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Gerald Case
(Thomas) Gerald Case (1905 – 22 May 1985) was a British film and television actor known for his role in the 1976 Wodehouse Playhouse episode, 'Strychnine in the Soup'. He was the son of Captain Thomas Elphinstone Case, of the Coldstream Guards, and Evelyn Ruby, daughter of Adolphus Ferguson. His widowed mother subsequently married the England cricketer and gold medal-winning Olympic boxer J. W. H. T. Douglas. Case lived at Mayfield, Windlesham, Surrey, where he died on 22 May 1985.Wills and probate records, search parameters 'surname': Case, 'year of death': 1985 URL= https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk Date accessed= 2 October 2018 Partial filmography * ''Museum Mystery'' (1937) - Peter Redding * '' The Lion Has Wings'' (1939) - Unnamed Character * ''In Which We Serve'' (1942) - Jasper * ''Henry V'' (1944) - Earl of Westmoreland * '' Caesar and Cleopatra'' (1945) - Roman Tax Officer (uncredited) * '' Night Boat to Dublin'' (1946) - Inspector Emerson * ''I See a Dark Stran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wodehouse Playhouse
''Wodehouse Playhouse'' is a British television comedy series based on the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. From 1974 to 1978, a pilot and three series were made, with 21 half-hour episodes altogether in the entire series. The series has been released on home video. Production P. G. Wodehouse introduced the episodes in the first series. These introductions were filmed in January 1975, shortly before his death. The pilot episode aired in the anthology series '' Comedy Playhouse''. The first and second series of ''Wodehouse Playhouse'' initially aired on BBC1. Reruns of these episodes aired on BBC2 in 1977, and the third series first aired on BBC2. The episodes were broadcast in the US on PBS television stations. In 2003, the series was released on home video. David Climie adapted all the episodes, including the pilot. The first series was produced by David Askey, the second series was produced by Michael Mills, and the third series was produced by Gareth Gwenlan. With the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now Barabbas
''Now Barabbas'' is a 1949 British drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke and Kathleen Harrison. It is sometimes known as ''Now Barabbas Was a Robber''. It was based on a 1947 play of the same title by William Douglas Home. The film features one of the earliest screen performances by Richard Burton.Burton & Chibnall p.85 It was shot at Teddington Studios. Cast * Richard Greene as Tufnell * Cedric Hardwicke as Governor * Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Brown * Ronald Howard as Roberts Bank Cashier * Stephen Murray as Chaplain * William Hartnell as Warder Jackson * Beatrice Campbell as Kitty * Richard Burton as Paddy * Betty Ann Davies as Rosie * Leslie Dwyer as Brown * Alec Clunes as Gale * Harry Fowler as Smith * Kenneth More as Spencer * Dora Bryan Dora May Broadbent, (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014), known as Dora Bryan, was a British actress of stage, film and television. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fake (1953 Film)
''The Fake'' is a 1953 British crime film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray and Hugh Williams. Its plot concerns an American detective who tries to solve the theft of a priceless painting from the Tate Gallery in London. Plot When Leonardo da Vinci's ''Madonna and Child'' arrives at London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, American Paul Mitchell (Dennis O'Keefe) is assigned to guard it. However, on examination, Paul realizes that the painting has been replaced with a fake. Joining forces with Tate employee Mary Mason (Coleen Gray), Paul attempts to find the original and collect the museum's $50,000 reward for its recovery. Cast * Dennis O'Keefe - Paul Mitchell * Coleen Gray - Mary Mason * Hugh Williams - Sir Richard Aldingham * Guy Middleton - Smith * John Laurie - Henry Mason * Eliot Makeham - Pavement Artist * Gerald Case - Peter Randall * Seymour Green - Weston * Stanley Van Beers - Cartwright * Dora Bryan - Barmaid * Ellen Poll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Boy (film)
''Wide Boy'' is a 1952 British crime film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler and Ronald Howard.Wide Boy Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 19, Iss. 216, (1 Jan 1952): 82. It was Hughes' feature directorial debut. He later called it "pretty terrible". Plot Benny is a black marketeer, dealing in stolen goods; after yet another arrest Benny meets up with his girlfriend Molly, a hairdresser, and they go somewhere different for them, a bar called The Flamingo. There are only two other customers there at the bar, Robert Mannering and his mistress Caroline Blaine, and it is clear from their conversation that he is a famous surgeon whose wife is dying. Benny notices Caroline's smart handbag, and manages to steal Caroline's wallet. Benny then realises that he recognises Mannering as a famous surgeon. Mannering and Caroline leave shortly afterwards, followed by Benny and Molly, who is unaware of Benny's theft, but Mannering and Caroline return to the bar as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home At Seven (film)
''Home at Seven'' is a 1952 British mystery drama film directed by and starring Ralph Richardson. It also features Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Campbell Singer and Michael Shepley. It is based on the 1950 play '' Home at Seven'' by R. C. Sherriff. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art directors Vincent Korda and Frederick Pusey. The film is Richardson's only work as director. Guy Hamilton was assistant director. It was released on DVD in the UK on 30 June 2014 by Network Distributing. Plot Preston, a City of London banker, returns at 7 pm to his suburban home in Kent one Tuesday evening to discover that he has been missing for 24 hours, yet he does not remember the lost day. He discovers that he was seen at the social club which he is the treasurer of on Monday evening taking 515 pounds from the safe. The man who saw this, Robinson, is found murdered in an allotment the evening he comes home. When questioned by the police he lies that he spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunted (1952 Film)
''Hunted'' (U.S. ''The Stranger In Between'') is a British Noir crime film directed by Charles Crichton and released in 1952. ''Hunted'' is a crime drama in the form of a chase film, starring Dirk Bogarde, and written by Jack Whittingham and Michael McCarthy. It was produced by Julian Wintle and edited by Gordon Hales and Geoffrey Muller, with cinematography by Eric Cross and music by Hubert Clifford. The film won the Golden Leopard award at the 1952 Locarno International Film Festival. Plot Robbie ( Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6-year-old boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, he fears he will receive severe punishment as he has in the past for misdemeanours, so flees into the London streets. Here, he literally runs into Chris Lloyd ( Dirk Bogarde) who is himself on the run as he has, in the heat of passion, just killed his wife's employer, whom Lloyd had discovered, was having an affai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloudburst (1951 Film)
''Cloudburst'' is a 1951 British crime drama film produced by Hammer Films, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. The script is based on a play written by Leo Marks, a wartime cryptographer for the Special Operations Executive, and later the author of a memoir about his wartime work, '' Between Silk and Cyanide'' (1998). Plot A World War II veteran, a former operative for the SOE, seeks revenge on the driver and passenger of a hit-and-run automobile that struck and killed his wife. Cast * Robert Preston as John Graham * Elizabeth Sellars as Carol Graham * Colin Tapley as Inspector Davis * Sheila Burrell as Lorna Dawson * Harold Lang as Mickie Fraser / Kid Python * Mary Germaine as Peggy Reece * George Woodbridge as Sergeant Ritchie * Lyn Evans as Chuck Peters * Thomas Heathcote as Jackie * Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Reece * Daphne Anderson as Kate * Edward Lexy as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassin For Hire
''Assassin for Hire'' is a 1951 British crime film directed by Michael McCarthy and starring Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard and Katharine Blake. Its plot follows a contract killer who becomes stricken with remorse when he is led to believe he has murdered his brother. It was the first feature film made by Anglo-Amalgamated. It was made at Merton Park Studios from a screenplay by Rex Rienits. It was intended as a supporting feature, although it may have been shown as a headline feature in some cinemas. Plot Antonio Riccardi, a young British criminal of Italian heritage, works as a professional contract killer in order to pay for his gifted younger brother's violin lessons so that he can escape from a life of poverty and crime. A series of mistakes lead him to wrongly believe he has killed his brother, and he confesses his crimes to the police. Cast * Sydney Tafler – Antonio Riccardi * Ronald Howard – Detective Inspector Carson * Katharine Blake – Maria Riccardi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traveller's Joy
''Traveller's Joy'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Googie Withers, John McCallum and Maurice Denham. Based on a West End play of the same name by Arthur Macrae, it was the last film released by the original Gainsborough Pictures. Premise With extensive restrictions on how much foreign exchange British travellers can take outside the realm (then £5), a variety of English men and women are trapped in Stockholm in the very expensive country of Sweden. These include Bumble and her estranged husband Reggie. As each struggle with their hotel bills they try to trick others into paying, but as the hardship is widespread the group begins to grow with no-one having the cash to resolve the issue. The ladies try to trick various men into helping and vice versa. The problem is ultimately resolved by a Swedish citizen offering accommodation in return for a reciprocal arrangement when he visits Britain. Meanwhile the various couples regroup. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dancing Years (film)
''The Dancing Years'' is a 1950 musical British film based on the musical by Ivor Novello. Plot A pre-First World War love affair between a young composer (Dennis Price) and a star of the musical stage (Giselle Preville) falters through a misunderstanding which causes her to leave him and marry a prince (Anthony Nicholls). Cast *Rudi Kleber - Dennis Price *Maria Zeitler - Gisèle Préville *Grete - Patricia Dainton *Prince Reinaldt - Anthony Nicholls *Franzel - Grey Blake *Hatti - Muriel George *Frau Kurt - Olive Gilbert *Tenor - Martin Ross *Rudi's secretary Gerald Case *Head Waiter - Carl Jaffe *Maria's son - Jeremy Spenser Production Dennis Price was loaned by the Rank Organisation to ABPC to play the lead role. Reception Critical In ''The New York Times'', Bosley Crowther wrote, "the British obviously spared no expense in bringing Ivor Novello's "The Dancing Years" to the screen. For, in the operetta, which came to the Little Carnegie on Saturday, Vienna, before and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage Fright (1950 Film)
''Stage Fright'' is a 1950 British film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette. The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook and Alma Reville (the director's wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the 1947 novel '' Man Running'' by Selwyn Jepson. Plot Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend (and crush), actor Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. Via a flashback, he says Charlotte visited him after killing her husband; she was wearing a bloodstained dress. Jonathan claims he went back to her house for another dress but was seen by Nellie Goode, Charlotte's Cockney mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Arrow (1949 Film)
''Golden Arrow'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry (film director), Gordon Parry and starring Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Paula Valenska. It was shot at Teddington Studios. The film was eventually released as a second feature, despite a reasonably high budget and well-known cast. It was given an American release in 1953 by United Artists under the title ''The Gay Adventure''.Chibnall & McFarlane p.322 It takes its title from the Golden Arrow (train), ''Golden Arrow'' train service. Plot On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see. Cast * Burgess Meredith as Dick * Jean-Pierre Aumont as Andre Marchand * Paula Valenska as Suzy / Sonia / Hedy * Kathleen Harrison as Isobel * Richard Murdoch as David Felton * Julian D'Albie as Waterhouse * José de Almeyda as Jones * Kenneth Kove as Clergyman * Henry Pascal as Mazzini * Glyn Lawson as Max * Karel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
