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Pawle Island
Pawle may refer to: *James and Janet Pawle, characters in '' Village of the Damned'', a 1960 British science fiction film * John Pawle (1915–2010), English sportsman, stockbroker, and painter * Lennox Pawle (1872–1936), English stage and film actor See also * Mawle {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Of The Damned (1960 Film)
''Village of the Damned'' is a 1960 science fiction horror film by Anglo-German director Wolf Rilla. The film is adapted from the novel '' The Midwich Cuckoos'' (1957) by John Wyndham. The lead role of Professor Gordon Zellaby is played by George Sanders. A sequel, '' Children of the Damned'' (1964), followed, as did a remake, also called '' Village of the Damned'' (1995). Plot In the British village of Midwich, Professor Gordon Zellaby is talking to his brother-in-law, Major Alan Bernard, on the telephone when he, his wife Anthea, and all the other villagers suddenly fall unconscious, as do the animals and other people entering the village. The military establishes a cordon around Midwich; Bernard and the military discover that a caged canary becomes unconscious upon being placed in the village's border, but regains consciousness when removed. They then send in a man wearing a gas mask, but he, too, falls unconscious and is pulled back with a rope. The man awakens and reports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pawle
John Hanbury Pawle (18 May 1915 – 20 January 2010) was an English sportsman, stockbroker and painter. Pawle was educated at Harrow School, where he played cricket for the school and was captain in 1934, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he won blues in 1936 and 1937 as well as playing for Essex. Later he played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Free Foresters. At Cambridge he also won a blue for tennis in 1936 and half-blues for real tennis in 1935, 1936 and 1937. He then joined the Westminster School of Art as a student of art. On the outbreak of war in 1939, Pawle joined the Royal Navy and served in destroyers. After the war he became a partner in a firm of stockbrokers in the City of London. He was British amateur racquets Rackets or racquets is an indoor list of racket sports, racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (sport), squash (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Pawle
Lennox Pawle (27 April 1872, in Marylebone, Middlesex – 22 February 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was an English stage and film actor. Life and career John Lennox Pawle was born in Marylebone, London, on 27 April 1872, the son of John Christopher Pawle, a London solicitor, and his wife, Maria. Before becoming an actor Pawle worked as a newspaper reporter; later he began his acting career at Sarah Thorne’s Dramatic School. The heavyset actor gained experience in London, where before the turn of the century he was already known as a comic actor and eventually became a member of Maude Adams's Playhouse company. Pawle arrived in America in 1910 and worked at the Broadway Theatre, where he acted in five plays. He married Dorothy Parker when they returned to England in 1914. It was Pawle’s second (possibly third) marriage after being granted a divorce from Janet Mary Pawle in 1909. Lennox Pawle remained in England during the years of the First World War but returned to Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |