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Eric Allan
Eric Allan (born 8 March 1940) is a British actor. His first film role was in Peter Brook's 1968 film '' Tell Me Lies'', based on the play '' US'' in which Allan had appeared the previous year. For 24 years from 1997 to 2021 he played the part of farm worker Bert Fry in the long running BBC Radio soap opera The Archers. Selected filmography * '' Tell Me Lies'' (1968) * ''The McKenzie Break'' (1970) * ''Bleak Moments'' (1971) * '' I.D.'' (1995) Selected television * ''Emmerdale'' (1972–1974) as Frank Blakey (regular role) *''Nuts in May'' (1976) as The Quarrayman (Play for Today Episode) * ''Hold the Back Page ''Hold the Back Page'' is a British television series which originally aired on BBC One between 12 November 1985 and 28 January 1986. A sports reporter transfers from a broadsheet to a tabloid.Vahimagi p.301 Main cast * David Warner as Ken Wor ...'' (1985–1986) as Reg '' Bergerac '' as Peter Retford 1988 in Private Flight Selected theatre * '' US'' (1966) Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of ''Marat/Sade'' by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director. He also directed films such as an iconic version of ''Lord of the Flies'' in 1963. He was based in France from the early 1970s on, where he founded an international theatre company, playing in developing countries, in an approach of great simplicity. He was often referred to as "our greatest living theatre director". He won multiple Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Japanese Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia and the Europe Theatre Prize. In 2021, he was awarded India's Padma Shri. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tell Me Lies
Tell may refer to: *Tell (archaeology), a type of archaeological site *Tell (name), a name used as a given name and a surname *Tell (poker), a subconscious behavior that can betray information to an observant opponent Arts, entertainment, and media * Tell (2012 film), ''Tell'' (2012 film), a short psychological horror film by Ryan Connolly * Tell (2014 film), ''Tell'' (2014 film), a crime thriller starring Katee Sackhoff, Jason Lee and Milo Ventimiglia * ''Tell Magazine'', a Nigerian newsweekly * "The Tell", an episode of ''NCIS'' * The Tell (Teen Wolf), "The Tell" (''Teen Wolf''), a television episode * ''The Tell'', a photomural, part of the Laguna Canyon Project Places Middle East *Tel Aviv, Israel *Et-Tell, an archaeological site identified with Bethsaida *Tell, West Bank, a Palestinian village near Nablus *Ancient Tell, Beirut, Lebanon; the Canaanite pre-Phoenician era of Beirut and archaeological site United States *Tell, Texas, unincorporated community in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US (play)
''US'' was a 1966 experimental theatre play for the Royal Shakespeare Company, created by a group that included Denis Cannan (writer), Michael Kustow (documentary), Sally Jacobs (design), Richard Peaslee (music), Adrian Mitchell (lyrics), Geoffrey Reeves (music director), Albert Hunt (associate director), Michael Stott (associate director) and director Peter Brook. The play deals with "British metropolitan attitudes" to the Vietnam War, rather than the facts of the war itself. The first half of the performance consists of "comic-strip…anti-Americanism", but after the interval the work considers aspects of the conflict as if taking place in London: "I want it to come here…" announces one character. This is achieved by having a player contemplate burning himself to death, in the manner of Buddhist monks in Saigon, on the streets of London. At the end of the play a box of live butterflies is released from a box with the last (actually made of paper) being picked up by the win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Archers
''The Archers'' is a BBC radio drama on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired over 19,500 episodes, it is the world's longest-running drama by number of episodes. Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950, and the first episode was broadcast nationally on New Year's Day 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners, it is Radio 4's most listened-to non-news programme, and with over one million listeners via the internet, the programme holds the record for BBC Radio online listening figures. In February 2019, a panel of 46 broadcasting industry experts, of which 42 had a professional connection to the BBC, listed ''The Archers'' as the second-greatest radio programme of all time. Partly established with the aim towards educating farmers following World War I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McKenzie Break
''The McKenzie Break'' is a 1970 British war drama film starring Brian Keith as Jack Connor, an intelligence officer investigating recent disturbances at a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Scotland. The Nazi German POWs are led by the charismatic and ruthless Willi Schlüter ( Helmut Griem). Filmed in DeLuxe Color, the picture was directed by Lamont Johnson, Plot At the McKenzie prisoner of War (POW) camp in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter ( Helmut Griem) – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s rigidly by-the-book commanding officer, Major Perry ( Ian Hendry). British Army Intelligence Officer Captain Jack Connor, an Irishman seconded from the Royal Ulster Rifles. a former star crime reporter during peacetime, is in hot water (again) for various off-duty indiscretions. His patron, General Kerr ( Jack Watson), bails him out - in return for sending him to Camp McKenzie to learn what else might be behind the escalati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleak Moments
