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Edit Deccan Herald 11 Jun 2016
Hollywood diaries. Kate Beckinsale looks every inch the movie star. Teeth, bright white; tan, perfect; hair, dark, fulsome and tucked up behind her head ... But, while these films have certainly made her a global star and paid her well, one has always suspected Kate, who is the daughter of the late comic actor Richard Beckinsale, hankered after more cerebral roles ... Beckinsale has 2 more films in the can ... Blood Wars ... ....
Kate Beckinsale: 'Social media is the one time that people get to see you and there is no filter on'
Edit Belfast Telegraph 01 Jun 2016
Kate Beckinsale's performance in new Jane Austen movie Love & Friendship is being hailed as her best ever - no wonder she's keen for everybody to watch it ... The daughter of actors (she was just five when her father, Richard Beckinsale died, aged 31), Beckinsale made her small-screen debut in 1991's Devices And Desires, and two years later was cast in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing....
Frances de la Tour: five best moments
Edit The Guardian 19 Jun 2015
Photograph. Murray Close. Catherine Shoard ... But her most prolific big-screen pair-ups were with the late Richard Griffiths, who she played opposite in The History Boys, Harry Potter, Hugo and this lesser-known movie adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s first world war story ... The film version (made, like the fourth series, without Richard Beckinsale) was a peculiar pick and mix of Eric Chappell’s biggest hits, remoulded into a single plot ... ....
Cuts and custody (The National Archives)
Edit noodls 11 Jun 2015
Lennie Godber (Ronnie Barker's Brummie cellmate played by actor Richard Beckinsale) used to sport a fine head of almost shoulder-length hair ... shaved daily, and to have his hair cut as may be necessary for neatness.' Now I'm not sure Godber's mane could be considered neat, but perhaps Richard Beckinsale didn't fancy chopping his locks for the role?....
Frances de la Tour interview: From Shakespeare to Rising Damp, the actress has lit up ...
Edit The Independent 22 May 2015
De la Tour with James Corden, Russell Tovey and Richard Griffiths in 'The History Boys' at the Lyttelton Theatre, London in 2005 (Rex) ... With Richard Beckinsale added to the cast as the medical student Alan, and Rossiter's horrible-but-fascinating character re-named Rigsby, it aired in 1974, ran to four series until 1978, and was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom in BBC's 100 Best Sitcoms poll of 2004....
It's time we reformed the rental market and stood up to the buy-to-let brigade
Edit The Daily Telegraph 12 Jan 2015
The deck has been stacked in favour of buy-to-let landlords for almost 20 years and it’s time to do something about it, says Alex Proud. Leonard Rossiter as landlord Rigsby in Rising Damp, with Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington Photo. BBC ... David Cameron is happy to admit that Barack Obama calls him 'bro' – but men use overfamiliar words because they're not allowed to fight each other any more, says Richard Holt ... 1 ... 2....
‘All British sitcoms are about being trapped’: on the set of Crims, BBC3’s new prison comedy
Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2015
From Porridge to Steptoe, TV comedy loves an odd couple stuck at close quarters ... 'Two guys trapped in a room ... Photograph ... Stuart Jeffries ... So, for the next 600 days, the two young men are to share a cell, just like Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale did 40 odd years ago. But while Porridge pitted Barker’s old lag against Beckinsale’s fresh meat, Jason thinks Luke is his best mate, while Luke blames Jason for getting him in the slammer ... ....
Northern Soul review – true to the cause
Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2014
• Tim Jonze. How to dance to northern soul. 3 ... she spies how this scene didn’t just shelter misfits like her protagonist John (the smartly cast Elliot James Langridge, resembling an unstable Richard Beckinsale), but expanded the horizons of anybody feeling oppressed by lingering patrician values ... ....
Porridge remake? Naff orf, says Christopher Biggins
Edit The Guardian 21 May 2014
Fletcher (Ronnie Barker), Mackay (Fulton Mackay) and Godber (Richard Beckinsale) in the BBC series Porridge. Photograph. Pa ... "I hope Porridge won't be revamped," said the panto king, who played Lukewarm in the BBC's Ronnie Barker series ... Posted by Monkey ... ....
The 10 best TV sitcoms of all time
Edit The Daily Telegraph 20 May 2014
Related Articles. Blackadder's best barbs 10 Jun 2009. The top 50 BBC Two shows of all time 18 Apr 2014. Outnumbered v Modern Family. Which is the best family sitcom? 30 Jan 2014 ... Set in HMP Slade, it featured Barker as Fletch, a cynical convict who spent his time winding up the bristling warder Mr Mackay (played by Fulton Mackay) and mentoring his naïve young cellmate Godber (Richard Beckinsale.) ... Ben Lawrence. Dad's Army (1968) ... READ....
Ken Jones: Stage and screen all-rounder who acted in groundbreaking new drama and created the ...
Edit The Independent 19 Feb 2014
Impish and furtive are words that spring to mind when remembering the many comedy performances of the ubiquitous Ken Jones ... Like his co-stars, Ronnie Barker, Fulton Mackay and Richard Beckinsale, Jones was perfectly cast in the prison sitcom Porridge (1974), making likeable the contemptible 'Orrible Ives, the middle-aged guttersnipe who conned, cheated and snitched on the inmates of Slade ... Marriage for them was not about settling down....
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