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Sebastian (1968 Film)
''Sebastian'' (also known as ''Mister Sebastian'') is a 1968 British spy film directed by David Greene, produced by Michael Powell, Herbert Brodkin and Gerry Fisher, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a story by Leo Marks, and Gerald Vaughan-Hughes wrote the screenplay.''Sebastian''
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While running through the streets of Oxford to attend the bestowing of an honorary degree on the Prime Minister, Mr. Sebastian runs into model and former Oxford mathematics student Rebecca (Becky) Howard ...
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Leo Marks
Leopold Samuel Marks, (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special Operations Executive organisation. After the war, Marks became a playwright and screenwriter, writing scripts that frequently utilised his war-time cryptographic experiences. He wrote the script for ''Peeping Tom'', the controversial film directed by Michael Powell that had a disastrous effect on Powell's career, but was later described by Martin Scorsese as a masterpiece. In 1998, towards the end of his life, Marks published a personal history of his experiences during the war, '' Between Silk and Cyanide'', which was critical of the leadership of SOE. Early life Marks was born into a devout Jewish family. He was the son of Benjamin Marks, the joint owner of Marks & Co, an antiquarian bookseller in Charing Cross Road, London. He was intr ...
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Janet Munro
Janet Munro (born Janet Neilson Horsburgh; 28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film ''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'' (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in the film ''Life for Ruth'' (1962). Munro starred in three Disney films: ''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'' (1959), '' Third Man on the Mountain'' (1959), and '' Swiss Family Robinson'' (1960). Her other film credits were roles in '' The Trollenberg Terror'' (1958) and ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961). Munro married the actor Tony Wright, and then the actor Ian Hendry. She died of a heart attack at age 38. She was described as having "one of the most haunting, magical cinematic presences in the late 1950s and early 1960s… and one of the saddest personal stories." Biography Early life Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1934, she was the daughter of Scottish comedi ...
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Twickenham Film Studios
Twickenham ( ) is a suburban district of London, England, on the River Thames southwest of Charing Cross. Historic counties of England, Historically in Middlesex, since 1965 it has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, whose administrative headquarters are in the area. The population, including St Margarets, London, St Margarets and Whitton, London, Whitton, was 62,148 at the 2011 census. Twickenham is the home of the Rugby Football Union, with hundreds of thousands of spectators visiting Twickenham Stadium each year. The historic riverside area has a network of 18th-century buildings and pleasure grounds, many of which have survived intact. This area has three grand period mansions with public access: York House, Twickenham, York House, Marble Hill House, Marble Hill and Strawberry Hill House. Another has been lost, that belonging to 18th-century aphorism, aphoristic poet Alexander Pope, who was known as the ''Bard of Twickenham''. Strawberry Hill, the ...
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Jodrell Bank
Jodrell Bank Observatory ( ) in Cheshire, England hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of meteoroids, quasars, pulsars, astrophysical maser, masers, and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age. The main telescope at the observatory is the Lovell Telescope. Its diameter of makes it the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world. There are three other active telescopes at the observatory; the Mark II (radio telescope), Mark II and and 7 m diameter radio telescopes. Jodrell Bank Observatory is the base of the MERLIN, Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN), a National Fac ...
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London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ...
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Oxford
Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of Architecture of England, English architecture since late History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, science, and information technologies. Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and River Cherwell, Cherwell. It had a population of in . It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon period. The name � ...
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Portland Mason
Portland Mason (; 26 November 1948 – 10 May 2004) was a British-American child actress and writer. Early life Mason was born on 26 November 1948 and was the elder child of English actors James Mason and Pamela Mason. She was named after Portland Hoffa, the wife of James Mason's friend Fred Allen. She enjoyed a luxurious upbringing in her parents' Hollywood mansion, allowed to wear makeup, stiletto heels and owning her own mink coat and diamonds by the age of nine. Her highly publicized life began with her father becoming violent towards a photographer at the little girl's christening. When she attended high school, Mason was dropped off every morning by a Rolls-Royce and picked up every evening by a white Cadillac. Her father introduced her to smoking at the age of three in hope it would put her off it in later life. The family sometimes claimed reports of her extravagant childhood were exaggerated, and a London reporter who interviewed her in 1966 found her "surprisingl ...
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Hayward Morse
Hayward Morse is a British stage and voice actor born in 1947. His career began on CBC television and with numerous stage performances in Canada and the United States. He made his US television debut in 1959 with Ingrid Bergman in the film ''The Turn of the Screw''. Background Morse is the son of actors Barry Morse and Sydney Sturgess and brother of Melanie Morse MacQuarrie. He received a scholarship at the age of 16 to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, receiving the 'Silver Medal' award upon graduation. Career He made his London West End debut in the original production of Joe Orton's '' What The Butler Saw'' at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baxter and Coral Browne. He received a Best Supporting Actor Antoinette Perry 'Tony' award nomination for his performance in Simon Gray's '' Butley'' on Broadway, starred in the first stage production of The Rocky Horror Show, the Bristol Old Vic production of Oscar Wilde's ''Lady Winder ...
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006), nicknamed "Fluff", was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting '' Pick of the Pops'' from 1961 to 2000. Early life Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school. He wanted to be an opera singer, but decided his voice was not strong enough. Career Radio and television Freeman was invited to audition as a radio announcer in 1952, and began work for 7LA in Tasmania, known as the teenagers' station. Freeman's duties included continuity announcer, presenter of musical programmes incorporating opera, ballet and classical music, DJ for the top 100, news reader, quizmaster and commercials reader. After moving to radio station 3KZ in Melbourne, he took a nine-month trip around the world in 1957, with the promise to return ...
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Ann Sidney
Ann Sidney (born 27 March 1944) is a British actress, television host and beauty queen who won the 1964 Miss World contest representing the United Kingdom. Early life Sidney moved to Poole when very young. She went to Martin Road School in Parkstone and then Martin Kemp-Welch secondary school, which later became St Aldhelm's Academy, leaving school at fifteen. She initially took an apprenticeship in hairdressing, working in salons in Bournemouth, but then decided that she would rather be a model. Miss World Sidney became the second woman from her country to win the title, after Rosemarie Frankland in 1961. The pageant was held in London on 12 November 1964. It was watched on television by a reported 27.2 million people in the UK alone. During her reign as Miss World, she travelled around the world five times and joined Bob Hope on his USO tour of Asia. Career After relinquishing the Miss World title, Sidney had many television acting roles, including '' The Avengers'' and '' ...
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Ann Beach
Ann Beach (7 June 1938 – 9 March 2017) was a British actress. She is perhaps best remembered for her supporting role as Sonia Barrett, the quirky next-door neighbour on the comedy ''Fresh Fields'', starring Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers. Career Beach won a scholarship to RADA at the age of 16. After leaving, she toured with Frankie Howerd in '' Hotel Paradiso'', and then came to London in the title role of Emlyn Williams's ''Beth''. This was not a success, but she was soon busily engaged in television work, until she returned to the stage in the Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Among the parts she played there were Rosie in ''Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'' (1960), and Miss Gilchrist in '' The Hostage''. She then played Barbara in ''Billy Liar'' at the Cambridge Theatre in September 1960. She was also a member of the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting ...
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Margaret Johnston
Margaret Johnston (10 August 1914 – 19 June 2002) was an Australian actress. Johnston was best known for her stage performances, but also appeared in 12 films and a handful of TV productions before retiring from acting in 1968 to devote herself to running a theatrical agency. Early life Johnston was the second of three daughters born in Australia to English parents. She was educated at the North Sydney Girls High School, then at the University of Sydney where she studied law.Obituary in ''The Independent''
12 July 2002. Retrieved 21 July 2010
Johnston had shown an interest and aptitude for drama from an early age acting in various school productions before working professionally in Sydney's theatres. It was reported that her oft-sta ...
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