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Barry Foster (actor)
John Barry Foster (21 August 1927 – 11 February 2002) was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for portraying the title character in the British crime series '' Van der Valk'' (1972–1992) and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Frenzy'' (1972). Early life Foster was born on 21 August 1927 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, the son of a toolsetter. His family moved to Hayes, Middlesex when he was a few months old. He received his formal education at Southall County School. After leaving school, Foster trained as a plastics organic chemist at the local EMI Central Research Laboratories, while unsuccessfully submitting ideas to advertising agencies. Having been "called to the Colours" under the National Service Act 1948, Foster served with the Royal Air Force. He subsequently trained as an actor, having won a scholarship to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He arrived ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
Beeston () is a town in the Borough of Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, it is 3 miles south-west of Nottingham. To its north-east is the University of Nottingham's main campus, Campuses of the University of Nottingham#University Park Campus, University Park. The headquarters of Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical and retail chemist group Boots UK, Boots are east of the centre of Beeston, on the border with Borough of Broxtowe, Broxtowe and the City of Nottingham. To the south lie the River Trent and the village of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, Attenborough, with extensive wetlands. Toponymy The earliest name of the settlement was ''Bestune'', recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name derives from the Old English words ''bēos'' (bent-grass) and ''tūn'' (farmstead, settlement). Although the idea that the name derives from the Old English ''bēo'' (bee) is popular locally, this is impossible as the plural form of ''bēo'' would be ''bēon'', resulting in an "n" to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Basement (play)
''The Basement'' is a television play (later a stage play) by Harold Pinter. It was written first as a screenplay for a film, then revised for television and broadcast on 20 February 1967. Origin: "The Compartment" ''The Basement'' is based on "The Compartment" (1965), an unpublished 27-page screenplay (circulated only in typescript) that Pinter wrote in 1963–65 "for a film never made, planned as part of a triple-bill, ''Project I'' promoted by Grove Press, New York, with Samuel Beckett's ''Film'' 965and Eugène Ionesco's '' The Hard-Boiled Egg''" (Baker and Ross 112). Of the three works planned for this trilogy of films, "only ''Film'' would be produced, being released in 1965" (112). According to Pinter's official authorised biographer Michael Billington, also cited by Baker and Ross (112), "Pinter's contribution ''The Compartment'' lay dormant until he rewrote it for television as ''The Basement''" (Billington 191). Setting The "''exterior''" and ''"interior''" of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Britain (film)
''Battle of Britain'' is a 1969 British war film documenting the events of the Battle of Britain, the war for aerial supremacy between the German Luftwaffe and the defending Royal Air Force waged over British skies during summer of 1940. The nature of the subject drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Laurence Olivier as Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Sir Hugh Dowding, Trevor Howard as Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, and Patrick Wymark as Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory. Directed by Guy Hamilton and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz, it also starred Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, and Robert Shaw (actor), Robert Shaw as Squadron Leaders. The script by James Kennaway and Wilfred Greatorex was based on the book ''The Narrow Margin'' by Derek Wood (author), Derek Wood and Derek Dempster. The film endeavoured to be a generally accurate account of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Clouseau (film)
''Inspector Clouseau'' is a 1968 British comedy film, and the third installment in ''The Pink Panther'' film series. It was directed by Bud Yorkin, written by brothers Frank Waldman and Tom Waldman and stars Alan Arkin as the title character. It was filmed by Mirisch Films at the MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood and in Europe. Screenwriter Frank Waldman later co-wrote '' The Return of the Pink Panther'', '' The Pink Panther Strikes Again'', '' Revenge of the Pink Panther'', and '' Trail of the Pink Panther''. Tom Waldman co-wrote ''Trail'' with Frank. Unlike the previous instalments in the film series, Blake Edwards was not the director, nor did Henry Mancini write the film's score or Peter Sellers portray the title role. All three were involved at that time with the film '' The Party''. Nonetheless, when Sellers and Edwards declined to participate, The Mirisch Company decided to proceed without them. The film languished in obscurity and although it has been releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbery (1967 Film)
''Robbery'' is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and James Booth. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's company Oakhurst Productions. Plot A criminal gang uses a gas canister to knock out the occupant of a car and then bundles him into a stolen ambulance. There, the gang cuts free a briefcase full of jewellery. Shortly afterward, while the criminals change vehicles, they are spotted by the police. A high-speed chase develops, and the criminals get away. Using the money from this job, crime boss Paul Clifton builds up a team to hit a Royal Mail train coming south from Glasgow. A meticulous plan is put in place, but there are obstacles: Jack, the driver of the getaway car in the jewellery theft, is identified in an identity parade and arrested but refuses to name accomplices to police; gang member Robinson must ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family Way
''The Family Way'' is a 1966 British drama film produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting, respectively, and starring father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills. Based on Bill Naughton's play '' All in Good Time'' (1963), with screenplay by Naughton, the film began life in 1961 as the television play ''Honeymoon Postponed''. It is about the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple living in a crowded house with the husband's family. Plot After Jenny Piper and Arthur Fitton's rowdy wedding reception at a local Lancashire pub, the newlyweds spend their wedding night at the Fittons' house. Arthur's father, Ezra Fitton, and some drunken guests loudly sing in the living room. Arthur clashes with Ezra, a lifelong gasworks employee who is unable to understand his son's love of literature and classical music. After a strained evening, the newlyweds retire, only for their marital bed to collapse, the result of a practical joke by Arthur's boorish boss, Joe Thompson. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King And Country
''King and Country'' is a 1964 British war film directed by Joseph Losey, shot in black and white, and starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay. The film was adapted for the screen by British screenwriter Evan Jones based on the play ''Hamp'' by John Wilson and a 1955 novel by James Lansdale Hodson. Plot During the First World War in 1917, in the British trenches at Passchendaele, an army private, Arthur Hamp ( Tom Courtenay) is accused of desertion. He is to be defended at his trial by Captain Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde). Hamp had been a volunteer at the outbreak of the war and was the sole survivor of his company, but then decided to "go for a walk"; he had contemplated walking to his home in London but after more than 24 hours on the road, he is picked up by the Military Police and sent back to his unit to face court-martial for desertion. Hargreaves is initially impatient with the simple-minded Hamp, but comes to identify with his plight. Following testimony from an unsympa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III (; January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American film and theatre director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Hollywood blacklist, Blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s, he moved to Europe where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom. Among the most critically and commercially successful were the films with screenplays by Harold Pinter: ''The Servant (1963 film), The Servant'' (1963) and ''The Go-Between (1971 film), The Go-Between'' (1971). His 1976 film ''Monsieur Klein'' won the César Awards for César Award for Best Film, Best Film and César Award for Best Director, Best Director. His other notable films included ''The Boy with Green Hair'' (1948), ''Eva (1962 film), Eva'' (1962), ''King & Country'' (1964), ''Modesty Blaise (1966 film), Modesty Blaise'' (1966), ''Figures in a Landscape (film), Figures in a Landscape'' (1970) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Exeter (68)
HMS ''Exeter'' was the second and last heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–1936, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station. When World War II began in September 1939, the cruiser was assigned to patrol South American waters against German commerce raiders. ''Exeter'' was one of three British cruisers that fought the German heavy cruiser , later that year in the Battle of the River Plate. She was severely damaged during the battle, and she was under repair for over a year. After repairs were completed the ship spent most of 1941 on convoy escort duties before she was transferred to the Far East after the start of the Pacific War in December. ''Exeter'' was generally assigned to escorting convoys to and from Singapore during the Malayan Campaign, and she continued on those duties in earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Battle Of The River Plate (film)
''The Battle of the River Plate'' (a.k.a. ''Pursuit of the Graf Spee'' in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd. The film's storyline concerns the Battle of the River Plate, an early World War II naval engagement in 1939 between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship . Plot In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The British Royal Navy responds with hunting groups whose mission is to stop these attacks. In time, the German battleship ''Admiral Graf Spee'' is discovered in the Atlantic, just off South America, by a trio of British cruisers. With its speed and destructive firepower, ''Graf Spee'' is a for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Coward Theatre
The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by the architect W. G. R. Sprague with an exterior in the classical style and an interior in the Rococo style. In 1973, it was renamed the Albery Theatre in tribute to Sir Bronson Albery who had presided as its manager for many years. Since September 2005, the theatre has been owned by Delfont-Mackintosh Ltd. It underwent major refurbishment in 2006 and was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre when it re-opened on 1 June 2006. The building is a Grade II Listed structure. History Early years, 1903–1919 The New was the second of the three theatres in St Martin's Lane. The Trafalgar Square (now the Duke of York's) opened in 1892 and the London Coliseum in 1904. The actor-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Cork
County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, County Cork, Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen. , the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-List of Irish counties by population, most populous county in Ireland. Cork County Council is the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, local authority for the county, while Cork City Council governs the city of Cork and its environs. Notable Corkonians include Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins, Jack Lynch, Mother Jones, Roy Keane, Sonia O'Sullivan, Cillian Murphy and Graham Norton. Cork borders four other counties: County Kerry, Kerry to the west, County Limerick, Limerick to the north, County Tipperary, Tipperary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