''Bleak Moments'' is a 1971 British comedy-drama film by Mike Leigh in his directorial debut. Leigh's screenplay is based on a 1970 stage play at the Open Space Theatre, about the dysfunctional life of a young secretary. Leigh and Leslie Blair had formed their own production company, Autumn Productions, and Leigh wanted to adapt ''Moments''. He was able to realise that desire when Albert Finney and Michael Medwin's Memorial Films, which had recently made '' If....'' and was about to produce '' Gumshoe'', "delivered the main financial backing, as well as unused spare bits of film rolls." Plot Sylvia leads a quiet life caring for her sister Hilda who has complex care needs. Their lonely suburban existence is accentuated by a social awkwardness that detaches them from the community and fuels a life of seclusion and despair. Cast * Anne Raitt as Sylvia * Sarah Stephenson as Hilda, Sylvia's sister * Eric Allan as Peter * Joolia Cappleman as Pat * Mike Bradwell as Norman * Donald S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmerdale
''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, ''Emmerdale Farm'' was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. Interior scenes have been filmed at the Leeds Studios since its inception. Exterior scenes were first filmed in Arncliffe in Littondale, and the series may have taken its name from Amerdale, an ancient name of Littondale. Exterior scenes were later shot at Esholt, but are now shot at a purpose-built set on the Harewood estate. The programme is broadcast in every ITV region. The series originally aired during the afternoon and was intended to be a three-month television series. However, more episodes were ordered and transmitted during the daytime until 1978, when it was moved to an early-evening prime time slot in most regions. In the late 1980s, the soap was met with a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuts In May (Play For Today)
"Nuts in May" is the 12th episode of sixth season of the British BBC anthology TV series ''Play for Today''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 13 January 1976. "Nuts in May" was written and directed by Mike Leigh, produced by David Rose, and starred Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman. "Nuts in May" is the comical story of a nature-loving and rather self-righteous couple's exhausting battle to enjoy what they perceive to be an idyllic camping holiday. Misunderstandings and awkward clashes of values occur, and an explosive conflict when a less high-minded guest pitches his tent nearby. Plot Childlike Candice-Marie Pratt ( Alison Steadman) and eccentric-obsessive Keith Pratt ( Roger Sloman) arrive at a campsite in Dorset and pitch their tent in a quiet spot suitable for appreciating nature's wonders while keeping other human beings safely at arm's length. The couple take day trips to Corfe Castle, a quarry, and a local farm to purchase some untr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play For Today
''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including '' Rumpole of the Bailey'', subsequently became television series in their own right. History The strand was a successor to '' The Wednesday Play'', the 1960s anthology series, the title being changed when the day of transmission moved to Thursday to make way for a sport programme. Some works, screened in anthology series' on BBC2, like Willy Russell's '' Our Day Out'' (1977), were repeated on BBC1 in the series. The producers of ''The Wednesday Play'', Graeme MacDonald and Irene Shubik, transferred to the new series. Shubik continued with the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold The Back Page
''Hold the Back Page'' is a British television series which originally aired on BBC One between 12 November 1985 and 28 January 1986. A sports reporter transfers from a broadsheet to a tabloid.Vahimagi p.301 Main cast * David Warner as Ken Wordsworth * Eric Allan as Reg * Gil Brailey as Alison * Lee Whitlock as Charlie Wordsworth * David Horovitch as Russell de Vries * Peter-Hugo Daly as Steve Stevens * Richard Ireson as Frank McNab * Tilly Vosburgh Matilda Vosburgh (born 17 December 1960) is a British character actress. Early life Born in the Westminster district of London, Vosburgh is the daughter of comedy writer and lyricist Dick Vosburgh and former actress Beryl Vosburgh (née Roque ... as Ruby References Bibliography * Vahimagi, Tise . ''British Television: An Illustrated Guide''. Oxford University Press, 1996. External links * {{IMDb title, id=0181224 BBC television dramas 1985 British television series debuts 1986 British television series endings 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergerac (TV Series)
''Bergerac'' is a British crime drama television series. Set in Jersey, it ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Australian Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who is initially a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later leaves the force and becomes a private investigator. Westward Studios executive producer Brian Constantine said the Bergerac reboot was in the final stages of development, possibly airing 2024. Background The series ran from 1981 to 1991. It was created by producer Robert Banks Stewart after an earlier detective series, '' Shoestring,'' starring Trevor Eve, came to an abrupt end. Like ''Shoestring'', the series begins with a man returning to work after a particularly bad period in his life: Eddie Shoestri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Births
Year 194 (Roman numerals, CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 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 and Clodius Albinus, Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus (194), Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 Roman legion, legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the Defensive wall, city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
