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The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 British Technicolor war film with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Christopher Lee, David Lodge and José Ferrer, who also directed. [3] The film depicts a heavily fictionalised version of Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid on German cargo shipping by British Royal Marines Commandos, who infiltrated Bordeaux Harbour using folding kayaks.
William Edward Sparks DSM (5 September 1922 – 1 December 2002) was a British Royal Marine Commando in World War II.He was the last survivor of the "Cockleshell Heroes" of Operation Frankton in 1942; a team of commandos who paddled 85 miles from the Bay of Biscay up the Gironde estuary to Bordeaux in German occupied France, to plant limpet mines on merchant ships supplying the Nazi war machine.
The Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex houses the only surviving original Cockle Mark II kayak used by the Royal Marine Raiders on Operation Frankton, commonly known as the Cockleshell Heroes.
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) [2] was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called “a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of ...
Cockleshell may refer to: The shell of a cockle, an edible, marine bivalve mollusc; Cockleshell Bay, a stop-motion children's television series; The Cockleshell Heroes, a 1955 British Technicolor war film; Lentinellus cochleatus (also aniseed cockleshell), a wood-inhabiting fungus
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During the Second World War, Lodge served in the RAF. [2] Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown. [3] He also appeared in Gang Shows and variety before making his screen debut in The Cockleshell Heroes and going on to feature in many British films usually portraying military types, and often comedic roles.
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