"to ""Woo-manship"", meaning the art of manipulative seduction of women. The script was adapted by Peter Ustinov from Potter's books. The film starred Ian Carmichael as the innocent in need of Professor Potter's teaching, Alastair Sim as Potter, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price and Peter Jones as exemplars of one-upmanship. ""One-Upmanship"" is a British television series based on Potter's work. It was written and adapted by Barry Took for the BBC for a Christmas special, initially in 1974. Starring Richard Briers, Peter Jones (who also played a supporting role in ""School for Scoundrels""), and Frederick Jaeger, it was subsequently broadened into three"
"School for Scoundrels (2006 film) School for Scoundrels is a 2006 American feature/comedy film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, and directed by Todd Phillips. The film is based on the 1960 British film ""School for Scoundrels"". The film was released on September 29, 2006. The remake has a similar theme to the original film, but a noticeably different plot and tone. Roger (Jon Heder) is a downtrodden meter reader, subject to ridicule from co-workers and regular denizens, who dreams of dating the foreign graduate student who lives in his building, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett). To overcome his lack of"
"""One-upmanship"" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Some scenes for ""School for Scoundrels"" were shot at a private members club before its current incarnation as a hotel. The hotel hosted a screening in 2016 with Janette Scott attending and answering questions about filming ""School For Scoundrels"". Scott's highest profile as a leading lady in British films was from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, having over a dozen leading roles during this period. She was the female lead opposite some major stars of the time, including Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Ronald Lewis, Ian"
"auction in the 1970s at around £30,000. The car driven by Terry-Thomas, called a ""new Bellini"", is in fact a disguised Aston Martin DB3S. After passing the British censors on 14 December 1959 ""School for Scoundrels"" premiered at the Warner Theatre in Leicester Square, London on 24 March 1960. It played there for more than a month. When the film was released in the United States on 11 July 1960, it was given the subtitle """"or How to Win Without Actually Cheating!"""", reflected in the US poster by Tom Jung. The film was the 12th most popular film at the"
"Janette Scott Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is a retired English actress. Scott was born in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird and began her acting career as a child actress known as Janette Scott. Scott was briefly (along with Jennifer Gay) one of the so-called ""Children's Announcers"" providing continuity links for the BBC's children's TV programmes from the Lime Grove Studios in the early 1950s. She became a popular leading lady, one of her best-known roles being April Smith in the film ""School for Scoundrels"" (1960), based on the"
"Stephen Potter Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969) was a British author best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives. After leaving school in the last months of the First World War he was commissioned as a junior officer in the British Army, but by the time he had completed his training the war was over and he was demobilised. He then studied English at Oxford, and after some false starts he spent his early working life as an academic, lecturing in English literature at Birkbeck College, part of the"
"game between love rivals as a set-piece. ""School for Scoundrels"" came in at #4 at the North American box office in its opening weekend, accumulating $8,602,333, before eventually grossing $23,947,685 worldwide. The film received mainly negative reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film 25% and a consensus that """"School for Scoundrels"" squanders its talented cast with a formulaic, unfocused attempt at a romantic comedy that's neither romantic nor funny."" School for Scoundrels (2006 film) School for Scoundrels is a 2006 American feature/comedy film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder, and directed by Todd Phillips. The film is based on"
"screen"", going on to say that the actor's ""skill is exercised in demonstrating how magnificently and completely a mad-cap comedian can completely blow his top. His eyes flash, his lips curl, his sibilants whistle and he glares like a maniac"". Filming took place during the daytime; in the evenings he appeared at the London Palladium, something he found trying on his nervous system. In 1960 Terry-Thomas appeared as Raymond Delauney in ""School for Scoundrels"", a film his biographer, Robert Ross, called ""the definitive screen presentation of his frightfully well-mannered, well-read and well-educated lounge lizard: T-T the man as T-T the"
"School for Traitors School for Traitors is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series ""The Avengers"", starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It originally aired on ABC on 10 February 1963. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell. During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities. Julie Stevens sings ""Put On a Happy Face"" with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse from ""Bye Bye Birdie"", and"
"acquaintance of either Loach or of Barry Hines, the author of the book A Kestrel for a Knave who also jointly wrote the film's script and was a former teacher. Bowes was in fact Headmaster of Ashton Road Secondary Modern School, Ashton Road, Castleford, (now known as Henry Moore Middle School) during the middle to late 1960s. Bob Bowes died in 1979, aged 57. Bob Bowes Robert William - ""Bob"" - Bowes (November 19, 1922 - December 1979) was an English actor and teacher. His only film appearance is in Ken Loach's 1969 film ""Kes"". Bob Bowes played the headmaster"
"Girls' School in Northampton and joined the WAAF in 1939. In 1946 Peter Ustinov hired her as technical assistant on his film ""School for Secrets"". She became his personal assistant for the next eight years. In 1960 she co-wrote the screenplay for the film ""School for Scoundrels"" starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, and Alastair Sim. During her next job as an Assistant Editor for London ""Vogue"", Moyes also translated Jean Anouilh’s 1940 play ""Léocadia"" as ""Time Remembered."" In London (1955), the major roles were taken by Paul Scofield, Margaret Rutherford, and Mary Ure. The 1957 Broadway production – starring Richard Burton,"
"School for Husbands School for Husbands is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Rex Harrison, Diana Churchill and June Clyde. The film was an independent production which was shot at Shepperton Studios. It was distributed by the newly-formed General Film Distributors. It was based on a 1932 play by Frederick J. Jackson. Two married men who neglect their wives become concerned when they begin spending time with Leonard Drummond, a handsome and charming novelist with a notorious reputation as a womaniser. They hatch a plan to see if their wives are conducting affairs which involves"
"dialogue, Ustinov focuses more on the diverse characters than scientific advances."" School for Secrets School for Secrets (also known as Secret Flight) is a 1946 British black and white film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ralph Richardson. In leading supporting roles were David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern. Developed with the full cooperation of the Air Ministry, the film celebrates the discovery of radar. A group of British scientists work to develop a radar system. School for Secrets tells the story of the 'Boffins' - research scientists - who discovered"
"Bob Bowes Robert William - ""Bob"" - Bowes (November 19, 1922 - December 1979) was an English actor and teacher. His only film appearance is in Ken Loach's 1969 film ""Kes"". Bob Bowes played the headmaster Mr Gryce in the adaptation of Barry Hines' novel ""A Kestrel for a Knave"", in which a teenage boy from Barnsley, Yorkshire, Billy Casper, finds and trains a young kestrel and in doing so develops a sense of self-respect and discovers his individuality. The character of Gryce - known behind his back as ""Gryce pudding"" to his pupils, is severe, perfunctory and abrupt. He"
"Alfred Enoch Alfred Lewis Enoch (born 2 December 1988) is an English actor, best known for playing Dean Thomas in the ""Harry Potter"" film series and Wes Gibbins in the ABC legal drama television series ""How to Get Away with Murder"". Enoch was born in Westminster, London, to English actor William Russell and his second wife, Etheline Margareth Lewis , a Brazilian-born doctor of Barbadian origin. He attended Westminster School, a public school in London. In 2001 he was cast as Dean Thomas in ""Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"". He appeared in seven of the eight ""Harry Potter"" films."
