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Laurie Webb (actor)
Lawrence M. H. Webb (born 6 May 1924), known as Laurie Webb, is a Welsh retired actor known for his roles in television series such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Paul Temple'' and ''Doomwatch''. ''Doctor Who'' Webb played Mr. Ollis in the 10th anniversary serial '' The Three Doctors'' (1972–1973). He is the oldest living person associated with the Whoniverse since Arnold Yarrow's death in December 2024. Personal life Webb, an avid golfer, celebrated his centenary by playing nine holes of golf at Pyrford Lakes Golf Club as a fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society. On 31 May 2025, he attended a signing event in Chiswick with fellow ''Doctor Who'' actor Katy Manning. Filmography Television Audio See also * List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers) The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity Longevity may refer to especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( ) is a city and Principal areas of Wales, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. The population grew considerably between the 2011 and the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, rising from 145,700 to 159,587, the largest growth of any unitary authority in Wales. Newport is the third-largest principal authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and List of Welsh principal areas, sixth most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, and the Cardiff Capital Region. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the city. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Playhouse
''Comedy Playhouse'' is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including '' Steptoe and Son'', '' Meet the Wife'', '' Till Death Us Do Part'', ''All Gas and Gaiters'', '' Up Pompeii!'', '' Not in Front of the Children'', '' Me Mammy'', '' That's Your Funeral'', '' The Liver Birds'', ''Are You Being Served?'' and particularly ''Last of the Summer Wine'', which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010. In all, 27 sitcoms started from a pilot in the ''Comedy Playhouse'' strand. In March 2014, it was announced that ''Comedy Playhouse'' would make a return that year with three new episodes. Two further series each comprising three episodes were broadcast in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Background The series began in 1961 at the prompting of Tom Sloan, Head of BBC Light Entertainment at the time. Galton and Simpson w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Men Centenarians
Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, of or about Wales * Welsh language, spoken in Wales * Welsh people, an ethnic group native to Wales Places * Welsh, Arkansas, U.S. * Welsh, Louisiana, U.S. * Welsh, Ohio, U.S. * Welsh Basin, during the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian geological periods Other uses * Welsh (surname), including a list of people with the name * Welsh pig, a breed of domestic pig See also * * * Welch (other) * Welsch Welsch may refer to: * Georg Hieronymus Welsch (1624–1677), German physician * Gottfried Welsch (1618–1690), German physician * Heinrich Welsch (1888–1976), Saarlandic politician * Henry Welsch (1921–1996), American football and basebal ..., a surname {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Births
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its 1st National Congress of the Kuomintang, first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) * January 22 – R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Centenarians (actors, Filmmakers And Entertainers)
The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as actors, filmmakers and entertainers – known for reasons other than their longevity Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas ''life expectancy'' is defined Statistics, statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth .... For more lists, see lists of centenarians. References {{Longevity Actors, Filmmakers And Entertainers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of The TARDIS
''Tales of the TARDIS'' is a companion series to the television series ''Doctor Who'' which features re-releases of stories from the show's original run, enclosed by additional material featuring actors reprising their roles. The series is produced by Bad Wolf (production company), Bad Wolf and BBC Studios, and executive produced by Russell T Davies, Jane Tranter, Julie Gardner, Phil Collinson, and Joel Collins. The new material takes place within ''Doctor Who''s official Canon (fiction), canon, the Whoniverse. The episodes feature several actors reprising their roles including Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy as the Fifth Doctor, Fifth, Sixth Doctor, Sixth, and Seventh Doctor, Seventh Doctors, respectively. The first six episodes were released alongside the show's Doctor Who specials (2023), 60th anniversary specials in November 2023 to coincide with the launch of the ''Whoniverse''. A further episode was released in June 2024. Cast In addition to List of Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clairvoyant (TV Series)
''The Clairvoyant'' is a British television sitcom written by Roy Clarke, the creator of ''Last of the Summer Wine''. Airing on BBC2, the series starred Roy Kinnear, Sandra Dickinson, Carmel Cryan, Glynis Brooks, Hugh Lloyd and Shaun Curry. Beginning with a pilot in 1984, five more episodes were broadcast in 1986. Premise Roy Kinnear stars as Arnold Bristow, a dodgy used car salesman who is knocked down by a car. Regaining consciousness, Arnold believes that he has psychic powers, and decides to change his lifestyle by being more honest and moral in his business dealings, although this leads to near bankruptcy. Cast * Roy Kinnear as Arnold Bristow * Sandra Dickinson as Lily Wang * Carmel Cryan as Carmen * Glynis Brooks as Dawn * Hugh Lloyd as Burma * Shaun Curry as Newton Production The series began with a pilot episode that aired on 27 November 1984, as the first episode of a four-week run of pilot episodes broadcast by BBC2. This was followed by five more episodes, broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Task Force
A task force (TF) is a unit or formation established to work on a single defined task or activity. Originally introduced by the United States Navy, the term has now caught on for general usage and is a standard part of NATO terminology. Many non-military organizations now create "task forces" or task groups for temporary activities that might have once been performed by '' ad hoc (designated purpose)'' committees. In non-military contexts, working groups are sometimes called task forces. Military Naval Army In the U.S. Army, a task force is a battalion-sized (usually, although there are variations in size) ''ad hoc'' unit formed by attaching smaller elements of other units. A company-sized unit with an armored or mechanized infantry unit attached is called a ''company team''. A similar unit at the brigade level is called a ''brigade combat team'' (BCT), and there is also a similar ''Regimental combat team'' (RCT). In the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers (1972 TV Series)
''The Brothers'' is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976. Debuting with the death of road haulage magnate Robert Hammond, the series followed the trials and tribulations of the company and family/families he left behind, with equal shares in Hammond Transport Services left to each of his three sons and to his secretary (who was revealed to have been Hammond's mistress and the mother of his illegitimate daughter). Synopsis The series was based around conflict within the Hammond family over the direction of the family firm, a London-based road haulage business called Hammond Transport Services, after the death of patriarch Robert Hammond. The eldest son, Edward (played by Glyn Owen during the first series and by Patrick O'Connell for the remainder of the show's run), prepares to take over the running of the business, only to find that his father has left equal shares to his two other sons, Brian ( Richard Easton), a dull accountant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goodies (TV Series)
''The Goodies'' is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by the BBC, initially on BBC2 but soon repeated on BBC1, from 1970 to 1980. One seven-episode series was made for ITV company LWT and shown in 1981–82. The show was co-written by and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie (together known as "The Goodies"). Bill Oddie also wrote the music and songs for the series, while "The Goodies Theme" was co-written by Oddie and Michael Gibbs. Directors/producers of the series were John Howard Davies, Jim Franklin and Bob Spiers. An early title which was considered for the series was ''Narrow Your Mind'' (following on from '' Broaden Your Mind'') and prior to that the working title was ''Super Chaps Three''. Premise The series' basic structure revolved around the trio, always short of money, offering themselves for hire – with the tagline "We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
