People recommend Blackout movie
Movie Is being made - in 1950.
First feature of 'Ronald Leigh-Hunt' (qv).
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: UK
Genres: Crime, Drama
Languages: English
Runtimes: 73
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: UK:September 1950
In movie have been taken:
Basil Appleby (actor)
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Birth Date:16 May 1920
Michael Balfour (actor)
Spouse:'Kathleen Stuart' (qv) (? - ?) (her death); 2 children
Death Notes:Surrey, England, UK (cancer)
Birth Notes:Kent, England, UK
Children with Stuart: Shane and Perry, He was a passenger in the car driven by 'Bonar Colleano' (qv) when it crashed, killing Bonar. His injuries required 98 stitches, but he was released from hospital in time to attend Bonar's funeral.
Death Date:24 October 1997
Birth Date:11 February 1918
Michael Brennan (actor)
Death Notes:Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Death Date:29 June 1982
Spouse:'Mary Hignett' (qv) (? - ?); 1 child
Birth Date:25 September 1912
Ernest Butcher (actor)
Death Date:8 June 1965
Death Notes:London, England, UK
Other Works:Stage and radio actor.
Spouse:'Muriel George' (qv) (? - ?) (divorced)
Birth Notes:Burnley, England, UK
Birth Date:7 April 1885
Patric Doonan (actor)
Spouse:'Aud Johansen' (qv) (? - 10 March 1958) (his death)
Death Notes:London, England, UK (suicide)
Birth Notes:Derby, England, UK
Stage actor., Son of actor 'George Doonan' (qv)., Brother of actor 'Tony Doonan' (qv)., Minor British actor who usually played menacing types (thugs, etc.); he later killed himself by gas., In August 1954 Patric Doonan took over Richard Attenborough's role of Det Sgt Trotter in the still on-going theatre production of Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap'. At the time of his suicide Doonan was engaged to be married to the film actress Ann Firbank., Is mentioned in the Morrissey song 'Now My Heart Is Full'.
Death Date:10 March 1958
Birth Date:18 April 1925
Michael Evans (actor)
Sam Kydd (actor)
He was the father of actor 'Jonathan Kydd' (qv).
Death Notes:London, England, UK (respiratory ailment)
Birth Notes:Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Other Works:Part played in The Clouded Yellow (1951) was RAF LAC (Leading Aicraftman) Telegraphist., Also appeared in films -, - The Blue Lamp (1949) as Man at Racetrack. He said "Thin chap, dark hair". Made at Ealing Studios. (uncredited) (Main character Jack Warner), - Appointment in London (1952) as RAF Airman Ackroyd. Supporting role as aircraft ground maintenance crew. Main character Dirk Bogard., Made appearances in several episodes of UK TV (Granada Television Co.) programme Coronation Sreet as Mike Baldwin's (actor Johnny Briggs) father.
Birth Name:Kydd, Samuel John
Spouse:'Lavender Rosamund Marguerite 'Pinkie' Barnes' (? - ?); 1 child
Death Date:26 March 1982
Birth Date:15 February 1915
Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor)
Birth Name:Leigh-Hunt, Ronald Frederick
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Death Date:12 September 2005
Death Notes:Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK (broncho-pneumonia)
Birth Date:5 October 1916
Eric Pohlmann (actor)
2 sons: Michael & Stephen., Eric's daughter-in-law, Aviva, was 6 months' pregnant at the time of his death. The little girl was named Shira; her parents added a 2nd name, Erica, in memory of her grandfather.
Death Notes:Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany (heart attack)
Born inside Vienna. Studied at Max Reinhardt School. Early years next to coinage of entertainer at Reiss Bar in Vienna. Often appear at still-existing Raimund-Theater. Met wife, Liselotte, complete period in Brno (now Czech Republic). She escaped to London in 1938, he in 1939, where on earth they married that year. Frequent appearance on German BBC during the period of war. Appeared frequently on British stage, with "Point of Departure" (with 'Dirk Bogarde' (qv), 'Mai Zetterling' (qv) and 'Brenda De Banzie' (qv)), "Settled out of Court" (with 'Nigel Patrick' (qv)) and "The Threepenny Opera" (with 'Bill Owen (I)' (qv), 'Georgia Brown (I)' (qv), 'George A. Cooper (I)' (qv), 'Lisa Lee (I)' (qv)), playing the part of the pack of Peachum. Frequent TV appearances, including episode of _"The Saint" (1962)_ (qv) and _"The Avengers" (1961)_ (qv). Resumed German-speaking export in 1965, starring in "Das Feuerwerk" in Munich (from which the mantra "Oh My Papa" comes). Among other stage appearances in Germany: "Der Talisman" and "Der Entertainer". Was vertebrae in Vienna on the stage, appear at the Theater an der Wien in musicals, including: "Das Apartment" ("Promises, Promises"), where he play the medical doctor (a text of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" be insert in defend of him to sing), "Billy" (a version of "Billy Liar"), and "Die Graefin von Naschmarkt", in which he starred alongside 'Marika Rkk' (qv). _Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (1979)_ (qv) was his closing optical aid. It was directed by 'Maximilian Schell' (qv), and was built-in in the 1979 London Film Festival. He die durng crucial rehearsal for his second effectiveness at the Salzburg Festival, playing in cooperation with Schell as the Dicke Fetter (the stout cousin) in the habitual "Jederman" ("Everyman").
Height:185 cm
Birth Notes:Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Birth Name:Pollak, Erich
Spouse:'Liselotte Goettinger' (qv) (May 1939 - 17 September 1968) (her death); 2 children
Death Date:25 July 1979
Birth Date:18 July 1913
Maxwell Reed (actor)
'Joan Collins' (qv)'s first husband. Collins advised him to base his acting style on 'James Mason (I)' (qv). Reed ignored her advice and used 'Stewart Granger (I)' (qv) as his role model instead., Ex-brother-in-law of 'Jackie Collins (I)' (qv).
Death Notes:England, UK (cancer)
After a diminutive in use encircled by locate of a commercial seaman, follow by a few appearance by the to the left of display place, Maxwell Reed moved to London and be sign by the Rank Organisation. He made heaps British films during the 40s and 50s, junction linking lead in B films and biased role in core production. He also appear in a few Hollywood swashbucklers and TV cycle aloft to that instance succumb to cancer in the 70s. He was a bona fide teen idol in the charitable 40s, mortal the heart rhythm of many a schoolgirl. He was married to 'Joan Collins' (qv) during the unstructured 50s but the conjugal all gone in divorce.
Height:6' 4"
Birth Notes:Larne, Ireland
Other Works:In 1956, he made a pilot all for a proposed TV jaunt rotation qualified, "Captain Grief" base by the edge of the Jack London behaviour. The term character be the skipper for a three-masted sailing vessel. The series would index be shot delimited by color in the Hawaiian Islands, even in so doing the pilot was not picked general awake next to any of the network. The series was finally produced for syndication and race for several season.
Spouse:'Joan Collins' (qv) (24 May 1952 - 1956) (divorced)
Death Date:31 October 1974
Birth Date:2 April 1919
Kynaston Reeves (actor)
Death Notes:London, England, UK
Birth Notes:Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Death Date:10 December 1971
Birth Date:29 May 1893
Campbell Singer (actor)
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Death Date:March 1976
His last film was The Collector but his role was deleted during editing.
Birth Date:16 March 1909
Jean Lodge (actress)
Height:5' 6 1/2"
Birth Notes:Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Spouse:'Alfred Shaughnessy' (qv) (1948 - 2 November 2005) (his death); 2 children
Birth Date:4 August 1927
Pat Metcalfe (actress)
Ida Patlanski (actress)
Spouse:'Terry-Thomas' (qv) (1938 - 1962) (divorced)
Death Date:June 1983
Married to late, great British actor 'Terry-Thomas' (qv) from 1938 to 1962.
Dinah Sheridan (actress)
Spouse:'Jimmy Hanley' (qv) (8 May 1942 - 1952) (divorced); 3 children, 'John Davis' (1954 - 29 July 1965) (divorced), 'John Merivale' (qv) (1986 - 6 February 1990) (his death), 'Aubrey Ison' (17 September 1992 - 2007) (his death)
Dinah Sheridan be considered the quintessential English rose. With an alertness, poise and gentleness functioning second to none, she win the heart of war-torn England during WWII. Born Dinah Nadyejda Mec delimited by Hampstead in 1920, her Russian father and German mother be photographers to the Royal Family, by route of prior arrangement to both the Queen and Queen Mum. Dinah's opening produce role was at age 12 and she subsequently go higher than pleasure expedition in part of Wendy in "Peter Pan" starring 'Charles Laughton' (qv) as Captain Hook and wife 'Elsa Lanchester' (qv) as the titular hero(ine). Lovely Dinah bust into films at age 16 and appear in such films as _Irish and Proud of It (1938)_ (qv) until her pitch was interrupted by WWII. In 1942 she married actor 'Jimmy Hanley' (qv) and individual three family. One daughter, 'Jenny Hanley' (qv), follow in her parents' footsteps and become a noted actress. Dinah and Jimmy appeared winningly equally in such grassroots features as _Salute John Citizen (1942)_ (qv), _29 Acacia Avenue (1945)_ (qv) and _The Huggetts Abroad (1949)_ (qv). Dinah's acting career, nevertheless, peaked beside the witty the language in cheek on the side _Genevieve (1953)_ (qv) co-starring 'John Gregson (I)' (qv), 'Kenneth More' (qv) and the sublime 'Kay Kendall' (qv). Despite the veracity this sparkling classic made her an "overnight" glory and open oodles door, she execute not hijack out the stardom looked-for in favour of her. Divorced from Hanley, she unexpectedly retire ensuing her 1954 matrimonial to Sir John Davis, the President of the Rank Organization. Following her second divorce 11 years following, she return to the stage and after a while was see on corroborate and TV again. She have work at a relatively uncomplicated tread since. She married for a third event to actor 'John Merivale' (qv) in 1986, but he die four years later.
Birth Notes:Hampstead, London, England, UK
Other Works:(1981) She acted in Sir Noel Coward's play, "Present Laughter," at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England with Sir Donald Sinden, Gwen Watford, and Polly Adams.
Where Now:(August 2006) She moved from London to the USA and lives now with her husband in San Bernadino, California.
Birth Name:Mec, Dinah
She and actor 'Jimmy Hanley' (qv) had three children, one died at birth., Sir John Davis, Managing Director of the Rank Organisation, proposed to Dinah on the condition that she give up acting. She accepted and retired just as stardom hit with the film _Genevieve (1953)_ (qv). The strain of her lost career put too much of a strain on their marriage and they divorced 11 years later., Mother of the politician Sir Jeremy Hanley and actress 'Jenny Hanley' (qv)., Contrary to several sources, she is not the grandmother of 'Nicollette Sheridan' (qv) and 'Nick Savalas (I)' (qv)., Dinah Sheridan (by then Mrs Dinah Davis) and her husband, Managing Director of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Mr John Davis attended the opening on 28 November 1955 of the new Cecil Theatre (a.k.a. Cecil Cinema) in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom. The original cinema, sited across the road from the new one, having been destroyed during World War II. During the opening ceremony Dinah Sheridan gave the cinema's Managing Director Mr Brinley Evans a black kitten for luck. Newsreel footage of the opening ceremony is now on the Internet (search for "Opening of the Cecil Theatre").
Birth Date:17 September 1920
Annette D. Simmonds (actress)
Birth Name:O'Hara, Nancy Doughty
Birth Notes:Alnwick, England, UK
Death Date:28 October 1959
Death Notes:London, England, UK (road accident)
Birth Date:c. 1918
Madoline Thomas (actress)
Death Notes:Weston-super-Mare, England, UK
Birth Notes:Abergavenny, Wales, UK
Death Date:30 December 1989
Other Works:Played Mrs Boyle in The Mousetrap at the Ambassador Theatre, London (1960-1961)
Birth Date:2 January 1890
Robert S. Baker (producer)
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Together next to his partner, Monty Berman, they be the initial competetion to Hammer Films wakeful to 1959. They try to copy what Hammer be doing, as resourcefully as doing a allocation getting previously owned to of a small screen serial and latter doing horror films contained by color. They even used alike writers and lots actor that grasp be used by mode of Hammer.
Birth Date:1916
Monty Berman (producer)
Death Notes:London, England, UK (natural causes)
Birth Notes:Whitechapel, London, England, UK
Birth Name:Berman, Nestor Montague
Formed Tempean Films with 'Robert S. Baker' (qv) in 1948.
Death Date:14 June 2006
Birth Date:26 March 1905
John Gilling (writer)
Death Notes:Madrid, Spain
Birth Notes:London, England, UK
Death Date:22 November 1984
Birth Date:29 May 1912
Carl Nystrom (writer)
Monty Berman (cinematographer)
Death Notes:London, England, UK (natural causes)
Birth Notes:Whitechapel, London, England, UK
Birth Name:Berman, Nestor Montague
Formed Tempean Films with 'Robert S. Baker' (qv) in 1948.
Death Date:14 June 2006
Birth Date:26 March 1905
John Lanchbery (composer)
His honors include the Bolshoi Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award and the Carina Ari Medal. In 1991 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire., Music director of the Australian Ballet from 1972 to 1978., Principal conductor of the Royal Ballet (London) from 1960 to 1972.
Robert S. Baker (director)
Gerald Landau (editor)
Walter M. Scott (production designer)
