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Rough Cut (1980 Film)
''Rough Cut'' is a 1980 American heist film written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down and David Niven. It was based on the novel '' Touch the Lion's Paw'' (1975) by Derek Lambert. Plot Jack Rhodes, a rich American living in London, attends a party and meets Gillian Bromley, an attractive woman who is also a thief. Rhodes observes Gillian stealing diamond jewelry from the house and later discovers Gillian hiding in his apartment. The two are attracted to one another and slowly begin a romantic relationship. Gillian confesses that she steals for the thrill, and also displays her skills at high speed driving. Gillian is being coerced by Chief Inspector Willis, a veteran Scotland Yard detective who knows Jack is really a diamond thief and is determined to catch him before his impending retirement. Willis uses Gillian to feed Jack information regarding a shipment of uncut diamonds from London to Antwerp in order to bait Jack into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Siegel
Donald Siegel ( ; October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film director and producer. Siegel was described by ''The New York Times'' as "a director of tough, cynical and forthright action-adventure films whose taut plots centered on individualistic loners". He directed the Science fiction film, science-fiction horror film ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956), as well as five films with Clint Eastwood, including the police thriller ''Dirty Harry'' (1971) and the prison drama ''Escape from Alcatraz (film), Escape from Alcatraz'' (1979). He also directed John Wayne's final film, the Western ''The Shootist'' (1976). Early life Siegel was born in 1912 to a Jewish family in Chicago; his father was Samuel Siegel, a mandolin player. Siegel attended schools in New York and later graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge in England. For a short time, he studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Beaux Arts in Paris, but left at age 20 and later went to Los Angeles.Munn, p. 75 Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Magee (actor)
Patrick George Magee (né McGee, 31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was an Irish actor. He was noted for his collaborations with playwrights Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, sometimes called "Beckett's favourite actor," as well as creating the role of the Marquis de Sade in the original stage and screen productions of ''Marat/Sade''. Known for his distinctive voice, he also appeared in numerous horror films and in two Stanley Kubrick films – '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1971) and ''Barry Lyndon'' (1975) – and three Joseph Losey films – '' The Criminal'' (1960), '' The Servant'' (1963) and ''Galileo'' (1975). He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964 to 1970. Critic Antonia Quirke posthumously described him as "a presence so full of strangeness and charisma and difference and power," while scholar Conor Carville wrote that Magee was an "avant-garde bad-boy" and "very important and unjustly forgotten figure who represents an important aspect of the cultural f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Harris
Sandra Colleen Waites (15 December 1948 – 28 December 1991), known professionally as Cassandra Harris, was an Australian actress. Early life Born in Sydney, Harris was a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. She enrolled in 1961, aged 12, under the name Sandra Gleeson. She went on to perform in the Sydney stage production of '' Boeing Boeing'' (1964–1965). Harris appeared in '' The Greek Tycoon'' (1978), ''Rough Cut'' (1980), and the ''James Bond'' film '' For Your Eyes Only'' (1981) as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Columbo (played by Israeli actor Topol). While filming this movie, her third husband, Pierce Brosnan, met producer Albert R. Broccoli. Her dream was for Brosnan to become Bond and encouraged him to pursue the role. He was supposed to take over from Roger Moore after impressing Broccoli in his role in the TV series '' Remington Steele''. He agreed to take the role but producers from the TV show refused to release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Webb (actor)
Alan Norton Fletcher Webb (2 July 1906 – 22 June 1982) was an English actor. He was principally known as a stage performer, but made several film and television appearances. He seldom played leading roles, but was frequently cast in important character parts. He created roles in plays by A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, T. S. Eliot and other contemporary playwrights. Webb was initially cast as Emperor Palpatine in Richard Marquand's Return of the Jedi, but fell ill before he could fulfil the role and passed months after. Life and career Early years Webb was born in York on 2 July 1906, the elder of the two sons of Major Thomas Francis Albertoni Webb (1862–1955) and his wife Lili, ''née'' Fletcher."Alan Norton Fletcher Webb" Ancestry UK. Retrieved 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Culver
Roland Joseph Culver, (31 August 1900 – 1 March 1984) was an English stage, film, and television actor. Early life After Highgate School, Culver joined the Royal Air Force and served as a pilot from 1918 to 1919. Career After considering other careers, Culver turned to acting, graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He debuted on the stage in 1924 at Hull Repertory Theatre and, by 1931, was appearing in films in which he was known for his portrayals of impeccable English gentlemen not given to displays of emotion. In the 1960s Culver branched out into television, before finally retiring in 1983. In 1960, he appeared in '' Five Finger Exercise'' at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. He was nominated for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for '' Ivanov''. In 1974, he played the irascible Duke of Omnium and Gatherum in the popular BBC adaptation of '' The Pallisers''. He took the role of Claudius opposite Paul Scofield' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Mills (British Actor)
Albert Frank Mills (11 August 192711 February 2021) was an English actor. He starred in numerous films and television series such as ''Rumpole of the Bailey''. He was best known for his television work, notably the role of Billy Williams in ''Coronation Street''. Biography Early life Mills was born in London, England, in 1927. Career During the 1970s Mills appeared as the fraudulent medium Mr Tyson in '' The Treasure of Abbot Thomas'' (1974), as chip shop proprietor Len Holmes, in '' The Sweeney'' episode "''May''" (1976) and as paedophile Reginald Barton in the Granada Television daytime series, ''Crown Court,'' the episode entitled ''"Common Sense"'' (1978). Further television appearances during the 1980s saw him appear as Commissionaire Peterson in 'The Blue Carbuncle' episode of ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' in 1984, and Reginald Crump in Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye in 1985. Also in 1984 he appeared as Harry Martin, an accountant or book keeper, employed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Hines
