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A Night Out (1961 TV Play)
''A Night Out'' is a 1961 Australian television play. It was based on '' A Night Out'' by Harold Pinter. It starred John Ewart and Richard Meikle. The play had previously been filmed in England in 1960 for '' Armchair Theater''. It was one of three plays the BBC commissioned from Pinter. The BBC also did the play for radio a version which had been broadcast in Australia by the ABC. The TV production was shot in Sydney. Plot Albert is dominated by his mother. He is goaded at work by the accountant Gidney. He is driven to an act of violence and attempts to assert his individuality. He tries to be a "real man" with a girl who picks him up. Mr King holds the party that is the night out for everyone. Cast *John Ewart as Albert * Neva Carr-Glynn as Mother * Brigid Lenihan as Girl *Noel Brophy as Mr. King * James Elliott *Tom Farley *John Godfrey * Nat Levison *Richard Meikle as Gidney *Joseph Szabo *Carole Boyce *Carole Taylor *Lou Vernon *Martin Magee Production Desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include '' The Birthday Party'' (1957), ''The Homecoming'' (1964) and ''Betrayal'' (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ''The Servant'' (1963), ''The Go-Between'' (1971), ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1981), ''The Trial'' (1993) and ''Sleuth'' (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Night Out (play)
''A Night Out'' is a play written by Harold Pinter in 1959. Albert Stokes, a loner in his late twenties lives with his emotionally suffocating mother and works in an office. After being falsely accused of groping a female at an office party, he wanders the streets until he meets a girl, who invites him to her flat, where he responds to her overtures by angrily demeaning her. Then he returns home to his mother. The play had its first performance on the BBC Third Programme on 1 March 1960, with Pinter's acting-school classmate and friend Barry Foster as Albert Stokes, Harold Pinter as Seeley, and Vivien Merchant, Pinter's first wife, as the Girl. (Full production details and "Radio Review" accessible at www.haroldpinter.org.) Its performance on television a month later, on 24 April 1960, was Pinter's first big success as a playwright in that medium. As presented on ABC Weekend TV's ''Armchair Theatre'', it was viewed by 6.4 million households, at that time a record for a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ewart
Jon Ewart (06th May 1996) is a British television and film actor. Ewart attended the prestigious National Youth Theatre, Identity School of Acting and has appeared in many successful Television shows. Biography Career Ewart, who was born in Melbourne, Victoria to Alfred Adam Ewart an insurance agent and his wife Jennie Grace Madge Lois (nee Macauley) began his acting career when he was cast at the age four in a radio production of ''Snow White''. At the age of 18, he made his film debut in the lead role of Mickey O'Riordan in Charles Chauvel's production of '' Sons of Matthew''. Ewart appeared in hundreds of Australian radio, theatre, film and television productions. To many thousands of Australians who grew up in the 1950s and '60s, he will be remembered as "Jimmy", the boyishly cheeky co-presenter of the ABC Radio '' Children's Session'', and in the title role of its long-running serial ''The Muddle-Headed Wombat''. He was well known for his role in the film '' Sunday Too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Meikle
Richard Meikle (10 October 1929 – 2 June 1991) was an Australian actor who worked extensively in film, theatre, and radio. He was the father of writer Sam Meikle. Career Meikle began his career as a stage actor. His first recorded role was in Metropolitan Theatre's production of ''Ned Kelly'' in 1947. In the 1950s, Meikle moved into radio acting, most prominently with Grace Gibson Radio Productions. Meikle's voice landed him many major roles with the company as both an actor and an announcer. Meikle was included in Reg James' list of his favourite Grace Gibson performances for his starring role alongside John Unicomb in the serial ''Becket''. Another factor working in Meikle's favour was his ability and desire to perform his own sound effects. Grace Gibson Productions' budget did not cover a professional sound effects person and as such actors who could do effects themselves were highly sought after. Reg James noted Meikle would often compete for rights to do sound effects wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armchair Theater
Armchair may refer to: * Armchair (furniture), a chair with arm rests * Armchair (band), a Thai pop rock band * Armchair (bus company), in London * Armchair nanotube, a carbon nanotube with chiral symmetry * "Armchair", a song by Avail from their 1996 album ''4am Friday'' * "Armchairs", a song by Andrew Bird from his 2007 album ''Armchair Apocrypha ''Armchair Apocrypha'' is American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird's fourth studio album and his third post-Bowl of Fire album. The album features more electric guitars, a change from the more acoustic-oriented ''Eggs'', though the songs are simila ...'' See also * '' The Armchair'', a 2009 Burkinabé film directed by Missa Hebié {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neva Carr-Glynn
Neva Carr Glyn or Neva Carr Glynn (born Neva Josephine Mary Carr Glyn, 10 May 1908 – 10 August 1975) was an Australian stage, film and radio actress born in Melbourne to Arthur Benjamin Carr Glyn (died 16 January 1923), a humorous baritone and stage manager born in Ireland, and Marie Carr Glyn (late Mola), née Marie Dunoon Senior (10 June 1874 – 24 December 1953), an actress with the stage name "Marie Avis".Lane, Richard ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama'' Melbourne University Press 1994 She had one half-sister Gwendoline Arnold O'Neill and two half-brothers Sacheverill Arnold Mola and Rupert Arnold Mola. She was named "Neva" after a great-aunt, who was a contralto of some quality. Both spellings of her surname appear in print roughly equally and apparently arbitrarily. Early career Neva was born while her parents were with the Fred Niblo company touring the J. C. Williamson circuit. Her theatrical debut was four months later, in New Zealand, when Fred Niblo carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigid Lenihan
Brigid Lenihan (1929–1970) was a New Zealand actor who worked extensively in Australia on stage and screen. She died in her sleep aged 41. Select TV Credits *'' The Face of Love'' (1954) *''The Little Woman'' (1961) *'' A Night Out'' (1961) *''Lola Montez'' (1962) *''Red Peppers'' (1962) *''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1962) *'' My Three Angels'' (1962) *''Jonah'' (1962) *'' The Right Thing'' (1963) *''The Hungry Ones'' (1963) *''The Mavis Bramston Show'' (1965) *'' Goodbye, Gloria, Hello!'' (1967) Select Theatre *''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' (1949) *''Boeing Boeing'' (1964) *''A Cat Among the Pigeons'' (1970) References External linksBrigid Lenihanat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... New Zealand actresses 1929 births 1970 deaths {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Elliott (actor)
James Campbell Elliott (11 June 1928 – 12 February 2011) alternately James Eliott and Elliot James, was a Scottish-born Australian radio, theatre, television and film actor and best known for his appearances in both telefilms and serials, especially as an original character in the 1970s television soap opera ''Number 96'', as Alf Sutcliffe opposite co-star Elisabeth Kirkby who played his wife Lucy Sutcliffe Biography James Campbell Elliott was born in Glasgow, Scotland the second of 5 children to John Elliott and Katherine Campbell, and grew up in the Kelvinbridge area he was an original cast member of television soap opera ''Number 96'' which premiered March 1972. The show became Australia's highest-rated television program in 1973 and 1974. Alf and his wife Lucy (Elisabeth Kirkby) were immigrants from Yorkshire, England and Alf was presented as an archetypal "whinging Pom" who complained constantly about Australia while proving himself incapable of holding down a job. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
