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Howard Pays
Howard Pays (11 June 1927 – 12 April 2002) was an English actor who, in partnership with Freddy Vale, started the London-based talent agency CCA. Early life Howard Pays was born in West Ham, Essex on 11 June 1927. Career His first television role was playing the part of Bill Norton in the 1955–56 ITV daily soap opera '' Sixpenny Corner''. All 181 episodes have been announced as lost by their producer, ''BBC Television''. After retiring from acting, he established a talent agency in London with Freddy Vale. The agency did well, representing clients such as actor John Rhys-Davies and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts. Personal life Pays met his future wife, Jan Miller, on the set of ''Sixpenny Corner''. One of their daughters, Amanda Pays, also became an actor. They had at least one other child, a daughter called Debra. His second wife was Lynne. Pays died on 12 April 2002 in Alton, Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavens Above!
''Heavens Above!'' is a 1963 British satirical comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, and starring Peter Sellers. It was written by John Boulting and Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. Plot A naive but caring prison chaplain, John Smallwood, is accidentally assigned as vicar to the small and prosperous English country town of Orbiston Parva, instead of a cleric with the same name who is favoured by the Bishop who wants to maintain the support for the church of the Despard family, who practically run the town and operate a large factory there. Smallwood's belief in the practical application of charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the locals, whose assertions that they are good, Christian people are belied in Smallwood's eyes by their behaviour and ideas. He creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a family being evicted from their illegal encampment, and persuading local landowner Lady Desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Anthony Pierce-Roberts (born in Birkenhead, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...) is a British cinematographer. Filmography Short film Feature film Television Miniseries TV movies Awards and nominations Academy Awards American Society of Cinematographers BAFTA Awards British Academy Television Craft Awards British Society of Cinematographers Camerimage Evening Standard British Film Awards New York Film Critics Circle References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierce-Roberts, Tony English cinematographers Living people People from Birkenhead Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Password Is Courage
''The Password Is Courage'' is a 1962 British comedy-drama war film written, produced, and directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, and Alfred Lynch. It was based on the 1954 World War II biography of the same name of Sergeant-Major Charles Coward by Ronald Payne and John Williams Garrod (written under the joint pseudonym John Castle). It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Plot Sergeant-Major Charles Coward is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity. When he is being transferred to Stalag VIII-B, the injured Coward escapes from a forced march, finding refuge in a French farmhouse and barn that is soon requisitioned by a German army unit setting up a field hospital. Believed to be a wounded German soldier, Coward is taken to a hospital, where his identity is discovered, but not before he is awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Afternoon
''Dangerous Afternoon'' is a 1961 British 'B' crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Ruth Dunning and Nora Nicholson. The screenplay was by Brandon Fleming based on the 1951 play of the same title by Gerald Anstruther. Plot On her release from prison, Jean Berry sets out to find escaped convict Irma Randall, with whom she has a score to settle. She discovers Irma is running a boarding house for retired lady criminals, under the assumed name of Letty Frost. When Jean blackmails Lefty, she attempts to poison Jean. Cast * Ruth Dunning as Miss Letty Frost * Nora Nicholson as Mrs Louisa Sprule * Joanna Dunham as Freda * Howard Pays as Jack Loring * May Hallatt as Miss Burge * Gwenda Wilson as Miss Jean Berry * Ian Colin as Reverend Everard Porson * Gladys Henson as Miss Cassell * Barbara Everest as Mrs Judson * Max Brimmell as Dr Spalding * James Raglan as Sir Phillip Morstan * Trevor Reid as Inspector Craven * Jerold Wells as George "Butch" Birling Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Back Losers
''Never Back Losers'' is a 1961 British 'B' crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis and Patrick Magee. It was written by Lucas Heller based on the 1929 novel '' The Green Ribbon'' by Edgar Wallace. It was one of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, produced at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s. Plot Horse racing jockey Wally Sanders loses a race, crashes his car, and a claim is made on his insurance. Jim Matthews, a shrewd insurance investigator, follows up the company's suspicion of foul play and finds himself deep in a web of gambling and corruption surrounding the racetrack. Cast * Jack Hedley as Jim Matthews * Jacqueline Ellis as Marion Parker * Patrick Magee as Ben Black * Richard Warner as Crabtree * Derek Francis as R. R. Harris * Austin Trevor as Colonel Warburton * Harry Locke as Burnside * Larry Martyn as Clive Parker * Howard Pays as Freddie * Hilda Barry as Mrs Sanders * George Tovey as Wally Sanders * Larry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre'' on television in the United States. Synopsis Producers Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy acquired the film rights to all of Edgar Wallace's books and stories in 1960. The original intent was that 30 of the films would be produced by Independent Artists at Beaconsfield Studios while a further 20 would be made by the Film Producers Guild at Merton Park Studios. In the event, Independent Artists' only contribution to the series would be '' The Malpas Mystery'' (1960) while more than double the intended 20 were made at Merton Park. The resulting adaptations were loose, with very few using Wallace's original titles. Like the concurrent Rialto Film series then being produced in Germany (see German krimis) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Joe
''Just Joe'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers, and starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, and Anna May Wong. The screenplay was by Raymond Drewe based on a story by Donald Bull. The unassuming Joe discovers his heroic side when he becomes involved with spies chasing the secret formula of a new detergent. Plot Cast * Leslie Randall as Joe * Joan Reynolds as Sybil * Michael Shepley as Fowler * Anna May Wong as Peach Blossom * Jon Pertwee as Prendergast * Howard Pays as Rodney * Martin Wyldeck as Bill * Noel Dyson as Myra * Bruce Seton as Charlie * David Sale as Carruthers * Betty Huntley-Wright as Miss Appleby Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...'' wrote: "Despite simp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cone Of Silence (film)
''Cone of Silence'' (also known as ''Trouble in the Sky'' in the United States) is a 1960 British drama film directed by Charles Frend and starring Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, George Sanders and Bernard Lee. The film is based upon the novel of that name by David Beaty, which is loosely based on a 1952 plane crash in Rome and subsequent investigations into the structural integrity of the de Havilland Comet airliner. The title refers to a technical term used in the low-frequency radio range. An identification of a range's cone of silence is shown early in the film. Plot Captain George Gort is a pilot for British Empire Airways, flying the London—Rome—Cairo—Ranjibad—Calcutta—Singapore route. He is found to have been at fault after his Phoenix 1 jetliner crashed on takeoff from Ranjibad airport, killing his copilot. He is accused of rotating too early, increasing drag to such an extent that the aircraft could not achieve flying speed. Gort is reprimanded and reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urge To Kill (film)
''Urge to Kill'' is a 1960 British second feature serial killer film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Patrick Barr, Ruth Dunning and Terence Knapp. The screenplay was by James Eastwood based on the 1942 novel ''Hughie Roddis'' and 1944 play ''Hand in Glove'', both by Gerald Savory. Plot While making her way home from the cinema one night in a particularly grey and drab town, a young woman is murdered in an unusually brutal and sadistic manner. Local suspicion immediately falls on Hughie, a strangely behaved and not very bright local youth who has a habit of wandering aimlessly around the town at all hours randomly collecting stray bits and pieces, with a particular fondness for broken glass – which unfortunately for Hughie happens to have been one of the weapons used in the fatal attack. Hughie lives in the lodging house run by his aunt, along with a selection of boarders including a kindly elderly gent with a penchant for Bible-bashing and a smooth-talking ladies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Street
''Jungle Street'', released in the U.S. as ''Jungle Street Girls'', is a 1961 black-and-white second feature British crime drama directed by Charles Saunders and starring David McCallum, Kenneth Cope and Jill Ireland. The screenplay was written by Alexander Doré from a story by Guido Coen. It was the first of three films produced by the Theatrecraft production company in the early 1960s along with ''Dangerous Afternoon'' (1961) and ''Strongroom'' (1962). Plot A #12 double-decker bus headed for Harlesden drives through London and stops in Shepherd's Bush. An elderly man disembarks and is mugged by a young man in an alley. At the Adam and Eve Club, where girls perform erotic dances on stage, club lobby car mechanic and petty criminal Terry Collins speaks with Joe Lucas at the outer bar and asks to see the owner, gangster Jacko Fielding, who is with his main girl, Sue. Julie the hatcheck girl brings the evening's takings and Terry eyes them greedily. In the club, Terry watches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Crooks
''Too Many Crooks'' is a 1959 British black comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole (actor), George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Sid James, Sidney James, Bernard Bresslaw and Vera Day. It was written by Michael Pertwee and Christiane Rochefort from a story by Jean Nery. A bunch of inept crooks kidnap the wife of a shady businessman, only for him to decide he doesn’t want her back. Plot The members of a gang, especially Sid, grow impatient as their incompetent leader, Fingers, botches the robbery of a fur store, the latest in a series of disasters. Fingers then comes up with the idea of robbing businessman William Gordon. Gordon bluffs them into believing the police are on their way. Fingers refuses to give up, plotting to kidnap Gordon's daughter. However, he errs yet again and ends up with Gordon's meek wife Lucy instead. Thinking she will do just as well, Fingers demands £25,000 ransom for her safe return. To his surprise, Gordon gleefully re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrors Of The Black Museum
''Horrors of the Black Museum'' is a 1959 British horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow and Shirley Anne Field. It was the first film in what film critic David Pirie dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" (the other two being '' Circus of Horrors'' (1960) and ''Peeping Tom'' (1960)), with an emphasis on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones), in contrast to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films of the same era. Plot A package is delivered to Gail, a young blonde woman with a roommate named Peggy. Gail opens the package to find a pair of binoculars, but when she uses them to look out a window, she screams and collapses, dying. The binoculars are revealed to have two spikes emerging out of the eyepiece. Peggy is being interviewed by Superintendent Graham and Inspector Lodge when journalist and crime writer Edmond Bancroft enters the room. He wishes to see the binoculars for himself, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
