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Jan Miller (actress)
Jan Miller is a former British actress, known mainly for film and television work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in particular her role as WPC Alex Johns in ''Dixon of Dock Green'', from 1962 to 1964. Career One of her earliest films was '' Raising a Riot'' in 1955, which also featured Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, and Miller's sister Mandy Miller. Personal life She is the sister of child actress Mandy Miller. She was married to actor Howard Pays (later divorced), whom she met on the set of the daily ITV soap opera '' Sixpenny Corner''. They had at least two children: the actress Amanda Pays, and Debra. Selected filmography ;Films * '' Raising a Riot'' (1955) * '' The Secret'' (1955) * ''A Guest for the Gallows'' (1955) * ''The Wedding Dress'' (1955) * ''The Return of Calico Jack'' (1957) * ''Incident in Soho'' (1961) * '' Stranglehold'' (1963) ;Television * '' The Vise'' (1958–1959) * '' Plateau of Fear'' (1961) * ''Dixon of Dock Green'' (1962–1964) *''Compact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Activities Purpose The BFI was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history, heritage and culture of the United Kingdom. Archive The BFI maintain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixon Of Dock Green
''Dixon of Dock Green'' is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. It ran from 1955 to 1976. The central character, George Dixon, first appeared in the film ''The Blue Lamp'' (1950). Dixon is a mature and sympathetic police constable, who was played by Jack Warner (actor), Jack Warner in all of the 432 episodes. Dixon is the supposed embodiment of a typical "bobby" who would be familiar with the area in which he patrolled and its residents and often lived there himself. The series contrasted with later programmes such as ''Z-Cars'', which more realistically reflected a more aggressive policing culture. It retained a faithful following throughout its run and was voted second-most popular programme on British television in 1961. Character and name origins The character of Police Constable George Dixon was based on an old- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raising A Riot
''Raising a Riot'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser and Mandy Miller about a naval officer who attempts to look after his three children in his wife's absence. Plot summary Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging from five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighbourhood. Cast * Kenneth More as Peter Kent * Shelagh Fraser as Mary Kent * Mandy Miller as Anne Kent * Gary Billings as Peter Kent * Fusty Bentine as Fusty Kent * Ronald Squire as Grampy * Olga Lindo as Aunt Maud * Lionel Murton as Hary * Mary Laura Wood as Jacqueline * Jan Miller as Sue * Nora Nicholson as Miss Pettigrew * Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English actor. Initially achieving fame in the comedy ''Genevieve (film), Genevieve'' (1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include ''Doctor in the House (film), Doctor in the House'' (1954), ''Raising a Riot'' (1955), ''The Admirable Crichton (1957 film), The Admirable Crichton'' (1957), ''The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw'' (1958) and ''Next to No Time'' (1958). He also played more serious roles as a leading man, beginning with ''The Deep Blue Sea (1955 film), The Deep Blue Sea'' (1955), ''Reach for the Sky'' (1956), ''A Night to Remember (1958 film), A Night to Remember'' (1958), ''North West Frontier (film), North West Frontier'' (1959), ''The 39 Steps (1959 film), The 39 Steps'' (1959) and ''Sink the Bismarck!'' (1960). Although his career declined in the early 1960s, two of his own favourite films date from this time – ''The Comedy Man'' (1964) and ''The Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelagh Fraser
Sheila Mary Fraser (25 November 1920 – 29 August 2000) was an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the television serial ''A Family at War'' (1970–1971) and as Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru in ''Star Wars'' (1977). Early life Shelagh Fraser was born in Purley, Surrey, on 25 November 1920. Her parents were John Newton Mappin Fraser and Vera Eleanor (née Beardshaw). Her father was a director of the jewellery company Mappin & Webb, and the family was sent to Australia to establish a branch of the family business there. They returned to the United Kingdom in 1924. As a child, Shelagh suffered from spinal tuberculosis, but overcame the debilitating effects of the illness. She was educated at St Christopher's School in Kingswood and won a scholarship to train as an actor at Croydon Repertory Theatre Drama School. It was there that Fraser made her first stage appearance in 1938. Career Fraser had a wide range of roles on the stage. She made her West End theatre de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Miller
