Patrick Cargill is probably best remembered for his role as the flustered father of two nubile teenage daughters in ITV's sitcom Father, Dear Father (1968-73). In his stage career he specialised in ...

Sir John Holland of Scotland Yard and his daughter Joan are implicated in a murder when they attend a party held by the much-hated Lord Studholme.

Six fiercely robust and subversive clowns, the Crazy Gang comprised three comedy double acts (Nervo and Knox, Flanagan and Allen, Naughton and Gold) originally brought together for stage shows at the ...

During a Sicilian fiesta, young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other. While Cedric Messina and Alan Cooke (who adapted the ...

The guitar craze and the people swept up in its wake, from beginning amateurs to practised professionals. Russell's lively film pays tribute to the hand-me-down nature of the skiffle movement in the ...

Before playing the first Dr. Who, William Hartnell was a familiar face in British cinema portraying tough sergeants and underworld types. However, despite stereotyped roles, the actor often delivered ...

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

The 1980s began with the bleakest outlook yet seen for British film. Most of the well-heeled film companies such as Rank, EMI and assorted Hollywood majors had either pulled out of British production ...

Stephen and Timothy Quay, identical twins, were born in Norristown, near Philadelphia, in 1947. After graduating in 1969 from the Philadelphia College of Art, where they studied illustration and ...

A group of English schoolchildren are stranded on a remote desert island and, free from the usual supervision and rules, rapidly descend into barbarity. A model of effective literary adaptation, the ...

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water stands prepared to trap unwary children playing near water.

Native British birds, from common gulls and cuckoos to the rare Richardson's Skua, are filmed in their natural habitat. This pioneering film of birds in their natural habitat includes a variety of ...