Steptoe And Son Ride Again
''Steptoe and Son Ride Again'' (also known as ''Steptoe & Son Ride Again'') is a 1973 British comedy drama film directed by Peter Sykes and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film was a spin-off from the BBC television comedy series of the same name (1962–1974) about father-and-son rag-and-bone merchants. It is a sequel to the film ''Steptoe and Son'' (1972). Plot The Steptoes have retired their horse Hercules due to lameness, and plan to buy a new one with Albert's life savings of £80, putting £9 away for "emergencies". Harold returns several hours later from Southall Market, drunk, and introduces Hercules the Second, a short sighted racing greyhound. Harold reveals to Albert that he purchased this from local gangster and loan shark Frankie Barrow for the £80 plus a further £200 owing on top. Furthermore, he plans to pay a small fortune to keep it fed on egg and steak. They eventually have to sell all o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aida Young
Aida Young (née Cohen; 11 August 1920 – 12 August 2007) was a British film producer. Her credits include ''She''. Life Young was born in 1920 to an Orthodox Jewish family in Stepney where her family ran a pawnbroker shop. She wanted to be an actress and after college she worked for a company who made documentary films. Young entered the film industry in the 1950s. She was a second assistant director on the Hammer's success with ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' (1955). Young was production manager of ''The New Adventures of Charlie Chan'' (1957–58) for British television. She took the same role on ''The Invisible Man'' (1958–59) and ''The Adventures of William Tell'' (1959–60), all half-hour programmes produced by ITC. With ''Danger Man'' in 1964, produced by the same company, she was finally the producer. Young worked as an associate producer for MGM on the romantic film ''Light in the Piazza'' (1962). Later, she had two successes with ''She'' and '' One Million Years B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Greyhound Racing In Great Britain
Greyhound racing is a sport in the United Kingdom. The industry uses a parimutuel betting tote system with on-course and off-course betting available. Attendances have declined in recent years, primarily due to the decrease in evening fixtures with the majority of fixtures being held in the daytime due to betting shop demands. Attendances peaked in 1946 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, 1946 at around 70 million and Tote board, totalisator turnover reaching £196,431,430. As of January 2025, there are 19 licensed stadiums in the United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland) and just one independent stadium (unaffiliated to a governing body). History Modern greyhound racing evolved from a form of hunting called coursing, in which a dog runs after a live game animal – usually a rabbit or hare. The first official coursing meeting was held in 1776 at Swaffham, Norfolk. The rules of the Swaffham Coursing Society, started by Earl of Orford, Lord Orford, specified that only two ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Richard Davies (Welsh Actor)
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor. He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy '' Please Sir!''. He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes. Biography Davies was born in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. He played Idris Hopkins in ''Coronation Street'' between 1974 and 1975, and appeared in several science-fiction series, among them '' Robert's Robots'', '' Out of the Unknown'', and a well-received performance as Burton in the 1987 ''Doctor Who'' story '' Delta and the Bannermen''. He played Mr. White in the ''Fawlty Towers'' episode " The Kipper and the Corpse" and also appeared in ''Yes Minister'', '' Wyatt's Watchdogs'', '' May to December'', '' Whoops Apocalypse'', ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton Ball (15 January 192116 March 2013), professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom ''Are You Being Served?'' and its sequel '' Grace & Favour'' (''Are You Being Served? Again!'') and as Herbert "Truly" Truelove in TV sitcom ''Last of the Summer Wine''. Early life Frank Thornton Ball was born in Dulwich, London, the son of Rosina Mary (née Thornton) and William Ernest Ball. His father was an organist at St Stephen's Church, Sydenham Hill, where Frank learned to play the organ for a short while. Music proved too difficult for him, however, and he wanted to act from an early age. His father, who worked in a bank, wanted him to get a "proper" job, so he began working in insurance after leaving Alleyn's School. He soon enrolled at a small acting school, the London School of Dramatic Art, and took evening classes. After two years working at the insurance company, he was invited to beco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geoffrey Bayldon
Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series '' Catweazle'' (1969–70). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in '' Worzel Gummidge'' (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series ''Watch'' (1995). Early life Bayldon was born 7 January 1924 in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture. Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he appeared in amateur theatricals and then trained at the Old Vic Theatre School. Career Bayldon enjoyed a substantial stage career, including work in the West End and for the RSC. He made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, including '' King Rat'' (1965), '' To Sir, with Love'' (1967), '' Casino Royale'' (as Q) (1967), the Envy segment of '' The Magnificent Seven ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry Woolf
Henry Woolf (20 January 1930 – 11 November 2021) was a British actor, theatre director, and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lived in Canada. He was a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, ''The Room'' (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991 until 2001. Early life Henry Woolf was born to Jewish parents in Homerton, London on 20 January 1930. He was educated at Hackney Downs School, where he met Harold Pinter; he and Pinter were friends and collaborators for over 60 years.Henry Woolf"My 60 Years in Harold's Gang" ''The Guardian'' 12 July 2007, Stage, accessed 21 August 2008. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London and then pursued a postgraduate course in directing at the University of Bristol, before going to the United States, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sam Kydd
Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was a British actor. Most of his film roles were very small but he appeared in more than 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952. His best-known roles were in two major British television series of the 1960s, as the smuggler Orlando O'Connor in '' Crane'' and its sequel ''Orlando''. He also played a recurring character in ''Coronation Street''. Kydd's first film was '' The Captive Heart'' (1946), in which he played a POW. Early life and career An army officer's son, Kydd was born on 15 February 1915 in Belfast, Ireland, and moved to London as a child. He was educated at Dunstable School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. During the mid-1930s Kydd entered various talent contests and was spotted by Oscar Rabin who made him an MC for the Oscar Rabin Band and one of his "Hot Shots". He would warm up audiences with jokes, impressions (Maurice Chevalier was a favourite) and tap dance routines ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olga Lowe
Olga Lowe (14 September 1919 – 2 September 2013) was a South African-born British film, stage and television actress. She made her film debut in an uncredited role in the 1949 film '' Trottie True''. Described by ''The Stage'' as "an actress of extraordinary versatility," her credits included ''EastEnders'', ''Where Eagles Dare'', '' Carry On Abroad'', '' Steptoe and Son Ride Again'' and '' The Riddle of the Sands''. Biography Lowe, who was of Russian Jewish descent on her father's side, was born in Durban, South Africa. Her father, Charles Lowe, led the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. She first moved to London from South Africa in 1935. She worked in Brazil as part of Carmen Miranda's cabaret, and in 1942 survived the torpedoing of her ocean liner, City of New York', by a German submarine whilst returning to South Africa. After the Second World War, she returned to the United Kingdom and worked in regional rep, before appearing at the London Palladium, as a stooge to Harpo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yootha Joyce
Yootha Joyce Needham (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980), known as Yootha Joyce, was an English actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom '' Man About the House'' (1973–1976) and its spin-off '' George and Mildred'' (1976–1979). Early life Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Percival "Hurst" Needham, a singer, and Jessie Maud (née Revitt), a concert pianist. She was named "Yootha" after a New Zealand dancer in her father's touring company, a name she would later say she "loathed and detested". Joyce's biography states that her heavily pregnant mother went for a walk on Wandsworth Common during an interval of one of her husband's performances and began feeling contractions; searching for a house to call an ambulance, she came across a nursing home where she gave birth. The family lived in a basement flat at Bennerley Road, Wandsworth, although Joyce spent much time living with he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neil McCarthy (actor)
Eugene Neil McCarthy (26 July 1932 – 5 February 1985) was an English actor known for his dramatic physical appearance caused by acromegaly. Early life Born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the son of Sleaford dentist Eugene Charles McCarthy (1899–1954) and Beatrice Annie (''née'' Corney, 1901–1978), McCarthy was educated at Stamford School (where his contemporaries included cricketer M. J. K. Smith and author Colin Dexter) before reading modern languages at Trinity College Dublin, and trained as a Latin and French teacher. He could also speak fluent Greek.''Who's Who on Television'', Independent Television Publications Ltd 1970 Career After his teacher training, McCarthy appeared in repertory theatre in Oxford, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in the West End. McCarthy's film credits include memorable roles as Welsh soldier Private Thomas in '' Zulu'' (1964), as Sergeant Jock McPherson in ''Where Eagles Dare'' (1967), as Gates in '' The Ruffians'' (1973), as the villa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bill Maynard
Walter Frederick George Williams (8 October 1928 – 30 March 2018), better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in '' Great Scott – It's Maynard!'' (1955–56). In the 1970s and 1980s, he starred in the successful British sitcoms '' Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt'' and '' The Gaffer'' and appeared in five films in the ''Carry On'' series. After a hiatus from television work in the late 1980s, Maynard starred as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running television series '' Heartbeat'' from 1992 to 2000, reprising the character in the spin-off ''The Royal'' in 2003. Early life and career Walter Williams began as a variety performer in the 1950s, under the stage name of Bill Maynard the surname was inspired from seeing a billboard for the popular British confectionery, Maynard's Wine Gums, when he was to do performances for the BBC. Maynard progressed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elizabeth II Of The United Kingdom
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime and was the monarch of 15 realms at her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch, the second-longest of any sovereign state, and the longest of any queen regnant in history. Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. She was the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |