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Doctor Faustus (1967 Film)
''Doctor Faustus'' (also known as ''Dr. Faustus'' and ''Il Dottor Faustus'') is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play '' The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'' directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill. The first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it was the only film directed by Burton or Coghill, Burton's Oxford University mentor. It starred Burton as the title character Faustus, with Elizabeth Taylor appearing in a silent role as Helen of Troy. The film is a permanent record of a stage production that Burton starred in and staged with Coghill at the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1966. Burton would not appear on stage again until he took over the role of Martin Dysart in '' Equus'' on Broadway ten years later. Plot University of Wittenberg scholar Faustus earns his doctorate, but his insatiable craving for knowledge and power leads Faustus to try his hand at necromancy in an attempt to conjure Mephistopheles out of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burton
Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and gave a memorable performance as Richard Burton's Hamlet, Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Laurence Olivier, Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues; his heavy drinking added to his reputation as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. Burton was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award seven times but never won. He was nominated for his performances in ''My Cousin Rachel (1952 film), My Cousin Rachel'' (1952), ''The Robe (1953 film), The Robe'' (1953), ''Becket (1964 film), Becket'' (1964), ''The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film), The Spy W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, American and British English spelling differences), many of the List of Broadway theaters, extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names. Many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also use the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional Theater (structure), theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End theatre, West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway thoroughfare is eponymous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Williams
Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (6 March 1904 – 7 December 1969) was a British actor and dramatist of Welsh descent. Early life and career Hugh Anthony Glanmor Williams (nicknamed "Tam") was born at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex to Hugh Dafydd Anthony Williams (1869-1905) and Hilda (née Lewis). The Williams family lived at Bedford Park, London, Bedford Park, in Chiswick, West London. His paternal grandfather was Hugh Williams (1796-1874), a Welsh solicitor and anti-establishment political activist. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was a popular film actor, film and actor, stage actor, who became a major film star in the British cinema of the 1930s. In 1930 he toured America in the cast of the R.C. Sheriff play ''Journey's End'' and appeared in his first film ''Charley's Aunt (1930 film), Charley's Aunt'' during a spell in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood. He then returned to Britain and became a mainstay of the British film industry. He made 57 film appearances as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Aitken
Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken (born 12 September 1945) is a British theatre director, teacher, actress, and writer. As an actress, Aitken has been twice nominated at the Olivier Awards, in 1980 for ''Private Lives'' and in 1985 for ''Waste''. Her performance in the film ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988) earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Early life and career Aitken was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Sir William Aitken, a Conservative MP, and the Hon. Penelope Aitken, whose father was John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby. Her grandfather was the UK Representative to Ireland (1939–49). She is a great-niece of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Lord Beaverbrook, and sister to former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. She attended Riddlesworth Hall Preparatory School in Norfolk, Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a degree in English Language and Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Coghill
Sir Joscelyn Ambrose Cramer Coghill, 7th Baronet (30 September 1902 – 6 June 1983) was an Anglo-Irish actor and aristocrat, being the 7th Baronet of Coghill (1778) (1981–1983). He was born in Skibbereen in County Cork in Ireland in 1902, the youngest of three sons of Elizabeth Hildegarde Augusta ''née'' Somerville (1867–1954) and the Irish painter Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill, 5th Baronet Coghill (1853–1921). He was the nephew of Zulu War Victoria Cross recipient Nevill Coghill and the cousin of the Irish novelist Edith Anna Somerville.Ambrose Coghill Genealogy Online website Coghill was educated at in |
Ian Marter
Ian Don Marter (28 October 194428 October 1986) was an English actor and writer known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975. He sometimes used the pseudonym Ian Don. Early life Born in Warwickshire, the son of Donald Marter and his wife Helen Donaldson, Marter attended Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and was awarded a scholarship to St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he read English language and literature and was involved in the college's drama society. Marter graduated from St Edmund Hall in 1966 and started work at the Bristol Old Vic theatre, where he served as a stage manager in addition to acting in stage roles. ''Doctor Who'' Actor In 1971, Marter auditioned for the regular role of Captain Mike Yates in the eighth season of ''Doctor Who''. He was offered the part, but was unable to accept due to a prior commitm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Durden
Mark Richard Durden-Smith (born 8 February 1944), known as Richard Durden, is an English actor, with a range of television, film and stage credits. Personal life Durden-Smith was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Merton College, Oxford in 1963. Durden-Smith and Maria Aitken were married in 1968 and divorced in 1971. In 1996 he married actress Jane How Carolyn Jane Onslow How (born 21 December 1950) is an English actress with a range of television, film, and stage credits. She is best known for her role as Jan Hammond, the mistress of Den Watts in ''EastEnders''. She appeared in the programm .... His older brother was Jo Durden-Smith. Filmography Film Television On radio, he played Bashwood in '' Armadale''. References External links * 1944 births Living people Aitken family Alumni of Merton College, Oxford English male soap opera actors People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Actors from the London Borough of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Barwise
Patrick Barwise (born June 1946) is emeritus professor of management and marketing at London Business School. He joined the business school in 1976 after an early career at IBM and has published widely on marketing and media. He is an honorary fellow of the Marketing Society, a patron of the Market Research Society and Chairman of the Archive of Market and Social Research. He was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University (2011–2014); chairman of Which?, the consumer organisation (2010–2015); and specialist advisor to House of Lords Select Committee on the ''Communications Inquiry into the regulation of TV advertising'' (2010–2011.) Early study Barwise received a BA in Engineering Science with Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford in 1968 (he went on to receive an MA in 1973). While working for IBM as a systems engineer, he maintained his study, and in 1973, he received a master's degree in Business Studies, from London Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carwardine
Richard John Carwardine (born 12 January 1947) is a Welsh historian and academic. He specialises in American politics and religion in the era of the American Civil War. The professor is best known for his work on President Abraham Lincoln and was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2016. Early life Born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of John Francis Carwardine and Beryl Jones, he attended Maesycwmmer Primary School and Monmouth School, before going up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as William Jones Exhibitioner, graduating BA in modern history 1968 ( MA 1972). He pursued further studies in history at The Queen's College, Oxford, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975. Carwardine then went to the University of California, Berkeley, as the Ochs-Oakes Senior Scholar in American History and Institutions. While a student at Oxford, Carwardine played the role of Cornelius in the film '' Doctor Faustus'' (1967) with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil
Satan, also known as the Devil, is a devilish entity in Abrahamic religions who seduces humans into sin (or falsehood). In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the '' yetzer hara'', or 'evil inclination'. In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons. In the Quran, Iblis (Shaitan), the leader of the devils (''shayāṭīn''), is made of fire and was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly created Adam. He incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with ''waswās'' ('evil suggestions'). A figure known as ''ha-satan'' ("the satan") first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a heavenly prosecutor, subordinate to Yahweh (God); he prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers. During the intertestamental period, po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mephistopheles
Mephistopheles ( , ), also known as Mephostophilis or Mephisto, is a demon featured in German folklore, originating as the chief devil in the Faust legend. He has since become a stock character appearing in Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture, other works of arts and popular culture. Mephistopheles never became an integral part of traditional magic. He is also referred to as the Shadow of Lucifer and Prince of Trickery. During the medieval and Renaissance times, Mephistopheles is equated with the devil due to his high position in the hellish hierarchy. He is one of the seven great princes of Hell, along with being one of the first four angels who rebelled against God and fell. In the popular fiction of Tenida, mephistophilis is used as a humourous and satirical dialogue. Origins Around the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries in Europe, the age of witchcraft waned, and the Devil became more of a fixture in literature until the later eighteenth century. Once the idea of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
