Bulldog Breed
''Bulldog Breed'' is a British television sitcom which first aired on ITV in 1962.Self p.12 Tom Bowler is ambitious young man who ends up causing chaos wherever he goes. Actors who appeared in individual episodes in guest roles include William Mervyn, Claire Davenport, David Conville, Barbara Young, Colin Gordon, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Reginald Marsh and Wendy Richard. Main cast * Donald Churchill as Tom Bowler * Amanda Barrie as Sandra Prentiss * Peter Butterworth as Henry Broadbent * Betty Huntley-Wright as Lilian Broadbent * Geoffrey Whitehead as Billy Broadbent * Clare Kelly Clare Kelly (25 February 1922 – 18 February 2001) was an English actress who worked primarily in television. She was known for roles in films such as '' Georgy Girl'' (1966), '' And Soon the Darkness'' (1970), ''The Fourth Protocol'' (1987). TV ... as Mrs. Norton References Bibliography * Self, David. ''Situation Comedy, Volume 1''. Hutchinson, 1980. External links * {{IMDb title, id=0055664 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Rosenthal
Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. Early life Jack Morris Rosenthal was born into a Jewish family on 8 September 1931, in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. He was the younger of two sons to father Sam, a raincoat factory worker, and mother Leah (née Miller) Rosenthal. His parents were married in 1927 in Manchester, and were children of Russian Jewish immigrants. Rosenthal attended the Manchester Jews School on Derby Street, Cheetham Hill. During the Second World War, Rosenthal was evacuated to Blackpool, Lancashire with an inhospitable family who censored his letters and confiscated his food parcels. His family subsequently moved to Colne, Lancashire, and Rosenthal attended the Colne Grammar School. In 1953, after studying English Literature at Sheffield University, he carried o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon (27 April 1911 – 4 October 1972) was a British actor born in Ceylon. Biography He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford. He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of a horse in a production of ''Toad of Toad Hall''. From 1936 to 1939 he was a director with the Fred Melville Repertory Company in Brixton. He served in the army during the Second World War for six years. Film career Gordon had a long career in British cinema and television from the 1940s to the 1970s, often playing government officials. His films include '' The Pink Panther'' and '' Casino Royale'' (both with Peter Sellers, alongside whom he made five films). In the ITC series '' The Prisoner'' (1967) he portrayed Number Two twice, in "A. B. and C." and later in " The General". Gordon was a regular in another ITC production, ''The Baron'', playing civil servant Templeton-Green opposite Steve Forrest. He also starred in '' The Invisible Man (1958 T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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English-language Television Shows
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1960s British Comedy Television Series
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1962 British Television Series Debuts
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Clare Kelly
Clare Kelly (25 February 1922 – 18 February 2001) was an English actress who worked primarily in television. She was known for roles in films such as '' Georgy Girl'' (1966), '' And Soon the Darkness'' (1970), ''The Fourth Protocol'' (1987). TV roles included Valerie Barlow's mother Edith Tatlock in long-running ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...'' (1969), as Connie Wagstaffe in '' The Cuckoo Waltz'' (1975), Mrs. Rothwell in '' A Kind of Loving'' (1982), and as Violet Littlejohn in '' Rep'' (1982). Kelly also appeared in several roles in '' The Bill''. References External links * English television actresses English film actresses 1922 births 2001 deaths Actresses from Manchester 20th-century British businesspeop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at Shakespeare's Globe, St Martin's Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic. Early life Whitehead was born in Grenoside in Sheffield. With his father killed in the Second World War, Whitehead received an RAF benevolent grant which sent him to a minor public school. He later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he became friends with fellow student John Thaw. Career His film appearances have included '' The Raging Moon'' (1971), ''Kidnapped'' (1971), the vengeful woodsman in '' And Now the Screaming Starts!'' (1972), '' S.O.S. Titanic'' (1979) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, '' Inside the Third Reich'' (1982), '' Shooting Fish'' (1997) and '' Love/Loss'' (2010). His television appearances include ''Bulldog Breed'' (1962), ''Z-Cars'' (1964–1965 and 1972–1975), playing two different regular characters, '' Som ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Betty Huntley-Wright
Betty Huntley-Wright (3 December 1911 – 27 May 1993) was a British actress and vocalist. Daughter of the comic actor Huntley Wright, she had a long career on stage, chiefly in comedy and pantomime, and in film, radio and television. Later she also ran an antiques business in London. Biography Early years Huntley-Wright was born Betty Jessie Wright in Hampstead, London, one of three children of the comic actor Huntley Wright and his wife, the actress Mary Fraser. She was educated at Hampstead High School and studied for the stage under Julian Kimbell (singing), Anton Dolin and the Cone School (dancing).Gaye, Freda (ed). ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 14th Jubilee Edition, London: Pitman, 1967 She made her first appearance on the stage at the Regent Theatre, Kings Cross, London, in 1928, as Chris Haversham in ''The Eye of Siva'', and her first appearance in the West End, at His Majesty's Theatre in July 1929, as Freda in Noël Coward's operetta '' Bitter Sweet''. Acting car ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard (born Wendy Emerton; 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009) was an English actress, known for her television roles as Miss Shirley Brahms on the BBC sitcom '' Are You Being Served?'' from 1972 to 1985, and Pauline Fowler on the soap opera '' EastEnders'' from 1985 to 2006. Despite being known for her Cockney accent, Richard was born in Middlesbrough. After a childhood in which her father died by suicide, Richard worked in department stores to pay her drama school fees before appearing regularly on-screen from the early 1960s. She played Joyce Harker in '' The Newcomers'' from 1967 to 1969. Richard then starred in two '' Carry On'' films. In the television series ''Dad's Army'', she was Private Walker's girlfriend, before being cast as Miss Brahms in '' Are You Being Served?'' appearing in all 69 episodes from 1972 to 1985. She also reprised the role in the sequel series '' Grace and Favour'' in 1992 and 1993. After ''Are You Being Served?'' ended, Richard starre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Reginald Marsh (actor)
Reginald Albert Saltmarsh, known by the stage name Reginald Marsh (17 September 1926 – 9 February 2001), was an English actor who is best remembered for supporting roles in many British sitcoms from the 1970s onwards. Early life and career Marsh was born in London in 1926 and he grew up on the Sussex coast at Worthing. After he left school he worked in a bank. After realising how serious he was about acting, his father introduced him to a retired actress, who introduced him to an agent who got his first acting role, at the age of 16, as a juvenile in '' Eden End'' by J.B. Priestley. He then worked in rep. In 1958, he started working behind the scenes of Granada Television, but he soon went back to acting. From the 1960s he appeared in many films, including ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961), '' Jigsaw'' (1962), '' Berserk!'' (1967), '' The Ragman's Daughter'' (1972), ''Young Winston'' (1972) and ''The Best Pair of Legs in the Business'' (1973), and on television ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (5 October 1920 – 12 September 2005) was a British film and television actor. His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army. Though never a major star, he appeared in over a hundred television and film productions over a forty-year period, including as King Arthur in ''The Adventures of Sir Lancelot'' in the mid-1950s, and '' General Hospital'' in the early 1970s. He appeared in ''Danger Man'' and twice in '' Doctor Who'', as Commander Radnor in '' The Seeds of Death'' (1969) and as Commander Stevenson in '' Revenge of the Cybermen'' (1975); and starred as Colonel Buchan in every episode of the 1960s and 1970s children's TV series '' Freewheelers''. Later he appeared in " You Lose Some, You Win Some", an episode of series 2 of ''Minder''. His film appearances included ''The League of Gentlemen'' (1960), ''Le Mans'' (1971) and ''The Omen'' (1976). In his later years he was a familiar sight ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |