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Louisa Rix
Louisa MacGregor Rix (born 2 February 1955) is a British former actress of theatre, film and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Kevin the Teenager's mum, Mrs Patterson, in the BBC TV series, ''Harry Enfield & Chums'', and its spin-off film, '' Kevin and Perry Go Large''. In 2012 she founded the Interior Design company Forbes Rix Design with her business partner Natalie Forbes. Early life Rix was born in Kensington, London to actors Brian Rix and Elspet Gray. She has two brothers, one of whom is children's author and TV producer Jamie Rix. Her sister Shelley was born with Down's Syndrome, and died in 2005. Rix studied drama at LAMDA and acted for many years on TV and in the theatre. Career Rix gained early theatre experience at the Nottingham Playhouse while Richard Eyre was the artistic director, and in Peter Cheeseman's company at Stoke-on-Trent. Her subsequent West End appearances included roles in ''How the Other Half Loves'' and '' Man of the Momen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cheeseman
Peter Barrie Cheeseman, CBE (27 January 1932, Cowplain, Hampshire – 27 April 2010, Stoke-on-Trent) was a British theatre director who is credited with having pioneered "theatre in the round". Early life His father's work as a Naval Communications Officer took him and his young family to many locations around England, and Peter was educated at ten schools (of which the last was Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool) before attending Sheffield University (1952) where he graduated in 1955 with a degree in English, Latin and Modern History.''The Times'' obituary for Peter Cheeseman, 3 May 2010. Cheesman started his theatre work while he was in the RAF, and did some directing at university (including an "ambitious" production of ''King Lear''). Career After involvement with the left-wing Unity Theatre in Liverpool and work at Derby Playhouse Cheeseman joined Stephen Joseph's peripatetic Studio Theatre (in the round) which was then based in Scarborough. In 1962, Joseph and Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Smith
Melvyn Kenneth Smith (3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian, actor and filmmaker. He worked on the sketch comedy shows ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' and ''Alas Smith and Jones'' with his comedy partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming. Early life Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine during the Second World War; looking after the pit ponies. After the war ended, he moved to London and married Smith's mother, whose parents owned a greengrocers in Chiswick. When the government legalised high street betting with the Betting and Gaming Act 1960, he turned the shop into the first betting shop in Chiswick. Smith was born and brought up in Chiswick. He was educated at Hogarth Primary School, Chiswick and passed his 11-Plus examinations. He was also a keen sportsman and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Bentinck
Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck of Waldeck Limpurg (born 1 June 1953), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an Australian-born British actor and writer, known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, ''The Archers''. As the Earl of Portland, Bentinck was a member of the House of Lords from 1997 to 1999. He is also Count Bentinck in the peerage of the Holy Roman Empire. Early life The son of the non-conformist intellectual Henry Bentinck, Portland was born on a sheep station in Barton, Tasmania, Australia, but moved with his family to Berkhamsted in England at the age of two. He was educated at a prep school, then Harrow School, and finally at the University of East Anglia, where he spent much of his time on productions of its drama society, before receiving a BA degree in the History of Art. After graduation, he trained in acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Bentinck has been an acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Granada
ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV (TV network), ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man. From 1956 to 1968 it broadcast to both the north west and Yorkshire on weekdays only, as ABC Weekend TV, ABC Weekend Television was its weekend counterpart. Granada's parent company Granada plc later bought several other regional ITV stations and, in 2004, merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc. Granada Television was particularly noted by critics for the distinctive northern and "social realism" character of many of its network programmes, as well as the high quality of its drama and documentaries. In its prime as an independent franchisee, prior to its parent company merging with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc, it was the largest Independent Television producer in the UK, accounting for 25% of the total broadcasting output of the ITV network. Granada Television was founded by Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Sidney B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin & Perry Go Large
''Kevin & Perry Go Large'' is a 2000 British teen coming-of-age sex comedy film based on the Harry Enfield sketch Kevin the Teenager. The film was written by Dave Cummings and Harry Enfield and directed by Ed Bye. Enfield, Kathy Burke and Louisa Rix all return to their roles after previously appearing on ''Harry Enfield & Chums''. James Fleet replaced Stephen Moore as Kevin's father. The film received mixed reviews but has since gained a cult following. Plot Teenager Kevin has tried to lose his virginity for three years. He and his best friend Perry decide they want to go to Ibiza to become DJs and seduce women. However, when Kevin's parents, Ray and Sheila, see his bad school report, they forbid the trip. They later compromise: the boys can go if they get jobs to pay for it. Searching fruitlessly for jobs, the boys end up at a house party, where a popular girl Sharon passes out drunk next to Kevin. Perry, seeing the two in bed together the following morning, assumes Kevin h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Enfield And Chums
''Harry Enfield & Chums'' (originally titled ''Harry Enfield's Television Programme'') is a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke. It first broadcast on BBC2 in 1990 in the 9 p.m. slot on Thursday nights, which became the traditional time for alternative comedy on television. Enfield was already an established name due to his "Loadsamoney" character (which featured in a few entertainment programmes in the late 1980s), but the series gave greater presence to his frequent collaborators Whitehouse and Burke – so much so that, in 1994, the show was retitled ''Harry Enfield & Chums''. In 2001, a clip show series titled ''Harry Enfield Presents'' aired which featured compilations of sketches from the series featuring new linking material recorded by Enfield in character. History ''Harry Enfield's Television Programme'' was written by Enfield, Whitehouse, Charlie Higson and Geoffrey Perkins and broadcast on BBC2. The original series tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal National Theatre
The National Theatre (NT), officially the Royal National Theatre and sometimes referred to in international contexts as the National Theatre of Great Britain, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England, adjacent to (but not part of) the Southbank Centre. The theatre was founded by Laurence Olivier in 1963 and List of Royal National Theatre Company actors, many well-known actors have since performed with it. The company was based at The Old Vic theatre in Waterloo Road, London, Waterloo until 1976. The current building is located next to the Thames in the The South Bank, South Bank area of central London. In addition to performances at the National Theatre building, it tours productions at theatres across the United Kingdom. The theatre has transferred numerous productions to Broadway and toured some as far as China, Australia and New Zealand. However, touring productions to European cities were suspended in February 2021 over concerns ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Clark (writer)
Brian Robert Clark (3 June 1932 – 16 November 2021) was a British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his play ''Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play), Whose Life Is It Anyway?'', which he later adapted into a screenplay. Early life Clark was born on 3 June 1932 in Bristol, United Kingdom, the son of a blacksmith. He attended Bristol Grammar School, leaving at 16.''The Stage'' Thursday 24 July 1986, page 10 Clark was educated at the University of Nottingham. He married Maggie Clark, his first wife, and raised two sons. Career Clark taught in schools, colleges and universities and was a member of the Drama Department at the University of Hull from 1968 to 1972. In 1970, he sold a television play, ''Rubber?'' Some years after its television production, he adapted the script for the stage. The reworked version won a Society of West End Theatre Awards, Society of West End Theaters Award in 1978. Later that year, he brought the play to the United States, first at the Folge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play)
''Whose Life Is It Anyway?'' is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television play of the same title, which starred Ian McShane. The stage version premiered at the Greenwich Theatre in SE London before moving in 1978 to the Mermaid Theatre in London, and subsequently opened on Broadway in 1979. The play involves a sculptor who is paralysed. Plot Set in a hospital room, the action revolves around Ken Harrison (Claire Harrison in some later productions), a sculptor by profession, who was paralysed from the neck down ( quadriplegia) in a car accident and is determined to be allowed to die. Clark presents arguments both in favour of and opposing euthanasia and to what extent government should be allowed to interfere in the life of a private citizen. In portraying Ken as an intelligent man with a useless body, he leaves the audience with conflicting feelings about his desire to end his life. Productions The play was televised on 12 March 1972 by Granada TV. It was direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (; ; born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British broadcaster, comedian, presenter and writer on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written plays, novels and books for children. In 1994, she came out as a lesbian. Toksvig took over from Stephen Fry as host of the BBC television quiz show ''QI'' in 2016 (series 'N'), having been a guest a number of times and spent ten years hosting ''The News Quiz'' on BBC Radio 4. From 2017 to 2020, she was co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'', alongside comedian Noel Fielding. In 2020, she stepped down and was replaced by Matt Lucas. Toksvig was the president of the Women of the Year Lunch from 2015 to 2017. Early life Toksvig was born in 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her father, Claus Toksvig, was a Danish journalist, broadcaster and foreign correspondent; as a result, Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark, mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pocket Dream
''The Pocket Dream'' is a play by Elly Brewer and Sandi Toksvig, published in English circa 1992. A production of the play was put on at the Nottingham Playhouse, Albery Theatre in London in 1991-2 and starred Clive Mantle. In 2004 it was performed in theatres such as the Theatre Royal, York York Theatre Royal is a theatre in St Leonard's Place, in York, England, which dates back to 1744. The theatre currently seats 750 people. Whilst the theatre is traditionally a proscenium theatre, it was reconfigured for a season in 2011 to off .... References 1991 plays British plays {{1990s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
