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Lovejoy
''Lovejoy'' is a British television comedy-drama mystery fiction, mystery series, based on the Lovejoy (novel series), novels by John Grant (Lovejoy), John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six series, was originally broadcast on BBC One, BBC1 between 10 January 1986 and 4 December 1994, though there was a five-year gap between the first and second series. It was adapted for television by Ian La Frenais. Overview The series concerns the adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia, and was filmed around Long Melford. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a "divvy", a person with almost unnatural powers of recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antiques from fakes or forgeries. Characters * Lovejoy, played by Ian McShane, a less than scrupulous, yet likeable rogue antique dealer * Eric Catchpole, played by Chris Jury (series 1–5; guest, series 6), Lovejoy's you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovejoy (novel Series)
''Lovejoy'' is a series of picaresque novels by John Grant (novelist), John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash) about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and forgery, faker based in East Anglia. A less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue, Lovejoy has a reputation in the antiques trade as a "divvie", meaning one with an almost supernatural talent for recognising exceptional items as well as for distinguishing fakes or forgeries from genuine antiques. Lovejoy's first name is never mentioned in the books. In the TV series based on the novels, he insists on being addressed by all solely as "Lovejoy". Television adaptation ''Lovejoy'', a television adaptation of the books starring Ian McShane, aired from 1986 to 1994 for a total of 73 episodes. The first series, aired in 1986, adapted many plots and characters from the books, while new material created for the TV show was added from the second series onwards. Series * ''The Judas Pair'' (1977) * ''Gold from Gem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grant (Lovejoy)
John Grant (born 1933), professionally known under pen name Jonathan Gash, is an English doctor and writer, best known as the author of the ''Lovejoy'' series that was adapted to television by Ian La Frenais He has also written under the name Graham Gaunt. Biography Born in Bolton, Lancashire, Grant was educated at St Peter and St Paul's Primary School, then Thornleigh College, before studying medicine and qualifying as a doctor. He served in the British Army, attaining the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and has also worked as a general practitioner and as a pathologist. Between 1971 and 1988 he was director of bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London. Grant won the John Creasey Award in 1977 for his first ''Lovejoy'' novel, '' The Judas Pair''. He is also the author of a series of medical thrillers featuring the character Dr Clare Burtonall, and a novel, ''The Incomer'', as Graham Gaunt. He has also publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Sutton
Dudley Sutton (6 April 1933 – 15 September 2018) was an English actor. Active in radio, stage, film and television, he was best known for his role of Tinker Dill in the BBC Television comedy/drama series ''Lovejoy''. Early life Sutton was born in Kingston upon Thames, and educated at a boys' boarding school at Lifton Park, Devon. He served in the Royal Air Force as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he was later expelled for responding to rock-and-roll. Career After early stage work with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, Sutton became known for his unusual roles in two films directed by Sidney J. Furie. He played a frustrated teenager accused with his friends of murder in '' The Boys'' (1962) and a gay biker in '' The Leather Boys'' (1964), both parts showing his potential for offbeat screen personae. At a reunion of the three surviving stars of the earlier film at Elstree Studios on 17 September 2017, Sutton related that he fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McShane
Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is an English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series ''Lovejoy'' (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in ''American Gods'' (2017–2021). For the original series of ''Deadwood'', McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. His film roles include Harry Brown in '' The Wild and the Willing'' (1962), Charlie Cartwright in '' If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' (1969), Wolfe Lissner in ''Villain'' (1971), Teddy Bass in '' Sexy Beast'' (2000), Frank Powell in ''Hot Rod'' (2007), Blackbeard in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' (2011), and Winston Scott in the '' John Wick'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jury
Chris Jury (born 28 September 1956) is an English actor, writer and director with a range of television credits. He is best known for his role as Eric Catchpole in the BBC television series ''Lovejoy'', which he played between 1986 (series 1) and 1993 (series 5), with a brief return in 1994 (series 6), for the show's finale. Jury studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella, and with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, the Bush and Stratford East. Having made his name in ''Lovejoy'', Jury was a strong contender to play the Seventh Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' in 1987, a role which was ultimately cast with Sylvester McCoy. A year later, Jury appeared as a guest star in the story '' The Greatest Show in the Galaxy''. Through his own company, Picture That, in 1993 he produced and directed ''To Baldly Go'', a short romantic comedy which was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Parish
Diane Carol Richards (born 6 November 1969), known professionally as Diane Parish, is an English actress, who has been portraying the character Denise Fox on the BBC One soap opera ''EastEnders'' since 2006. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Parish has acted on British television for over two decades. She has appeared in a number of TV shows over the years, including the ITV1, ITV dramas ''The Bill'' and ''Murder Investigation Team (TV series), M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team'' playing Detective Eva Sharpe. She is also known for appearing in two series of the BBC One comedy drama ''Lovejoy'' (1993–1994). Career After graduating from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she worked mainly in theatre, including playing Cordelia in Talawa Theatre Company's 1994 production of ''King Lear''. Parish has appeared in various television roles. In ''Lovejoy'', she played Beth Taylor, the replacement for the character Eric Catchpole. Another television role was as Lol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Logan
Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, widely known for her roles as Lady Jane Felsham in ''Lovejoy'' (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes in ''Downton Abbey'' (2010–2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film '' Another Time, Another Place'' and was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the same film. Her other film appearances include '' Secrets & Lies'' (1996), '' Shooting Fish'' (1997), ''Downton Abbey'' (2019) and '' Misbehaviour'' (2020). Early life Logan's father, David, was a Rolls-Royce engineer and a trade-union leader and became the secretary of his local branch of the AUEW ( Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers). Phyllis is the youngest in her family and has a brother and a sister. Her father died at the age of 59 while she was at drama school. Education Logan was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and grew up in nearby Johnstone, where she was educated at Johnstone High School. She studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian La Frenais
Ian La Frenais (born 7 January 1937) is a retired English writer best known for his creative partnership with Dick Clement. They are most famous for television series including '' The Likely Lads'', ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'', ''Porridge'' and its sequel '' Going Straight'', ''Lovejoy'' and ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet''. Early life La Frenais was born in Monkseaton, Northumberland; his father was an accountant. As a child at Park Primary School in Whitley Bay, La Frenais enjoyed art and writing. He then attended Dame Allan's Boys School in Newcastle upon Tyne, and completed his National Service in the British Army. After working as a salesman for a tobacco company, he began composing songs for a weekly satirical programme on Tyne Tees Television and then moved to London where he worked for a market research company. Writing partnership with Dick Clement Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement have enjoyed a long and successful career embracing films, television and theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Tierney
Malcolm Tierney (25 February 1938 – 19 February 2014) was an English actor who appeared in many stage, film and television roles. Early life Tierney's father, Ernest, was a boilermaker and trained draughtsman, from Warrington, who worked at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. His mother, Agnes, née Kennedy, worked in the cotton mills. Tierney attended St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Failsworth and studied design at the Manchester School of Art (now part of Manchester Metropolitan University). While working as a textile designer and printmaker, he became involved in amateur dramatics at the Bolton Little Theatre, Little Theatre, in Bolton, which had been set up by John Wardle, father of the drama critic Irving Wardle, whose wife, Norma, became a mentor to Tierney. As a result, he began a scholarship with the Rose Bruford College, Rose Bruford Training College of Speech and Drama, in Sidcup, Kent, in 1958 and landed his first acting job in 1962. Career Tierney's roles included the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis King
Denis Andrew King (born 25 July 1939) is an English composer and singer. He is best remembered as a member of a family ensemble, The King Brothers. Early career: the King Brothers King was born in Hornchurch, Essex, England. He began his musical career at the age of six as a banjolele-playing singer at children's matinees and, by the age of thirteen, with his two older brothers, Mike and Tony, was a member of one of the most successful pop groups of the 1950s and 1960s, The King Brothers — considered to be Britain’s first boy band. Denis played the piano, Mike the guitar, and Tony the double bass. By the time King was thirteen, The King Brothers were touring around the U.K. in what was known as twice-nightly variety (the equivalent of America's vaudeville), performing two shows a night in one town before moving on to the next the following week. For two years King attended a different school in a different town almost every week. Along with concerts and tours around Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Langrishe
Caroline Langrishe (born 10 January 1958) is an English actress. Early life Born in London, Langrishe is the elder daughter of Patrick Nicholas Langrishe (1932–2022), of The Manor House, Sellindge, Kent, a Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, later Major in the Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, and Penelope Jill, daughter of Royal Navy Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth Horley.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Morley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2237 In 1964, Langrishe moved with her parents and sister to Kent, where she grew up. She trained at the Elmhurst Ballet School, but after deciding that she could not become a soloist for the Royal Ballet, moved into acting. Career In 1976, Langrishe made her acting debut when she appeared in the BBC production of '' The Glittering Prizes.'' The next year, she played the role of Kitty in the BBC1 adaptation of ''Anna Karenina,'' before working in the theatre with Peter Gill. Among her roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WitzEnd Productions
Allan McKeown (born John McKeown; 21 May 1946 – 24 December 2013) was a British television, film, and stage producer. Early life McKeown was born in Ealing, London on 21 May 1946. His parents Edith Mabel (née Humphries) and Albert Victor McKeown moved first to Hackney and then to Hainault, Essex. His father was the Clerk of Works at the new estate. Educated at Beal Grammar school in Ilford, he left early and became a trainee hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon in Bond Street. He was a figure in the London scene of the 1960s, and in 1966 he opened his own salon. As a hairdresser, he worked on the TV show '' Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' and the films '' if....'' (1968), ''Villain'' and ''Get Carter'' (both 1971). Television producer In 1969, he changed course and became a producer at James Garrett and Partners, at the time the largest TV commercials producer in the UK. He was appointed managing director shortly after joining. He left to form a production company WitzEnd w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
