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Overseas Press Club – Exclusive!
''Overseas Press Club – Exclusive!'' is a British adventure anthology television series which first aired on ITV in 1957. Each episode featured a different story based on a purportedly real case involving foreign correspondents of the Overseas Press Club. It was shot at ABPC's Elstree Studios. Actors who appeared on the show included Ralph Bellamy, Phyllis Calvert, Faith Domergue, Nicole Maurey, Claude Dauphin, Kieron Moore, Eric Pohlmann, John Laurie, Leonard Sachs, Ferdy Mayne, Stratford Johns, Lee Montague, Peter Wyngarde, Anton Diffring, Julia Arnall, André Morell, Stanley Meadows, Jack MacGowran, Helen Haye, Betty McDowall, Alan Tilvern, Austin Trevor, Nigel Stock and Lloyd Lamble Lloyd Nelson Lamble (8 February 1914 – 17 March 2008) was an Australian actor who worked in theatre, television, radio and film. He lived and worked for most of his life in the United Kingdom. Biography Personal life Lloyd Lamble was born in .... References Bibliography * Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David MacDonald (director)
David MacDonald (9 May 1904 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire – 22 June 1983 in London) was a Scottish film director, writer and producer. Career MacDonald was the son of a wealthy landowner. His intention was to become a doctor but changed his mind and aged 17 went to British Malaya, Malaya to work on a rubber plantation for seven and a half years. When he had leave to return to Scotland, he travelled via Hollywood and became interested in filmmaking.Macdonald, D. (1948)"David MacDonald"''The Tatler and Bystander'', 188(2439), 14. He returned to Malaya and worked at a plantation in Kedah. According to one story, while in Malaya he met Douglas Fairbanks who encouraged MacDonald to try his luck in Hollywood. Hollywood MacDonald broke into Hollywood by getting a job as technical adviser on a film ''Prestige (film), Prestige''. After that he was out of work for nine months. He eventually gained a job working for Cecil B. DeMille. MacDonald worked as DeMille's assistant on ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Sachs
Leonard Meyer Sachs (26 September 1909 – 15 June 1990) was a South African-born British actor. Life and career Sachs was born in the town of Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal Colony, present day South Africa. He was Jewish. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1929 and had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 BBC Television version of '' Richard II'', John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in '' East Lynne'' from 1976. He founded an Old Time Music Hall, named the Players' Theatre, in Villiers Street, Charing Cross, London. He appeared as the Chairman of the Leeds City Varieties in the long-running BBC television series '' The Good Old Days'', which ran from 1953 to 1983, and became known for his elaborate, sesquipedalian introductions of the performers. Sachs was honoured in a 1977 episode of '' This Is Your Life''. Sachs appeared in '' Danger Man'' with Patrick McGoohan. He had two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Trevor
Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was an Irish actor who had a long career in film and television. He played the parson in John Galsworthy's ''Escape (play), Escape'' at the world premiere in London's West End theatre, West End in 1926 and was the only member of the cast to transfer to New York City for the Broadway theatre, Broadway production a year later. He played Captain August Lutte in Noël Coward's ''Bitter Sweet (operetta), Bitter Sweet'' during the long first run of the show in the West End theatre, West End from 1929 to 1931. He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: ''Alibi (1931 film), Alibi'' (1931), ''Black Coffee (1931 film), Black Coffee'' (1931) and ''Lord Edgware Dies (film), Lord Edgware Dies'' (1934). He subsequently turned up in a character part in a later Poirot adaptation ''The Alphabet Murders'' in 1965. He stated that he only got ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Tilvern
Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was an English actor. He was known for usually playing "tough-guy" roles. Life Tilvern was born 5 November 1918 in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Lithuanian-Jewish parents, who changed their name from Tilevitch. War and film career After leaving school, he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War, he served in the Army but was invalided out before its end in 1945. A year later, he began an acting career ('' Danger by My Side'' being a good example), that lasted until the late 1980s. He is possibly best known for his role as R. K. Maroon in his last film, ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. It is loosely based on the 1981 novel ''Who Censored Roger Rabbit?'' by Gary K. Wol ...''. Death Tilvern died on 17 December 2003, at the age of 85. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty McDowall
Betty McDowall (14 August 1924 – 31 December 1993) was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1924. McDowall began her career as an actress on stage and radio in Sydney. Her first film, made in Australia, was the 1948 war drama '' Always Another Dawn'', in which she played the female romantic lead. Her television appearances include episodes of ''Z-Cars'', '' The Saint'' and ''The Prisoner''. On stage, she appeared in the West End premiere of Tennessee Williams' play '' Period of Adjustment'' at Wyndham's Theatre in 1962. On the radio, she played Laura Archer in BBC Radio 4's long running soap ''The Archers ''The Archers'' is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word Radio broadcasting, channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now pr ...''. Filmography References External links * 1924 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Haye
Helen Haye (born Helen Hay, 28 August 1874 – 1 September 1957) was a British stage and film actress. New York Times. 3 September 1957 Stage 
Hay (who later adopted the surname Haye) began acting on the stage in 1898 and debuted in in 1911 as Gertrude in ''''. In 1927, she starred in
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Jack MacGowran
John Joseph MacGowran (13 October 1918 – 30 January 1973) was an Irish actor. He was known for being one of the foremost stage interpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett and Seán O'Casey. He was also known to film audiences for his roles as Professor Abronsius in '' The Fearless Vampire Killers'' (1967), Juniper in ''How I Won the War'' (1967), and Burke Dennings in ''The Exorcist'' (1973); MacGowran died during production of the latter film. Early life MacGowran was born on 13 October 1918 in the Ranelagh area of Dublin, one of three children born to Catholic parents Matthew and Gertrude (née Shanahan) MacGowran. He was educated at Synge Street CBS. Prior to his acting career, he worked for Hibernian Insurance. He made his stage debut in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta at the Gaiety Theatre. Career Stage He established his professional reputation as a member of the Abbey Players in Dublin, while he achieved stage renown for his knowing interpretations of the works of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Meadows
Stanley Meadows (born 14 July 1931 in Stepney, London, England) is a retired British film and television actor. Meadows was the son of a shopowner in Stepney Green. He won a scholarship to Forest School, in Epping Forest, and eventually graduated from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1955. After graduating he worked as a barman, storeman, waiter, and a shipping representative, while also performing in a variety of repertory companies. He worked with Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Harold Pinter and starred in a number of plays on ITV. As his career developed further, Meadows made frequent appearances in British films and became something of a stalwart of British television series including '' Public Eye'', '' Undermind'', ''Randall and Hopkirk'' and ''Widows A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has Death, died and has usually not remarried. The male form, "widower", is first attested in the 14th century, by the 19th century supplantin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Morell
Cecil André Mesritz (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978), known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Bernard Quatermass, Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial ''Quatermass and the Pit'' (1958–59), and as John Watson (Sherlock Holmes), Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film), The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1959). He also appeared in the films ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957) and ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben-Hur'' (1959), in several of Hammer's horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV Network, ITV historical drama ''The Caesars (TV series), The Caesars'' (1968). His obituary in ''The Times'' newspaper described him as possessing a "commanding presence with a rich, responsive voice ... whether in the classical or modern theatre he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Arnall
Julia Arnall (21 November 1928 – 8 November 2018) was a German-born British-based actress. Personal life Born Julia Ilse Hendrike Irmgard von Stein Liebenstein zu Bachfeld in 1928 in Munich, she spent her childhood in Berlin, where her father was an army officer. She attended drama school in Vienna. After the war ended she married Desmond Arnall, a British Army officer who had been posted to Berlin. In 1950, she came to Britain with her husband and her young son. In 1952, her second son was born. In 1956 she and Arnall divorced. In 1960 she married a film, television, and jazz critic, with whom she had a daughter. Career She started her life as a model before becoming an actress with the Rank Organisation. She appeared in bit parts in a few films before starring in the 1956 film '' Lost''. After departing Rank, she continued acting, appearing in a few episodes of television shows, including '' The Saint'' and '' Emergency – Ward 10''. In 1960 she appeared in the third epi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; 20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) was a German actor. He had an extensive film and television career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s, latterly appearing in international films. Primarily a character actor, he often played Nazi officers in World War II films and villains in horror films, and other antagonistic authority figures. Early life Diffring was born Alfred Pollack in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate. His father, Solomon Pollack, was a Jewish shop-owner who managed to avoid internment and survived Nazi rule in Germany. His mother, Bertha Pollack (née Diffring), was Christian. He studied acting in Berlin and Vienna, but there is conjecture about when he left Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. The audio commentary for the ''Doctor Who'' serial '' Silver Nemesis'' mentions that he left in 1936 to escape persecution due to his homosexuality. Other accounts point to him leaving in 1939 and settling in Canada, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wyngarde
Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British actor. He was best known for portraying the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: '' Department S'' (1969–70) and '' Jason King'' (1971–1972). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s. Background and early life Wyngarde's birth name was Cyril Goldbert. His full name may have been Cyril Louis Goldbert. According to his own account, he was born on 23 August 1933 to a French mother and a British father at an aunt's home in Marseille, France. Wyngarde changed his name and claimed to be younger than he was. He also cited a false family background by changing his father's name and profession and both his parents' nationalities and their ethnic origins, and he also fabricated a false education and work history of his early years in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |