Search results

From The Goon Show Depository

  • | death_place = [[w:Gillingham, Kent|Gillingham]], England ...ion producer and director who served as the [[w:BBC|BBC]]'s Head of Comedy from 1967 until 1972.
    7 KB (1,041 words) - 13:10, 16 January 2023
  • | death_place = [[w:Deal, Kent|Deal]], England ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe
    31 KB (4,739 words) - 09:00, 6 February 2023
  • ...on of the [[Gainsborough melodramas]].<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/448996/ Gainsborough Pictures] at [[BFI Screenonline]]</ref><ref>{{cite ...rs such as [[Will Hay]] and [[Arthur Askey]]. He also produced early films from [[Carol Reed]] and [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and was an early supporter of write
    14 KB (2,132 words) - 12:45, 7 February 2023
  • ...] play ''[[The Ghost Train (play)|The Ghost Train]]''. The title was taken from ''[[Oh! Mr Porter]]'', a [[music hall]] song. ...station is. It is situated out in the countryside, two miles cross-country from the nearest bus stop. To make matters worse, local legend has it that the g
    15 KB (2,338 words) - 23:28, 8 February 2023
  • ...m producer]] known for his leadership of [[Ealing Studios]] in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most import ...Greenberg; c. 1863–1934), [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] immigrants from Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) who had met in Britain. Growing up
    18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:53, 4 February 2023
  • ...results/3475/Donald%20Alfred+SINDEN.aspx |date=17 July 2011}}, ''Debrett's People of Today''; accessed 15 December 2013.</ref> and later trained as an actor ...panied by his trade-mark "wolf-growl".<ref>[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/540500 Donald Sinden profile], screenonline.org.uk; accessed 15 December
    40 KB (5,796 words) - 23:34, 13 February 2023
  • After a period in a [[Foster care|children's home]] in [[Deal, Kent]], Wisdom ran away when he was 11 but returned to become an [[errand boy]] ...s centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime minister]].
    50 KB (7,368 words) - 22:33, 24 August 2024
  • | death_place = [[Aldington, Kent]], England
    110 KB (14,760 words) - 19:34, 27 September 2024
  • ...ton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartho ...8}} and both appeared on a one-off television special, ''[[How to Irritate People]]'' alongside Brooke-Taylor and future Python member [[Michael Palin]].{{sf
    38 KB (5,644 words) - 19:14, 16 March 2023
  • ...young beatnik.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b740cd528 |title=Il MARITO È MIO E L'AMMAZZO QUANDO MI PARE (1967) |pu ...The Consultant'' (1981).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b852ea58a|title=Malice Aforethought Part 3 (1979)}}</ref> In 1981, he p
    25 KB (3,678 words) - 11:57, 18 February 2023
  • | birth_name = Josephine Edwina Jaques <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_place = Sandgate, Kent
    69 KB (10,597 words) - 19:20, 16 March 2023
  • ...Dors: A Life in Pictures|publisher=BBC}}</ref> at the Haven Nursing Home, Kent Road, Swindon, Wiltshire. Her mother Winifred Maud Mary (Payne) was married ...small private school, Selwood House. She enjoyed the cinema; her heroines from the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] act
    86 KB (13,434 words) - 23:28, 12 February 2023
  • ...u]] representative Le Grand. All implore Bond to come out of retirement to deal with [[SMERSH]], who have been eliminating agents; Bond spurns all their pl ...Mata uncovers a plan to sell compromising photographs of military leaders from the US, USSR, China and Great Britain at an "art auction", another scheme L
    64 KB (9,421 words) - 11:04, 25 August 2024
  • This is a list of television episodes from the [[British television]] show ''[[Press Gang]]''. ''Press Gang'' was prod ...he ''Junior Gazette'', a children's newspaper initially produced by pupils from the local [[comprehensive school]]. The main [[story arc]] was the on-off r
    35 KB (5,208 words) - 11:45, 21 February 2023
  • ...of the same name]] by [[Roddy Doyle]]. It was directed by [[Alan Parker]] from a screenplay written by Doyle, [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]. Set ...aracters in the novel. [[Principal photography]] took place in [[Dublin]], from late August to October, 1990.
    76 KB (10,631 words) - 10:17, 12 April 2023
  • * United States (from 1951) * Ireland (from {{Circa|1970}})
    110 KB (15,399 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
  • ...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26485860 |title = Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap |access-date = 2014-06-24 |newspaper = Ariel |date = 2014-03-12 } ...unters [[Trillian (character)|Trillian]], another human who had been taken from Earth (before its destruction) by the two-headed President of the Galaxy [[
    94 KB (14,389 words) - 22:52, 24 August 2024