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Rentadick
''Rentadick'' is a 1972 British comedy film, directed by Jim Clark (film editor), Jim Clark and starring James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Ronald Fraser (actor), Ronald Fraser and Donald Sinden. It is a spoof spy/detective picture, the plot of which involves attempts to protect a new experimental nerve gas. Main cast * James Booth as Simon Hamilton * Richard Briers as Miles Gannet * Julie Ege as Utta Armitage * Ronald Fraser (actor), Ronald Fraser as Major Upton * Donald Sinden as Jeffrey Armitage * Tsai Chin (actress), Tsai Chin as Madam Greenfly * Kenneth Cope as West * John Wells (actor), John Wells as Owltruss * Spike Milligan as customs officer * Winnie Holman as maid * Patsy Crowther as old lady * Patricia Quinn (Northern Irish actress), Patricia Quinn as chauffeuse * Michael Rothwell (actor), Michael Rothwell as removal man * Michael Sharvell-Martin as removal man * Richard Beckinsale as Hobbs * Derek Griffiths as Henson * Leon Sinden as Police Inspector * Cheryl H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Beckinsale
Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor. He played Lennie Godber in the BBC British sitcom, sitcom ''Porridge (1974 TV series), Porridge'' (along with its sequel series ''Going Straight'') and Alan Moore in the ITV sitcom ''Rising Damp''. He is the father of actresses Samantha Beckinsale, Samantha and Kate Beckinsale. Early life Beckinsale was born in Carlton, Nottinghamshire, the youngest of three children, to an Anglo-Burmese people, Anglo-Burmese father, Arthur John Beckinsale, and an English mother, Maggie Barlow. Beckinsale stated in 1977 that he may have been a distant relative of the actor Charles Laughton. While attending College House Junior School in Chilwell, Beckinsale appeared in his first of many school plays, playing Dopey in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.'' As a teenager at Alderman White Secondary Modern School, he played the lead in ''Tobias and the Angel'' and also appeared as Hsieh Ping-Kuei in ''Lady Precious Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Clark (film Editor)
Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor and film director. He has more than forty feature film credits between 1956 and 2008. Clark directed four feature films along with a handful of short films. Notably, he served as a creative consultant for '' Midnight Cowboy'' (1969). His most noted editing credits included '' Marathon Man'' (1976), '' The Killing Fields'' (1984), and '' Vera Drake'' (2004). In 2011, Clark published ''Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing'', a memoir of his career. Early life Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire and founded the Oundle Film Society in 1947. Career Clark moved to London, and in 1951 began work as an assistant editor at Ealing Studios. Subsequently he worked as a freelance assistant editor on two films directed by Stanley Donen and edited by Jack Harris. When Harris declined the opportunity to work on Donen's subsequent film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wells (satirist)
John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. Early life The son of a cleric, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Career Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on '' That Was The Week That Was'', the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme '' Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'', as well as in '' The Secret Policeman's Other Ball''. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as '' Casino Royale'' (1967) and ''Rentadick'' (1972), television dramas like ''Casanova'' (1987), an episode of '' Lovejoy'' (1991) and comedy shows like '' Yes Minister'', he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as '' Princess Caraboo'' (1994). In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Booth
James Booth (born David Noel Geeves; 19 December 1927 – 11 August 2005) was an English film, stage and television actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Private Henry Hook in '' Zulu.'' ''Variety'' called him "a punchy blend of toughness, potential evil and irresistible charm."Obituary: JAMES BOOTH ; Leading actor of the 1960s who specialised in playing cheerful cockneys: irst EditionVallance, Tom. The Independent; London (UK) ondon (UK)3 Aug 2005: 38. Early life and career David Noel Geeves was born in Croydon, Surrey, on 19 December 1927, the son of Salvation Army probation officer Captain Ernest Edward Geeves and Lillian Alice (née Edwards), also a Salvation Army officer. The Geeves family moved often due to their duties, serving mainly in working-class areas, where they were more financially comfortable than their neighbours; these early experiences of interacting with the working classes had a strong influence on Booth.Bio, Diana Blackwell, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wells (actor)
John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. Early life The son of a cleric, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Career Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on '' That Was The Week That Was'', the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme '' Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'', as well as in '' The Secret Policeman's Other Ball''. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as '' Casino Royale'' (1967) and ''Rentadick'' (1972), television dramas like ''Casanova'' (1987), an episode of '' Lovejoy'' (1991) and comedy shows like '' Yes Minister'', he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as '' Princess Caraboo'' (1994). In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsai Chin (actress)
Tsai Chin (; born 1 September 1933) is a Chinese-British actress, singer, director, and teacher. Her career spans more than six decades and three continents. The daughter of Peking Opera star Zhou Xinfang, Chin was born in Shanghai and educated there and in British Hong Kong. She became the first Chinese-born student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, of which she is an Associate Member. Initially under the stage name Irene Chow, she starred onstage in London's West End in '' The World of Suzie Wong'' and on Broadway in '' Golden Child''. Chin appeared in two James Bond films, 39 years apart, as a Bond girl in '' You Only Live Twice''; and in '' Casino Royale''. In the United States, Chin is best known for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film '' The Joy Luck Club'' (1993). She also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' episode " The Only Light in the Darkness" (2014) as Lian May and in the feature film '' Shang-Chi an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Griffiths
Derek Griffiths (born 15 July 1946) is a British actor, singer and voice artist who appeared in numerous British children's television series in the 1970s to present and has more recently played parts in television drama. Career Griffiths was known in his early years for his '' Play School'' appearances alongside the likes of Chloe Ashcroft, Johnny Ball and Brian Cant. A talented multi-instrumentalist, he voiced over and sang the theme tune to ''Heads and Tails'', a series of short animal films for children produced by BBC Television, and also sang and played the theme tune to the cartoon '' Bod''. Another children's TV role was in Granada Television's early 1980s series ''Film Fun'', in which he played the entire staff of a cinema (the manager, the commissionaire (with the catchphrase "Get on with it!"), the projectionist, the usherette and also himself) while also showing cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Griffiths appeared o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sharvell-Martin
Michael Sharvell-Martin (2 February 1944 – 28 October 2010) was a British television and stage actor. He was a character actor, guest-starring in dramas and comedies during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Sharvell-Martin was born Michael Ernest Martin in Herne Bay, Kent, and trained in stage management at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His acting debut was in 1965 at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. He adopted the stage name Michael Sharvell-Martin because there was already an actor called Michael Martin. Career Sharvell-Martin was mainly a supporting cast actor and appeared in the television series '' Dave Allen at Large''. He also had a recurring role as Trevor Botting in the television situation comedy '' No Place Like Home''. During his career he made guest appearances in '' The Benny Hill Show'', '' Dad's Army'', '' Terry and June'', '' Yes Minister'' and '' Murder Most Horrid''. He also appeared in two episodes of the BBC's department store sitcom '' Are You B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rothwell (actor)
Michael Rothwell (13 March 1936 – 24 January 2009) was an actor. Amongst his theatre work, he was part of the National Theatre's 1963/64 company, playing Roderigo in Olivier's '' Othello'' in 1964. Films * ''Rentadick'' (1972 ) * '' Fragment of Fear'' (1970) * '' Start the Revolution Without Me'' (1970) * '' The Mummy's Shroud'' (1967) TV * '' The Innes Book of Records'' (1979) * '' Jude the Obscure'' (1971) as Dawlish * '' The First Churchills'' (1969) * '' Strange Report'' (1969) * '' Mystery and Imagination'' - '' Casting the Runes'' (1968) * '' Sexton Blake'' (1968) * '' Vanity Fair'' (1967) * '' The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1967) * '' The Avengers'' (1967) (episode: ''The £50,000 Breakfast'') * ''The Plane Makers ''The Plane Makers'' is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firkin. ATV made three series for ITV between 1963 and 1965. It was succeeded by ''The Power Game'', which ran for an additional three ...'' (1967) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Quinn (Northern Irish Actress)
Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born 28 May 1944) is a Northern Irish actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Magenta in the 1975 musical comedy horror film '' The Rocky Horror Picture Show,'' and the original stage play from which it was adapted. She appeared as Dr. Nation McKinley in the 1981 musical film '' Shock Treatment''. In 2012, Quinn played the role of Megan in the horror film ''The Lords of Salem''. Early life Quinn was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to James Connolly Quinn, a bookmaker, and his wife Rebecca. She has an older brother and a younger sister. She attended the Princess Gardens Grammar School, where she developed an early talent for acting. Following stints at Belfast's Arts Theatre and British Drama League, she left for London aged 17. In 1969, she trained at the Drama Centre London while simultaneously working as a blackjack-dealing Bunny at the Playboy Club in Mayfair. In 1971, she was in repertory for six months with the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British Raj, British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones, Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer, and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme ''The Goon Show'', performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles (character), Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of The Goons (The Goon Show), the Goons. He took his success with ''The Goon Show'' into television with ''Q... (TV series), Q5'', a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of ''Monty Pytho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Charles Cope (14 April 1931 – 11 September 2024) was an English actor and scriptwriter. He was best known for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in '' Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', Jed Stone in ''Coronation Street,'' Ray Hilton in '' Brookside'', Sid in '' The Damned'' and as a minor member of the ''Carry On'' team. Early life Kenneth Cope was born on 14 April 1931 in Wavertree, Liverpool (at the time in Lancashire, now in Merseyside), England. Career After training to be an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Cope began playing character roles in films from the mid-1950s, and between 1961 and 1966 gained attention for his regular role in ''Coronation Street'' as the shady Jed Stone, a part he returned to in 2008. In May 1963 he issued a single with Tony Hatch on the Pye label, inspired by Mike Sarne, titled "Hands Off, Stop Mucking About" b/w "Why Am I So Shy". The single was credited to Ken Cope and the Breakaways. He boasted: "It'll get me a golde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
