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Robert Muller (screenwriter)
Robert Muller (1 September 1925 – 27 May 1998) was a German-born British journalist and screenwriter, who mainly worked in television. Since his father was Jewish, he emigrated to Britain in 1938 as a thirteen-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany. Selected works Film * ''Woman of Straw'' (1964) * ''The Beauty Jungle'' (1964) * ''I'm an Elephant, Madame'' (1969) * ''The Roaring Fifties'' (1983) Television * '' London Playhouse: "''Jane Clegg" (dir. Peter Cotes, 1956) * ''Armchair Theatre: "''The Night Conspirators" (Philip Saville, 1962) Retrieved 25 February 2020. It was presented as a stage play in London and UK tour in 1963. * ''Armchair Theatre:'' " |
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, as well as the overall List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th largest city and largest non-capital city in the European Union with a population of over 1.85 million. Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, which has a population of over 5.1 million people in total. The city lies on the River Elbe and two of its tributaries, the River Alster and the Bille (Elbe), River Bille. One of Germany's 16 States of Germany, federated states, Hamburg is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The official name reflects History of Hamburg, Hamburg's history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery And Imagination
''Mystery and Imagination'' is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and (later) Thames Television. Outline The series featured television plays based on the works of well-known authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, M. R. James, and Edgar Allan Poe. All bar one of the first two ABC series starred David Buck as Richard Beckett, originally a character from Sheridan Le Fanu's story "The Flying Dragon", as narrator. Beckett was made the central character of the series, taking the roles of various characters from some of the original stories. The first two series, although transmitted as two separate runs, were recorded in a single production block. The episode without Buck as the lead ("The Open Door") features Jack Hawkins John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haunted (British TV Series)
Haunted was a British supernatural drama series broadcast by ITV (ABC). It ran for eight episodes from 1967–68 and starred Patrick Mower as University lecturer Michael West, who travelled around Britain investigating reported paranormal phenomena. The entire series was later wiped Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop ... from the ITV archives. None of the episodes are known to have survived on film. Episode list #"I Like It Here" #"The Chinese Butterfly" #"To Blow My Name About" #"Many Happy Returns" #"After the Funeral" #"Living Doll" #"Through a Glass Darkly" #"The Girl on the Swing" External linksHaunted(Action TV). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haunted (British TV series) British supernatural television shows ITV television dramas 1960s British drama television series Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry IV (Pirandello)
''Henry IV'' ( ) is an Italian play ''(Enrico IV)'' by Luigi Pirandello written in 1921 and premiered to general acclaim at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan on 24 February 1922. A study on madness with comic and tragic elements, it is about a man who believes himself to be Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. It has been translated into English by Tom Stoppard, among others. Rex Harrison starred in a noted British production which went to Broadway in 1973, though the Stoppard translation was not used in the production. In 2019, it was ranked by ''The Independent'' as one of the 40 greatest plays ever written. Plot overview An unnamed Italian aristocrat falls off his horse while playing the role of Henry IV during carnevale festivities, which take place annually before Lent. After he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years, his family, including his sister and now his nephew, Marchese Carlo Di Nolli, maintain an elaborate charade in a remote Umbrian villa, deco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Biography Early life Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in an area called "Caos" ("Chaos" in Italian, but in Sicilian dialect lit. "Trouser", from the shape of a nearby ravine), near Porto Empedocle, a poor suburb of Girgenti (Agrigento, a town in southern Sicily). His father, Stefano, belonged to a wealthy family involved in the sulphur industry, and his mother, Caterina Ricci Gramitto, was also of a well-to-do background, descending from a family of the bourgeois p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre 625
''Theatre 625'' is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time. Overview Overall, about 110 plays were produced with a duration of usually between 75 and 90 minutes during the series' four-year run, and for its final year from 1967 the series was produced in colour, BBC2 being the first channel in Europe to convert from black and white.There is at least one exception to the 75-90-minute duration rule. ''David, Chapter 2'' (2.12), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production first broadcast there on 20 May 1963 is listed at 60 minutes duratiohere Some of the best-known productions made for the series include a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mystery fiction, mysteries and fantasy, as well as much nonfiction. Asimov's most famous work is the ''Foundation series, Foundation'' series, the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. His other major series are the ''Galactic Empire series, Galactic Empire'' series and the ''Robot series, Robot'' series. The ''Galactic Empire'' novels are set in the much earlier history of the same fictional universe as the ''Foundation'' series. Later, with ''Foundation and Earth'' (1986), he linked this distant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reason (short Story)
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of '' Astounding Science Fiction'' and collected in '' I, Robot'' (1950), '' The Complete Robot'' (1982), and '' Robot Visions'' (1990). It is part of Asimov's ''Robot'' series, and was the second of Asimov's positronic robot stories to see publication. Plot summary Powell and Donovan are assigned to a space station which supplies energy via microwave beams to the planets. The robots that control the energy beams are in turn co-ordinated by QT-1, known to Powell and Donovan as Cutie, an advanced model with highly developed reasoning ability. Using these abilities, Cutie decides that space, stars and the planets beyond the station don't really exist, and that the humans that visit the station are unimportant, short-lived and expendable. QT-1 makes the lesser robots disciples of a new religion, which considers the power source of the ship to be "Master". QT-1 teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Capon
Naomi Capon (''née'' Mattuck; 17 December 1921 – 10 February 1987) was a British television director and producer. Capon was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and was one of the earliest female drama directors to work in British television. She started working in television in 1941 in the USA, before joining the BBC North American service in 1947. Her credits include ''The Adventures of Peter Simple ''The Adventures of Peter Simple'' is a British period adventure television series which aired in six parts on BBC 1 in 1957.Baskin p.21 It stars Timothy Bateson in the title role, a midshipman in the Royal Navy at the time of the Napoleon ...'' (1957) and the award-winning BBC classic serial '' The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (1970). She directed three episodes of the BBC science-fiction anthology series '' Out of the Unknown''. She also worked as a producer, including on the BBC series '' The Appleyards'', which she also directed. In 1946, Capon married Charles Kenneth Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Unknown
''Out of the Unknown'' is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Most episodes of the first three series were a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already-published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was mostly abandoned in the final year in favour of horror/fantasy stories, with only one story based around science-fiction. Many videotapes of episodes were wiped in the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time. A large number of episodes are still missing, although some have resurfaced—for example, " Level Seven" from series two, originally broadcast on 27 October 1966, was returned to the BBC from the archives of a European broadcaster in January 2006. Origins Irene Shubik had been a science fiction fan since college. In 1961 sugges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Zadek
Peter Zadek (; 19 May 1926 – 30 July 2009) was a German director of theatre, opera and film, a translator and a screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. Biography Peter Zadek was born on 19 May 1926 to a Jewish family in Berlin. In 1934, he emigrated with his family to London where he later studied at Old Vic theatre, after a year at Oxford University. He began in weekly rep in Swansea and Pontypridd. He studied at the Old Vic, and his first productions included Oscar Wilde’s ''Salome'' and T. S. Eliot’s ''Sweeney Agonistes''. Zadek caused a stir in London in the late 1950s with his productions of works by Jean Genet. Indeed, Genet was so outraged by Zadek's world première of '' The Balcony'' at the Arts in 1957 that he apparently bought a gun with the intention of shooting its director. He also worked as a director for the BBC in this period. Bremen years Returning to Germany in 1958, Zadek worked in Theater Bremen from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hayes (director)
Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014) was a British television director and newsreader. He was born in Barking in Essex. As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service, and working his way up to directing for television. Perhaps his most notable work was directing the hugely successful BBC drama adaptations of various Shakespeare plays, collectively entitled '' An Age of Kings'', in 1960. Like many TV drama professionals, after retirement he became better remembered for his work in television science fiction. Amongst Hayes’s many other credits, he directed three ''Doctor Who'' serials starring Tom Baker, including 1979’s ''City of Death'', widely considered by fans to be one of the series' best stories. He also helmed the BBC’s 1961 adaptation of ''A for Andromeda ''A for Andromeda'' is a British television science fiction drama seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
