"Eddie Latta Eddie Latta was the songwriting name of Bruce Alfred Williams (23 November 1902 – September 1972 in Liverpool), a Liverpool undertaker who wrote songs for the Lancashire film actor and music hall artist George Formby, among others. Among the songs he wrote for Formby's films were ""Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt"" from ""Let George Do It"" (1940), ""Auntie Maggies Remedy"" from ""Turned Out Nice Again"" (1941), ""Andy The Handy Man"" from ""Much Too Shy"" (1942), ""Get Cracking"", from the 1943 film ""Get Cracking"", and ""Got To Get Your Photo In The Press"" from the film ""He Snoops to Conquer"" (1944)."
"ATP, and his second film of 1940, ""Spare a Copper"", was again focused on an aspect of the war, this time combating fifth columnists and saboteurs in a Merseyside dockyard. Cinema-goers had begun to tire of war films, and his next venture, ""Turned Out Nice Again"" returned to less contentious issues, with Formby's character caught in a domestic battle between his new wife and mother. Early in the filming schedule, he took time to perform in an ENSA show that was broadcast on the BBC from Aldwych tube station as ""Let the People Sing""; he sang four songs, and told"
"Out Nice Again"" in 1941. During the Second World War he took a break from acting and joined the Royal Air Force. After training he was posted to 129 (Mysore) Squadron as an intelligence officer. This Spitfire squadron was based at Westhampnett and Debden. The squadron was heavily engaged in combat during this period and many of Chapman's fellow squadron mates were killed in action. Chapman first starred alongside Wisdom in 1957's ""Just My Luck"" in the role of Mr. Stoneway, but the next year in ""The Square Peg"" he appeared as Mr. Grimsdale for the first time opposite Wisdom's"
"as henchmen in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films, portraying gang members in the trilogy of films ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"", (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966), as well as in ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" in 1968, and ""100 Rifles"" in 1969. He also played the part of firing squad leader in ""A Fistful of Dynamite"" (1971), and a member of Sinbad's crew in ""The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"" (1973). He acted in many other westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's ""Navajo Joe"". He appeared in several international productions as"
"series, as well as inspiring the gunslinger personality of the former. Lee Van Cleef Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989), was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as ""For A Few Dollars More"" and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, ""High Noon"", and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing"
"26 films, before going into the service for World War II.) He was a contract player with Universal Studios, unhappy with his typecasting in ""cops and robbers"" roles. He is perhaps best known for playing Bob Wayne and his alter ego, ""The Copperhead"", in the 1940 film serial ""Mysterious Doctor Satan"". He was inducted into the United States Army February 27, 1942. He served 38 months in the United States Army during World War II, rising from private to the rank of captain, and seeing action in Belgium, France and Germany. Following the war, he returned to Rochester, and appeared"
"War Nurse War Nurse is a 1930 American Pre-Code war film directed by Edgar Selwyn, and starring Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker and Robert Ames. During World War I, a small diverse group of young American women leave for France to answer the urgent need for nurses, despite having little or no experience. Under the leadership of socialite Mrs. Townsend (Hopper), they turn an abandoned building into a hospital. They are soon joined by teenage blonde Joy Meadows (Page) (who later divulges to a patient she is ""nearly nineteen""). Initially, she is teased for being inexperienced and coming from"
"around the countryside in a Ford Mercury that Formby had purchased from the racing driver Sir Malcolm Campbell, which had been converted to sleep two in the back. In January 1944 Formby described his experiences touring for ENSA in Europe and the Middle East in a BBC radio broadcast. He said that the troops ""were worrying quite a lot about you folks at home, but we soon put them right about that. We told them that after four and a half years, Britain was still the best country to live in"". Shortly after he began filming ""He Snoops to Conquer""—his"
"(1940) in which he portrayed poet-soldier Joyce Kilmer opposite Cagney, ""It All Came True"" (1940), ""All This and Heaven Too"" (1940) and ""Million Dollar Baby"" (1941). His movie career was put on hold for World War II draft, where he received a Bronze Star for his service as a in Italy and Austria as a combat intelligence captain. He returned to the screen in 1948 and was in the notably successful, ""A Letter to Three Wives"" (1949), which went on to be nominated of best picture in the 1950 prime time Academy Awards. A year later he joined that cast"
"be understood by American as well as British audiences which resulted in people thinking he was Canadian. Shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe on 3 September 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, including ""This Man Is Dangerous"" (1940), ""Dangerous Moonlight"" (1941) and ""Pimpernel Smith"" (1941). Rennie auditioned again for Michael Balcon, now head of Ealing Studios, and was cast in ""Ships with Wings"". While that film was being prepared, Rennie continued repertory work and accepted a one-line role in George Formby's ""Turned Out Nice Again"". Balcon says Rennie ""declared that he enjoyed it as"
"Peggy Bryan Margaret Eileen ""Peggy"" Bryan (3 January 1916 – 12 January 1996) was an English film and stage actress, born in Birmingham, England. She appeared in many films, including most notably as the screen wife of George Formby in the comedy film ""Turned Out Nice Again"" (1941). She married cinematographer Wilkie Cooper, with whom she had three sons. Peggy Bryan attended Windermere College with her first employment position as an elocution teacher at Highclare College located in Sutton Coldfield. Although her family did not have a theatrical background, she gained considerable amateur stage experience and eventually decided on an"
"let them go. Kalem had about two dozen piano scores published in 1912–1913, to be sold to theaters for 25 cents apiece. The score for this film, composed by Walter Cleveland Simon (1884–1958), is one of the only two in the series for which the film also survives intact. The Confederate Ironclad The Confederate Ironclad is a 1912 short spy film set during the American Civil War. It stars Guy Coombs, Anna Q. Nilsson and Miriam Cooper. It was released 50 years after the famous Battle of the ""Monitor"" and ""Merrimack"" between two ironclad warships. Nilsson was later briefly married"
"""The Fanatics"" during 1939, and five Shakespearean plays at Stratford on Avon in 1940. Bryan suffered from ill health in the final 20 years of her life. She died in West Sussex on 12 January 1996, aged 80. Peggy Bryan Margaret Eileen ""Peggy"" Bryan (3 January 1916 – 12 January 1996) was an English film and stage actress, born in Birmingham, England. She appeared in many films, including most notably as the screen wife of George Formby in the comedy film ""Turned Out Nice Again"" (1941). She married cinematographer Wilkie Cooper, with whom she had three sons. Peggy Bryan attended"
"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"
"1960s, often appearing alongside actors such as Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Totò. Although never a leading actor, he made a number of small appearances as character actors alongside Italy's leading film stars in films throughout the early to mid-1960s and is arguably best known in world cinema for his role as the store keeper in the Sergio Leone classic Spaghetti Western film ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" in 1966. His roles ranged from storekeepers and cobblers to priests and homeless men. His role of most esteem, however, is perhaps as Napoleon"
"actors cast in the movie were best known for film noir : Hume Cronyn for ""The Postman Always Rings Twice""; Joseph Calleia, for ""Gilda"" and ""Deadline at Dawn""; and Ludwig Stössel for Fritz Lang's ""Cloak and Dagger"". Groves's cooperation was secured by hiring him as a primary consultant, for $10,000 (). The portly Groves apparently had no objection to his portrayal by the slim and handsome Donlevy, except for the way in which he was shown bossing industrialists around. He had a scene in which he warned Roosevelt that the invasion of Japan would be opposed by Japanese nuclear weapons"
"Escape to Victory Escape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 American film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during the Second World War who play an exhibition match of football against a German team. The film was directed by John Huston and starred Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pelé, and Daniel Massey. The film received great attention upon its theatrical release, as it also starred professional footballers Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Kazimierz Deyna, Paul Van Himst, Mike Summerbee, Hallvar Thoresen, Werner Roth and Pelé. Numerous"
"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)"
"Lee Van Cleef Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989), was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as ""For A Few Dollars More"" and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, ""High Noon"", and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash,"
"tax year 2001 and years 2003 through 2006. Wesley Snipes Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, martial artist, and author. His prominent film roles include ""Major League"" (1989), ""Mo' Better Blues"" (1990), ""New Jack City"" (1991), ""White Men Can't Jump"" (1992), ""Demolition Man"" (1993), and the Marvel Comics character Blade in the ""Blade"" film trilogy (1998–2004). He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th"
"""Good Hunting"" (1938), ""You Can't Take It With You"" (1936), ""Star Spangled"" (1936), ""Hell Freezes Over"" (1935), ""Paths of Glory"" (1935), ""Black Pit"" (1935), ""Sailors of Cattaro"" (1934), ""Red Rust"" (1929), ""Fiesta"" (1929), ""S. S. Glencairn"" (1929), ""The Grey Fox"" (1928), ""The Road to Rome"" (1928), ""The International"" (1928), and ""What Price Glory"" (1924). In 1939, he signed with Warner Bros. and was cast in supporting roles, many times along with James Cagney, in such movies as Cagney's ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942), as well as with Gary Cooper in ""Sergeant York"" (1941) and Irving Berlin, Ronald Reagan, and George Murphy"
"War"" in 2007 and it was added to the National Film Registry. A Time Out of War A Time Out of War is a 1954 American short war film directed by Denis Sanders and starring Corey Allen and Barry Atwater. In 1955, it won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) at the 27th Academy Awards, first prize at the Venice Film Festival Live Action Short Film category, and a BAFTA Special Award, among others. Denis Sanders was in UCLA film school whilst his brother was a UCLA undergraduate. For Denis's thesis, he searched for an American Civil War"
"of the 1912 and 1932 Olympics. Thorpe was seen in one scene as a coaching assistant. It was also distributed in the United Kingdom, where it was called ""Man of Bronze"". Apart from his career in films, he also worked as a construction worker, a doorman (bouncer), a security guard and a ditch digger, and briefly joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1945. Thorpe was a chronic alcoholic during his later life. He ran out of money sometime in the early 1950s. When hospitalized for lip cancer in 1950, Thorpe was admitted as a charity case. At a press"
