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Escapade (1955 Film)
''Escapade'' is a 1955 British comedy drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell and Alastair Sim. It was based on a long-running West End play of the same name by Roger MacDougall. The film was produced at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bernard Robinson. The location shots of the school were filmed at Epsom College. Plot summary A husband and father becomes so preoccupied with a political cause that he neglects his familial responsibilities, leading to his children running away from home. Cast * John Mills as John Hampden * Yvonne Mitchell as Mrs. Stella Hampden * Alastair Sim as Dr. Skillingworth * Jeremy Spenser as L. W. Daventry * Andrew Ray as Max Hampden * Marie Lohr as Stella Hampden, Senior * Colin Gordon as Deeson, Reporter * Nick Edmett as Paton * Peter Asher as Johnny Hampden * Christopher Ridley as Potter * Sean Barrett as Warren * Colin Freear a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Leacock
Philip David Charles Leacock (8 October 1917 – 14 July 1990) was an English television and film director and producer. His brother was documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock. Career Born in London, England, Leacock spent his childhood in the Canary Islands. He began his career directing documentaries and later turned to fiction films. He was known for his films about children, particularly '' The Kidnappers'' (US: ''The Little Kidnappers'', 1953), which gained Honorary Juvenile Acting Oscars for two of its performers, and '' The Spanish Gardener'' (1956) starring Dirk Bogarde. He also directed '' High Tide at Noon'' (1958) and '' Innocent Sinners'' (1958) with Flora Robson. He began to work mainly in Hollywood, where he made '' The Rabbit Trap'' (1959) with Ernest Borgnine and '' Take a Giant Step'' (1959) about a black youth's encounter with racism, both under contract to Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions. He followed with '' Let No Man Write My Epitaph'' (1960) about an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nettlefold Studios
Walton Studios, previously named Hepworth Studios and Nettlefold Studios, was a film production studio in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, England.hepworthfilm.org Retrieved 2011-12-28 Hepworth was a pioneering studio in the early 20th century and released the first film adaptation of '''' ('''', 1903). The decline of the British cinematic production industry in the mid-20th century led to a decline in work for the facility, and after failing to financially survive as a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rae (actor)
John Rae (21 June 1895 – 4 June 1977) was a Scottish actor. He appeared in films including ''I Know Where I'm Going!'' (1945), '' The Big Chance'' (1957), ''Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment'' (1966) and ''Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969). Selected filmography * '' Neutral Port'' (1940) - (uncredited) * '' Tawny Pipit'' (1944) - Mr. Dougal * '' One Exciting Night'' (1944) - Scottish Official (uncredited) * ''Soldier, Sailor'' (1944) - Chief Engineer * '' He Snoops to Conquer'' (1945) - (uncredited) * ''I Know Where I'm Going!'' (1945) - Old Shepherd * ''Green for Danger'' (1947) - The Porter * '' So Well Remembered'' (1947) - Man in Street (uncredited) * ''Bonnie Prince Charlie'' (1948) - Duncan * ''The Brave Don't Cry'' (1952) - Donald Sloan * '' The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan'' (1953) - Ferguson * '' Johnny on the Run'' (1953) - Radio Salesman * '' The Heart of the Matter'' (1953) - Loder (uncredited) * ''The Kidnappers'' (US: ''The Little Kidnappers'', 1953) - Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Dignam
Cuthbert Mark Dignam (20 March 1909 – 29 September 1989) was an English actor. Born in London, the son of a salesman in the steel industry, Dignam grew up in Sheffield, and was educated at the Jesuit College, where he appeared in numerous Shakespearean plays. He learned his craft touring Britain and America with Ben Greet's Shakespeare company. His range extended from the Louis Macneice radio play, ''The Dark Tower'' in the 1940s to the TV thriller, '' The XYY Man'' in the late 1970s. Along with Philip Guard and John Bryning, Dignam can be heard on the fade-out of the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus", during which is played a 1967 BBC radio broadcast of King Lear, with Dignam in the role of the Earl of Gloucester. Dignam was married three times, divorced twice (his character in '' The XYY Man'' frequently complains about the expense of maintaining multiple ex-wives). Family His brother Basil was also a well-known character actor and his sister-in-law was the actress Mona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Barrett (actor)
Seán Justin Barrett (born 4 May 1940) is a British actor. Career Television and film appearances Barrett began his career as a child actor, appearing on BBC children's television and in films such as '' Bang! You're Dead'', ''A Cry from the Streets'', ''War and Peace'', '' The Genie'' and '' Four Sided Triangle''. Years later he made many appearances in television and films including '' ITV Television Playhouse'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Wednesday Play'', '' Cast a Giant Shadow'', '' Emergency Ward 10'', ''Chronicle'', ''Armchair Theatre'', '' Hell Boats'', '' Moonstrike'', '' Attack on the Iron Coast'', '' Softly, Softly'', '' BBC Play of the Month'', ''Paul of Tarsus'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', ''Father Ted'', ''Holby City'', '' Brush Strokes'', ''Minder'', '' Poldark'', '' Noah's Ark'' and '' Theatre 625''. Voice actor and narrator In the mid-1970s Barrett was cast in the BBC Radio series of George Simenon's Inspector Maigret novels as Maigret's subordinate, Inspector Janvier. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Asher
Peter Asher (born 22 June 1944) is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and record producer, helping to foster the recording careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt among others. As of 2018, he tours alongside Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy in a new duo, Peter and Jeremy, who perform hits from both of their respective catalogues. In 2019, Asher published a book ''The Beatles from A to Zed'' about his personal reminiscences about the band. Early life Asher was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital to Richard and Margaret Asher, ''née'' Eliot. His father was a consultant in blood and mental diseases at the Central Middlesex Hospital, as well as being a broadcaster and the author of notable medical articles. Asher's mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. One of her pupils there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Gordon
Colin Gordon (27 April 1911 – 4 October 1972) was a British actor. Although primarily a stage actor he made numerous appearances on television and in cinema films, generally in comedies. His stage career was mainly in the West End, but he was seen in the provinces in some touring productions. Biography Early years Gordon was born in British Ceylon, the son of William Arthur Gordon and his wife Lily Vera, ''née'' Troup. He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford.Herbert, pp. 843–844 He first appeared on the professional stage in repertory at the Palace Theatre, Watford from January to December 1934. He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of Alfred, the carthorse, in a production of ''Toad of Toad Hall'' at the Royalty Theatre. At the same theatre he played James in ''Frolic Wind'' (March 1935, described by ''The Stage'' as "a distinguished failure"), and Peter in ''Closing At Sunrise'' (September 1935). From 1936 to 1939 he di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Lohr
Marie Kate Wouldes Lohr (28 July 1890 – 21 January 1975) was an Australian-born actress, active on stage and in film in Britain. During a career of more than 60 years she created roles in plays by, among others, Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, Frederick Lonsdale, Somerset Maugham, William Douglas-Home and Noël Coward. She appeared mainly in the West End, but toured the British provinces at intervals throughout her career, appeared in Broadway productions and toured Canada. Biography Marie Löhr was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Lewis J. Löhr, treasurer of the Melbourne opera house, and his wife, the English actress Kate Bishop (1848–1923).Herbert, pp. 1097–1100 Her maternal uncle Alfred Bishop and her godparents, William and Madge Kendal, were also actors. She moved with her mother to England in 1898 and began to act as a child. Lohr married Anthony Leyland Prinsep, a theatrical producer, at St-Martin-in-the-Fields in 1912. They divorced in 1928. On the death of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ray
Andrew Ray (31 May 193920 August 2003) was an English actor who was best known as a child star. Biography He was born Andrew Olden (Ray was his father's stage name) in Southgate, Middlesex, the son of the radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy Sybil (née Stevens). Ray's life was transformed at the age of 10 when he was cast in the title part of ''The Mudlark'', a 20th Century Fox film starring Alec Guinness and Irene Dunne. He played a street urchin who ends up meeting Queen Victoria. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance in 1950. He was featured in numerous films during the next few years, including '' The Yellow Balloon'' (1953), '' Escapade'' (1955), '' Woman in a Dressing Gown'' (1957), '' The Young and the Guilty'' (1958), '' Serious Charge'' (1959) with Cliff Richard, '' Twice Round the Daffodils'' (1962), and '' The System'' (1964). He also portrayed Herbert Pocket in the ITC remake of Charles Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' (1974) oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Spenser
Jeremy Spenser (born Jeremy John Dornhurst de Saram; 16 July 1937) is a British actor who is widely known for his work in film and television from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. He made his screen debut aged 11 in ''Anna Karenina'' (1948). The following year he played in the black comedy ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' as the young Louis Mazzini. He played the young King Nicolas in '' The Prince and the Showgirl'' with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe and in '' Ferry to Hong Kong'' with Orson Welles. In the 1960s, the role offers began to slow down. His last film role was in 1966's ''Fahrenheit 451'' directed by François Truffaut, after which Spenser retired from acting. Some of his notable film credits include ''Term of Trial'' (1962), and '' The Informers'' (1963). Personal life Jeremy Spenser is the brother of British actor, director, producer and writer David Spenser. Selected filmography * ''Anna Karenina'' (1948) - Giuseppe * ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epsom College
Epsom College is a co-educational independent school on Epsom Downs, Surrey, England, for pupils aged 11 to 18. It was founded in 1853 as a benevolent institution which provided a boarding school education for sons of poor or deceased members of the medical profession and also accommodation for pensioned doctors. The college soon after foundation opened to pupils from outside the medical profession. Over time the charitable work for medical professionals in hardship moved to a separate charity. By 1996 the school was fully co-educational and now takes day pupils throughout. The headteacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Foundation The school was founded in 1853 by John Propert as the Royal Medical Benevolent College, with the aim to provide accommodation for pensioned medical doctors or their widows and to provide a "liberal education" to 100sons of "duly qualified medical men" for £25 each year. The establishment of the college was the cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Robinson (production Designer)
Bernard Robinson (born 1912 in Liverpool, England, died 1970) designed sets for several of Hammer's films in their heyday, including ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), ''Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas'' (1957), ''Dracula'' (1958), '' Curse of the Werewolf'' (1960), ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1962), '' The Gorgon'' (1964) and '' Quatermass and the Pit'' (1968). He was known for giving the Hammer films a lavish, expensive look while working on a restricted budget. The association ended with his premature death in 1970. Career Bernard Robinson designed some of Hammer's greatest productions. His widow, the puppeteer Margaret Robinson, also worked on many Hammer films. The knack that Bernard possessed was that he managed to give Hammer's films a very expensive look working from a tiny budget. Both space and materials were extremely limited at Bray Studios. Robinson got over this by ingeniously disguising previously used sets for different films, sometimes even for differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
