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The Silver Box
''The Silver Box'' is a three-act comedy, the first play by the English writer John Galsworthy. It was originally produced in London in 1906, and attracted much attention. In New York it was first seen in 1907. In the play, the disappearance of a cigarette box (the silver box) leads to a comparison of the behaviour of the son of a prosperous politician, with that of an unemployed man, and the exposure of attitudes of different social classes. History Galsworthy said that his aim was "to create such an illusion of actual life passing on the stage as to compel the spectator to pass through an experience of his own, to think and talk and move with the people he sees thinking and talking and moving in front of him."John Galsworthy, ''Strife''. Notes by John Hampden. Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. 1964. pp79–80. ''The Silver Box'' was first produced on 25 September 1906 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.John Galsworthy, ''The Silver Box''. Duckworth 1911. The play was among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include '' The Forsyte Saga'' (1906–1921) and its sequels, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of the Chapter''. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. Life Galsworthy was born at what is now known as Galsworthy House (then called Parkhurst) on Kingston Hill in Surrey, England, the son of John and Blanche Bailey (''née'' Bartleet) Galsworthy. His family was prosperous and well established, with a large property in Kingston upon Thames that is now the site of three schools: Marymount International School, Rokeby Preparatory School, and Holy Cross Preparatory School. He attended Harrow and New College, Oxford. He took a Second in Law (Jurisprudentia) at Oxford in 1889, then trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However, he was not keen to begin practising law and instead travelled abroad to look after the family's trans-European shipping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibb McLaughlin
George McLoughlin (19 July 1879 – 30 June 1961), known professionally as Gibb McLaughlin, was an English film and stage actor. Early days McLaughlin was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England in 1879. For about 10 years he was a salesman in Kingston-upon-Hull where he sang in the Holy Trinity Church choir. He joined the Hull Amateur Operatic Society and played the part of Koko in The Mikado. After that he appeared with Anne Croft in concerts and they had a turn to themselves on the stage of the Palace Theatre. He performed as a comedian and monologist in music halls. In 1915, McLaughlin married Eleanor Morton, youngest daughter of William Morton, formerly manager of the Egyptian Hall, London and the Greenwich Theatre. Film work He appeared in 118 films between 1921 and 1959. He was known for The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Oliver Twist (1948) and Hobson's Choice (1954). He had a rare leading role as the sleuth J.G. Reeder in Edgar Wallace's '' Mr Reeder in Room 13'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays By John Galsworthy
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Michael Leeston-Smith
John Michael Bazalgette Leeston-Smith (12 December 1916 – 5 December 2001) was a British film and television director. Leeston-Smith took a job at Ealing Studios in 1932, aged 16. He worked there as a photographer and assistant sound engineer. In 1938 he was sent by the BBC to their studios in Daventry. During the Second World War, Leeston-Smith was part of the Royal Horse Artillery. After the war, he got a job at Alexandra Palace studios. In 1953, he took a job as a sound engineer on the BBC Television serial ''The Quatermass Experiment'' and two years later was a production assistant on the sequel, ''Quatermass II''. In the 1960s, Leeston-Smith started work as a director. He directed a number of episodes of ''Z-Cars'', '' R3'' and the '' Doctor Who'' serial ''The Myth Makers''. After a period as a freelance director, Leeston-Smith moved to South Africa in 1973 to work for the SABC The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 4 October 1998) was a British actor, photographer and film director. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in '' How Green Was My Valley'' (1941), '' My Friend Flicka'' (1943) and '' Lassie Come Home'' (1943). As an adult, McDowall appeared most frequently as a character actor on radio, stage, film, and television. For portraying Octavian in the historical drama ''Cleopatra'' (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He played Cornelius and Caesar in the original ''Planet of the Apes'' film series, as well as Galen in the spin-off television series. Other notable films included '' The Longest Day'' (1962), ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (1965), '' That Darn Cat!'' (1965), ''Inside Daisy Clover'' (1965), ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971), '' The Poseidon Adventure'' (1972), '' Funny Lady'' (1975), '' The Black Hole'' (1979), '' Class of 1984'' (1982), '' Fright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Helmore
Tom Helmore (4 January 1904 – 12 September 1995) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1927 and 1972, including three directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Helmore was born in London, England and died in Longboat Key, Florida, USA. Helmore worked in his father's accounting firm while working as an extra in films. He subsequently pursued acting as a career, working predominantly on the stage, and later on Broadway, which led to Helmore's Hollywood career. In British and American films, Helmore was mostly employed as a dapper, comedic actor, even if he is best known for his role as the villain Gavin Elster in ''Vertigo''. Partial filmography *'' The Ring'' (1927) - Spectator (uncredited) *'' Young Woodley'' (1928) - Milner *''White Cargo'' (1930) - Worthing *''Leave It to Me'' (1930) - Tony *''The House of Unrest'' (1931) - David *''The Wife's Family'' (1931) - Willie Nagg *'' The House Opposite'' (1932) - Minor role (uncredited) *'' The Barton Mys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pond's Theater
''Pond's Theater'' is a 60-minute television anthology series sponsored by Pond's Creams that was produced by the J. Walter Thompson Agency on ABC-TV. Its original title was ''Kraft Television Theatre'', but when Kraft decided to drop the Thursday night version on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Pond's took over the sponsorship and retitled the series ''Pond's Theater''. Twenty-five episodes aired on ABC from January 13, 1955 to July 7, 1955. The series had its origin in the second simultaneous series of ''Kraft Television Theatre'' begun October 1953, on ABC to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. When the sponsorship came to an end in January 1955, then Pond's picked up the second ''Kraft Theatre'' franchise, while the first ''Kraft Theatre'' continued to run on NBC-TV. Both series followed the sponsorship format also used by ''Ford Theatre'' and Eastman Kodak's ''Screen Directors Playhouse''. The series was produced by J. Walter Thompson at ABC. Directors included F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Price
Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in theatre production and was a founder of the People's National Theatre. Personal life Christened Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, in 1880, Nancy was the daughter of William Henry Price (a retired farmer) and Sarah Mannix. Her mother was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Mannix. After schooling in her home village and then in nearby Malvern Wells she decided at an early age to become an actress. She married the actor Charles Maude on 17 May 1907, and they were together until his death in 1943. They had two daughters Joan Maude and Elizabeth Maude. Joan, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's daughter Jennifer Phipps all went on to become actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Willard
Edmund Willard (19 December 1884 – 6 October 1956) was a British actor of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Brighton, Sussex in 1884, the nephew of Victorian era actor Edward Smith Willard, in 1920 Willard appeared in the plays of William Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. He appeared in ''Hamlet'', ''Twelfth Night'', ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Richard III'', and ''The Taming of the Shrew''. Willard's first film role was as the Fourth Party in ''A Window in Piccadilly'' (1928). His other film appearances include ''The Private Life of Don Juan'' (1934) with Douglas Fairbanks and Merle Oberon, ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1934) with Leslie Howard and Raymond Massey, ''The Mystery of the Mary Celeste'' (1935) with Bela Lugosi, Van Zeeland in ''Rembrandt'' (1936) with Charles Laughton and Gertrude Lawrence, the Chief Steward in '' Underneath the Arches'' (1937) with Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and The Crazy Gang, the Chief of German Intelligen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Blomfield
Derek Blomfield (31 August 1920 – 23 July 1964) was a British actor who appeared in a number of stage, film and television productions between 1935 and his death in 1964. Career He trained at LAMDA and made his first stage appearance at the Savoy Theatre in 1934. His stage credits included the title role in ''The Guinea Pig'' at the Criterion Theatre, a long run in ''Witness for the Prosecution'' at the Winter Garden Theatre, and two years playing Trotter in ''The Mousetrap'' at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. His first film role was at the age of fifteen in the film ''Turn of the Tide''. He first came to wider attention for his appearance as a schoolboy in the Will Hay comedy, '' The Ghost of St. Michael's''. In 1964 he played the role of Count Luzau-Rischenheim in the British television series '' Rupert of Hentzau''. He died of a heart attack, aged 43, while on holiday with his wife and family in Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Brei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Young (actor)
Arthur Young (2 September 1898 – 24 February 1959) was an English actor, notable for roles including Gladstone in the 1951 '' The Lady with a Lamp''. He can be seen as a window cleaner in the film '' Radio Parade of 1935''. He regularly appeared in BBC radio plays and was a member of the Corporation’s Drama Repertory Company in the late 1950s. His stage work encompassed West End revue, as well as Stratford. Personal life Young was born on 2 September 1898 in Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city i .... His parents were Henry Young and Elizabeth Wales Young (1876-1972). Filmography References External links * English male stage actors English male film actors Male actors from Bristol 1959 deaths 1898 births 20th-century English male actors E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred O'Donovan (actor)
Fred O’Donovan (1884–1952) was an Irish actor, early film maker, theatre manager and pioneer of television drama production. For many years he gave the definitive portrayal of the title character in J.M. Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World'', as well as other prominent roles at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. He was manager of the Abbey for a time, and appeared in and directed films, television, and on the stage in Britain and abroad before becoming a producer/director in the BBC’s fledgling television service both before and after World War II. Early life and career He was born in Dublin in 1884 as Frederick George Saunders. His father was a coachbuilder. He attended the protestant Diocesan Intermediate School, and worked for a time in a land office. He joined the company of the Abbey Theatre in 1908, and was promptly cast in the lead part in ''The Man Who Missed the Tide'', taking the stage name Fred O’Donovan. The next year he took over the title role in ''The Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
