Joe Gladwin
Nacimiento : 1906-01-22, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Muerte : 1987-03-11
Historia
Joseph Gladwin was an English actor, best known for his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
Old Gobbo
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Plumber
A principios de 1942, mientras los aliados se preparan para el Desembarco de Normandía, miles de soldados yanquis son enviados a Inglaterra. En la vida de tres de ellos juegan un papel importante tres mujeres: Helen, una madre de mentalidad tradicional que trabaja como voluntaria de la Cruz Roja, Mollie, conductora de autobús y gran admiradora de los estadounidenses, y Jen, la hija del jefe de los tenderos locales, una joven de frágil sensibilidad que está enamorada del soldado Matt.
Mr Etheridge
Muestra la realidad de la vida durante los ataques aéreos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial sin nada del tradicional 'espíritu Blitz' representado con tanta frecuencia. Eric pasa las noches hacinado en un refugio de ladrillos con su padre, su hermana y sus hijos que gritan, y cada bombardeo hace llorar por la pérdida de su madre en una redada anterior. Cuando se entera de que van a evacuar a su amada, finalmente cede bajo el estrés.
Bert
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right
Sam
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Patrick Hall
Sid's daughter may be pregnant, but he is more interested in catching a pesky mouse. Things are further complicated by visits from an assortment of strange neighbours and relatives.
Messenger
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
Marko
The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
Old Man In Car
Tras una operación, un hombre de unos 30 años que ha permanecido en coma en una cama de hospital desde su nacimiento, vuelve a la vida. El Dr. Michael Bergen intentará convertir a ese adulto con mentalidad de un bebé, a llevar una vida normal y para ello deberá enseñarle como comer, vestir, relacionarse... Surgen discusiones entre el Dr. Michael Bergen y un colega, el Dr. Maitland, sobre cual es la mejor forma de educarle. El Dr. Bergen asegura que puede acelerar el proceso de maduración del joven. Pero una vez aprendida ciertas cosas, Soames desea ver como es el mundo, y decide escaparse del hospital. Tras un largo aprendizaje, Soames aprende que él es el único responsable de sus acciones.
Drunk
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
Mr Forshaw
A coming of age story of an interracial relationship.
Adam Coulson
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
Pa Brose
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Waiter in Hotel
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
Joiner
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Harry
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
Dodge
Danny es un psicópata de la clase trabajadora que se muda con una viuda rica para redecorar su casa, mientras tanto, "juega" con la hija y la criada mientras la viuda duerme.
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Cuando su novia Ingrid queda embarazada, Vic se siente obligado a casarse con ella, pero entre ellos no hay amor, sólo atracción física. La situación se complica cuando la madre de Ingrid se va a vivir con ellos.