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Bluebell (TV Series)
''Bluebell'' is a British television biographical drama miniseries broadcast by the BBC in 1986. Produced by Richard Bates, the 8-part series was based on the life of Margaret Kelly (dancer), Margaret Kelly, played by Carolyn Pickles, founder of a dance group called the Bluebell Girls, The series was set before and during the Second World War as the Bluebell Girls performed across Europe. Cast *Carolyn Pickles as Margaret Kelly (dancer), Margaret Kelly *Annie Lambert as Helen *Philip Sayer as Marcel Leibovici *Michael Harbour as Paul Derval *Carmel McSharry as Aunt Mary References External links * BBC television dramas World War II television drama series 1986 British television series debuts 1986 British television series endings 1980s British drama television series 1980s British television miniseries British English-language television shows {{BBC-drama-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Pickles
Carolyn Pickles (born 8 February 1952) is a British actress from Halifax, England, who has appeared in West End theatre and on British television. She is known for playing DCI Kim Reid in ''The Bill'' and Shelley Williams in ''Emmerdale''. Life and career Pickles was born in Halifax. She lives in London. She is the daughter of the Circuit Judge James Pickles, a niece of actress Christina Pickles, and great-niece of Wilfred Pickles, the TV and radio personality. Pickles grew up in and attended school in Halifax in West Yorkshire and Bradford Girls' Grammar School. She read drama at the University of Manchester, taking roles in a number of student productions including ''Narrow Road to the Deep North'' by Edward Bond, and the lead in Brecht's '' Mother Courage and Her Children''. She joined the BBC's Radio Drama Company."Radio and audio book companies", in Lloyd Trott, ed., ''Actors and Performers Yearbook 2016'', pp. 353–354 Pickles played the lead role, in 1986, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s British Drama Television Series
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and rege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 British Television Series Endings
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II Television Drama Series
The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique, while others talk of a "plurality of worlds". Some treat the world as one simple object, while others analyze the world as a complex made up of parts. In scientific cosmology, the world or universe is commonly defined as "the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be". Theories of modality talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon, or the "horizon of all horizons". In philosophy of mind, the world is contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God's creation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Dramas
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel McSharry
Carmel Evelyn McSharry (18 August 1926 – 4 March 2018) was an Irish character actress, best known for her roles as Beryl Humphries in '' Beryl's Lot'' (1973–77), and as Mrs. Hollingbery in '' In Sickness and in Health''. She also played bit parts in ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961), '' 80,000 Suspects'' (1963) and '' The Leather Boys'' (1964). Other television work includes roles in '' The Liver Birds'', ''Casualty'' and ''Z-Cars''. She also appeared in the BBC play ''Home from Home'' in 1973, which also featured Yootha Joyce and Michael Robbins. Personal life Carmel McSharry's parents, John McSharry and Christina Harvey were Irish. Her mother travelled back to Dublin for the birth of Carmel so that she would be born in the Irish Free State. McSharry married Derek Briggs in 1949. They had three children, Desna, Theresa (the actress Tessa Bell Briggs) and Sean. The marriage ended in divorce. Retirement and death McSharry retired in 1997. She died on 4 March 2018 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Harbour
Michael Ninian Harbour (4 July 1945 – 9 April 2009) was a British actor. Biography Michael Ninian Harbour was born in Edinburgh on 4 July 1945, a son of Harold Ernest, a veterinary surgeon, and Mary Phillipa (née McManus). He was educated at Finchley Grammar School and St Columba's College, St Albans. He then attended the Rose Bruford drama college in Sidcup. Harbour joined the BBC Drama Repertory Company, and then became a presenter of a BBC children's education programme, ''Finding Out'' in the early 1970s. His stage debut came in April 1975 when he played Frid in Wheeler and Sondheim’s ''A Little Night Music'', alongside stars such as Jean Simmons, Hermione Gingold and Joss Ackland. In 1998, he played the Mysterious Man/Cinderella's Father in ''Into the Woods'' at the Donmar Warehouse. He also played Firmin in the West End production of ''The Phantom of the Opera''. His television career prospered with appearances in many major series such as '' Budgie'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sayer
Philip Sayer (26 October 1946 – 19 September 1989) was a Welsh actor. He worked for stage, film and television; his probably best known role was as Sam Phillips in the science fiction horror film '' Xtro'' (1983). Biography Philip Sayer was born on 26 October 1946 in Swansea, the son of Thomas Henry and Myra Sayer. He died of cancer in 1989, aged 42. After Sayers's death, Brian May (who had never met the actor) attended a memorial service and subsequently wrote the song " Just One Life" as a tribute. A Philip Sayer Scholarship fund was set up at LAMDA in Sayer's memory. Sayer Clinics are named after and in memory of Philip Sayer. In a 2017 interview, actress Susan Sarandon revealed that she had had an affair with Sayer and that he had been gay. Appearances * ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1972 play) * ''Miss Julie'' (1972) * ''Adult Fun'' (1972) * ''The Rocky Horror Show'' (London stage show, 1974) * '' Whodunnit?'' - A Time to Dye (TV series, 1976) * ''Crown Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Lambert
Annie Lambert (born 3 January 1946) is a British actress, best known to fans of the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' for her role as Enlightenment in the 1982 serial ''Four to Doomsday''. She grew up in East Sussex and her first work in London was as a fashion assistant at ''Vogue'', but several of the photographers she worked with persuaded her to sit for them, and she soon moved into acting. She is the younger half-sister of Kit Lambert, who was the manager of The Who. Filmography * ''The Sweeney'' * '' Space: 1999'' * '' The New Avengers'' * '' All Creatures Great and Small'' * '' Bluebell'' * ''Inspector Morse'' * ''Poirot'' * ''Rockliffe's Babies'' * ''Howards' Way'' * ''Lovejoy'' * ''Minder'' * '' Making News'' * '' The Old Boy Network'' * ''Westbeach'' * ''2point4 Children ''2point4 Children'' is a BBC Television sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porters, a seemingly average, working-class London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
