Howard Spring was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave and, later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman.
Amanda Pays is an English interior designer, actress, and television presenter.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1591.
Thomas George Bell was an English actor on stage, film and television. He often played "menacing or seedy roles, perhaps most memorably playing sexist Detective Sergeant Bill Otley, antagonist to Helen Mirren's DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Bray Film Studios is a British film and television facility in Water Oakley near Bray, Berkshire. It is best known for its association with Hammer Film Productions.
John Clifford Rose was a British actor.
Pippa Steel was a British actress best known for her roles in two Hammer horror films: The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Lust for a Vampire (1971). Also one appearance in TV series Public Eye (1971)
Damien Thomas is a British actor noted for his roles in British films and television, such as his role as Father Martin Alvito in the 1980 miniseries Shōgun and as Richard Mason in the 1983 BBC production of Jane Eyre.
Linda Regan, born Linda Mary Drinkwater, is a British actress and author, who has appeared on television, film, radio and on stage. She is best known for her role as Yellowcoat April in the British holiday camp sitcom Hi-de-Hi!.
Shabby Tiger is a 1934 novel by the British writer Howard Spring. It was followed by a sequel Rachel Rosing in 1935.
Rachel Rosing is a 1935 novel by the British writer Howard Spring. It is the sequel to Shabby Tiger, published the previous year (1934).
John R. Nolan is a British film and television actor. He is known for his role as Nick Faunt in Shabby Tiger, Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in Batman Begins, the Gotham Tonight promotional segments for The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.
Patricia Donahue was an actress who performed in television and films from 1956 to 1984.
Poor Little Rich Girls is a 1984 television sitcom which first aired on ITV in 1984. It portrays the lives of two financially-struggling cousins who attempt to rebuild their lives, following the loss of their husbands from divorce and widowhood. It starred Jill Bennett and Maria Aitken who co-created and scripted it together.
Mann's Best Friends is a British television sitcom which first aired on Channel 4 in 1985 It is set in a boarding house where the easy-going landlord fails to control the antics of his chaotic tenants, leading him to seek the assistance of the domineering Hamish James Ordway who has recently retired from the Water Board.
Who Is Sylvia? is a 1967 British television sitcom which aired on ITV. It stars Charlie Drake as a man in search of wife who enlists the help of a marriage bureau run by Mrs. Proudpiece with predictably disastrous results.
Moving Story is a British comedy drama television series which aired on ITV in two series between 26 May 1994 and 29 August 1995. It was created by Jack Rosenthal as a spin-off from his 1984 film The Chain, about a group of removal men.
Under the Hammer is a British comedy drama television series which originally aired on ITV from 10 January to 21 February 1994. Written by John Mortimer, it is set at a London auction house.
No Cloak – No Dagger is a British television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1963. All six episodes are believed to be lost.
Oliver Twist is a 1962 BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist, serialised in 13 episodes. Due in part to its transmission at Sunday teatimes, the production proved to be controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over the brutal murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes in its eleventh episode. The serial has survived intact, and was released to DVD in 2017 by Simply Media.
