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Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Sydney Wilcox Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and film director, director. He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best known for the films he made with his third wife Anna Neagle. Early life Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, County Cork, Ireland, and Wilcox considered himself Irish, but he was born in Norwood, south London.7 Dagmar Villas, Gipsy Road. ''Mr Michael Thornton'' re Mr Herbert Wilcox. ''The Times'', Thursday, 19 May 1977; p. 18; Issue 60007; col F His family moved to Brighton when Wilcox was eight years old; he was one of five children. His family was poor and Wilcox had to do a number of part-time jobs, including some work as a chorus boy at the local Hippodrome. His mother died of tuberculosis when she was 42. Wilcox left school before the age of fourteen to find work. Shortly afterwards, his father died at the age of 42. Wilcox began earni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Sachs
Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-born British actor. Life and career Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal Colony, present day South Africa. He was Jewish. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1929 and had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 BBC Television version of '' Richard II'', John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in '' East Lynne'' from 1976. He founded an Old Time Music Hall, named the Players' Theatre, in Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London. He appeared as the Chairman of the Leeds City Varieties in the long-running BBC television series '' The Good Old Days'', which ran from 1953 to 1983, and became known for his elaborate, sesquipedalian introductions of the performers. Sachs was honoured in a 1977 episode of '' This Is Your Life''. Sachs appeared in '' Danger Man'' with Patrick McGoohan. He had two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in September 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company, it was the world's first broadcast listings magazine. In September 2023 it became the first broadcast listings magazine to reach and then pass its centenary. It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 16 August 2011, when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the German media group Hubert Burda. The magazine is published on Tuesdays and carries listings for the week from Saturday to Friday. Originally, listings ran from Sunday to Saturday: the changeover meant 8 October 1960 was listed twice, in successive issues. Since Christmas 1969, a 14-day double-duration issue has been published each December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ... company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. In 2008, the company sold its founding product, the '' TV Guide'' magazine and the entire print magazine division, to a private buyout firm operated by Andrew Nikou, who then set up the print operation as TV Guide Magazine LLC. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become '' TV Guide'' magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Mitchell
Norman Mitchell Driver (27 August 1918 – 19 March 2001), known professionally as Norman Mitchell, was an English television, stage and film actor. Born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, his father was a mining engineer and his mother a concert singer. He attended Carterknowle Grammar School and the University of Sheffield, before appearing in repertory theatre and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. During World War II he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He then made many television appearances and appeared in over sixty films. Mitchell was married to actress Pauline Mitchell until her death in 1992. He was the father of Jacqueline Mitchell and actor Christopher Mitchell (actor), Christopher Mitchell, known for his role in the BBC sitcom ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum''. His son Christopher predeceased him by a month. Selected filmography * ''The Seekers (1954 film), The Seekers'' (1954) - Grayson * ''Up to His Neck'' (1954) - Fungus * ''A Kid for Two Farthings (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana King (actress)
Diana King (2 August 1918 – 31 July 1986), also known as Diane King, was an English actress who had a career on British television from 1939 to 1986. Born in Buckinghamshire, in August 1918, she attended the Fay Compton School of Drama, and was a prolific theatre performer during and after World War Two. Television roles King's first television appearance was as a pupil of Tadworth House School in '' Little Ladyship'' in 1939. She continued to appear on television and in films throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1961, she appeared in '' The Avengers''. From the 1960s to the early 1980s, she appeared in ''The Benny Hill Show'', ''Crossroads'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''You're Only Young Twice'' and ''Z-Cars''. King was perhaps best known for her many appearances in situation comedies from the 1960s onwards. She had roles in ''Dad's Army'', ''Father, Dear Father'', ''The Liver Birds'', ''Fawlty Towers'' (in the episode " The Wedding Party"), ''George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballard Berkeley
Ballard Blascheck (6 August 1904 – 16 January 1988), known professionally as Ballard Berkeley, was an English actor of stage and screen. He is best remembered for playing Major Gowen in the British television sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''. Life and career The son of Joseph and Beatrice Blascheck, he was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He married Dorothy Long in Liverpool in January 1929. During the 1930s, he performed regularly in the so-called " quota quickies". One of his earliest roles was as the heroic lead in the 1937 film '' The Last Adventurers''. He served as a special constable with the Metropolitan Police during the Second World War, witnessing the Blitz at first hand, including the bombing of the Café de Paris nightclub. For his service, he received the Defence Medal and the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal. He appeared in the film '' In Which We Serve'' (1942) and in the Hitchcock film ''Stage Fright'' (1950). He featured as Detective Inspector Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shaw (actor)
Richard Shaw (19 November 1920 – 11 April 2010) was an English actor remembered for appearing in the science fiction franchises '' Quatermass'' and ''Doctor Who'', as well as having a regular role as henchman Ryan in the children's series '' Freewheelers''. He was a regular face on British TV networks BBC and ITV. Shaw played many supporting roles, mostly British crime films, through the 50s, 60s and 70s. He locked the bunker, full of Nazis and their families, before it was filled with gasoline and grenades were dropped in during the last scenes of the Second World War movie '' The Dirty Dozen''. He also performed stunt roles. During the latter part of his career, in 1980, he played the love interest of both '' Bet Lynch'' and '' Elsie Tanner'', Dan Johnson, in the UK soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Shaw appeared in the 1959 BBC TV serial of '' Quatermass and the Pit'' playing drill operator Sladden. The series was remastered and rereleased by the BBC in 2018. He was asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Churchill
Donald Churchill (6 November 193029 October 1991) was an English actor and playwright. He appeared in many film and television productions over a 35-year period and wrote several TV scripts. Career His films included '' Barnacle Bill'' (1957), '' The Captain's Table'' (1959), '' Victim'' (1961), '' The Wild Affair'' (1964), ''Zeppelin'' (1971), ''The First Great Train Robbery'' (1978), ''Charlie Muffin'' (1979) and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film), The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1983) as Doctor Watson. On television he starred in ''Bulldog Breed'' (1962), ''Spooner's Patch'' (1980-1982), played game show host Ronnie Kemp in ''Goodnight and God Bless'' (which Churchill also co-wrote, 1983), Mr Scott Eccles in an adaptation of "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" for ''Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series), The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' in 1988, and appeared in ''Stanley and the Women'' (1991) and ''C.A.T.S. Eyes''. His plays include ''Mixed Feelings, The Decorator,'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Welsh (actor)
John Welsh (7 November 1914 – 21 April 1985) was an Irish actor. Biography Welsh was born in Wexford. After an early stage career in Dublin, he moved into British film and television in the 1950s. His roles included James Forsyte in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's '' The Forsyte Saga'' and Sir Pitt Crawley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair, as well as the waiter, Merriman in '' The Duchess of Duke Street'', Sgt. Cuff in '' The Moonstone'' and a brief scene as the barber in ''Brideshead Revisited''. He also appeared in ''Hancock's Half Hour'', '' The Brothers'', ''Prince Regent'', '' To Serve Them All My Days'', 'The Frighteners' ('Bed and Breakfast' episode, 1972), and '' The Citadel'', and played the assistant chief constable in the early series of '' Softly, Softly''. Welsh also appeared in a number of different roles in ''Danger Man'' that included British diplomats and butlers. He died in London. Filmography * ''The Accused'' (1953) - Mr. Tennant * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Chamberlain
Cyril Chamberlain (8 March 1909 – 30 April 1974) was an English film and television actor. He appeared in a number of the early '' Carry On'', '' Doctor'' and '' St. Trinian's'' films. Chamberlain's first film appearance was in the 1936 Michael Powell drama film '' The Man Behind the Mask'' his role was uncredited. He later appeared as the main villain in both the crime drama '' The Embezzler'' (1954) and the crime thriller '' Tiger by the Tail'' (1954). Personal life Chamberlain was born on 8 March 1909 in London and died in Builth Wells in Wales on 30 April 1974 aged 65. He spent his final five years in retirement restoring antique furniture. He was married to actress Lisa Lee and they had one child. Partial filmography *'' Crackerjack'' (1938) as Bit Role (uncredited) *'' Stolen Life'' (1939) (uncredited) *'' Dead Men are Dangerous'' (1939) as George Franklin (uncredited) *'' The Spy in Black'' (1939) as Bit Part (uncredited) *'' Ask a Policeman'' (1939) as Radio Anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