Ronald Charles Andrew Hines (20 June 1929 – 28 March 2017) was a British television actor. He had a lengthy career, but possibly his most prominent roles were as Henry Corner in three of the four series of '' Not in Front of the Children'', and as William Cecil in '' Elizabeth R''. After graduating from RADA in 1950, Hines started on stage at Stratford, and made many theatrical appearances throughout his career, including at the Royal Court, the Old Vic and the National Theatre. On television, he starred in the 1959–60 sitcom '' Tell It to the Marines''. In 1965 he was a regular on the first series of the BBC oil industry drama '' The Troubleshooters'' (then titled Mogul). In 1966, Hines played Eric Redman in the 11th episode of the 5th series of the popular British action adventure '' The Saint'' (episode entitled " Paper Chase"). He also appeared on ''Jackanory'' several times, usually narrating stories about The Wombles. Hines appeared as John Copeland in the cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Wilmer
Douglas Norman Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the eponymous 1965 TV series. Early life Wilmer was born 8 January 1920 in Brentford, Middlesex, to Harry Bradlaugh Wilmer (1880–1946) and (Ethel) Kate ( Taverner r Tavener(1880–1944). His father was an accountant for Jardine Matheson, and Wilmer spent his childhood in Shanghai where his father worked. When he was about 13 years old, Douglas was sent back to the United Kingdom to attend King's School, Canterbury, and Stonyhurst College. A performance as the Archbishop of Canterbury in a school play at King's School was seen by Dame Sybil Thorndike who afterward told the headmaster "If that boy, playing the Archbishop, were to take to the stage, I think that he could well make a go of it." After completing school, Wilmer applied for a scholarship at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was accepted. Whilst in training at RADA, he was conscripted into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Holloway
Julian Robert Stanley Holloway (24 June 1944 – 16 February 2025) was a British actor and voice artist. He was the son of comedy actor and singer Stanley Holloway and former chorus dancer and actress Violet Lane and the father of author and former model Sophie Dahl. Early life Holloway was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire, England on 24 June 1944. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Harrow School, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1963. Career In the 1962–63 television season of '' Our Man Higgins'', Holloway was cast in his first major acting role as Quentin in four episodes. He became a mainstay of the ''Carry On'' film franchise, appearing in eight films between 1967 and 1976, as well as one of the '' Carry On Christmas'' television specials. In the 1970s British police drama '' The Sweeney'' episode ''Big Spender,'' Holloway appeared as John Smith, the brains of an organized crime family who involve themselves with two dishonest employees of a car pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ray
Andrew Ray (31 May 193920 August 2003) was an English actor who was best known as a child star. Biography He was born Andrew Olden (Ray was his father's stage name) in Southgate, Middlesex, the son of the radio comic Ted Ray and his wife, showgirl Dorothy Sybil (née Stevens). Ray's life was transformed at the age of 10 when he was cast in the title part of ''The Mudlark'', a 20th Century Fox film starring Alec Guinness and Irene Dunne. He played a street urchin who ends up meeting Queen Victoria. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance in 1950. He was featured in numerous films during the next few years, including '' The Yellow Balloon'' (1953), '' Escapade'' (1955), '' Woman in a Dressing Gown'' (1957), '' The Young and the Guilty'' (1958), '' Serious Charge'' (1959) with Cliff Richard, '' Twice Round the Daffodils'' (1962), and '' The System'' (1964). He also portrayed Herbert Pocket in the ITC remake of Charles Dickens's ''Great Expectations'' (1974) oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Kahler
Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German character actor in stage, film, television, and voice actor. Early life Kahler was born in Kiel in Germany. Career With blue eyes, sculpted jawbone, and height of , Kahler was often chosen to play unsympathetic German characters or Nazis. He appeared in the British production of ''the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' as the young Bohemian king in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and in "A Game of Shadows". Since 1975, he has appeared in many English-language American and British television and film productions. One of his early roles was that of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film '' The Riddle of the Sands''. One of his best-known roles was that of Hermann Dietrich in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''. Among the characters he has voiced in video games is Kaiser Vlad in '' Battalion Wars''. Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, ''Barry Lyndon''. In 2001, he played a Wehrmacht General in a television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Dean
Isabel Dean (born Isabel Hodgkinson, 29 May 1918 – 27 July 1997) was an English stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Aldridge, Staffordshire, Dean studied painting at Birmingham Art School. In 1937, she joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist. She was soon involved in acting with some small parts. She appeared on stage in London in Agatha Christie's '' Peril at End House'' in 1940. Her stage appearances included '' The Deep Blue Sea'', ''Breaking the Code'' and John Osborne's ''The Hotel in Amsterdam'', at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In 1949 she appeared in ''The Foolish Gentlewoman'' at the Duchess Theatre in London. By 1953, she was also appearing on British television in ''The Quatermass Experiment'' and over her career appeared in television series such as '' I, Claudius'' (1976) and ''Inspector Morse'' (1990). She appeared with Paul Scofield in an '' ITV Saturday Night Theatre'' production of ''The Hotel in Amsterdam'' broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |