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Randle Ayrton
Frederick Randle Ayrton (9 August 1869 – 28 May 1940) was a British actor of stage and screen, and was also a producer and director. Early life Ayrton was born in Chester to William Frances Ayrton, a wealthy wine-merchant who was a partner and co-founder of the firm of Ayrton & Groome, and his second wife Pauline (Fleischmann). Two of Randle's full brothers also gained prominence. The eldest, William Ayrton (1861-1916), was an artist based in Suffolk. The youngest, Maxwell Ayrton (1874-1960), was a leading architect. The Ayrton family originated in Yorkshire. Randle's forebear Edward Ayrton was mayor of Ripon in 1760, and laid the foundations for the family's subsequent prominence. Ayrton was educated at The King's School, Chester and Geneva University. Career Ayrton made his stage debut in 1890, at the Old Avenue Theatre in London and was successful on stage in London and in America into the late 1930s.In 1918 he appeared in the comedy '' The Freedom of the Seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Locality"; downloaded froCheshire West and Chester: Population Profiles, 17 May 2019 it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester (a unitary authority which had a population of 329,608 in 2011) and serves as its administrative headquarters. It is also the historic county town of Cheshire and the second-largest settlement in Cheshire after Warrington. Chester was founded in 79 AD as a " castrum" or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix during the reign of Emperor Vespasian. One of the main army camps in Roman Britain, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded the Minster Church of West Mercia, which later became Chester's first cathedral, and the Angles extended and stren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of The Best (film)
''One of the Best'' is a 1927 British silent historical drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Walter Byron and Eve Gray. It was based on a play by Seymour Hicks. Film historian Rachael Low described it as an "unsophisticated costume drama".Low p.169 The ' drumming out' scene of Lieutenant Keppel was filmed at Hounslow Barracks using the officers and men of the Royal Fusiliers wearing 1820s uniforms. Cast * Carlyle Blackwell as Philip Ellsworth * Walter Byron as Lieutenant Dudley Keppel * Eve Gray as Mary Penrose * Randle Ayrton as General Gregg * James Carew as Colonel Gentry * Julie Suedo as Claire Melville * James Lindsay as Maurice de Gruchy * Pauline Johnson as Esther * Elsa Lanchester as Kitty * Charles Emerald as Private Jupp * Cecil Barry as Lieutenant Wynne * Simeon Stuart as Squire Penrose * Harold Huth Harold Huth (20 January 1892 – 26 October 1967) was a British actor, film director and producer. Biography Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debt Of Honour
''Debt of Honour'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Garry Marsh. Based on a story by Sapper, and scripted by Tom Geraghty and Cyril Campion, the film is also known as ''The Man Who Could Not Forget''.''Debt of Honour'' (1936) BFI. It was made at by British National Films.Wood p.85 Premise A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Me And Marlborough
''Me and Marlborough'' is a 1935 British comedy film, directed by Victor Saville, and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Oscar and Cecil Parker. Plot Sergeant Cummings searches Kit Ross's pub for a deserter drummer boy. When he finds the lad, Kit leads the pub patrons in attacking the sergeant's men, and the young man gets away, for which she is put in stocks Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code. The law describing .... While there, she plans her impending wedding to Dick Welch. However, Cummings gets his revenge. On the night of the wedding, he tricks Dick into taking a shilling, which means he has enlisted in the army. She watches as a ship takes him to the fighting. Undaunted, she disguises herself as a man named Simon and joins up with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jew Suss (1934 Film)
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreyfus (1931 Film)
''Dreyfus'' is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film '' Dreyfus''. It features George Zucco in his film debut. Cast *Cedric Hardwicke as Capt. Alfred Dreyfus * Charles Carson as Col. Picquart * George Merritt as Émile Zola *Sam Livesey as Labori * Beatrix Thomson as Lucille Dreyfus * Garry Marsh as Maj. Esterhazy *Randle Ayrton as Court-martial president *Henry Caine as Col. Hubert-Joseph Henry *Reginald Dance as President, Zola trial *George Skillan as Maj. Armand du Paty de Clam *Leonard Shepherd as Georges Clemenceau * Arthur Hardy as Gen. Auguste Mercier *Alexander Sarner as Mathieu Dreyfus * Frederick Leister as Edgar Demange *J. Fisher White as Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux * Abraham Sofaer as Dubois *J. Leslie Frith as Alphonse Bertillon *George Zucco George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was a British character actor who appeared in plays and 96 films, mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Worlds (1930 British Film)
''Two Worlds'' is a 1930 British war drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Norah Baring, John Longden and Donald Calthrop. It was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures.Wood p.70 It was made as an MLV, with a separate German-language version '' Zwei Welten'' and the French ''Les deux mondes''. The film's art direction was by Alfred Junge. The film is set during the First World War. The action takes place on the Eastern Front between Austria and the Russian Empire. Cast * Norah Baring as Esther Goldscheider * John Longden as Lt. Stanislaus von Zaminsky * Donald Calthrop as Mendel * Randle Ayrton as Simon Goldscheider * Constance Carpenter as Mizzi * C. M. Hallard as Col. von Zaminsky * Jack Trevor as Captain Stanislaus * Andrews Engelmann as Lieutenant * Gus Sharland as Major * Boris Ranevsky as Ensign * Georges Marakoff Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Game (1930 Film)
''The Great Game'' is a 1930 British film, one of the earliest feature films to use football as a central theme. The film's plot contains many elements of what would become clichés in the sporting film genre. Dicky Brown is a young, aspiring footballer who plays for a struggling side, the fictional Manningford F.C., a team in the midst of a successful cup run. He manages to charm the daughter of the chairman and thus breaks into the side, and ultimately wins the Cup for his team. The film covers now clichéd conflicts within football which still exist. The manager of the team wants to give his young players a chance in the side; the chairman, on the other hand, insists on signing established star players, such as Jack Cock (then of Millwall F.C., previously of Chelsea F.C. and Everton F.C.). Much of the film is set in Chelsea's home ground, Stamford Bridge, and it contains guest appearances by numerous real-life footballers, including George Mills, Andy Wilson, Sam Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glorious Youth
''Glorious Youth'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton and William Freshman. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Eileen of the Trees''. It was one of two films Cutts made with the Czech actress Anny Ondra. The film is based on the novel ''Eileen of the Trees'' by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and was made at Elstree Studios. Cast * Anny Ondra - Eileen * William Freshman * Randle Ayrton * Gibb McLaughlin * A. Bromley Davenport * Forrester Harvey * Arthur Roberts * Jerrold Robertshaw Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866, in Allerton, West Riding of Yorkshire – 14 February 1941, in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Dombey and Son'' (1917) * ''Build Thy House'' (1920) * ... References Bibliography * Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929''. Routledge, 1997. External links * 1929 films British drama films British si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Manxman
''The Manxman'' is a 1929 British silent romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson and Malcolm Keen. The film is based on a popular 1894 romantic novel '' The Manxman'' by Hall Caine, which had previously been made into a film 13 years earlier. It was the last fully silent production that Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film ''Blackmail'' (1929). Cast * Carl Brisson as Pete Quilliam * Malcolm Keen as Philip Christian * Anny Ondra as Kate Cregeen * Randle Ayrton as Caesar Cregeen * Clare Greet as Mother (as Claire Greet) * Harry Terry as Man (uncredited) * Kim Peacock as Ross Christian (uncredited) * Wilfred Shine as Doctor (uncredited) * Nellie Richards as Wardress (uncredited) Plot The film tells the story of two close childhood friends, a handsome but poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam ( Carl Brisson), and a well-educated middle-class lawyer, Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen); Both the young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Romance Of Seville
''A Romance of Seville'' is a 1929 British drama film directed by Norman Walker and starring Alexander D'Arcy, Marguerite Allan and Cecil Barry. This was the first British sound film released in colour, using the Pathéchrome stencil-colouring process.Mundy p.111 The film is also known by the alternative title ''The Romance of Seville''. Cast * Alexander D'Arcy as Ramon * Marguerite Allan as Pepita * Randle Ayrton as Estavian * Cecil Barry as Estaban * Hugh Eden as Juan * Eugenie Amami as Dolores See also *List of early color feature films *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. R ... References Bibliography * Mundy, John. ''The British musical film''. Manchester University Press, 2007. External links * 1929 films 1920s color films Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hate Ship
''The Hate Ship'' is a 1929 British mystery film directed by Norman Walker and starring Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin and Jack Raine. It was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures.Wood p.67 Cast * Jameson Thomas as Vernon Wolfe * Jean Colin as Sylvia Paget * Jack Raine as Roger Peel * Henry Victor as Count Boris Ivanoff * Randle Ayrton as Captain MacDonnell * Edna Davies as Lisette - Maid * Carl Harbord as Arthur Wardell * Allan Jeayes as Dr. Saunders * Maria Minetti as Countess Olga Karova * Charles Dormer as Nigel Menzies * Ivo Dawson as Colonel Paget * Syd Crossley as Rigby - Valet * Charles Emerald as Bullock See also * List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) References Bibliography * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * 1929 films British mystery films 1929 mystery films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Norman Walker Films shot at Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
