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Stewart Bevan
Stewart John Llewellyn Bevan (10 March 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a British actor with performances in both film and television. His career includes the films '' Brannigan'' (1975), '' The Ghoul'' (1975), '' House of Mortal Sin'' (1976), ''Ivanhoe'' (1982), '' Chromophobia'' (2005) and '' The Scouting Book for Boys'' (2009). In television, he played Clifford Jones in the 1973 ''Doctor Who'' serial " The Green Death" and Ray Oswell in ''Emmerdale'' (1977). Early life Bevan was born into a Welsh family, his parents being Ray and Gwen Bevan. He spent his early years in Southall, Middlesex. After leaving school at the age of 15, he became a young manager in Pierre Cardin's menswear shop. At around this time he met the first love of his life Jackie, at the local Youth Club who encouraged him to join the local Amateur Dramatics society. Bevan participated in a festival at The Questors Theatre where he won an award for Best Actor. Shortly after this he decided to enrol at the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corona Theatre School
Corona Theatre School (formerly Corona Academy) was founded in 1950 as a performing arts academy in west London. After the retirement of its owner, Rona Knight, it reopened as Ravenscourt Theatre School in 1989. History Corona Academy Rona Knight Rona Knight was born on 22 June 1911, the daughter of Leonard and Ellen Edith Speck Knight. She made her first stage appearance at age 11, at a Sunday School benefit. At the age of fourteen, Knight opened the Corona Dancing School, which proved successful. The dancing and singing group became known as the "Corona Babes" (later known as the "Corona Kids"), and in the early 1930s, began to perform professionally, all around the country. During the Second World War, Knight joined the hospital section of ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association). She chose the stage name Rona Brandon, and became well known as a BBC and recording soprano.Roe, William P."The Corona Stage Academy" ''Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal'', 7 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Sir, With Love
''To Sir, with Love'' is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in a secondary school in the East End of London. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Patricia Routledge and singer Lulu making her film debut. James Clavell directed from his own screenplay, which was based on E. R. Braithwaite's 1959 autobiographical novel of the same title. The film's title song " To Sir with Love", sung by Lulu, peaked at the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for five weeks in the autumn of 1967 and ultimately was the best-selling single in the US that year; meanwhile, Poitier, playing a charismatic schoolteacher to troubled youth, was the first black actor to win a Golden Globe Award. The film ranked number 27 on ''Entertainment Weekly''s list of the 50 Best High School Movies. The film premiered and became a hit one month before another film about troubled schools, '' Up the Down Staircase'', appeared. A ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Eye (TV Series)
''Public Eye'' is a British television drama that ran from 1965 to 1975, produced by ABC Weekend TV for three series, and Thames Television a further four. It depicted investigations handled by enquiry agent Frank Marker (Alfred Burke), an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. The title is a twist on the more usual "private eye". Background The series was created by writers Roger Marshall and Anthony Marriott with the aim of getting away from "square-jawed" heroes of the type featured in Hollywood movies—a wish shared by Alfred Burke, the actor chosen to play Marker. This aim allowed for flexibility in the structure and plot lines of the episodes; each individual episode usually dealt with an individual case for Marker, but story arcs spanning several episodes, or in one case an entire series, were produced during the life of the programme. Marker's work ranged broadly, from routine matters such as gathering evidence for divorces (at a time whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steptoe And Son Ride Again
''Steptoe and Son Ride Again'' (also known as ''Steptoe & Son Ride Again'') is a 1973 British comedy drama film directed by Peter Sykes and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film was a spin-off from the BBC television comedy series of the same name (1962–1974) about father-and-son rag-and-bone merchants. It is a sequel to the film ''Steptoe and Son'' (1972). Plot The Steptoes have retired their horse Hercules due to lameness, and plan to buy a new one with Albert's life savings of £80, putting £9 away for "emergencies". Harold returns several hours later from Southall Market, drunk, and introduces Hercules the Second, a short sighted racing greyhound. Harold reveals to Albert that he purchased this from local gangster and loan shark Frankie Barrow for the £80 plus a further £200 owing on top. Furthermore, he plans to pay a small fortune to keep it fed on egg and steak. They eventually have to sell all o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flesh And Blood Show
''The Flesh and Blood Show'' is a 1972 British horror slasher film directed and produced by Pete Walker, and starring Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, and Luan Peters. The screenplay was by Alfred Shaughnessy. It follows a group of actors being stalked and murdered by an unseen assailant while rehearsing a play at a derelict seaside theatre. The film achieved a minor cult following in the years following its release. Plot Actresses and roommates Carol Edwards and Jane Pruitt are among a group of unemployed actors who are assembled by an anonymous producer to appear in a stage play titled ''The Flesh and Blood Show''. The performers arrive at the Dome Theatre, a dreary abandoned theatre on a seaside pier, where they are scheduled to begin rehearsals. Carol and Jane are met by fellow actors John and Tony, as well as Mike, the play's director. Inside the theatre, the group find actors Simon and Angela, who arrived prior. Yet to arrive is Julia Dawson, an actress who has recently forg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke & Hare (1972 Film)
''Burke & Hare'' (also known as ''Burke and Hare'', ''The Horrors of Burke and Hare'' and ''The Body Snatchers'') is a 1972 British horror film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, and Glynn Edwards. It is based on the true story of the Burke and Hare murders, and was the last film to be directed by Sewell. Plot In Edinburgh, in 1828, there are two sides to society: men living in dirty hovels and grave robbing to make a living; and rich men going to the brothels. Meanwhile, the doctors dine together and drink wine. Surgeon Dr Robert Knox needs bodies for dissection to satisfy the training needs of his medical students. As only hanging victims may be used, bodies are in short supply. In order to serve the greater good of medical science he employs grave-robbers Burke and Hare to supply fresh corpses for his anatomical lectures at the medical academy. The authorities turn a blind eye knowing that stemming the crime would lessen the medical training ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007), known as Gareth Hunt, was a British television actor best remembered for playing footman Frederick Norton in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and Mike Gambit in '' The New Avengers''. Early life Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London, in 1942. His father was killed in the Second World War when he was two years old, and he was brought up by his mother, Doris, and his stepfather. At the age of 15, he joined the Merchant Navy. After six years, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year before he was caught and served three months in a military prison. Hunt was then deported back to Britain, and while taking a BBC design course he held a variety of jobs, including stagehand, road digger, butcher's assistant and door-to-door salesman. Having had an interest in acting since his early years, he subsequently trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Following that, he did rep across the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Andrew Bulloch (16 February 1945 – 17 December 2020) was an English actor. In a career that spanned six decades, he gained recognition for originating the physical portrayal of Boba Fett in the '' Star Wars'' franchise, appearing as the character in the films '' The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and '' Return of the Jedi'' (1983). Bulloch returned to the franchise for a cameo as Captain Colton in 2005's ''Revenge of the Sith''. Early life Bulloch was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, to Aziz "Diana" (''née'' Meade) and McGregor Bulloch, an aeronautical engineer. He was the middle of three siblings, with three older half-brothers from his mother's earlier marriage. He attended St Leonard's School, Blandford Forum, Dorset, and Dorset House, Littlehampton, West Sussex, before training at the Corona Academy theatre school, London. From the age of five, he enjoyed acting and singing after a school show. He began acting at the age of ten and "appeared in eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Clyde
Michael Jeremy Thomas Clyde (born 22 March 1941) is an English actor and musician. During the 1960s, he was one-half of the folk duo Chad & Jeremy (with Chad Stuart). Their first song was the 1963 hit " Yesterday’s Gone". The duo became more successful in America than in their native country. Clyde has enjoyed a long television acting career, often playing upper-middle class or aristocratic characters. Early life Clyde was born in the village of Dorney in the English county of Buckinghamshire and is the son of Lady Elizabeth Wellesley and her then-husband Thomas Clyde. Through his maternal line, Clyde is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and is a cousin of the current Duke of Wellington. In 1953, he participated in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as a Page of Honour for his grandfather and carried his grandfather's coronet during the ceremony. Clyde was educated at two independent schools, Ludgrove and Eton, and then at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Of London
The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, Central London, England, in the London Borough of Camden, London Boroughs of Camden and the City of Westminster. It is west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated - and as such the term "West End" is used internationally as a metonym for London's theatre district and associated performing arts scene - just as "Broadway theatre, Broadway" is used to describe that of New York City. The term was first used in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross.Mills, A., ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001) While the City of London is the main financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment centre of the city. It is the largest c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conduct Unbecoming (play)
''Conduct Unbecoming'' is a play by Barry England. The plot concerns a scandal in a British regiment stationed in India in the 1880s. Plot The widow of a heroic officer is assaulted by an unrevealed comrade in arms and an investigation takes place to determine his identity. A kangaroo court is convened, as the regiment doesn't wish to have itself dishonored in public. A second lieutenant by the name of Edward Millington is accused of the assault by Mrs Hasseltine, the victim and, at first, everyone is prejudiced against him. Millington himself has no interest in remaining in the army, even though his father was a decorated official. Millington's friend and comrade Arthur Drake is given the duty of defending Millington, much to his initial displeasure. But as events begin to unfold, Drake realizes that Millington is in fact not guilty, and slowly manages to convince everyone else as well. But the question remains... who is guilty? Theatre It was first staged in May 1969 at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969 Film)
''Lock Up Your Daughters!'' is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Peter Coe and starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York and Glynis Johns. It is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name set in 18th-century Britain, which in turn is based on the 1730 comedy, '' Rape upon Rape'', by Henry Fielding It lacks all the songs from the original stage production. It was one of a number of British costume films released in the wake of the success of the '' Tom Jones'' (1963). Plot A bawdy yarn concerning three sex-starved sailors on leave and on the rampage in a British town. Cast Production The musical ran for four years in England but never had a major production in the US. It had a run at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1967. The movie was going to be made by Nat Cohen at Anglo Amalgamated but was eventually done by Columbia. It was Christopher Plummer's first musical since ''The Sound of Music'' (1965). Filming started in Ireland in March 1968. Reception ''The Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
