Anna Lee (TV Series)
''Anna Lee'' is a British television crime drama series, first broadcast on 10 January 1993, that ran for a total of six episodes on ITV. The series, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody, starred Imogen Stubbs as the title character, alongside Brian Glover, John Rowe, Peter Wight and Wil Johnson. The series was produced by Brian Eastman, in conjunction with Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a single pilot episode, broadcast in 1993, London Weekend Television commissioned a full-length five-episode series, to be filmed later that year for broadcast in 1994. All six episodes were later broadcast in the United States on the A&E cable network. The series had a mostly different cast from the pilot, apart from Stubbs and Glover. Despite much detail being removed for the television adaptations, one of LWT's contributions to the series was the casting of Brian Glover; like his character Selwyn Price, Glover was an ex-professional wrestler, an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Liza Cody
Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer. Career Before she began writing, Cody worked mostly in the visual arts, including as a graphic designer, but she also made furniture and was employed by Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum as a hair inserter and colouring artiste. Cody launched her first book in 1980. She is, as of 2025, the author of 18 novels and many short stories. Most of her work is set in London. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to mystery fiction. The entire Anna Lee series was loosely adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K. and the U.S. Cody is also the author of the Bucket Nut Trilogy, featuring professional wrestler Eva Wylie, as well as the stand-alone novels ''Rift'', ''Gimme More'', ''Ballad of a Dead Nobody'', ''Miss Terry'', ''Gift or Theft'', and ''The Short-Order Detective''. ''Gimme More'' and ''Ballad of a Dead Nobody'' reflect the author's interest and experience ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, director, comedian, singer, and composer. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Singles Chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for " What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote " Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been sung by a wide variety of singers including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey. With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley was nominated for an Academy Award for the film score of '' Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971), featuring " Pure Imagination", which has been recorded by dozens of singers. He collaborated with John Barry on the title song for the James Bond ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eoin McCarthy
Eoin McCarthy (born 1963, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish actor. He appeared in films such as '' Alien vs. Predator'' and television programmes such as '' Cadfael'' , ''Lovejoy ''Lovejoy'' is a British television comedy-drama mystery fiction, mystery series, based on the Lovejoy (novel series), novels by John Grant (Lovejoy), John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six ser ...'' and '' Roman Mysteries''. He also starred in the Dutch TV-film Kilkenny Cross. Filmography External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mccarthy, Eoin Living people 1963 births Irish male television actors Irish male film actors Male actors from County Dublin People from Dún Laoghaire ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shirley Anne Field
Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the British New Wave. Early life Shirley Broomfield was born in Forest Gate, Essex (in the London Borough of Newham) on 27 June 1936. She was the third of four children, with two elder sisters and a younger brother, Earnest "Guy" Broomfield (c. 1939–1999). At the age of six, Shirley was placed in the National Children's Home at Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, and four years later was moved to another children's home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakey Moor School for Girls. She subsequently returned to Edgworth until she was 15, when she moved to a children's home hostel in London, training as a Copy typist, typist while still attending school. Acting career Early roles After a course at the Lucie Clayton Charm Academy, Lucie Clayton School and Model Agency, Field became a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kate Beckinsale
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. The only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, she debuted in the series premiere of the 1975 daytime drama ''Couples.'' In 1993, she made her theatrical film debut with a role in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation ''Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film), Much Ado About Nothing'' whilst studying at the University of Oxford. She played leading roles in numerous British costume dramas such as ''Prince of Jutland'' (1994), ''Cold Comfort Farm (film), Cold Comfort Farm'' (1995), ''Emma (1996 TV film), Emma'' (1996), and ''The Golden Bowl (film), The Golden Bowl'' (2000). She also starred in ''Pearl Harbor (film), Pearl Harbor'' (2001), ''Serendipity (film), Serendipity'' (2001), ''The Aviator (2004 film), The Aviator'' (2004), and ''Click (2006 film), Click'' (2006). Since taking the role of Selene (Underworld), Selene in the Underworld (film series), ''Underworld'' film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale became ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alan Howard (actor)
Alan MacKenzie Howard (5 August 193714 February 2015) was an English actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983 and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000. Early life Howard was born in Croydon, Surrey, the only son of actor Arthur Howard and his wife Jean Compton (Mackenzie). His uncle was Leslie Howard, the film star,Michael Covene"Alan Howard obituary", ''The Guardian'', 18 February 2015 while his aunt was the casting director Irene Howard. On his mother's side he was also a great-nephew of the actress Fay Compton and the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie. He was educated at the independent school Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex. Theatre career 1958–1965 Alan Howard made his first stage appearance at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in April 1958, as a footman in '' Half In Earnest''. He remained with the company until 1960, where his roles included Frankie Bryant in Arnold Wesker's ''Roots'' in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrew Davies (writer)
Andrew Wynford Davies (; born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist, best known for his television adaptations of '' To Serve Them All My Days'', '' House of Cards'', ''Middlemarch'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''Bleak House'', '' War & Peace'', and his original serial ''A Very Peculiar Practice''. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002. Education and early career Davies was born in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales. He attended Whitchurch Grammar School in Cardiff and then University College, London, where he received a BA in English in 1957. He took a teaching position at St Clement Danes Grammar School in London, where he was on the teaching staff from 1958 to 1961. He held a similar post at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School in Hackney, London from 1961 to 1963. Following that, he was a lecturer in English at Coventry College of Education (which later merged with the University of Warwick to become the Faculty of Educational Studies and later the Warwick Institute ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sonia Graham
Sonia Graham (born Sonia Mary Biddlecombe; 22 August 1929 – 18 February 2018) was an English actress whose career spanned over 40 years. She appeared in several British television series. Biography She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having previously worked as a dancer, making her professional debut aged 13 with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. After early acting experience in repertory theatre, Graham played Mary Ellen in ''Meet Me by Moonlight'' in the West End, and an excerpt from this on the BBC's ''Theatre Night'' became her TV debut, in 1957. Her big break, however, came three years later when she played Mary Bewick in the television series ''A House Called Bell Tower''. From 1962 to 1963, she played Maggie Clifford in 63 episodes of the TV series ''Compact''. In 1966, she appeared in six episodes of ''Foreign Affairs'' as Irinka. In 1968, she was a series regular in '' Crime Buster''. Between 1974 and 1978, Graham portrayed Assistant Governor Martha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Barbara Leigh-Hunt (14 December 1935 – 16 September 2024) was an English actress. Her numerous theatre credits included Broadway productions of ''Hamlet'' (1958), ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1973) and ''Justice'' (1974), and she won the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the National Theatre production of '' An Inspector Calls''. Her film appearances included '' Frenzy'' (1972), '' Henry VIII and His Six Wives'' (1972), '' Bequest to the Nation'' (1973), and ''Billy Elliot'' (2000). Career On stage, Leigh-Hunt appeared in many productions as well those with the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Her early film roles included Catherine Parr in '' Henry VIII and His Six Wives'' (1972), '' Bequest to the Nation'' (1973) and '' Oh Heavenly Dog'' (1980). Her most famous movie role was probably in Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film '' Frenzy'' (1972), as a woman raped and strangled by a serial killer, that included the first g ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Harewood
David Michael Harewood (born 8 December 1965) is a British actor, presenter and the current president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is best known for his roles as CIA Counterterrorism Director David Estes in ''Homeland'' (2011–2012), and as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter and Hank Henshaw / Cyborg Superman in ''Supergirl'' (2015–2021). Early life Harewood was born on 8 December 1965 in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, the son of a couple from Barbados who had moved to England in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His father was a lorry driver, while his mother was a caterer. He has a sister, Sandra, and two brothers, Rodger and Paul. He attended St Benedict's Junior School and Washwood Heath Academy. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre. In his youth, he worked at a wine bar in Birmingham city centre. At the age of 18, he gained a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Harewood began acting in 1990 and has appeared in '' The Hawk'', '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ken Stott
Kenneth Campbell Stott (born 19 October 1954) is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play ''Broken Glass (play), Broken Glass'' at Royal National Theatre. He portrayed the dwarf Balin (Middle-earth), Balin in The Hobbit (film series), ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy (2012–2014). His most notable roles in UK television include the title character Detective Inspector John Rebus, DI John Rebus in the crime fiction-mystery fiction, mystery series ''Rebus (ITV series), Rebus'' (2000–2007) and DCI Red Metcalfe in ''Messiah (British TV series), Messiah'' (2001–2005). He played Edward 'Eddie' McKenna in the Scottish BBC miniseries ''Takin' Over the Asylum, Takin' Over The Asylum'' (1994) co-starring with David Tennant, and Ian Garrett in the 2014 BBC TV mini-series ''The Missing (British TV series), The Missing'' alongside James Nesbitt. Early life Stott was born in Edinburgh. His mother, A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |