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John Goldschmidt
John Goldschmidt''a British-Austrian film director and producer. Goldschmidt was born in London, but grew up in Vienna leaving at the age of 16 to return to London. Goldschmidt has both Austrian and British nationality. He went to the Gymnasium Wasagasse in Vienna and studied at the Czech National Film School and at The Royal College of Art's Department of Film and Television, where he graduated in 1968 with a Master of Arts degree. Life and career Goldschmidt was born on 1 August 1943. He made documentary and fiction films for BBC Television, BBC Films, Granada Television, Granada Films, Associated Television, Thames Television, Channel 4, Film4 in the UK, and ZDF, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Österreichischer Rundfunk, SRG SSR idée suisse, France 3, Rai 1, Bavaria Film, on the European continent, and HBO Films in the United States. His award winning films as producer/director have included ''Just one Kid'' and ''It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow'' (writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai 1
Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's Flagship (broadcasting), flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and Generalist channel, generalist programming, usually aimed towards families, including ''TG1'' news bulletins, prime time drama, cinema and entertainment, and major breaking news, sports and special events. It was launched on 3 January 1954 as the first Television in Italy, regular television service in Italy. It was the only one until 4 November 1961, when RAI launched a Rai 2, second channel. The channel was initially referred to as "Programma Nazionale". It received other names, such as "Rete 1" and "Raiuno" until it adopted its current name "Rai 1". It has the highest viewership in Italy and regularly competes with Mediaset's Canale 5. In the United Kingdom, it is available in free-to-air satellite broadcast from Hot Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habsburg Monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities (composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is also referred to as the Austrian monarchy, the Austrian Empire () or the Danubian monarchy. The history of the Habsburg monarchy can be traced back to the election of Rudolf I of Germany, Rudolf I as King of the Romans, King of Germany in 1273 and his acquisition of the Duchy of Austria for the Habsburgs in 1282. In 1482, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I acquired the Habsburg Netherlands, Netherlands through marriage. Both realms passed to his grandson and successor, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, who also inherited the Monarchy of Spain, Spanish throne and Spanish Empire, its colonial possessions, and thus came to rule the Habsburg empire at its greatest territorial extent. The abdication of Charles V in 1556 led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem (6 April 1932 – 19 November 2004) was a German film, television and stage actor, and director. Biography Born in Hamburg, Griem was primarily a stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Griem became well known to international audiences as the diabolic SS-officer Aschenbach in '' The Damned''. His role in the Academy Award-winning film ''Cabaret'' (1972) as the wealthy bisexual Baron Maximilian von Heune is probably his best-known international performance. Other performances include his work in '' The McKenzie Break'', and '' Ludwig'' and '' Breakthrough''. Among his many film and TV appearances was one in NBC's ''Peter the Great'' as the Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" '' Alexander Menshikov'', alongside Maximilian Schell. He starred in the television mini-series ''The Devil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Academy Award, Oscar-winning 1981 film ''Chariots of Fire''. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film ''Gandhi (film), Gandhi''. Charleson was a noted actor on the British stage as well, with critically acclaimed leads in ''Guys and Dolls'', ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'', ''Fool for Love (play), Fool for Love'', and ''Hamlet'', among many others. He performed numerous Shakespearean roles, and in 1991 the annual Ian Charleson Awards were established, particularly in honour of his final Hamlet.John Peter (critic), Peter, John"Stairway to success" ''Sunday Times''. 20 June 2010.Rosenthal, Daniel. ''The National Theatre Story''. Oberon Books, 2013. The awards reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viv Nicholson
Vivian "Viv" Nicholson (''née'' Asprey; 3 April 1936 – 11 April 2015) was a British woman who became famous when she told the media that she would "spend, spend, spend" after her husband Keith won £152,319 () on the football pools in 1961. Nicholson became the subject of tabloid news stories for many years because of the couple's subsequent rapid spending of their fortune and her later chaotic life. Early life Nicholson was born Vivian Asprey on 3 April 1936 in Castleford near Wakefield. Her father was a coal miner, but suffered from epilepsy, and was often unable to work. Her mother was asthmatic. As the oldest child, Asprey was expected to mind her younger brothers and sisters and scavenge for coal. Growing up in extreme poverty, she was not allowed to take up a scholarship that she had won to an art school. Having left school at age 14, she took work at the local liquorice factory making Pontefract cakes. She became pregnant at age 16 and married Matthew Johnson, but l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Pools
