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Michael Hawkins (British Actor)
Stanley Michael Hawkins (26 November 1928 – 26 October 2014) was a British actor. Though rarely the star in any series or film in which he appeared, Hawkins appeared in supporting roles in dozens of productions over three decades. His credits included parts in '' The Avengers'', '' I, Claudius'', '' George and Mildred'', '' Doomwatch'', "The Brothers (1972 TV series)" and the ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...'' story '' Frontier in Space''. Hawkins retired in 1979, and died on 26 October 2014, at the age of 85. Filmography References External links * 1928 births 2014 deaths English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from Kent People from Blean Actors from the City of Canterbury {{England-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blean
Blean is a village and civil parish in the Canterbury district of Kent, England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland. The developed village within the parish is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of the Forest of Blean. The parish of St Cosmus and St Damian in the Blean was renamed "Blean" on 1 April 2019. History According to Edward Hasted's 1800 county study, the village was once part of the king's ancient forest of Blean in the hundred of Westgate. The name Blean is the dative form of the Old English word ‘blea’ which means rough ground. Therefore the full name of the parish meant "the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian (sic) in the rough ground." In 1835, the Blean Union Workhouse, designed by William Edmunds, was built on four acres south of Herne Common. The design was based on Sir Francis Bond Head's ''Plan of a Rural Workhouse for 500 Persons'', a publication of the Poor Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Terror Of The Tongs
''The Terror of the Tongs'' is a 1961 British adventure film directed by Anthony Bushell and starring Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee and Yvonne Monlaur. Plot In 1910, Mr. Ming is an agent of a group which secretly fights against tongs, China's criminal organizations. To fulfill his mission, he takes a ship to British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. En route, he makes acquaintance with Captain Jackson Sale, a British sea officer who lives in Hong Kong with his teenage daughter Helena. Sale is indifferent about China's tong problem, as it does not directly affect him. Ming hides a note containing information about the Red Dragon, Hong Kong's biggest tong, inside a poetry book, which he gives to Sale as a gift to Helena, knowing that her servant is a secret member of the resistance. Ming is later the victim of a ceremonial killing. In this type of assassinations, the killer murders their victim with a ceremonial axe and gauntlet in a crowded place, thus keeping the population scared of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male Actors From Kent
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with gamete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Male Television Actors
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity * English studies, the study of English language and literature Media * ''English'' (2013 film), a Malayalam-language film * ''English'' (novel), a Chinese book by Wang Gang ** ''English'' (2018 film), a Chinese adaptation * ''The English'' (TV series), a 2022 Western-genre miniseries * ''English'' (play), a 2022 play by Sanaz Toossi People and fictional characters * English (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach * English Gardner (born 1992), American track and field sprinter * English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer * Aiden English, a ring name of Matthew Rehwoldt (born 1987), American former professional wrestl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Births
Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. * January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family. * January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears. February * February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. * February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. * February 11 – February 19, 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11 Harrowhouse
''11 Harrowhouse'' (also known as ''Fast Fortune'') is a 1974 British heist comedy thriller film directed by Aram Avakian and starring Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard, and John Gielgud. It was adapted by Grodin based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Gerald A. Browne, with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom. Plot In England, a small-time diamond merchant is unexpectedly offered the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of an extremely large diamond to be named after its wealthy owner. When the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at "The System," located at 11 Harrowhouse Street, City of London with the help of his beautiful and wealthy girlfriend. The key figure in the theft, however, is the inside man Watts, who works in the vault at The System. Watts is dying of cancer and wants to leave his family financially secure. Although The System has an elaborate network of defences and alarms against int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decline And Fall
''Decline and Fall'' is the first novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, titled '' The Temple at Thatch'', was destroyed by Waugh while still in manuscript form. ''Decline and Fall'' is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House, a former private school in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs the author's characteristic black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s. The novel was written at Plas Dulas in north Wales, while staying with the archaeologist Richard MacGillivray Dawkins. In 1925, he taught at Arnold House preparatory school, nearby in the village of Llanddulas, and his experience during this time influenced the fictional school Llanabba Castle in the novel. The novel's title is a contraction of Edward Gibbon's ''The History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torture Garden (film)
''Torture Garden'' is a 1967 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Michael Ripper, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Maurice Denham, Ursula Howells, Michael Bryant (actor), Michael Bryant and Barbara Ewing. The score was a collaboration between Hammer Studios, Hammer horror regulars James Bernard (composer), James Bernard and Don Banks. Made by Amicus Productions, it is one of producer Milton Subotsky's trademark ''Anthology film, "portmanteau"'' films, an omnibus of short stories (in this case all by ''Psycho (novel), Psycho'' author Robert Bloch, who adapted his own work for the screenplay) linked by a single narrative. Freddie Francis said Martin Scorsese wanted him to make a film about the life of Edgar Allan Poe because he so admired ''Torture Garden''. Plot Prologue Five people visit a Traveling carnival, fairground sideshow run by showman Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of Haunted attraction (simulated), haunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Came From Beyond Space
''They Came from Beyond Space'' is a 1967 British Eastmancolor science fiction film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin and Bernard Kay. It was produced by Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky. The screenplay was by Subotsky, based on the 1941 novel ''The Gods Hate Kansas'' by Joseph Millard. The narrative follows the adventures of a scientist who tries to stop space aliens who are made of pure energy from enslaving humans in order to rebuild their spaceship so that they can return to their home planet. The film is from Amicus Productions who released the film as a double bill with '' The Terrornauts'' (1967). Plot An unusual V-shaped formation of meteorites has fallen in Cornwall. Scientists are appointed to investigate. However, their leader, Dr. Curtis Temple, who is recovering from an automobile accident and has a silver plate in his skull, is forbidden by his physician from going. Curtis turns the mission over to Lee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dentist In The Chair
''Dentist in the Chair'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Bob Monkhouse, Ronnie Stevens, Eric Barker and Vincent Ball. The screenplay was written by Val Guest based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Matthew Finch. Additional scenes were written by Bob Monkhouse and George Wadmore. It was followed by the sequel '' Dentist on the Job'' (1961) Plot David Cookson and Brian Dexter are two dental students who become mixed up in the misadventures of a thief, Sam Field, when he tries to sell them stolen dental equipment. Cast * Bob Monkhouse as David Cookson * Peggy Cummins as Peggy Travers * Kenneth Connor as Sam Field * Eric Barker as the Dean * Ronnie Stevens as Brian Dexter * Vincent Ball as Michaels * Eleanor Summerfield as Ethel * Reginald Beckwith as Mr. Watling * Stuart Saunders as Inspector Richardson * Ian Wallace as dentist * Peggy Simpson as Miss Brent * Jean St. Clair as Lucy * Rosie Lee as Maggie * Charlotte Mitchell as woman in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
