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During his career Robert starred in a number of one-off dramas for television, sadly, many of which, were transmitted live and footage no longer exists.
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Madame Ranevsky is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by S.S. Koteliansky
Directed by Don Taylor
Produced by Fred O'Donavan
Settings: Barry Learoyd
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CAST
Madame Ranevsky: Marian Spencer
Anya: Irmgard Spoliansky
Varya: Margot Vanderburgh
Gayev: Oliver Johnston
Lopakhin: Jack Livesey
Trofimov: Anthony Verney
Pischik: Sebastian Cabot
Charlotta: Rosemary Lomax
Yepikhodov: Anthony Drake
Dounyasha: Maria Britneva
Feers: Gordon Phillott
Yasha: Derek Elphinstone
Stranger: Ronald Sidney
Stationmaster: Wilfrid Brambell
Post Office clerk: Kyle Adair
A guitarist: Geoffrey Sisley
Guests:
Shirley Bagrit
Mary Clayton
Hildur Kalman
Guests/orchestra:
Jean Rolfe
Sidney Veltman
Harold Jamieson
Paul Williamson
Theodore Bikel
Alvar Kvaran
Thomas Kyle
John Scott
Strowan Robertson
Robert Shaw
Transmission Date: Thursday 20th March 1947
TX: 8.30pm - 10.00pm
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1947 BBC production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, with one of the biggest dramatic casts ever assembled at Alexandra Palace and at least five sets in the studio to portray Madame Ranevsky’s country estate.
The production was originally scheduled for 16th February but was postponed because of the shutdown of the television service caused by the fuel crisis.
Robert Shaw as Melchior
Directed by Roy Oxley
Produced by Joy Harington
Written by P.D. Cummins
Music by Herbert Murrill
Production Design by Lawrence Broadhouse
CAST
Hazel Penwarden as Mary
Laurence Hardy as Joseph
George Coulouris as The Innkeeper
Patricia Fryer as Servant Girl
Maureen Pryor as Mother
John Stuart as Father
Brothers
David Spenser
Lyndon Brook
Robert Speight as The Angel
Robert Rietty as Kaspar
Errol John as Balthasar
Transmission Date: Sunday 24th December 1952
TX: 5.30pm
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Robert Shaw as Bradley
Directed by Tony Richardson
Produced by Tony Richardson
Written by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Adapted by Tony Richardson
Also starring Alfred Burke
Transmission Date: Saturday 13th November 1954
TX: 10.15pm
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Robert Shaw as Herbert
They seek him here, they seek him there... Baroness Orczy's inspiration of the Scarlet Pimpernel gave her material for many stories, but this revival of one of television drama's most successful productions is again based on the play she and Montague Barstow made for Fred Terry. It is indeed an evergreen (or should it be ever-scarlet?) romantic adventure story with all the necessary colourful ingredients: the mysterious unknown Englishman who smuggles French aristocrats away from the guillotine during the Terror that followed the French Revolution in 1789, leaving by way of a clue to his identity only a drawing of the little English wayside flower whose name gives the play its title.
Directed by Michael Barry
Produced by Michael Barry
Written by Montagu Barstow
Choreographer: Patricia Kirshner
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Designer: Reece Pemberton
CAST
Captain of the Guard: John Horsley
Citizen: Clive Revill
Soldier: Richard Burrell
Sir Percy Blakeney: Tony Britton
De Grignon: Peter Cellier
Hempseed: Peter Stephens
Jellyband: Willoughby Goddard
Sally: Maureen O'Reilly
Chauvelin: Douglas Wilmer
Lord Anthony Dewhurst: Hugh Latimer
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes: Ronald Howard
Comtesse de Tournai: Noel Hood
Vicomte de Tournai: William Russell
Suzanne de Tournai: Diana Lambert
Lady Blakeney: Harriette Johns
Armand St Just: Eric Lander
Prince of Wales: Jack May
Lord Grenville: Jefferson Clifford
Lady Portarles: Evelyn Moore
Brogard: Gerald C. Lawson
Mere Brogard: Everley Gregg
Comte de Tournai: Norman Tyrrell
Other parts played by:
David Cahill, Geoffrey Wilmer, Alexis Milne, Olga Camilleri and Marilyn Ridge
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Transmission Date: Sunday 18th September 1955
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Robert Shaw as Alan Jeffcote
A lowly mill girl becomes romantically involved with the boss's son while on holiday in Blackpool. She tries to hide it from her interfering parents by saying she spent the time with a female friend, but when her friend dies in a car accident, she is forced to admit the shameful affair to her folks.
