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Barbados
Coordinates: 13°10′N 59°33′W / 13.167°N 59.55°W / 13.167; -59.55
Barbados (
i/bɑrˈbeɪdɒs/ or /bɑrˈbeɪdoʊs/) is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 mi) in length and up to 23 kilometres (14 mi) in width, covering an area of 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi). It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about 168 kilometres (104 mi) east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.
Barbados was initially visited by the Spanish around the late 1400s to early 1500s and first appears on a Spanish map from 1511. The Spanish explorers may have plundered the island of whatever native peoples resided therein to become slaves. The Portuguese visited in 1536, but they too left it unclaimed, with their only remnants being an introduction of wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. The first English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados in 1624. They took possession of it in the name of the British king James I. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England and it became an English and later British colony.
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Belgium
Belgium (i/ˈbɛldʒəm/ BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers, mostly Flemish (about 60%), and the French-speakers, mostly Walloons (about 40%), plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.
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Cliffs Pavilion
Cliffs Pavilion is a live theatre in Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, which seats 1,630 and offers an assortment of variety acts.
Work began on the original Cliffs Pavilion during the 1930s. It was intended to be a 500 seat theatre incorporating the art deco style of the times. With the outbreak of World War II, however, the building work halted. The site remained boarded-up until 1959, when the original building was leveled. It was then moved to one side and slightly closer to the edge of the cliff to form the basis of the present Cliffs Pavilion, which opened in 1964.
On July 19, 1991, Paul McCartney performed one of his six "secret" shows at the Pavilion during his 1991 Unplugged Summer Tour.
From July 1991 to December 1992, the building was closed to be redeveloped and enlarged, with the funding of Southend Borough Council and designed by Tim Foster Architects. The stairs were rebuilt, a new Foyer Bar added and a balcony added to the auditorium. Since re-opening, annual audience figures increased from about 200,000 to about 340,000.
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Coventry
Coventry (i/ˈkɒvəntri/) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although Stoke-on-Trent, Leicester and Nottingham have larger urban areas. The population of Coventry had risen to 315,800 as of 2010, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Historically within Warwickshire, Coventry is situated 95 miles (153 km) northwest of central London and 19 miles (31 km) east-southeast of Birmingham, and is further from the coast than any other city in Britain. Although harbouring a population of almost a third of a million inhabitants, Coventry is not amongst the English Core Cities Group due to its proximity to Birmingham.
Coventry was the world's first twin city when it formed a twinning relationship with the Russian city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) during World War II. The relationship developed through ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The city is now also twinned with Dresden, Lidice and 23 other cities around the world.
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Derriford Hospital
Coordinates: 50°24′58″N 4°06′51″W / 50.4162°N 04.1141°W / 50.4162; -04.1141
Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and renal transplant surgery for the whole of the South West Peninsula. The hospital is used for clinical training of medical students from the Peninsula Medical School which is maintained by the University of Plymouth and the University of Exeter.
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Devon
Coordinates: 50°42′N 3°48′W / 50.7°N 3.8°W / 50.7; -3.8
Devon (
/ˈdɛvən/) is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although it has never been officially "shired" and that use often indicates a traditional or historical context. Nowadays, "Devonshire" is mostly a demonym.
The county shares borders with Cornwall to the west and Dorset and Somerset to the east. Its southern coast abuts the English Channel and its northern coast the Bristol Channel and Celtic Sea. The name "Devon" derives from the ancient Dumnonia, which was home to the independent kingdom of Brythonic Celtic speaking people who inhabited this area of the southwestern peninsula of Britain continuously from through the Roman era until partial absorption into the English-speaking Kingdom of Wessex some time in the eighth or ninth century, with some emigration to the sister Kingdom of Domnonee in Brittany taking place.
Devon is the fourth largest of the English counties by area and has a population of 1,141,600 making it the 11th most populous. The county town is the cathedral city of Exeter. In addition to Devon County Council, the county contains two unitary authorities (independent from Devon County Council's control): the port city of Plymouth and Torbay, a conurbation of seaside resorts. Plymouth is also the largest city in Devon. Much of the county is rural (including national park) land, with a low population density by British standards. It contains Dartmoor 954 km2 (368 sq mi), the largest open space in southern England. It is the only English county to have two separate coastlines – a north and southern coastline.
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Droitwich Spa
Coordinates: 52°16′01″N 2°09′11″W / 52.267°N 2.153°W / 52.267; -2.153
Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich) is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. The town is situated on massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted there since ancient times. The natural Droitwich brine contains 2½ lbs. of salt per gallon - ten times stronger than sea water and only rivalled by the Dead Sea.
In Roman times the village was known as Salinae and was located at the crossroads of several Roman roads. Railway construction in 1847 revealed Roman mosaic pavements, and later excavations unearthed a Roman villa or corridor house some 40 metres (130 ft) long.
Droitwich Lunatic Asylum was established in 1791. Records at the Worcestershire County Record Office show its presence in 1837 to 1838. An advert in the Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, in 1844, records that Martin Ricketts, of Droitwich, was the Surgeon and Sir Charles Hastings from the Worcester Infirmary was the Physician.
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England
Englandi/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Harlow
Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. It is located in the west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire, on the Stort Valley, The town is near the M11 motorway and forms part of the London commuter belt.The district has a current population of 78,889 (2010 estimate).
There is some dispute as to where the placename Harlow derives from. One theory is that it derives from the Anglo-Saxon words 'here' and 'hlaw', meaning "army hill", probably to be identified with Mulberry Hill, which was used as the moot or meeting place for the district.
The other theory is that it derives from the words 'here' and 'hearg', meaning "temple hill/mound", probably to be identified with an Iron Age burial mound, later a Roman temple site on River Way.
The original village, mentioned in the Norman Domesday Book, developed as a typical rural community around what is now known as Old Harlow, with many of its buildings still standing.
The earliest deposits are of a Mesolithic (circa 10,000 BC) hunting camp excavated by Davey in Northbrooks in the 1970s(Unpublished) closely followed by the large and unexcavated deposits of Neolithic flint located at Gilden Way. These deposits are mostly known of due to the large numbers of surface bound worked flint ; indeed there is substanital amounts to speculate on organised working of flint in the area. Large amounts of debetage litter the area and tools found include Axeheads, hammers, blades, dowles and other boring tools and multipuprpose flints such as scrapers. An organised Field Walk in the late 1990s by Bartlett(Unpublished)indicates that most of the area, some 80 hectares, produces worked flint from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age with a smattering of Mesolithic ; so basically it indicates organised industry from 5000 BC to 2000 BC. Indeed the deposits are so large and dispersed that any major archaeological work in the area will have to take this into consideration before any ground work is started.
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New Theatre Oxford
The New Theatre Oxford (known, for a period, as the Apollo Theatre Oxford or simply The Apollo from 1977–2003) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,800 people.
It is located on George Street, in the centre of the city, and puts on a wide variety of shows, from musical theatre, to stand-up comedy and concerts.
The first "New Theatre" on this site opened in 1836 and presented music hall entertainment. This was replaced in 1886, by new premises, which were the home of Oxford University Dramatic Society. The theatre was damaged by fire in 1892 and enlarged in 1908, from which date, until 1972, the New Theatre was continuously under the management of the Dorrill family.
The present building dates from 1933 and was designed by Milburn Brothers with an art deco interior by T.P. Bennet and Sons. The colour scheme was originally in shades of deep brown with gilt friezes but in later years (circa 1980?) a multi-colour scheme was introduced, which did not reflect the original design.
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Plymouth
Plymouthi/ˈplɪməθ/ is a city and unitary authority area on the south coast of Devon, England, about 190 miles (310 km) south-west of London. It is situated between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound. Since 1967, the City of Plymouth has included the suburbs of Plympton and Plymstock, which are on the east side of the River Plym.
Plymouth's history goes back to the Bronze Age, when its first settlement grew at Mount Batten. This settlement continued to grow as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until the more prosperous village of Sutton, the current Plymouth, surpassed it. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony – the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America. During the English Civil War the town was held by the Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, Plymouth grew as a major commercial shipping port, handling imports and passengers from the Americas, while the neighbouring town of Devonport grew as an important Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town. In 1914 the three neighbouring and independent towns, viz., the county borough of Plymouth, the county borough of Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged to form a single County Borough. The new, merged town took the name of Plymouth which, in 1928, achieved city status. The city's naval importance later led to its targeting and partial destruction during World War II, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz. After the war the city centre was completely rebuilt.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London.
Total attendances first surpassed 12 million in 2002 and 13 million in 2007, setting a new record for the West End. Since the late 1990s there has been an increase in the number of famous screen actors on the London stage.
The Theatre in London flourished after the English Reformation. The first permanent public playhouse, known simply as The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 in Shoreditch by James Burbage. It was soon joined by The Curtain. Both are known to have been used by William Shakespeare's company. In 1599, the timber from The Theatre was moved to Southwark, where it was used in building the Globe Theatre in a new theatre district formed, beyond the controls of the City corporation. These theatres were closed in 1642 during the interregnum.
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Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, (i/ˈwʊstər/ WUUS-tər), is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Birmingham and 29 miles (47 km) north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the middle of the city, overlooked by the twelfth-century Worcester Cathedral. The site of the final battle of the Civil War, Worcester was where Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated King Charles II's Cavaliers, resulting in the English Interregnum, the ten-year period during which England and Wales became a republic. Worcester was the home of Royal Worcester Porcelain and the birthplace of the composer Sir Edward Elgar. It houses the Lea and Perrins factory where the traditional Worcestershire Sauce is made, and is home to one of the UK's fastest growing universities, the University of Worcester.
Occupation of the site of Worcester can be dated back to Neolithic times, a village surrounded by defensive ramparts having been founded on the eastern bank of the River Severn in around 400 BC. The position, which commanded a ford on the river, was used in the first century by the Romans to establish what may at first have been a fort on the military route from Glevum (Gloucester) to Viroconium (Wroxeter) but which soon developed – as the frontier of the empire was pushed westwards – into an industrial town with its own pottery kilns and iron-smelting plants.
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Worcestershire
Worcestershire (i/ˈwʊstərʃər/ WUUS-tər-shər or /ˈwʊstərʃɪər/ WUUS-tər-sheer ; abbreviated Worcs) is a non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands of England. In 1974, it merged with the neighbouring county of Herefordshire to form Hereford and Worcester. This was divided in 1998, re-establishing Worcestershire as a county. The Malvern Hills forms the east–west border between the two counties, with the exception of West Malvern in Worcestershire.
The county borders Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. To the west, the county is bordered by the Malvern Hills and the spa town of Malvern. The southern part of the county is bordered by Gloucestershire and the northern edge of the Cotswolds; to the east is Warwickshire. There are two major rivers flowing through the county, the Severn and the Avon.
The cathedral city of Worcester is the largest settlement and administrative seat of the county, which includes the principal settlements of Bromsgrove, Stourport-on-Severn, Droitwich, Evesham, Kidderminster, Malvern, and the largest town, Redditch, and a number of smaller towns such as Pershore, Tenbury Wells and Upton upon Severn. The north of the county includes part of the industrial West Midlands conurbation while the south of the county is largely rural. The average salary is £20,300.
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A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne /ˈmɪln/ (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne, who was Scottish, and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
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Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968.
His output includes The Madness of George III and its film incarnation The Madness of King George, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Walter and his wife Lilian Mary (nee Peel), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School (in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford) and then Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his national service and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unrequited love, he decided to apply for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford from which he graduated with a first-class degree in history. While at Oxford he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in the Oxford Revue. He was to remain at the university for several years, where he researched and taught Medieval History, before deciding he was not cut out to be an academic.
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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor of stage and screen. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His breakout performance was as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma.
Rickman has also had a number of other notable film roles such as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply, P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. More recently, he played Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Rickman was born in South Hammersmith, London, to a working class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett), a housewife, and Bernard Rickman, a factory worker. Rickman's mother was from Wales and a Methodist, and his father was of Irish Catholic background. He has one elder brother, David (b. 1944), a graphic designer, a younger brother, Michael (b. 1947), a tennis coach, and a younger sister, Sheila (b. 1949). Rickman attended Derwentwater Primary School, in Acton, a school that followed the Montessori method of education.
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Alan Temperley
Harry and the Wrinklies is a children's novel written by British author Alan Temperley. The book was published in paperback in February 1998 by Scholastic. It was Temperley's second published novel, after Murdo's War in 1988. A sequel, Harry and the Treasure of Eddie Carver, was released in hardback in March 2004.
The book was adapted into a TV series of the same name which ran from 1999 until 2002 on CITV. The TV series was rerun in 2009 on STV's weekend kids' TV block wknd@stv.
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Alex Drake
DI Alexandra "Alex" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Ashes to Ashes. The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole.
The character of Alex Drake is the main protagonist of Ashes to Ashes, the sequel to the 2006 series Life on Mars, which followed the story of Sam Tyler (John Simm) who wakes in 1973 after being hit by a car in 2006. Ashes to Ashes follows the similar storyline of Alex Drake who after being shot in 2008 awakes in 1981. The character has been described as "ballsy, confident and bright", along with being "perceptive in deduction" and "understanding the workings of the criminal mind"
During the first episode of Ashes to Ashes, it is revealed that Alex Drake is the unnamed police psychologist mentioned in the finale of Life on Mars, who interviewed and recorded case notes of Sam Tyler's time in 1973 and studied his subsequent suicide, as witnessed in the finale of Life on Mars.
During the opening scenes of the first episode, Drake, while driving her daughter Molly (Grace Vance) to school is unexpectedly called to a hostage situation near the embankment of the River Thames. Upon arriving, she is informed that the hostage taker, Arthur Layton (Sean Harris) is demanding to speak to her, despite Drake having no knowledge of him. Drake eventually negotiates the release of the civilian hostage in favour of herself. This prompts Drake's frightened daughter, Molly to rush past the cordon into the middle of the situation. Arthur Layton takes hold of Molly and rushes down the steps to the river's edge, followed by Drake shortly after to find her daughter unharmed with Layton missing. Upon returning to her car she fails to notice Layton in the back, who forces her at gunpoint to a disused barge and tells her that he knew her parents who died in 1981, Tim (Andrew Clover) and Caroline Price (Amelia Bullmore). Shortly after, Layton shoots Drake in the head.
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Alf Prøysen
Alf Prøysen (23 July 1914 - 23 November 1970), was a writer and musician from Norway. He was born at Rudshøgda in Ringsaker. Prøysen was one of the most important Norwegian cultural personalities in the second half of the twentieth century, and he made significant contributions to literature, music, TV and radio.
His childhood was typical for those of the husmann class; the landless lower class of rural Norway. This is reflected in his songs and short stories, where he draws realistic, satirical and harsh pictures of class relations and everyday life in rural Norway.
Though somewhat of an underdog and an outsider, Prøysen made significant contributions to many artistic fields: children's radio, short stories, theater and music. His only novel Trost i taklampa was a great success both as a book and as a play, depicting the urbanization of 1950s Norway, and the effect this had on rural life.
His work includes the stories about Mrs. Pepperpot, a tiny lady who never knows when she is going to shrink to the size of a teaspoon. In the Norwegian original, she is known as "Teskjekjerringa"; the teaspoon lady.
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Alfred Marks
Alfred Edward Marks OBE (28 January 1921 – 1 July 1996) was a British actor and comedian.
Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertainment at the Windmill Theatre. He then served in the RAF as a Flight Sergeant in the Middle East where he arranged concerts for servicemen. He also worked as an auctioneer and engineer.
He started in variety at the Kilburn Empire in 1946, and his stage appearances included The Sunshine Boys and Fiddler On The Roof. He was also involved in comedy work with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe which later led to the formation (along with writer Spike Milligan) of The Goon Show, though Marks himself was not to become a member of that comedy group
His films included The Frightened City and Scream and Scream Again. His television show, Alfred Marks Time, ran for 6 years on ITV. He compered Sunday Night at the London Palladium and appeared in numerous other television programmes including Albert and Victoria, The Good Old Days, Blankety Blank, The Marti Caine Show, The Two Ronnies, The Generation Game, Lovejoy, Minder (TV series), Parkinson, The All New Alexei Sayle Show and the Dramarama play The Comeuppance of Captain Katt (a satire on the current state of Doctor Who).
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Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig.
Born in Cromford and brought up in rural Derbyshire, she was educated at the Lea School in Holloway and the Lady Manners School in Bakewell, where she developed a love for science which led to a scholarship to Manchester University to read physics. In 1906 she became the second woman honours graduate of the University.
After leaving university she trained as a teacher in Cambridge and in 1908 took up the post of physics teacher at the Fulham Secondary School for Girls. Three years later she married James Arthur Uttley. The Uttleys had one son, John Taylor. James Uttley committed suicide by drowning in 1930, his health having been affected by his service in the First World War. John also killed himself, deliberately driving his car off a cliff in 1978.
The Uttleys lived at Downs House, 13 Higher Downs, Bowdon, Cheshire from 1924 to 1938 which now has a blue plaque to signify the association.
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Ann George
Ann George (5 March 1903 - 8 September 1989) was a British actress best known for her role as Amy Turtle in the television soap opera Crossroads.
She was born in Smethwick, and entered show business as a singer appearing in musicals such as The Belle of New York and The Desert Song and featured in the Gilbert and Sullivan show D'Oyly Carte. She loved to sing and made a special appearance at Birmingham Town Hall singing in Handel's Messiah.
Ann George also had her own cabaret act singing and telling jokes. She took her first husband, George Snape's first name, after he died as her stage name. During her time on Crossroads, George also read Mrs. Pepperpot stories for the BBC children's show Jackanory.
She joined the cast of Crossroads in 1965 playing the cleaner Amy Turtle. She got the part after apparently complaining to ATV producers that there were not enough true Birmingham accents. She first appeared in 1966, working in the antique shop. She later became a cleaning lady at the Crossroads Motel, working for the formidable housekeeper Mrs Loomis. Critics derided George's performance; Crossroads was shot as live, and the low budget meant that the recording could not be edited and retakes were rare. Any slips made had to remain for the transmission; memorably, Amy would often answer the telephone with the show's catchphrase "Crossroads Motel, can I help you?" - five seconds later the phone would actually ring.[citation needed]
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Ann Way
Ann Way (14 November 1915 – 13 March 1993) was an English character actress in film and television. Born in Wiveliscombe,Somerset, she began her career in repertory in Dundee, Angus in the 1960s.
Her petite build and distinctively deep-set eyes saw her frequently typecast as a stereotypically dotty or timid and mouse-like spinster. She nonetheless appeared in a wide range of roles, including the television series Dr Finlay's Casebook, Emmerdale Farm where she played an aunt of publican and newspaper correspondent Amos Brearly, Fawlty Towers (where she memorably played the Colonel's wife inadvertently served the raw red mullet in "Gourmet Night") and Rumpole of the Bailey as Dodo Mackintosh. She also read the Mrs. Pepperpot books on the children's series Jackanory.
Film roles included Carry On Loving (1970), Endless Night (1972) and Clockwise (1986) (in which she sang the Vivian Ellis standard This is my Lovely Day on the soundtrack and made comic use of the repeated line "Aren't we all such lucky people") and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) (where she played the headmistress's secretary, Miss Gaunt). A more unusual role was the 1987 short film Unusual Ground Floor Conversion in which she played an old lady gradually driving her downstairs neighbour mad by throwing water out of her window every few minutes.
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Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977.
Arthur Lowe was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur (1888–1971) and his wife Mary Annie (Nan) née Ford (1885–1981). His father worked for a railway company, in charge of moving theatrical touring companies around Northern England and the Midlands in special trains. Young Arthur went to Chapel Street Junior School in Chapel Street, Levenshulme, Manchester. Lowe’s original intention was to join the Merchant Navy but this idea was thwarted because of his poor eyesight. Working at an aircraft factory he joined the British Army on the eve of the Second World War, but not before experiencing his first brush with the acting world by working as a stagehand at the Manchester Palace of Varieties. Lowe served in the Middle East with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, and began to take part in shows put on for the troops, which appears to have sparked his desire to act. He left the Army, in which he served as a radar technician, at the end of the war with the rank of Sergeant Major.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (née Ericsson) (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈastrɪd ˈlɪŋɡreːn] (
listen)), 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter. She is the world's 18th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide. She is best known for the Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson-on-the-Roof and the Six Bullerby Children book series.
Astrid Lindgren grew up in Näs, near Vimmerby, Småland and many of her books are based on her family and childhood memories and landscapes. However, Pippi Longstocking, one of her most famous books, was set in Gotland.
Lindgren was the daughter of Samuel August Ericsson and Hanna Johnsson. She had two sisters and a brother, Gunnar Ericsson, who eventually became a member of the Swedish parliament.
Upon finishing school, Lindgren took a job with the a local newspaper in Vimmerby. When she became pregnant with the chief editor's child[clarification needed] in 1926, he proposed marriage. She declined and moved to Stockholm, learning to become a typist and stenographer (she would later write most of her drafts in stenography). In due time, she gave birth to her son, Lars, in Copenhagen and left him in the care of a foster family.
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram (1872–1918), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family. Her parents were artistic, interested in nature and enjoyed the countryside. As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly. Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.
She was educated by private governesses until she was eighteen. Her study of languages, literature, science and history was broad and she was an eager student. Her artistic talents were recognized early. Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour. Along with her drawings of her animals, real and imagined, she illustrated insects, fossils, archeological artefacts, and fungi. In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research on the reproduction of fungi spores generated interest from the scientific establishment. Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.
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Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2012 is still an active performer.
He is particularly known to British audiences as the story-telling narrator in The Wombles, a children's programme which ran for 40 episodes between 1973 and 1975. He also recorded several hit novelty records in the early 1960s and was a regular and prolific performer on Jackanory on BBC TV between 1966 and 1991. Cribbins' most recent prominent role has been as Wilfred Mott, companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who.
Born in Derker, Oldham, Lancashire, Cribbins served an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre, taking a break during his years of study to undertake national service with the Parachute Regiment in his late teens.
Cribbins made his first West End theatre appearance in 1956 at the Arts Theatre playing the two Dromios in A Comedy of Errors and co-starred in the first West End productions of Not Now Darling, There Goes the Bride and Run for Your Wife. He also starred in the revue And Another Thing, and recorded a single of a song from the show entitled "Folksong". In 1962 he recorded two comic songs, "Hole in the Ground" (in which an embittered workman murders a bowler-hatted harasser) and followed it with "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to relocate something resembling a piano). Both were produced by George Martin for Parlophone, with music by Ted Dicks and lyrics by Myles Rudge. "Hole in the Ground" reached No. 1 in the charts, and the other two songs reached high positions.
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Billie Whitelaw
Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE (born 6 June 1932) is an English actress. She worked in close collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and is regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She is also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in The Omen.
In 1991, Whitelaw was awarded the CBE.
Whitelaw was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the daughter of Frances Mary (née Williams) and Gerry Whitelaw. She grew up in a working class part of the city and later attended Thornton Grammar School in Bradford. At age 11, she began performing as a child actress on radio programmes and later worked as an assistant stage manager at a provincial theatre.
After training at RADA, Whitelaw made her stage debut at age 18 in London 1950. She made her film debut in The Sleeping Tiger (1954), followed by roles in Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) and Hell Is a City (1960). Whitelaw soon became a regular in British films of the 1950s and early 1960s. In her early film work she specialized in blousy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s. She starred alongside Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles (1967), a performance which won her a BAFTA award as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She would win her second BAFTA as the sensuous mother of college student Hayley Mills in the psychological study Twisted Nerve (1969). She continued in film roles including Leo the Last (1970), Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), Gumshoe (1971) and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972).
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Brian Cant
Brian Cant (born 12 July 1933) is an English actor, television presenter and writer.
Born in Ipswich, he currently lives in Buckinghamshire and is married to writer and director Cherry Britton, sister of TV presenter Fern Britton and actor Jasper Britton. They have three children, daughter Rose, and twins Christabel and Peter. He has two sons from his first marriage, Nicholas and Richard, who is also an actor. He is the son-in-law of the British actor Tony Britton and brother-in-law of the television chef Phil Vickery.
In 1999 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, referring to this in an interview with BBC Breakfast which was shown on 24 November 2010.
Cant is particularly well known for his work on many BBC children's programmes from the 1960s to the 1980s, including Play School, Play Away, Trumpton, Chigley, Camberwick Green and Bric-A-Brac. He was performing in drama-based BBC TV Schools Programmes about the Romans when he heard that auditions were being held for a new children's pre-school programme which was to be shown on the new BBC 2 channel. At his audition he was asked by programme editor Joy Whitby to get in a cardboard box and pretend to 'row out to sea'. He pretended to fish from his 'boat' and caught a wellington boot full of custard. He was cast as a presenter and first appeared on the third week in May 1964, and stayed with the programme for twenty-one years, becoming to many viewers 'Mr Play School'.
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Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (German: Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jakob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen), and "Snow White" (Schneewittchen). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.
The brothers spent their formative years first in the German town of Hanau and then in Steinau. Their father's death in 1796, about a decade into their lives, caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years. They attended the University of Marburg where historian and jurist Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in philology and Germanic studies—a field in which they are now considered pioneers—and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a life-long dedication to collecting German folk tales.
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Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell (born 1962) is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's literature, and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize seven times.
Chris Riddell was born in 1962 in South Africa where his father worked as a vicar and was opposed to the system of apartheid. The family returned to England when Chris was one year old, where he spent the rest of his childhood with his sister and three brothers who are now living in South Africa, Brighton England, Egypt and Malaysia. Chris displayed artistic talent from an early age, and was encouraged in this by his mother. As a child, his favourite artists were John Tenniel (the original illustrator of Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland) and William Heath Robinson.
Some of Riddell's most notable work is The Edge Chronicles, a children's book series co-written with Paul Stewart and illustrated by Riddell himself. Set in the fictional world known as "The Edge", the books have been praised for Chris's beautifully detailed line drawings and the unique nature of their collaborative writing process.
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Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.
Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst L. Freud (an architect) and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud. His family fled to Britain from Nazi Germany and his given name was anglicised from the original "Clemens". He spent his later childhood in Hampstead where he attended the The Hall private preparatory school. He also attended two independent schools: he boarded at Dartington Hall, and also went to St Paul's School, London.
During the Second World War Freud joined the Royal Ulster Rifles and served in the ranks. He acted as an aide to Field Marshal Montgomery. He worked at the Nuremberg Trials and in 1947 was commissioned as an officer. He married June Flewett (the inspiration for Lucy Pevensie in C. S. Lewis's children's series The Chronicles of Narnia) in 1950, and the couple had five children. Flewett had taken the stage name Jill Raymond in 1944, and since Clement's knighthood has been Lady Freud.
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David Coulter
David A. Coulter is an American banker.
Currently he is Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (financial services and retail banking) from January 2001 to September 2005. Prior to the merger with J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated, he was Vice Chairman of The Chase Manhattan Corporation (bank holding company) from August 2000 to December 2000. He was a partner in the Beacon Group, L.P. (investment banking firm) from January 2000 to July 2000, and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America Corporation and Bank of America NT&SA from May 1996 to October 1998. Coulter has been a director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company since 1996. He also is a director of Metavante Technologies and Strayer Education, Inc.
Born in Ford City, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Dilys Hamlett
Dilys Hamlett (31 March 1928, Tidworth, Hampshire – 7 July 2002, Cupar, Fife) was a British actress.
Dilys Hamlett was born on 31 March 1928 in Tidworth, Hampshire and developed an early interest in literature and theatre. She studied at the Old Vic Theatre School in the early 1950s and it was there that she met, and married, a fellow student, Caspar Wrede.
After leaving the theatre school she went immediately into the West End, appearing in The Innocents before performing in several productions for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company. Although she continued to work in the West End and for theatres throughout Britain she was particularly associated with the group of directors, including her husband, Caspar Wrede, who eventually formed the Royal Exchange Company in Manchester. She worked for Michael Elliott in the 59 Theatre Company and then for Braham Murray in the Century Theatre in Manchester. These two companies led directly to the formation of the 69 Theatre Company and then to the Royal Exchange.
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Earl Cameron (actor)
Earl Cameron, CBE (born August 8, 1917) is a Bermudian actor. He is known as one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom, along with Cy Grant. He also had repeated appearances on many British science fiction programmes of the 1960s, including Doctor Who, The Prisoner and The Andromeda Breakthrough.
Cameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda. As a young man, he joined the British Merchant Navy, and sailed mostly between New York and South America. When the Second World War broke out he found himself stranded in London, arriving on 29 October 1939. As he himself put it in an interview for The Royal Gazette newspaper: "I arrived in London on 29 October 1939. I got involved with a young lady and you know the rest. The ship left without me, and the girl walked out too."
In 1941, a friend named Harry Crossman gave Cameron a ticket to see a revival of Chu Chin Chow at the Palace Theatre. Crossman and five other black actors had bit parts in the West End production. Cameron who was working at the kitchen of the Strand Corner House at the time, was fed up with menial jobs and asked Crossman if he could get him on the show. At first he told Cameron that all of the parts were cast, but two or three weeks later, when one of the actors didn't show up, Crossman arranged a meeting with the director, Robert Atkins, who cast Cameron on the spot.
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Elaine Smith
Elaine Smith (born 7 May 1963, Coatbridge) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Coatbridge and Chryston constituency since 1999. On 11 May 2011, Smith was elected to serve as one of two Deputy Presiding Officers of the Scottish Parliament.
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Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch (born February 2, 1925) is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs. She is known for her performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical Company, her 2001 one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on NBC's 30 Rock. She has been nominated for the Tony Award five times in various categories, and won once, for Elaine Stritch at Liberty. Stritch is also a three-time Emmy Award winner.
Elaine Stritch was born in 1925 in Detroit, Michigan to Mildred (née Jobe; 1893-1987), a homemaker, and George Joseph Stritch (1892-1987), an executive with B.F. Goodrich. Her family was wealthy and devoutly Roman Catholic. Stritch's father was of Irish descent and her mother was of Welsh descent. Samuel Cardinal Stritch, former Archbishop of Chicago, was one of her uncles.
Stritch trained at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York City under Erwin Piscator; other students at the Dramatic Workshop at this time included Marlon Brando and Bea Arthur.
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Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932) is an English actor with a diverse history in theatre, film and television. From 2004 to 2009 she appeared as Miss Marple, the Agatha Christie sleuth, for the series Marple.
She was born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Donald McKeown and his wife, Nora (Burns). She was married to the former principal of RADA, Hugh Cruttwell, who died in 2002.
McEwan attended Windsor County Girls' School, and her extensive theatrical career began at 14 as assistant stage manager at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. She made her first appearance on the Windsor stage in October 1946 as an attendant of Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream and played many parts with the Windsor Repertory Company from March 1949 to March 1951, including a role in the Ruth Gordon bio play Years Ago opposite guest player John Clark. She made her first West End appearance at the Vaudeville Theatre on 4 April 1951 as Christina Deed in Who Goes There!, in which she had a marked success.
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Gordon Rollings
Gordon Charles Rollings (17 April 1926 – 7 June 1985) was a British actor who mainly appeared on television, but also appeared on-stage and in feature films. He was born in Batley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England and started his career in radio in Israel. He later trained as a clown in Paris, appearing in the Medrano Circus.
Rollings made an uncredited screen appearance in the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. He played the man in the pub who is shocked to find that Ringo has thrown a dart into his lunch.
Then after a number of small parts in TV shows such as Z-Cars in the early 1960s, on 21 April 1964, he was one of the first presenters of BBC 2's daily programme for young children, Play School, alongside Virginia Stride. In the same year he played the character of Charlie Moffitt in Coronation Street. He was a storyteller in Jackanory in 1966-67, reading among others, the story of Worzel Gummidge. He later narrated The Herbs, and as the character Arkwright with his small dog, Tonto, in the adverts for John Smith's Bitter.
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H. E. Todd
H. E. Todd (1908–1988) was a British writer of children's fiction.
He is best known for his "Bobby Brewster" children's books. Often the stories would have common household items suddenly coming to life and chatting to young Bobby Brewster.
He was a storyteller as well as author, usually telling his own stories. He visited many schools to give storytelling sessions; see the reference below for peoples' memories of his school sessions. He also visited many teacher training colleges to give sessions about storytelling.
In 1969 and 1970, he appeared on BBC's long running children's television show Jackanory reading several Bobby Brewster stories. Unlike other episodes of Jackanory these were recorded in front of an audience of schoolchildren.
The Bobby Brewster stories were also offered as a dial-and-listen 'bedtime story' service by British Telecom in the 1980s, where children could dial a three-digit BT number and listen to a looped voice recording of a selected Bobby Brewster story every evening.
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Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyanna (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in several films for Walt Disney, and is perhaps best known for her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap.
During the late 1960s she began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more mature roles. The age of contracts with studios soon passed. Although she has not maintained the box office success or the Hollywood A-list she experienced as a child actress, she has continued to make movies and TV appearances, having two movies in post-production in 2010.
In 2007 Mills became a main character in the ITV Series Wild at Heart.
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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.
A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama, and received the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.
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Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. He has won multiple Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is known for film roles such as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Magneto in the X-Men films, and as Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code.
McKellen was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979, was knighted in 1991 for services to the performing arts, and was made a Companion of Honour for services to drama and to equality, in the 2008 New Year Honours.
McKellen was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England, though he spent most of his early life in Wigan. Born shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the experience had some lasting impact on him. In response to an interview question when an interviewer remarked that he seemed quite calm in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, he said: "Well, darling, you forget — I slept under a steel plate until I was four years old."
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J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (
/ˈtɒlkiːn/, US /ˈtoʊlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
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James Bolam
James Christopher Bolam, MBE (born 16 June 1935) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Dr Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the children's BBC programme Grandpa in My Pocket.
Bolam was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England, UK. His father, Robert Alfred Bolam, was from Northumberland and his mother, Marion Alice Durey, from County Durham.
After attending Bede Grammar School, Sunderland, Bolam attended Bemrose School in Derby. He was formally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and first appeared on screens in the early 1960s, initially in popular TV shows such as Z-Cars and the gritty northern films A Kind of Loving and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He appeared along with John Thaw in the 1967 Granada TV serial, Inheritance.
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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in such films as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. Other notable films have included The House of the Spirits (1993), The Lion King (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Lolita (1997), The Merchant of Venice (2004), Being Julia (2004), Appaloosa (2008), and Margin Call (2011).
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Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken (with her siblings, Joan Aiken authored Conrad Aiken Remembered (1989), a short, subtle appreciation of their complex and difficult father). Joan's mother, Canadian-born Jessie MacDonald, a Masters graduate from Radcliffe College, married English writer Martin Armstrong soon after separating from Conrad Aiken.
Joan Aiken was at first taught at home by her mother, and later educated at Wychwood School, Oxford, between 1936 and 1940; she did not attend university. She had written stories from an early age, and in her early twenties she had her first stories broadcast by the BBC, where she had been employed in 1942–43. In 1945 she married Ronald George Brown, a journalist working for the United Nations Information Office and they had two children; he died in 1955. She married New York painter Julius Goldstein in 1976; he died in 2001.
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Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive Skin. Her distinctive voice has been supplied for animated characters, film narration, and AOL's "You have email" notification in the UK. She has spoken out as a human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign, and is now considered a "national treasure" of Nepal because of her support. She is an advocate for a number of charities and animal welfare groups such as CIWF and Viva! She has won three BAFTA awards and a British Comedy Award.
Joanna Lamond Lumley was born on 1 May 1946 in Srinagar, in the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, which was then part of British India. Her parents were Major James Rutherford Lumley, who served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the British Indian Army, and Beatrice Rose Weir. They married in 1941. After the independence of India in 1947, the Lumleys relocated back to their home country of England[citation needed]; county Kent. The family also spent time in Malaya (now Malaysia). Lumley was educated at St Mary's Convent School in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, and afterwards attended the Lucie Clayton finishing school, after being turned down by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 16.
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John Sessions
John Gibb Marshall (born 11 January 1953), better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?; as a panellist on QI; and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and in Hollywood.
Sessions was born in Largs, and spent some of his earliest years in Kempston, Bedfordshire and St Albans, Hertfordshire. He has an elder brother and a twin sister. Sessions is openly gay. His name change occurred when he became a performer, owing to the presence of a John Marshall on the Equity register already. He graduated with an M.A. in English literature from Bangor University, where he had begun to appear to audiences with his comedy in shows such as "Look back in Bangor" and "Marshall Arts". He later studied for a PhD from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, although he did not complete the doctorate.
This period in his life was unhappy. In a 'Worst of Times' column for The Independent from around 1990, he talked of how the freezing Canadian weather had depressed him, he was smoking 'far too many cigarettes', 'had a couple of disastrous flings' and described his PhD dissertation as '200 pages of rubbish'.
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Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge. He is also well known for his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark.
Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots (the name was an Anglicisation of "Perthuis"; his full surname being "de Perthuis de Laillevault"), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army (coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army). The actor Henry Ainley, a close friend of his father, was his godfather and Ainley's son Anthony appeared alongside Pertwee in the 1983 Doctor Who anniversary story The Five Doctors.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irishsatirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (1640-1667) and his wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick), of Frisby-on-the-Wreake. His father, a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire, accompanied his brothers to Ireland to seek their fortunes in law after their Royalist father's estate was brought to ruin during the English Civil War. Swift's father died at Dublin before he was born, and his mother returned to England. He was left in the care of his influential uncle, Godwin, a close friend and confidante of Sir John Temple, whose son later employed Swift as his secretary.
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Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English actress, comedienne, monologist and singer-songwriter.
Born in London, Joyce was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (1880–1953), the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper, and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne (1889–1955), the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railroad millionaire. Nancy Astor, née Nancy Langhorne, was her mother's sister and Grenfell often visited her at Astor's home, Cliveden.
Joyce Phipps grew up around money and privilege. She had a London childhood and considered herself a "townie". Joyce attended the Francis Holland School in Central London, and the Christian Science School, Clearview, in South Norwood, and then she was "finished" in Paris where she attended Mlle. Ozanne's finishing school at the age of 17.
In 1927, she met Reginald Pascoe Grenfell (1903–1993); they were married two years later at St. Margaret's, Westminster; they remained married for 50 years (until her death).
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Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968.
During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By.
Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001).
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Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes (born Clare Julia Hawes; 10 February 1976) is an English actress and model, known for many television roles since 1989.
She is best known for her roles as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks (2002–04) and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–10) and Lady Agnes in the remake of Upstairs, Downstairs (2010–2012). Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series. She is also well known for the charity work she does for CHASE hospice care for children in Surrey.
Hawes first came into the public eye in the early 1990s, in Troublemakers and the 1997 BBC costume drama, The Moonstone. She has since appeared in many other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's Karaoke (BBC One/Channel 4, 1995), Heartbeat (ITV1, 1995), The Beggar Bride (BBC, 1997), as the young Diana Dors in the biopic, The Blonde Bombshell (ITV, 1999), Othello (ITV, 2001), A Murder is Announced (ITV, 2005), ITV drama After Thomas (2006) and BBC drama Spooks. She is the former face of Boots No 7 cosmetics and has appeared alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the BAFTA award winning That Mitchell and Webb Look. In 2010 she appeared in a 6-part drama for ITV called Identity as Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson; and as the leading role 'Lady Agnes Holland' in the re-launch of Upstairs, Downstairs for the BBC.
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Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.
Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February 1926 in Bingfield Street, King's Cross, London, the son of Louisa ("Lou" or "Louie") and Charles Williams, a barber. Williams had a half-sister, Alice Patricia, born before Louie had met Charlie Williams. He was educated at Lyulph Stanley School, later becoming apprenticed as a draughtsman to a mapmaker. He joined the Army in 1944 at 18. As part of the Royal Engineers survey section in Bombay, he first performed on stage in the Combined Services Entertainment alongside Stanley Baxter and Peter Nichols. He was a voracious reader able to quote poems or literary extracts from memory. Excerpts from the diaries he kept as an adult show he adored his supportive, theatrical mother but despised his homophobic, morose and selfish father.
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman "L." Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).
Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.
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Lee Montague
Lee Montague (born 16 October 1927 in London) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television, usually playing tough guys.
Film credits include: Moulin Rouge, The Camp on Blood Island, The Savage Innocents, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, The Legacy and Brother Sun, Sister Moon.
Television credits include: Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Holocaust, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey & Makepeace, Casualty and Waking the Dead. In the sitcom Seconds Out he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay.
He also holds the distinction of being the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965.
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/ CHARLZ LUDT-wij DOJ-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/ KARR-əl), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.
Dodgson's family was predominantly northern English, with Irish connections. Conservative and High Church Anglican, most of Dodgson's ancestors were army officers or Church of England clergy. His great-grandfather, also named Charles Dodgson, had risen through the ranks of the church to become the Bishop of Elphin. His grandfather, another Charles, had been an army captain, killed in action in Ireland in 1803 when his two sons were hardly more than babies. His mother's name was Frances Jane Lutwidge.
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Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie "Maggie" Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress. She has had an extensive career both on screen and in live theatre, and is known as one of Britain's pre-eminent actors. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She has won numerous awards for acting, both for the stage and for film, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two special awards including the Bafta Fellowship in 1996), two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, two SAG Awards and a Tony Award. Dame Maggie is the only actor ever to win this collective of awards and is one of the most successful and acclaimed actors of the film era.
Her critically acclaimed films include Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001). She has also appeared in a number of widely-popular films, including Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992) and as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series. She currently stars in the critically acclaimed drama Downton Abbey as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, for which she has won an Emmy.
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Mai Zetterling
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (Swedish pronunciation: [mâjː sɛ̂tːəɭɪ̂ŋ]; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director.
Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.
Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film Torment written by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's Frieda (1947) playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.
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Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1963 she won the best supporting actress Oscar as The Duchess of Brighton in The VIPs.
She is probably best known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.
Margaret Rutherford's father, William Rutherford Benn, suffered from mental illness. During his honeymoon he had a nervous breakdown and was confined to an asylum. He was eventually released on holiday and on 4 March 1883, he murdered his father, the Reverend Julius Benn, a Congregational church minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamberpot (Worcester Spode). Shortly afterwards, William tried to kill himself as well, by slashing his throat with a pocketknife. After the murder, William Benn was confined to the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Several years later he was released, reportedly cured of his mental affliction. He changed his surname to Rutherford, and returned to his wife, Ann (née Taylor).
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Matthew Corbett
Matthew Corbett (born 28 March 1948 in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England, born Peter Graham Corbett) is an English television personality best known for presenting The Sooty Show and laterly Sooty and Co.
He was the son of Sooty Creator Harry Corbett. He took over Sooty from his father Harry Corbett in 1976, and retired in 1998.
Corbett was born in Guiseley, then a town in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. In the late 1960s or early 1970s, he had to choose another stage name, as there was already another Peter Corbett registered. He kept his surname, but when choosing his new first name he was told it must be a name that is long, and so he chose the name of Matthew; for television purposes he has always remained as Matthew Corbett.
He appeared in the 1971 Doctor Who serial The Dæmons and was a regular performer in the Thames Television children's show Rainbow, where he sang and performed and wrote with Rod Burton and Jane Tucker as Rod, Matt and Jane, later better known as Rod, Jane and Freddy.
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Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond, OBE (born 13 January 1926) is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books.
Bond was born in Newbury and raised in Reading, Berkshire, where his visits to Reading Station to watch the,"Cornish Riviera Express", go steaming through started a love of trains. He was educated at Presentation College, a Catholic school in Reading.
In February 1943, Michael Bond survived an air raid in Reading. The building in which he was working collapsed under him, killing 41 people and injured many more. Later in World War II, he served in both the Royal Air Force and the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army.
Bond began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. In 1958, after producing a number of plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where he worked on Blue Peter for a time), his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published. This was the start of Bond's most famous series of books, telling tales of a bear from "Darkest Peru", whose Aunt Lucy sends him to England, carrying a jar of marmalade. The Brown family found the bear at Paddington Station, and adopted him, naming the bear after the station. By 1967, Bond was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. Paddington's adventures have been published in nearly twenty countries, and have inspired pop bands, race horses, plays, hot air balloons and a TV series. Bond stated in December 2007 that he did not plan to continue the adventures of Paddington Bear in further volumes.
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Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes (with seven nominations) and a BAFTA (with seven nominations) during her career.
Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina (née Townsend), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive. The second daughter of a middle class family, she revealed a talent for acting as a girl.
Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club. Richardson enjoyed a successful and extensive theatre career, making her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre in 1981. Soon afterwards, she appeared in repertory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996, she is cited as "the greatest actress of our time in any medium" by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival. She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the lead role in Wallace Shawn's new play, Grasses of a Thousand Colours at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Nick Willing
Nick Willing is a British director, writer and producer of films and television programs.
Willing is the son of Portuguese painter Paula Rego and English artist Victor Willing and was largely brought up in Portugal, but settled in England at the age of 12. He graduated from The National Film and Television School in 1982 and started directing music videos for bands such as Eurythmics, Bob Geldof, Swing Out Sister, Debbie Gibson, Kirsty MacColl, Kim Appleby, Tony Banks, and Nik Kershaw.
Throughout this period he was also writing screenplays, and in 1996 his adaptation of the Steve Szilagyi novel Photographing Fairies was financed by Polgram Filmed Entertainment and made into a feature film. Photographing Fairies was a critical success and won several awards including the Méliès d’Or in 1998.
Alice in Wonderland followed with a cast which included Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Robbie Coltrane, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, Gene Wilder, Ken Dodd, Christopher Lloyd, George Wendt and Miranda Richardson. Alice was made for NBC television in 1999 and won 4 Primetime Emmys.
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P.L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins. Her popular books have been adapted many times, including the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and the Broadway musical originally produced in London's West End.
Helen Lyndon Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, the daughter of an unsuccessful bank manager (later demoted to bank clerk) named Travers Robert Goff. Following the death of their father, Helen Goff and mother and sisters moved to Bowral, New South Wales in 1907, and lived there until 1917. It is likely that she lived in Bowral when she originally came up with the character that became Mary Poppins.
Helen Goff began publishing her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The Bulletin and Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress; she soon adopted the stage name "Pamela Lyndon Travers". She toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company before leaving for England in 1924. There she dedicated herself to writing under the pen name P. L. Travers.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923) is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of astronomy among the British general public.[citation needed]
He is a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), author of over 70 books on astronomy, and presenter of the world's longest-running television series with the same original presenter, The Sky at Night on the BBC. As an amateur astronomer, he became known as a specialist on observing the Moon and creating the Caldwell catalogue. Idiosyncrasies such as his rapid diction and monocle have made him a popular and instantly recognisable figure on British television.
Moore is also a self-taught xylophone and piano player and an accomplished composer, and a former amateur cricketer, golfer, and chess player. In addition to his many popular science books, he has written numerous works of fiction, and was the presenter of the 1990s TV series GamesMaster. An opponent of fox hunting, he is an outspoken critic of the European Union, and served as chairman of the short-lived anti-immigration United Country Party. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II; his fiancée was killed during the war and he has never married or had children.
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Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career in theatre and television. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, and as the voice of Avery Bullock in American Dad!.
Stewart was born on 13 July 1940 in Mirfield, near Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is the son of Gladys (née Barrowclough), a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army who served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and previously worked as a general labourer and as a postman.
In a 2008 interview, Stewart said: "My father was a very potent individual, a very powerful man who got what he wanted. It was said that when he strode onto the parade ground, birds stopped singing. It was many, many years before I realised how my father inserted himself into my work. I've grown a moustache for Macbeth. My father didn't have one, but when I looked in the mirror just before I went on stage I saw my father's face staring straight back at me."
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Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969, reappearing in 1973, 1983 and 1985. He was also the first actor to play Robin Hood on television.
Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert (1915–1994), and a younger sister, Mary Edith (1923–2005). Troughton attended Mill Hill School and continued to live in Mill Hill for most of his life. While at Mill Hill School, he acted in a production of J.B. Priestley's "Bees on the Boat Deck" in March 1937. His brother A.R. ('Robin') Troughton shared the 1933 Walter Knox Prize for Chemistry with the future Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick, who also attended Mill Hill School.
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Patsy Rowlands
Patsy Rowlands (19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.
She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a succession of convent schools throughout her childhood. At one an elocution teacher spotted her potential and encouraged her to pursue a career in acting. She applied for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and won a scholarship aged fifteen.[citation needed]
Rowlands began her career in the chorus of Annie Get Your Gun, followed by a summer season in Torquay. She then spent several years with the Players' Theatre in London, before making her West End debut in Sandy Wilson's musical Valmouth. It was at this time she met her future husband, the composer Malcolm Sircom. They divorced in 1967.[citation needed]
Other West End theatre credits included Semi-Detached with Laurence Olivier and directed by Tony Richardson (with whom she was to work often), Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, with Donald Sinden, The Seagull and Ben Travers's The Bed Before Yesterday, both directed by Lindsay Anderson and When We Are Married for Ronald Eyre. She also starred in Cameron Mackintosh's revival of Oliver! in the mid-1990s as well as playing Jack's mother in the original London cast of Sondheim's Into the Woods alongside Julia McKenzie and Imelda Staunton. One of her final musical appearances in the West End was as Mrs Pearce in the National Theatre's production of My Fair Lady which also starred Jonathan Pryce.
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Paul McGann
Paul McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie and subsequent tie-in media.
McGann was born in Kensington, Liverpool, England in 1959 into a Roman Catholic family[citation needed]. His mother, Claire, was a teacher, and his father was a metallurgist. His parents encouraged him and his siblings to develop their talents from an early age. McGann's talents were further developed when he attended Cardinal Allen Grammar school in West Derby, Liverpool. One of McGann's teachers advised him to enter the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and to pursue a career as an actor. Acting on his teacher's advice, McGann enrolled at the Royal Academy and went on to enjoy a successful acting career spanning over two decades.
McGann is the third of six children in the McGann family. His mother had twin boys, Joseph and John, who were born in 1958, but John died shortly after birth. McGann has three younger siblings: Mark (born in 1961), Stephen (born in 1963) and Clare McGann (born in 1965). All three of his brothers are also actors and the four of them starred together (as four brothers) in the 1995 television TV serial The Hanging Gale about the Irish Famine. The same year he played the role as Grigori Potemkin in TV film Catherine The Great, with Mark and Stephen too. These brothers also formed the pop quartet The McGanns, releasing the single "Shame About the Boy". McGann's sister, Clare, is a programme finance manager for Five.
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Paul Merton
Paul Merton (born Paul James Martin; 9 July 1957) is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy. Considered by a number of critics, fellow comedians and members of the public to be among Britain's greatest comedians, he is well known for his regular appearances as a team captain on the BBC panel game Have I Got News for You, and as the former host of Room 101. He has also appeared as a regular panellist on Radio 4's Just a Minute and as one of Comedy Store's Comedy Store Players.
Merton was born on 9 July 1957 in Parsons Green, London to an English father (a train guard on the London Underground) and an Irish Roman Catholic mother. When his mother returned to work as a nurse, Merton and his younger sister were looked after by their grandfather, who lived with them in their council flat in Mitcham, South London.[citation needed]
He failed his eleven plus and went on to Wimbledon College, a Jesuit-run secondary school that had just become a comprehensive, where he received A-levels in English and History. His experience of victimisation there as a working-class boy became a frequent subject of his comedy.[citation needed] After leaving school, Merton worked at the Tooting employment office for seven years.
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Peter Davison
Peter Davison (born Peter M. G. Moffett on 13 April 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.
Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham, London, son of an electrical engineer who was originally from Guyana. The family then moved to Knaphill in Surrey. Before becoming an actor, he gained three O-levels at Winston Churchill School, St John's, Woking, Surrey, and then had several odd jobs, including a stint as a mortuary attendant.
Davison studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first job was as an actor and assistant stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse. He chose the stage name Peter Davison to avoid confusion with the actor and director Peter Moffatt, with whom Davison later worked.
His first television work was in a 1975 episode of the children's science fiction television programme The Tomorrow People, alongside American actress Sandra Dickinson, whom he married on 26 December 1978. Davison portrayed an alien named "Elmer", often tortured with "tickling boots" under the control of his sister (played by Dickinson) and his mother (played by Margaret Burton) known as "the Mama".
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Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr. Strangelove, as Clare Quilty in Lolita, and as the TV-addicted man-child Chance the gardener in his penultimate film, Being There. Actress Bette Davis once remarked of him, "He isn't an actor—he's a chameleon."
Sellers rose to fame on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. His ability to speak in different accents (e.g., French, Indian, Italian, American, German, as well as British regional accents), along with his talent to portray a range of characters to comic effect, contributed to his success as a radio personality and screen actor and earned him national and international nominations and awards. Many of his characters became ingrained in public perception of his work. Sellers' private life was characterised by turmoil and crises, and included emotional problems and substance abuse. Sellers was married four times, and had three children from the first two marriages.
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Philip Glenister
Philip Haywood Glenister (born 10 February 1963) is a British actor, known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in British television series Life On Mars and its sequel Ashes To Ashes.
In the early 1990s, Glenister appeared in various TV series including Heartbeat, Dressing for Breakfast and Silent Witness. In 1997, he guest starred in Sharpe's Justice as Richard Sharpe's half-brother Matt Truman. He played William Dobbin in the 1998 mini-series Vanity Fair.
From 1998–99, Glenister co-starred as a mini-cab driver who aspires to be a rock star in the series Roger Roger. He played factory boss Mack Mackintosh in the first three series of Clocking Off from 2000–02. In 2001, he appeared in two of the Hornblower TV movies as Horatio's antagonist Gunner Hobbs.
Glenister played the photographer who took nude photos for a Women's Institute fundraising calendar in the 2003 feature film Calendar Girls. Also in 2003, he appeared in the mini-series State of Play. Glenister played the German commandant, Baron Heinrich Von Rheingarten, in the 2004 mini-series Island at War about the Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. He played social reformer and estate manager Mr. Carter in the 2007 BBC costume drama Cranford, as part of a cast including Judi Dench and Francesca Annis.
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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi Långstrump) is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series. Pippi was named by Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school.
Nine-year-old Pippi is unconventional, assertive, and has superhuman strength, being able to lift her horse one-handed without difficulty. She frequently mocks and dupes adults she encounters, an attitude likely to appeal to young readers; however, Pippi usually reserves her worst behavior for the most pompous and condescending of adults. Pippi's anger is reserved for the most extreme cases, such as when a man ill-treats her horse. Like Peter Pan, Pippi does not want to grow up. She is the daughter of a buccaneer captain and as such has adventurous stories to tell. She has four best friends, two animals (her horse and a monkey) and two humans, the neighbor's children Tommy and Annika.
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Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales (born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth) CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.
Throughout her long career, Scales has usually been cast in comic roles. Her early work included the second UK adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954).
Her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers. In addition to Fawlty Towers, she has had roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, notably After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Ladies of Letters; on television she starred in the London Weekend Television/Channel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in the (original) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a series called Seven of One, also for the BBC. Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), Stiff Upper Lips (1997), Howards End (1992), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw (1987) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones.
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Quentin Blake
Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.
Blake was born in 1932 in Sidcup, Kent and was evacuated to the West Country during the war. He went to Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, where his English teacher, J H Walsh, influenced his ambition to become involved in literature. His first published drawing was for the satirical magazine Punch, at the age of 16. He read English Literature at Downing College, Cambridge (1953-6), received his postgraduate teaching diploma from the University of London, and later studied at the Chelsea School of Art. He gained another teaching diploma at the Institute of Education before working at the Royal College of Art. His full name is Quentin Saxby Blake. He is not married and has no children.
Blake gained a reputation as a reliable and humorous illustrator of more than 300 children's books. As well as illustrating the books of others, including Joan Aiken, Roald Dahl, Elizabeth Bowen and Dr. Seuss, Blake has written numerous books of his own. As of 2006, he has participated in the writing and/or illustrating of 323 books (of which he wrote 35 himself, and 18 were by Dahl). He taught at the Royal College of Art for over twenty years, and was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986. He recently illustrated David Walliams's debut book, The Boy in the Dress and his more recent book Mr Stink.
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Richard Monette
Richard Jean Monette OC, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008) was a Canadian actor and director, best-known for his 14-season tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007.
Monette was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Florence M. (née Tondino) and Maurice Monette. He was educated at Loyola High School (Montreal) and Loyola College (now Concordia University).
Monette was the nephew of Canadian painter Gentile Tondino.
It was at college that his acting skills were first noticed when he took top acting honours at the 1959 Hart House Inter-Varsity Drama competition in Toronto.
Upon graduation, he chose to pursue an acting career, and his first professional role was as a 19-year-old Hamlet at the Crest Theatre in Toronto. He joined the Stratford Festival Company in 1965, and played a variety of small roles. He also won a role in Soldiers at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, a production that took him to Broadway. He also appeared in a number of television plays on CBC.
