Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Leslie Stuart Durrell (born 10 March 1917, Mymensingh, Bengal, today Bangladesh; [15] [16] d. 13 August 1982, Kensington, London [17]). Remembered for his fascination with guns and shooting — as depicted in Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy — Leslie was also a talented painter, but lacked the application to develop his gift. [ 18 ]
My Family and Other Animals is a 2005 television film written by Simon Nye and directed by Sheree Folkson. [1] The film is based on the 1956 autobiographical book of the same title written by Gerald Durrell, in which he describes a series of anecdotes relating to his family's stay on Corfu from 1935–1939, when he was aged 10–14.
He is best known for his portrayal of Leslie Durrell in all four seasons of ITV comedy-drama series The Durrells. [3]Woodhouse is also known for playing the character of Josh Marsden in ITV comedy-drama series Cold Feet.
Woodhouse is best known for playing Leslie Durrell for four seasons on the series The Durrells. Follow Woodhouse on Twitter @cal_woodhouse and on Instagram @callumwoodhouse. Anna Madeley (Mrs. Hall)
Durrell was born in Kurseong, Bengal, [2] in British India and brought up in India and England.In 1935, along with her brothers Gerald and Leslie, she accompanied her mother to a new home on Corfu, following her eldest brother, Lawrence, who had moved there a few months earlier with his first wife, Nancy Myers.
The show tells the story of the extravagant Durrell family who, tired of the rainy and unhealthy English climate, move to the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu. The family consists of Gerry (young naturalist), his widowed mother (excellent cook), his eldest brother Larry (starting writer), another brother Leslie (mad about guns and boats) and sister Margo (who suffers from acne).
The Durrells (known in North America as The Durrells in Corfu) is a British comedy-drama television series loosely based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek island of Corfu. [1]
Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when he published My Family and Other Animals in 1956. Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family – including his eldest brother Lawrence Durrell , who became a celebrated novelist and poet – and his heartfelt appreciation ...