Hurley * '' Mr. Reeder in Room 13'' (1938) - Fenner * '' Double or Quits'' (1938) - Hepworth * '' It's in the Air'' (1938) - Airman with Shoe (uncredited) * '' The Nurse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Kay
Bernard Frederic Bemrose Kay (23 February 1928 – 25 December 2014) was an English actor with an extensive theatre, television, and film repertoire. Career Kay began his working life as a reporter for the ''Bolton Evening News'', and a stringer for the ''Manchester Guardian''. He was conscripted in 1946 and started acting in the army. Kay gained a scholarship to study at the Old Vic Theatre School and became a professional in 1950, as a member of the company which reopened the Old Vic after World War II. He appeared in hundreds of TV productions including '' Emmerdale Farm'', ''The Champions'', ''The Cellar and the Almond Tree'', ''Clayhanger'', '' A Very British Coup'', '' Casualty'', '' Casualty 1909'', '' Doctors'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Jonathan Creek'', '' Foyle's War'' and '' London's Burning'' in 1989. He also portrayed a mutant in the '' Space: 1999'' episode "A Matter of Balance". He portrayed Captain Stanley Lord of the SS ''Californian'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Brown (actor)
Edwin Brown (died 1999) was a British actor. In the 1970s, he was a member of the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre company, appearing in Robert Bolt's ''State of Revolution'' and Shane Connaughton's ''Sir is Winning''. He had a lengthy career in television, often playing policemen or similar roles. His film roles included a prison warder in the comedy ''Two-Way Stretch'' (1960), and Albert Pierrepoint, the hangman, in ''10 Rillington Place'' (1971). Filmography References External links * English male stage actors English male television actors Year of birth unknown Place of birth missing 1999 deaths {{UK-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Eccles
Donald Eccles (26 April 1908 – 2 February 1986) was a British character actor. Donald Yarrow Eccles was born in Nafferton, Yorkshire on 26 April 1908 the son of Charles Henry and Constance Eccles; his father was a doctor. Eccles was educated at Highgate School and then worked in an insurance office. He made his stage debut in New York City in 1930, and later became known as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His debut in London was in ''Counsellor at Law'' in 1934 at the Piccadilly. During the Second World War he spent six years in the Royal Navy. In 1960 he acted in the film ''A Taste of Money'' and later appeared in many other films including ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1968), ''The Wicker Man'' (1973), ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1982), '' Coming Out of the Ice'' (1982), ''The Dresser'' (1983), ''The Master of Ballantrae'' (1984), ''A Private Function'' (1984) and ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985). He also appeared in many television roles, such as Pollio i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Nielson
Claire Nielson (née Isbister; born 8 April 1937) is a Scottish actress, primarily known for her television roles. On television, she played the wife of the belligerent American guest, Mr. Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of ''Fawlty Towers'', appeared as Jean 'Porridge' Carter, Geoffrey Stock's secretary, in the popular 1960s crime series '' Ghost Squad'' and played the wife of Rikki Fulton's character in many sketches of the Scottish Hogmanay show ''Scotch and Wry'' from 1978 until 1993. Other TV credits include ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', '' Monarch of the Glen'', '' The Brothers'', '' The Two Ronnies'', '' Take The High Road'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Special Branch'', ''Thriller'' and ''Taggart''. She also appeared as Barbara Grant in the 1971 film version of ''Kidnapped'', opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |