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John Abineri
John Abineri (18 May 1928 – 29 June 2000) was an English actor. Born in London, he attended the Old Vic drama school and described himself as "Well educated from the age of five to eighteen". He spoke a number of languages (including German, Russian and French) fluently, which led to him being cast as a number of different nationalities. His extensive television performances included numerous roles in cult TV drama series, for which he is now probably best remembered. He had regular roles in ''Survivors'' as Hubert Goss, and in HTV's ''Robin of Sherwood'' as Herne the Hunter. He appeared on four occasions in ''Doctor Who'' and also in the ''Blake's 7'' episode "Hostage", taking over the role of Ushton after the sudden death of the actor Duncan Lamont, with whom he had co-starred in the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' Death to the Daleks''. He also appeared as Sir George Mortenhurze in the BBC's ''The Moon Stallion'', as Arnold Rimmer's father in ''Red Dwarf'', and as Father Gruber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whodunnit? (British Game Show)
''Whodunnit?'' is a British television game show that aired on ITV from 15 August 1972 to 26 June 1978. The show was devised by Jeremy Lloyd and Lance Percival and was originally aired as a pilot with Shaw Taylor as host. It then became a full show, with the first series being hosted by Edward Woodward and then Jon Pertwee took over hosting duties from the second series until the show's end. Format Each week it featured a short murder-mystery drama enacted in front of a panel of four celebrity guests who then had to establish who the murderer was. One week there was a smuggling mystery and no murder. The panel members could interview the remaining characters, with the proviso that only the guilty party or parties could lie. Each panellist could also request to see a short replay of one section of the initial drama, which would often include events as they occurred and flashbacks as seen and narrated by individual suspects. For series 1, the entire audience also took part in g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Around The World In 80 Days (TV Miniseries)
''Around the World in 80 Days'' is a three-part television miniseries originally broadcast on NBC from April 16 to 18, 1989. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peach ... is based on the 1873 Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days, novel of the same title. Plot The plot centres around Phileas Fogg (Pierce Brosnan) making a £30,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can Circumnavigation, circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French people, French valet Jean Passepartout, Passepartout (Eric Idle), and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix (Peter Ustinov) who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rebel (1961 Film)
''The Rebel'' (US title: ''Call Me Genius'') is a 1961 British satirical comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Tony Hancock. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film concerns the clash between bourgeois and bohemian cultures. Plot Tony, a disaffected London office clerk, catches the train to Waterloo Station every morning. Each commuter wears a bowler hat and carries an umbrella. In the City, Tony is one of many identical clerks in a dull office. One day his boss catches him drawing faces instead of working, and he is asked to produce his ledgers, which are full of poor quality caricatures. Back at his mid-terraced Victorian house lodgings, Tony dons his artist's smock, and resumes work on "Aphrodite at the Waterhole", a horrendous and huge sculpture. His landlady Mrs Crevatte complains about the hammering noise. He explains he cannot afford a model and it represents "women as he sees them". She threatens to evict him if he does not remove the statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Trap
''The White Trap'' is a 1959 British second feature ('B') thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Lee Patterson. The screenplay was by Peter Barnes. Plot Escaped convict Paul Langley tries to reach his wife who is about to have a baby. Cast *Lee Patterson as Paul Langley *Conrad Phillips as Sgt. Morrison *Michael Goodliffe as Inspector Walters *Yvette Wyatt as Ann Fisher *Felicity Young as Joan Langley *Trevor Maskell as Dr. Lucas * Harold Siddons as Maitland *Charles Leno as Padre *Ian Colin as Governor *Helen Towers as Hilda Maxwell * Jack Allen as Dr. Hayden *Gillian Vaughan as Wendy * John Abineri as Bernie, a Photographer (uncredited) Critical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "An efficient low-budget chase thriller, neither particularly credible nor (in its hectic opening escape scenes) original, but sufficiently taut and showmanlike to grip the attention." ''Picturegoer'' wrote: "The escape opening is somewhat routine, but the chase leads up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Abineri
Sebastian may refer to: People and fictional characters * Sebastian (name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Saint Sebastian, a Christian saint martyred in the 3rd century * Sebastian of Portugal (1554–1578), the sixteenth king of Portugal and the Algarve * Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain (1811–1875), Infante of Portugal (1811) and Infante of Spain (1824) * Sebastián (sculptor) (born 1947), artist based in Mexico * Sebastian (French musician), stage name of French musician, composer, producer, mixer, engineer, vocalist and DJ Sébastien Akchoté-Bozović (born 1981) * Sebastian (singer), stage name of Danish musician Knud Torben Christensen (born 1949) * Sebastian (rapper), stage name of American rapper Garland Mosley Jr., brother of Timbaland * Sin With Sebastian (also known as Sebastian), German musician Sebastian Roth (born 1971) * Mr. Sebastian, professional name of body pierce artist Alan Oversby (1933–1996) * Sebastian E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgino
''Giorgino'' is a 1994 French thriller film directed by Laurent Boutonnat. Plot It is October 1918 and the war-stricken Giorgio Volli ( Jeff Dahlgren) returns to the orphanage where he had been working as a care-taker before the war. Upon arrival, he discovers the wife of the orphanage owner has committed suicide. His attempts to save her are fruitless. Soon after, it is revealed that the house is abandoned, and the children died under unclear circumstances. The only survivor is a girl, Catherine (Mylène Farmer). Giorgio follows the mystery to a small village bordered with a treacherous marsh where the locals are terrified of wolves. Through speaking with the secretive locals and the mystifying Catherine, Giorgino finds out that the orphanage owner, Doctor Degrâce, was involved in psychiatric experiments with children, which may have caused the abandonment of the orphanage. Doctor Degrâce's autistic daughter, Catherine, is the only witness to what unfolded in the orphanage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Godfather Part III
''The Godfather Part III'' is a 1990 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, George Hamilton and Sofia Coppola. It is the sequel to '' The Godfather'' (1972) and ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974), and the final installment in ''The Godfather'' trilogy. The film concludes the fictional story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. It also includes fictionalized accounts of two real-life events: the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981–1982, both linked to Michael Corleone's business affairs. Although Coppola initially refused to return for a third film, he eventually signed to direct and write ''Part III''. In his audio commentary for ''Part II'', Coppola stated that only a dire finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Joan (1972 Film)
''Pope Joan'' is a 1972 British historical drama film based on the story of Pope Joan. Even though modern consensus generally considers Pope Joan to be legendary, in the film her existence is treated as fact. It was directed by Michael Anderson and has a cast which includes Liv Ullmann (in the lead role), Olivia de Havilland, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero and Maximilian Schell. The soundtrack was composed by Maurice Jarre with additional choral music provided by The Sistine Chapel Choir, directed by Domenico Bartolucci. The film was released on DVD in 2003 on Region 1 format disc. It was also re-titled in some areas as ''The Devil's Imposter'', with much material cut. The version of the film released in 1972 differed significantly from the version that had originally been filmed. Anderson's original was made with flashbacks and flash-forward sequences about a modern-day Evangelical preacher who believes her life parallels that of Pope Joan. In this version psychiatrists t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McKenzie Break
''The McKenzie Break'' (also known as ''Escape'') is a 1970 British war drama film directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry and Jack Watson. It was written by William W. Norton, produced by Arthur Gardner and Jules V. Levy and filmed in DeLuxe Color. Plot At the McKenzie prisoner of War (POW) camp in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter – a Kriegsmarine U-boat commander – challenges the authority of the camp’s rigidly by-the-book commanding officer, Major Perry. Captain Jack Connor, seconded from the Royal Ulster Rifles to British Army Intelligence, a crime reporter during peacetime, is in hot water (again) for various off-duty indiscretions. His patron, General Kerr, bails him out – in return sending him to Camp McKenzie to find out what, aside from Perry's authoritarianism, might be behind the escalating tensions. Connor takes over effective control of the camp. Factions between the U-boaters and members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funeral In Berlin (film)
''Funeral in Berlin'' is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, '' The Ipcress File'' (1965). The third film was '' Billion Dollar Brain'' (1967). Plot British secret agent Harry Palmer is sent to Berlin by his superior Colonel Ross to arrange the defection of Colonel Stok, a prominent Soviet intelligence officer. Palmer is sceptical but links up with Johnny Vulkan, an old German friend and former criminal associate, who now runs the Berlin station for British intelligence. Palmer makes a rendezvous with Stok in the Soviet zone of the divided city, finding him eccentric and likeable. Stok asks for the defection to be managed by Otto Kreutzman, a West German criminal who has organised a number of recent escapes. When Palmer returns to the western sector he meet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher ( , , ; stylized in all caps) is a brand of chocolate and hazelnut confectionery , confection manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero SpA, Ferrero. Michele Ferrero is credited as the product's creator. Each Ferrero Rocher ball is covered in foil and placed into a paper liner. The confection is machine-made and much of its production process is kept secret. It is sold worldwide and is particularly associated with Christmas. The brand is known in the United Kingdom, and other countries such as Mexico, by the popular 1990s 'ambassadors' advertisement. History Ferrero Rocher was introduced in 1979 in Italy and in other parts of Europe in 1982. Michele Ferrero, the credited inventor, named the chocolate after a grotto in the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes, . ''Rocher'' comes from French language, French and means 'Rock (geology), rock' or 'boulder'. Ingredients The chocolate consists of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
