Archie Duncan (actor)

	Archie Duncan (actor) Archie Duncan (26 May 1914 – 24 July 1979) was a Scottish actor born in Glasgow. Duncan's father was a regimental sergeant major in the army and his mother was a postmistress. He attended Glasgow's Govan High School and worked as a welder in Glasgow shipyards for a decade. He began his career in repertory theatre and West End plays. His professional acting debut was in ''Juno and the Paycock'' in May 1944 at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow, Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow. Although he appeared in over 50 television series and movie roles, he is best remembered for Inspector Lestrade in the 1954 series ''Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series), Sherlock Holmes'' and Little John in ''The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), The Adventures of Robin Hood'' from 1955 to 1959. Duncan was replaced in the Little John role by Rufus Cruikshank for 10 episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode "Checkmate" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	:en:Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series) ''Sherlock Holmes'' is an American detective television series syndicated in the autumn of 1954, based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade (and in a few as other characters). Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series' associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one of the first women to attain a senior production role in a television series. The series was the first American television adaptation of Doyle's stories, and the only such version until 2012's '' Elementary''. Production Sheldon Reynolds had been successful with his 1951 European-made series '' Foreign Intrigue'' (in 1956, he directed a film with the same title starring Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Gorbals Story ''The Gorbals Story'' is a 1950 British second feature ('B') film directed by David MacKane and starring Howard Connell, Marjorie Thomson and Betty Henderson. It was written by MacKane based on the 1946 play ''The Gorbals Story'' by Robert McLeish. The film is a melodrama about a young man desperate to escape the slums of Glasgow. Plot Johnnie Martin is a young man living in the tenements of the Gorbals district of Glasgow, desperate to leave the area and to become an artist. He is almost driven to murder by the pressures of slum life, but eventually he manages to escape and achieves his ambition. Cast * Howard Connell as Wullie Mutrie * Marjorie Thomson as Jean Mutrie * Betty Henderson as Peggy Anderson * Sybil Thomson as Magdalene * Eveline Garratt as Mrs. Reilly * Jack Stewart as Peter Reilly * Isobel Campbell as Nora Reilly * Roddy McMillan as Hector * Lothar Lewinsonn as Ahmed * Russell Hunter as Johnnie Martin * Carl Williamson as Francis Porter * Ian Dalgleish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hot Ice (1952 Film) ''Hot Ice'' is a 1952 British second feature ('B') comedy crime film directed and written by Kenneth Hume and starring John Justin, Barbara Murray and Ivor Barnard. It was based on the 1934 novel '' Weekend at Thrackley'' by Alan Melville and its subsequent play version. An eccentric invites an assortment of guests to his country house, planning to rob them of their valuables. Plot Edwin Carson, a shady jewel collector, invites hard-up Jim Henderson and his jewellery-heir pal Freddie Usher to spend the weekend at his country house, along with other guests who all own precious jewellery. Carson's motive is to extract the jewellery from his guests, but he is eventually thwarted. Cast * John Justin as Jim Henderson * Barbara Murray as Mary * Ivor Barnard as Edwin Carson * John Penrose as Freddie Usher * Michael Balfour as Jacobson * Gabrielle Brune as Marcella * Anthony Pendrell as Burroughs * Bill Shine as Henry * Fred Gray * Dorothy Wheatley as Marilyn * Sam K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Brave Don't Cry ''The Brave Don't Cry'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan and John Rae. The film depicts the events of September 1950 at the Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland, where 129 men were trapped by a landslide (see Knockshinnoch Disaster September 1950). It was shot at Southall Studios and was also known by the alternative title ''Knockshinnoch Story''. The filmmakers used actors from the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. It was screened at the Venice Film Festival in September 1952. Plot A group of coalminers are trapped underground after a fall. The story follows the trapped men, their rescuers, and their families as they struggle to dig them out before the oxygen is exhausted. A phone line exists to the trapped men. The efforts are hampered by firedamp. Cast * John Gregson as Dr John Cameron * Meg Buchanan as Margaret Wishart * John Rae as Donald Sloan * Fulton Mackay as Dan Wishart * Andrew Keir as Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	You're Only Young Twice (film) ''You're Only Young Twice'' is a 1952 British second feature ('B') comedy film directed by Terry Bishop and starring Duncan Macrae, Joseph Tomelty, Patrick Barr, Charles Hawtrey and Diane Hart. It was written by Reginald Beckwith, Bishop and Lindsay Galloway based on the 1939 play ''What Say They?'' by James Bridie. Premise A young woman visiting a Scottish university in search of her uncle, who is in hiding from the authorities, is mistaken for the principal's secretary, so she pursues the impersonation. Cast * Duncan Macrae as Professor Hayman * Joseph Tomelty as Dan McEntee / Connell O'Grady (writer) * Patrick Barr as Sir Archibald Asher * Charles Hawtrey as Adolphus Hayman, President of Temperance Society * Diane Hart as Ada Shore / posing as "Miss Lamplighter" (pending new principal's secretary) * Robert Urquhart as Sheltie * Edward Lexy as Lord Carshennie * Roddy McMillan as Mr Milligan, President of Students' Union Council * Jacqueline Mackenzie as Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Castle In The Air (film) ''Castle in the Air'' is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry and Margaret Rutherford. The screenplay was by Edward Dryhurst and Alan Melville based