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Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney (16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011) was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was best known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Early life Nicholas Courtney was born 16 December 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Major Geoffrey William Courtney, a British army officer and diplomat, and Evelyn (''née'' Stout).John Ainsworth (editor) (2016)Profile: Nicholas Courtney ''Doctor Who: The Complete History: Stories 38-41'', BBC Worldwide UK Publishing; Panini UK Ltd.; Hachette Partworks Ltd., page 144. His paternal grandparents were the Oxford academic and journalist William Leonard Courtney and his first wife, Cordelia (''née'' Place). His grandfather, W. L. Courtney, had been an amateur actor during his tenure at Oxford University and was involved in the early productions in the New Theatre by the Oxford University Dramatic Society.'Obituary: Mr. W. L. Courtney: Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of largest cities in the Arab world, the Arab world, and List of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is List of largest cities, one of the largest in the world by population with over 22.1 million people. The area that would become Cairo was part of ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis, Egypt, Memphis and Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heliopolis are near-by. Located near the Nile Delta, the predecessor settlement was Fustat following the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman empire, Roman fortress, Babylon Fortress, Babylon. Subsequently, Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid dynasty in 969. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve personnel and 4,697 "other personnel", for a total of 108,413. The British Army traces back to 1707 and the Acts of Union 1707, formation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain which joined the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland into a Political union, single state and, with that, united the English Army and the Scots Army as the British Army. The Parliament of England, English Bill of Rights 1689 and Convention of the Estates, Scottish Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the Charles III, monarch as their commander-in-chief. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence (United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Camfield
Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield (8 May 1931 – 27 January 1984) was a British television director, active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Early life Camfield studied at the York School of Art and aimed to work for The Walt Disney Company. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in 1951 during his national service. Later that year, he transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment ( Territorial Army). He was promoted to lieutenant in 1952 and was training to be in the Special Air Service, but due to an injury he pulled out of the application process. It has often been noted by those who worked with him that Camfield always retained an affection for the army and brought military standards of organisation to the programmes he subsequently directed. Career His directing credits included ''Doctor Who,'' ''Z-Cars'', '' Paul Temple'', '' Public Eye'', '' The Lotus Eaters'', '' Van der Valk'', '' The Sweeney'', ''The Onedin Line'', ''Blake's 7'', '' Shoestring'', '' The Profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Doctor
The First Doctor is the original incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor, the protagonist of the British Science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was portrayed by actor William Hartnell in the first three series from 1963 to 1966 and the tenth anniversary story ''The Three Doctors (Doctor Who), The Three Doctors'' from 1972 to 1973. The character occasionally appeared in the series after Hartnell's death, played by Richard Hurndall in the 1983 special "The Five Doctors" and by David Bradley (English actor), David Bradley in 2017 and 2022. To date, the First Doctor is the sole incarnation of the Doctor to have been Casting (performing arts), recast for later televised appearances. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old Extraterrestrials in popular culture, alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who Time travel in fiction, travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with Companion (Doctor Who), co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (; 8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor, who is best known for portraying the first incarnation of the Doctor, in the long-running British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in 1972–1973. In film, Hartnell notably appeared in '' Brighton Rock'' (1949), '' The Mouse That Roared'' (1959) and '' This Sporting Life'' (1963). He was associated with military roles, playing Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the ITV sitcom '' The Army Game'' (1957, 1961) and Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character in the first ''Carry On'' film '' Carry On Sergeant'' (1958). Early life William Henry Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908 in the slums of the district of St Pancras, London, England, the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. Hartnell never discovered the identity of his father, whose particulars were left blank on his birth certificate, despite his efforts to trace him. In v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fortune
John Courtney Fortune (born John Courtney Wood; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English actor, writer and satirist, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the television series '' Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. Early life Fortune was born John Courtney Wood in Bristol on 30 June 1939. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John Bird. Career Fortune's early work included contributions to Peter Cook's Establishment Club team in 1962, and as a regular member of the cast of the BBC-TV satire show '' Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'', both alongside Eleanor Bron and John Bird. Fortune and Bird also worked together on the TV show ''A Series of Birds'' in 1967, and Fortune and Bron wrote and performed a series of sketches for TV in '' Where Was Spring?'' in 1969. In 1971, with John Wells, he published the comic novel '' A Melon for Ecstasy'', abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bird (actor)
John Michael Bird (22 November 1936 – 24 December 2022) was an English actor, director, writer and satirist. He performed in the television satire boom of the 1960s, appearing in '' That Was the Week That Was''. His television work included many appearances with John Fortune. Bird had an acting career in film, television, theatre and radio for over 55 years. He appeared in films including '' Take A Girl Like You'' (1970) and ''Jabberwocky'' (1977) as well as in television shows such as '' Joint Account'', '' Marmalade Atkins'', '' El C.I.D.'' and '' Chambers''. He and Fortune also starred with Rory Bremner in the sketch show '' Bremner, Bird and Fortune'' (1993–2010), on Channel 4, which was nominated for BAFTA TV Awards. Early life John Michael Bird was born in Bulwell, Nottingham, where his father ran a small chemist's shop. He lived at 445 Perry Road in New Basford, north of the (current) Nottingham Perry Road Sainsbury's. He failed his 11-plus, but his secondary m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take A Girl Like You (film)
''Take a Girl Like You'' is a 1970 British romantic comedy drama film directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison. Based on the 1960 novel '' Take a Girl Like You'' by Kingsley Amis, it was adapted by George Melly. Synopsis Northerner Jenny arrives in a town near London to take up a job as a teacher, and she has taken lodgings with a local political candidate. She quickly meets Patrick, who knows another girl at the lodging house but shares the goal, along with his friend Julian, of having sex with as many women as possible. After a first date which ends at Patrick's flat for coffee, Patrick is shocked when Jenny tells him she is a virgin and intends to stay that way until she meets the right man. Jenny is attracted to Patrick, so they get into a volatile relationship as Patrick tries to change Jenny's mind, without giving up his bachelor status. Cast Production Amis' novel was published in 1960. In April 1961, Roy Ward Baker announce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riviera Police
''Riviera Police'' is a British television crime drama series that sees three international police officers, from England, Australia and Canada, seconded to the Prefect of Marseille with a local French officer. French Inspector Legrand appeared in all episodes (filmed in London studios) while the other three alternated between episodes, often filming on location in France. Cast * Brian Spink as Inspector Legrand *Noel Trevarthen as Superintendent Barney Johnson * Frank Lieberman as Lieutenant Colonel Sorel * Geoffrey Frederick as Superintendent Adam Hunter Reception Early episodes outperformed ''Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced ...'' becoming the countries most popular TV series. The producers were told to tone down some of the content or they wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased)
''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt (actor), Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and produced by Monty Berman, and was first broadcast in 1969 and 1970. In the United States, it was given the title ''My Partner the Ghost''. ITC Entertainment produced a single series of 26 episodes in 1968 and 1969, which was aired from September 1969 to March 1970. The pilot episode was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1969 by Associated Television, ATV in the Midlands. London Weekend Television broadcast the pilot two days later on 21 September 1969. The series was Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series), remade in 2000, starring Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Plot In the initial episode, "My Late Lamented Friend and Partner", Marty Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation but retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Champions
''The Champions'' is a British espionage thriller/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure television series. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company, and consists of 30 episodes broadcast in the UK on ITV during 1968–1969. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968. Plot Agents Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett work for a United Nations law enforcement organization called 'Nemesis', based in Geneva. Barrett is a codebreaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor. In the pilot episode, the team is escaping by air from a spying mission in China. Their stolen plane, damaged by gunfire during the getaway, crashes in the Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In Room 17
''The Man in Room 17'' is a British television series which ran for two series in the mid-1960s, then a follow up series The Fellows (Late of Room 17), produced by Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The main characters were "high-IQ" sleuths investigating espionage cases and similarly complex cases. Overview The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw (Richard Vernon) solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistant (originally Ian Dimmock ( Michael Aldridge), later succeeded by Imlac Defraits ( Denholm Elliott), owing to Aldridge becoming ill). (The characters of Dimmock and Defraits may have been given the same initials to continue a play on words. Oldenshaw was sometimes identified as Edwin G. Oldenshaw. In the last episode, Oldenshaw and Defraits are in a park, feeding waterfowl, and the camera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
