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Edward Judd
Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor. Biography Born in Shanghai, Judd and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked Republic of China (1912–49), China five years later. His career was at its peak in the 1960s, with a series of leading roles in British science fiction films, including ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961 – a disaster film in which he played an alcoholic reporter during a time when two large nuclear explosions altered the Earth's axis, propelling the Earth towards the Sun), ''First Men in the Moon (1964 film), First Men in the Moon'' (1964), and ''Island of Terror'' (1966). As well as starring in these films, he worked as a soap opera actor and performed other character parts on television. His roles in these science fiction films were highly praised by audiences and critics alike. Judd was also known for the 1975 "Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike" campaign to make motorists aware of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Samuel Phillips (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared in the '' Carry On'' and ''Doctor in the House'' film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series '' The Navy Lark''. On the stage, Phillips was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1977. In his later career, Phillips took on dramatic parts including a BAFTA-nominated role alongside Peter O'Toole in ''Venus'' (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in three of the ''Harry Potter'' films. Early life Leslie Samuel Phillips was born in Tottenham on 20 April 1924, the third child of Cecelia Margaret (''née'' Newlove) and Frederick Samuel Phillips, who worked at Glover and Main, manufacturers of cookers in Edmonton. Phillips described his street as "beyond the sonic reach of the Bow Bells but within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X The Unknown
''X the Unknown'' is a 1956 British science fiction horror film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Dean Jagger, Leo McKern and Edward Chapman. It was made by the Hammer Film Productions company and written by Jimmy Sangster, at the suggestion of Anthony Hinds. This was the first film Jimmy Sangster ever scripted, and its success started his entire screenwriting career. The film is significant in that "it firmly established Hammer's transition from B-movie thrillers to out-and-out horror/science fiction" and, with '' The Quatermass Xperiment'' (1955) and '' Quatermass 2'' (1957), completes "an important trilogy containing relevant allegorical threads revealing Cold War anxieties and a diminishing national identity resulting from Britain's decrease in status as a world power". The film's special effects were handled by Les Bowie and Jack Curtis, Bernard Robinson and Jimmy Sangster were Production Designers, Chris Sutton was Assistant Director and Phil Leakey did Makeup. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Die Young
''The Good Die Young'' is a 1954 British crime film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Richard Basehart and John Ireland. It was made by Remus Films from a screenplay by Vernon Harris and Gilbert based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Richard Macaulay. It tells the story of four men in London with no criminal past whose marriages and finances are collapsing and, meeting in a pub, are tempted to redeem their situations by a robbery. Plot Mike is an injured ex-boxer unable to find a job and penniless after his wife Angela, who he loves, gives their life savings to her criminal brother. Joe has been fired from his clerical job in the USA to reclaim Mary, his pregnant English wife, who feels unable to escape her clinging and unstable mother. Eddie deserts the US Air Force in an effort to regain Denise, his unfaithful actress wife. The fourth man is Rave, decorated in the war but now a womaniser and gamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Large Rope
''The Large Rope'' (also known as ''The Long Rope'') is a 1953 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Donald Houston, Susan Shaw and Robert Brown. It was written by Ted Willis. Plot Tom Penney returns to his village after serving three years in prison for an assault that he did not commit, determined to take his revenge on those who framed him. He meets hostility from most of the village including his father, but his mother is glad to see him, and his former girlfriend, Susan, who is about to be married that day, finds her old feelings for him resurface. Amy Jordan, the flirtatious married woman he is supposed to have assaulted three years ago, is found dead in nearby woods just as the wedding is due to begin, and Susan runs from the church when she hears the news. Tom is taken in by the police for questioning, but escapes, and both he and the police try to discover the killer, while most of the villagers, convinced that Tom is the murdere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once A Jolly Swagman
''Once a Jolly Swagman'' (U.S. title: ''Maniacs on Wheels'') is a 1949 British film starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen, Thora Hird and Sid James. It was written by William Rose and Jack Lee, based on the 1944 novel of the same title by Montagu Slater. It is centred on the sport of motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ... racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time. The title of the film refers to the first line of the Australian song " Waltzing Matilda". Cast * Dirk Bogarde as Bill Fox * Bonar Colleano as Tommy Possey * Renée Asherson as Pat Gibbon * Bill Owen as Lag Gibbon * Moira Lister as Dorothy 'Dotty' Liz * Thora Hird as Ma Fox * Cyril Cusack as Duggie Lewis * Sidney James as Rowton * James Hayter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Small Voice
''The Small Voice'' (US title: ''The Hideout'') is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Fergus McDonell and starring Valerie Hobson, James Donald and Howard Keel (credited as Harold Keel). The film is part of a group of British film noir produced around this time. It was written by George Barraud, Derek Neame and Julian Orde based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Robert Westerby. It was the film debut of Howard Keel who made it while appearing in the original London production of ''Oklahoma!'' The film received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film in 1949. The "small voice" of the title is referred to at the end of the film: the small voice in your own head, of one's conscience telling one not to do something. Plot Three ex-army men escape from Dartmoor Prison and kill a man to get his car. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Byrne bicker on a train and discuss divorce before arriving at Llanbach in Wales, near their home. He has lost a leg in the war, and is very bitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guinea Pig (film)
''The Guinea Pig'' (U.S. title ''The Outsider'') is a 1948 British film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim and Bernard Miles. The screenplay was by Warren Chetham-Strode and Bernard Miles, in association with Boulting, adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Chetham-Strode. It was produced by John Boulting. Plot The "guinea pig" of the title is 14-year-old Jack Read, a tobacconist's son who, following the Fleming Report, is given a scholarship to Saintbury, an exclusive public school. Read's uncouth behaviour causes him difficulties in fitting into the school. Cast *Richard Attenborough as Jack Read *Sheila Sim as Lynne Hartley * Bernard Miles as Mr. Read * Cecil Trouncer as Lloyd Hartley * Robert Flemyng as Nigel Lorraine * Edith Sharpe as Mrs. Hartley *Joan Hickson as Mrs. Read * Timothy Bateson as Tracey * Herbert Lomas as Sir James Corfield * Anthony Newley as Miles Minor * Anthony Nicholls as Mr. Stringer * Wally Patch a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitcham
Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross. Originally a village in the county of Surrey, today it is mainly a residential suburb, and includes Mitcham Common. It has been a settlement throughout recorded history. Amenities include Mitcham Library and Mitcham Cricket Green. Nearby major districts are Croydon, Sutton, London, Sutton, Beddington, Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, Morden, Tooting, Streatham, Norbury and Colliers Wood. Mitcham, most broadly defined, had a population of 63,393 in 2011, formed from six wards including Pollards Hill. Location Mitcham is in the east of the London Borough of Merton, bounded by boroughs of London Borough of Wandsworth, Wandsworth, London Borough of Croydon, Croydon, London Borough of Lambeth, Lambeth and London Borough of Sutton, Sutton. The River Wandle bounds the town to the southwest. The original village lies in the west. Mitcham Common takes up the greate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice-over
Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique used in radio, television, filmmaking, theatre, and other media in which a descriptive or expository voice that is not part of the narrative (i.e., non-diegetic) accompanies the pictured or on-site presentation of events. The voice-over is read from a script and may be spoken by someone who appears elsewhere in the production or by a specialist voice actor. Synchronous dialogue, where the voice-over is narrating the action that is taking place at the same time, remains the most common technique in voice-overs. Asynchronous, however, is also used in cinema. It is usually prerecorded and placed over the top of a film or video and commonly used in documentaries or news reports to explain information. Voice-overs are used in video games and on-hold messages, as well as for announcements and information at events and tourist destinations. It may also be read live for events such as award pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinct Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over Michael Caine filmography, a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British cultural icon. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Michael Caine, numerous awards including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As of 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Caine is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in five different decades. In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship and was Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, knighted by Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II. Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as ''Zulu (1964 film), Zulu'' (1964), ''The Ipcress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon () is a suburb of southwest London, England, southwest of Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton. Wimbledon had a population of 68,189 in 2011 which includes the electoral wards of Abbey, Wimbledon Town and Dundonald, Hillside, Wandle, Village, Raynes Park and Wimbledon Park. It is home to the Wimbledon Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in London. The residential and retail area is split into two sections known as the "village" and the "town", with the High Street being the rebuilding of the original medieval village, and the "town" having first developed gradually after the building of the railway station in 1838. Wimbledon has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age when the hill fort on Wimbledon Common is thought to have been constructed. In 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled, Wimbledon was part of the manor of Mortlake. The ownership of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