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Rik Mayall
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. Such notability has led him to appear in sitcoms such as The Young Ones, Blackadder, The New Statesman, and Bottom and even onto the big screen in comedy films such as Drop Dead Fred and Guest House Paradiso.
Mayall, the second of four children, was born in Harlow, Essex to John and Gillian Mayall. He has an older brother, Anthony, and two younger sisters, Libby and Kate. When he was three years old, Mayall and his parents — who taught drama — moved to Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, where he spent the rest of his childhood and performed in his parents' plays. After attending the King's School, Worcester, Mayall went to the Victoria University of Manchester in 1976 to study drama, where he befriended his future comedy partner Ade Edmondson. He also met Ben Elton and Lise Mayer, with whom he later co-wrote The Young Ones.
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl ( /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/,Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. Dahl rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". His short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.
Some of his notable works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG.
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Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (/ˈɛvərɪt/; born 29 May 1959) is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly gay student at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other films including My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.
Everett was born in Norfolk, England, to Major Anthony Michael Everett (1921–2009), who worked in business and served in the British Army, and wife (m. 7 May 1955) Sara (née Maclean, b. 19 September 1934). His maternal grandfather, Vice Admiral Sir Hector Charles Donald Maclean, was a nephew of Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean, who received the Victoria Cross. His maternal grandmother, Opre Vyvyan, was a descendant of the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the German Freiherren (Barons) von Schmiedern. He has a brother, Simon Anthony Cunningham Everett (born 1956). Everett was raised Roman Catholic.
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Sheila Hancock
Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress and author.
Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise (née Woodward) and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is nine years older (and worked as a variety artist until retiring to Antibes in 2003 at the age of 79). After wartime evacuation, Hancock attended Dartford County Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She worked in repertory during the 1950s and made her West End debut in 1958, replacing Joan Sims in the play Breath of Spring. She then appeared in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Make Me An Offer in 1959, and her other early West End appearances included the revue One Over the Eight with Kenneth Williams in 1961, and starring in Rattle of a Simple Man in 1962. In 1965, she made her Broadway debut in Entertaining Mr Sloane. In 1978, she played Miss Hannigan in the original London cast of the musical Annie and two years later, she played Mrs Lovett in the original London production of the musical Sweeney Todd.
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Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles.
Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse; much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Stratford Johns
Stratford Johns, born Alan Edgar Stratford-Johns, (22 September 1925 - 29 January 2002 ) was a popular British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, created by Troy Kennedy-Martin.
Johns was born in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in South Africa, where his parents had emigrated. After serving in the South African navy during World War II, Johns worked for a time in accountancy, but soon became involved in amateur theatre.
In 1948, he bought a one-way ticket to Britain and learned his craft working in repertory theatre at Southend-on-Sea for almost five years. He began to appear in British films from the mid-1950s, including a role in the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955). He ran a small hotel in London during the 1950s, and was a member of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre during the Angry Young Men period when new playwrights, including John Osborne, introduced new themes to British theatre. His most famous character, Barlow, was noted for his hard edges, owing much to the changes in characterisation pioneered at the Royal Court.
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Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989 – the final Doctor of the original programme – and a brief return in a television film in 1996.
Born as Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon,Scotland on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father. His father had been killed in action in World War II a month before he was born.
He was raised primarily in Dublin. In his youth, he trained for the priesthood, but gave this up and spent time working in the insurance industry. He worked in The Roundhouse box office for a time, where he was discovered by Ken Campbell. He currently resides in London.
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Ted Ray (comedian)
Ted Ray (21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977) was a popular English comedian of the 1940s, '50s and '60s. By the 1970s he regularly appeared as a panellist on comedy game shows. He also did stints on British children's television.
Ray supported numerous charitable organisations throughout his life. In 1952 he went to Korea to entertain British troops serving there during the Korean War.
Ray was born Charlie Olden in Wigan, Lancashire. His parents moved to Liverpool within days of his birth and Liverpudlians regard him as a local. As a comedian of the 1940s and 1950s he demonstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show, Ray's A Laugh, from 1949 until 1961.
A music hall comedian, Ray usually played violin badly as part of his act. He also played comedy roles in several British films—notably as the headmaster in Carry On Teacher. He is best remembered for Ray's a Laugh, a domestic comedy in which he was accompanied by Australian Kitty Bluett, who played his wife. Other actors and actresses who featured on the show during the run including Peter Sellers, Fred Yule, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, Pat Coombs and Graham Stark; Sellers' earliest appearances predated The Goon Show by a couple of years. In 1940 and 1950 Ray was King Rat of the Grand Order of Water Rats.
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Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 – 15 March 2003) was an English actress.
Hird was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She first appeared on stage at the age of two months in a play her father was managing. Her family background was largely theatrical: her mother, Marie Mayor, had been an actress, while her father managed a number of entertainment venues in Morecambe, including the Royalty Theatre where she made her first appearance, and the Central Pier. Thora often described her father as her sternest critic and attributed much of her talent as an actress and comedienne to his guidance. Although Hird left Morecambe in the late 1940s, she retained her affection for the town, referring to herself as a "sand grown'un", the colloquial term for anyone born in Morecambe.
Initially she made regular appearances in films, including the wartime propaganda film Went the Day Well? (1942, known as 48 Hours in the USA), in which she is shown wielding a rifle to defend a house from German paratroopers. She worked with the British film comedian Will Hay, and featured in The Entertainer (1960), which starred Laurence Olivier, and in A Kind of Loving (1962), with Alan Bates.
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Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, historian, TV presenter and political activist. He is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. Robinson is a member of the Labour Party and has served on its National Executive Committee. He has also written 16 children's books.
Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge. He performed in his first professional acting role at the age of 12, as a member of Fagin's gang in the original production of the musical Oliver!, including a stint as the Artful Dodger when the boy playing the role didn't turn up. Over the next five years, he appeared in a number of West End shows, in film and on television.
At school, Robinson passed four O-Levels (English Language, English Literature, History and Geography) and went on to study for A-Levels. However, he did not complete his A-Levels and decided to study at a drama school instead. Too young to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robinson instead studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After leaving, he spent four years in repertory theatre.
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Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson ( pronunciation (help·info)) (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.
Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, which was then a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland. Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking (Swedish: finlandssvensk) minority of Finland, was an artistic one: her father Viktor Jansson was a sculptor and her mother Signe Hammarsten-Jansson was a graphic designer and illustrator. Tove's siblings also became artists: Per Olov Jansson became a photographer and Lars Jansson an author and cartoonist.
She studied at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm in 1930–33, the Graphic School of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1933–1937 and finally at L'École d'Adrien Holy and L'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938. She displayed a number of artworks in exhibitions during the 30s and early 40s, and her first solo exhibition was held in 1943.
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Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano. Much of her humour is grounded in everyday life, and includes references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She is noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes.
She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comedians. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently works with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie.
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Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film". Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
Born in Bramhall, Stockport, in Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller, a Manchester cotton manufacturer, and Marie Stone, Hiller began her professional career as an actress in repertory at Manchester in the early 1930s. She first found success as slum dweller Sally Hardcastle in the stage version of Love on the Dole in 1934. The play was an enormous success and toured the regional stages of England. This play saw her West End debut in 1935 at the Garrick Theatre. She married the play's author Ronald Gow, fifteen years her senior, in 1937 (the same year as she made her film debut in Lancashire Luck, scripted by Gow).
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Willie Rushton
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.
William George Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in the family home at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London (which 24 years later was to also be the editorial birthplace of Private Eye). He began attending Shrewsbury School in 1950, where he met his future Private Eye colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker. His distinctive character and tastes were already forming, as he introduced his friends to P. G. Wodehouse, the humorous columnist Beachcomber, and the records of ex-Footlights’ revue star Jack Hulbert. He gave a memorable performance as Lord Loam in The Admirable Crichton. He was becoming an accomplished illustrator, and his cartoons appeared in the school’s official magazine, The Salopian. He also contributed to the satirical rag, The Wallopian with Ingrams, Foot, Booker mocking school spirit, traditions and the masters. It was during this period that the term "pseud" was coined. The expression was given wider currency by Private Eye and is still in use as an insult against pseudo-intellectuals.
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 1
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Jackanory Titles 1973.
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KENNNETH WILLIAMS READING "THE DRIBBLESOME TEAPOTS" ON JACKANORY.
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Actor Kenneth Williams reading "The Dribblesome Teapots" on the UK show entitled JACKANORY. ( THE RECORDING IS AUDIBLY LOW AND PORTABLE SPEAKERS WILL HELP WITH THIS)
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Jackanory Junior - Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child.
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Sally Hawkins story telling on Jackanory Junior, Cbeebies. Uploaded for entertainment purposes only. sally-hawkins.tumblr.com
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Martin Clunes on Jackanory Junior - The Last Polar Bears - (1/2)
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Martin tells this tale The Last Polar Bears on a TV programme for children, in my opinion very nicely done ....and I loved the animation!... :D enjoy another facet of his work...
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Jackanory - Little Nose
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Jackanory - Little Nose - The Joker BBC 1983 For more tv nostalgia talk take a visit to www.sausagenet.org
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Jackanory Jubilee - Jubilee Bear
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Jubilee Jackanory - Jubilee Bear read by Judi Dench from 1977
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Jackanory Junior - Dimity Dumpty
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Sally Hawkins story telling on Jackanory Junior, Cbeebies. sally-hawkins.tumblr.com Uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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Sheridan Smith Jackanory Junior
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Sheridan Smith narrating the story Harold and the Duck.
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Jackanory - Opening titles
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Opening to the classic kids story show.
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Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
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Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2 Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon Written by Vivian French Illustrated by Chris Fisher
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Jackanory With Gene Hunt
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Extract and edit from final episode of Ashes to Ashes series 2, where Gene Hunt destroys another childhood tv memory. Abolutely brill.
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Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 2 of 2
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Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon Written by Vivian French Illustrated by Chris Fisher
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Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 1
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Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers Grimm. Part 2 is here... www.youtube.com
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Tom Baker on Jackanory 1985
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Tom Baker on Jackanory 1985
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Jackanory Junior - The Last Cowboys (Told By Martin Freeman)
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The show features celebrities reading children's stories. So this one is about Martin and his dog and how they went to America. year 2008
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 4
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 6
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Fig's Giant on Jackanory
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Here's the title sequence for the new series of Jackanory which looks like it will include my book (written by Geraldine McCaughrean) Fig's Giant. You can see my illustration of Gulliver and some soldiers with boiled eggs.
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 5
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 8
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 9
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 2
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 1
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- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 2
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 3
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 4
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 5
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 6
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 7
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 8
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Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 9
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- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 9 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_9
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 10 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_10
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Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vivian French
Illustrated by Chris Fisher
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Junior_Snow_Dragon_Part_1_of_2
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 2 of 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vivian French
Illustrated by Chris Fisher
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Junior_Snow_Dragon_Part_2_of_2
Rupert Penry-Jones - CBeebies Bedtime Story #5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rupert Penry-Jones reading "Charlie Cook's Favourite Book" by Julia Donaldson. Original airdate: 7 November, 2008
http://wn.com/Rupert_Penry-Jones_CBeebies_Bedtime_Story_5
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rupert reads the cbeebies bedtime story
http://wn.com/Rupert_Penry_Jones_CBeebies_Bedtime_Story
John Barrowman Bedtime Story - Bumposaurus
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
John Barrowman reading Bumposaurus on the Monday edition of BBC's Bedtime Story
http://wn.com/John_Barrowman_Bedtime_Story_Bumposaurus
Bedtime Story
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The Wiggly Wobbly Boat Ride, Written by William Van Horn. Adapted to video by myself and my son Arthur. The book is still available from Amazon.
http://wn.com/Bedtime_Story
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers Grimm.
Part 2 is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZ1a9_lEA0
http://wn.com/Rupert_Penry-Jones_Jackanory_Junior_Part_1
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers Grimm.
Part 1 is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSKrCymm2E
http://wn.com/Rupert_Penry-Jones_Jackanory_Junior_Part_2
Rupert Interview On This Morning 2nd Feb 2009
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Here is the an interview with Rupert Penry-Jones on This Morning 2nd Feb 2009.
http://wn.com/Rupert_Interview_On_This_Morning_2nd_Feb_2009
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story part1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Rupert reading the Cbeebies bedtime story
http://wn.com/Rupert_Penry_Jones_CBeebies_Bedtime_Story_part1
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Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 2 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayall_Georgie's_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_2
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 3 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayall_Georgie's_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_3
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 1 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayall_Georgie's_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_1
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 4 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_4
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 5 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_5
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 6 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_6
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 7
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 7 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayall_Georgie's_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_7
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 8
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:50
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 8 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_8
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 9
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 9 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_9
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:54
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Part 10 (of 10)
http://wn.com/Jackanory_Rik_Mayal_Georgies_Marvellous_Medicine_Part_10
M83 - Car Chase Terror
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The editiing is poor I know, it's made up of different clips. But i's a good piece of music even if you don't watch the images I put to it.
http://wn.com/M83_Car_Chase_Terror
Scenery
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Some real and some fake pictures put to dramatic music
http://wn.com/Scenery
Poor Snowman
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A video from Youtube with editing for effect. I can't find the original video again.
But really, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4njzYirx4
http://wn.com/Poor_Snowman
Capital Cities Of The World
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
As Title, set to music
20
Afganistan - Kabul
Iceland - Reykjavk
Ireland - Dublin
Mongolia - Ulan Bator
Paraguay -Asuncion
Russia - Moscow
Switzerland - Bern
Slovakia - Bratislava
Turkey - Ankara
Venezuela - Caracas
Tunisia - Tunis
Belgium - Brussels
France - Paris
Canada - Ottowah
Figi - Suva
Italy - Rome
Moldova - Chisinau
Japan - Tokyo
Ukraine - Kiev
Sweden - Stockholm
http://wn.com/Capital_Cities_Of_The_World
Capital Cites Of The World 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
China - Beijing
Czech - Republic Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
England - London
Germany - Berlin
Greece - Athens
Ireal - Jerusalem
Nigeria - Abuja
Romania - Bucharest
Sri Lanka - Columbo
Finland - Helsinki
Costa Rica - San Jose
Austri - Vienna
Australia - Canberra
Bulgaria - Sofia
Argentina - Buenos Ares
Estonia - Tallinn
Chile - Santiago
Croatia - Zagreb
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
http://wn.com/Capital_Cites_Of_The_World_2
Capital Cities Of The World 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Brunei Darussalam - Bandar Seri Begawan
Armenia - Yerevan
Barbados - Bridgetown
Bolivia - Sucre
Algeria - Algiers
Cuba - Havanna
Azerbaijan -Baku
Mexico - Mexco City
Domincan Republic - Santo Domingo
Columbia - Bogota
Egypt - Cairo
Iraq - Baghdad
Zimbabwe - Harere
Latvia - Riga
Malysia - Kuala Lumpur
Philippines - Manila
Brazil - Brasilia
Portugal - Lisbon
Botswana - Gaborone
Uruguay - Montevideo
http://wn.com/Capital_Cities_Of_The_World_3
Capital Cities Of The World 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:12
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Angola - Luanda
Bahrain - Manama
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Thailand- Bangkok
Equador - Quito
Andorra - Andorra La Vella
Nepal - Katmandu
North Korea - Pyongyang
South Korea - Seoul
India - New Delhi
Yemen - Sanaa
Pakşstan - Islamabad
Norway - Oslo
Poland - Warsaw
Sudan - Khartuom
New Zealand - Wellington
Kenya - Nairobi
Lithuania - Vilnius
Malta - Valleta
Syria - Damascus
http://wn.com/Capital_Cities_Of_The_World_4
Tim Vine Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Always Makes Me Laugh
http://wn.com/Tim_Vine_Song
Tim Vine Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Laddersong
http://wn.com/Tim_Vine_Song
Lady In The Water Intro Story
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
As Title
http://wn.com/Lady_In_The_Water_Intro_Story
Tim Vine Hilarious Joke
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:09
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
As Title
http://wn.com/Tim_Vine_Hilarious_Joke
Steve Harley Cockney Rebel - Cavaliers
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ridiculous video to the classic song
http://wn.com/Steve_Harley_Cockney_Rebel_Cavaliers
Daddy's On A Rocket - I Love You Baby
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
A song
http://wn.com/Daddy's_On_A_Rocket_I_Love_You_Baby
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Sam & Dave - Soul Man
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Lyrics:
Comin to ya on a dusty road
Good lovin I got a truck load
And when you get it you got something
So dont worry cause Im coming
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Got what I got the hard way
And Ill make it better each and every day
So honey dont you fret
Cause you aint seen nothing yet
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Play it steve!
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Listen
I was brought up on a side street
I learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin I just cant stop
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Well grab the rope and Ill pull you in
Give you hope and be your only boyfriend
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Youre a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Rights go to their owners
http://wn.com/Sam_Dave_Soul_Man
Offspring Hit That
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Offspring is Epic it's fully emproved music of hit that.
http://wn.com/Offspring_Hit_That
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Summertime Blues
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Playlist
"Summertime Blues" by Guitar Wolf
Track 8 of 14
http://wn.com/Scott_Pilgrim_vs_the_World_Summertime_Blues
eyedea & abilities - skydiver
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:16
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
from album "By The Throat"
http://wn.com/eyedea_abilities_skydiver
![Life in technicolor ii - Coldplay [NEW ALBUM PROSPEKT'S MARCH 2008]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121129021406im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mzxoLZXF9SI/default.jpg "Life in technicolor ii - Coldplay [NEW ALBUM PROSPEKT'S MARCH 2008]")
Life in technicolor ii - Coldplay [NEW ALBUM PROSPEKT'S MARCH 2008]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The 1st song of the new album Prospekt's March out world wide on November 25th
http://wn.com/Life_in_technicolor_ii_Coldplay_NEW_ALBUM_PROSPEKT'S_MARCH_2008_
Ultrasyd - A Rainbow in a Snowy Night
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
From 8bit Collective
http://wn.com/Ultrasyd_A_Rainbow_in_a_Snowy_Night
Vimeo results:
0:43
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory....
published: 01 Apr 2010
author: Mark Chaudoir Films
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory.
8:10
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. I...
published: 21 Jul 2009
author: David Beris Edwards
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. Introductory announcement by Olchar E. Lindsann. The text was assembled earlier that day by the three of us from bits of old books. My dodgy eyes didn't like reading the small words. Oh well.
1:24
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!...
published: 01 Nov 2010
author: Emma Buchanan
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!
6:01
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN...
published: 16 Mar 2009
author: andrew hetherington
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN
7:02
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vi...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 1 of 2
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vivian French
Illustrated by Chris Fisher
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 13386
- author: petalingjaya8
7:07
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 2 of 2
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vivian French
Illustrated by Chris Fisher...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Jackanory Junior - Snow Dragon - Part 2 of 2
Adrian Lester reads Snow Dragon
Written by Vivian French
Illustrated by Chris Fisher
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 7072
- author: petalingjaya8
4:23
Rupert Penry-Jones - CBeebies Bedtime Story #5
Rupert Penry-Jones reading "Charlie Cook's Favourite Book" by Julia Donaldson. Original ai...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Penry-Jones - CBeebies Bedtime Story #5
Rupert Penry-Jones reading "Charlie Cook's Favourite Book" by Julia Donaldson. Original airdate: 7 November, 2008
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 17987
- author: petalingjaya8
6:58
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story
Rupert reads the cbeebies bedtime story...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story
Rupert reads the cbeebies bedtime story
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 31911
- author: petalingjaya8
5:50
John Barrowman Bedtime Story - Bumposaurus
John Barrowman reading Bumposaurus on the Monday edition of BBC's Bedtime Story...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
John Barrowman Bedtime Story - Bumposaurus
John Barrowman reading Bumposaurus on the Monday edition of BBC's Bedtime Story
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 102823
- author: petalingjaya8
8:24
Bedtime Story
The Wiggly Wobbly Boat Ride, Written by William Van Horn. Adapted to video by myself and m...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Bedtime Story
The Wiggly Wobbly Boat Ride, Written by William Van Horn. Adapted to video by myself and my son Arthur. The book is still available from Amazon.
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 29306
- author: petalingjaya8
7:29
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 1
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers ...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 1
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers Grimm.
Part 2 is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZ1a9_lEA0
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 11422
- author: petalingjaya8
6:46
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 2
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers ...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Penry-Jones - Jackanory Junior - Part 2
Rupert Penry-Jones reading a reworking of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by the Brothers Grimm.
Part 1 is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSKrCymm2E
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 6221
- author: petalingjaya8
7:51
Rupert Interview On This Morning 2nd Feb 2009
Here is the an interview with Rupert Penry-Jones on This Morning 2nd Feb 2009....
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Interview On This Morning 2nd Feb 2009
Here is the an interview with Rupert Penry-Jones on This Morning 2nd Feb 2009.
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 50131
- author: petalingjaya8
4:59
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story part1
Rupert reading the Cbeebies bedtime story...
published: 28 May 2010
author: petalingjaya8
Rupert Penry Jones: CBeebies Bedtime Story part1
Rupert reading the Cbeebies bedtime story
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 29591
- author: petalingjaya8
Vimeo results:
0:43
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory....
published: 01 Apr 2010
author: Mark Chaudoir Films
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory.
8:10
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. I...
published: 21 Jul 2009
author: David Beris Edwards
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. Introductory announcement by Olchar E. Lindsann. The text was assembled earlier that day by the three of us from bits of old books. My dodgy eyes didn't like reading the small words. Oh well.
1:24
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!...
published: 01 Nov 2010
author: Emma Buchanan
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!
6:01
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN...
published: 16 Mar 2009
author: andrew hetherington
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN
5:51
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 2
Part 2 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 2
Part 2 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 40337
- author: Richmonk10
5:58
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 3
Part 3 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 3
Part 3 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 34468
- author: Richmonk10
5:47
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 1
Part 1 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 1
Part 1 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 107620
- author: Richmonk10
5:53
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 4
Part 4 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 4
Part 4 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 25937
- author: Richmonk10
5:55
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 5
Part 5 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 5
Part 5 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 22786
- author: Richmonk10
5:53
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 6
Part 6 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 6
Part 6 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 25344
- author: Richmonk10
5:53
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 7
Part 7 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayall Georgie's Marvellous Medicine Part 7
Part 7 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 23000
- author: Richmonk10
5:50
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 8
Part 8 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 8
Part 8 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 21561
- author: Richmonk10
5:55
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 9
Part 9 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 9
Part 9 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 17651
- author: Richmonk10
5:54
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 10
Part 10 (of 10)...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Jackanory Rik Mayal Georgies Marvellous Medicine Part 10
Part 10 (of 10)
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 15014
- author: Richmonk10
3:44
M83 - Car Chase Terror
The editiing is poor I know, it's made up of different clips. But i's a good piece of musi...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
M83 - Car Chase Terror
The editiing is poor I know, it's made up of different clips. But i's a good piece of music even if you don't watch the images I put to it.
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 6701
- author: Richmonk10
1:24
Scenery
Some real and some fake pictures put to dramatic music...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Scenery
Some real and some fake pictures put to dramatic music
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 337
- author: Richmonk10
0:36
Poor Snowman
A video from Youtube with editing for effect. I can't find the original video again.
But r...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Poor Snowman
A video from Youtube with editing for effect. I can't find the original video again.
But really, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4njzYirx4
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 120
- author: Richmonk10
2:14
Capital Cities Of The World
As Title, set to music
20
Afganistan - Kabul
Iceland - Reykjavk
Ireland - Dublin
Mongoli...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Capital Cities Of The World
As Title, set to music
20
Afganistan - Kabul
Iceland - Reykjavk
Ireland - Dublin
Mongolia - Ulan Bator
Paraguay -Asuncion
Russia - Moscow
Switzerland - Bern
Slovakia - Bratislava
Turkey - Ankara
Venezuela - Caracas
Tunisia - Tunis
Belgium - Brussels
France - Paris
Canada - Ottowah
Figi - Suva
Italy - Rome
Moldova - Chisinau
Japan - Tokyo
Ukraine - Kiev
Sweden - Stockholm
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 953
- author: Richmonk10
Vimeo results:
0:43
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory....
published: 01 Apr 2010
author: Mark Chaudoir Films
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory.
8:10
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. I...
published: 21 Jul 2009
author: David Beris Edwards
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. Introductory announcement by Olchar E. Lindsann. The text was assembled earlier that day by the three of us from bits of old books. My dodgy eyes didn't like reading the small words. Oh well.
1:24
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!...
published: 01 Nov 2010
author: Emma Buchanan
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!
6:01
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN...
published: 16 Mar 2009
author: andrew hetherington
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN
Youtube results:
2:14
Capital Cites Of The World 2
China - Beijing
Czech - Republic Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
England - London
Germany - Be...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Capital Cites Of The World 2
China - Beijing
Czech - Republic Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
England - London
Germany - Berlin
Greece - Athens
Ireal - Jerusalem
Nigeria - Abuja
Romania - Bucharest
Sri Lanka - Columbo
Finland - Helsinki
Costa Rica - San Jose
Austri - Vienna
Australia - Canberra
Bulgaria - Sofia
Argentina - Buenos Ares
Estonia - Tallinn
Chile - Santiago
Croatia - Zagreb
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 584
- author: Richmonk10
2:15
Capital Cities Of The World 3
Brunei Darussalam - Bandar Seri Begawan
Armenia - Yerevan
Barbados - Bridgetown
Bolivia - ...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Capital Cities Of The World 3
Brunei Darussalam - Bandar Seri Begawan
Armenia - Yerevan
Barbados - Bridgetown
Bolivia - Sucre
Algeria - Algiers
Cuba - Havanna
Azerbaijan -Baku
Mexico - Mexco City
Domincan Republic - Santo Domingo
Columbia - Bogota
Egypt - Cairo
Iraq - Baghdad
Zimbabwe - Harere
Latvia - Riga
Malysia - Kuala Lumpur
Philippines - Manila
Brazil - Brasilia
Portugal - Lisbon
Botswana - Gaborone
Uruguay - Montevideo
- published: 20 Jul 2012
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2:12
Capital Cities Of The World 4
Angola - Luanda
Bahrain - Manama
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Thailand- Bangkok
Equador - Quito
A...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Capital Cities Of The World 4
Angola - Luanda
Bahrain - Manama
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Thailand- Bangkok
Equador - Quito
Andorra - Andorra La Vella
Nepal - Katmandu
North Korea - Pyongyang
South Korea - Seoul
India - New Delhi
Yemen - Sanaa
Pakşstan - Islamabad
Norway - Oslo
Poland - Warsaw
Sudan - Khartuom
New Zealand - Wellington
Kenya - Nairobi
Lithuania - Vilnius
Malta - Valleta
Syria - Damascus
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 354
- author: Richmonk10
3:00
Tim Vine Song
Always Makes Me Laugh...
published: 20 Jul 2012
author: Richmonk10
Tim Vine Song
Always Makes Me Laugh
- published: 20 Jul 2012
- views: 23914
- author: Richmonk10
2:36
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Lyrics:
Comin to ya on a dusty road
Good lovin I got a truck load
...
published: 06 Aug 2012
author: The Geek Show
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Sam & Dave - Soul Man
Lyrics:
Comin to ya on a dusty road
Good lovin I got a truck load
And when you get it you got something
So dont worry cause Im coming
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Got what I got the hard way
And Ill make it better each and every day
So honey dont you fret
Cause you aint seen nothing yet
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Play it steve!
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Listen
I was brought up on a side street
I learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin I just cant stop
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Well grab the rope and Ill pull you in
Give you hope and be your only boyfriend
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Youre a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Im a soul man
Rights go to their owners
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 552520
- author: The Geek Show
2:49
Offspring Hit That
Offspring is Epic it's fully emproved music of hit that....
published: 06 Aug 2012
author: The Geek Show
Offspring Hit That
Offspring is Epic it's fully emproved music of hit that.
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 241930
- author: The Geek Show
2:37
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Summertime Blues
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Playlist
"Summertime Blues" by Guitar Wolf
Track 8 of 14...
published: 06 Aug 2012
author: The Geek Show
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Summertime Blues
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Playlist
"Summertime Blues" by Guitar Wolf
Track 8 of 14
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 20359
- author: The Geek Show
4:16
eyedea & abilities - skydiver
from album "By The Throat"...
published: 06 Aug 2012
author: The Geek Show
eyedea & abilities - skydiver
from album "By The Throat"
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 73337
- author: The Geek Show
4:08
Life in technicolor ii - Coldplay [NEW ALBUM PROSPEKT'S MARCH 2008]
The 1st song of the new album Prospekt's March out world wide on November 25th...
published: 06 Aug 2012
author: The Geek Show
Life in technicolor ii - Coldplay [NEW ALBUM PROSPEKT'S MARCH 2008]
The 1st song of the new album Prospekt's March out world wide on November 25th
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 2443832
- author: The Geek Show
3:01
Ultrasyd - A Rainbow in a Snowy Night
From 8bit Collective...
published: 06 Aug 2012
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Ultrasyd - A Rainbow in a Snowy Night
From 8bit Collective
- published: 06 Aug 2012
- views: 738
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Vimeo results:
0:43
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory....
published: 01 Apr 2010
author: Mark Chaudoir Films
Jackanory
Client: BBC
I directed this promo for the re-launch of children's favourite Jackanory.
8:10
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. I...
published: 21 Jul 2009
author: David Beris Edwards
Jackanory
A performance from last year's PNA Anti-Festival in which I am flanked by Amy and Ellie. Introductory announcement by Olchar E. Lindsann. The text was assembled earlier that day by the three of us from bits of old books. My dodgy eyes didn't like reading the small words. Oh well.
1:24
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!...
published: 01 Nov 2010
author: Emma Buchanan
Jackanory
Maya tells an exciting story!
6:01
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN...
published: 16 Mar 2009
author: andrew hetherington
Jackanory Studio Visit: 1RN
The Jackanory visits Jonathan Saunders photo studio - 1RN
photo: AP / Sepahnews
27 Nov 2012
WASHINGTON -- The drone wars are here. While President Obama ponders new legal and moral guidelines to govern America's growing use of armed robot aircraft, the world outside the White House is engaged in a revolutionary frenzy of building, arming and flying killer drones ... More than 50 countries operate surveillance drones and, increasingly, are fitting them with weapons. The U.S ... spy drone was shot down last December ... On Oct ... 988 miles ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
27 Nov 2012
M23 rebels controlling the eastern city of Goma in the DR Congo have said they are not about to withdraw as demanded by regional leaders. The rebels said on Tuesday there were still in charge of Goma, just hours after General Aronda Nyakairima, the head of the Ugandan military, was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that their leader, Sultani Makenga, had told him he would pull out of Goma and Sake ... 276 Source. ... Share ... News ... ;">....(size: 17.7Kb)
photo: UN / Jan Golinski
27 Nov 2012
Doha conference is warned that climate models do not yet take account of methane in thawing permafrost. Frozen ground in Siberia. Permafrost covers nearly a quarter of the northern hemisphere. Photograph. Francis Latreille/Corbis. The United Nations sounded a stark warning on the threat to the climate from methane in the thawing permafrost as governments met for the second day of climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
photo: AP / George Osodi
25 Nov 2012
Twin suicide car bombs exploded Sunday at a church inside one of Nigeria's top military bases, killing at least 11 people and wounding another 30 in an embarrassing attack showing the continued insecurity that haunts Africa's most populous nation ... This attack in Jaji on Sunday, however, happened inside a barracks home to the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, one of the country's most important military colleges ... Gen ... ___ ... ....(size: 4.1Kb)
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
28 Nov 2012
By Victor Kotsev. Thursday is shaping up as a big day in Palestinian history. Exactly 65 years after the United Nations resolution partitioning British Mandatory Palestine was adopted (and rejected at the time by the Arabs), the General Assembly will vote on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's proposal for non-member state status for Palestine within the borders of the period between the 1948 and the 1967 wars ... Â. Palestinian horizon....(size: 16.8Kb)
The Independent
08 Nov 2012
Cheery-faced, with kind eyes and exquisite comic timing, Joe Melia enriched a huge number of stage and screen productions in his 40-year career, from surrealist comedy to crime drama ... "No!". Touring with the revue Oom-Pah-Pah the following year was a less amusing experience ... His television and film career was even more eclectic, from playing a lovesick gangster in Sweeney! (1976) to regular turns in the Jackanory chair ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)
The Guardian
07 Nov 2012
Outstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ... Photograph. PA ... He then played two significant "take-over" roles in long-running hits ... Television work ranged from an ideally confidential storyteller on the children's programme Jackanory to a regular slot on series such as A Very Peculiar Practice and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (he was Mr Prosser) in the 1980s ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
Business Insider
05 Nov 2012
Trevor Abrahmsohn has sold houses to everyone from Ringo Starr to Saudi princes. Now he is preparing for the biggest deal of his life ... Many an estate agent has the odd anecdote about a sneaky gazumping or conveyancing dispute ... They spun ... To this end, he still dresses more like a bank clerk than a big shot, as well as driving the smallest possible car into which he can cram both himself and his Jackanory-sized property brochures ... SELLERS ... ....(size: 13.0Kb)
The Independent
31 Oct 2012
Daphne Slater was just 19 when the critics praised her Juliet at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon ... Slater's talents were later transposed to BBC television, as it began to dramatise the English literary canon in serial form ... She returned to minor character roles on television, in plays and series such as Callan (1969) and the sitcom Our Man at St Mark's (1966), as well as being an early Jackanory storyteller (1967) ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)
The Guardian
22 Oct 2012
Farm in Pontefract becomes the UK base for a successful American anti-bullying campaign. It's all about being square in a round world, reports Lewis K Cooper. Bullies can be frightening if you don't conform. Photograph. Czarek Sokolowski/AP ... She says. ... The real thing in Ponty. Photograph ... Visitors to the Copley's farm will get to hear Spookley's story Jackanory style in the field before searching for him in the giant pumpkin patch ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
Digital Spy
19 Oct 2012
The Guardian
17 Oct 2012
Actor who made her name during the early years of drama on television ... Photograph. Daily Mail/Rex/Alamy/Alamy ... The rest is not silence, exactly, but the odd sighting throughout the 1960s – in Jackanory, The Man in the Iron Mask, Callan, Our Man at St Mark's (with Donald Sinden) – then as the Old Queen Mary in Glenda Jackson's Elizabeth R (1971), in ITV's Sunday Night Theatre (1969-73) and finally in the series Shadows (1975) ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
noodls
24 Sep 2012
Leader, Chairman, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,. You have in front of you the full text & content of our Culture, Arts & Leisure Paper, this isn't going to be like Jackanory; I'm not going to ask you to sit comfortably while I read what's in front of you - I am going to tell you why it is important. It was Mahatma Gandhi who said - A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people ... - Marcus Garvey - said....(size: 12.0Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
21 Aug 2012
As a leading QC leaves his partner for a much younger colleague, what is the truth about love and lust in chambers? ... BBC ... Readers were invited to guess which top City law firm partner claimed £350 on expenses for prostitutes, which female lawyers were involved in a party punch-up over their married boss, and which Scottish legal bigwig enjoyed cross-dressing and being read Jackanory-style stories by his long-suffering assistant ... ....(size: 19.9Kb)
Irish Times
30 Jul 2012
MARY HANNIGAN ... And that was only Day One ... So yesterday, switching over for the second half of Cork v Waterford did the trick. nicely revitalised ... On Day Two, mark you ... Speaking of which. Thanks to that nice lady the BBC uses to explain Olympic sports to us, her tone a little like a story-teller from Jackanory, there���s now nothing we don���t know about these sports we only see once every four years ... Quirky, that ... Fair play....(size: 5.3Kb)
The Guardian
23 Jul 2012
Stage and screen actor known for his roles in The Three Musketeers and Young Winston. Simon Ward as Churchill in Young Winston, 1972, directed by Richard Attenborough. Photograph. Sportsphoto/Allstar ... After the film's release a year later, Ward found himself a star on several continents ... On television, he appeared alongside Milo O'Shea in Bloomsday (1964) and had a stint as a Jackanory storyteller (1967-68) ... (1968) ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Daily Mail
19 Jul 2012
Shares of the London Stock Exchange were suddenly all the rage just before the close as rumours of a bid from the Far East swept dealing rooms ... The jackanory comes after the LSE recently agreed a tie-up with SGX to allow cross trading of its largest securities. Under terms of the agreement, members of the SGX will be able to buy and sell Footsie shares. In return, LSE members will be able to trade 36 Singapore securities ... . More... ....(size: 9.5Kb)
The Daily Mail
29 Jun 2012
This charming man. Nigel, now 60, has made a career playing high-class rogues ... He just needs to look down. His left wrist is deformed and, he says, ‘it almost looks as if it is hanging off’ ... My wrist never really mended properly and is still a mess ... He flew back to London immediately after the awards to read a story on children’s TV show Jackanory. ‘I rather wish I had turned down Jackanory,’ he says ruefully....(size: 12.4Kb)
| Jackanory | |
|---|---|
| File:Jackanory-1960s.jpg 250px A title frame from the 1960's (top, the same font continued to be used throughout the 1970s) and the 2006 version (bottom). |
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| Genre | Children's television |
| Format | Children's story-telling |
| Created by | Joy Whitby |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 3,500+ |
| Production | |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC1 (1965–1996) CBBC (2006) |
| Picture format | 405-line (1965–1969) PAL (576i) (1969–date) |
| Original run | 13 December 1965 (1965-12-13) – 24 March 1996 (1996-03-24) |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Jackanory Playhouse Jackanory Junior |
Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap-o'-Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 24 March 1996, clocking up around 3,500 episodes in its 30-year run. The show returned on 27 November 2006 for two one-off stories.
The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair. From time to time the scene being read would be illustrated by a specially commissioned still drawing, often by Quentin Blake. Usually a single book would occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes, from Monday to Friday.
A few Jackanory stories took the form of a play rather than stories being read, in a series of thirty minute fully cast and costumed dramas entitled Jackanory Playhouse. These included a dramatisation by Philip Glassborow of the comical A. A. Milne story "The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh."
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Title[link]
The show's title comes from an old English nursery rhyme:
- I'll tell you a story
- About Jack a Nory;
- And now my story's begun;
- I'll tell you another
- Of Jack and his brother,
- And now my story is done.[1]
The rhyme was first recorded when published in The Top Book of All, for little Masters and Misses around 1760.[1]
Revival[link]
In November 2006 Jackanory returned with comedian John Sessions as the revived programme's first narrator reading The Lord of the Rings parody Muddle Earth, written by Paul Stewart (and illustrator Chris Riddell). The second narrator was Sir Ben Kingsley, reading The Magician of Samarkand by Alan Temperley. They were broadcast in three 15 minute slots on CBBC and BBC One and later repeated in entirety on BBC One on consecutive Sundays [1] The readings of Muddle Earth were heavily accompanied by animation and featured actors speaking lines (all animated characters were voiced by John Sessions, also voicing Joe's parts when he wasn't present.), leading to criticism that the spirit of the original programme, a single voice telling a tale with minimal distractions, had been lost. The Magician of Samarkand was a similar production, without additional actors speaking lines; Ben Kingsley read not just the story, but also the lines of all the characters. Both of these stories were produced and directed by Nick Willing.[2][3]
Rather than a series of books taking a particular time slot consecutively for a number of weeks in the year, it is envisaged that new readings will be dropped into the schedule as specials at irregular intervals.
Both stories were released on DVD in their entirety with added bonus features (galleries with images from the stories and a behind-the-scenes film for Muddle Earth)
[edit] Jackanory Junior
A version of Jackanory for younger children—called Jackanory Junior—is shown on CBeebies.[4]
Stories[link]
- Little House in the Big Woods, read by Red Shiveley [2]
- Farmer Boy, read by Richard Monette [3]
- Cap of Rushes, read by Lee Montague [4]
- Mr. & Mrs. Vinegar, read by Lee Montague [5]
- Master of All Masters, read by Lee Montague [6]
- Tom Thumb, read by Lee Montague [7]
- Dick Whittington, read by Lee Montague [8]
- The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit, written by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller [9]
- How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, written by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller [10]
- Wise Owl's Story, by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller [11]
- Squirrel Goes Skating, written by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller [12]
- Little Grey Rabbit's Christmas, written by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller [13]
- The Snow Queen, written by Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Anna Home, read by Enid Lorimer [14]
- The Wonderful Tar Baby, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne [15]
- Brer Rabbit Makes a Fool of Brer Fox, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne [16]
- Brer Rabbit Steals the Peas, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne [17]
- Brer Rabbit Goes Calling on Mrs. Goose, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne [18]
- Brer Rabbit Does Some Shopping, an Uncle Remus story, read by George Browne [19]
- Mary Poppins Comes Back, written by P.L. Travers, read by Hattie Jacques [20]
- The Musicians of Bremen Town, written by the Brothers Grimm, read by Dilys Hamlett [21]
- The Frog Prince, written by the Brothers Grimm, read by Dilys Hamlett [22]
- The Goose Girl, written by the Brothers Grimm, read by Dilys Hamlett [23]
- Pippi Longstocking (1968), written by Astrid Lindgren adapted by David Coulter, read by Joyce Grenfell
- Rumpelstiltskin, written by the Brothers Grimm, read by Dilys Hamlett [24]
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses, written by the Brothers Grimm, read by Dilys Hamlett [25]
- Gulliver's Travels, written by Jonathan Swift, read by Alfred Marks [26]
- Gulliver in Space, written by J.G. Ballard, read by Alfred Marks [27]
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford
- The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford [28]
- The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford [29]
- The Tale of Mr. Tod, written by Beatrix Potter, read by Margaret Rutherford [30]
- Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Ann Way (7 November 1966) [31]
- Queen of the Crows, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Ann Way (8 November 1966) [32]
- Mrs. Pepperpot Buys Macaroni, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Ann Way (9 November 1966) [33]
- Mrs. Pepperpot Tries to Please Her Husband, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Ann Way (10 November 1966) [34]
- The Ski-Race, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Ann Way (11 November 1966) [35]
- Mrs Pepperpot to the Rescue, written by Alf Prøysen, read by Patsy Rowlands (20 November 1970) [36]
- The Spider's Palace, written by Richard Hughes, read by: Gordon Rollings (1966) [37]; Bernard Cribbins (1967)
- The Dark Child, written by Richard Hughes, read by: Gordon Rollings (1966) [38]; Bernard Cribbins (1967)
- Living in W'ales, written by Richard Hughes, read by: Gordon Rollings (1966) [39]; Bernard Cribbins (1967)
- The Magic Glass, written by Richard Hughes, read by: Gordon Rollings (1966) [40]; Bernard Cribbins (1967)
- The Invitation, written by Richard Hughes, read by: Gordon Rollings (1966) [41]; Bernard Cribbins (1967)
- Finn Family Moomintroll, written by Tove Jansson, adapted by Philip Bate, read by Mai Zetterling [42]
- A Bear Called Paddington, written by Michael Bond, read by Thora Hird [43]
- The Happy Lion, written by Louise Fatio, read by Bridget Searle [44]
- The Happy Lion Roars, written by Louise Fatio, read by Bridget Searle [45]
- Three Happy Lions, written by Louise Fatio, read by Bridget Searle [46]
- The Happy Lion in Africa, written by Louise Fatio, read by Bridget Searle [47]
- Emil and the Detectives, written by Erich Kästner, translated by Eileen Hall, adapted by David Coulter, read by Lee Montague [48]
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl, read by Bernard Cribbins [49]
- James and the Giant Peach, written by Roald Dahl, read by Bernard Cribbins [50]
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, written by Roald Dahl, read by Elaine Stritch
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, read by Bernard Cribbins [51]
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, read by Bernard Cribbins [52]
- Through the Looking-Glass, written by Lewis Carroll, read by Bernard Cribbins [53]
- The Bread Bin, written by Joan Aiken, read by Bernard Cribbins [54]
- The Hobbit, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, read by Bernard Cribbins [55]
- Arabel's Tree House, written by Joan Aiken, read by Bernard Cribbins [56]
List of readers[link]
http://wn.com/Jackanory
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| Rik Mayall | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Richard Michael Mayall |
| Born | (1958-03-07) 7 March 1958 (age 54) Harlow, Essex, England |
| Medium | Television, film, stand up comedy |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Genres | Black comedy, Physical comedy |
| Influences | Monty Python, Derek and Clive, Rowan Atkinson |
| Influenced | David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Stewart Lee |
| Spouse | Barbara Robbin (m. 1985-present, 3 children) |
| Notable works and roles | Rick in The Young Ones Richie Richard in Bottom The Comic Strip Presents... Alan B'stard in The New Statesman Richie Twat in Guest House Paradiso |
| Emmy Awards | |
| Outstanding Voice-Over Performance 1997 The Willows in Winter |
|
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. Such notability has led him to appear in sitcoms such as The Young Ones, Blackadder, The New Statesman, and Bottom and even onto the big screen in comedy films such as Drop Dead Fred and Guest House Paradiso.
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Early life[link]
Mayall, the second of four children, was born in Harlow, Essex[1] to John and Gillian Mayall. He has an older brother, Anthony, and two younger sisters, Libby and Kate.[2] When he was three years old, Mayall and his parents — who taught drama — moved to Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, where he spent the rest of his childhood and performed in his parents' plays. After attending the King's School, Worcester, Mayall went to the Victoria University of Manchester in 1976 to study drama, where he befriended his future comedy partner Ade Edmondson. He also met Ben Elton and Lise Mayer, with whom he later co-wrote The Young Ones.
Career[link]
Edmondson and Mayall gained their reputation at the Comedy Store, from 1980. The double act, "20th Century Coyote", became popular. Mayall also developed solo routines using characters such as Kevin Turvey and a pompous anarchist poet named Rick. This led to Edmondson and Mayall, along with Comedy Store compere Alexei Sayle and other upcoming comedians including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, French and Saunders, Arnold Brown and Pete Richens, to set up their own comedy club called "The Comic Strip" in the Raymond Revue Bar, a strip club. Mayall's popularity led to a regular slot for Kevin Turvey on A Kick Up the Eighties, first broadcast in 1981. He appeared as "Rest Home" Ricky in Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He played Dentonvale's resident attendant as the love interest to Nell Campbell's Nurse Ansalong.
Mayall's television appearances as Kevin Turvey in 1977 along with Johnathan PP Seller warranted a mockumentary based on the character entitled Kevin Turvey — The Man Behind The Green Door, broadcast in 1982. The previous year, he appeared in a bit role in An American Werewolf in London. His stage partnership with Edmondson continued, often appearing together as "The Dangerous Brothers", hapless daredevils whose hyper-violent antics foreshadowed their characters in Bottom. Mayall also made a cameo appearance in the 1983 gothic horror film, The Keep directed by Michael Mann. Channel 4 offered the Comic Strip group six short films, which became the Comic Strip Presents..., debuting on 2 November 1982. The series, which continued sporadically for many years, saw Mayall play a wide variety of roles. It was known for anti-establishment humour and for parodies such as Bad News On Tour, a spoof "rockumentary" starring Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Planer as a heavy metal band.
At the time The Comic Strip Presents... was negotiated, the BBC took an interest in The Young Ones, a sitcom written by Mayall and then-girlfriend Lise Mayer, in the same anarchic vein as Comic Strip. Ben Elton joined the writers. The series was commissioned and first broadcast in 1982, shortly before Comic Strip. Mayall played Rik, a pompous sociology student and Cliff Richard devotee. Despite the sitcom format, Mayall maintained his double-act with Edmondson, who starred as violent punk Vyvyan. Nigel Planer (as hippie Neil) and Christopher Ryan (as "Mike the cool person") also starred, with additional material written and performed by Alexei Sayle. The first series was successful and a second was commissioned in 1984. The show owed a comic debt to Spike Milligan, but Milligan was disapproving of Mayall, and once wrote: "Rik Mayall is putrid - absolutely vile. He thinks nose-picking is funny and farting and all that. He is the arsehole of British comedy." [3]
Becoming a household name[link]
Mayall continued to work on The Comic Strip films. He returned to standup, starring on Saturday Live — a British version of the American Saturday Night Live — first broadcast in 1985. He and Edmondson had a regular section as "The Dangerous Brothers", their earlier stage act. In 1985, Mayall debuted another comic creation. He had starred in the final episode of The Black Adder in 1983 as "Mad Gerald". He returned to play Lord Flashheart in the Blackadder II-episode entitled "Bells". A descendant of this character, Squadron Commander Flashheart, was in the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Private Plane". In the same episode, he was reunited with Edmonson, who played German flying ace Baron von Richtofen the "Red Baron", in a scene where he comes to rescue Captain Blackadder from the Germans. Nearly a decade later, Mayall also appeared in Blackadder: Back & Forth as Robin Hood.
In 1986, Mayall joined with Planer, Edmondson and Elton to star in Filthy Rich & Catflap as Richie Rich in what was billed as a follow-up to The Young Ones. The idea of "Filthy Rich and Catflap" was in reaction to comments Jimmy Tarbuck made about the "Young Ones". The series primary focus was to highlight the "has been" status of light entertainment. While Mayall received positive critical reviews, viewing figures were poor and the series was never repeated on the BBC. In later years, release on video, DVD and repeats on UK TV found a following. Mayall suggested the series did not last because he was uncomfortable acting in an Elton project, when they had been co-writers on The Young Ones.[4] 1987 saw Mayall co-star with Edmondson in the ITV sit-com Hardwicke House. Due to adverse reaction of press and viewers, ITV withdrew the series after two episodes.[5] The same year, Mayall had a number one hit in the UK Singles charts when he and his co-stars from The Young Ones teamed with Cliff Richard to record "Living Doll" for the inaugural Comic Relief campaign. Mayall played Rick one last time in the stage show and has supported the Comic Relief cause ever since. He appeared on the children's television series Jackanory. His crazed portrayal of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine proved memorable.[6] However, the BBC received complaints "with viewers claiming both story and presentation to be both dangerous and offensive."[7]
In 1987, Mayall played fictional Conservative MP Alan Beresford B'Stard in the sitcom The New Statesman for Yorkshire Television, written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The character was a satire of Tory MPs in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1990s. The programme ran for four series — incorporating two BBC specials — between 1987–1994 and was a success critically and in ratings. In a similar vein to his appearance on Jackanory, in 1989, Mayall starred in a series of bit shows for ITV called Grim Tales, in which he narrated Grimm Brothers fairy tales while puppets acted the stories. In the early 1990s Mayall starred in humorous adverts for Nintendo games and consoles. With money from the ads, he bought his house in London which he calls "Nintendo Towers".
1990s[link]
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Adrian Edmondson (left) and Rik Mayall (right) as Eddie and Richie in Bottom
In 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. Here they came up with the idea for Bottom, which they said was a cruder cousin to Waiting for Godot. Bottom was commissioned by the BBC and three series were shown between 1991–1995. Mayall starred as "Richard 'Richie' Richard" alongside Edmondson's "Eddie Elizabeth Hitler". The series featured slapstick violence taken to new extremes. The series gained a strong cult following. In 1993, following the second series, Mayall and Edmondson decided to take a stage show version of the series on a national tour. Bottom: Live was a commercial success, filling large venues. Four additional stage shows were embarked upon in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003, each to great success. The violent natures of these shows saw both Edmondson and Mayall ending up in hospital at various points. A film version, Guest House Paradiso, was released in 1999. A fourth TV series was also written, but not commissioned by the BBC.
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Phoebe Cates (left) and Mayall as Elizabeth and Fred in Drop Dead Fred.
Mayall starred alongside Phoebe Cates in 1991's Drop Dead Fred as the eponymous character, a troublesome imaginary friend reappearing from a woman's childhood. He also appeared in Carry On Columbus (1992) with other alternative comedians. In 1991 he played Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre in the West End, alongside Edmondson (Estragon) and Christopher Ryan (Lucky). Mayall also provided the voice of the character Froglip, the leader of the goblins, in the 1992 animated film adaption of the 1872 children's tale, The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. In 1993, he appeared in Rik Mayall Presents, three individual comedy dramas. Mayall's performances won a Best Comedy Performer award at that year's British Comedy Awards, and a second series of three was broadcast in early 1995. He provided the voice for Little Sod in Simon Brett's How to Be a Little Sod, written in 1991 and adapted as 10 consecutive episodes broadcast on the BBC in 1995. In the early 1990s, he auditioned for the roles of Banzai, Zazu and Timon in The Lion King. He was asked to audition by lyricist Tim Rice. The role of Zazu finally went to his Blackadder co-star Rowan Atkinson.
In 1995 Mayall co-starred in a production of the play Cell Mates, alongside Stephen Fry. Not long into the run, Fry had a nervous breakdown and fled to Belgium, where he remained for several days, and the play closed.[citation needed] In 2007, Mayall said of the incident: "You don't leave the trenches ... selfishness is one thing, being a cunt is another. I mustn't start that war again."[8] Edmondson poked fun at the event during their stage tours. In Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour, after Mayall gave mocking gestures to the audience and insulted their town in a silly voice, Edmondson said "Have you finished yet? It's just I'm beginning to understand why Stephen Fry fucked off." In Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour, after Richie accidentally fondles Eddie, he replies "I see why Stephen Fry left that play." Towards the end of Cell Mates Mayall revealed a replica gun — a prop from the play — to a passer-by in the street. He was cautioned over the incident. Mayall later conceded that this was "incredibly stupid, even by my standards".[9] Since 1999, Mayall was the voice of the black-headed seagull Kehaar in the first and the second season of the animated television series Watership Down.
2000s–present[link]
In 2000, Mayall lent his voice to the PlayStation and Windows PC video game Hogs of War. Also that year, Mayall appeared in the video production of Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod. He joked in the "making of" documentary, which was included on the DVD release, that "the real reason why millions of people want to come and see this is because I'm in it! Me and Jesus!" In 2002, Mayall teamed up with Marks and Gran once more when he starred as Professor Adonis Cnut in the ITV sitcom, Believe Nothing. However, the sitcom failed to repeat the success of The New Statesman and lasted only one series. Following 2003's Bottom: Live tour, Bottom 5: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, Mayall stated that he and Edmondson would return with another tour.[10] Shortly thereafter, however, Edmondson told The Daily Mail that he no longer wished to work on Bottom. This effectively dissolved their nearly 30-year partnership. Edmondson claimed they were "too old" to continue portraying the characters. Edmondson added that, since Mayall had recovered from his coma, he was slower on the uptake and it had become more difficult to work with him, as well as citing that due to taking medication, Mayall had been advised to stop drinking alcohol. However, Edmondson said that the pair remained very close friends.[11]
Mayall voiced Edwin in the BBC show Shoebox Zoo. He released an 'in-character' semi-fictionalised autobiography in September 2005 entitled Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ (ISBN 0-00-720727-1). At the same time, he starred in a new series for ITV, All About George. Mayall reprised the role of Alan B'Stard in 2006 in the play The New Statesman 2006: Blair B'stard Project, written by Marks and Gran. By this time B'Stard had left the floundering Conservatives and become a Labour MP. Following a successful two-month run in London's West End at The Trafalgar Studios in 2007, a heavily re-written version toured theatres nationwide, with Marks and Gran constantly updating the script to keep it topical. However, Mayall succumbed to chronic fatigue and flu in May 2007, and withdrew from the show. Alan B'Stard was played by his understudy, Mike Sherman during his hiatus.
Mayall was cast as the poltergeist Peeves in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first of the Harry Potter films in 2001.[12] He claimed in his semi-autobiographical book "Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ" that he had not been made aware that his scenes had been cut until the full film was officially unveiled at the premiere. He tells the story of this hiring/firing on his second website blog for his 2008 film, Evil Calls: The Raven. For Evil Calls, he shot his role as Winston the Butler in 2002, when the film was titled Alone in the Dark. The film was not completed until 2008 and was released under its new 'Evil Calls' title to distance itself from the Alone in the Dark computer game movie. He may appear in a possible sequel. Mayall provides the voice of the Andrex puppy in the UK TV commercials for Andrex toilet paper, and also has a voice part in the UK Domestos cleaning product adverts.[13] He performs the voice of King Arthur in the children's television cartoon series King Arthur's Disasters, alongside Matt Lucas (Little Britain) who plays Merlin. Mayall also had a recurring role in the Channel Five remake of the lighthearted drama series, Minder.
In September 2009, Mayall played a supporting role in the British television program Midsomer Murders, shown on ITV1 (and made by Meridian Broadcasting) as 'David Roper', a recovering party animal and tenuous friend of the families in and around Chettham Park House.
