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Nolly (TV Series)
''Nolly'' is a British three-part biographical television miniseries created by Russell T Davies, starring Helena Bonham Carter as ''Crossroads'' star Noele Gordon. The series tracks the success of the television star Noele "Nolly" Gordon and her sudden firing from Crossroads. The series premiered on 2 February 2023, on the streaming platform ITVX. It was later broadcast on ITV1 from 27 - 29 December 2023. Cast * Helena Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon * Max Brown as Michael Summerton * Antonia Bernath as Jane Rossington * Bethany Antonia as Poppy Ngomo * Mark Gatiss as Larry Grayson * Emily Butcher as Fiona Fullerton * Augustus Prew as Tony Adams * Richard Lintern as Ronnie Allen * Chloe Harris as Susan Hanson * Tom Bell as Rodney * Clare Foster as Sue Lloyd * Lloyd Griffith as Paul Henry * Con O'Neill as Jack Barton * John Mackay as John Logie Baird * Tim Wallers as Charles Denton * Boro' Brass as the Brass Band on the docks Production ''Nolly'' was the debut commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biographical Drama
A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives. Context Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in ''Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History'' (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck. On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study ''Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre'' shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a similar trajectory as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Grayson
Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter. He hosted the BBC's Saturday-night peak-time TV game show ''The Generation Game'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s, employing his high-Camp (style), camp, English music hall humour. His camp stand-up act consisted mainly of anecdotes about a cast of imaginary friends including Everard, Apricot Lil and Slack Alice. A Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, museum in his home town Nuneaton documents his life and work, and a memorial has been established. Biography Grayson was born William Sulley White in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in 1923. His parents were unmarried and he never met his father. When Grayson was ten days old, his mother, Ethel White, arranged for him to be fostered by Alice and Jim Hammonds in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He had two foster sisters, Flo and Mary. His foster parent, foster mother Alice died when he was six years old, and he was brought up b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical Mechanical television, television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic Color television, colour television picture tube. In 1928, the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission. Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history. In 2006, Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. In 2015, he was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. In 2017, IEEE unveiled a bronze street plaque at 22 Frith Street (Bar I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Con O'Neill (actor)
Con O'Neill (born Robert O'Neill on 15 August 1966) is an English actor. He started his acting career at the Everyman Theatre and became primarily known for his performances in musicals. He received critical acclaim and won a Laurence Olivier Award in 1988 for his performance as Michael "Mickey" Johnstone in the musical '' Blood Brothers''. When the production was staged on Broadway in 1993, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for the same role. He has also appeared in many films and television series, including '' Chernobyl'', '' The Batman'' and '' Our Flag Means Death''. Early life O'Neill was born on 15 August 1966 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Aged one, O'Neill moved with his family to Parbold, growing up in the village of Up Holland, both near Wigan, in Lancashire. O'Neill was discouraged from being an actor at an early age; O'Neill told ''Northern Soul'': "My careers adviser at my school in Wigan, when I said I wanted to be an actor, told me no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henry (actor)
Paul Henry Smith (born 3 January 1946), known professionally as Paul Henry, is an English actor best known for his role as Benny Hawkins in the soap opera ''Crossroads,'' on which he appeared on 354 episodes over 11 years. Henry's first acting credit was for his role as Guiccioli on the TV miniseries ''The Roads to Freedom''. Career Born in Aston, Birmingham, Henry attended the city's Alderlea Boys School in Shard End with Jeff Lynne. Henry trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, which was followed by eight years at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Between 1975 and 1988, he played his best-known role of Benny Hawkins, a handyman in ''Crossroads''. In 1975 Henry featured in the British television police drama, ''The Sweeney''. He appeared in the episode ''Stoppo Driver'' in which he played the character of Maurice Brass, a career criminal and hardman, associated with a family of criminals involved in the kidnap of the wife of Detective Constable Brian Cooney, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Griffith
Lloyd Griffith is an English comedian, actor, presenter and singer from Grimsby, England, and was a presenter on Sky Sports show ''Soccer AM'' until the end of the 2018–19 Premier League, 2018–19 season. Career Lloyd Griffith originally trained as a classical choral singer at the University of Exeter before becoming a comedian in 2010. He started in stand-up comedy before starring in comedy short ''Inheritance'' and on the BBC Radio 1 Comedy Lounge in 2014. Prior to 2019, Griffith performed as tour support for Rob Beckett and Jack Whitehall. Griffith started his TV career on BBC Three show ''Taxi to Training'' in which he would interview professional Association football, footballers (such as Troy Deeney, Asmir Begovic and Dele Alli) as he drove them to their respective Training ground (association football), training grounds. He also appeared on BBC, Sky UK, Sky TV and Comedy Central shows including ''Drunk History'', ''Rugby's Funniest Moments'', and ''Sweat the Small Stuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Lloyd
Susan Margery Jeaffreson Lloyd (7 August 1939 – 20 October 2011) was an English model and actress, with numerous film and television credits. She may be best known for her long-running role (1979 to 1985) as Barbara Hunter ( Brady) in the British soap opera '' Crossroads'' and Cordelia Winfield in the ITC series '' The Baron''. Early life The daughter of a GP, Lloyd was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She attended Edgbaston High School in Birmingham and studied dance as a child, attending Sadler's Wells Ballet School. In 1953, she won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School at Sadler's Wells Theatre, but when she grew to her possibilities for a career as a dancer diminished, and she became a showgirl and model, and, briefly, a member of Lionel Blair's dance troupe. She was one of the last two debutantes to be presented to the queen at Buckingham Palace in 1958; the final such ceremony. Films and television In 1965, Lloyd made her film debut in two espionage-themed films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Foster
Clare Foster (born 24 July 1980) is a British actress, known for portraying the role of PC Millie Brown in the ITV series ''The Bill''. Foster appeared in the 2011 London revival production of '' Crazy for You'', which played at the Novello Theatre, in the 2016–2017 revival production of Tom Stoppard's ''Travesties'' first at the Menier Chocolate Factory and later at the Apollo Theatre and in the 2018 West End revival of ''Consent Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions used in such fields as the law, medicine, research, and sexual consent. Consent as understood i ...''. In 2022 Foster starred in BBC Radio 4's musical adaptation of '' Rossum's Universal Robots.'' Theatre Stage career Filmography References External links * Clare Fosterat Broadway World * Living people British actresses 1981 births {{UK-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bell (comedy Actor)
Tom Bell (born 8 January 1981 in Nottingham) is an English comedy actor, and a creature and droid performer in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. He has played a range of roles in the topical BBC comedy show '' The Mash Report'' and its Dave continuation ''Late Night Mash'', portrayed the recurring character Jathro in ''Wizards vs Aliens'' and played Ubdurian alien Prashee in '' Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens''. Career He began his career as one half of the sketch duo Tommy and the Weeks opposite Ed Weeks. Weeks was president of Cambridge Footlights while Bell was vice-president. Other work includes a long-running series of adverts as one of the 118 118 men, shows on community arts radio station Resonance FM, Lord Fear in the stage production Knightmare Live, numerous appearances with The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society and the one-man show Tom Bell Begins. He appeared as himself in the fourth season of the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reality series ''Project Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Hanson
Susan Hanson (born 11 February 1943) is an English actress who played the part of Diane Lawton (later Parker and Hunter) in the long-running British soap opera '' Crossroads'' from 1965–87, when her character was controversially killed off. She also had a brief role in the film '' Catch Us If You Can'', (1965) which starred The Dave Clark Five. Early life She attended the independent Woodlands School in Preston, Lancashire and lived on Central Drive in Penwortham. Career After a short-lived marriage to BBC Radio 1 DJ Tommy Vance in the 1960s, Hanson married musician Carl Wayne in 1974; they had a son, Jack. After leaving ''Crossroads'' she appeared in the film '' Out of Order'' (1987), and then remained out of the limelight until her husband died of cancer in 2004. A few years later, she returned to British TV screens in the role of the mother of Todd Carty's character in an episode of ''Holby City'', whilst also appearing in ''That's What I Call Television'', alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Allen
Ronald John Allen (16 December 1930 – 18 June 1991) was an English actor. He is best known for playing David Hunter in the long-running ITV soap opera '' Crossroads'', a role he played from 1969 to 1985. Early life Allen was born in Reading, Berkshire. He studied at Leighton Park School in Reading and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where he won the John Gielgud Scholarship. Career Allen worked in repertory theatre and had a season at the Old Vic in London. He also appeared in several films, including '' A Night to Remember'' (1958) about the sinking of the ''Titanic'', the espionage film '' A Circle of Deception'' (1960), the British horror films '' The Projected Man'' (1966) and '' The Fiend'' (1972), the war film '' Hell Boats'' (1970), and the black comedy '' Eat the Rich'' (1987). After roles in the BBC soaps ''Compact'' (1963–64) and '' United!'' (1966–67) came his best-remembered role, in the long-running soap '' Crossroads'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lintern
Richard Charles Lintern (born 8 October 1962) is an English stage, voice and screen actor. Early life Lintern was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied English Literature at Durham University. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Lintern has an extensive stage career, spending most professional time in the West End and the Royal National Theatre. He has appeared across the UK, including leading roles at the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Bristol Old Vic. and many others. Recent productions include ''Elephants'' at Hampstead Theatre, ''Jumpy'' at the Royal Court, ''Blue/Orange'' in Birmingham and ''Clybourne Park'' at the Park Theatre. Lintern has played leading roles in a wide range of television and film projects. Recent productions include ''Silent Witness'', ''Cell 8'', ''Nolly'', ''The Reckoning'', ''Young Wallander'', ''White House Farm'', ''The Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