"School for Secrets School for Secrets (also known as Secret Flight) is a 1946 British black and white film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ralph Richardson. In leading supporting roles were David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern. Developed with the full cooperation of the Air Ministry, the film celebrates the discovery of radar. A group of British scientists work to develop a radar system. School for Secrets tells the story of the 'Boffins' - research scientists - who discovered and developed radar and helped avoid the German invasion of Britain"
"themselves the ""Winsome Welshmen"", Dunstan (Dennis Price) and Dudley (Peter Jones), were based on similar characters in a 1950s BBC radio comedy series, ""In All Directions"", in which they were played by Peter Ustinov and Jones; their catch phrase ""run for it!"" was used in ""School for Scoundrels"". ""School for Scoundrels"" was made at Elstree Studios, and location scenes were mainly shot in the vicinity. The location used as the tennis club was then a private members club before its current incarnation as a hotel. The hotel hosted a screening in 2016 with Janette Scott attending and answering questions about"
"Saxon Trainor Eileen Cecile ""Saxon"" Trainor (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress and acting coach. Trainor was born in New York City and studied with Stella Adler at the Stella Adler Conservatory and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She has gained popularity as an acting teacher having taught at Margie Haber Studios and currently at Annie Grindlay Studios. Trainor's works in film include ""Skeeter"" in 1993 with John Putch and """" actors Charles Napier, Michael J. Pollard and Jay Robinson; and the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory with Patrick Stewart, Michael Shamus Wiles"
"his youngest son was about 9 years old, Potter wrote a children's book, ""Squawky"", illustrated by George Him, with whom he had earlier created the mythical County of Schweppshire as part of an advertising campaign for a soft-drink manufacturer. At the time of his death he was making notes on word origins from the natural world; they were posthumously edited and published in 1973 as ""Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from Nature"". Potter died of pneumonia in London at the age of 69. The 1960 film ""School for Scoundrels"" recapitulates many of the ""one-up"" ideas, and extends them"
"Teacher's Pet (1958 film) Teacher's Pet is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by George Seaton and starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren. Journalism instructor Erica Stone (Doris Day) asks journalist James Gannon (Clark Gable) to speak to her night school class. He turns down the invitation via a nasty letter to her. His managing editor, however, orders him to accept the assignment. He arrives late to find Stone reading aloud his letter and mocking him in front of her class. Humiliated, he decides to join the class as a student in order to"
"the other's point of view. Teacher's Pet (1958 film) Teacher's Pet is a 1958 American romantic comedy film directed by George Seaton and starring Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young and Mamie Van Doren. Journalism instructor Erica Stone (Doris Day) asks journalist James Gannon (Clark Gable) to speak to her night school class. He turns down the invitation via a nasty letter to her. His managing editor, however, orders him to accept the assignment. He arrives late to find Stone reading aloud his letter and mocking him in front of her class. Humiliated, he decides to join the class as"
"Lee Ingleby Lee David Ingleby (born 28 January 1976) is a British film, television and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus in the BBC drama ""Inspector George Gently"" and as Stan Shunpike in ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"". More recently, in 2016, Ingleby played the role of Paul Hughes, the father of an autistic child, Joe, in a BBC drama, ""The A Word"". He has also appeared as Sean O'Neill in Jimmy McGovern's ""The Street"", and in a recurring role in the second series of ""Early Doors"" as Mel's"
"Mr. Potter Henry F. Potter (commonly referred to as ""Mr. Potter"" or just ""Potter"") is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1946 Frank Capra film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He occupies slot #6 on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Greatest Villains in American film history (in its 2003 list entitled AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains). Mr. Potter was portrayed by veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. Both Dan Duryea and Charles Bickford were considered for the role of ""Potter"". In 1931 Lionel Barrymore won an Academy Award for Best Actor in ""A Free Soul"","
"the gamester, all life being a game, who understands that ""if you're not one-up, you're one-down."" Potter's unprincipled principles apply to almost any possession, experience or situation, deriving maximum undeserved rewards and discomforting the opposition. The 1960 film ""School for Scoundrels"" and the 2006 film ""School For Scoundrels"" were satiric portrayals of how to use Potter's ideas. In that context, the term refers to a satiric course in the gambits required for the systematic and conscious practice of ""creative intimidation"", making one's associates feel inferior and thereby gaining the status of being ""one-up"" on them. Viewed seriously, it is a"
"""Yellow Bird"" by Alan and Marilyn Bergman School for Traitors School for Traitors is the twentieth episode of the second series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series ""The Avengers"", starring Patrick Macnee and Julie Stevens. It originally aired on ABC on 10 February 1963. The episode was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and written by James Mitchell. During a spate of suicides at a university, a burglar seeks a note to Venus. Steed uncovers a sinister plot to blackmail students into espionage activities. Julie Stevens sings ""Put On a Happy Face"" with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by"
"as well as several other television series. Cameron Deane Stewart Cameron Deane Stewart (born August 9, 1991) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films ""Geography Club"", ""Pitch Perfect"", and ""Dirty Teacher"" as well as his role as Steven in the television teen sitcom ""iCarly"". Cameron played the role of Steven in ""iCarly"" and ""Victorious""'s special, iParty with Victorious in 2011. Recently, he has gained more attention from his leading role as Russell from ""Geography Club"" as well as his character as Tom in ""Pitch Perfect"". He even had a recurring role as Jace in"
"Professor Popper's Problem Professor Popper's Problem was a film made in 1974 turned into a 6-part serial by Mersey Film Productions for the Children's Film Foundation. The film centres around a group of children who with the school professor get shrunk and then have to return to normal size. A group of kids get involved in Professor Popper's (Charlie Drake) new secret formula and it leads to some strange happenings - including being chased by spies (Leo Maguire and Alan Curtis) who want the formula. Simon (Adam Richens) and the Professor accidentally put some of the material in their tea"
"by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill for British television. Brownlow singles out the film for praise in his book ""Behind the Mask of Innocence"" (1990). ""The Blot"", which is currently available on DVD and VHS, was exhibited at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. At the end of class, poorly paid college professor Andrew Griggs begs his unruly students to show more appreciation for his efforts to teach them. Among the most disrespectful are a spoiled trio led by Phil West (Louis Calhern), whose father is the school's wealthiest trustee; Bert Gareth, a congressman's son; and Walt Lucas, a 23-year-old"
"School for Girls - now mainly demolished, but with the original Victorian building converted to a retirement home. Using local people, Anderson also staged parodies of paintings by Manet (""Le déjeuner sur l'herbe""), Fragonard and Goya in Buile Hill Park in Salford. It was Anthony Hopkins film debut in a small role, while Stephen Moore is a young bowler-hatted, possibly upper-class, man who pesters the heroine with nonsense on the station in London. She may know him, as she says ""I'll write."" from the train. It was originally commissioned by producer Oscar Lewenstein, then a director of Woodfall, as one"
"School for Danger School for Danger (also known as Now It Can Be Told) is a 1947 British docudrama film directed by Teddy Baird depicting the training and deployment of agents of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. The film stars real-life SOE agents Captain Harry Rée and Jacqueline Nearne. In 1943, ""Captain Brown"" and ""Miss Williams"" are recruited and trained to be secret agents (Miss Williams as Brown's wireless operator). They are then sent to German-occupied France, under the operational names ""Felix"" and ""Cat"", where they organise resistance, carrying out sabotage and helping airmen get back"
"Craig T. Nelson Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the television series ""Coach"" (for which he won an Emmy), Deputy Ward Wilson in the 1980 film ""Stir Crazy"", Steven Freeling in the 1982 film ""Poltergeist"", the warden in ""My Name is Earl"", and Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film ""The Incredibles"" and its 2018 sequel. He also starred as Zeek Braverman in the television series ""Parenthood"". Nelson was born Craig Theodore Nelson in Spokane, Washington, on April 4, 1944. He was the son of Vera"
"F (film) F, also known as ""The Expelled"", is a 2010 British horror film written and directed by Johannes Roberts and starring David Schofield and Eliza Bennett. A teacher at Wittering College in north London, Robert Anderson (Schofield), is hit in the face by a pupil and forced to take three months' leave to avoid being sued by the parents of the child for giving the pupil an F grade, which is against school policy. Anderson is deeply affected by the incident and upon his return to teaching, he is an alcoholic, emotionally disturbed and separated from his wife, Helen"
"the exception of that film's ""teachers"" de la Tour, who has a more prominent role in this film; and Richard Griffiths, who died in 2013. This includes the ""temporary teacher"" (Moore) and all the ""students"" from that earlier film: Samuel Barnett (as Donald), Samuel Anderson (as a Jehovah's Witness), Stephen Campbell Moore (as a doctor), Dominic Cooper (as a theatre actor), James Corden (as a street trader), Sacha Dhawan (as Doctor Malik), Andrew Knott (as an ambulance driver), Clive Merrison (as a man attending confession), Jamie Parker (as an estate agent), and Russell Tovey (as a man with an earring)."