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Justice (1971 TV Series)
''Justice'' is a British drama television series that originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson, a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on ''Justice Is a Woman'', an episode of '' ITV Playhouse'' broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had played a barrister. The theme music is '' Crown Imperial'' by William Walton. The series was broadcast by the UK TV channel Talking Pictures TV in 2021/22. Cast Main * Margaret Lockwood as Harriet Peterson * John Stone as Doctor Ian Moody * John Bryans as Arthur Bollington (season 1, episode 2) / William Corletti (seasons 2–3, 22 episodes) * Philip Stone as Sir John Gallagher (seasons 1–2, 11 episodes) * Anthony Valentine as Robert Miller (season 1, episode 11) / James Eliot (season 3, 8 episodes) * Rosie Collins as Rosie (season 3, 8 episodes) Guests (partial) * Alun Armstro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), '' Night Train to Munich'' (1940), ''The Man in Grey'' (1943), and '' The Wicked Lady'' (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film '' Cast a Dark Shadow''. She also starred in the television series ''Justice'' (1971–74). Ronald Bergan of ''The Guardian'' called her "one of the most beautiful, energetic, and spirited actresses in the history of British cinema." Early life Lockwood was born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India (today Pakistan), to Henry Francis Lockwood, an English administrator of a railway company, and his third wife, Scottish-born Margaret Eveline Waugh. She moved to England in 1920 with her mother, brother Lyn and half-brother Frank. Her half-sister Fay joined them the following year, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Thorne
Angela Margaret Leslie Thorne (25 January 1939 – 16 June 2023) was a British actress of stage, television and film having performed roles in '' World in Ferment'' (1969), ''Get Some In!'' (1976), '' The Good Life'' (1977), ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Foyle's War'', '' Heartbeat'', '' The BFG'' (1989) as the voice of the Queen, '' Three Up, Two Down'', and ''Lassie'' (2005). However, she was probably best known for playing Marjory Frobisher in ''To the Manor Born'' (1979–2007), and for playing Margaret Thatcher in '' Anyone for Denis?'' (initially at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, for which she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance at the 1981 Laurence Olivier Awards, and subsequently for the video release). Early life Thorne was born in Karachi, British India, in 1939. The daughter of an Indian Army doctor father, William Herbert Alfred Thorne, and a teacher mother, Sylvia ( Leslie), she spent the first five years of her life in India. She was later a pupil at Farlingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Huntley
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon. Life and career Early life Horace Raymond Huntley was born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904. Career Stage He made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in ''A Woman Killed with Kindness''. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in ''As Far as Thought can Reach''. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of ''Dracula'', which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sallis
Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was the original voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning '' Wallace & Gromit'' films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in ''Last of the Summer Wine'' from its 1973 inception until the final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes. Additionally, he portrayed Norman Clegg's father in the prequel series '' First of the Summer Wine''. Among his television credits, Sallis appeared in ''Danger Man'', '' The Avengers'', ''Doctor Who'' ('' The Ice Warriors''), ''The Persuaders!'' and '' The Ghosts of Motley Hall''. Sallis' film appearances included the Hammer horror films '' The Curse of the Werewolf'' (1961) and '' Taste the Blood of Dracula'' (1970). Early life Peter John Sallis was born on 1 February 1921 in Twickenham, Middlesex (now in Greater London), the only child of bank manager Harry Sallis (1889–1964) and Dorothy Amea Frances (''née'' Barnard; 1891–1975). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Blythe
Peter Blythe (14 September 1934 – 27 June 2004) was an English character actor, probably best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard in ''Rumpole of the Bailey''. Early life Born in Yorkshire, Blythe studied drama on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after serving in the Royal Air Force. He began his professional career as a repertory player with the Living Theatre Company, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his West End debut in 1965. Selected theatre credits Blythe was frequently associated with the director Peter Hall and the playwright Alan Ayckbourn. * '' The Creeper'' (St. Martin's Theatre, 1965): Maurice * '' Early Morning'' (English Stage Company/Royal Court, 1969): Lord Mennings * '' So What About Love?'' (Criterion Theatre, 1969): Robert * '' Absurd Person Singular'' (Criterion Theatre, 1974): Sidney * ''The Clandestine Marriage'' (Savoy Theatre, 1975): Sir John Melvil * '' The Return of A. J. Raffles'' (Royal Shak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Herbert (actor)
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema. Life and career Herbert served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship. His acting career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company. Beginning in 1954, he went on to make nearly seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in ''The Cockleshell Heroes'', ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (for which he also worked as consultant as well as suggesting the use of the well-known "Colonel Bogey March" which the prisoners whistled in the film), '' Sea of Sand'', '' Tunes of Glory'', '' The Guns of Navarone'', '' Guns at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Eddington
