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Beware Of Children
''No Kidding'' (U.S. title: ''Beware of Children'') is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas featuring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan and Irene Handl, Noel Purcell and Julia Lockwood. The film is adapted from the book ''Beware of Children'', a 1958 memoir by Verily Anderson, who also wrote the screenplay. Plot David and Catherine Robinson have inherited a large but rundown country house. David suggests they now have room to increase their family beyond their son, but, after a number of his previous business ventures have failed, his wife demurs. However, she does agree to his idea to use the house as a summer holiday home for the children of the wealthy. By advertising in ''The Times'', they attract a number of customers, and hire a matron and a cook, but immediately fall foul of a local councillor, Mrs Spicer, who wants the local authority to compulsorily purchase the house for a project of her own. The children arrive, and while some are polite, scared an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rogers
Peter Rogers (20 February 1914 – 14 April 2009) was an English film producer. He is best known for creating the ''Carry On'' series of films. Life and career Rogers began his career as a journalist for his local paper, before graduating to scriptwriting religious informational films. He progressed to film production, working with director Gerald Thomas, the first work being a production for the Children's Film Foundation. Rogers is best known as producer of the ''Carry On'' series of British comedy films, beginning with '' Carry On Sergeant'' in 1958. There were 31 films in all. Rogers had also been linked with a further instalment, ''Carry On London'', which has been in pre-production for several years, but since his death seems unlikely to be made. The majority of Rogers' work, including all the ''Carry On'' films, were made at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England. His other credits included '' Appointment with Venus'' starring David Niven, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. ''The Independent'' won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. History 1980s Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330. It was produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at ''The Daily Telegraph'' who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sarne
Michael Sarne (born Michael Scheuer; 6 August 1940) is a British actor, singer, writer, producer and director, who also had a brief career as a pop singer in the 1960s. Sarne directed the films ''Joanna'' (1968) and '' Myra Breckinridge'' (1970). He has appeared as an actor in several films including '' A Place to Go'' (1965), '' Two Weeks in September'' (1967), and '' Moonlighting'' (1982). Music career Sarne was born Michael Scheuer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. He is of Czechoslovakian descent. Active in the 1960s as a singer, he is best known for his 1962 UK novelty chart topper, " Come Outside" (produced by Charles Blackwell), which featured vocal interjections by Wendy Richard. He had three more releases which made the UK Singles chart: "Will I What?", in 1962, which featured Billie Davis; "Just for Kicks", in 1963; and "Code of Love", also in 1963. TV and film career In the mid-1960s Sarne introduced the ITV children's quiz series ''Junior Criss Cros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Rawlinson
Brian Rawlinson (12 November 1931 – 23 November 2000)"Brian Rawlinson" ''BFI''. Retrieved 14 February 2021. was an English actor and writer for films and TV from the 1950s. Rawlinson was born in , . He appeared in several films (including several in the Carry On series) but was more frequently on television, a regular role being Robert Onedin in the BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Jessel
Patricia Helen Mary Jessel (15 October 1920 – 8 June 1968) was an English actress of stage, film and television. Biography Jessel was born in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, only child of army captain Clement Edward Jessel and Ursula Theodora (née Buckley). Her father was the younger son of Frank Herbert Jessel and Florence Lucy (née McCarthy), the eldest sister of Lillah McCarthy Lillah, Lady Keeble OBE (born Lila Emma McCarthy; 22 September 1875 – 15 April 1960) was an English people, English actress and Actor-manager, theatrical manager. Biography Lila Emma McCarty was born in Cheltenham on 22 September 1875, the s ..., making Patricia the grandniece of the famous actress. At the time of the 1939 register, Patricia was staying with Lillah and her husband in Fowey. Jessel was at the Italia Conti Drama School when she played her first professional role, Wendy in the pantomime '' Peter Pan''. She left at 16 to begin her professional career. Her fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of the ''James Bond'' series, in the films '' From Russia with Love'' and '' Thunderball''. Early life Pohlmann was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and received classical actor training under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar. In 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, actress Lieselotte Goettinger, into exile in London. Until mid-1941, both were kept in an internment camp. After their release, Eric took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC World Service. In order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Oulton
Brian Oulton (11 February 1908 – 13 April 1992) was an English character actor. Biography Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, Oulton made his acting debut in 1939 as a lead actor. During the Second World War he served in the British Army, and returned to acting playing character roles in 1946; he made a name for himself playing the same pompous character in numerous films, ranging from '' Last Holiday'' (1950) to ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985). Many of his film roles were in comedies, and he went on to appear in several ''Carry On'' films. In 1969, he appeared as an eccentric psychic medium in ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' in the episode " Never Trust a Ghost"; as a hypochondriac GP in '' Doctor at Large''; and in the 1981 Granada TV serial ''Brideshead Revisited''. He was also a stage actor and playwright, writing and starring in productions such as ''Births, Marriages and Deaths'' (1975), and ''For Entertainment Only'' (1976). Brian Oulton's radio credits include the rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Tafler
Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 – 8 November 1979) was an English actor who after having started his career on stage, was best remembered for numerous appearances in films and television from the 1940s to the 1970s. Personal life Tafler was born into a Jewish family, the son of Eva (née Kosky) and Mark Tafler, an antique dealer. His sister, Hylda, married the film director Lewis Gilbert. Another sister, Sheila, was also an actress. He was married to the actress Joy Shelton from 1941 until his death from cancer; they had three children – two sons, Jeremy and Jonathan, and a daughter, Jennifer, who became a child actress. Career After two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Tafler first appeared on stage in London's West End in 1936, with Sir Seymour Hicks in ''The Man in Dress Clothes''. From 1943 to 1946 he played many Shakespearean roles with the Old Vic company at the New Theatre. His other stage roles included the menacing character of Nat Goldberg in a 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Gifford
Alan Gifford (born John Lennox; March 11, 1911 – March 20, 1989) was an American-born actor from Taunton, Massachusetts, who worked mainly in the UK, where he died in Blairgowrie, Scotland at age 78. Known best for his role in '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968). and featured regularly alongside Noele Gordon in the soap opera '' Crossroads'' as Dr Lloyd Monroe. On television, in 1960, he appeared in ''Danger Man'' in the episode entitled "An Affair of State" as Mr. Hartley. Gifford narrated the audio cassette version of the book '' I'm OK – You're OK''. Selected filmography * '' The Kangaroo Kid'' (1950) − Steve Corbett * ''The Magic Box'' (1951) − Industry Man (uncredited) * '' It Started in Paradise'' (1952) − American captain (uncredited) * '' Appointment in London'' (1953) − US General (uncredited) * '' Lilacs in the Spring'' (1954) − Hollywood Director * '' A Prize of Gold'' (1955) − Major Bracken * '' Barbados Quest'' (1955) − Henry Warburg * '' N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esma Cannon
Esma Ellen Charlotte Littmann (''née'' Cannon; 27 December 1905 – 18 October 1972), credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was an Australian-born character actress who moved to Britain in the early 1930s. Although she frequently appeared on television in her latter years, Cannon is best remembered as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1960s. Career After early experience at Minnie Everett's School of Dancing in Sydney, Cannon began acting on the stage at the age of four in ''Madama Butterfly''. She appeared in productions for both the J. C. Williamson and Tait companies – including the early prominent role of Ruth Le Page in ''Sealed Orders'' at the Theatre Royal in 1914, and played Baby in an adaptation of '' Seven Little Australians'' the same year. She was given children's parts well into adulthood. In an interview with the ''Australian Women's Weekly'' published in 1963, she claimed it was the theatrical impresario Percy Hutchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Raymond
Cyril William North Raymond Order of the British Empire, MBE (13 February 1899 – 20 March 1973) was a British character actor. He maintained a stage and screen career from his teens until his retirement, caused by ill health, in the 1960s. His many stage, film and television roles include Fred Jesson, the husband of Celia Johnson's Laura Jesson in ''Brief Encounter'' (1945). Life and career Raymond was the son of Herbert Linton Raymond and his second wife, Rose ( Knowles). Herbert died in 1906 at the Grand Hotel, Broad Street, Bristol, which he and his wife ran. Raymond became a pupil at Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Academy of Dramatic Art."Obituary: Mr. Cyril Raymond", ''The Times'', 22 March 1973, p. 20 He made his professional debut in 1914 at the Garrick Theatre, London, playing the Second Spanish Gentleman in ''Bluff King Hal''.Gayle, pp. 1099–1100 As Little Billee in ''Trilby (play), Trilby'' he supported Tree's Svengali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Jago
June Jago (31 March 1928 – 29 July 2010) was an Australian-born actress, who worked in stage, television and film in her native country and the United Kingdom, Biography Jago made her stage debut in Australia and went to Britain in the 1950s with a touring production of '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. She made her film debut in 1959 in '' Please Turn Over'', alongside Ted Ray, Jean Kent, Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims. She appeared in two of the '' Carry On'' films - ''Carry On Regardless'' (1961) and '' Carry On Doctor'' (1967) - and her other film credits included roles in '' The Captain's Table'' (1959), '' No Kidding'' (1960), '' Journey into Darkness'' (1968), '' The Games'' (1970) and ''Melody'' (1971). She appeared on television in programmes such as ''Catweazle'' and '' The Good Life''. On stage, she appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal Court Theatre. She also appeared in the Australian films '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982), '' Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |