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Carroll Levis
Carroll Richard Levis (March 15, 1910 – October 17, 1968) was a Canadian talent scout, impresario and radio and television broadcaster, mainly working in Britain. Biography Born in Toronto and brought up in Vancouver, the son of a murdered policeman, he grew up wanting to be an actor, but held various jobs in movie theatres and as a deckhand before doing some work as a comedian and stage hypnotist. He began broadcasting as an announcer with CKWX in Vancouver. When working in Alberta, on one occasion he had time to fill in during a live broadcast and persuaded a boy in the audience to sing a song. Following a good listener reaction, he started a local radio talent show, ''Saturday Night Club of the Air'', and then a similar programme in Montreal. In 1935, he decided to move to England. He met radio producer Eric Maschwitz, and they developed a tour of British cities to find new talent. His touring stage shows attracted thousands of applicants from potential performers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Dale
Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Larry Dann, Angela Douglas, Patricia Franklin, Hugh Futcher, Alexandra Dane, Valerie Leon, Jacki Piper, Anita Harris, Bill Cornelius and others, he is now among the last surviving actors to star in multiple ''Carry On'' films. Dale was also a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in ''Scapino'', '' Barnum'', ''Candide'' and ''Me and My Girl''. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the ''Harry Potter'' series, for which he won two Grammy Awards. Dale appeared in the ABC series '' Pushing Daisies'' (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film '' Pete's Dragon'' (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in '' Adolf Hitler: My Part in His D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Expatriates In England
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Radio Personalities
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, 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 *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Deaths
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Toronto
This is a list of notable people who are from Toronto, Ontario, or have spent a large part or formative part of their career in that city. A * Abdominal (rapper), Abdominal – hip hop musician * Natalie Achonwa – Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA player * Patrick J. Adams – actor (''Suits (U.S. TV series), Suits'') * Oluniké Adeliyi – actress (''Flashpoint (TV series), Flashpoint'') * Jeremie Albino - musician * Jim Aldred – ice hockey player and coach * Chris Alexander (politician), Chris Alexander diplomat * Nickeil Alexander-Walker – NBA player * Robbie Amell – actor * Stephen Amell – actor (''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'') * Enza Anderson – writer, transgender rights activist * Shamier Anderson – actor * Gordon Stewart Anderson – author * John Andrews (architect), John Andrews – architect * Mark Andrews (swimmer), Mark Andrews – swimmer * Lou Angotti – former National Hockey League, NHL player * Kent Angus – businessman * Steve An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 Births
Events January * January 6 – Abé language, Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military. * January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan becomes a protectorate of the British Empire. * January 11 – Charcot Island is discovered by the Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the ship ''Pourquoi-Pas (1908), Pourquoi Pas?'' Charcot returns from his expedition on February 11. * January 12 – Great January Comet of 1910 first observed (perihelion: January 17). * January 15 – Amidst the constitutional crisis caused by the House of Lords rejecting the People's Budget the January 1910 United Kingdom general election is held resulting in a hung parliament with neither Liberals nor Conservatives gaining a majority. * January 21 – 1910 Great Flood of Paris, The Great Flood of Paris begins when the Seine over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Depraved (1957 Film)
''The Depraved'' is a 1957 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Paul Dickson and starring Anne Haywood and Robert Arden. It was written by Brian Clemens and produced by The Danzigers. Plot US army captain Dave Dillon is stationed at an American base in the British countryside. When heading back one night, his jeep breaks down and he is forced to ask for help at a secluded mansion, Croft House. There live the Wiltons: a lonely, harassed woman, Laura, who is married to drunken, abusive Tom. Tom has recently fired all the house servants including the Italian chauffeur Tonio. Dave is let in but as he is about to phone the base for help, Tom inadvertently fuses the house lights. Dave fixes the fusebox, and when the lights come back on Laura realises Tom has given himself an electric shock, disappointingly for her, rendering him only unconscious not dead. Dave helps Tom to bed. At the door Laura offers that Dave should borrow her car and return it the next day. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catchline
In papyrus rolls and manuscripts, a ''reclamans'' (plural: ''reclamantes'') is a catchline included at the end of a section of text showing the first line or sentence of the subsequent roll or codex, thus ensuring that the reader could quickly determine the proper order in which the particular work was to be read. The practice is well-attested in Homeric papyri, but it appears to have fallen into disuse in these texts around the 1st century AD. It seems very likely that the increased popularity of inscribing each roll with a book title precipitated the obsolescence of the ''reclamans''. In the case of prose works, however, the practice continued to be used, and several medieval manuscripts of works like Herodotus' ''Histories'' and the Hippocratic Corpus include ''reclamantes''.. See also * Catchword A catchword is a word placed at the foot of a handwritten or Printing, printed page that is meant to be bound along with other pages in a book. The word anticipates the first word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass Monkey (film)
''Brass Monkey'' (also known as ''The Lucky Mascot'') is a 1948 British comedy thriller film with musical asides, directed by Thornton Freeland. It stars Carroll Levis, a radio variety show host and talent scout (known as "Britain's favourite Canadian") and American actress Carole Landis in her last film. It features an early appearance by comic actor Terry-Thomas, playing himself. Though made in 1948, ''Brass Monkey'' was not released in the US until 1951. Plot Popular radio presenter Carroll Levis, and Kay Sheldon find themselves entangled in a web of smuggling and murder. When a priceless "brass monkey" is stolen from a Japanese temple and smuggled into England, Levis encounters the eccentric Mr. Ryder-Harris, a Buddhist art connoisseur who's chasing the artefact, and will apparently stop at nothing to get it. The monkey is missing and suspicious murders are being committed in the hunt for its retrieval. With the help of the ''Discoveries'' radio talent, Levis attempts to av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avril Angers
Florence Avril Angers (18 April 1918 – 9 November 2005) was an English stand-up comedian and actress. In 2005 ''The Daily Telegraph'' described her as "one of the most zestful, charming and reliable character comediennes in the postwar London theatre". Life Angers was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1918. Her father, Harry Angers, was a music hall comedian who also appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s. She was a dancer with the Tiller Girls before joining ENSA during the Second World War. She never married or had children. Angers lived in Covent Garden, London, where she died from pneumonia, aged 87. Career She made her West End theatre debut at the Palace Theatre in a 1944 revue titled ''Keep Going''. One of the early stand-up comediennes, she was capable of playing a straight man role as a foil to established male comics such as Frankie Howerd and Arthur Askey. Along with Terry-Thomas, she was one of the original cast of British television's first ever comedy ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