on Melville's 1949 stage play of the same title. Produced by ABPC, the film was made at the company's Elstree Studios. Plot The penniless 19th Earl of Locharne, the owner of a run-down Scottish castle which he has made into a mostly empty hotel, has to deal with a myriad of financial troubles, starting with his creditors and the few disgruntled tenants. Then there is Mr. Phillips, a socialist official from the British National Coal Board, which wants to requisition (not buy) it to convert into a vacation hostel for miners and their families. The earl introduces Phillips to a beautiful family ghost, Ermyntrude, the earl's grandfather's mistress. Next, a long-time prospective purchaser, wealthy, attractive American divorcee Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne, shows up unannounced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Home At Seven (film) ''Home at Seven'' (alternatively titled ''Murder On Monday'') is a 1952 British mystery drama film directed by and starring Ralph Richardson, featuring Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Campbell Singer and Michael Shepley. It was written by Anatole de Grunwald based on the 1950 play '' Home at Seven'' by R. C. Sherriff. The film is Richardson's only work as director. Guy Hamilton was assistant director. Plot Preston, a City of London banker, returns at 7pm 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 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 spent the night across London with friends. However he later discovers the friend he nominated is away on holiday. He g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Story Of Robin Hood (film) ''The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men'' is a 1952 action-adventure film produced by RKO- Walt Disney British Productions, based on the Robin Hood legend, made in Technicolor and filmed in Buckinghamshire, England. It was written by Lawrence Edward Watkin and directed by Ken Annakin. It is the second of Disney's complete live-action films, after '' Treasure Island'' (1950), and the first of four films Annakin directed for Disney. It was also the first of three films Richard Todd made for the studio. Plot Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing. Cast * Richard Todd as Robin Hood * Joan Rice as Maid Marian * Peter Finch as the Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Last Page ''The Last Page'', released in the United States as ''Man Bait'', is a 1952 British film noir directed by Terence Fisher, starring George Brent, Marguerite Chapman and Diana Dors. The film is notable for being the first Hammer film directed by Fisher, who later played a critical role in the company's immensely successful horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Mo ... cycle. Jimmy Sangster was assistant director, Michael Carreras was casting director and Phil Leakey handled Makeup. The film was released first in the US in February 1952, retitled ''Man Bait'' and shortened by 6 minutes. It was later trade shown in the UK as ''The Last Page'' on April 23, 1952, and released on May 19, 1952. Plot Ruby Bruce, an attractive young bookshop clerk, catches ex-con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Green Grow The Rushes (film) ''Green Grow the Rushes'' (re-released in 1954 as ''Brandy Ashore'') is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Roger Livesey, Richard Burton and Honor Blackman. It was written by Twist and Howard Clewes adapted from the 1949 novel of the same title by Clewes. The film was produced by John Gossage and funded by the National Film Finance Corporation and the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Bank. Plot Three British government bureaucrats arrive in Kent to inquire as to why the coastal Anderida marsh is not being cultivated. The reason is that most of the local people know about or are involved in the liquor smuggling scheme operated by Captain Biddle and his accomplice Robert, who is posing as a fisherman when he is seen by the newspaper editor and his journalist daughter Meg. Robert persuades them not to report it in the newspaper, and tells Biddle about his encounter with them. Biddle does not like the idea of any local "Lily White" (woman) kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Lavender Hill Mob ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' is a 1951 British comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea, a district in London SW11, near to Clapham Junction railway station. The British Film Institute ranked ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' the 17th greatest British film of all time. The original film was digitally restored and re-released to UK cinemas on 29 July 2011 to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It is one of fifteen films listed in the category "Art" on the Vatican film list. Plot Henry Holland lives the life of luxury in Rio de Janeiro, and spends an evening dining out with a British visitor. During their meal, he narrates a story concerning how he changed his life by instigating an intricate gold bullion robbery. One year ago, Holland served as an unambitious London bank clerk, who for tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Circle Of Danger ''Circle of Danger'' (also known as ''White Heather'') is a 1951 British thriller film directed by Jacques Tourneur starring Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair and Naunton Wayne. The screenplay was by Philip MacDonald. Plot American Clay Douglas travels to England to discover the truth behind his brother's death during the Second World War. Cast * Ray Milland as Clay Douglas * Patricia Roc as Elspeth Graham * Marius Goring as Sholto Lewis * Hugh Sinclair as Hamish McArran * Naunton Wayne as Reggie Sinclair * Edward Rigby as Idwal Llewellyn * Marjorie Fielding as Margaret McArran * John Bailey as Pape Llewellyn * Colin Gordon as Col. Fairbairn * Dora Bryan as Bubbles Fitzgerald * Reginald Beckwith as Oliver * David Hutcheson as Tony Wrexham * Michael Brennan as Bert Oakshott * Peter Butterworth as Ernie (the diver) (uncredited) Critical reception '' The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "The story is on the face of it improb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]