"afterward. David Niven was a fan of chess. Peter and June play chess while they await Dr Reeves. Then Conductor 71 ""borrows"" a chess book Peter has accidentally knocked off the table, Alekhine's ""My Best Games of Chess"". After the trial is won, Conductor 71 throws the book from the stairway; June finds it in his jacket pocket ""to serve the 'was it a hallucination or did it really happen?' motif of the film"", according to Mig Greengard. He also noted, ""Lots of chess in movies past and present, but I can't recall another prominent appearance of a real chess"
"critics named ""A Matter of Life and Death"" the second greatest British film ever made, behind ""Get Carter"". It ranked 90th among critics, and 322nd among directors, in the 2012 ""Sight & Sound"" polls of the greatest films ever made. On 2 May 1945, Squadron leader Peter Carter is a Royal Air Force pilot trying to fly a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber back to his base in England after a mission over Germany. He has ordered his crew to bail out, without revealing that his own parachute has been shot up. He manages to contact June, an American"
"David Niven James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was an English actor, memoirist and novelist. His many roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in ""A Matter of Life and Death"", Phileas Fogg in ""Around the World in 80 Days"", and Sir Charles Lytton (""the Phantom"") in ""The Pink Panther."" He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""Separate Tables"" (1958). Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown Preparatory School and Stowe before gaining a place at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the British Army and was commissioned"
"Matter of Life and Death"". The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price), U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson (played by real-life Sergeant John Sweet), and a ""Land Girl"", Miss Alison Smith (Sheila Sim). The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small Kent town of Chillingbourne (filmed in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux and other villages in the area), near Canterbury, late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by"
"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"","
"in Los Angeles, California of a coronary occlusion due to coronary arteriosclerosis. Robert Kent (actor) Robert Kent (born Douglas Blackley, Jr.; December 3, 1908 – May 4, 1955), was an American film actor. His career included starring roles in several film serials of the 1940s, including ""The Phantom Creeps"", ""Who's Guilty?"", and ""The Phantom Rider"". He also had a role in the 1938 film ""The Gladiator"" and was Virginia Vale's leading man in ""Blonde Comet"", a 1941 movie about a female racing driver. He married actress Astrid Allwyn in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 10, 1937, and they were divorced in"
"John Carter (actor) John Carter (November 26, 1927 – May 23, 2015) was an American actor known in particular for ""Badlands"" (1973), ""Scarface"" (1983), and ""The Hoax"" (2006). Born in Center Ridge in Conway County in central Arkansas, Carter was the older brother of actor Conlan Carter of the ABC television series, ""Combat!"". Carter played an historical figure, Stephen F. Austin, in the 1969 episode ""Here Stands Bailey"" of the syndicated series ""Death Valley Days"", hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the story line, the hardy, cantankerous pioneer James Briton ""Brit"" Bailey (Paul Fix) and"
"Don Porter Donald ""Don"" Porter (September 24, 1912 – February 11, 1997) was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including ""Top Sergeant"" and ""Eagle Squadron"", but is perhaps best known for his television roles as Peter Sands, the boss of Ann Sothern's character on ""Private Secretary"", and as Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances ""Gidget"" Lawrence (Sally Field), in the 1965 ABC sitcom ""Gidget"". He was born in Miami, Oklahoma, Porter's obituary in the ""Deseret News"" reported that his career in show business began in Portland, Oregon, after he served in"
"Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""A Free Soul"" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ""A Christmas Carol"" during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's"
"presented challenges, such as the stopped-action table-tennis game for which Hunter and Livesey were trained by champions Alan Brooke and Viktor Barna; the scene where Carter washes up on the beach, the first scene filmed, where cinematographer Jack Cardiff fogged up the camera lens with his breath to create the look he wanted; and the long, 25-minute trial sequence, which required a set with a long by high backcloth. ""A Matter of Life and Death"" was chosen for the first ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946 at the Empire Theatre, in London. The performance was in aid of"
"Cotton Bowl (which ended in a scoreless tie). In addition, since Bond was only the star of ""Wagon Train"" and not a producer, he was not responsible for casting. Ward Bond Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and the NBC television series ""Wagon Train"" from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert, the cop, in Frank Capra's ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956). Bond was born in Benkelman in Dundy County, Nebraska. Benkelman"
"Ward Bond Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and the NBC television series ""Wagon Train"" from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert, the cop, in Frank Capra's ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956). Bond was born in Benkelman in Dundy County, Nebraska. Benkelman is a small town located in the southwestern corner of the state near the Kansas and Colorado state lines. The Bond family, John W., Mabel L., and sister Bernice,"
"Robert Kent (actor) Robert Kent (born Douglas Blackley, Jr.; December 3, 1908 – May 4, 1955), was an American film actor. His career included starring roles in several film serials of the 1940s, including ""The Phantom Creeps"", ""Who's Guilty?"", and ""The Phantom Rider"". He also had a role in the 1938 film ""The Gladiator"" and was Virginia Vale's leading man in ""Blonde Comet"", a 1941 movie about a female racing driver. He married actress Astrid Allwyn in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 10, 1937, and they were divorced in 1941. He had three children: Kristina, Susan, and Kim Louise. He died"
"Jim Carter (actor) James Edward Carter (born 19 August 1948) is an English actor. Carter's film credits include ""Top Secret!"" (1984), ""A Month in the Country"" (1987), """" (1992), ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""Richard III"" (1995), ""Brassed Off"" (1996), ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998), ""The Little Vampire"" (2000), ""Ella Enchanted"" (2004), and Detective Victor Getz in ""The Thief Lord"" (2006). He plays John Faa in ""The Golden Compass"" (2007), the first film in the adaptation of the ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, and also stars in ""House of 9"" (2005) as The Watcher, and the executioner in Tim Burton's adaptation"
"television, his credits included episodes of ""R.C.M.P."", ""Seaway"", ""Wojeck"", ""McQueen"", ""For the Record"", ""Police Surgeon"", ""The Forest Rangers"" and ""Swiss Family Robinson"", and the telefilms ""The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog"" and ""A Man Called Intrepid"". He died of a heart attack on June 3, 1982. He was married to actress Linda Goranson. Peter Carter (director) Peter Carter (December 8, 1933 - June 3, 1982) was a Canadian film and television director. Best known as the director of ""The Rowdyman"" and ""Klondike Fever"", he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980"
"on November 25, 2013. Ken Peters Kenneth Leroy Peters (June 27, 1915 - November 25, 2013) was a baseball player, actor and longtime superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District. Peters was born in the United States city of Orange, California. He attended the University of Southern California and played for the USC Trojans baseball team, where he was captain, until 1936. A second baseman, he formed a middle infield with shortstop Rod Dedeaux. He acted in the films ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" and ""Death on the Diamond"" while at USC. He was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals"
"later, and was shown twice again by the BBC in February 1948 with a different cast. Nigel Patrick, who plays 1st Officer Manson in the film, played the captain in the first TV version. In the play, the captain's name is Stanford, but for the film it was changed to Armstrong. Most other characters retained their names in the film version, although the film also has additional characters, due to the insertion of flashback scenes and scenes from the rescue operation on the surface. The stage play has an all-male fourteen-character cast, while the film has a credited cast of"
"or Nazi characters. Peters appeared in two episodes of the 1966 American television espionage drama ""Blue Light"". These were edited together with two other episodes to create the theatrical film ""I Deal in Danger"", released in December 1966, which included his role. Werner Peters Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany. His film career started with the lead"
"House Peters Sr. Robert House Peters Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as ""The Star of a Thousand Emotions."" Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in ""In the Bishop's Carriage"" (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While ""The Bishop's Carriage"" was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to permanently settle there. Although he stated publicly that he preferred playing villains, Peters,"
"Nick Carter, Master Detective (film) Nick Carter, Master Detective is a 1939 film starring Walter Pidgeon in the title role. Carter investigates espionage at an aircraft factory. Pidgeon and Donald Meek went on to reprise their roles in two sequels, ""Phantom Raiders"" (1940) and ""Sky Murder"" (1941). Nick Carter boards an airliner with John Keller, the inventor of a revolutionary new aircraft. The pilot makes an unscheduled landing so that his confederates can try to steal Keller's plans, but Carter holds them off, and stewardess Lou Farnsby manages to fly them to safety. Carter, posing as ""Robert Chalmers"", the new"
"stage works: [Was with the Brighton Combination when it became resident in the Albany in Deptford, SE London, 1972] Jim Carter (actor) James Edward Carter (born 19 August 1948) is an English actor. Carter's film credits include ""Top Secret!"" (1984), ""A Month in the Country"" (1987), """" (1992), ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""Richard III"" (1995), ""Brassed Off"" (1996), ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998), ""The Little Vampire"" (2000), ""Ella Enchanted"" (2004), and Detective Victor Getz in ""The Thief Lord"" (2006). He plays John Faa in ""The Golden Compass"" (2007), the first film in the adaptation of the ""His Dark Materials"""
"Anthony Zerbe Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in ""The Omega Man"", a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, ""I Am Legend""; as a corrupt gambler in ""Farewell, My Lovely""; as Abner Devereaux in ""Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park""; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film ""Licence to Kill""; Rosie in ""The Turning Point""; Roger Stuart in ""The Dead Zone""; Admiral Dougherty in """" and Councillor Hamann in ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""The Matrix Revolutions""."
"Jermaine Rivers Jermaine Lateef Rivers (born September 22, 1973) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Shatter on Fox/Marvel's television series The Gifted. He is also notable for his role as Officer Carter in the Lifetime Channel television series ""Devious Maids"". He also made appearances in Tyler Perry's ""If Loving You is Wrong"" (2016) and ""The Haves and Have Nots"" (2018). Rivers was born in Vicenza, Italy on Caserma Ederle to Brenda J Rivers and Jerry B Rivers (deceased) who was an active duty US Army service member stationed in Italy until 1975. He graduated"
"Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (; born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows ""It Takes a Thief"" (1968–70), ""Switch"" (1975–78), and ""Hart to Hart"" (1979–84). He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom ""Two and a Half Men"" and has a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural ""NCIS"". In movies, Wagner is known for his role as Number Two in the ""Austin Powers"" trilogy of films (1997, 1999, 2002), as well as for ""A Kiss Before"
"1962; the couple has two children. Anthony Zerbe Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. Notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in ""The Omega Man"", a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, ""I Am Legend""; as a corrupt gambler in ""Farewell, My Lovely""; as Abner Devereaux in ""Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park""; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond film ""Licence to Kill""; Rosie in ""The Turning Point""; Roger Stuart in ""The Dead Zone""; Admiral Dougherty in """" and Councillor Hamann in ""The"
"Ken Peters Kenneth Leroy Peters (June 27, 1915 - November 25, 2013) was a baseball player, actor and longtime superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District. Peters was born in the United States city of Orange, California. He attended the University of Southern California and played for the USC Trojans baseball team, where he was captain, until 1936. A second baseman, he formed a middle infield with shortstop Rod Dedeaux. He acted in the films ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" and ""Death on the Diamond"" while at USC. He was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals and played in their"
"Sky Murder Sky Murder is a 1940 film starring Walter Pidgeon in his third and final outing for MGM as Nick Carter. Whilst attempting to prove a beautiful immigrant innocent of murder, detective Nick Carter ends up exposing the leaders of the Fifth Column. According to MGM record, the film earned $270,000 in the US and Canada and $167,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $64,000. ""The New York Times"" wrote, ""let a Hollywood producer launch a film series and very shortly the stories, as they appear, become as formalized as Chinese checkers. The Nick Carter mysteries are no exception...Through it"
"get to his favourite bar for a drink as soon as filming had finished for the evening. On one occasion Howard was in too much of a hurry to change out of his uniform as a British Army major. After a few drinks, he got into an argument and attracted the attention of a real major, who ordered the Military Police to arrest Howard as an impostor. Howard was forced to apologise and was summoned to appear before the British commanding general, Sir Alexander Galloway. Howard was the lead in ""Golden Salamander"" (1950) and played Peter Churchill in ""Odette"" (1950)"
"Trampled Grass"" (1946). Powers moved to the West Coast after becoming ill with arthritis, and became a full-time movie actor when Billy Wilder invited him to play the murder victim in the 1944 film noir classic, ""Double Indemnity"". For the next dozen years or so, Powers appeared in over 80 film and television roles, usually playing middle-aged business men, military or police officers. His performance as Metallus Cimber in ""Julius Caesar"" (1953) is regarded as Powers' best during his Hollywood years. Tom Powers was married to Meta Murray Janney of Philadelphia on September 7, 1929. Powers died of heart disease"
"U.S. Army. The day before he is to leave Washington, D.C. for France, he meets socialite Joel Carter (Rosalind Russell) at an embassy gathering. The couple spend the day together where Gordon confides that because he once wrote a book on cryptography under a pen name, the army is searching for him to put him to work behind a desk, but he is eager to get into the fighting. Just before he boards his train, Gordon is ordered to report to Assistant Secretary of War John Carter (Samuel S. Hinds). Over his objections, Carter assigns Gordon to the code-breaking room"
"Barry Pepper Barry Robert Pepper (born April 4, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He played Private Daniel Jackson in ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), Corrections Officer Dean Stanton in ""The Green Mile"" (1999), Jonnie Goodboy Tyler in ""Battlefield Earth"" (2000), Roger Maris in ""61*"" (2001), Sergeant Michael Strank in ""Flags of Our Fathers"" (2006) and ""Lucky"" Ned Pepper in ""True Grit"" (2010). He has been nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe Award. For his role as Robert F. Kennedy in the miniseries ""The Kennedys"" (2011), Pepper won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in"
"Walter Slezak Walter Slezak (; 3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was an Austrian-born character actor and singer who appeared in German films before migrating to the US in 1930 and featuring in numerous Hollywood productions. Slezak often portrayed villains or thugs, most notably the German U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's film ""Lifeboat"" (1944), but occasionally he got to play lighter roles, as in ""The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm"" (1962) and as a wandering gypsy in ""The Inspector General"" (1949). He also played a cheerfully corrupt and philosophical private detective in the film noir ""Born to Kill"""
"Philip Winchester Philip C. Winchester (born March 24, 1981) is an English-American actor. He is known for his roles in ""The Patriot"", ""The Hi-Line"", ""LD 50 Lethal Dose"", ""Thunderbirds"", """", ""King Lear"", ""Strike Back"", ""Flyboys"", ""In My Sleep"", ""The Heart of the Earth"" and ""Shaking Dream Land"". He is mostly known for his role as Peter Stone in ""Chicago Justice"" and """". Winchester graduated from Belgrade High School in Belgrade, Montana in 1999. He then lived and worked in London, United Kingdom (his mother's native country), and attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Winchester's acting career"