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- '''''Smokescreen''''' is a 1964 British comedy crime drama film, written and directed by [[Jim O'Connolly]] and starring [[Peter Vaugh ...ld essay later in his career."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edit7 KB (943 words) - 19:24, 6 August 2024
- | studio = [[Warwick Films]] ...Hughes may have been making some sort of an attempt at parody of American crime pix."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=20 November 1960 |title=Jazz Boat |url=https7 KB (951 words) - 22:44, 4 September 2024
- ...&dq=Jill%2520Melford%252C%2520Actress&pg=PA554 |title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company |last=Maxford |first=Howard |date=2018-10-25 |p ...in ''Shoreditch'' in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jill Melford |work=Hammer Films |url=http://www.hammerfilms.com/productions/talent/artistid/986/filmid/257/5 KB (755 words) - 08:51, 3 February 2023
- ...[[Terry-Thomas]] as her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8a5c63|title=Too Many Crooks (1959)|publisher=}}</ref> [[Category:1959 films]]6 KB (970 words) - 14:07, 23 November 2022
- The film's [[B movie]] was the short crime drama ''Poor Billy Render'' starring [[Vicki Michelle]], [[Garfield Morgan]] and [[Category:1974 films]]5 KB (766 words) - 15:17, 20 February 2023
- ...isode of the long-running [[w:Thames Television|Thames Television]] police drama series ''[[w:The Bill|The Bill]]'',<ref name="Malc">{{cite web| url=http:// | [[w:Associated-Rediffusion|Associated-Rediffusion]]'s drama series Sanctuary15 KB (2,211 words) - 10:55, 14 December 2022
- ...' (also known as '''''Hotel International''''') is a 1963 British [[comedy-drama]] film in [[Metrocolor]] and [[Panavision]]. It was directed by [[Anthony A ...[[Very Important Person|very important people]]) of the title play out the drama of their lives in a number of slightly interconnected stories. The delays h13 KB (2,018 words) - 14:03, 5 February 2023
- ...t with exhibitors and eventually television networks buying batches of our films, by virtue of stars or production value". He added that in the case of ''As [[Category:1969 films]]10 KB (1,543 words) - 13:52, 18 March 2023
- ...arry On]]'', ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' and ''[[St. Trinian's]]'' films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/irregularly_c.htm|title=Carry ...ttps://books.google.com/books?id=qEW5BAAAQBAJ&q=cyril+chamberlain+carry+on+films&pg=PT242|title=Carry-On Actors|isbn=9781908382085|last1=Ross|first1=Andrew|11 KB (1,681 words) - 08:01, 3 September 2024
- | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] | gross = $2,225,000 (U.S./Canada)<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1967", ''Variety'', 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer17 KB (2,550 words) - 10:48, 25 August 2024
- ...lin]] and [[w:saxophone|saxophone]]. After leaving school, Dorning studied drama and dance in [[w:Liverpool|Liverpool]] with the intention of becoming a bal ...)|Mona Lisa]]'' (1986).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9fcd80f1|title=Robert Dorning|website=BFI}}</ref>11 KB (1,737 words) - 12:17, 26 December 2022
- ...4ce2b9ee347b3 |title=John Gregson }}</ref> He was best known for his crime drama and comedy roles. ...officer, or in comedy roles in [[Ealing Studios|Ealing]] and other British films.18 KB (2,700 words) - 17:00, 18 February 2023
- ...Place of One's Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946) ...borough's ''[[The Magic Bow]]'' (1946) with Granger and Kent. [[Two Cities Films]] used him in one of its melodramas, ''[[Hungry Hill (film)|Hungry Hill]]''14 KB (2,144 words) - 13:16, 25 February 2023
- ...le of [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] in the ITV prison drama, ''[[Bad Girls (TV series)|Bad Girls]]''. She has since enjoyed a varied st ...in two of the [[Carry On films]], a long-running series of British comedy films: she had a supporting part as a cab driver in ''[[Carry On Cabby]]'' (1963)17 KB (2,430 words) - 16:22, 24 February 2023
- ...r in film, television, theatre and radio for over 55 years. He appeared in films including ''[[Take a Girl Like You (film)|Take A Girl Like You]]'' (1970) a ...ature and stayed for postgraduate studies with a thesis entitled "European Drama 1888–1914".<ref name="telegraph"/>21 KB (3,189 words) - 17:51, 24 January 2023
- ...of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s. They produced many of their films through their own production company, '''Charter Film Productions''', which ...<ref name="bfi1">{{cite web |title=Ripe Earth |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69d70b54 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=8 Apri27 KB (3,986 words) - 22:27, 24 August 2024
- ===Films=== He featured in three of the [[St Trinian's]] films, starting as an army major in ''[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]''. He later11 KB (1,583 words) - 22:11, 9 September 2024
- ...remembered for directing the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series of films. He cast the actor [[James Robertson Justice]] in many of his films. Thomas often worked with the producer [[Betty Box|Betty E. Box]], who was17 KB (2,694 words) - 12:37, 18 February 2023
- ...his work for [[w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film ind ...starred Askey, ''[[Bees in Paradise]]'' (1944). He followed this with two films starring [[Vic Oliver]] and [[Margaret Lockwood]], ''[[Give Us the Moon]]''16 KB (2,505 words) - 14:22, 24 December 2022
- | studio = [[Romulus Films]] ...hive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806100326/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b208402 |url-status=live }}</ref>28 KB (4,176 words) - 23:49, 2 February 2023