What is the name of an English stage and film actor who starred in a film that was produced by First National?
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British Agent British Agent is a 1934 espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. It is based on "Memoirs of a British Agent", the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had spent a number of years working for the British Secret Service. The film was produced by First National, which was then a division of Warner Bros..
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Leslie Howard (actor) Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director and producer. Howard also wrote many stories and articles for "The New York Times", "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair". Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s but is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Howard had movie roles in many other notable films, including: "Berkeley Square" (1933), "Of Human Bondage" (1934), "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Pygmalion" (1938), "Intermezzo" (1939), ""Pimpernel" Smith" (1941) and "The First of the Few" (1942), receiving two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Meet Mr. Penny Meet Mr. Penny is a 1938 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Richard Goolden, Vic Oliver and Fabia Drake. It was made at Welwyn Studios by British National Films.
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Ronald Simpson (actor) Ronald Simpson (1896–1957) was a British stage, film and television actor.
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Femi Elufowoju Jr. Femi Elufowoju Jr. (born 31 October 1962) is a British-born Nigerian actor, performer, and director. He is the first theatre director of African descent to establish a national touring company in the UK. His stage work has been featured at the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal National Theatre, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Manchester's Royal Exchange, the Theatre Royal, Stratford East and the Soho Theatre, and he has worked under such notable theatre directors as Sir Richard Eyre, Nicholas Hytner, Yvonne Brewster, John Retallack, Annabel Arden, Jude Kelly and Annie Castledine.
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Christopher Strauli Christopher Strauli (born 13 April 1946) is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is most known for appearing as Norman Binns in the British (Yorkshire TV) sitcom "Only When I Laugh".
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Tom Walls Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s.
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First Love (1921 film) First Love is a 1921 American silent romantic comedy film produced by the Realart Pictures Corporation and distributed through the related Paramount Pictures. It stars Constance Binney and was directed by Maurice Campbell. Warner Baxter has one of his earliest screen portrayals here. Only the first reel of this film is known to survive at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Leo Genn Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was a British stage and film actor and barrister.
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Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of "The Avengers" and "The Lotus Eaters", as well as for his roles in films such as "The Hill" (1965), "Repulsion" (1965), "Get Carter" (1971), and "Theatre of Blood" (1973).
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Oliver Twist (1912 American film) Oliver Twist is a 1912 silent feature film drama based on Charles Dickens's classic novel Oliver Twist. This film is the first feature version of the story followed a later British film released in October 1912. Nat C. Goodwin, a distinguished comedian from the Broadway stage, stars. The General Film Company, usually a distributor, produced this film and it was released on State Rights basis.
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Harrington Reynolds Harrington Reynolds was an English actor who appeared on stage and in a number of movies. He was best known for "Old English" (1930), "Ride 'em, Cowgirl" (1939) and "Two Sinners" (1935).
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The National Health (film) The National Health is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Jack Gold and starring Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely and Eleanor Bron. It is based on the play "The National Health" by Peter Nichols, in which the staff struggle to cope in an underfunded NHS hospital. The film satirically interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy hospital which exists in a soap-opera world where all the equipment is new and patients are miraculously cured - although the only "patients" seen are doctors or nurses who are themselves part of the soap opera plots. In the real hospital, the patients die while the out-of-touch administrators focus on impressing foreign visitors.
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Henry Hallett Henry Hallett (1 February 1888 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, UK – 24 July 1952) was a British stage and film actor.
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The Branded Woman The Branded Woman is a 1920 American silent drama film released by First National Pictures. It stars Norma Talmadge who also produced the film along with her husband Joseph Schenck through their production company, Norma Talmadge Productions. The film is based on a 1917 Broadway play "Branded", by Oliver D. Bailey and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Albert Parker who also directed.
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Ellen Pollock Ellen Pollock (29 June 1902 – 29 March 1997) was a British character actress, mainly appeared on stage in London's West End. She also appeared in several films and TV productions.
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The Dancer of Paris The Dancer of Paris is a lost 1926 silent film feature produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by Alfred Santell and starred Dorothy Mackaill.
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Rufus Wright Rufus Gerrard-Wright (born 14 September 1974), known as Rufus Wright, is an English film, stage and television actor.
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Val Gielgud Val Henry Gielgud (28 April 1900 – 30 November 1981) was an English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of radio drama for the BBC, and also directed the first ever drama to be produced in the newer medium of television.
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David Ryall David John Ryall (5 January 1935 – 25 December 2014) was an English stage, film and television character actor. He had leading roles in "Lytton's Diary" and "Goodnight Sweetheart", as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's "The Singing Detective" and Andrew Davies's adaptation of "To Play the King". He also portrayed Billy Buzzle in the ITV sitcom "Bless Me, Father" and Frank in the BBC sitcom "Outnumbered".
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S. J. Warmington Stanley James Warmington (16 December 1884 – 10 May 1941), or just S. J. Warmington, was an English actor who appeared on film, stage, radio, and television in the early 20th century.
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First Family Entertainment First Family Entertainment was an entertainment group specialising in pantomime and other family theatre entertainment, formed in January 2005 as a joint venture between the producers David Ian for Live Nation and Howard Panter for the Ambassador Theatre Group.