Directed by John Forrest
Produced by Chloe Gibson
Designer: John Cooper
Written by Stanley Houghton
CAST
Mrs. Hawthorn: Beatrice Varley
Fanny Hawthorn: Billie Whitelaw
Mrs. Jeffcote: Bee Duffell
Nathaniel Jeffcote: Edward Chapman
Ada: Margaret Dale
Sir Timothy Farrar: David Bird
Beatrice Farrar: Susan Maryott
Transmission Date: Tuesday 6th June 1957
TX: 9.00pm
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Robert Shaw as Len Fox
The action covers the period from September 1954 to July 1957 and takes place in London. Len Fox (Robert Shaw) is joined by Gerry (Geraldine McEwan) and a mob of teenage autograph hunters outside the Festival Hall.
Directed by David Henry
Produced by Chloe Gibson
Written by Leo Lehmann
Music specially composed by Christopher Whelen
Designed by Richard Henry
CAST
Gerry Briggs: Geraldine McEwan
Teenager: Pauline Keen
Harry Schwartz: Meier Tzelniker
Freddie: Bartlett Mullins
Stage Steward: Edward Brooks
Linda: Lana Morris
Waitress: Gwen Jones
Philip: Jack May
House Agent's Clerk: Noel Davis
Maid: Mollie Maureen
Cashier: Andreas Marcos
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Audiences at the Royal Festival Hall and the Wigmore Hall, dancers in dance halls, people in an Espresso bar.
Transmission Date: Sunday 23rd July 1957
TX: 8.45pm
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Robert Shaw as Fred Clarke
Lizzie moves to the south of the United States. She is on a train when four white men harass her. Two black men defend her, and a fight ensues. In the fight, Thomas kills the black man that was with The Negro. He is arrested. He is a nephew of the rich Senator Clarke. The Negro escapes, and the other white men spread the rumour that he had raped Lizzie, so that Thomas shooting the other black man would become acceptable.
Directed by Jerry Epstein
Produced by Bruce Woodcock
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Kitty Black
CAST
Stephen Bennett
Tom Bowman
Walter Fitzgerald
Dan Jackson
Reginald Jessop
Robert Raikes
Rachel Roberts
Gordon Rawlings
Charles Stapley
Transmission Date: Thursday 12th September 1957
TX: 9.15-10.15pm
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Robert Shaw as Reg Mathers
SERIES 3 EPISODE 11
Directed by Tania Lieven
Written by Ken Taylor
Production Design by John Clements
CAST
Barbara Ashcroft as Nellie
Roger Gage as Renzo Gentille
Bernard Kay as The Ticket Collector
Charles Leo as Mr. Thomas
Joyce Marlow as Joan Thomas
Janet Munro as Sally Mathers
Sidney Vivian as Fred Kershaw
Transmission Date: Friday 15th November 1957
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Robert Shaw as Rupert of Hentzau
Directed by Hal Burton
Produced by Hal Burton
Written by Anthony Hope
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Designer: Hal Burton
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Cameraman: Douglas Wolfe
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Film Editor: Sheila S. Tomlinson
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Fights arranged by: Terry Baker
CAST
Queen Flavia: Sarah Lawson
Colonel Sapt: Stanley van Beers
Fritz von Tarlenheim: Maurice Kaufman
The King: John Westbrook
Rudolf Rassendyll: John Westbrook
Helga von Tarlenheim: Jennifer Wright
Bauer: John Gabriel
Mother Holf: Margery Caldicott
Count Luzau-Rischenheim: Paul Eddington
James: Meadows White
Rosa Holf: Diana Lambert
Lieutenant Bernenstein: Jeremy Burnham
Max: Norman Wynne
Simon, the huntsman: Ian Ainsley
Herbert: Edward Forsyth
The Chancellor: Eric Holmes
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Hired roughs: John Line and Michael A. Kent
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Policemen: Danny Moynihan and William Patenall
Servants: David Webb and Sheldon Allan
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Townspeople: Sally Corday, Jean Denton, Alice Esmie-Bell, Betty Hare, Jan Kenny, Lilian Padmore, Roy Boutcher, Charles Gillespie, Peter Gray, Rob Inglis, Denis Redwood and Bindon Russell
Transmission Date: Thursday 26th December 1957
TX: 9.45pm
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Robert Shaw as Bob Gordon
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Series 1 Episode 35: Voodoo Wedding
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In Kenya, where she was born and reared, Sally Reynolds has been
exposed to witchcraft. When she was 10 years old, she and a
neighbour's boy were married in a voodoo ceremony. Now Sally is
planning to become engaged to a white hunter, but her servant,
Napi, tells her that terrible things will happen if she does.
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Directed by Ernest Morris
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Written by Lee Leob
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Produced by Norman Williams
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Music by Philip Green
African Location Direction by Bernard Lewis
Story Consultancy by Donn Mullally
Production Supervision by T.S. Lyndon-Haynes
Cinematography by Brendan J. Stafford
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Rhodes Reason as John A. Hunter
Gene Anderson as Sally Reynolds
Eric Francis as Office Clerk
Fred Goddard as The Policeman
Edward Judd as Fred Longden
Jack Lambert as Dr. Waring
Hugh Moxey as The Comissioner
Harry Quashie as Napi
Susan Travers as The Nurse
Sammy White as The Witch Doctor
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Transmission Date: Wednesday 15th October 1958
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TX: 6.10pm
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Filmed at Twickenham Studios/ Beaconsfield Studios, London, England
with location scenes filmed in Africa
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Robert Shaw as Mark Renfrew
SERIES 3 EPISODE 71
Directed by Guy Verney
Written by Lester Powell
Production Design by Tom Spaulding
Music by Robert Farnon
CAST
Adrienne Corri as Helen Renfrew
John Bentley as Stephen Craig
Colin Douglas as Police Sergeant
Anthony Woodruff as Clergyman
Mary Wimbush as Miss Pembroke
Transmission Date: Sunday 17th January 1960
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Robert Shaw as Charlie Williams
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SERIES 5 EPISODE 43
A truck driver who has broken down in the middle of the night calls on an isolated house for assistance, a twist of fate that could lead him to facing a murder charge.
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Written by George Carleton-Brown
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Production Design by Disley Jones
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Jill Balcon as Frances Broderick
June Brown as Alice
Dandy Nichols as Edie
Victor Platt as Mike
Ernest Thesiger as Calvin Broderick
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Transmission Date: Thursday 30th June 1960
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Robert Shaw as Alan Regan
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Directed by Don Taylor
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Produced by Don Taylor
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Written by N.J. Crisp
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Production Design by Charles Carroll
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CAST
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Reg: Daniel Moynihan
Robert Smith: Earl Cameron
Jean Forest: Rita Davies
Audrey Regan: Barbara Clegg
Ellen Woodward: Maureen O'Reilly
Basil Woodward: Reginald Marsh
Albert Watson: Denis Holmes
Mr Knight: Edward Burnham
Fred Crook: Edward Kelsey
Bill Jackson: Clifford Cox
Mrs Crosby: Nan Braunton
Potter: Jay Denyer
William Martin: Lionel Ngakane
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Transmission Date: Thursday 8th December 1960
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Robert Shaw as Henry
"It's only right a kid should 'ave a train set, isn't it? It's what a kid ought to 'ave. I mean, you ain't a kid for long. Ya soon know what life's like, don't ya? Well, ya do. You've gotta 'ave summat to look back on. It's only right."
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Directed and Produced by Don Taylor
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Written by David Turner
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CAST
Jimmy: Roy Holder
Vera: Mary Chester
Gran: Nan Marriott-Watson
Ronnie: Derek Williams
George: Geoffrey Lewis
Joe: Peter Thomas
Fred: Frank Windsor
Bill: Edward Evans
Les: Tony Garnett
Linda: Topsy Jane
Shop assistant: Peter Halliday
Customer: Peter Collingwood
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TRANSMISSION Date: THURSDAY 5th January 1961
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Filmed at ATV Studios, Birmingham
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Robert Shaw as Dandridge
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Directed by David Boisseau
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Written by Leo Lehmann
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Also starring Jill Dixon
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Transmission Date: Wednesday 16 th May 1962
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Robert Shaw as The Captain
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Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.
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Directed by Alan Bridges
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Written by August Strindberg
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Adapted by Peter Watts
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Music arranged by Wilfred Josephs
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Designed by Barry Learoyd
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CAST
The Pastor: John Moore
Svard: Philip Howard
Nojd: Peter Jesson
Laura: Daphne Slater
The Grandmother: Kathleen Saintsbury
Dr Ostermark: Denis Quilley
Old Margret: Wynne Clark
Bertha: Michele Dotrice
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Transmission Date: Friday 21st September 1962
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TX: 9.30pm
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Festival presents
Robert Shaw as Simone
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A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms, and strangles him. This awakens the affection of his wife, and two are reconciled.
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Directed by Herbert Wise
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Produced by Peter Luke
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Written by Oscar Wilde
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Adapted by Robert Shaw
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Fight arranged by William Hobbs
Make-up supervision by Lilias Munro
Costumes designed by Olive Harris
Lute music arranged and played by Julian Bream
Settings by Marilyn Taylor
Story editing by Harry Moore
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CAST
Mary Ure as Bianca
Alex Davion as Guido Bardi
Ann Beach as Maria
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Transmission Date: Wednesday 11th March 1964
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TX: 9.25pm - 10.20pm
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Robert and Mary rehearsing on set
Robert Shaw and his Films
Sheridan Morley and Philip Jenkinson look at the career of the actor whose performance in Young Winston has been widely acclaimed. Included are clips from his earlier films.
Presenter: Sheridan Morley
Presenter: Philip Jenkinson
Producer: Barry Brown
Editor: Rowan Ayers
Transmission Date: Friday 13th October 1972 at 11.20pm
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Eric Robinson introduces some of our Christmas fare helped by
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Jon Pertwee
Billy Smart
Gene Kelly
Robert Shaw
John Westbrook
Ted Ray
Bill Maynard
Charlie Drake
Cliff Michelmore
Director: John Goss
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Transmission Date: Monday 23rd December 1957
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Philip Jenkinson is joined in the studio this week by Robert Shaw to look at scenes from:
"A Man For All Seasons" - Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw by courtesy of Columbia
"The Moment of Truth" by courtesy of Connoisseur Films
"The Honey Pet" - Rex Harrison, Maggie Smith by courtesy of United Artists
"Birth of the Blues" - Bing Crosby, Mary Martin
"Stanley and Livingstone" - Spencer Tracy, Cedric Hardwicke
"The Diary of a Chambermaid" - Paulette Goddard
Producer: Christopher Doll
Transmission Date: Friday 31st March 1967
TX: 10.50pm
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1: Robert Shaw
A film about the novelist-actor on location in Spain interviewed by Julian Jebb.
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2: David Jones
A filmed conversation between the artist and his friend Saunders Lewis.
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Director: Tristram Powell
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Sound recordist: Peter Richardson
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Cameraman: Eddie Best
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Film editor: Inman Hunter
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Producer: Melvyn Bragg
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Transmission Date: Monday 15th March 1965
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Robert Atkins, the well-known actor-manager, with the help of Patricia Neale and a group of students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (by permission of Sir Kenneth Barnes, the Principal) shows how a scene should be rehearsed and acted.
Presented for television by Michael Barry
Twelfth Night
Act 1: Scenes 1 and 2, and part of Scene 5
Macbeth
Act 1: Scene 5, Act 2: Scene 1
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Orsino: Eric Lander
Curio: Robert Shaw
Valentine: John Neville
Viola: Ursula O'Leary
A sea captain: Alan Nunn
Maria: Edna Fryer
Olivia: Patricia Neale
Malvolio: Peter Jones
Sir Toby Belch: Peter Sallis
Two waiting-women: Jane Newell and Gaynor Woods
Lady Macbeth: Zilla Tomlin
An attendant: Pieter Geldenhuys
Macbeth: Lempriere Hammond
The schoolboy: John Harris
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Transmission Date: Sunday 21st March 1948
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A new play by Willis Hall
Televised direct from the New Theatre, London.
(By arrangement with Oscar Lewenstein and Wolf Mankowitz and the English Stage Company Ltd.)
