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Ronald Adam is a Actor British born on 29 december 1896 at Worcestershire (Luxembourg)
Ronald Adam OBE (December 31, 1896 – March 28, 1979), born Ronald George Hinings Adams, was a British officer of the RFC and RAF, an actor on stage and screen and a successful theatre manager.
After the Second World War Ronald Adam lived in Surbiton, Surrey, and died on 28 March 1979.
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Birth name Ronald George Hinings Adams
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 29 december 1896 at Worcestershire (Luxembourg)
Death 27 march 1979 (at 82 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 29 december 1896 at Worcestershire (Luxembourg)
Death 27 march 1979 (at 82 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Ronald Adam OBE (December 31, 1896 – March 28, 1979), born Ronald George Hinings Adams, was a British officer of the RFC and RAF, an actor on stage and screen and a successful theatre manager.
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He married firstly Tanzi Cutava Barozzi; the marriage was dissolved. His second wife was Allyne Dorothy Franks. He had two children, Jane and David.After the Second World War Ronald Adam lived in Surbiton, Surrey, and died on 28 March 1979.
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Question of Love (1978)
, 1h40Directed by André Cayatte
Origin France
Genres Thriller
Actors Annie Girardot, Bibi Andersson, Michel Galabru, Michel Auclair, Georges Géret, Dominique Paturel
Roles Le juge anglais
Rating60%
Une femme et son amant sont soupçonnés du meurtre du mari. Ils s'enfuient mais sont arrêtés à la frontière italienne. Elle est emprisonnée. L'amant est anglais, le dossier incomplet n'est pas suffisant pour lui interdire de repartir vers l'Angleterre. Chacun d'eux se trouve face à la justice de son pays et à la possibilité d'une double erreur judiciaire.
The Ruling Class (1972)
, 2h34Directed by Peter Medak
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Michael Bryant, William Mervyn
Roles Lord
Rating72%
Following the death from accidental asphyxiation of Ralph Gurney, the 13th Earl of Gurney (Andrews), Jack Gurney (O'Toole) becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney. Jack, a paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he is Jesus Christ and shocks his family and friends with his talk of returning to the world to bring it love and charity, not to mention his penchant for breaking out into song and dance routines and sleeping upright on a cross. When faced with unpalatable facts (such as his identity as the 14th Earl), Jack puts them in his "galvanized pressure cooker" and they disappear. His unscrupulous uncle, Sir Charles (Mervyn), marries him to his mistress, Grace (Seymour), in hopes of producing an heir and putting his nephew in an institution; the plan fails, however, when Grace falls in love with Jack. Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire (Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. She also begins sleeping with Jack's psychiatrist, Dr. Herder (Michael Bryant), to persuade him to cure Jack quickly.
Zeppelin (1971)
, 1h40Directed by Étienne Périer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring, Andrew Keir
Roles Prime Minister
Rating61%
During the First World War in 1915, Geoffrey Richter-Douglas (Michael York), a Scotsman of German descent, is a lieutenant in the British Army. He meets Stephanie (Alexandra Stewart), a German spy with whom he falls in love. She suggests that he escape to Germany, where the other members of his family and his friends are. As a loyal soldier, he reports this contact to his commanding officer, Captain Whitney, who also wants Geoffrey to go to Germany, but on a secret mission to steal the plans of the LZ36, a new type of Zeppelin under development at Friedrichshafen.
Song of Norway (1970)
, 2h18Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Harry Secombe, Robert Morley, Edward G. Robinson, Oskar Homolka
Roles Gade
Rating42%
Who Killed the Cat? (1966)
Directed by Montgomery Tully
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mary Merrall, Ellen Pollock, Amy Dalby, Mervyn Johns, Vanda Godsell, Conrad Phillips
Roles Gregory
Rating66%
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
, 1h21Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Ghost films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis, Richard Vernon, Frank Thornton
Roles Minister at Graveside
Rating63%
Verden Fell (Vincent Price) is both mournful and threatened by his first wife's death. He senses her reluctance to die and her near-blasphemous statements about God (she was an atheist). Alone and troubled by a vision problem that requires him to wear strange dark glasses, Fell shuns the world. Against his better judgement, he marries a headstrong young woman (Elizabeth Shepherd) he meets by accident and who is apparently bethrothed to an old friend Christopher Gough (John Westbrook).
The Haunting (1963)
, 1h52Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Ghost films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Lois Maxwell
Roles Eldridge Harper
Rating73%
Dr. John Markway narrates the history of the 90-year-old Hill House, which was constructed by Hugh Crain as a home for his wife. She died when her carriage crashed against a tree as she approached the house for the first time. Crain remarried, but his second wife died in the house from a fall down the stairs. Crain's daughter Abigail lived in the house for the rest of her life, never moving out of the nursery. She died calling for her nurse-companion. The companion inherited the house, but later hanged herself from a spiral staircase in the library. Hill House was eventually inherited by a Mrs. Sanderson, although it has stood empty for some time.
Heavens Above! (1963)
, 1h58Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael, Brock Peters
Rating66%
The plot features Sellers as a naive but caring prison chaplain accidentally assigned as vicar to a small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of Ian Carmichael's upper class cleric, with whom he shares a name. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the locals, whose assertions that they are good, Christian people are in Smallwood's view belied by their behaviour and ideas. He creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman (Brock Peters) as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading local landowner Lady Despard (Isabel Jeans) to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. However, all his good works lead to trouble.
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
, 2h5Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson, Robert Lee
Roles Père Lemay
Rating59%
In 1949, Catholic priests O'Banion (William Holden) and Bovard (Clifton Webb) are constantly harassed by the Communist People's Party at their remote mission outpost in China. Adding to Father O'Banion's troubles is the mission's cook, Siu Lan (France Nuyen), an attractive Chinese girl who makes no secret of her love for him.
Postman's Knock (1962)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Lynn
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Shelley, Spike Milligan, John Wood, Warren Mitchell, Lance Percival, Arthur Mullard
Roles Mr. Fordyce
Rating53%
Harold Petts (Spike Milligan) is a conscientious village postman who receives a promotion that takes him to London, to be trained at London's busiest post office. However, after his first day in the big city he is soon in trouble. In the main sorting office he succeeds in beating the new mail sorting machine at pigeonholing letters for delivery (the machine blows up in the process). As a result he is placed safely out of the way in the parcels department, but sorts parcels at such speed that he puts everyone else in the department out of work. This leads him to a meeting with the staff Psychiatrist, and then to Jean (Barbara Shelley), an ambitious art student, and the pair find themselves the main suspects in a mail theft ring, with the police and Post Office officials hot on their heels.
Three on a Spree (1961)
, 1h23Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Watling, Carole Lesley, John Slater, Colin Gordon, Julian Orchard, Libby Morris
Roles Judge
Rating60%
Michael Brewster stands to inherit £8000,000; but only on condition he spends the first million in sixty days.
Offbeat (1961)
, 1h11Directed by Cliff Owen
Genres Crime
Actors William Sylvester, Mai Zetterling, John Meillon, Anthony Dawson, Neil McCarthy, Harry Baird
Roles J. B. Wykeham
Rating65%
And the Same to You (1960)
, 1h10Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Tommy Cooper, Vera Day, Sid James, Miles Malleson
Roles Trout (as Ronald Adams)
Rating53%
Stuck with the name "Dickie Dreadnought," Rix feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. To mollify his uncle, Rix pretends to be the soul of religiosity, while his tough-talking manager Walter 'Wally' Burton (William Hartnell) poses as a Man of the Cloth.
Carry On Constable (1960)
, 1h26Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sid James, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey
Roles Automobiliste (non crédité)
Rating62%
A suburban police station is understaffed, due to a flu epidemic, and Sergeant Wilkins, under pressure to maintain staffing levels, is pleased to hear that three new recruits, straight from training school, are due shortly.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
, 1h28Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Raymond Huntley
Roles Sir John Farthing
Rating61%
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island Gaillardia during the seventeenth century, the feud between two scions of its royal house and Britain's granting the island self-rule in 1916. However, when independence was granted, the Foreign Office (F.O.) failed to recall its ambassador, who is still there forty years later. He writes a letter to the F.O. informing them of Russian moves to annex the island's mineral wealth.