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James Copeland (actor)
James Copeland (1 May 1918 – 17 April 2002) was a Scottish actor. His film work began in 1953, the year which saw him play the most prominent role of his movie career, that of Andy McGregor in the ensemble cast of '' Innocents in Paris''. Other roles included Mackay in ''The Seekers'' (1954), the ship's mate in ''The Maggie'' (1954), '' Rockets Galore!'' (1958), a police constable (at a road block) in '' The 39 Steps'' (1959), '' Farewell Performance'' (1963), '' Torture Garden'' (1967), and the guide in '' The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' (1970). He also appeared on TV as one of the first continuity announcers/newsreaders with Aberdeen-based station Grampian TV, from its inception in September 1961, he left the station after a few months and returned to acting where he also played the Gond leader Selris in the ''Doctor Who'' story '' The Krotons'', Captain Ogilvie in '' Operation Kilt'', an early episode of ''Dad's Army'', and the Scottish customer in ''Camping In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helensburgh
Helensburgh ( ; ) is a town on the north side of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, situated at the mouth of the Gareloch. Historically in Dunbartonshire, it became part of Argyll and Bute following local government reorganisation in 1996. History History context (Prehistoric–1858) Although it has long been known that there are some prehistoric remains in the Helensburgh area, recent fieldwork by the North Clyde Archaeological Society has uncovered more. However the oldest building in the town itself is Ardencaple Castle which was the ancestral home of Clan MacAulay, and the history of which may date back to the twelfth century. Today only one tower of this building remains, the rest having been demolished in 1957–59. In 1752 Sir James Colquhoun (died 1786), chief of the Clan Colquhoun of Luss, bought the land which was to become Helensburgh; at that time it was known by such names as Malig, Millig or Milligs. In 1776 he placed an advertisement in a Glasgow newspaper seekin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Kilt
"Operation Kilt" is an episode in the British sitcomedy series ''Dad's Army''. The first episode of the second series, it was originally transmitted on Saturday 1 March 1969. Synopsis The platoon have to defend the church hall from a platoon of Highlanders on an exercise. Plot Captain Mainwaring leads the platoon in required PT exercises, being briefly interrupted by some rowdy boys and then Mrs Pike, who brings a rifle bolt Private Pike left at home and that she cleaned in the sink. After Mainwaring hurts his back during some toe touching due to his lumbago, Captain Ogilvie of the Highland Unit arrives and helps him before informing the men that they are to participate in a training exercise where the Highlanders will attempt to capture the platoon's headquarters, starting at 10pm the following night. A complicated system of paints will be used to mark the dead, wounded, and captured. Ogilvie is dismissive of the group's competency as soldiers and punches Pike in the stomach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actors From Helensburgh
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Births
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide. In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 ''(Gregorian Calendar)''. Events World War I will be abbreviated as "WWI" January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" ( influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Soviet Russia, Sweden, Germany and France. * January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui Native Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Man
''The Big Man'' (US title: ''Crossing the Line'') is a 1990 British sports drama film directed by David Leland. It stars Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly. The film's score was composed by Ennio Morricone. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by William McIlvanney. Synopsis Set in a once prosperous mining community, now a ghost town, an unemployed miner who was imprisoned for his part in the miner's strike is released from jail, and in order to make some money agrees to take part in a boxing fight. However, he discovers the real implications of the fight, and finds himself caught up with the Glaswegian gangland society. Plot In the mid-1980s, Danny Scoular marries Beth. Several years later, the couple have two children and Danny is a striking miner, who is sentenced to six months in prison for assaulting a police officer during a protest. Upon his release, the mine in his Scottish village has closed and he is banned from mining regardless, having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunes Of Glory
''Tunes of Glory'' is a 1960 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness and John Mills, featuring Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Duncan MacRae, Gordon Jackson and Susannah York. It is based on the 1956 novel and screenplay by James Kennaway. The film is a psychological drama focusing on events in a wintry Scottish Highland regimental barracks in the period immediately following the Second World War. Writer Kennaway served with the Gordon Highlanders, and the title refers to the bagpiping that accompanies every important action of the battalion. Plot In January 1948, at the officers' mess of a Highland battalion, Jock Sinclair announces that this is his last day as acting commanding officer. Sinclair, who is still only a substantive major despite having been in command (as an acting lieutenant-colonel) since the battalion's commanding officer died during the North Africa Campaign, is to be replaced by Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Barrow. Althou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Battle Of The River Plate (film)
''The Battle of the River Plate'' (a.k.a. ''Pursuit of the Graf Spee'' in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd. The film's storyline concerns the Battle of the River Plate, an early World War II naval engagement in 1939 between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship . Plot In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The British Royal Navy responds with hunting groups whose mission is to stop these attacks. In time, the German battleship ''Admiral Graf Spee'' is discovered in the Atlantic, just off South America, by a trio of British cruisers. With its speed and destructive firepower, ''Graf Spee'' is a for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Lucky People!
''You Lucky People!'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan. Originally titled ''Get Fell In'', the film was renamed to match Trinder's familiar catchphrase. It was shot in a rival French process to CinemaScope, called 'CameraScope', with the attendant publicity describing "the first feature to be made with an anamorphic lens in black and white! It's a camerascoop!". It was shot at Beaconsfield Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Ray Simm. Premise An intake of civilian reservists arrive at army camp to do their two weeks refresher training. Cast * Tommy Trinder as Tommy Smart * Mary Parker as Private Sally Briggs * Dora Bryan as Sergeant Hortense Tipp * R.S.M. Brittain as Himself * James Copeland as Private Jim Campbell * Michael Kelly as Sergeant Manners * Mark Singleton as Lieutenant Arthur Robson * Charles Rolfe as Hooky * Rolf Harris as Private Proudfoot * Rufus Cruikshank as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mask Of Dust
''Mask of Dust'' is a 1954 British second feature motor racing drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris and Peter Illing. It was written by Richard H. Landau based on the 1953 novel ''The Last Race'' by Jon Manchip White. Jimmy Sangster was production manager, J. Elder Wills was art director and Phil Leakey handled Makeup. Filming ran from March 25, 1954 until May 8, 1954. The film was trade shown on Nov. 23, and released on December 27 in the UK. It was released in January 1955 in the United States by Lippert Pictures retitled ''A Race for Life.'' Plot A freestyle racing driver must choose between his love for racing, and his wife. His friend's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend – his main rival. Cast *Richard Conte as Peter Wells * Mari Aldon as Patricia Wells *Peter Illing as Tony Bellario *Alec Mango as Guido Rosetti * James Copeland as Johnny Jackson * George Coulouris a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailor Of The King
''Sailor of the King'' is a 1953 British war film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie and Wendy Hiller. It is based on the 1929 novel '' Brown on Resolution'' by C. S. Forester. Set largely in the Pacific, Hunter stars as a Canadian sailor serving on a British warship who battles single-handedly to delay a German World War II warship long enough for the Royal Navy to bring it to battle. The film was released in Britain as ''Single-Handed''. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in the Mediterranean around Malta. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky An earlier 1935 film '' Forever England'' was based on the same novel and starred John Mills under Walter Forde's direction. Plot During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxdale Hall
''Laxdale Hall'' (also known as ''Poacher Story'' and ''The Road to Nowhere''; U.S. title: ''Scotch on the Rocks'') is a 1953 British romantic comedy film directed by John Eldridge and starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley and Sebastian Shaw, with Prunella Scales and Fulton Mackay in early roles. It was adapted by Alfred Shaughnessy and Eldridge from the 1951 novel '' Laxdale Hall'' by Eric Linklater. The people of a small Scottish community refuse to pay their road tax until the government repairs their road. The story touches upon the British Town Planning system – mocking the New Towns Act 1946 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68). Plot The few car owners of Laxdale, a remote village near the Isle of Skye at Applecross, refuse to pay their Road Fund taxes, in protest against the poor state of the only road to the village. A series of summonses, sent out via the local police, mysteriously disappear. The government sends a delegation to investigate. It is led by Samu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
