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I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
''I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname'', also known as ''The Takers'', is a 1967 British comedy-drama film directed and produced by Michael Winner. It stars Oliver Reed and Orson Welles. It was written by Peter Draper. The film deals with creativity and commercialism. Plot The opening credits run as a man carries a large axe through the streets of London. He then enters an office and destroys a desk with the axe. The man, Andrew Quint, works for Dallafield Advertising alongside Lute. Quint has a string of affairs with younger women despite being married. He begins to recall his torturous school days, and these memories entwine with the present. Quint attempts to get back at his boss Jonathan Lute by making a negative commercial reusing themes from earlier in the film, including Lute saying "The number one product of all human endeavor is waste... waste." The commercial, advertising a Super-8 camera, talks about capturing events while you still can before everything is destroyed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Winner
Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson. Winner's best-known works include ''Death Wish'' (1974) and its first two sequels '' Death Wish II'' (1982) and '' Death Wish 3'' (1985), the World War II comedy '' Hannibal Brooks'' (1969), the hitman thriller '' The Mechanic'' (1972), the supernatural horror film '' The Sentinel'' (1977), the neo-noir '' The Big Sleep'' (1978), the satirical comedy '' Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood'' (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns '' Lawman'' (1971) and '' Chato's Land'' (1972). Winner was known as a media personality in the United Kingdom, appearing regularly on television talk programmes and publishing a restaurant review column for ''The Sunday Times''. He was also a found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Car Crusher
A car crusher is an industrial device used to reduce the dimensions of derelict (Depreciation, depreciated) cars prior to transport for Vehicle recycling, recycling. Historically, because scrap cars were too big and bulky to transport to the sites that turned them into reusable material, and the cost to transport them was uneconomical because, at times, it would cost more to send it than the car was worth, because transportation costs were determined by weight. Since uncrushed cars were less dense and took up more space, even for a short haul, the scrap cars were worth less than it cost to deliver them. Cars can be crushed either dropping heavy weights onto them, using an excavator bucket or Grab (tool), mechanical grab, but these rudimentary means can be time consuming and produces inconsistent scrap sizes. By contrast, having a dedicated car crushing machine speeds up the compacting process and results in more uniform scrap bundles. Types of car crushers Car crushers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Graves
Peter Graves (born Peter Duesler Aurness; March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010) was an American actor who portrayed Jim Phelps in the television series ''Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series), Mission: Impossible'' from 1967 to 1973 and in its revival from 1988 to 1990. His elder brother was actor James Arness. Graves also played airline pilot Captain Clarence Oveur in the 1980 comedy film ''Airplane!'' and its 1982 sequel ''Airplane II: The Sequel''. Early life and education Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the younger son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness (1894–1982), a businessman, and his wife, Ruth (''née'' Duesler, died 1986), a journalist. Graves's ancestry was Norwegian Americans, Norwegian, German Americans, German, and English Americans, English. He used the stage name Graves, a maternal family name, to honor his mother's family, and also so as to not be confused with the stage name of his elder brother James Arness, star o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Curram
Roland Kingsford Bernard Curram (6 June 1932 – 1 June 2025) was an English actor and author. Career Curram was educated at Brighton College and has had a long film, television and theatre career. His appearances include Julie Christie's travelling companion in three-time Academy Awards, Oscar-winning film ''Darling (1965 film), Darling'' and expatriate Freddie in the BBC soap opera ''Eldorado (TV series), Eldorado''. In 1979, he played Brian Pilbeam in the first series of ''Terry and June''. The Pilbeams were Terry and June's annoying neighbours until the Sprys moved in. He also starred as Harold Perkins in the acclaimed BBC TV series ''Big Jim and the Figaro Club'' which was broadcast in July and August 1981. He was married from 1964 until 1985 to the actress Sheila Gish, with whom he had two daughters, the actors Lou Gish (1967–2006) and Kay Curram (b. 1974). Curram came out as gay in the early 1990s and left acting to carve out a second career as a novelist. He was survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Cooper
Stuart W. Cooper (born 1942) is an American filmmaker, actor and writer. Career Cooper was a resident of the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s where his most notable film appearance was as one of ''The Dirty Dozen'', Roscoe Lever, in 1967. His other film roles included ''I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967) as one of Oliver Reed's film crew, and ''Subterfuge (1968 film), Subterfuge'' (1968) starring Gene Barry and Joan Collins. ''Overlord (1975 film), Overlord'', his 1975 WWII collage film, collage docudrama, originally failed to get US theatrical distribution and was only shown there in select screenings and on television (including a run on California's Z Channel in 1982, which was highlighted in the acclaimed 2004 TV documentary film ''Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession''). Accolades His 1974 film ''Little Malcolm'' was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear. The following year, ''Overlord'' won the Jury Grand Prix, Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Eden
Douglas John Malin (14 February 1928 – 1 January 2021), known professionally as Mark Eden, was an English actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the villainous Alan Bradley in ''Coronation Street'' from 1986 to 1989. Early life Mark Eden was born Douglas John Malin in St Pancras, London, England on 14 February 1928. Career As Mark Eden, he appeared at the Royal Court Theatre and in repertory theatre in England and Wales. His television and film roles include the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Marco Polo'' (1964) in which he played Marco Polo, a reporter in '' Quatermass and the Pit'' in 1958, Number 100 in ''The Prisoner'' in 1967, and Inspector Parker in the TV adaptations of several Lord Peter Wimsey stories in the 1970s. Having briefly played a short lived character named Wally Randle in 1981, he returned for a long-running role in ''Coronation Street'', in which he played Alan Bradley. Eden's time in ''Coronation Street'' came to an end in December 1989 after Bradle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Burns (actor)
