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The Flying Swan
''The Flying Swan'' is a 1965 British TV series starring Margaret Lockwood and her daughter Julia. It ran for 24 episodes on the BBC. The theme music for the series was composed by Ron Grainer. Cast * Margaret Lockwood as Mollie Manning * Julia Lockwood as Carol Manning * Molly Urquhart Molly Sinclair Urquhart (6 January 1906 – 6 October 1977) was a Scottish actress. Early life Urquhart was born in Glasgow as Mary Sinclair Urquhart. She was the daughter of post office clerk Ann McCallum and sea-going engineer William Urquh ... as Jessie McDonald * Hugh McDermott as Dwight Cooper * Wendy Hall as Prue * Gillian Royale as Rosalind * John Boyd-Brent as George * Janice Dinnen as Margaret-Anne Baxter Plot A widow runs a guest house. References External links * 1965 British television series debuts 1960s British television series {{BBC-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), '' Night Train to Munich'' (1940), ''The Man in Grey'' (1943), and '' The Wicked Lady'' (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film '' Cast a Dark Shadow''. She also starred in the television series ''Justice'' (1971–74). Ronald Bergan of ''The Guardian'' called her "one of the most beautiful, energetic, and spirited actresses in the history of British cinema." Early life Lockwood was born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India (today Pakistan), to Henry Francis Lockwood, an English administrator of a railway company, and his third wife, Scottish-born Margaret Eveline Waugh. She moved to England in 1920 with her mother, brother Lyn and half-brother Frank. Her half-sister Fay joined them the following year, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Grainer
Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for ''Doctor Who'', ''The Prisoner'', '' Steptoe and Son'' and '' Tales of the Unexpected''. Biography Early life Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster. For the first eight years of Ron's life the Grainer family lived in Mount Mulligan, a small town built around the extraction of coal from three seams which lay beneath a 400-metre-high sandstone monolith, located 100 km west of Cairns. Apart from the industrial noise and dust, the family sometimes had to contend with the after effects of a high consumption of alcohol by the shift miners. On one such occasion a stray bullet flew thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Lockwood
Julia Lockwood (born Margaret Julia Leon; 23 August 1941 – 24 March 2019) was a British actress. Daughter of Margaret Lockwood, her career began as a child actress at the age of 4 and spanned 30 years in film, television and the theatre. Early life She was born in Ringwood, England on 23 August 1941. Her mother, Margaret Lockwood, was one of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Her father, Rupert Leon, was a commodities clerk who was serving in the British Army. During the war years, she lived with her maternal grandmother in Ringwood, but after her parents divorced in 1949, she moved to London to live with her mother in Roehampton, London. Lockwood attended the Arts Educational Schools, London from the age of 5. Career Lockwood's first appearance as a film actor was in the 1947 film '' Hungry Hill'', alongside her mother; she was only four years old when filming began. She began to gain leading roles in the late 1950s, often in coming-of-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Urquhart
Molly Sinclair Urquhart (6 January 1906 – 6 October 1977) was a Scottish actress. Early life Urquhart was born in Glasgow as Mary Sinclair Urquhart. She was the daughter of post office clerk Ann McCallum and sea-going engineer William Urquhart. She grew up in the West End of Glasgow where she attended Dowanhill Primary School and Church Street School. After school, she worked in a shop and took the exam to work for the GPO. She had no formal training in theatre, coming to the profession through the "amateur movement". While a teenager in the late 1920s, she joined the St. George Players, an amateur club. In 1931, she became a member of the Tron Theatre Club in Glasgow, followed by Glasgow's Curtain Theatre in 1932. She adopted the name Molly Urquhart for her stage name. Career Theatre In 1932, Urquhart joined the Howard and Wyndham company, becoming a professional actress. Her first professional role was in the melodrama '' Jeannie Deans'' at Theatre Royal, Glasgow in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McDermott (actor)
Hugh Patrick McDermott (20 March 1906 – 29 January 1972) was a Scottish professional golfer turned actor, who made a number of film, stage, and television performances between 1936 and 1972. He specialised in playing Americans, so much so that most British film fans had no idea that he was actually Scottish. Biography He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1906, and was educated in Davidson's Mains. Initially an instructor at the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, he later toured South and Central America and won the Central America Open and later helped design a course in Guatemala. A trip to the United States kindled his interest in the film industry, and he made his screen debut in '' Well Done, Henry'' and followed it up with an appearance as HM Stanley in ''David Livingstone''. In 1939, he appeared in the West End in N.C. Hunter's comedy ''Grouse in June''. He made his final appearance in '' Chato's Land'' on film, and in '' The Amorous Prawn'' on stage in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Dinnen
Janice Dinnen (10 December 1945 – 26 January 1974) was an Australian actor of stage, film, and theatre. Early life Dinnen's parents emigrated to Australia from Finsbury Park, London in 1940. Dinnen was born in Bondi, New South Wales. She was a member of the Great Synagogue Youth Teens and after appearing in a J.Y.C. Drama Festival at the Independent Theatre in Sydney, she became a student of the Independent Theatre Study Group. Career Dinnen started out as a model and a child actor. Her first film role was in comedy-drama ''Smiley Gets a Gun'' in 1958 (the sequel to ''Smiley''), before landing the role of Anna Koschek at age eleven, in the American Cinerama documentary film ''South Seas Adventure''. She was hired on the spot after only one audition. By the age of 15, she had already acted in two stage productions at Sydney's Independent Theatre, made two television commercials and completed a modelling course at the June Dally-Watkins School of Deportment. In 1961, she had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 British Television Series Debuts
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