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James Morgan (actor)
James Morgan (born 8 August 1985) is a Welsh actor. Career Stage Morgan was born in Maesteg, South Wales on 8 August 1985. He began acting in 1996, at the age of ten, when he was cast in the role of Charlie Bates in the Maesteg Amateur Operatic Society production of ''Oliver!''. He built up a reputation through acting in pantomime and musical theatre performances in the local community. He began to accrue significant roles on stage including Chino in ''West Side Story'' and Cosmo in ''Singin' in the Rain'' for Bridgend County Youth Theatre. This led to the role of Mark Anthony in ''A Chorus Line'' at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff as part of the International Festival of Musical Theatre in 2005. In 2008 Morgan joined the Swansea Little Theatre - the company that once counted Dylan Thomas as a member - playing George Milton in John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'' at the Dylan Thomas Theatre. The production received favourable reviews, earning him a Best Actor nomination at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maesteg
Maesteg (; ) is a town and community in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. Maesteg lies at the northernmost end of the Llynfi Valley, close to the border with Neath Port Talbot. In 2011, Maesteg had a population of 20,612. The English translation of Maesteg is 'fair field'. Maesteg officially became a town in 1826 and is celebrating it's bicentenary in 2026 with organised events and celebrations being organised by a committee of residents and local groups and businesses. Historically a part of Glamorgan, the growth of the town started with the opening of ironworks in the 1820s and 1830s. Once a coal mining area, the last pit closed in 1985. With the decline of the coal industry and, more recently, the closure of one large factory producing cosmetics and another manufacturing vehicle components, the valley has become a residential/dormitory area for the Port Talbot, Bridgend and Cardiff journey to work areas. 11% (1,867 out of 20,702) of the town's population speak Welsh with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagner (film)
''Wagner'' is a 1983 television miniseries on the life of Richard Wagner with Richard Burton in the title role. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written by Charles Wood. The film was later released on DVD as a ten-part miniseries. Other main roles were played by Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Craven, Marthe Keller, Ronald Pickup, Miguel Herz-Kestranek and László Gálffi. Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir Laurence Olivier played ministers of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The cast also includes the composer William Walton, and his wife Susan Walton, in the roles of the royal couple Frederick Augustus II of Saxony and Maria Anna of Bavaria. The music of Wagner was specially recorded for the film, and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Production Tony Palmer's original concept of ''Wagner'' was as a feature film. It lasted 7 hours 46 minutes, but it was later edited down to a 5-hour version in which some characters disappeared. Later the film was screened as a 10 episode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Another Day
''Room for Abuse'' is the second full-length album by the Tewkesbury ska punk band Spunge. It was released on 9 October 2000 on Sucka-Punch Records, and recorded at DEP International Studios, Birmingham (the studio owned by UB40). Two singles were released from the album, " Ego" and " Live Another Day" (which was a double A-side with a new version of "Kicking Pigeons" from their '' Pedigree Chump'' album). "No Woman No Cry" is a cover of the famous Bob Marley song, to which the Marley family officially gave Spunge permission to change the lyrics. " Santeria" is a cover of the Sublime song. Track listing # " Live Another Day" – 4:04 # "Get Along" – 2:31 # "Break Up" – 3:44 # "No Woman No Cry "No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was recorded in 1974 and released on the studio album '' Natty Dread''. The live recording of this song from the 1975 album '' Live!'' was released as a ..." – 4:25 # "All Gone Wrong" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Robert
Beth Robert is a Welsh television actress from Pont-rhyd-y-groes, Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ..., who has worked in television since 1986. Her appearances in TV series, in Welsh and English, include '' Hinterland'', '' The Indian Doctor'' and '' Pobol y Cwm''. Early and personal life Robert comes from the village of Pont-rhyd-y-groes near Aberystwyth. She went on to study at the College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, and graduated in 1986. Robert is married to Paul Harris. They met in Porthmadog in March 2000. They have one daughter together. Her father died when she was in her early twenties. Career Robert portrayed Lisa Morgan in the Welsh soap '' Pobol y Cwm'' for the first time in January 1990. In 1997, Lisa, Beth's character, was part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Williams (actor)
Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, presenter and screenwriter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the BBC sketch show ''The Fast Show''. His film roles include Horace in '' 101 Dalmatians'' (1996) and Arthur Weasley in seven of the ''Harry Potter'' films. He appeared in ''Doctor Who'' and ''Red Dwarf''. Since 2013, Williams has portrayed the title character in the long-running BBC series loosely based on the ''Father Brown'' short stories by G. K. Chesterton. Early life Williams was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England and grew up in Sidemoor. He was educated at North Bromsgrove High School and then Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in English in 1978. Career Williams' acting work began in small-scale touring theatre, and he worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. Williams came to wider public attention in the 1990s through the BBC sketch comedy programme ''The Fast Show'', in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayesha Dharker
