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The Bill Series 5
The fifth series of ''The Bill'', a British television drama, consisted of 104 episodes, broadcast between 3 January and 28 December 1989. The series was first released on DVD as part of the Collection 3 and Collection 4 DVD boxsets in Australia, made available on 8 August – 7 November 2007, respectively. The first four episodes of the series were later issued on DVD in the United Kingdom, under the title Volume 4, on 15 March 2010. The next thirteen episodes of series 5 were released on DVD in the UK, under the title Volume 5, on 11 July 2011, the next 48 episodes of Series five were released on DVD in the UK under the title Volume 6, on 15 October 2012 and the remaining episodes were released on DVD in the UK under the title Volume 7, on 2 September 2013. The series was later reissued as two half-series boxsets in Australia, released on 7 March 2012. The above DVD artwork is taken from the most recent Australian release. It features images of DC Jim Carver and Sgt. Bob Cryer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Miller (actor)
Brian Reginald Miller (born 17 April 1941) is a British actor and television personality. His credits include ''Brazil'' (1985), '' Blake's 7'' (1979), ''Doctor Who'' (1983), '' Snakedance'' (1983), '' Resurrection of the Daleks'' (1984), '' Remembrance of the Daleks'' (1988), '' The Trial of Davros'', '' The Sarah Jane Adventures'' (2009), '' Casualty'' (2012), and ''Coronation Street'' (2012). Career Miller and his wife, Elisabeth Sladen, moved to Liverpool after she left ''Doctor Who'' where they performed in a series of plays including a two-person production ''Mooney and his Caravans''. In 1978, they appeared together in the ITV drama ''Send In The Girls''. In 1985, Miller played Mr Buttle starring alongside Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm in the Terry Gilliam film ''Brazil'' (1985). Other television series in which he has appeared include '' Blake's 7'' (in the episode "Horizon"), ''The Bill'', '' Angels'' and '' Casualty''. He has an occasional role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Melia
Michael Melia (born 25 July 1945 (in a preview of an episode of '' In Suspicious Circumstances'' where Melia plays Freddie Mills, the actor comments that the boxer died on his birthday)) is a British actor best known for his work on television. He appeared as Queen Vic landlord Eddie Royle in BBC One soap opera ''EastEnders'' between 1990 and 1991. He lives in Hampton Wick, Surrey with his wife, Celia. They have two children, Tom and Charlotte, who have both appeared as extras in the ''EastEnders'' market square. Early life Melia was born in Berkshire and attended St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, the oldest Roman Catholic college in England. Before taking up acting he was a teacher. At one stage he ran a bar in Spain and thought about applying for a pub tenancy in England. However, the idea was vetoed by his wife, former actress turned teacher Celia Melia. Career He began acting in television in the early 1970s, usually playing heavies or policemen, though he spent four yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Martyn
Lawrence Martyn (22 March 1934 – 7 August 1994) was a British film and television actor known for his comedy performances. Martyn was born in London and was a member of the Parachute Regiment. He worked as a circus performer in his youth before becoming an actor regularly appearing on stage, and in films and TV. He was famous as store maintenance man "Mr. Mash" in the BBC comedy series ''Are You Being Served?'', appearing in the first three series before being replaced by Arthur English. He was unable to continue in this role because he was committed to the television series ''Spring and Autumn'' with Jimmy Jewel. Other TV appearances included ''On the Buses'', '' Look - Mike Yarwood!'', ''Rising Damp'', '' The Detectives'' and ''Grange Hill''. He also played alongside Frankie Howerd in two of his BBC shows, ''Up Pompeii!'' and ''Whoops Baghdad''. Career Martyn replaced Graham Stark in the role of the spiv Private Walker for Series 2 and 3 of the radio version of ''Dad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieran Prendiville
Kieran Prendiville (born 25 December 1947) is an English-Irish television writer, producer, and presenter. Early life Prendiville was born on 25 December 1947 in Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of an Irish father from Killorglin, County Kerry, who had relocated to Rochdale to practise medicine. He attended Clongowes Wood College in Clane, County Kildare, the same Jesuit boarding school his father had attended. Career Presenting Working alongside Glyn Worsnip, Prendiville was a presenter of the BBC consumer programme ''That's Life!'' from 1973 to 1978, having served on the production team from the very first episode. He was the BBC's on-site commentator on the first Space Shuttle mission, reporting from Cape Canaveral and Edwards Air Force Base. He was also a reporter at football matches on the BBC's ''Grandstand'' Saturday afternoon sports programme in the 1980s. Writing The creator of the 1990s BBC dramas '' Ballykissangel'' and '' Roughnecks'', Prendiville's other writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Blake (English Actor)
Arthur Blake (7 November 1929, Washington, Tyne and Wear – 27 November 2001, Kensington, London, England) was an English actor who appeared in British television and film from the 1950s through the 1990s. Filmography Film *'' Quatermass 2'' (1957) *''Girl Stroke Boy'' (1971) *''Male Bait'' (1971) *''The Cherry Picker'' (1974) *''Little Dorrit'' (1987) Television *''Saturday Playhouse'' (1959) * ''No Hiding Place'' (1959-1961) *'' ITV Television Playhouse'' (1961) *''Z-Cars'' (1962) *'' The Dickie Henderson Show'' (1963-1965) *'' Crane'' (1965) *''Doctor Who'' (1965) *''Frontier'' (1968) *'' Crime Buster'' (1968) *'' Theatre Date'' (1969) *'' World in Ferment'' (1969) *'' Budgie'' (1971) *''ITV Sunday Night Theatre'' (1971) *'' Hine'' (1971) *''Bel Ami'' (1971) *''War and Peace'' (1972) *'' The Edwardians'' (1972) *'' Heil Caesar!'' (1973) *'' Thursday's Child'' (1973) *''The Stars Look Down'' (1975) *'' Red Letter Day'' (1976) *''Striker'' (1976) *''Headmaster'' (1977) *'' Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Clara Heath-Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011) was an English actress. She became best known as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series ''Doctor Who'', appearing as a regular cast member from 1973 to 1976, alongside both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprising the role many times in subsequent decades, both on ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, '' K-9 and Company'' (1981) and '' The Sarah Jane Adventures'' (2007–2011). Sladen was interested in ballet and theatre from childhood, and began to appear on stage in the mid-1960s, although she was more often a stage manager at this time. She moved to London in 1970 and won several television roles, with her acting in the police drama ''Z-Cars'' leading to her being recommended for the role in ''Doctor Who''. After leaving the series, she had other roles on both television and radio before semi-retiring to bring up a family in the mid-1980s. Sladen returned to the public eye in the 2000s with more ''Docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Wynne
Gilbert Wynne (born 1934) is a British television actor. Wynne appeared in a number of television programmes, including '' Softly Softly'' and ''The Life and Times of David Lloyd George''. He had the title role in '' Clegg'', and played a Detective Inspector in ''Night After Night After Night''. In addition, Wynne also played the main dance judge in the music video to Geri Halliwell Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner (''née'' Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, author, and actress. She rose to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which ...'s rendition of '' It's Raining Men''. References External link Gilbert Wynneat Theatricalia * 1934 births Living people Welsh television actors Male actors from Flintshire Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art {{UK-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Gonet
Stella Gonet (born 12 December 1960) is a Scottish theatre, film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC dramas ''The House of Eliott'' (1991–94) and ''Holby City'' (2007–09). Her stage credits include playing Ophelia in the 1989 National Theatre revival of ''Hamlet'', opposite both Daniel Day-Lewis and Ian Charleson as Hamlet and playing Margaret Thatcher in the original West End production of '' Handbagged'' (2014). She played Queen Elizabeth II in the 2021 movie '' Spencer'' and Margaret Thatcher in the 2023 movie ''El Conde''. Early life Gonet was born in Greenock, Scotland. Her Polish father met her Scottish mother, a teacher of English, when he was stationed in Greenock during the Second World War. She is the seventh of twelve children and four of her sisters are nurses. Career Gonet starred as Beatrice Eliott, one of the two lead roles, in three series of the television drama ''The House of Eliott'' and played Chief Executive Officer Jayne G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Halliwell
David William Halliwell (31 July 1936, Brighouse, Yorkshire – c. 16 March 2006, Charlbury, Oxfordshire)Alan Strachan & Janet Street Porte ''The Independent'', 5 April 2006 was a British dramatist. Early life Halliwell attended Huddersfield College of Art (1953–59) as an art student, but was expelled for a time from the institution, and later switched to acting at RADA. It was there that Halliwell first met Mike Leigh. According to Leigh, the other students "were mostly posh kids and it was terribly old-fashioned and twee, not like it is now, but there was a scruff element. John Hurt was there, David Warner was there. Me, Halliwell, Ken Campbell and a few other renegades." In the early 1960s he worked as an actor in rep and was a stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse for a time.Obituary: David Halliwel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Hill
Melanie Jane Hill is a British actress, known for playing Hazel Redfern in ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' (1985–1986), Aveline in ''Bread'' (1989–1991), Rita Dolan in Kay Mellor drama '' Playing the Field'' (1998–2002), Maggie Budgen in the BBC One school-based drama series '' Waterloo Road'' (2012–2015), Julie Travers in BBC One drama series '' The Syndicate'' (2015), Cathy Matthews in ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (2015–2022) and Siobhan McKenzie in '' Casualty'' (2024–present). Career Hill was educated at Monkwearmouth School in Sunderland before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she won the Vanbrugh award. Hill replaced Gilly Coman in the role of Aveline in the last three series of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom ''Bread''. She has also appeared in such programmes as ''The Bill'' playing Marie Carver (née Graham), ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' playing Hazel Redfern, '' Hot Money'' playing Liz Hoodless, '' Juliet Bravo'' playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Welling
Albert Welling (born 29 February 1952) is a British actor. He has appeared in a number of television series including ''The Line of Beauty'', ''Cribb'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Sweeney'', ''Rumpole of the Bailey'', ''The Bretts'', ''Inspector Morse'' and ''A Touch of Frost''. Career He made his stage debut in '' Zigger Zagger'' in 1967 with the National Youth Theatre. In 1979 he played Keith Everly, a recurring character, in the BBC drama series ''Telford's Change''. His film credits include ''Backbeat'', Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's directorial debut '' Cemetery Junction'' and ''Wilde''. He portrayed Adolf Hitler in an episode of ''Doctor Who'' entitled "Let's Kill Hitler". He played Max Pruss, in the documentary '' Hindenburg: The Untold Story''. In 2013, Welling wrote and starred in the play ''No Direction'' alongside Ronnie Toms; the play was premièred at the Edinburgh Festival. ''No Direction'' was directed by Bob Golding Bob Golding is an English actor and voice ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
