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Bruce Beeby
Bruce Edward Beeby (21 October 1921 – 20 October 2013) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in British films and television. He was probably best known for portraying Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell in the 1950s BBC radio serials '' Journey into Space''. In the late-1950s, he appeared in several live plays for Australian television, including '' Ending It'', ''Rope'', '' In the Zone'', '' Shadow of Doubt'', '' Sixty Point Bold'', '' Citizen of Westminster'' and '' Black Limelight''. He also compered quiz shows. He was married to actress Madi Hedd. They acted together in Britain for six years before returning to Australia in 1957. Selected filmography * '' Harvest Gold'' (1945) – Harry Johnson * '' Women of Twilight'' (1952) – Minor Role (uncredited) * '' The Intruder'' (1953) – 2nd Detective * '' The Limping Man'' (1953) – Kendall Brown * '' Impulse'' (1954) – Harry Winters * '' Front Page Story'' (1954) – Counsel for the Defence * '' Johnny on the Spot'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madi Hedd
Madi Hedd was an Australian actress. She appeared in a number of plays, television shows and films in Britain and Australia. From 1951 to 1957 she worked in Britain, appearing in a number of stage shows. She also appeared in Australian television dramas. In 1969 she appeared alongside Noel Johnson in the BBC Radio 2 drama serial ''Find The Lady'' by David Ellis. She was married to actor Bruce Beeby, who she met in 1946 and acted with in ''Sons of the Morning''. Select filmography *''Ending It'' (1957) - TV *''Lady in Danger (play), Lady in Danger'' (1959) - TV References External links * Year of birth missing 20th-century Australian actresses {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Is My Enemy
''Time Is My Enemy'' is a 1954 British crime film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Dennis Price, Renée Asherson and Patrick Barr. Plot Small-time crook Radley returns after a long absence to discover his wife Barbara has remarried, believing him killed in the Blitz. Finding her happily married to wealthy publisher John Everton, Radley begins blackmailing Barbara for £500 to keep their previous marriage quiet. When Radley kills a jeweller in a robbery, he is blackmailed by his roommate, so in turn threatens to also blackmail John Everton for £500. When she arrives at Radley's flat to pay the final instalment, he provokes her into shooting him. After surrendering herself to the police, Barbara discovers that all is not as it seems, Radley is wanted for more than one murder; and the police begin to question whether Radley is really dead after all. Cast * Dennis Price as Martin Radley * Renée Asherson as Barbara Everton * Patrick Barr as John Everton * Duncan Lamont as Insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Matter Of WHO
''A Matter of WHO'' is a 1961 British comedy thriller film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Terry-Thomas, Julie Alexander, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers, Honor Blackman and Carol White. A World Health Organization employee tries to trace the source of a deadly virus. Plot Aboard an airliner flying from Nice to London, an oil driller returning from the Middle East named Cooper becomes very ill. This attracts the notice of World Health Organization self-styled "germ detective" Archibald Bannister. It turns out that Cooper's new wife, Michèle, and his business associate, Kennedy, know each other. Bannister is reprimanded by his boss, Hatfield, for previously shutting down London Airport because of what turns out to be an ordinary rat. This time, however, Cooper is diagnosed with highly infectious smallpox. There are also outbreaks in Brussels and Zurich. Bannister suspects that all three cases were contracted from a fourth person, a carrier. Cast * Terry-Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pit Of Darkness
''Pit of Darkness'' is a 1961 British thriller second feature ('B') film, directed and written by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. It is based on the 1960 novel ''To Dusty Death'' by Hugh McCutcheon.The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he has no memory, Plot Safe-designer Richard Logan awakens late one evening on a patch of suburban waste ground. He has no idea how he got there. He returns home to wife Julie to apologise for being late from work. He is astonished to learn that he has been missing not for a few hours, but for three weeks. Furthermore, a troubling series of events has occurred during his absence. A supposedly foolproof safe which he installed in a customer's home has been cracked open with apparent ease. Items taken include cash and a world-famous diamond from East Africa. Alarmed by Richard's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payroll (film)
''Payroll'' is a 1961 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name. The film revolves around a group of criminals who plan and execute a wages robbery, which ultimately ends in disaster. The movie is one of the most highly regarded crime films from Anglo-Amalgamated. Plot Four crooks, Johnny Mellors, Monty, Blackie, and Bert, devise a plan to rob a payroll van with the assistance of Dennis Pearson, an accountant working at the targeted firm. Pearson is compelled to support his wife Katie, who desires a more luxurious lifestyle. During the heist, the van driver Harry Parker, is killed, and Bert sustains a fatal injury from Parker's colleague, Frank Moore. Despite the setbacks, the gang successfully escapes with £50,000. Having found out that Pearson was the 'inside man', Parker's widow Jackie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escort For Hire
''Escort for Hire'' is a low budget 'B' 1960 British thriller film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden and Peter Butterworth. It was written by Mark Grantham and produced by the Danzigers. Plot Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed. Cast * June Thorburn as Terry * Pete Murray as Buzz * Noel Trevarthen as Steve * Jan Holden as Elizabeth * Peter Butterworth as Inspector Bruce * Guy Middleton as Arthur Vickers * Mary Laura Wood as Barbara * Derek Blomfield as Jack * Jill Melford as Nadia * Patricia Plunkett as Eldon Baker * Catherine Ellison as receptionist * Bruce Beeby as Detective Sergeant Moore * C. Denier Warren as porter * Viola Keats as Marion * Totti Truman Taylor as temperance lady Critical reception '' The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "The film, dating som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley Gets A Gun
