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Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007. He has been described in The Guardian as "the great British talkshow host".
Parkinson, or "Parky" as he is known, was born in the village of Cudworth, England. The son of a miner, he was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and passed two O-Levels: in Art and English Language.[citation needed] He was a club cricketer, and both he and his opening partner at Barnsley Cricket Club, Dickie Bird, had trials for Yorkshire together with Geoffrey Boycott. He once kept Boycott out of the Barnsley Cricket team by scoring a century and 50 in two successive matches. Parkinson began as a journalist on local newspapers, and his Yorkshire background and accent remain part of his appeal. He worked as a features writer for the Manchester Guardian, working alongside Michael Frayn, and later on the Daily Express in London. He was also conscripted into National Service as Britain's youngest army captain and was involved in the Suez Operation in the summer of 1956.
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.
Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer from Lancashire. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing (2000), Phoenix Nights (2001), Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004), Britain's Got the Pop Factor... (2008) and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours. Kay has sold over 10 million DVDs, a UK record for a comedian.
Actors: David Field (actor), David Ngo (editor), Brendan Rock (actor), Andreas Sobik (actor), Tony Mack (actor), Julie Byrne (producer), Laurence Breuls (actor), Terry Rogers (actor), Taera Shroff (miscellaneous crew), Jack Sheridan (writer), Jack Sheridan (director), Jennifer Jones (producer), Tristan Hudson (actor), Nigel Tripodi (actor), Leigh Gawain Wellwood (writer),
Genres: Short, Sport, Thriller,Actors: Michael Parkinson (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Declan Donnelly (actor), Liam Neeson (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Anthony McPartlin (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Hugh Grant (actor), Martin Freeman (actor), Rowan Atkinson (actor), Richard Curtis (actor), Chiwetel Ejiofor (actor), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Rodrigo Santoro (actor),
Plot: The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.
Keywords: actor, actress, adultery, aging-rocker, agony, airport, airport-security, american-abroad, american-flag, art-galleryActors: Sam Stone (actor), Gordon Masten (actor), Patrick McKenna (actor), Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), Jason Cavalier (actor), Ellen David (actress), Sean Young (actress), Vik Sahay (actor), Jack Scalia (actor), Samantha Eggar (actress), Cedric Smith (actor), John Dunn-Hill (actor), Don Jordan (actor), Cas Anvar (actor), Joanna Noyes (actress),
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance,Actors: Paul Freeman (actor), Dexter Fletcher (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), Ralph Morse (actor), George Harrison (producer), Helen Mirren (actress), Bob Hoskins (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Eddie Constantine (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Penny Eyles (miscellaneous crew), Bryan Marshall (actor), Daragh O'Malley (actor), Martin Denning (miscellaneous crew), Paul Barber (actor),
Plot: Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Keywords: anger, bigotry, blood, bomb, broken-bottle, broken-glass, broken-window, brutality, cameo, carActors: Ralph Sanford (actor), Una Merkel (actress), Sherman L. Lowe (writer), George M. Merrick (producer), Joe Devlin (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Marion Martin (actress), Joe Kirk (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Charles Williams (actor), Dorothy Gulliver (actress), George M. Merrick (editor), Lewis D. Collins (director),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Jane Novak (actress), Frederick Bain (editor), Sherman L. Lowe (writer), 'Snub' Pollard (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom (actor), Arthur St. Claire (writer), William Roberts (actor), Mary Healy (actress), Dorothy Dare (actress), Henry King (actor), Harry Parke (actor), Anson Bond (actor), Alexis Thurn-Taxis (director),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,Actors: Ann Miller (actress), Howard J. Green (writer), Hillary Brooke (actress), George Rosener (actor), Dewey Robinson (actor), Samuel J. Briskin (producer), Carol Adams (actress), Harry Bernard (actor), Milton Berle (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Robert Emmett O'Connor (actor), Richard Lane (actor), Roy Webb (composer), Edward Small (producer),
Plot: A crooked producer tries to link his backers by producing a flop and disapearing with the money. Patricia, one of the chorus girls has given her money, too and after the disapearing of the producer one of the backers is in charge of production, trying the same trick. But Patricia tries to convince him to give the show a chance.
Keywords: atlantic-city-new-jersey, audition, backstage, bookie, broadway-flop, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, chorus-girl, dancer, doorman, entertainerActors: Margaret Dumont (actress), Frank Mills (actor), Ben Alexander (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), George Irving (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Victor Moore (actor), Franklin Pangborn (actor), Richard Lane (actor), Perc Launders (actor), Gene Raymond (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Carol Adams (actress), Bess Flowers (actress),
Plot: Dr. Molnac and his musical troupe; Beggs, the manager; Mitzi Martos, a singer; Mitzi's agent Pauline; society scion Barry Saunders and his "keeper" Oliver Goodwin, are en route to Santa Barbara. Barry falls for Mitzi while trying to loosen her slipper caught between two railroad cars, but she mysteriously leaves before he can learn her name. Barry and Oliver take a suite at the Casa Barbara, where they hire the house detective, Parkyakarkus to find the slipper's owner but he bungles the job. Oliver reminds Barry that he will lose his mother's $3,000,000 inheritance if he weds before the age of thirty. Mitzi and Pauline also register at the hotel, hoping to induce Dr. Molnac, performing there, to give Mitzi an audition. Also arriving are Mitzi's mother, Countess Martos and her wealthy friend Mrs. Penner and her son Joe, and the mothers have intentions of Joe marrying Mitzi. Barry finally meets Mitzi, and proposes marriage at a date three years in the future. To break up the romance, Joe and Parky steal Mitzi's shoe wardrobe and she, thinking Barry did it, rushes to his room in her negligee, upbraids him and stalks out. He, in his dressing gown, follows her to her room and they are about to reconcile when Mitzi's mother and Joe and his mother enter. Barry hides in another room and overhears Mitzi's mother blandly suggesting that Mitzi marry Joe. Mitzi, not pleased at this prospect, tells them she is already married and Barry, taking the cue, enters and plays the role of the new husband. Mitzi's mother promptly has them booked into the bridal suite. Pauline and Oliver arrange a wedding party with Dr. Molnac's troupe performing and Pauline, still scheming to get Mitzi an audition, hires Joe and Parky to kidnap Molnac's singer, Susan. Mitzi is a smash hit, and Barry's mother arrives and announces she had lied about his age and he is really thirty, and can get married without losing his inheritance.
Keywords: advice, audition, betrothal, bribe, california, confession, countess, dancer, deception, fortune-hunterActors: Charles Brinley (actor), George Bunny (actor), Harry Carey (actor), Joseph Hazelton (actor), Duke R. Lee (actor), Carol Holloway (actress), George C. Hull (writer), Jacques Jaccard (director), Carl Laemmle (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Royce (actress), Pal the Dog (actor), Roy Coulson (actor), Minnie Devereaux (actress), Philip Verrill Mighels (writer), Thomas Smith (actor),
Genres: Western,