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Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.
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The Boultings used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Malleson.
The character was modelled after actor John Le Mesurier.
* The Invasion Quartet ( 1961 ), he plays a leader of commandos, also featuring Bill Travers and John Le Mesurier.
In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier.
Each episode featured, apart from Palin, well-known guest actors including Ian Ogilvy, Kenneth Colley, Liz Smith, Roy Kinnear, Frank Middlemass, Iain Cuthbertson, John Le Mesurier, Jan Francis, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Joan Sanderson and others.
In 1962 Sykes played his first starring film role, being a travelling salesman in the comedy Village of Daughters, set in an Italian village, but featuring a mostly British cast including John Le Mesurier ( who was at that time married to Hattie Jacques ), and Roger Delgado.
An edition of Hugh and I (" Chinese Crackers "), starring Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, John Le Mesurier and David Jason was located by Kaleidoscope Publishing in 2010 in the archives of ' UCLA, and bought to general public attention in February 2011.
John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley ( 5 April 191215 November 1983 ), better known as John Le Mesurier, was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor.
Born in Bedfordshire, England, Le Mesurier became interested in the stage from an early age and enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art in 1933.
Le Mesurier went on to appear in over 100 films, mostly portraying figures of authority such as army officers, policemen and judges, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ), Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.
A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died on 15 November 1983, aged 71 from a stomach haemorrhage, a complication of the cirrhosis of the liver from which he had suffered during his final years.
Le Mesurier was born at 35 Chaucer Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire in 1912.
His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor, and Amy Michelle ( née Le Mesurier ), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands ; both families were affluent with histories of government service, or work in the legal profession.
He was brought up in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and educated at Grenham House school in Kent and Sherborne School in Dorset, where he attended classes with Alan Turing ; Le Mesurier disliked both institutions intensely.
From an early age, Le Mesurier was interested in the stage.
In September 1933 he enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, along with Alec Guinness, with whom Le Mesurier became close friends.
In July 1934 the Studio provided their annual public review and both Le Mesurier and Guinness took part ; among the judges for the event were John Gielgud, Leslie Henson, Alfred Hitchcock and Ivor Novello.
Le Mesurier received a Certificate of Fellowship, while Guinness won the Fay Compton prize.
Rather than remain at the studio for further tuition Le Mesurier decided to leave and take a position in repertory theatre with the Edinburgh-based Millicent Ward Repertory Players, earning £ 3. 10s a week.
The reviewer for The Scotsman thought that Le Mesurier was " well cast ".
After appearances in successive months at the Palladium, in productions of While Parents Sleep, Dangerous Corner and Cavalcade, a break took place in the season because of problems with the lease at the theatre: in the interim, Le Mesurier accepted an offer to work with his friend Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Le Mesurier was an extra in the play, although he was also the understudy for Anthony Quayle's role of Guildenstern.
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In 1958 Resnais undertook a commission from the Pechiney company to make short film, in colour and wide-screen, extolling the merits of plastics, Le Chant du styrène.
He undertook a number of roles on television in 1951 and met Tony Hancock who, along with Le Mesurier's wife, Hattie Jacques, starred in Educating Archie.
In 1937 Ella Maillart returned to Asia for Le Petit Parisien to report on Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, while in 1939 she undertook a trip from Geneva to Kabul by car, in the company of the Swiss writer, Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
Partly in consideration of Le Sage's theory, Pierre-Simon Laplace undertook to determine the necessary speed of gravity in order to be consistent with astronomical observations.
That year he also undertook a limited programme in the American Le Mans Series driving an Acura ARX-01, teaming up with his younger brother, Marino Franchitti and long-time AGR team-mate Bryan Herta.
He often undertook translations from English, notably versions of poems by Robert Service, and of Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures genre pieces by Douglas Jerrold, originally published in Punch in the 1840s which may have later influenced Edward Le Brocq's Ph ' lippe et Merrienne stories.
Le Marchant was also to have gone to Ireland to teach his sword exercise there but was prevented from doing so, his brother-in-law, Lt. Peter Carey ( 16th Light Dragoons ), undertook this duty in his stead.
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Several years ago, the president of the Regional Council, Jean-Yves Le Drian wanted the number to be 20, 000 by 2010, though this has not been accomplished.
Inspired by Tzara, Paris Dada soon issued manifestos, organized demonstrations, staged performances and produced a number of journals ( the final two editions of Dada, Le Cannibale, and Littérature featured Dada in several editions.
France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.
The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.
* Holman Moody: GT40 Mark IIs won third at Le Mans in 1966, still manufacture a small number of GT40s from 1966 blueprints
Based on a play by Victor Hugo ( Le roi s ' amuse ), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times.
For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.
" It was also a period marked by the emergence of a greater variety of voices in science fiction, most notably the rise in the number of female writers, including but not limited to Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr.
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories of Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Chardonay from Le Clos Jordanne placed first out of the 14 white wines, some of which were notable international wines, including: Chateau Montelena, Mer Soleil, Kumeu River, an aged reserve wine from Rosemount Estates, and a number of Burgundian entrants from producers such as Drouhin, Lamy, Boisset, Jadot and others.
A number of two-player variations use a third colour for passive pieces, for example variation The Pillar ( with a fixed marble in the centre of the board ), which has been examined to some depth by Alex Borello and Nicolas Le Gal.
Although Zola would not accept that it was either scientifically or artistically justifiable to create larger-than-life characters, his work does present a number of larger-than-life symbols which, like the mine Le Voreux in Germinal, take on the nature of a surrogate human life.
John Stuart Mill seems to have been an advocate of a type of logical psychologism, as were many nineteenth-century German logicians such as Sigwart and Erdmann as well as a number of psychologists, past and present: for example, Gustave Le Bon.
Le Pétomane left an enduring legacy and has inspired a number of artistic works.
Both Lefays are allusions to Morgan Le Fay, a powerful sorceress in a number of versions of King Arthur's tales, who is often portrayed as evil.
At the same time, the number of office workers and professionals increased by 25 %, which partly explains the creation and development of the University of Le Havre.
In 1831, the newspaper Le Figaro featured a number of works by the young generation of Romantic artists and published them in the Jeunes-France.
Babeuf returned to Paris, and on 3 September 1794 published the first number of his Journal de la Liberté de la Presse, the title of which was altered on 5 October 1794 to Le Tribun du Peuple.
Here, the trio's number seven Peugeot Peugeot 908 HDi FAP | 908 HDi FAP is being prepared for the Le Mans race.
Toulouse-Lautrec contributed a number of illustrations to the magazine, Le Rire during the mid-1890s.
To Le Pen's advantage, the election campaign had increasingly focused on law and order issues, helped by media attention on a number of violent incidents.
During the 1980s, Le Pen complained about the rising number of " social parasites ", and called for deregulation, tax cuts, and the phasing-out of the welfare state.
He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu.
However, a number of English and Scottish farmers are still growing the traditional varieties of wheat, such as Maris Wigeon, Squarehead Master, Elite Le Peuple.
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