Paul Clark Eddington (18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English actor who played Jerry Leadbetter in the television sitcom '' The Good Life'' (1975–1978) and politician Jim Hacker in the sitcom '' Yes Minister'' (1980–1984) and its sequel, '' Yes, Prime Minister'' (1986–1988). He was a four-time BAFTA TV and two-time Olivier Award nominee. Early life Eddington was born at Paddington in London to decorative artist Albert Clark Eddington (1887–1955) and Frances Mary (née Roberts) (1898–1958). He was raised in St John's Wood. The family were Quakers; Albert Eddington being related to the Somerset shoemaking Clark family and the scientist Sir Arthur Eddington.Quakers and the Arts: "Plain and Fancy" – An Anglo-American Perspective, David Sox, Sessions Book Trust, 2000, p. 65 (Albert and Sir Arthur were second cousins, both great-grandsons of William Eddington (1755–1806).) Eddington was brought up by his parents with strict family values. His father had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Coles (actor)
Ernest Michael Coles (12 August 1936 – 26 April 2005) was an English actor. He appeared in a number of British television series and films during the 1960s and 1970s including ''No Hiding Place'', ''Dr. Who and the Daleks'', '' The Troubleshooters'', '' The Saint'', '' The Baron'', '' The Avengers'', '' Department S'' and ''Z-Cars''. His other film roles included Inspector Murray in '' Dracula A.D. 1972'' (1972) and ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'' is a 1973 British horror film directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is the eighth film in Hammer's ''Dracula'' series, and the seventh and final one to feature Christopher Lee as Dra ...'' (1973), three of the Edgar Wallace films of the early sixties ('' Man Detained'', '' Solo for Sparrow'' and Never Mention Murder), as well as the film version of '' The Sweeney'' (1977). Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coles, Michael 1936 births 2005 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Vitali
Alfred Leon Vitali (26 July 1948 – 19 August 2022) was an English actor best known for his collaborations with film director Stanley Kubrick, as his personal assistant, and most notably as Lord Bullingdon in '' Barry Lyndon''. Life and career As he was growing up, Vitali became interested in drama and decided to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after his English teacher sent him a prospectus. Vitali guest-starred in a number of TV series in the early 1970s, appearing in '' Softly, Softly'', '' Follyfoot'', '' Roads to Freedom'', '' Z Cars'', '' Public Eye'', '' The Fenn Street Gang,'' and '' Notorious Woman'', among others. In 1973, he made his feature film debut in two movies: the Italian '' Super Bitch'', directed by Massimo Dallamano, who had previously worked with Sergio Leone as a cinematographer in the first two of his Dollars Trilogy, and the television film '' Catholics'', alongside Martin Sheen and Michael Gambon. In 1974, Vitali met Stanley Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joss Ackland
Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film, radio and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in '' White Mischief'' (1987). Early life Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland was born in a basement flat in "then insalubrious" North Kensington, London, on 29 February 1928, the son of Sydney Norman Ackland (died 1981), an Irish journalist who had been sent to England to live with an aunt by his parents for seducing their maid, but subsequently seduced his aunt's maid, Ruth Izod (died 1957), whom he married. The Acklands' basement flat was one of "a string of similar places" in which they lived, invariably with "one bedroom and the absolute bare essentials"; Ackland described his upbringing in the Ladbroke Grove area as being "very poor". Initially educated at Dame Alice Owen's School, Ackland left aged fifteen to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Cross
Gerald Cross (20 February 1912 – 26 February 1981) was an English actor. Among his credits are ''Doctor Who'', Francis Durbridge's ''The World of Tim Frazer'' and the ''Miss Marple'' films '' Murder, She Said'' (1961) and '' Murder Ahoy!'' (1964). Cross played the part of Arnold Tripp, the editor of the local newspaper, in the early BBC Television soap opera '' The Newcomers''. He died in Camden Town Camden Town () is an area in the London Borough of Camden, around north-northwest of Charing Cross. Historically in Middlesex, it is identified in the London Plan as one of 34 major centres in Greater London. Laid out as a residential distri .... Filmography References External links * 1912 births 1981 deaths Actors from the London Borough of Camden English male television actors 20th-century English male actors People from Camden Town {{UK-tv-actor-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead (born 1 October 1939) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles. Early life Whitehead was born on 1 October 1939 in Grenoside, Sheffield. After his father was killed in the Second World War, he received an RAF benevolent grant which sent him to a minor public school. He later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he became friends with fellow student John Thaw. Career Whitehead's television appearances include '' Bulldog Breed'' (1962); ''Z-Cars'' (1964–1965 and 1972–1975), playing two different regular characters; ''Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em'' (1973); '' The Sweeney'', Season 2 Episode 6 "Trap" (1975); '' Thriller'' (1 episode, 1974); '' Wodehouse Playhouse'', ("Rodney Fails to Qualify"); ''The Doll'', 1975; '' Robin's Nest'' (1977); '' Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (1979–1980, as Sherlock Holmes); "Gerald Pinkerton" in ''Pinkerton's Progress'' (1983); ''Peter the Great'' (1986); '' Chelmsf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
