Michael Gwynn
출생 : 1916-11-30, Bath, Somerset, England, U.K.
사망 : 1976-01-29
약력
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Michael Gwynn (30 November 1916 in Bath – 29 January 1976 in London) was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a Major and was Adjutant to the 2nd. Nyasaland Battalion, Kings African Rifles.
He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord Melbury who attempts to con £200 and a set of British Empire coins from the unsuspecting Basil Fawlty in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers. Gwynn appears as Lord Melbury in the first ever episode of the series, "A Touch of Class".
Gwynn also appeared on several adaptations of plays on the Caedmon Records label. Among them were Cyrano de Bergerac, in which he played Le Bret, and Julius Caesar, in which he played Casca. Both productions starred Ralph Richardson in the title role.
He died on 29 January 1976 in London from a heart attack.
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Lord Melbury (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.
Oliver Mason
Mark Walker is in the lucrative business of marrying wealthy older women and murdering them after the honeymoon. That all changes when he falls for cool blonde Stella McKenzie. He considers giving up his life of crime and finally marrying for love. The only obstacles in his way are a lawyer who suspects the truth, and temptation in the form of the perfect target for one more kill...
The Priest
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
Lt Col Bromley-Pickering
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Doctor Lang
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
Hardingford
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
Cornelius
게르만 정벌이 끝나가고 있을 무렵, 노쇠해진 로마 황제 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스는 자신의 후계자로 아들 코모두스 대신 양아들인 리비우스를 지목한다. 하지만 그 사실을 알아차린 코모두스의 측근에 의해 마르쿠스는 독살된다. 리비우스의 연인이자 마르쿠스의 딸 루실라마저 동맹 관계인 아르메니아의 왕에게 시집 보내지고, 결국 로마 제국의 운명은 코모두스의 손에 달린다. 폭군이 된 그는 자신에게 거르는 사람은 모두 죽여버리고, 무리한 조세를 걷어들이는 등 폭정을 일삼다 마침내 리비우스와 단독 결투를 벌이는데..
Gendarme
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
Hermes
펠리아스는 아리스토왕을 죽이고 테살리아를 정복하겠지만 아리 스토왕의 자식에 의해 왕관을 빼앗기게 될 것이라는 신탁을 듣게 된다. 이에 두려움 을 느낀 펠리아스는 테살리아를 공격해 아리스토왕의 자식을 남김없이 처치하려 하지 만 제이슨은 헤라 여신의 도움으로 가까스로 살아남게 된다. 한편 헤라는 펠리아스에게 한쪽 신발을 신은 청년에 의해 죽게 될 것이라는 예언을 남기고. 세월이 흘러 청년이 된 제이슨은 헤라의 술책으로 물에 빠져 죽음의 위기에 처 한 펠리아스를 구하게 된다. 그러나 제이슨은 물에 뛰어들 때 신발을 한짝 잃게 되고, 이것을 본 펠리아스는 그가 아리스토왕의 자식임을 눈치채고, 평화를 위해서는 황금양털 이 필요하다는 핑계로 제이슨을 콜키스로 떠나 보낸다. 제이슨은 그리스의 최고의 선원들과 함께 항해를 떠난다. 그 중에는 헤라클레스도 끼어 있었다. 제이슨 일행은 청동거인 타로스와 스케레톤의 군대 등과 맞서 싸우며 천신만고 끝에 콜키스에 도착하지만 펠리아스가 미리 숨겨놓은 그의 아들 아카스터스의 모략으로 함정에 빠지게 된다. 콜키스의 여성 사제인 메디아의 도움으로 함정에서 벗어난 제이슨은 머리가 여럿 달린 괴물 히드라와의 처절한 사투 끝에 마침내 황금 양털을 빼앗아 콜키스를 빠져나온다. 그러나 이 모든 것이 제우스와 헤라가 인간을 말 삼아 벌인 장기게임이었으니.
Cimber
위대한 이집트가 시저의 손에 들어가고 그곳의 여왕 클레오파트라는 시저와 뜨거운 사랑에 빠진다. 호탕한 성격에 치밀한 두뇌를 지닌 시저는 이집트를 통치하며 문제없이 잘 이끌어 가던 중, 그를 시기하던 지하 세력에 의해 조종된 자신의 아들 부르터스의 칼에 맞아 비극적인 삶을 마감한다. 이런 혼란을 틈타 지하세력은 이집트를 삼키려 하지만 안토니우스의 재치와 용기로 다시 이집트는 평정을 되찾는다. 그리고 안토니우스는 클레오파트라의 신임과 사랑을 얻게 된다. 그러나 적국의 공격과 계속되는 간신들의 모반 속에 안토니우스 역시 혼란에 빠지고 클레오파트라는 자결을 결심한다.
Vicar
Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
Lazarus
바라바는 예수 대신 석방되어 도적질과 폭력으로 가득했던 예전의 삶으로 돌아간다. 그러나 그가 총애하던 창녀 라헬은 기독교도가 되었다 돌에 맞아 죽는다. 사람을 죽이고 도둑질을 일삼는 삶을 계속하던 바라바는 다시 체포되어 평생 동안 광산 노역을 선고받는다. 바라바는 광산에서 기독교도인 사하크를 만나고, 바라바를 알아본 사하크는 그를 공격하려 들지만 둘은 얼마 안 가 친구가 된다. 바라바는 광산에서 20년을 일하며 죽음을 선고받았던 때의 고통과 예수의 희생에 대한 기억으로 고통받는다. 바라바와 사하크는 광산의 매몰에서 살아남아 로마 콜로세움으로 가게 된다. 둘은 그곳에서 검투사로 훈련을 받지만 사하크는 죽음을 당하고, 바라바는 사하크의 복수를 감행한다. 기독교도인 사하크의 시신을 기독교 모임으로 옮겨간 바라바는 섣부른 신앙을 내보였다가 그곳에서도 배척받는다. 신의 말씀을 잘못 이해한 바라바는 로마의 대화재에 가담하지만, 결국은 순교자가 된다.
Friedrich Gottfried
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
Malcolm Broughton
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
Alan Bernard
1957년 존 윈드햄의 소설 '미드위치의 침입자들(The Midwich Cuckoos)'을 영화화한 작품. 개봉 당시에는 큰 인기를 끌지는 못했지만, 이후1960년대 SF 공포 영화의 대표작으로 그 작품성을 인정받아 1995년에 다시 리메이크되기도 했다.
Prosecutor
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Dr. Blenkinsop
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Karl
Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve, transplants a dwarf's brain into another body and unleashes a deranged being.
Tom Shields
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Commander (Sheerness)
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
Steve Waring
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
1st Transport Officer
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