Mark Burns (30 March 1936 – 8 May 2007) was an English film and television actor. Biography Burns was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and educated at Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire. He originally planned to enter the priesthood, but after a short-service commission with the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars (1955–57), in which he served in Malaya and Northern Ireland, he became an actor. His career began in 1960 with the film '' Tunes of Glory'' followed by the TV series ''Lorna Doone'' (1963) and '' Rupert of Hentzau'' (1964). One of his most prominent roles was as the male lead in the cult 1966 mystery film '' Death Is a Woman''. Burns also appeared in '' The Saint'' episode "The Scales of Justice", and ''The Prisoner'' episode " It's Your Funeral" as Number Two's assistant. He played William Morris in '' The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1968), Bernie in '' A Day at the Beach'' (1970), the pianist Alfred in '' Death in Venice'' (1971) and Hans von Bülow in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Fox (actor)
Edward Charles Morice Fox (born 13 April 1937) is an English actor and a member of the Fox family. Fox starred in the film '' The Day of the Jackal'' (1973), playing the part of a professional assassin, known only as the "Jackal", who is hired to assassinate the French president, Charles de Gaulle, in the summer of 1963. Fox is also known for his roles in ''Battle of Britain'' (1969), '' The Go-Between'' (1971), for which he won a BAFTA award, and '' The Bounty'' (1984). He also collaborated with director Richard Attenborough, appearing in his films ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969), '' A Bridge Too Far'' (1977) and ''Gandhi'' (1982). Fox won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing Edward VIII in the television drama series '' Edward & Mrs. Simpson'' (1978). He also appeared in the historical series ''Taboo'' (2017). In addition to film and television work, Fox has received acclaim as a stage actor. Early life and education Fox was born the first o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Hall (actor)
Harvey Hall (27 June 1931 – 11 April 1997) was an English television and film actor. He appeared in many British television series and films, which include ''Danger Man'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Masque of the Red Death'', '' Zulu'', ''No Hiding Place'', '' The Avengers'', ''Out of the Unknown'', ''The Champions'', ''The Vampire Lovers'', ''Lust for a Vampire'' and others. In the 1970s he worked as an English teacher at St John's School in Leatherhead and Charterhouse School in Godalming Godalming ( ) is a market town and civil parish in southwest Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, at the confluence of the Rivers Wey and Ock. The civil parish covers and includes the settl ..., Surrey. He also produced and directed many plays. Acting credits References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Harvey 1931 births 1997 deaths English male television actors People from St Columb Minor Schoolteachers from Surrey Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lynn
Elizabeth Ann Lynn (7 November 1933 – 30 August 2020) was a British actress, especially prominent during the British New Wave of the 1960s, appearing in many films that represented what is known as kitchen sink realism. Lynn's career spanned 40 years and included roles in many British TV series, including ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1956), '' The Vise (1959–1960)'', ''Danger Man'' (1965), '' The Saint'', ''Gideon's Way'' (1965), '' Public Eye'' (1966), ''The Champions'' (episode: ''The Body Snatchers'') (1969), ''Family at War'' (1972), ''Special Branch'' (1973), '' Just Good Friends'' (1984-6, as Rita Pinner, possibly her best remembered role), ''Minder'' and ''Only Fools And Horses''. Film Lynn's films included ''Flame in the Streets'' (1961); ''Strongroom'' (1961); '' A Shot in the Dark'' (1964); '' Four in the Morning'' (1965); '' I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967); ''Baby Love'' (1968); and '' Screamtime'' (1983), alongside Dora Bryan and Robin Bailey. Person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (29 December 1946 – 30 January 2025) was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 10 single " As Tears Go By". She became one of the leading female artists of the British Invasion in the United States. Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a party for the Rolling Stones, where she was discovered by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Her 1965 debut studio album '' Marianne Faithfull'', released simultaneously with her studio album '' Come My Way'', was a huge success and was followed by further albums on Decca Records. From 1966 to 1970 she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was enhanced by roles in films, including '' I'll Never Forget What's'isname'' (1967), '' The Girl on a Motorcycle'' (1968) and ''Hamlet'' (1969). Her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s, when she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Rodway
Norman John Frank Rodway (7 February 1929 – 13 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish actor. Early life Rodway was born at the family home, Elsinore (named after the castle where Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' is set), on Coliemore Road, Dalkey, Dublin, to Lillian Sybil (née Moyles) and Frank Rodway, who ran a shipping agency. His parents were English, and had moved to Dublin two years before he was born because his father had been posted there for work. He was educated at St Andrew's Church of Ireland National School and the High School, then studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in classics in 1948. He worked as an accountant, teacher, and lecturer in Latin and Greek at Trinity before acting. Career He made his stage debut in May 1953 at the Cork Opera House. There, he portrayed General Mannion in ''The Seventh Step''. He made his first appearance in London's West End in 1959, as The Messenger in ''Cock-A-Doodle Dandy'', and moved to England the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
