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- ...r. During his career as a Senior Producer in [[BBC Radio]] he made [[radio drama]] adopting a cinematic-sounding approach, combining filmic story constructi Maggs studied Drama for a BEd degree from 1974 to 1978 at King Alfred's College, Winchester. Th13 KB (1,867 words) - 14:56, 10 January 2023
- ...ma Desk Award]]<br />1 [[British Academy Television Awards|British Academy Television Award]] ...a series of [[audiobook]]s for [[George R. R. Martin]]'s [[epic fantasy]] series ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', for which he held the [[Guinness World Reco19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:57, 6 February 2023
- {{short description|American filmmaker (1922–2010)}} | style = [[Comedies]], [[Slapstick comedy]], [[Comedy drama]], [[Musicals]], [[Adventure films]], [[Action films]], [[Sex comedies]], [30 KB (4,205 words) - 17:53, 21 December 2022
- ...Years B.C.]]'', ''[[Mysterious Island (1961 film)|Mysterious Island]]''), drama (''[[Becket (1964 film)|Becket]]'', ''[[Bunny Lake is Missing]]''), and sci ...wood. Other television work includes ''[[Danger Man]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'', ''[[Z-Cars]]'', ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' and ''[[Worzel11 KB (1,679 words) - 16:42, 30 November 2022
- | series = [[Fawlty Towers]] ...annel 4]], Basil was ranked second on their list of the [[100 Greatest (TV series)|100 Greatest TV Characters]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/17 KB (2,643 words) - 15:39, 19 February 2023
- '''''O Lucky Man!''''' is a 1973 British [[comedy-drama]] [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Lindsay Anderson]], and starring [[Malcolm McDowell]] ...ner, and converted to [[humanism]]. He is quickly faced with a bewildering series of assaults upon his new-found idealism, culminating in a scene in which he16 KB (2,380 words) - 15:53, 25 August 2024
- {{Infobox television ...ly [[Gold (UK TV channel)|Gold]] and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]]. Series one to five have run (and in some cases continue to run) on [[Public Broadc37 KB (5,063 words) - 07:57, 15 August 2024
- | occupation = Television playwright, screenwriter, journalist, author, novelist, director | genre = [[Drama]]41 KB (6,216 words) - 09:11, 17 January 2023
- ...February 1899{{spaced ndash}}6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World ...n [[BBC One]]'s 1979 [[detective fiction]] drama series ''[[Shoestring (TV series)|Shoestring]]'' as the Reverend James Appleby.53 KB (7,608 words) - 10:40, 4 April 2023
- Like the other films in the ''Confessions'' series; ''[[Confessions of a Pop Performer]]'', ''[[Confessions of a Driving Inst ...not a fictional character but the actual author. The series was a [[sexual fantasy]] masquerading as [[confessional writing]], a genre which tends to attract20 KB (3,004 words) - 23:37, 19 February 2023
- ...<br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series |data6 = [[Television|Television]], [[theatre|theatre]], [[sound recording and reproduction|audio recordings40 KB (5,949 words) - 11:58, 24 August 2024
- ...him in the theatre. He maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. ...s for his performance as [[Winston Churchill]] in the 2002 [[BBC]]–[[HBO]] television biographical film ''[[The Gathering Storm (2002 film)|The Gathering Storm]]65 KB (9,313 words) - 14:17, 25 August 2024
- ...rva McGonagall]] in the [[Harry Potter (film series)|''Harry Potter'' film series]] (2001–2011). She also acted in ''[[Death on the Nile (1978 film)|Death ...[List of Downton Abbey characters|Violet Crawley]] in the British [[period drama]] ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' (2010–2015). The role earned her three [[Primetim90 KB (12,560 words) - 17:58, 28 September 2024
- ...membered for his comedic role as [[Sergeant Arthur Wilson]] in the [[BBC]] television [[situation comedy]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' (1968–1977).{{sfn|McCann|2010|pp= He first appeared on television in 1938 as Seigneur de Miolans in the BBC broadcast of ''The Marvellous His66 KB (10,031 words) - 19:40, 15 August 2024
- ...[[w:Jim Dale|Jim Dale]], she was one of the last surviving regulars on the series. Her other film roles included ''[[w:A Study in Terror|A Study in Terror]]' ...this, Windsor's mother sent her to Madame Behenna's Juvenile Jollities, a drama school at which she appeared in several charity concerts and pantomimes. Af71 KB (9,739 words) - 12:30, 27 December 2022
- {{Short description|Irish-British-American actress and singer (1925–2022)}} ...[Angela Lansbury on screen and stage|various roles across film, stage, and television]]. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attra110 KB (15,399 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023