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Born at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Samuel George Whitemore (1907-1987), a clerk at an oil company, and Kathleen Alma, née Fletcher, [3] Whitemore studied for the stage at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was taught by Peter Barkworth, then on the staff at RADA, who recognised he had the potential to make a significant contribution to the theatre, "though perhaps not as an ...
David Copperfield is a British six-part television serial of the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens adapted by Hugh Whitemore, directed by Joan Craft and first shown on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. [1] It was a co-production with Time-Life Television Productions. [2] It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its ...
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All For Love was a Granada television production consisting of adaptations of short stories by authors such as Rumer Godden, Elizabeth Taylor, and William Trevor.The series presents 12 unrelated episodes all concerning various types of human love.
Thomas was born on 21 October 1931 in Windsor, England, to Hugh Whitelegge Thomas (1887-1960), a colonial commissioner and Cambridge cricketer, and his wife Margery Augusta Angelo, née Swynnerton. [4] Sir Shenton Thomas was his uncle. [5]
The year is 1494 and King Henry is alarmed that the powerful and arrogant Sir William Stanley may be implicated in a plot against his crown. 7: 17 Feb. 1972: A Fly in the Ointment: Addle-brained Sir John Kendall and his dim-witted nephew devise a ludicrous plan to kill the King with a harmless ointment from phony astrologer. 8: 24 Feb. 1972 ...
He was re-elected in November 1640 in the Long Parliament and held the seat until 1644 when he was disabled for supporting the King. [4] He was created a baronet, of Apley, on 28 June 1641. [1] In February, 1645, Whitmore's home Apley Hall was taken by the Parliamentarians under Sir John Price.
The Gathering Storm is a BBC–HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II.The title of the film is that of the first volume of Churchill's largely autobiographical six-volume history of the war, which covered the period from 1919 to 3 September 1939, the day he became First Lord of the Admiralty.