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Michael Forlong
Michael Forlong (1912–2000) was a New Zealand writer, producer and director. He worked for the New Zealand National Film Unit before moving to England.John O’Shea, ‘A Charmed Life: Fragments of Memory..and Extracts from Conversations’ in Film in Aotearoa New Zealand. Editors Jonathan Dennis and Jan Bieringa (Wellington: Victoria University Press, Second Edition 1996) From the 1970s onwards, he tended to make feature films for children. Select credits *''One Hundred Crowded Years'' (1940) - writer *'' Bitter Springs'' (1950) - assistant director *''Suicide Mission'' (1954) - director, producer, writer *''Odongo'' (1956) - second unit director *''Safari'' (1956) - second unit director *''Alexander the Great'' (1956) - second unit director *''Dunkirk'' (1958) - associate producer *''The Green Helmet'' (1961) - director *'' Over the Odds'' (1961) -director *'' Stork Talk'' (1962) - director *'' Tamahine'' (1963) - associate producer * (1964) - director *'' Lionheart'' (1968) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Kean
Marie Kean (27 June 1918 – 29 December 1993) was an Irish stage and screen actress, with a career spanning over 40 years, ''The Stage'' called her one of Ireland's most impressive actresses, and "an artist of considerable emotional depth and theatrical command." Life Kean grew up in the village of Rush, County Dublin, and was educated at Loreto College, North Great George's Street, Dublin. She learned her craft at the Gaiety School of Acting and was part of the Abbey Theatre company until 1961. Kean's leading role as the kindly matriarch Mrs. Kennedy in the Radio Éireann serial drama '' The Kennedys of Castleross'' made her famous throughout Ireland. She starred in the programme for the duration of its 18-year run. In 1968, Kean won a Jacob's Award for her performance as Winnie in RTÉ television's production of Samuel Beckett's play ''Happy Days'', a role she had performed on stage and which she described later as her favourite part. Among her other television roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Comedy Films
British comedy films are comedy films produced in the United Kingdom. In the early 1930s, film adaptations of stage farces were popular. British comedy films are numerous, but among the most notable are the Ealing comedies, the 1950s work of the Boulting Brothers, and innumerable popular comedy series including the St Trinian's films, the '' Doctor'' series, and the long-running Carry On films. Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Norman Wisdom, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team. Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working-class comedies '' Brassed Off'' (1996) and '' The Full Monty'' (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Films
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with '' Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures will celebrated their 50th anniversaries. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February – Warner Bros. buy the film rights for ''My Fair Lady'' for the unprecedented sum of $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million. * May – The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government. * June 18 – MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca- Universal. * July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chairman of the board. * August 5 – Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe is found dead of a drug overdose. * September 7 – Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk's '' Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a narrow arthouse release. History The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was edited in the mid-1950s by David Robinson, in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Peter John Dyer, and then by Tom Milne. By the end of the 1960s, when the character and tone of its reviews changed considerably with the arrival of a new generation of critics influenced by the student culture and intellectual tumult of the time (not least the overthrow of old ideas of "taste" and quality), David Wilson was the editor. It was then edited by Jan Dawson (1938 – 1980), for two years from 1971, and from 1973 until its demise by the New Zealand-born critic Richard Combs. In 1991, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was merged with '' Sight & Sound'', which had until then be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Conmee
Marie Conmee (1933–1994) was an Irish film and stage actor and gay activist. With her partner Mary Brady, she facilitated a monthly group for lesbians to meet in a pub in Dublin in the 1980s, at a time when such opportunities were scarce. Her acting career spanned almost 40 years, and she appeared in films, including ''This Other Eden (film), This Other Eden'' (1959), ''Educating Rita (film), Educating Rita'' (1983), and ''My Left Foot'' (1989) and ''Circle of Friends (1995 film), Circle of Friends'' (1995). She appeared in plays including the first productions of Hugh Leonard's ''Madigan's Lock'' (1958), Adrian Vale and Chloe Gibson's ''Inquiry at Lisieux'' (1963) and Peter Sheridan's ''Down all the Days'' (1982). She was born in Sligo and died in Dublin. A writer in the ''Irish Independent'' in 2004 described her as having been "massively built". References External links * 1933 births 1994 deaths Irish film actresses Irish stage actresses 20th-century Irish act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sharp (actor)
John Herbert Sharp ( – ) was a British actor who made numerous appearances on television during a career spanning 42 years. Biography Sharp made more than 130 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Although active in theatre, Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s. By the mid-1960s he mostly appeared in British television on popular shows of the era such as '' The Avengers'' in the 1967 ''" Murdersville"'' episode as the publican, the ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' episode ''" The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo"''; ''The Prisoner'', ''Not on Your Nellie'' opposite Hylda Baker, ''Z-Cars'', and in 1976 in '' The Sweeney'' episode ''"On the Run"'' in which he played ''Uncle,'' a homosexual retired Magistrate who becomes embroiled in the escape of a psychopathic prisoner having befriended the prisoner's former accomplice. He performed in Charles Dickens TV adaptations in the 1980s. In 1991, he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Henson
Gladys Hilda Barbara Kate Henson (née Gunn; 27 September 1897 – 21 December 1982) was an Irish actress whose career lasted from 1932 to 1976 and included roles on stage, radio, films and television series. Among her most notable films were '' The History of Mr Polly'' (1949) and '' The Blue Lamp'' (1950). Life and career Henson was born at 4 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of John Gunn, the director of the Gaiety Theatre, and Hilda Killock. She married English actor Leslie Henson in 1926. In 1932, she appeared in the premiere of Noël Coward's '' Design for Living'' on Broadway, appearing in several other London and Broadway shows, including Coward's ''Set to Music'' (1939). After her divorce from Henson, she appeared in numerous well-known post-war films, often alongside Jack Warner, whose wife she played in '' Train of Events'', ''The Captive Heart ''The Captive Heart'' is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Micha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Anderson
Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 27 April 1922 – 15 January 2013) was an English stage, film, and television actress, as well as a dancer and singer. She made her London theatre debut in 1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson appeared in such films as ''The Beggar's Opera'', '' Hobson's Choice'' and ''The Scarlet Pimpernel''. Biography Anderson was born on 27 April 1922, in London, to parents Alan Edward Scrutton and Gladys Amy Scrutton (''née'' Juler). Her surname was originally "Scrutton", but she later changed it to "Anderson". Anderson attended Kensington High School. She married Lionel William Carter. Her aunt was the composer Mary Anderson Lucas. Theatrical career Daphne Anderson studied dancing under Zelia Raye. She made her first stage performance in 1937 at the Richmond Theatre as a chorus member in a production of ''Cinderella''. The following year, Anderson made her London theatre debut in the chorus of the ''Revudeville'' at the Windmill Theatre. She played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jympson
John Arthur Jympson (16 September 1930 – 3 June 2003) was a British film editor. He edited films such as '' Zulu'' (1964), '' A Hard Day's Night'' (1964), ''Kaleidoscope'' (1966), '' Frenzy'' (1972) and ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988). Career Jympson was born on 16 September 1930 in London. He attended Dulwich College and left aged 17 in 1947 intending to become a veterinary surgeon. His father, Jympson Harman, the film critic for '' The Evening News'', secured him a position as a runner at Ealing Studios. He worked in the cutting-room, aiding Peter Tanner on the 1949 film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', before participating in two years of National Service. He returned to Ealing and worked on the films '' The Cruel Sea'' (1953) and '' The Ladykillers'' (1955). Jympson became an assembly cutter on '' I Was Monty's Double'' in 1958. His break came in 1959 while working under William Hornbeck on ''Suddenly, Last Summer'' where his work earned him the credit of assembly editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turner (actor)
John Turner (born 7 July 1932) is a British television and film actor. Career One of Turner's most recognisable roles was that of Roderick Spode (6 episodes, 1991–1993) in the ITV television series ''Jeeves and Wooster'', based on the P. G. Wodehouse novels. He had performed the same role earlier in his career at Her Majesty's Theatre, London in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical flop ''Jeeves''. At the Prince Edward Theatre he performed in the role of Juan Perón in the musical theatre show ''Evita''. He later returned to the West End playing Molokov in Tim Rice’s ''Chess''. He also portrayed Charlemagne in the original West End cast of ''Pippin'' at His Majesty's Theatre. Turner made his television debut in 1957, playing a hillbilly in ''Operation Fracture''. In 1963 he appeared in 5/13 episodes of '' The Sentimental Agent'' as Bill Randall and in four episodes replaced the lead character played by Carlos Thompson. In a career that lasted more than 40 years, he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
