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Blinkeyes
''Blinkeyes'' is a 1926 British silent drama film directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour, Tom Douglas, and Frank Stanmore. It was shot at Cricklewood Studios in London. It was the final collaboration between Pearson and Balfour and was considered a disappointment compared to their earlier work.Low p.163 Cast * Betty Balfour as Blinkeyes * Tom Douglas as Ken Clay * Frank Stanmore as Flowerpots * Patrick Aherne as The Basher * Hubert Carter as Clary * Dorothy Seacombe as Bella * J. Fisher White as Uncle Dick * Mary Dibley as Mrs. Banning * Frank Vosper Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter. Stage Vosper made his stage debut in 1919 and was best known for p ... as Seymour References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Balfour
Betty Balfour (born Florence Lilian Woods; 27 March 1902 – 4 November 1977) was an English screen actress, popular during the silent era, and known as the "British Mary Pickford" and "Britain's Queen of Happiness". She was best known to audiences for her '' Squibs'' series of films. Life and career Balfour was the most popular actress in Britain in the 1920s, and in 1927 she was named by the ''Daily Mirror'' as the country's favourite world star. Her talent was most evident in the ''Squibs'' comedy series produced by George Pearson, while in his '' Love, Life and Laughter'' (1923), rediscovered in 2014, and ''Reveille'' (1924), she demonstrated a serious side to her character. Her role as a wealthy heiress in '' Somebody's Darling'' (1925) was an attempt to break out of her previous role as Squibs, to avoid typecasting. She made her stage debut in 1913, and was appearing in ''Medora'' at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square when T. A. Welsh and Pearson saw and signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pearson (filmmaker)
George Pearson OBE, (19 March 1875 – 6 February 1973) was a pioneering English film director, producer and screenwriter, mainly in the silent film era. He was born in London. Biography The only son of George Pearson, a silk tie cutter, George Pearson's first profession after Culham College, near Oxford (not a college of the University of Oxford) was teaching. He excelled in this role, becoming a headmaster by 1902 at the age of 26. His major post was at Staples Rd School Loughton Essex, on which there is a blue plaque. He was originally drawn to film making as an educational aid. In 1913 Pearson entered the film industry, initially as a script writer. Pearson worked for Gaumont and later joined the Colonial Film Unit (later the Commonwealth Film Unit), remaining in employment until the age of 81. Though little of his work is known to have survived, Pearson is credited with pioneering the use of the moving camera shot. Awards and personal life In 1951, he was awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Sandys
Marguerite Florence Laura Jarvis, also known under the pseudonym of Oliver Sandys (7 October 1886 – 10 March 1964) was a British writer, screenwriter, and actress. She used several other names and aliases, such as Countess Barcynska, Hélène Barcynska, Marguerite Florence Barclay, Mrs. Armiger Barczinsky, Caradoc Evans Marguerite, Marguerite Evans, Armiger Barclay, and Marguerite Barclay. Biography Daughter of an officer of the Indian Medical Corps, Marguerite was born in Henzada, Burma, then part of British India. She was educated and trained as an actress in England. She married in 1911 the Polish-born journalist Armiger Barczinsky, also known as Barclay (1861?-1930), who greatly encouraged her to write,Article on Margaret by John Harris. and had a son, Nicholas Barczinsky-Sandys (born 1916). It was following the birth and the success of her stage novel, ''The Honeypot'', published in 1916, that she separated from Barczinsky-Barclay, by whose death she was widowed in 1930. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Vosper
Frank Permain Vosper (15 December 1899, in London – 6 March 1937) was an English actor who appeared in both stage and film roles and a dramatist, playwright and screenwriter. Stage Vosper made his stage debut in 1919 and was best known for playing urbane villains. His extensive stage experience included appearing in his own play ''Love from a Stranger'' (1936), adapted from the short story " Philomel Cottage" by Agatha Christie. His screenplays included co-writing the comedy '' No Funny Business'' with '' Victor Hanbury'' (1933). He also co-wrote the adaptation of G.B. Stern's novel ''Debonair'' with the novelist which opened at the Lyric 23 April 1930. He also wrote ''People Like Us'', based on the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters. Banned by the Lord Chamberlain after a performance at the Strand Theatre featuring Atholl Fleming, it remained unperformed until 1948, when it premiered at Wyndham's Theatre in London, with Miles Malleson, George Rose, Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Seacombe
Dorothy Seacombe (22 March 1906 – December 1994) was a British film actress. Filmography * ''Blinkeyes'' (1926) * '' The Flag Lieutenant'' (1926) * '' The Third Eye'' (1929) * ''The Loves of Robert Burns'' (1930) * ''Lord Richard in the Pantry'' (1930) * ''Leave It to Me'' (1930) * ''The Yellow Mask ''The Yellow Mask'' is a 1930 British musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Lupino Lane, Dorothy Seacombe and Warwick Ward. A criminal plans to rob the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. It was based on the 1927 Edgar W ...'' (1930) * '' The Ware Case'' (1938) * '' Many Tanks Mr. Atkins'' (1938) References External links * 1906 births Year of death unknown British film actresses 1994 deaths 20th-century British actresses {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Carter
Hubert Carter (1869–1934) was an English stage and film actor.Goble p.201 Selected filmography * ''Ivanhoe'' (1913) * ''The Wonderful Year'' (1921) * '' The House of Peril'' (1922) * ''A Gipsy Cavalier'' (1922) * ''The Game of Life'' (1922) * ''Blinkeyes'' (1926) * ''London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...'' (1926) * '' The House of Unrest'' (1931) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1869 births 1934 deaths English male film actors English male silent film actors 20th-century English male actors English male stage actors Male actors from Bradford {{England-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Stanmore (actor)
Frank Stanmore (10 March 1877 – 15 August 1943) was an English film actor. He appeared in 76 films between 1914 and 1938. He was born in London and died in Gravesend, Kent. Selected filmography * '' The Third String'' (1914) * '' Love in a Wood'' (1915) * '' The Mother of Dartmoor'' (1916) * '' Mother Love'' (1916) * ''The Grit of a Jew'' (1917) * '' Judge Not'' (1920) * '' The Wonderful Year'' (1921) * '' Love's Boomerang'' (1922) * '' The Spanish Jade'' (1922) * '' A Rogue in Love'' (1922) * '' Love, Life and Laughter'' (1923) * ''The School for Scandal'' (1923) * '' The Naked Man'' (1923) * ''Squibs M.P. '' (1923) * '' Squibs' Honeymoon'' (1923) * '' Lily of the Alley'' (1924) * '' Her Redemption'' (1924) * '' The Alley of Golden Hearts'' (1924) * '' Reveille'' (1924) * '' The Blackguard'' (1925) * '' Satan's Sister'' (1925) * '' Cats'' (1925) * '' The Little People'' (1926) * ''Blinkeyes'' (1926) * '' The Only Way'' (1927) * '' The Hellcat'' (1928) * '' What Next?'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont British Distributors
The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established as an offshoot of the Gaumont Film Company of France. Film production Gaumont-British was founded in 1898 as the British subsidiary of the French Gaumont Film Company. It became independent of its French parent in 1922 when Isidore Ostrer acquired control of Gaumont-British. In 1927 the Ideal Film Company, a leading silent film maker, merged with Gaumont. The company's Lime Grove Studios was used for film productions, including Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of '' The 39 Steps'' (1935), while its Islington Studios made Hitchcock's ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938). In the 1930s, the company employed 16,000 people. In the United States, Gaumont-British had its own distribution operation for its films until December 1938, when it outsourced distribution to 20th Century Fox. In 1941 the Rank Organisation bought Gaumont-British and its sister comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Drama Films
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British Black-and-white Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *'' Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot At Cricklewood Studios
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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