Ayesha Dharker (born 16 March 1978) is a British actress, known for her appearance as Queen Jamillia, the Queen of Naboo, in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,'' and for her stage performances. Her other film roles include starring as a young woman brainwashed into contemplating becoming a suicide bomber in the Tamil film '' The Terrorist'' (1997), for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a National Film Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in '' Outsourced'' and ''The Mistress of Spices'', television series such as ''Arabian Nights'', and the West End and Broadway musical ''Bombay Dreams''. Family Dharker was born on 16 March 1978 in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Imtiaz Dharker, a poet, artist and documentary film-maker, and Anil Dharker, a columnist and an ex-editor of the Indian men's magazine '' Debonair''. Her father is from India and her mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Sanjeev Bhaskar (born 31 October 1963) is a British actor, comedian and television presenter. He is best known for his work in the BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two sketch comedy series ''Goodness Gracious Me (TV series), Goodness Gracious Me'' and as the star of the sitcom ''The Kumars at No. 42''. He also presented and starred in a documentary series called ''India with Sanjeev Bhaskar'', in which he travelled to India and visited his ancestral home in today's Pakistan. Bhaskar's more dramatic acting roles include the lead role of Dr Prem Sharma in ''The Indian Doctor'' and a main role as DI Sunny Khan in ''Unforgotten''. Bhaskar became chancellor of the University of Sussex in 2009. In 2006, Bhaskar was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, OBE. Early life and education Bhaskar was born on 31 October 1963 in Ealing, Middlesex. His parents, Inderjit and Janak Bhaskar, came to the UK after the partition of India. His elder sister was born five years be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Wales
ITV Cymru Wales is the ITV franchise for Wales. The new separate licence began on 1 January 2014, replacing the long-serving dual franchise region ITV Wales & West serving Wales and the West of England, which had previously used the branding "ITV Wales" within the Wales subregion. Licence The licence continues to be held by ITV Broadcasting Ltd, who hold all Channel 3 licences in England and Wales. As of January 2023, the former HTV West company is still legally named ITV Wales and West Ltd. The company is, along with most other regional companies, owned by ITV plc, though listed at Companies House as a "dormant company".ITV Cymru Wales news shake-up under new Ofcom licence Huw Thomas, |
Leicester Square Theatre
The Leicester Square Theatre is a 400-seat theatre in Leicester Place, immediately north of Leicester Square, in the City of Westminster, London. It was previously known as Notre Dame Hall, Cavern in the Town and The Venue. The theatre hosts stand-up comedy, cabaret, music, plays and comedies. __TOC__ History The building originated as the Notre Dame Hall in 1953, replacing an earlier building that had been destroyed by World War II bombing, and part of the rebuild of the adjacent Notre Dame de France church, and the hall was used as a French cultural centre for a time. It became a popular music venue in the 1960s under the name Cavern in the Town, regularly hosting beat music group The Small Faces. It was renamed Notre Dame Hall in the 1970s and presented The Rolling Stones and The Who, but specialised in punk music, hosting such acts as The Sex Pistols. In 1979, The Clash previewed material from '' London Calling'' here shortly before recording the album. In the mid-9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crucible
''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was later questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold, and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although ''The New York Times'' noted "a powerful play n adriving performance"). The production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are '' All My Sons'' (1947), '' Death of a Salesman'' (1949), ''The Crucible'' (1953), and '' A View from the Bridge'' (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including '' The Misfits'' (1961). The drama ''Death of a Salesman'' is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and married Marilyn Monroe. In 1980, he received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Proctor (Salem Witch Trials)
John Proctor may refer to: * John Proctor (artist) (1836–1914), Scottish cartoonist and illustrator * John Proctor (Salem witch trials) (1632–1692), hanged after being falsely accused and convicted for witchcraft * John Proctor (historian) (1521–1558), English schoolmaster * John Proctor (inventor) (1804–1822), American inventor * John Proctor (FBI agent) (1926–1999), American FBI agent * John Proctor (MP) (1520?–1558/59), English politician * John Proctor (bobsleigh) (born 1950), American bobsledder * John E. Proctor (1844–1944), American politician in the state of Florida * Jack Proctor (1871–1893), English footballer * John Clagett Proctor (1867–1956), American local historian, newspaper columnist, and printer See also * John Procter (other) * * Proctor John, fictional character in ''Fear the Walking Dead'' * Proctor (surname) {{hndis, Proctor, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