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They're green, this mixed bunch of servicemen getting a taste of the Malayan jungle in the fateful days of 1942. But they're not without their own broad views on life and war, nor without their own brand of humour. This is a remarkable play into which its author has written some of the most natural 'service' dialogue ever heard in the theatre...
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Written by Willis Hall
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Set Design by Alan Tagg
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Directed by Lindsay Anderson
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Presented for Television by John Vernon
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465 Sgt. Mitchem, R.: Robert Shaw
839 Cpl. Johnstone, E.: Edward Judd
594 L/Cpl. Macleish, A.J.: Ronald Fraser
632 Pte. Whitaker, S.: David Andrews
777 Pte. Evans, T.E.: Alfred Lynch
877 Pte. Bamforth, C.: Peter O'Toole
611 Pte. Smith, P.: Bryan Pringle
Japanese soldier: Kenji TakakI
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TRANSMISSION DATE: THURSDAY 9TH APRIL 1959​
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Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Actor Robert Shaw
Actress Susan Batson
Comedy team Nancie Phillips and George Ormiston
Comedians Jackie Vernon and Marty Brill
Columnist Drew Pearson, who discusses crime in politics and his book
Senator and the Case Against Congress
Singer Kim Weston
Transmission Date: Friday 4th October 1968
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Host Johnny Carson
Guests
Comedian Jackie Vernon
Actor Robert Shaw
Singers Eddie Fisher and Abbe Lane
Transmission Date: Tuesday 31st January 1967
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Hosted by Ed Sullivan
Guests
Bob Newhart
Red Skelton
Jackie DeShannon
Gwen Verdon
George Carlin
Sergio Franchi
Skiles & Henderson
Leo Samourai
Highlights
Jackie DeShannon sings "Put a Little Love In Your Heart" and "Brighton Hill."
Robert Shaw and Rita Moreno (actors) - perform a scene from the Broadway musical "Gantry" (based on "Elmer Gantry").
Sergio Franchi sings "To Give" and "Una Cantinon de Mexicana."
Gwen Verdon (dancer) - "A Fine Fine Day" production number (choreographed by Bob Fosse).
Bob Newhart (comedian) stand-up routine: police line-up.
Red Skelton (comedian) - in a stand-up monologue, does a pantomime of a woman driving a car.
Skiles & Henderson (comedy team) - do a routine about the 1939 Blitzkrieg bombings of London.
Les Samourai (sword dancers and duellers) - two Frenchmen fight with swords.
George Prentis' Punch & Judy Puppet Show (puppets with sticks).
Transmission Date: Sunday 1st February 1970
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Hosted by Les Crane
Guests
Steve Allen sounds off about an article written by William Buckley Jr., and then joins actors Robert Shaw and Howard da Silva to discuss non-conformity.
Also featured will be a debate on "Socialized Medicine" between English social critic Bernard Levin
and Dr. Edward Annis, former president of the American Medical Association.
Transmission Date: Monday January 4th 1965
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Carol Channing co-hosts
Guests
Comedienne Lily Tomlin
Actress Alice Playten
Actor Robert Shaw
and Sir John Waldron, commissioner of Scotland Yard
Transmission Date: Wednesday 5th April 1972
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Host Johnny Carson
Guests
Actor Robert Shaw
Actress Shelley Winters
Bandleader Artie Shaw
Guitarists George Barnes and Bucky Pizzarelli
Transmission Date: Monday 22nd November 1971
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Host Johnny Carson
Guests
Actor Robert Shaw
Comedian Robert Klein
Actress Margot Kidder
Mayor Tom Bradley
and singer Dick Haymes
Transmission Date: Tuesday 5th June 1973
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Host David Frost
Guests
Actor Jack Palance
English stage and film actor Robert Shaw
French singer Sacha Distel
Comic Jackie Gayle
and Sound effects expert Wes Harrison
Transmission Date: Thursday 30th October 1969
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Host Johnny Carson
Guests
Actor Robert Shaw
Actress Mary Ure
Singers Trini Lopez and Vikki Carr
Transmission Date: Friday 19th February 1971
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Host David Frost
Guests
English actor Robert Shaw
Actress Mary Ure
and Actress Lee Grant
Transmission Date: Thursday 16th December 1971
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Host: Dinah Shore
Guests
Robert Shaw
Johnny Brown
Dick Clark
Melissa Manchester
and Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
Transmission Date: Tuesday 29th July 1975
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