In the United Kingdom, the football pools, often referred to as "the pools", is a betting pool based on predicting the outcome of association football matches taking place in the coming week. The pools are typically cheap to enter, and may encourage gamblers to enter several bets. The traditional and most popular game was the Treble Chance, now branded the Classic Pools game. Players pick 10, 11 or 12 football games from the offered fixtures to finish as a draw, in which each team scores at least one goal. The player with the most accurate predictions wins the top prize, or a share of it if more than one player has these predictions. In addition, there is a special £3,000,000 prize or share of it for correctly predicting the nine score draws (draws of 1–1 or higher) when these are the only score draws on the coupon. Players can win large cash prizes in a variety of other ways, under a points-based scoring system. Entries were traditionally submitted through the post or via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Rosenthal
Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV (TV network), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and over 150 screenplays, including original television plays, feature films, and adaptations. Early life Jack Morris Rosenthal was born into a Jewish family on 8 September 1931, in Cheetham, Manchester, Cheetham, Manchester. He was the younger of two sons to father Sam, a raincoat factory worker, and mother Leah (née Miller) Rosenthal. His parents were married in 1927 in Manchester, and were children of Russian Jewish immigrants. Rosenthal attended the Manchester Jews School in Derby Street, Cheetham. During the World War II, Second World War, he was evacuated to Blackpool, Lancashire with an inhospitable family who censored his letters and confiscated his food parcels. His family subsequently moved to Colne, Lancashire, and Rosenthal attended Colne Grammar School. In 1953, after studying English Litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Littler
Susan Littler (31 December 1947 – 11 July 1982) was an English actress who appeared in many television and stage productions in the 1970s and early 1980s, before her death from cancer. A versatile and respected actress, Littler is perhaps best remembered for her BAFTA nominated role in the 1977 BBC ''Play for Today'' production '' Spend, Spend, Spend'' (1977), directed by John Goldschmidt. Her film career included roles in the 1973 film version of ''The Lovers'', and ''Rough Cut'' (1980) starring Burt Reynolds. Susan was also a Royal Variety award winner. Television Born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, Littler trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and started her career working in repertory in provincial theatres around Britain, including Bolton, Darlington, Plymouth and Nottingham. She made her first television appearance in a 1970 '' ITV Playhouse'' production ''Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It'', followed by '' Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.'' (1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spend, Spend, Spend (play)
"Spend, Spend, Spend" is the 12th episode of seventh season of the British BBC anthology TV series ''Play for Today''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 15 March 1977. "Spend, Spend, Spend" was written by Jack Rosenthal, directed by John Goldschmidt, produced by Graeme McDonald, and starred Susan Littler and John Duttine. The play is based on the book of the same name by Nicholson and Stephen Smith and recounts Vivian Nicholson's life story from the 1950s to the early 1970s in a non-linear fashion. Development Rosenthal was a colleague of the PR man who, on behalf of Littlewoods Pools, persuaded Nicholson to allow publicity for her pools win. He wrote in his autobiography: "From that day on, I followed her wild, seemingly stupid adventures in the papers - and believed every snide, snooty, biased word the relentless publicity said. All adding up to ''one'' word - that she was a cow." Being given Nicholson's book by director John Goldschmidt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops (28 November 1926 – 25 February 2024) was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist. Early life Born in 1926 and raised in Stepney Green in London's East End, the son of Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops was present at the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936. He was evacuated from London in 1939, and recounted that experience in episode two of Thames Television's TV series, ''The World at War'', first broadcast in 1973. Career His first play, ''The Hamlet of Stepney Green'', was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British 'kitchen sink' drama. First novel, ''Awake For Mourning'' (1958), followed the next year and has been appraised by critic Stewart Home as "ahead of its time". Ken Worpole has described Kops' first volume of autobiography, ''The World Is A Wedding'' (1963), as "one of the most important post-war English autobiographies". His subsequent plays include ''Enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
