* Associated Talking Pictures, a British film studio of the 1930s later renamed as Ealing Studios

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

In the late 1940s, in Britain, Ealing Studios embarked on their series of celebrated comedies, including Whisky Galore !, Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Man in the White Suit, and Carol Reed directed his influential thrillers Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol and The Third Man.

Ealing Studios has a claim to being the oldest continuously working film studio facility in the world.

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.

* Undercover ( 1943 ), a British film produced by Ealing Studios, released in the US by Columbia pictures as Underground Guerrillas.

After the end of the War, he spent ten years writing scripts for Ealing Studios, and published no more novels until 1961.

The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios.

Category: Ealing Studios films

Rafferty's onscreen image as a lanky, laconic bushman struck a chord with film goers and appeared in iconic early Australian films as Forty Thousand Horsemen, The Rats of Tobruk, The Overlanders and Eureka Stockade ( Overlanders and Eureka were part of a series of Australian themed films produced by Britain's iconic Ealing Studios ).

Faced with potential unemployment from the sale of Ealing Studios to the BBC in 1954, director Alexander Mackendrick began entertaining offers from Hollywood.

Most recently, St Trinian's, a remake of the classic film, was produced by Ealing Studios ; some locations in Ealing can be seen in this film.

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The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B.

Category: Ealing Studios films

After the war, he appeared in the film Brief Encounter and made a series of films for Ealing Studios, including Passport to Pimlico, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt.

He started his association with the filmmakers Ealing Studios in 1934, appearing in the fifth Gracie Fields picture Sing As We Go.

Holloway also starred in a series of films for Ealing Studios, beginning with Champagne Charlie in 1944 alongside Tommy Trinder.

In 1962, Christie appeared in feature films with co-starring roles in a pair of comedies for Ealing Studios: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady.

Not only are there allusions to Shakespeare and Marlowe, but also to Wilde and Whitehall farce ; to the gentility of Ealing Studios, with a plot that distantly evokes that other great black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, and to Hammer ’ s gore-fests.

Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Ealing Road is the main road of Alperton, occupied by many Indian restaurants as well as general goods and Indian clothing stores.

Greenford formed part of Greenford Urban District from 1894 to 1926 and was then absorbed by the Municipal Borough of Ealing.

In 1979 it was replaced by " Ealing District General Hospital ", on the other side of the River Brent.

This park was acquired by Ealing Borough Council as a recreation ground in 1931 from Sir

Hanwell is divided between two parliamentary constituencies: Ealing North ( which covers Hanwell north of the railway line to Paddington ), represented since 1997 by Labour MP Stephen Pound, and Ealing Southall ( south of the railway line ), represented since 2007 by Labour MP Virendra Sharma.

The London borough was formed in 1965 by the merging the area of the Municipal Borough of Ealing, the Municipal Borough of Southall and the Municipal Borough of Acton from Middlesex

The rapid growth of the population in the mid-20th century can be explained by Northolt's growth as a dormitory town for nearby Ealing, and the construction in 1935 of the A40 road through the area.

The constituency of Ealing North is currently represented by Labour Party Member of Parliament Stephen Pound, and has been since 1997.

In the late 1970s, the site was extensively redeveloped, with most of the area now taken up by the Ealing Hospital.

Southall is part of the parliamentary constituency of Ealing Southall, represented since 2007 by Labour Member of Parliament Virendra Sharma.

The station, built in 1933, is fronted by a pedestrian high street and is connected to a bus terminus with connections to Hillingdon, Hayes, Ealing, Ruislip, and Slough.

Around 40 of the sub-districts created in 1917 were outside its boundary with Leyton in Essex, Ealing in Middlesex, Totteridge in Hertfordshire and Wimbledon in Surrey served by the London postal area but outside the County of London.

played two home Third Division South games and in 1930 – 31 for eight matches by non-League Ealing A. F. C.

It survives in manuscript form at The National Archives ( piece E 163 / 24 / 35 ), and was transcribed and printed by K J Allison for the Ealing Historical Society in 1961.

Great Ealing School was founded in 1698 by the Church of St Mary's.

* 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

Often on his way home from school Keith would go to Macari's Music Studio in Ealing Road and would take instruction and practice on the drums there, where he learned his basic drumming skills.

Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, then moved to a village in Middlesex.

His father was a mathematics teacher at Ealing School until it closed, putting the family into financial difficulties.

Richards, Taylor, and Jagger found Brian Jones as he sat in playing slide guitar with Alexis Korner's seminal London R & B band, Blues Incorporated, at the Ealing Jazz Club.

While attending Ealing Art College, Tim Staffell became friends with Farrokh Bulsara, a fellow student who had assumed the English name of Freddie.

Filming took place at studios in Ealing, west London and took only one day, thanks to careful preparation beforehand.

; 1920: In the west, a short connecting link was made from Wood Lane station to join the Great Western Railway ( GWR )- operated line, the Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway, allowing trains to run to Ealing Broadway.