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No Smoking!
''No Smoking!'' is a 1952 British TV play. It was adapted into a 1955 film. Premise A chemist invents a cure for smoking. Cast *Robert Beatty as Hal Hurst * Alan Webb as Mr. Bates *Jane Barrett as Joyce Bates *Harold Jamieson as Potman *Christopher Hodge as Rustic *Noel Dyson as Mrs. Ellis *Alexis Milne as Housemaid *Peter Bathurst as Vicar *Walter Horsbrugh as Squire *Harold Siddons as Reg Shipman *Shelagh Fraser as Sylvia *Francis de Wolff as Mr. Wellington-Simpson *John Vere as Thackeray *Robert Sandford as Jerry *Lloyd Lamble as Match magnate *Christopher Hodge as First tramp *Morris Sweden as Second tramp *Meadows White as Mayor *H. G. Stoker as Prime Minister *Leonard Sachs as Chancellor of Exchequer Reception It was described by the ''Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sunday Night Theatre
''Sunday Night Theatre'' was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Kneale were produced for this series, including '' Arrow to the Heart'' (1952, 1956) and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1954). The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed ''The Sunday-Night Play'' which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of ''Sunday Night Theatre'' between 1969 and 1974. Archive status The overwhelming majority of the run (1950–1959) of 721 plays are missing from television archives; only 27 are believed to still exist as telerecordings. The Thursday 'repeat performance; of ''Nineteen Eighty-Fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Rienits
Rex Gunther Rienits (17 April 1909 – 30 April 1971) was an Australian writer of radio, films, plays and TV. He was a journalist before becoming one of the leading radio writers in Australia. He moved to England in 1949 and worked for a number of years there. He later returned to Australia and worked on early local TV drama. According to Richard Lane Rienits "was the most affable and generous of men; warm in his friendships, generous with his time and in his efforts to help those still with the ladder to scale. Above all, he was utterly dedicated to the propagation of Australian history, art and playwriting." Early life and career Rienits was born in Dubbo. His father was a draughtsman for the Lands Department and moved from town to town early in Rienits' life. His mother died in 1925 and Rienits had one brother, Don. Rienits' first job was as a copy boy on the Sydney ''Daily Guardian''. He worked as a journalist and boxing promoter in Wagga Wagga. In 1935 he was working in Ky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Moresby-White
George Moresby-White was a British playwright and screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television .... He is also known as G.H. Moresby-White. One of his plays was the basis for the 1955 comedy film '' No Smoking''.Halliwell p.829 Selected filmography * '' Britannia of Billingsgate'' (1933) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1933) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) * '' Take a Chance'' (1937) * '' The Heirloom Mystery'' (1937) References Bibliography * Halliwell, Leslie. ''Halliwell's Film Guide''. HarperPerennial, 1996. External links * British writers British male screenwriters {{UK-playwright-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Smoking (1955 Film)
''No Smoking'' is a 1955 British B movie, second feature ('B') comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring Reg Dixon (comedian), Reg Dixon, Peter Martyn (actor), Peter Martyn, Belinda Lee and Lionel Jeffries. The screenplay was by Kenneth Hayles and Phil Park, based on the No Smoking!, 1952 TV play of same title by George Moresby-White and Rex Rienits. It was produced by Tempean Films. Shortly after the production Lee was signed up for a contract with the Rank Organisation. Plot Reg Bates is a scientist who invents a pill that can cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. This is revealed by a visiting American, Hal Hurst. Bates faces strong opposition from both the tobacco industry and the government. Cast * Reg Dixon (comedian), Reg Dixon as Reg Bates * Peter Martyn (actor), Peter Martyn as Hal Hurst * Belinda Lee as Miss Tonkins * Ruth Trouncer as Joyce * Alexander Gauge as Wellington-Simpson * Lionel Jeffries as George Pogson * Myrtle Rowe as Milly * Arthur Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Beatty
Robert Rutherford Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK. Early years Beatty was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of Charles Thompson Beatty and Blanch Sarah Rutherford. He attended Delta Collegiate School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto.Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . Pp. 35–38. He began his acting career in Britain in 1939. Career Stage Beatty joined the Players' Guild of Hamilton after graduation from the University of Toronto. He went to London, England, in 1936 and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It was with the RADA that he made his English stage debut. In 1939 he appeared in the West End in N.C. Hunter's comedy '' Grouse in June''. Film Beatty's film credits include: '' San Demetrio London'' (1943), '' Odd Man Out'' (1947), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Webb (actor)
Alan Norton Fletcher Webb (2 July 1906 – 22 June 1982) was an English actor. He was principally known as a stage performer, but made several film and television appearances. He seldom played leading roles, but was frequently cast in important character parts. He created roles in plays by A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, T. S. Eliot and other contemporary playwrights. Webb was initially cast as Emperor Palpatine in Richard Marquand's Return of the Jedi, but fell ill before he could fulfil the role and passed months after. Life and career Early years Webb was born in York on 2 July 1906, the elder of the two sons of Major Thomas Francis Albertoni Webb (1862–1955) and his wife Lili, ''née'' Fletcher."Alan Norton Fletcher Webb" Ancestry UK. Retrieved 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Barrett
Jane Barrett (1922 – 1969) was an English actress. Barrett was born in Highgate, left school aged 14 and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She worked extensively in radio, theatre and television. It was estimated she appeared in over 2000 radio sessions on the BBC and by the end of the she had appeared on the air every day for four years. Barrett made her film debut with a tiny role in ''The Citadel'', but then focused on stage, television and radio until cast in a supporting role in ''The Captive Heart''. This led to a six-year contract with the Rank Organisation. Barrett married a Danish artist, Hans Helveg, in 1947. While in Australia to make ''Eureka Stockade'' she signed a contract with the ABC to appear in several radio dramas. ''Filmink'' called Barrett's performance "dull, in part because of her unexciting screen presence, but mostly because of the script." Select credits *''The Captive Heart'' (1946) *''Colonel Bogey'' (1948) *''Eureka Stockade'' (1949 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hodge
Christopher Grose-Hodge (6 March 1924 – 14 February 1998) was a British fencer. He competed in the team épée at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References 1924 births 1998 deaths British male fencers Olympic fencers for Great Britain Fencers at the 1952 Summer Olympics {{UK-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Dyson
Elsie Noel Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress. Dyson played a number of roles in theatre, television and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile character actress in TV serials who became a familiar face to British viewers in a career spanning almost 50 years from 1949 until her death. Dyson's best remembered roles are as matriarch Ida Barlow, one of the original characters in the long-running soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1960–61) and Nanny in the sitcom ''Father, Dear Father'' (1968–73). Early life and career Dyson was born into a wealthy Manchester family (she was given the middle name Noel because she was born two days before Christmas) and was educated at the prestigious Roedean School in Brighton. Following a period at a finishing school in Paris, she returned to England and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which she graduated in 1938. She initially performed in repertory comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, highest circulation of paid newspapers in the UK. Its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday'' was launched in 1982, a Scotland, Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Ireland, Irish edition in 2006. Content from the paper appears on the MailOnline online newspaper, news website, although the website is managed separately and has its own editor. The paper is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the original co-founders, is the chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team led by the editor. Ted Verity succeeded Geordie Greig as editor on 17 November 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Television Plays
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