"the scrap metal drive. Many theaters also sold war bonds from the box office. They were centers for blood donation as well and many Hollywood actors and actresses lead the way and publicly made blood donations at the theaters. Some theaters granted free admission with a blood donation. The Hollywood Victory Committed lead the way in converting Americans to become war supporters. James Cagney, one of the great actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, was one of the early Chairmans of the Hollywood Victory Committee. Famous for his defiant comedy and vivacious presence on screen he could play a gangster as"
"films, he played the young naive hero sure of his moral position and trusting in the triumph of simple virtues (""The Virginian""). After becoming a major star, his Western screen persona was replaced by a more cautious hero in adventure films and dramas (""A Farewell to Arms""). During the height of his career, from 1936–43, he played a new type of hero—a champion of the common man willing to sacrifice himself for others (""Mr. Deeds"", ""Meet John Doe"", and ""For Whom the Bell Tolls""). In the post-war years, Cooper attempted broader variations on his screen image, which now reflected a"
"go into hiding for a short period. Another Time, Another Place (1958 film) Another Time, Another Place is a 1958 British film melodrama starring Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan and Sean Connery. The film is based on Lenore J. Coffee's 1955 novel Weep No More. An American reporter, Sara Scott (Turner) is working in London during the last year of the Second World War and begins an affair with a British reporter named Mark Trevor (Connery). Sara is conflicted on whether to marry her rich American boss (Sullivan) or the charming young reporter she is having an affair with. Finally, she"
"in ""Star Wars"" (1977). His character was later identified as Dex Tiree in the 2015 reference book, ""Ultimate Star Wars"". He appeared in such films as ""Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse"" (1978); ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981) playing the president of the Gilbert and Sullivan society; ""Ascendancy"" (1983); ""Madame Sousatzka"" (1988); ""The Object of Beauty"" (1991); ""Let Him Have It"" (1991) and ""The Innocent"" (1993). His work on television included playing Anthony Mortimer in ""Crossroads"" for two years; ""The Expert""; ""Danger UXB""; Henry Weldon in ""Have His Carcase""; 'Boy' Mulcaster in ""Brideshead Revisited""; ""The Far Pavilions""; ""Never the Twain"", Robin of"
"for playing the title role in ""The Adventures of Smilin' Jack"" and as Gilbert Blythe in the 1934 version of Anne of Green Gables. Later he appeared on the television shows ""Gunsmoke"", ""General Hospital"" and ""Days of Our Lives"". He also had a recurring role as Lt. Rovacs in ""Mr. Lucky"". He enlisted in the United States Army in World War II where in three years he rose from private to lieutenant serving in France as a paratrooper where he was awarded a French Croix de Guerre and a Bronze Star Medal. He was promoted to captain with the 40th"
"A Time Out of War A Time Out of War is a 1954 American short war film directed by Denis Sanders and starring Corey Allen and Barry Atwater. In 1955, it won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) at the 27th Academy Awards, first prize at the Venice Film Festival Live Action Short Film category, and a BAFTA Special Award, among others. Denis Sanders was in UCLA film school whilst his brother was a UCLA undergraduate. For Denis's thesis, he searched for an American Civil War short story that was in the public domain to adapt into a"
"uses the bulldozer to knock out a machine gun nest. He is discharged and sent home to recuperate from his wounds. The war hero returns to an enthusiastic welcome from his entire hometown and in particular from Amy and Barry, who show him a new shortcut they have made together to his repair shop. Robert Mitchum and Hugh Beaumont have uncredited roles. Mr. Winkle Goes to War Mr. Winkle Goes to War is a 1944 war comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Warrick, based on a novel by Theodore Pratt. On June 1, 1942, after fourteen years, mild-mannered"
"those of fellow Spaghetti Western regulars such as Aldo Sambrell and Andrea Scotti, and is considered one of the best villains of the era. His first roles were in ""Savage Guns"" and ""Gunfighters of Casa Grande"" (1964), one of the genre's earliest films, and continued working at its height with memorable performances in """" (1964), ""Minnesota Clay""(1964), ""A Pistol for Ringo"" (1965), ""Seven Dollars on the Red"" (1966), ""Arizona Colt"" (1966), ""A Bullet for the General"" (1966), ""Blood River"" (1967), ""I Want Him Dead"" (1968), ""100 Rifles"" (1969), ""A Bullet for Sandoval"" (1969), and into the ""twilight"" Spaghetti Westerns ""Bastard,"
"John Travolta John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977) and ""Grease"" (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), and he has since starred in films such as ""Get Shorty"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Face/Off"", ""Swordfish"", ""Be Cool"", ""Wild Hogs"", ""Hairspray"", and ""The Taking of Pelham 123"". Travolta was nominated for"
"Bright Victory Bright Victory is a 1951 American drama romance war film directed by Mark Robson starring Arthur Kennedy and Peggy Dow. During World War II, Larry Nevins, an American sergeant, is blinded by a German sniper while fighting in North Africa. He is taken to a Pennsylvania hospital for other blinded soldiers, where he struggles to accept and come to terms with his disability. After initial despondency, Larry is taught to orient himself and walk through the grounds and in town by memorization and use of a cane. He befriends Joe Morgan, another blinded veteran, and Judy, a local"