Mandy Miller (born Carmen Isabella Miller on 23 July 1944) is an English former child actress who made a number of films in the 1950s. She is also remembered for her recording of the 1956 song " Nellie the Elephant". Early life Carmen Isabella Miller, known professionally as Mandy Miller, was born in 1944. Career Miller's first film appearance was at the age of six, when she played Gladdie, a little girl who helps Sidney Stratton escape from an angry mob in ''The Man in the White Suit''. She later said that she had got the part purely by chance. She had been accompanying her father on a visit to Ealing Studios. During the morning, they went to the canteen, where Alexander Mackendrick, the film's director, was having coffee. On seeing Mandy, he reportedly said, "That’s a funny face, I could use that funny face in my next film."Cited in The following year, a casting agent at Ealing invited her to do a screen test for the title role in '' Mandy'', which was also directed by Mack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixpenny Corner
''Sixpenny Corner'' was the UK's first daily TV soap opera, broadcast by ITV from September 1955 until June 1956. The programme was created by Jonquil Antony and Hazel Adair; the latter later co-created ''Crossroads''. The 15-minute episodes centred on a recently married young couple, Bill and Sally Norton, played by Howard Pays and Patricia Dainton. The setting was the fictional rural town of Springwood, where Bill ran a small garage business at Sixpenny Corner. All of the 180 episodes are lost. Cast The cast includes: *Patricia Dainton *Howard Pays *Robert Webber * Betty Bowden * Robert Desmond *Shirley Mitchell * Stuart Saunders * Olive Milbourne * Walter Horsbrugh * Christine Pollon * Elizabeth Gott *Edward Judd Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor. Biography Born in Shanghai, Judd and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked Republic of China (1912–49), China five years later. His ca ... * Vi Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Pays
Amanda Pays (born 6 June 1959) is an English interior designer, actress, and television presenter. She is known for her television series roles as Theora Jones in ''Max Headroom'' and as Tina McGee in ''The Flash'' and the 2014 series of the same name. As an interior designer, Pays hosts the show ''Breathing Room'' on Fine Living Network. Early life Pays was born on 6 June 1959 in London, the daughter of actors Jan Miller and Howard Pays. Her aunt is the former child actress Mandy Miller. Career Pays made her film debut in ''Oxford Blues'' (1984) and she played a French nun, Sister Nicole, in '' Off Limits'' (1988 film) with Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines and Fred Ward. Pays also had a guest role as Phoebe Green in the episode "Fire" (1993) of ''The X-Files'', in the episode "Cindy Plumb" (2006) of ''Nip/Tuck'', and in the episode " Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (2008) of ''Psych'', opposite her husband Corbin Bernsen. She also appeared in early 1980s music videos, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret (1955 Film)
''The Secret'' is a 1955 British second feature ('B') crime drama written and directed by Cy Endfield (as C. Raker Endfield) and starring Sam Wanamaker, Mandy Miller, and André Morell. Plot Nick Delaney, an American stranded in England without money, meets a woman who has smuggled diamonds into the country inside a teddy bear. But his hopes for financial aid are shattered when she is pushed from a cliff. Delaney then finds himself the prime suspect. He finally gets his hands on the gems but loses them to a gang of crooks. Can Delaney prove his innocence and shop the crooks to the police? Cast * Sam Wanamaker as Nick Delaney * Mandy Miller as Katie Martin * André Morell as Chief Inspector Blake * Marian Spencer as Aunt Doris * Jan Miller as Margaret * Richard O'Sullivan as John Martin * Wyndham Goldie as Doctor Scott * Henry Caine as Superintendent * Aimée Delamain as Miss Lyons * John Miller as toy shop assistant * Harold Berens as Frank Farmer Critical reception ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