''Smiley Gets a Gun'' is a 1958 Australian comedy-drama film in CinemaScope directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty. It is the sequel to the 1956 film ''Smiley''. Synopsis A young boy named Smiley desperately wants a gun. A deal is made between him and Sergeant Flaxman that if he gets 8 nicks (marks on a certain tree) for his good deeds he will get a .22 caliber £2 rifle. He has several adventures and is accused of stealing some gold. Smiley runs away but the real thief is caught and Smiley is rewarded with a gun. Cast * Keith Calvert as Smiley Greevins ** Alexander ( Bruce) Thomas as Smiley Greevins on horse * Bruce Archer as Joey * Sybil Thorndike as Granny McKinley * Chips Rafferty as Sergeant Flaxman * Margaret Christensen as Ma Greevins * Reg Lye as Pa Greevins * Grant Taylor as Stiffy * Guy Doleman as Mr Quirk * Leonard Thiele as Mr Scrivens *Verena Kimmins as Miss MacCowan *Bruce Beeby as Dr Gasper *Ruth Cracknell as Mrs Gaspen * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranger In Town (1957 Film)
''Stranger in Town'' is a 1957 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by George Pollock and starring Alex Nicol and Anne Paige. The screenplay was by Edward Dryhurst and Norman Hudis, based on the 1954 novel ''The Uninivited'' by Frank Chittenden. Plot An American composer, lodging in a quiet English village is found shot dead. A journalist, also from America probes the death on behalf of the pianist’s only relative in America. His trail leads to the local gossip who is later found gassed and debunks the official theory that it was suicide, finding that many people seem to have had reason to commit the crime, as he eventually discovers the truth. Cast * Alex Nicol as John Madison * Anne Paige as Vicky Leigh * Mary Laura Wood as Lorna Ryland * Mona Washbourne as Agnes Smith * Charles Lloyd-Pack as Captain Nash * Bruce Beeby as William Ryland * John Horsley as Inspector Powell * Colin Tapley as Henry Ryland * Betty Impey as Geraldine Nash * Peggy Ann Cliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child In The House
''Child in the House'' is a 1956 British drama film directed and written by Cy Endfield and starring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and Stanley Baker. It is based on the 1955 novel ''A Child in the House'' by Janet McNeill. A girl struggles to cope with her uncaring relatives. Plot Elizabeth Lorimer is an 11-year-old girl being temporarily looked after by her unhappily-married aunt and uncle, while her mother is in hospital and her criminal father Stephen is allegedly out of the country, but is in fact hiding in London on the run from the police. Stephen secretly meets with Elizabeth, making her promise not to tell anyone where he is. Elizabeth is tricked by her aunt into revealing Stephen's location, and he gives himself up. Cast * Phyllis Calvert as Evelyn Acheson * Eric Portman as Henry Acheson * Stanley Baker as Stephen Lorimer * Mandy Miller as Elizabeth Lorimer * Dora Bryan as Cassie * Joan Hickson as Cook * Victor Maddern as Bert * Percy Herbert as Detective Serg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In The Road
''The Man in the Road'' is a 1956 British second feature thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit and Cyril Cusack. It was written by Guy Morgan based on the 1952 novel '' He Was Found in the Road'' by Anthony Armstrong. Plot A brilliant scientist suffering from amnesia is hunted by Communist agents in search of a secret formula. Cast * Derek Farr as Ivan Mason/Doctor James Paxton * Ella Raines as Rhona Ellison * Donald Wolfit as Professor Cattrell * Lisa Daniely as Nurse Mitzi * Bruce Beeby as Doctor Manning * Russell Napier as Superintendent Davidson of Scotland Yard * Cyril Cusack as Doctor Kelly * Frederick Piper as Inspector Hayman * Karel Stepanek as Dmitri Balinkev * Olive Sloane as Mrs Lemming, the landlady * Alfred Maron as ambulance driver * John Welsh as employer * Robert Bruce as Scotland Yard Detective Production The film was shot at Beaconsfield Studios. Critical reception ''The Monthly Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Kid For Two Farthings (film)
''A Kid For Two Farthings'' is a 1955 British comedy-drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was adapted by Wolf Mankowitz from his 1953 novel of the same name. The title is a reference to the traditional Passover song, "Chad Gadya", which begins "One little goat which my father bought for two zuzim". At the end of the film, Mr. Kandinsky softly sings fragments of an English translation of the song. It was one of the last films produced by Alexander Korda before his death. Plot In the busy wholesale-retail world of London's East End everyone, it seems, has unattainable dreams. Then a small boy – Joe – buys a unicorn, in fact a sickly little goat, with just one twisted horn in the middle of its forehead. This, he has been led to believe by a local tailor, Kandinsky, will bring everyone good fortune. The film has a haunting last image, of Kandinsky carrying the tiny body of the "unicorn" to the graveyard, whilst passing in the opposite direction is a Torah-rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glass Cage (1955 Film)
''The Glass Cage'' (American title: ''The Glass Tomb'') is a 1955 British B movie, second feature mystery film, directed by Montgomery Tully and starring John Ireland (actor), John Ireland, Honor Blackman and Sid James. It was made by Hammer Film Productions. The screenplay was by Richard H. Landau based on the 1945 novel ''The Outsiders'' (a.k.a. ''Common People'') by A. E. Martin. J. Elder Wills was the art director. Filming began on July 19, 1954, and it was trade shown a year later. The film's original working title was supposed to be ''The Outsiders'', but it was changed to ''The Glass Cage'' instead. Plot Showman Pel Pelham (who works contracting sleazy acts for a freakshow carnival) is contacted by an old friend Tony who has received a blackmail letter signed "Delores". Pel agrees to check her out as she lives near a friend of his. Reaching her apartment, he discovers she is an old pal of his named Rena Meroni, who has fallen on hard times and gotten mixed up with someone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |