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Baffled!
''Baffled!'' is a 1973 American-British made-for-television supernatural mystery film directed by Philip Leacock. The story is part of the occult detective subgenre and stars Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, and Vera Miles. ''Baffled!'' was intended as a pilot for a television series but when no network showed interest it was released in British theatres and later released as a television film in America on NBC. The British version runs ten minutes longer than the American. Plot Race car driver Tom Kovack suddenly begins to experience psychic visions. He meets Michelle Brent, an expert on the paranormal, and the two form an unlikely partnership. Kovack's visions draw them into an occult-themed mystery at a remote inn on the English coast. Cast *Leonard Nimoy Leonard Simon Nimoy ( ; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famous for playing Spock in the ''Star Trek'' franchise for almost 50 years. This includes Development of Spock, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Leacock
Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock. Career Born in London, England, Leacock spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. He began his career directing documentaries and later turned to fiction films. He was known for his films about children, particularly '' The Kidnappers'' (US: ''The Little Kidnappers'', 1953), which gained Honorary Juvenile Acting Oscars for two of its performers, and '' The Spanish Gardener'' (1956) starring Dirk Bogarde. He also directed '' High Tide at Noon'' (1958) and '' Innocent Sinners'' (1958) with Flora Robson. He began to work mainly in Hollywood, where he made '' The Rabbit Trap'' (1959) with Ernest Borgnine and '' Take a Giant Step'' (1959) about a black youth's encounter with racism, both under contract to Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions. He followed with '' Let No Man Write My Epitaph'' (1960) about an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy ( ; March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famous for playing Spock in the ''Star Trek'' franchise for almost 50 years. This includes Development of Spock, originating Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series, the original ''Star Trek'' series in 1966, then ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'', the first six List of Star Trek films, ''Star Trek'' films, ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Star Trek (2009 film), the 2009 ''Star Trek'' film, and ''Star Trek Into Darkness''. Nimoy also directed films, including ''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' (1984), ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' (1986), and ''Three Men and a Baby'' (1987), and his career included roles in music videos and video games. In addition to acting and filmmaking, Nimoy was a photographer, author, singer, and songwriter. Nimoy's Leonard Nimoy filmography, acting career began during his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis (born 12 May 1937), is an English actress. She is a three-time Emmy Award winner, winning for the television dramas, '' The Forsyte Saga'' in 1970, '' The First Churchills'' in 1971, and for '' Vanity Fair'' in 1973. Her film credits include '' During One Night'' (1961), '' The Long Shadow'' (1961), '' The Three Lives of Thomasina'' (1963), '' Night Must Fall'' (1964), '' Wonderful Life'' (1964), '' The Fighting Prince of Donegal'' (1966), '' The Trygon Factor'' (1966), '' The Violent Enemy'' (1967), '' Malpertuis'' (1971), '' Living Free'' (1972), '' Neither the Sea Nor the Sand'' (1972) and '' Bang!'' (1977). She is also known for her other television roles, such as '' The Pallisers'' (1974), '' The Grand'' (1997–98), and as Molly MacDonald in the long running BBC One drama '' Monarch of the Glen'' (2000–2005). Early life Susan Hampshire was born in Kensington, London, to George Kenneth Hampshire and his wife June (née Pavey) and is of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Roberts (actress)
Rachel Roberts (20 September 192726 November 1980) was a Welsh actress. She is best remembered for her screen performances as the older mistress of the central male characters in both '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1960) and '' This Sporting Life'' (1963). For each, she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ''This Sporting Life''. Her other notable film appearances included '' Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975) and '' Yanks'' (1979). Roberts' theatre credits included the original production of the musical '' Maggie May'' in 1964. She was nominated for the 1974 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the plays, ''Chemin de Fer'' and '' The Visit'', and won a Drama Desk Award in 1976 for ''Habeas Corpus''. Early life and career Roberts was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. After a Baptist upbringing (against which she rebelled), followed by stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Miles
Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1930) is an American retired actress. She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films ''The Searchers'' (1956) and '' The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' (1962), and for playing Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Psycho'' (1960) and Richard Franklin's sequel '' Psycho II'' (1983). Miles' other film credits include '' Tarzan's Hidden Jungle'' (1955), '' The Wrong Man'' (1956), '' A Touch of Larceny'' (1959), '' Follow Me, Boys!'' (1966), '' Hellfighters'' (1968), '' Sergeant Ryker'' (1968), and ''Molly and Lawless John'' (1972). Early life Vera June Ralston was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, on August 23, 1930. She grew up first in Pratt, Kansas, and later lived in Wichita, where she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1948. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948 and was the third runner-up in the Miss America contest. Career Miles moved to Los Angeles in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hill (musician)
Richard Hill (born 22 August 1942) is a British composer. He initially studied trombone at the Royal College of Music in London in the 1960s, before moving into music production and composition. Career At the Royal College of Music Hill became a founder member of the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble. He also worked in rock and jazz circles playing with the Dave Keir Jazz Band among others. After leaving College, Hill played in a number of symphony orchestras on a freelance basis including the Royal Opera House Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia. Working under such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Schwarz, Hill further broadened his musical experience by playing Duke Ellington's music under Billy Strayhorn in a production of Shakespeare's ''Timon of Athens''. In the 1960s, Hill’s career underwent a sea change when he joined Polydor Records as a producer and studio arranger at the height of the sixties pop boom. He stopped playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Blunden
Bill Blunden (3 December 1934 – 3 January 2018) was a British television and film editor. He won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Film Editing For A Limited Series Or A Special for the television film ''All Quiet on the Western Front''. His win was shared with Alan Pattillo. Selected filmography * ''Shalako'' (1968) * '' A Touch of Love'' (1969) * '' The Mind of Mr. Soames'' (1970) * ''The Night Visitor'' (1971) * '' Baffled!'' (1973) * '' The House in Nightmare Park'' (1973) * '' Ooh... You Are Awful'' (1974) * ''The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones'' (1976) * ''Warlords of Atlantis'' (1978) * '' Hussy'' (1980) * ''The Chain "The Chain" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album '' Rumours''. It is the only song from the album with writing credits for all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John ...'' (1984) References External links * 1934 births 2018 deaths British film edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occult Detective Fiction
Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the trope (literature), tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural fiction, supernatural, fantasy fiction, fantasy and/or horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, Magic in fiction, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being psychic or in possession of other paranormal or magical powers. History Literature Fitz James O'Brien, Fitz James O’Brien’s character Harry Escott is a contender for first occult detective in fiction. A specialist in supernatural phenomena, Escott investigates a ghost in "The Pot of Tulips" (1855) and an invisible entity in "What Was It? A Mystery" (1859). The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novella "The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain" (1859) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewel Blanch
Jewel Blanch is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of country music singer, Arthur Blanch, with whom she has performed. Career Jewel Blanch was born in 1958 the daughter of Arthur and Berice Blanch. At the age of three, she appeared on the Coca Cola TV Show on Channel 9 in Brisbane singing and playing her own ukulele. In 1962 The Blanch Family were signed to W&G label in Melbourne where they recorded a song written for Jewel "I Wanta Stay on Jumbo" and a duet with her father "On Accounts I Love You". "Jumbo" was an instant success and became a national hit. In 1963, the Blanch family moved to the United States where she started school, before returning in 1965. At the age of eight, Jewel was contracted to EMI and recorded songs on the His Master's Voice label. In 1969 the family moved back to the USA. She appeared as terminally-ill singer Abbie Singleton in 'The Young Doctors' in late 1976. In 1978, Blanch recorded for RCA after Chet Atkins and Bob F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occult Detective
Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being psychic or in possession of other paranormal or magical powers. History Literature Fitz James O’Brien’s character Harry Escott is a contender for first occult detective in fiction. A specialist in supernatural phenomena, Escott investigates a ghost in "The Pot of Tulips" (1855) and an invisible entity in "What Was It? A Mystery" (1859). The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novella "The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain" (1859) is another student of the supernatural who probes a mystery involving a culprit with paranorma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Benjamin (actor)
Christopher John Benjamin (27 December 1934 – 10 January 2025) was an English actor with many stage and television credits from 1958 to 2016. He played Henry Gordon Jago in the 1977 ''Doctor Who'' story ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'', a role he reprised for the audio drama series ''Jago & Litefoot'' (2010–2017, 2021), and made two other appearances in the series, portraying Sir Keith Gold in ''Inferno (Doctor Who), Inferno'' (1970) and Colonel Hugh Curbishley in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" (2008). He also provided the voice of Rowf in the animated film ''The Plague Dogs (film), The Plague Dogs'' (1982). His radio acting career included two BBC Radio adaptations of Christopher Lee (historian), Christopher Lee's crime drama ''Colvil and Soames''. Early life Benjamin was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on 27 December 1934. He served in the Royal Air Force for his national service and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Benjamin appeared regularly in television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Brooks (actor)
Raymond Michael Brooks (born 20 April 1939) is an English television and film actor. Career Early work Raymond Michael Brooks was born in Brighton, East Sussex, and began as a television actor. He appeared in the long-running ITV soap ''Coronation Street'' in 1964 as Norman Phillips. He played Terry Mills in the series '' Taxi!'' with Sid James (1963). He played small roles in British films such as '' H.M.S. Defiant'', '' Play It Cool'' and '' Some People''. Brooks rose to prominence in the UK after starring alongside Michael Crawford and Rita Tushingham in the 1965 film '' The Knack …and How to Get It''. The film, directed by Richard Lester, won the ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965. Brooks followed up this success starring in the ground-breaking 1966 television drama ''Cathy Come Home''. In an interview with ''Sussex Life'', Brooks recalled: Through the 1960s, Brooks also had small roles in a number of other cult television series, including '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