In April 2010, Motivation Records released[14] Mayall's England Football anthem 'Noble England' for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which he recorded with Coventry producer Dave Loughran.[15] On the track Mayall performs an adapted speech from Shakespeare's Henry V [16] In June 2010 the official BBC Match Of The Day compilation CD (2010 Edition) was released by Sony/Universal featuring Noble England - Track 18, CD2.
In September 2010 Cutey And The Sofaguard was released as an audio book, narrated by Mayall. The book was written by Chris Wade and released by Wisdom Twins Books as a digital download. Mayall told Hound Dawg Magazine that he had the task of voicing 25 different characters. In this same month Mayall played the voice of Roy’s Dad in cult animation Dog Judo. He recorded five episodes all of which exclusively streamed from http://www.dogjudo.com.
In November 2010, Mayall provided narrative for five characters for CDs accompanying books from the publishing house Clickety Books. The books are for children and aid speech and language development by bombarding the child with troublesome sound targets.
Rik has so far recorded introductions and narratives for the titles:Jake the Achy Snake, Corky the Squawky Hawk, Erica the Picky Chicken, Lucky the Plucky Duck and Jacqueline the Black Alpaca. The books are written by Craig Green and illustrated by Sarah-Leigh Wills. The recording and prouction was undertaken by Matt Bernard and Jay Auborn at the Deep Blue Sound studio in Plymouth, UK.
On 5 March 2011, Mayall appeared on Let's Dance For Comic Relief in which he came on stage and attacked Ade Edmondson with a frying pan during his performance of The Dying Swan ballet. Edmondson mentioned backstage that it was the first time in eight years they've done something like that together and claimed Mayall had left his head with a small bump.
In April 2011, Mayall again revived the character of Alan B'Stard to make an appearance in a satirical television advertisement for the No2AV campaign prior to the 2011 voting reform referendum in the UK. The character is shown being elected under the alternative vote system, then using his newly gained position of power to renege on his campaign promises. In his personal life, Rik Mayall does not support the alternative vote. In May of the same year Mayall became the eponymous 'Bombardier' in a TV advertising campaign for Bombardier Bitter in the UK, arguably reviving his Lord Flashheart persona from the UK TV series Blackadder.[17]
Personal life[link]
Family[link]
Since 1985 Mayall has been married to Scottish make-up artist Barbara Robbin, with whom he has three children: Rosie (born 1986), Sidney (born 1988) and Bonnie (born 18 September 1995). The couple met in 1981 while filming A Kick Up The Eighties. At the time, Mayall was in a long-term relationship with Lise Mayer. Mayall and Robbin embarked on a secret affair which lasted until 1985. Mayall and Robbin immediately eloped to Barbados. Mayer would later suffer a miscarriage.[18] Mayall maintains that, despite a longstanding feud, he and Mayer are now friends.[18]
Quad bike accident[link]
On 9 April 1998, Mayall was injured after crashing a quad bike near his home in Devon.[19] Mayall's daughter Bonnie and her cousin had asked him to take them for a ride on the bike — a Christmas gift from his wife — but he refused due to rain, and went alone. Mayall's wife Barbara looked out the window and saw him lying on the ground with the bike, believing he was joking. He was in a coma for several days. Mayall was airlifted to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, with two hematomas and a fractured skull. During the following 96 hours, Mayall was kept sedated to prevent movement which could cause pressure on his brain. His family was warned he could die or have brain damage.[20]
After five days doctors felt it safe to bring Mayall back to consciousness. In his 2005 spoof biography, Mayall claims he "rose from the dead". During Mayall's hospitalisation, the Comic Strip special Four Men in a Car was broadcast for the first time. The film involves Mayall's character being hit by a car. Mayall believed he was held hostage at the hospital. After transfer to hospital in London, he took a taxi home but was taken back that day after being sedated. He was to take medication for a year to prevent epileptic seizures, but stopped taking it, which resulted in him having several epileptic seizures, during one of which he bit through his tongue. He is now on medication for life. Mayall returned to work with voice-over work. His first post-accident job was in the 1998 Jonathan Creek Christmas special, as DI Gideon Pryke. Mayall and Edmondson have joked about this event in stage versions of Bottom, Edmondson quipping: 'If only I'd fixed those brakes properly'. The pair wrote the first draft of their feature film Guest House Paradiso while Mayall was hospitalised. They planned to co-direct but Edmondson took on the duties himself.
Recognition[link]
In the 2005 poll The Comedians' Comedian, Mayall was voted among the top 50 comedy performers of all time.
In 2008, Mayall was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Exeter.[21]
In the 2010 poll "Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians", Mayall was placed 91.
Filmography[link]
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Whoops Apocalypse | Biff | Episode: "Autumn Cannibalism" |
| 1982–1984 | The Young Ones | Rick | 2 series |
| 1983 | The Black Adder | Mad Gerald | Episode: "The Black Seal" |
| 1983–2011 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Various roles | Several episodes and specials (appeares in 18 of the 40 episodes) |
| 1985 | Happy Families | Priest | Episode: "Madeleine" |
| 1986 | Saturday Live | Richard Dangerous | Sketches featuring The Dangerous Brothers |
| 1986 | Blackadder II | Lord Flashheart | Episode: "Bells" |
| 1987 | Filthy Rich & Catflap | Gertrude "Richie" Rich | 1 series |
| 1987–1994 | The New Statesman | Alan Beresford B'Stard | 4 series |
| 1989 | Blackadder Goes Forth | Lord Flashheart | Episode: "Private Plane" |
| 1991–1995 | Bottom | Richard "Richie" Richard | 3 series |
| 1995 | The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends | Tom Thumb (voice) | Episode: "The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse" |
| 1997 | The Canterville Ghost | Reverend Dampier | TV film |
| 1998 | Jonathan Creek | Pryke | Episode: "Black Canary" (Christmas Special) |
| 1999 | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Robin Hood | TV special (one episode) |
| 1999 | Watership Down | Keeyar (voice) | Series 1 and 2 (of 3) only |
| 2002 | Believe Nothing | Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut | 1 series |
| 2009 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Alec Nicholson | Episode: "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" |
| 2009 | Midsomer Murders | David Roper | Episode: "The Creeper" |
Film[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1981 | Eye of the Needle | Sailor | |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London | Man in Pub | |
| 1981 | Shock Treatment | "Rest Home" Ricky | |
| 1986 | Whoops Apocalypse | Specialist Catering Commander | |
| 1987 | Eat the Rich | Micky | Feature film from The Comic Strip Presents... |
| 1991 | Drop Dead Fred | Drop Dead Fred | |
| 1991 | Little Noises | Mathias | |
| 1991 | The Princess and the Goblin | Prince Froglip (voice) | Dubbed voice for the 1992 English-language version |
| 1992 | Carry On Columbus | The Sultan | |
| 1995 | The Snow Queen | The Robber King (voice) | |
| 1997 | Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis | Marty Starr | |
| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | Richard Twat | |
| 1999 | A Monkey's Tale | Gerard the Gormless (voice) | Dubbed voice for the 2000 English-language version |
| 2001 | Kevin of the North (aka Chilly Dogs) | Carter | |
| 2004 | Churchill: The Hollywood Years | Baxter | |
| 2005 | Valiant | Cufflingk (voice) | |
| 2012 | Eldorado | Chef Mario |
Stage[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Bottom Live | Richard "Richie" Richard | Recorded at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton |
| 1995 | Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour | Richard "Richie" Richard | Recorded at the New Theatre in Oxford |
| 1997 | Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island | Richard "Richie" Richard | Recorded at the Hippodrome in Bristol |
| 2001 | Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity | Richard "Richie" Richard | Recorded at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham |
| 2003 | Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour | Richard "Richie" Richard | Recorded at the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend-on-Sea |
References[link]
- ^ NNDB biodata
- ^ Rik Mayall Biography in Film Reference
- ^ From a 2002 BBC Obituary of Spike Milligan, for which the author has been unable to find the original, cited in No Such Thing as Society by Andy McSmith, Constable 2011, page 15 ISBN 978-1-84901-979-8
- ^ Mayall, interviewed for a Comedy Connections profile of The Young Ones
- ^ UK Online website
- ^ Acknowledged here on the BBC News website
- ^ Reported at Television Heaven website
- ^ Interview with Theatre.com 11 January 2007
- ^ Police Rebuke Rik Mayall for 'Stupid' Gun Prank
- ^ The Rik Mayall FAQ
- '^ Article in The Daily Mails "Weekend" supplement (2003)
- ^ "Rik Mayall Acts Up"
- ^ House of Fear.co.uk
- ^ Noble Englands Record Label.
- ^ The Producer of Riks Football Anthem
- ^ Noble England — Riks Football Anthem
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b Interview with Roz Laws, IC Birmingham, 29 December 2002
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/77157.stm
- ^ Interviewed by Michael Owen, You, 21 November 1999
- ^ http://www.exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates/2009/prev_hongrads.shtml
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- Interview with Rik Mayall on Theatre.com
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| Martin Clunes | |
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 Clunes on location for Doc Martin in 2007. |
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| Born | Alexander Martin Clunes (1961-11-28) 28 November 1961 (age 50) Wimbledon, South West London, England |
| Education | Royal Russell School The Arts Educational Schools |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, broadcaster, film director, musician, television personality |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Lucy Aston (1990–97, divorced) Philippa Braithwaite (1997–present) |
| Children | Emily Clunes |
Alexander Martin Clunes (born 28 November 1961) is an English actor and comedian. Clunes is perhaps best known for his roles as Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly, Doctor Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin and the title character in Reggie Perrin.
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Early life[link]
Clunes is the son of the classical actor Alec Clunes, who died of lung cancer when Clunes was eight and a half years old. He has an older sister, Amanda.[1] His mother Daphne, later a board member of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, once worked for Orson Welles.[2] Clunes was educated at two independent secondary schools, the Royal Russell School in Croydon and The Arts Educational Schools, in Chiswick, London.[citation needed]
Career[link]
Clunes served his first role in rep at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester,[3] and his first television appearance came in the 1980s Doctor Who story Snakedance as the spoiled Lon.[3] But a sporadic career led to his supplementing his income as a photo model for Gilbert and George, and he can be seen in their 1983 work World.[citation needed]
He got his first regular television role as one of the sons in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home,[4] and then starred in two series of the sitcom All at No 20.[5]
While Clunes was appearing on stage at the Hampstead Theatre, Harry Enfield came to see him; the acquaintanceship developed into a friendship where Clunes played characters in Enfield's sketch shows.[citation needed] Enfield then recommended Clunes for the role of Gary in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly,[citation needed] written for Enfield by Simon Nye, bringing Clunes his best-known role to date and for which he won a BAFTA television award in 1996.[citation needed] He played the part of Group Captain Barker in the 2-part TV mini-series Over Here that same year.
He has since appeared in films and television shows such as An Evening With Gary Lineker,[citation needed] Staggered (starred and directed),[citation needed] Hunting Venus, The Booze Cruise, Saving Grace, and Jeeves and Wooster. In 1998, he was featured in Sweet Revenge and appeared as Richard Burbage in the Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love. Clunes has also acted frequently for the radio, including a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi.
In 2001, he played Captain Stickles in the BBC adaptation of R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone.
In 2002, he played serial killer John George Haigh in A Is for Acid, and took the lead in ITV's production of Goodbye Mr Chips.[6]
Clunes was one of the eponymous leads in the 2004 ITV romantic comedy-drama William and Mary, which ran for three series, with Julie Graham. Clunes had worked with Julie Graham previously on Dirty Tricks (2000).[7]
His leading role in the ITV comedy drama series Doc Martin from 2004[8] marked a successful change of direction for Clunes. In 2005, his portrayal of the ornery vascular surgeon turned cranky general practitioner won him a nomination for Most Popular Actor in the National Television Awards. The show is produced for ITV by Buffalo Pictures Ltd.[9] the production company he runs in partnership with his wife, Philippa Braithwaite. At the media launch for the third series of Doc Martin in September 2007, Clunes announced that as ITV had not yet commissioned a fourth series, that he planned to take a year's break from work to relax and rediscover his passion for acting, move to the far side of the camera and plans to grow his hair again as he "misses his locks.".[10] The final episode of Series 3 succeeded in attracting nearly 10 million viewers or 40% of audience share.[11] There was, however, mixed reaction from fans to Series 3's dénouement.[12][13][14] In an interview in November 2007 on ITV's GMTV, he promised that there would be a fourth series but not for another year (2009).[15] The fourth series of Doc Martin was broadcast in 2009 and a fifth series commenced broadcasting in September 2011.
In August 2007 he starred in ITV's The Man Who Lost His Head.[16]
Clunes is a regular voice over artist and is the voice of Kipper in the animated children's series Kipper the Dog.
A sponsor of numerous charities, he has made a short online film with Stephen Fry about HIV discrimination for the Terrence Higgins Trust.[17] He is also a patron of the Born Free Foundation and has filmed several adverts for the wildlife charity. He has been involved in Comic Relief which funds Survival International and African Initiatives, two organisations working with the Maasai on indigenous land rights issues.[18]
Clunes also appeared in a television dramatisation of Fungus the Bogeyman playing Jessica White's father.
On 9 November 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bournemouth University.[19]
In January 2008, ITV announced its forthcoming sponsorship opportunities for Autumn 2008, which included Martin Clunes: a man and his dogs, a documentary that sees Martin Clunes charting the family tree of his dogs.[20] There will be a book to accompany this programme, for which Clunes hopes to take the photographs.[21]
From 24 April 2009, Clunes starred on BBC One television in the title role of Reggie Perrin, a re-make of classic 1970s British situation comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. In the same year he appeared in a 3 part ITV series Islands of Britain in which he travelled around several of the country's lesser known islands.
Clunes guest-hosted the comedy panel game show Have I Got News for You in 2010.
In 2011, Clunes voiced the mischievous dog Dudley in the short film Me or the Dog, starring Edward Hogg and directed by Abner Pastoll. Clunes has also appeared in some Churchill advertisements.
Personal life[link]
Clunes' first marriage was to the actress Lucy Aston.[citation needed] They divorced in 1997 and Clunes married future Doc Martin television producer Philippa Braithwaite that same year.[22][23] In 1999, Braithwaite gave birth to their daughter, Emily.[24][25] Clunes lives with his family in Beaminster, Dorset.[26] In 2010, Clunes was named president of the Royal International Horse Show, held annually at the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead. He was also named President of the British Horse Society from 1 June 2011.[27]
Clunes is one of the Patrons of Honour for Dorset-based Children's Hospice, Julia's House.[citation needed] Clunes also supports Weldmar Hospicecare Trust in Dorset.[28] In January 2011, Clunes also became Patron of Animal Care in Egypt - a charity veterinary hospital for working animals in Luxor, Egypt.[29]
Awards[link]
- 1995 – British Comedy Awards, Top TV Comedy Actor : Men Behaving Badly – Gary Strang
- 1996 – BAFTA Awards, Best Comedy Performance : Men Behaving Badly – Gary Strang
- 1999 – Screen Actors Guild Awards, Outstanding Performance by a Cast : Shakespeare in Love – Richard Burbage
- 2007 - Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University
References[link]
- ^ Chips Off The Old Bloke; He made his name behaving badly – Page1 Sunday Herald – 15 December 2002
- ^ Celebrity interview: Martin Clunes – Page3 SouthwestTrains.com
- ^ a b Between The Sheets – No More Mr Nice Guy National Theatre
- ^ Martin Clunes Playlist itv.com
- ^ TV.com – All at No 20 cast list
- ^ Chips Off The Old Bloke; He made his name behaving badly – Page3 Sunday Herald – 15 December 2002
- ^ Dirty Tricks (2000) (TV)
- ^ "Doc Martin" (2004) – Episode list
- ^ Buffalo Pictures [gb]
- ^ The Life of Wylie: Martin Clunes Takes A Break
- ^ Holmwood, Leigh (6 November 2007). "Doc Martin goes out with a bang". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/06/tvratings.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Star Letter, Radio Times, [13th] November, 2007.
- ^ Doc Martin – Page 56 – TV Programmes – Digital Spy Forums
- ^ Amazon.co.uk: Reviews for Doc Martin – Series 3 – Complete: Joe Absolom, Lucy Punch, Carol Catz, Stephanie Cole, Martin Clunes, Ian McNeice, Minkie Spiro, Ben Bolt: DVD
- ^ GMTV interview with Martin Clunes, November 2007.
- ^ "A close encounter with Martin Clunes". The Sunday Star-Times. 28 August 2007. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4181546a1869.html. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ^ Terrence Higgins Trust – Gloves Off – Video – Stephen Fry and Martin Clunes – The Scale of Mimsy
- ^ "Celeb appeal". developments magazine. http://www.developments.org.uk/articles/celeb-appeal/. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- ^ "'Doc Martin' awarded a doctorate". BBC News. 9 November 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7087967.stm. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ ITV Media – ITV inside out
- ^ Memorable Tv: Martin Clunes On Doc Martin
- ^ Telly talk: Clunes enjoys affairs of the heart – Film and tv – Entertainment – Manchester Evening News
- ^ In a taxi with Martin Clunes; The former onscreen lad is now a doting dad – and his schedule is still as hectic. – The Evening Standard (London, UK) – HighBeam Research
- ^ Chloe Scott-Moncrieff in coversation with… Martin Clunes.(Interview) Geographical, April, 2005 by Scott-Moncrieff, Chloe
- ^ Celebrity interview: Martin Clunes – Page2 SouthwestTrains.com
- ^ Around Dorset: Martin Clunes BBC Dorset – 11 October 2004
- ^ Martin Clunes to be next BHS President BHS
- ^ Weldmar Hospicecare Trust web site
- ^ Animal Care in Egypt web site
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| Sheridan Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sheridan Smith (1981-06-25) 25 June 1981 (age 31) Epworth, Lincolnshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress, Singer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Sheridan Smith (born 25 June 1981) is an English actress and singer known for her contributions to the British sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Gavin & Stacey and Benidorm. She is also a critically acclaimed West End theatre actress; winning 2 prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards in 2 consecutive years[1]. In 2011, she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the Musical and, in 2012, received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Doris in the revival of Flare Path.[2][3]
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Early life and career[link]
Smith was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire and from an early age studied dance with the Joyce Mason School of Dancing in Scunthorpe She also trained in movement and dance with Kay Traviss. She attended South Axholme Community School where she studied Performing Arts. She was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre from 1995–2001, performing a number of lead roles in productions such as Bugsy Malone and Into the Woods.
Television and Film[link]
From 1999 to 2000, Smith played Emma, the girlfriend of Antony (Ralf Little) in The Royle Family, but has not appeared in later episodes; she has also played Janet in the long running series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, the girlfriend, then wife, then widow of Johnny (also portrayed by Ralf Little) from 2001 until her departure from the show in 2009.
In 2004, she made a one-episode appearance in Mile High as Suzy, an airport cleaner who was so desperate to become cabin crew, she impersonated a flight attendant. She also featured in The Comic Strip's 2005 episode "Sex Actually" as Angie.
Smith played Cleo Martin in Love Soup and also starred as Michelle, a hypocritical nutritionist, in the sitcom Grownups. The first series aired on BBC Three on 7 May 2006, followed by a second series that started on 5 August 2007 and the third series began filming in October 2008. She has also appeared on The Lenny Henry Show as M.E. Westmocott, a role spoofing the various medical examiners on CSI. In the 2009 Two Pints of Lager Comic Relief special, which crossed over with Grownups, Smith played her characters from both series.[4]
Smith has also appeared in a number of other shows including the BBC's Eyes Down alongside Paul O'Grady in which she played the part of Sandy, and smaller parts in shows such as The Bill and Fat Friends. She featured in the second and third series of another BBC Three sitcom, Gavin & Stacey, co-written by James Corden, as his character Smithy's sister Rudi (also known as Smithy).
Smith guest-starred in the Christmas 2008 episode of Lark Rise to Candleford and appeared on New Year's Day 2009 in "The Grinning Man", a special episode of Jonathan Creek, alongside Alan Davies.[5] She also appeared in The Judas Tree, an Easter special aired on 4 April 2010, playing the same character. She was also a regular in Benidorm series three playing the Liverpudlian, Brandy in 2009.
During 2010 Smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of the BBC show Over the Rainbow. She appeared as a guest on the BBC show The One Show on 3 August 2010.
Sky Arts' Chekhov Comedy Shorts also featured Smith in 2010 when she starred in The Proposal, as Natasha (re-uniting her with Gavin and Stacey actor Mathew Horne).[6] The programme was first shown on 28 November 2010.
Smith will make an appearance in the forthcoming movie Hysteria, which is due to be released in Autumn 2011. Her role will see her taking part in a three-and-a-half-minute orgasm scene.[7] She is also slated for a role in A Fantastic Fear of Everything, an upcoming film starring Simon Pegg.
With the return of Bizarre ER Smith does the voice overs taking over from Freema Agyeman. Smith has been named as part of the cast of the ITV1 film adaption of Daphne du Maurier's novel The Scapegoat.[8]
Radio[link]
Smith played companion Lucie Miller alongside Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in a radio series of Doctor Who, produced by Big Finish and transmitted on BBC 7 from New Year's Eve 2006; the plays returned in a second series released on CD and scheduled for BBC 7 broadcast. A third series of adventures for Lucie and the Doctor aired in March 2009, as weekly half-hour downloads followed by a Christmas Special. She also appeared as Ruby Ruggles in the 2008 radio serial The Way We Live Right Now, and took over the role of Tamsin Trelawny in series 2 of Elephants to Catch Eels on BBC Radio 4.
Theatre[link]
Smith's theatre credits include the musical Into the Woods at London's Donmar Warehouse,[9] and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.[10]
She also played Audrey in the stage production of Little Shop of Horrors at The Menier Chocolate Factory, London, from November 2006 which then moved to The Duke of York's Theatre in March 2007, and due to a very successful run moved again at the end of June 2007 to The New Ambassadors Theatre, its run ended in September 2007. Smith received a nomination for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, for her performance in the show.[11]
Smith appeared as Vanessa in Tinderbox: a Revenge Comedy by Lucy Kirkwood at the Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush, in April 2008.[12]
Smith originated the role of Elle Woods in the musical version of Legally Blonde in its transfer from Broadway to London's West End in December 2009.[13] Ex-Blue boyband member Duncan James played opposite Smith until June 2010, when he was replaced by Richard Fleeshman. Other cast members Sheridan has performed alongside include Aoife Mulholland as Brooke, Denise Van Outen as Paulette, Peter Davison as Professor Callahan.[14] Her performance was well received, the Daily Telegraph describing her as: "blessed with vitality, warmth, great comic timing and sudden moments of touching vulnerability. She is infinitely more likeable than Reese Witherspoon in the film."[15]
Smith was originally supposed to leave Legally Blonde on 23 October 2010, but she extended her run to 8 January 2011, when Susan McFadden took over the role.[16]
For her role in Legally Blonde, Smith won the WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[17] She was also nominated for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress and was the winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[18][19]
Between March and June 2011, she appeared in Trevor Nunn's production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket as Doris, a former barmaid married to a Polish count in the RAF. The production was part of the playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary year celebrations and also starred Sienna Miller and James Purefoy. For this role she won the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role[20], the 2011 Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress[3] and the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[21]
As well as her role in Legally Blonde, Smith also performed the title role in the workshop productions of a new musical adaptation of Bridget Jones' Diary. She has stated that the musical will not reach the stage until 2012, with Smith taking on the title role in what would be the original London cast.[22] On April 5, 2012, it was announced that Smith had decided to pull out of the musical, and would no longer be playing the title role, delaying the production of the show.[23]
Personal life[link]
Smith was in a relationship with James Corden, which ended in June 2009.[24]
On 6 March 2010, in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Smith revealed that she and Scottish actor Ross McCall had begun dating after a 10 year friendship.[25] However she spoke to The Daily Telegraph in August the same year and revealed that they had split up due to the pressure of a long distance relationship.[26]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Anchor Me | Young Jackie | TV movie |
| 2000 | Peaches | Tracey | |
| 2001 | Hawk | Jez | TV movie |
| 2002 | Blood Strangers | Jas Dyson / Claire | TV movie |
| 2008 | Defunct | Cherry La Chav | |
| 2009 | The Friday Night Club | Miranda | TV movie |
| 2011 | Hysteria | Molly "the Lolly" | |
| 2011 | How to Stop Being a Loser | Lisa | |
| 2012 | The Scapegoat | Nina | Post-production |
| 2012 | Tower Block | Becky | Post-production |
| 2012 | A Fantastic Fear of Everything | Catherine | Filming |
| 2012 | Quartet | Unknown | Filming |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Wives and Daughters | Housemaid | Episode: #1.1 |
| 1999 | Dark Ages | Matilda | 5 episodes |
| 1999–2000 | The Royle Family | Emma Kavanagh | 3 episodes |
| 2000 | Heartbeat | Lyn | Episode: "A Shot in the Dark" |
| 2000 | Where the Heart Is | Vicky | Episode: "Modern Love" |
| 2000-2004 | Doctors | Claire / Jackie Leavis | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Holby City | Miranda Locke | 6 episodes |
| 2001 | Always and Everyone | Nurse Practitioner | Episode: #3.12 |
| 2001–2009 | Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Janet / Michelle | 73 episodes |
| 2002 | Fat Friends | Sharon Wormersley | 2 episodes |
| 2003 | The Royal | Francesca Smith | Episode: "Immediate Care" |
| 2003-2004 | Eyes Down | Sandy Beech | 15 episodes |
| 2004 | Mile High | Susie | Episode: #2.10 |
| 2005 | The Bill | Janey Giles | Episode: 315 |
| 2005 | The Lenny Henry Show | Various Roles | 8 episodes |
| 2005 | The Comic Strip | Angie | Episode: "Sex Actually" |
| 2005–2008 | Love Soup | Cleo Martin | 15 episodes |
| 2006–2009 | Grownups | Michelle Booth | 22 episodes |
| 2008–2010 | Gavin & Stacey | Ruth "Rudi" Smith | 7 episodes |
| 2008 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Cinderella Doe | Episode: #2.1 |
| 2009–2010 | Jonathan Creek | Joey Ross | 2 episodes |
| 2009, 2012 | Benidorm | Brandy | 4 episodes, 1 episode (Series 5) |
| 2010 | Chekhov Comedy Shorts | Natasha | Episode: "The Proposal" |
| 2011 | Bizarre ER | Narrator | Unknown episodes |
| 2011 | Little Crackers | Marilyn Smith | Episode: "Sheridan Smith's Little Cracker: The Daltons" |
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award Ceremony | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
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| 2009 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Actress in a Musical | Audrey Little Shop of Horrors |
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| 2010 | Evening Standard Award | Best Actress | Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
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| 2011 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Actress in a Musical | Won | |
| Theatregoers' Choice Award | Best Actress in a Musical | Won | ||
| Evening Standard Award | Best Actress | Doris Flare Path |
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| BroadwayWorld UK Award | Best Featured Actress in a Play | Won | ||
| 2012 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Performance in a Supporting Role | Won |
References[link]
- ^ http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/35848/matilda-the-musical-wins-seven-gongs-at-the
- ^ Oliver Awards Best Actress in a Musical, The Society of London Theatre, http://www.olivierawards.com/nominations/view/item114046/Best-Actress-in-a-Musical/, retrieved 2011-03-14
- ^ a b "Frankenstein stars win Evening Standard Theatre Awards". BBC News. 20 November 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15797668. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ "When Janet Met Michelle". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j6l1t. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
- ^ "Jonathan Creek returns to BBC One". BBC Press Office. 2008-04-06. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/06_june/03/jonathan_creek.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ "'Chek' out Isle actress Sheridan Smith's latest TV Proposal". This is Scunthorpe. 2010-11-12. http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Chek-Isle-actress-Sheridan-s-latest-TV-Proposal/article-2881021-detail/article.html. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ "Sheridan Smith to film three-and-a-half minute-long orgasm scene". Mirror Newspaper. 2010-11-12. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/11/12/sheridan-smith-to-film-three-and-a-half-minute-long-orgasm-scene-115875-22710347/. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ Guest, Alex (7 November 2011). "Matthew Rhys to star in ITV1 film of du Maurier's The Scapegoat". TV Pixie. http://tvpixie.com/tv-news/2011/11/07/matthew-rhys-star-itv1-film-du-mauriers-scapegoat. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ Wolf, Matt (2008-03-27). "Q&A: Sheridan Smith". Broadway.com. Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20080201015705/http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3006662. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ "The British Theatre Guide: News for 7th May 2006". British Theatre Guide. 2008-07-05. http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/N070506.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ Wolf, Matt (2008-02-07). "Hairspray, Parade Lead Olivier Noms; War Horse Rides High Among Plays". Broadway.com. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20080208132736/http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3009423. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ "The What's On / Productions: Tinderbox". Bush Theatre Website. http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/productions%5Ctinderbox.html. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ "Sheridan Smith Nabs Legally Blonde's Elle???". Whatsonstage.com. 16 March 2009. http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8831234885278.
- ^ "Duncan James Gets Legal with Sheridan Smith???". Whatsonstage.com. 16 March 2009. http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=207&story=E8831237548958&title=Duncan+James+Gets+Legal+with+Sheridan+Smith%3F%3F%3F.
- ^ Davies, Serena (2010-01-19). "Sheridan Smith: a West End star is born – Telegraph". London: telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/7028571/Sheridan-Smith-a-West-End-star-is-born.html. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ^ Sheridan Smith Extends in West End Legally Blonde to Jan '11 broadwayworld.com, 26 August 2010
- ^ Full List: 2011 Whatsonstage.com Award Winners whatsonstage.com, 20 February 2011
- ^ Shortlist Announced for 2010 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards playbill.com
- ^ Legally Blonde, Into the Woods, Clybourne Park, After the Dance Among Olivier Award Winners in London
- ^ http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/35848/matilda-the-musical-wins-seven-gongs-at-the
- ^ http://broadwayworld.com/article/2011-BWW-UK-Award-Winners-Announced-ROCK-OF-AGES-GHOST-WIZARD-and-PHANTOM-All-Win-20111205
- ^ Smith to Depart West End's Legally Blonde 10/23 broadwayworld.com, 23 July 2010
- ^ Bridget Jones musical plunged into confusion as Sheridan Smith pulls out of show
- ^ Armstrong, Stephen (2009-12-27). "Sheridan Smith drops the chav act for Legally Blonde - Times Online". London: timesonline.co.uk. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article6966594.ece. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ Woods, Judith (2010-03-06). "'I've found my inner girl': actress Sheridan Smith glams it up for her role in Legally Blonde - Daily Mail". London: dailymail.co.uk. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1254848/Sheridan-Smith-glams-role-Legally-Blonde--Ive-inner-girl.html. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ Auld, Tim (2010-08-01). "Next stop Bridget Jones". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7910373/Sheridan-Smith-next-stop-Bridget-Jones.html. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
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| Name | Smith, Sheridan |
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| Short description | Actress |
| Date of birth | 25 June 1978 |
| Place of birth | Epworth, England |
| Date of death | |
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| Rupert Penry-Jones | |
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 Penry-Jones with Sally Hawkins on the set of the 2007 television film Persuasion |
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| Born | Rupert William Penry-Jones (1970-09-22) 22 September 1970 (age 41) London, England, UK |
| Other names | Rupert William Penry Jones Roo |
| Occupation | Actor, Presenter |
| Years active | 1994-present |
| Spouse | Dervla Kirwan (2007-present) 2 children |
Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks, also broadcast under the title MI-5.
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Family life[link]
Penry-Jones was born in London in 1970. His father was Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne and his brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor.
He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London.
In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm.
Career[link]
Penry-Jones trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes's Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet.
He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper class Pip Thompson in a prestigious revival of Arnold Wesker's Chips with Everything on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre.
In 1998 he created the role of the Boy in Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre. In 1999 he joined the RSC at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in 2000, where his performance as Don Carlos won the Ian Charleson Award.
At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J. B. Priestley's thriller "time-play" Dangerous Corner opposite Dervla Kirwan, who played Olwen Peel. The production then successfully transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End.
From July to October 2003 at the National's Cottesloe Theatre he played the leading role of Louis XIV in Nick Dear's historical drama Power.
He returned to the theatre at the end of 2009 playing the role of Carl in Michael Wynne's new play The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 19 November 2009 to 16 January 2010.
On television, he has played barrister Alex Hay in C4's 10 part serial North Square in 2000, Donald McLean in the BBC's 4-part production of Cambridge Spies in 2003 and Grimani in Russell T. Davies' production of Casanova in 2005.
In 2004, he joined the cast in series 3 of the BBC's BAFTA-winning series Spooks. He played the lead role of section leader, Adam Carter for 4 series before leaving the show in 2008. He won ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards for his role in Spooks in 2008.[1] He also went on to play the role of Captain Wentworth in ITV's adaptation of Persuasion.
In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks.
He played Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008.
In 2009, he was cast as the lead in the unaired ABC pilot The Forgotten but was unceremoniously replaced when the pilot was picked up and replaced by Christian Slater. Penrys-Jones was apparently devastated and proceeded to give a number of interviews in the UK in which he attacked the US television industry.
In February 2009, he took the lead in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, a three-part thriller based on a the copycat killings of Jack the Ripper. Whitechapel was the highest performing new drama in 2009.[2] A second series of the show based around the Kray twins was broadcast in autumn 2010; the third series began in January 2012.
He was scheduled to appear alongside other celebrities in Soccer Aid 2010, but broke a bone in his knee during training, putting him in a plaster cast and ruling him out of the final match on 6 June 2010.
Rupert was also recently cast opposite Maxine Peake in a legal drama Silk created by Peter Moffat. The show revolves around two barristers, played by Penry-Jones and Peake who are competing to become QCs.
Rupert also joined the cast of the film Manor Hunt Ball. Filming commenced in late 2010/early 2011.
Despite having the distinction of being repeatedly passed over for membership, Rupert was a presenter at the BAFTA TV Awards in 2012.
Personal life[link]
He married actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a three-year engagement. They met in a theatre production, Dangerous Corner, in 2001. Both appeared in Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes. They have two children: Florence, born 1 May 2004, and Peter, born 8 April 2006.
On BBC 1's Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast in August 2010, it was revealed that Penry-Jones's maternal grandfather William had served with the Indian Medical Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino and that his earlier ancestors had a long-standing connection with the Indian Army. Penry-Jones also discovered that he had Anglo-Indian ancestry from the early 19th century.[3]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Black Beauty | wild-looking young man | |
| Fatherland | SS Cadet Hermann Jost | TV movie | |
| 1995 | Cold Comfort Farm | Dick Hawk-Moniter | TV movie |
| Absolutely Fabulous | boy at party | TV series (1 episode: "The End") | |
| 1996 | Kavanagh QC | Lt. Ralph Kinross | TV series (1 episode: "The Burning Deck") |
| Cold Lazarus | militiaman/policeman | TV mini-series (2 episodes) | |
| The Ring | Gerhard von Gotthard | TV movie | |
| Faith in the Future | Sam | TV series (2 episodes) | |
| 1997 | The Moth | Stanley Thorman | TV movie |
| Jane Eyre | St John Rivers | TV movie | |
| Bent | guard on road | ||
| Food of Love | head office staff | ||
| 1998 | The Tribe | Dietrich | |
| Hilary and Jackie | Piers | ||
| Still Crazy | young Ray | ||
| The Student Prince | The Prince | TV movie | |
| 1999 | Virtual Sexuality | Jake | |
| 2000 | North Square | Alex Hay | TV series (10 episodes) |
| 2001 | Charlotte Gray | Peter Gregory | |
| 2002 | The Four Feathers | Tom Willoughby | |
| A Family Man | Tarquin | ||
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies | Donald Maclean | TV mini-series (4 episodes) |
| Agatha Christie: Poirot | Roddy Winter | TV series (1 episode: "Sad Cypress") | |
| 2004 | Spooks | Adam Carter | TV series (41 episodes: 2004-2008) |
| 2005 | Casanova | Grimani | TV mini-series (3 episodes) |
| Match Point | Henry | ||
| 2006 | Krakatoa: The Last Days | Willem Beijerinck | TV movie |
| 2007 | Persuasion | Captain Wentworth | TV movie |
| Joe's Palace | Richard Reece | TV movie | |
| 2008 | Burn Up | Tom | TV mini-series (2 episodes) |
| The 39 Steps | Richard Hannay | TV movie | |
| 2009 - present | Whitechapel | DI Joseph Chandler | TV series (12 episodes, 2009-present ) |
| 2011 | Silk | Clive Reader | TV series (6 episodes) |
| Manor Hunt Ball | Laurence | pre-production | |
| 2012 | Treasure Island | Squire Trelawney | TV mini-series (2 episodes) |
References[link]
- ^ Allen, Katie (2008-10-06). "Rankin and P. D. James pick up ITV3 awards". theBookseller.com. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/68347-rankin-and-p-d-james-pick-up-itv3-awards.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
- ^ "Most-watched TV shows of 2009". The Guardian (London). 16 December 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2009/dec/15/most-watched-tv-shows-2009. Retrieved 28 Feb 2010.
- ^ Who Do You Think You Are, Series 7, Rupert Penry-Jones
Sources[link]
- Theatre Record and its annual Indexes
- 1996 Jane Eyre-St. John Rivers
- Jones, Alice (13 November 2009). "Rupert Penry-Jones: 'It's nice not to be chasing a bad guy'". The independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/rupert-penryjones-its-nice-not-to-be-chasing-a-bad-guy-1819456.html. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
External links[link]
- Rupert Penry-Jones at the Internet Movie Database
- Rupert Penry-Jones at the bbc.co.uk official Spooks website.
- Rupert Penry-Jones interview: Sunday Times 15 June 2008
- Rupert Penry Jones Network
- Maxine Peake to star in BBC1 legal drama Silk at guardian.co.uk
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| Name | Penry-Jones, Rupert |
| Alternative names | Penry-Jones, Rupert William (birth name) |
| Short description | British actor |
| Date of birth | 22 September 1970 |
| Place of birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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