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A Kind Of Loving (film)
''A Kind of Loving'' is a 1962 British kitchen sink drama film directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie. It was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow which was later adapted into the 1982 television series ''A Kind of Loving''. The film tells the story of two lovers in early 1960s Lancashire. It belongs to the British New Wave movement. Plot Victor 'Vic' Brown is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with typist Ingrid Rothwell, who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her. When he learns he has made her pregnant Vic proposes marriage and the couple move in with Ingrid's protective, domineering mother, who disapproves of the match. Ingrid has a miscarriage, Vic has regrets and comes home drunk. The couple then consider the possibility of making do with "a kind of loving". Cast * Alan Bates as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown * Thora Hird as Mrs. Rothw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger ( ; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films. Schlesinger started his career making British dramas '' A Kind of Loving'' (1962), ''Billy Liar'' (1963), and ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1967). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for '' Midnight Cowboy'' (1969) and was Oscar-nominated for '' Darling'' (1965) and ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' (1971). He gained acclaim for his Hollywood films '' The Day of the Locust'' (1975) and '' Marathon Man'' (1976). His later films include '' Madame Sousatzka'' (1988) and '' Cold Comfort Farm'' (1995). He also served as an associate director of the Royal National Theatre. Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technical Drawing
Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering. To make the drawings easier to understand, people use familiar symbols, perspectives, units of measurement, notation systems, visual styles, and page layout. Together, such conventions constitute a visual language and help to ensure that the drawing is unambiguous and relatively easy to understand. Many of the symbols and principles of technical drawing are codified in an international standard called ISO 128. The need for precise communication in the preparation of a functional document distinguishes technical drawing from the expressive drawing of the visual arts. Artistic drawings are subjectively interpreted; their meanings are multiply determined. Technical drawings are understood to have one intended meaning. A draftsman is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Gladwin
Joseph Gladwin (22 January 1906 – 11 March 1987) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street, Stan Hardman in '' Nearest and Dearest'', and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, ''Last of the Summer Wine'' (1975–1987). Biography Gladwin was born at 44 Tatton Street in the Ordsall district of Salford, Lancashire, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (née Dooley). His father was a coal dealer. Gladwin was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, Ordsall, and educated at the parish school. He married Lily Anne Wynne on 30 December 1933 at Mount Carmel Church. Gladwin was appointed a Papal Knight (of the Order of St. Gregory the Great) for his charity work. Before his professional career took off, Gladwin performed with The Decoys during World War II, a concert party based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. This concert party (ENSA) entertained the troops in hospitals and elsewhere. At the time, Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (writer)
David Kenneth Cook (21 September 1940 – 16 September 2015) was a British author, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel ''Walter (TV movie), Walter'', and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme ''Rainbow (TV series), Rainbow''. He was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, from 1959 to 1961. His first role was in the 1962 film adaptation of ''A Kind of Loving (film), A Kind of Loving''. Thereafter, he worked on both stage and television. He began to write novels and also for television in the early 1970s. He presented the first and second series of ''Rainbow'', the first episode of which aired in October 1972. He left the show to concentrate on his writing before the third series in 1973, and was replaced as presenter by Geoffrey Hayes. Cook went on to write ''Walter'', a novel about a young man with learning disabilities, that won the Hawthornden Prize in 1978. In 1982, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Madden (actor)
Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia). Birth The son of Frederick Charles Linnet Butler-Madden and Margaret Teresa ( McCabe), Peter Madden's name at birth was Dudley Frederick Peter Butler-Madden. Career Madden was a character actor who made several appearances in Hammer films and was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in '' Frankenstein Created Woman'' (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in '' Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell'' (1973). In the cult television series ''The Prisoner'' (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence. On television he was seen in ''Danger Man'', ''Z-Cars'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Saint'' and ''The Champions'', ''Out of the Unknown'', '' Orson Well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor. He had a long career in the theatre but achieved his highest profile for his television comedy roles starring as Rupert Rigsby in the ITV series '' Rising Damp'' from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's '' The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' from 1976 to 1979. Early life Rossiter was born on 21 October 1926 in Wavertree, Liverpool, the second son of John and Elizabeth (née Howell) Rossiter. The family lived over the barber's shop owned by his father. He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School (1939–46). In September 1939, when the Second World War began, Rossiter was an evacuee, along with his schoolmates, and went to Bangor in north Wales, where he stayed for 18 months. While at school, his ambition was to go to university to read modern languages and become a teacher; however, his father, who served as a voluntary ambulanceman during the war, was killed in the May Blitz air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Ferris (actor)
Fred Ferris (13 July 1905 – 25 January 1978) was a British actor, stage producer and playwright. Biography Ferris was born in West Derby, Liverpool. In the earlier years of his career, he was known as a comic actor, featuring in the BBC Home Service's radio comedy '' Club Night'', which starred Dave Morris and ran between 1950 and 1955. Ferris was briefly in ''Coronation Street'' in 1962. He played Mr Appleby, the father of Colin Appleby. In later years, Ferris played a large number of police characters, appearing in such shows as ''Sergeant Cork'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'' and '' The Avengers'', as well as in films such as ''Sky West and Crooked''. One of these parts was in the Doctor Who serial ''Planet of Giants ''Planet of Giants'' is the first serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Written by Louis Marks and directed by Mervyn Pinfield and Douglas Camfield, the serial was first broadcast on BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Robertson
Annette Robertson (born 1940) is an English former film and television actress. Career She appeared in several films in her early twenties, including ''A Kind of Loving'' (1962), '' Spare the Rod'' and '' The Young Ones'' (both 1961), appearing with Cliff Richard in the latter. She played Fran in the British film '' The Party's Over'' (1965). From 1962 up to the mid 1980s, Robertson worked regularly in television, appearing in series such as ''Coronation Street'', ''No Hiding Place'' and ''Doctor Who''. She last appeared onscreen in 1988, in an episode of '' Boon'', after which she left the acting industry. Personal life From 1962 to 1964, she was married to actor John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 28 January 2017) was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his time and known for the "most distinctive voice in Cinema of the United Kingdom, Britain", he was described by David Ly .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Deacon (actor)
Michael Deacon (1933–2000) was a Scottish actor. His many stage appearances included roles for venues such as the Hampstead Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Pentameters Theatre and the Finborough Theatre. In 1995, he played the title role in ''Who is Eddie Linden'' at The Old Red Lion in Islington. The play was adapted by William Tanner from Sebastian Barker's biography of poet and literary magazine editor Eddie Linden. Deacon was also a highly distinguished radio actor, particularly for the BBC. His BBC Radio work ranged from productions of major classics and important new works to the long-running soap opera ''The Archers'', in which he played the Vicar of Ambridge, Jerry Buckle. He also provided the voice of Gríma Wormtongue in the animated film ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978) and can be heard in many roles in commercially available audio productions of Shakespeare plays. He also played many television roles and was in the film '' A Kind of Loving'' (1962), direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Rowlands
Patricia Amy Rowlands (19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films series, as Betty Lewis in the ITV Thames sitcom '' Bless This House'', and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom '' Hallelujah!''. Early years Rowlands was born in Palmers Green, Middlesex and attended the Sacred Heart convent school at Whetstone. While attending, an elocution teacher spotted her potential and encouraged her to pursue a career in acting. She applied for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and won a scholarship aged 15. Early career Rowlands began her career in the chorus of '' Annie Get Your Gun'', followed by a summer season in Torquay. She then spent several years with the Players' Theatre in London, before making her West End theatre debut in Sandy Wilson's musical '' Valmouth''. Rowlands's other West End credits included ''Semi-Detached'' with Laurence Olivier and directed by Tony Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ronane
John Ronane (11 December 1933 – 15 May 2019) was a British actor. He appeared on stage in the West End, in films made in Hollywood and in Europe, and on television and radio. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he appeared in the original production of Harold Pinter's '' The Collection'' at the Aldwych Theatre in 1962. Ronane's films include '' King Rat'' (1965), '' Charlie Bubbles'' (1967), ''Some May Live'' (1967), '' Sebastian'' (1968), '' Nobody Ordered Love'' (1972), and the 1975 remake of '' The Spiral Staircase''. On television Ronane had starring roles in the 1960s in ATV's '' Drama 61-67'', and in "The Hooded Terror", "The Taxi's For Johnny," and "Two Love Stories." He appeared in the miniseries '' The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' and '' Elizabeth R'' as Thomas Seymour. He starred in the Emmy-nominated '' A War of Children'' for CBS. He was a regular character in Granada TV's series ''Strangers'' between 1978 and 1982, playing Detective Sergeant Singer. Rona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Nelson
Gwendoline Alexandra Nelson (30 June 1901 – 15 October 1990) was an English actress who was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre Company. Born in Muswell Hill, Middlesex, she originally intended to be a singer, and made her West End musical debut in ''Tough at the Top'' at the Adelphi Theatre in July 1949. She went on to act in Eleanor Farjeon's ''The Silver Curlew'' at London's Arts Theatre (1949), ''And So To Bed'' at the New Theatre (1951), ''Oh, My Papa'' at the Garrick Theatre (1957), ''Virtue in Danger'' (1963), '' All in Love'' at The May Fair Theatre (1964), and '' Saved'' at the Royal Court Theatre (1965). In 1976 she appeared in a revival of Arnold Ridley's '' The Ghost Train'' at the Old Vic Theatre in London with Wilfrid Brambell, James Villiers, Geoffrey Davies, Allan Cuthbertson and Judy Buxton. In 1981 she acted in ''Rose'' by Andrew Davies at the Richmond Theatre in Surrey with Honor Blackman and Hilda Braid. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
