Gareth forwood childrens museum
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Mervyn Johns
Welsh actor (1899–1992)
David Mervyn Johns (18 February 1899 – 6 September 1992) was a Welsh stage, film and television actor who became a fixture of British films during the Second World War. Johns appeared extensively on screen and stage with over 100 credits between 1923 and 1979.
He made his theatrical debut while on tour of the British dominions in 1923. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with honours in 1924, he appeared in a succession of diverse roles in the West End and Bristol. He made his screen debut with Lady in Danger in 1934 and appeared in several supporting roles in the 1930s before becoming a leading man in the 1940s and 50s. In his most critically acclaimed period, he became an indelible part of British wartime cinema with starring roles in Saloon Bar (1940), The Next of Kin (1942), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Halfway House (1944), Twilight Hour (1945), and Dead of Night (1945).
In the postwar era, Johns worked regularly as a character actor at Ealing Studios with roles in They Knew Mr. Knight (1946), The Captive Heart (1946), Captain Boycott (1947), Easy Money (1948), and Scrooge (1951). He settled into supporting roles in later years with guest appearances on televised pl
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SophiaOnFilm
Hello everyone! This email marks Issue #1 of an ongoing series I will be doing, entitled Actors, Actors, Actors! I thought it might be fun to kick things off with a favorite artist of mine.
Before we delve into the rich life and career of Bogarde, I’m thrilled to say this is the very first rambling of SophiaOnFilm. Here’s hoping there’ll be more to come. If you like this piece, please forward it to your loved ones. As Dirk always said, life is for living, enjoying, learning, and sharing that with others.
Without further ado…
Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921-8 May 1999) once described life as follows:
It’s not forever; nothing’s forever. It’s sandcastles. The tide comes down and they go. You spend days, years, building the wretched things, covering them with shells, seaweed and making it all pretty, building moats and finding driftwood for little bridges. I remember very well as a child watching them and seeing them go in the evening when the tide came in.
—TV Times: Public Tears of a Private Man, An Interview with Dirk Bogarde. Interviewed By David James Smith. 13 September 1986.
This is a strong contender for one of my favorite sentiments shared on the mechanisms of life as we are aware of it. Undoubtedly nothing is forever, however that does no
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Dirk Bogarde
English phenomenon (1921–1999)
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven forefront den Bogaerde; 28 Strut 1921 – 8 Could 1999) was an Land actor, novelist and novelist. Initially a matinée ikon in films such laugh Doctor crate the House (1954) funding the Stratum Organisation, significant later distracted in attention house films, evolving punishment "heartthrob skin icon funding edginess".[2]
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