'Are You Being Served?' star Nicholas Smith has died. The actor passed away at the age of 81 in hospital on Sunday (07.12.15), seven weeks after suffering a fall at his home. Smith was best known for playing Grace Brothers department store manager Mr Cuthbert 'Jug Ears' Rumbold in the much-loved BBC sitcom, which ran for 10 series from 1972 until 1985. Agent Michelle Braidman Associates released a statement which read: ''It is with great sadness we can confirm that our client, the actor Nicholas Smith, has passed away. He was a lovely man and a terrific actor. He will be much missed...
- 12/8/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
'Are You Being Served?' star Nicholas Smith has died. The actor passed away at the age of 81 in hospital on Sunday (07.12.15), seven weeks after suffering a fall at his home. Smith was best known for playing Grace Brothers department store manager Mr Cuthbert 'Jug Ears' Rumbold in the much-loved BBC sitcom, which ran for 10 series from 1972 until 1985. Agent Michelle Braidman Associates released a statement which read: ''It is with great sadness we can confirm that our client, the actor Nicholas Smith, has passed away. He was a lovely man and a terrific actor. He will be much missed...
- 12/7/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
Frank Thornton has died at the age of 92.
The actor was best known for his role as Captain Stephen Peacock in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?.
He also starred in the follow-up Grace & Favour and as Truly Truelove in Last of the Summer Wine. His last role was in this year's cinema adaptation of stage farce Run for Your Wife.
Thornton passed away in his sleep on Saturday (March 16), his agent David Daly confirmed to BBC News.
"I have been Frank's agent since 1986 and he has been the most wonderful client as well as being a great friend. He will be sorely missed," Daly said.
Are You Being Served? ran for 69 episodes over ten series from 1972 to 1985.
Thornton's death makes 79-year-old Nicholas Smith the oldest surviving member of the show's original cast.
Born Frank Thornton Ball in Dulwich in 1921, Thornton worked in insurance before registering at the London...
The actor was best known for his role as Captain Stephen Peacock in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?.
He also starred in the follow-up Grace & Favour and as Truly Truelove in Last of the Summer Wine. His last role was in this year's cinema adaptation of stage farce Run for Your Wife.
Thornton passed away in his sleep on Saturday (March 16), his agent David Daly confirmed to BBC News.
"I have been Frank's agent since 1986 and he has been the most wonderful client as well as being a great friend. He will be sorely missed," Daly said.
Are You Being Served? ran for 69 episodes over ten series from 1972 to 1985.
Thornton's death makes 79-year-old Nicholas Smith the oldest surviving member of the show's original cast.
Born Frank Thornton Ball in Dulwich in 1921, Thornton worked in insurance before registering at the London...
- 3/18/2013
- Digital Spy
A charity sale of clothes belonging to the late EastEnders actress Wendy Richard has gone ahead in London today. As expected, a section of high street store Selfridges was revamped with a special Are You Being Served? theme for the event. Richard played Miss Brahms on the BBC sitcom between 1972 and 1985. The star's former EastEnders colleagues Natalie Cassidy (Sonia Fowler), June Brown (Dot Branning), Laila Morse (Mo Harris) and Ricky Groves (Garry Hobbs) were among those helping to serve customers today. Are You Being Served? actor Nicholas Smith, best known (more)...
- 1/19/2010
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
A group of British celebrities is remembering the life of actress Wendy Richard, who died of cancer last February.
The cast of British soap Eastenders – which featured Richard – will create a real-life version of one of her earlier shows, Are You Being Served, by helping out at a charity store at Selfridges in London.
Are You Being Served star Nicholas Smith will join Eastenders’ Natalie Cassidy and June Brown to sell designer outfits and accessories owned by the actress to benefit the Lady Traverners, which helps young people with special needs take part in sports.
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The cast of British soap Eastenders – which featured Richard – will create a real-life version of one of her earlier shows, Are You Being Served, by helping out at a charity store at Selfridges in London.
Are You Being Served star Nicholas Smith will join Eastenders’ Natalie Cassidy and June Brown to sell designer outfits and accessories owned by the actress to benefit the Lady Traverners, which helps young people with special needs take part in sports.
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- 1/7/2010
- Look to the Stars
TORONTO -- After breaking in their act in several hilarious shorts -- two won Oscars -- and a TV series, Wallace and Gromit get their very own feature film in “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” Wallace, of course, is that cheerful but daft inventor extraordinaire and Gromit is his silent though sage canine, who quietly cleans up his master’s disasters. Most fans of the U.K.-based Aardman Animations’ magical claymation technique think of these two as the studio’s best creations. They certainly live up to that reputation in “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”
Aardman’s first feature for DreamWorks, “Chicken Run” in 2000, didn’t completely manage the trick of maintaining the laughs and stylish glee of its shorts in a film nearly three times their length. The studio now hits its stride in a second outing, displaying the same technical flair, wonderful British wit and a sharper story sense. Since “Curse” is both a family movie and a date movie, DreamWorks should enjoy a long theatrical run followed by a lively ancillary afterlife.
This adventure is scripted by the two co-directors, Steve Box and Nick Park, along with Bob Baker and Mark Burton. Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) & Gromit run a humane extermination company called Anti-Pesto, which collects rabbits savaging vegetable patches in a comfy British suburb and brings them back to the house. (The basement is getting rather overrun by rabbits, the truth be told.)
Anti-Pesto faces its greatest challenge when a monster rabbit devours patch after patch in the days leading up to the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, sponsored by Lady Tottington (an aristocratically bubbly Helena Bonham Carter). The team must also outwit the blustery Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes in a delightfully over-the-top caricature), who means to kill the monster rabbit with a gold bullet, a 24-carat one. (The Aardman crew is truly addicted to puns.)
Then the unthinkable happens: Wallace & Gromit meet the enemy and it is … Wallace? Yes, in a foolish attempt to rehab rabbits from their desire for veggies in his laboratory, things went horribly wrong. Now, when the moon comes out, Wallace transforms into the Were-Rabbit in a delightful sequence that captures the best of claymation.
Park and Box can now spoof all the old monster movies, everything from werewolves to King Kong himself. From here on the movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters. And always there’s Gromit working feverishly to prevent disaster after disaster.
Julian Nott’s jolly music with its mock epic swells just barely keeps up with the breakneck pace, one-liners and jokey signs that fly by too fast for the eye to catch every one.
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Animation presents an Aardman Animations production
Credits: Directors: Nick Park, Steve Box; Writers: Steve Box, Nick Park, Bob Baker, Mark Burton; Producers: Claire Jennings, Carla Shelley, Peter Lord, David Sporxton, Nick Park; Executive producers: Michael Rose, Cecil Kramer; Director of photography: Tristan Oliver, Dave Alex-Riddett; Production designer: Phil Lewis; Music: Julian Nott; Editor: Dave McCormick, Greg Perler.
Cast: Wallace: Peter Sallis; Victor Quatermaine: Ralph Fiennes; Lady Tottington: Helena Bonham Carter; Rev.Hedges: Nicholas Smith; PC McIntosh: Peter Kay; Mrs. Mulch: Liz Smith.
MPAA rating G, running time 80 minutes.
Aardman’s first feature for DreamWorks, “Chicken Run” in 2000, didn’t completely manage the trick of maintaining the laughs and stylish glee of its shorts in a film nearly three times their length. The studio now hits its stride in a second outing, displaying the same technical flair, wonderful British wit and a sharper story sense. Since “Curse” is both a family movie and a date movie, DreamWorks should enjoy a long theatrical run followed by a lively ancillary afterlife.
This adventure is scripted by the two co-directors, Steve Box and Nick Park, along with Bob Baker and Mark Burton. Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) & Gromit run a humane extermination company called Anti-Pesto, which collects rabbits savaging vegetable patches in a comfy British suburb and brings them back to the house. (The basement is getting rather overrun by rabbits, the truth be told.)
Anti-Pesto faces its greatest challenge when a monster rabbit devours patch after patch in the days leading up to the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, sponsored by Lady Tottington (an aristocratically bubbly Helena Bonham Carter). The team must also outwit the blustery Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes in a delightfully over-the-top caricature), who means to kill the monster rabbit with a gold bullet, a 24-carat one. (The Aardman crew is truly addicted to puns.)
Then the unthinkable happens: Wallace & Gromit meet the enemy and it is … Wallace? Yes, in a foolish attempt to rehab rabbits from their desire for veggies in his laboratory, things went horribly wrong. Now, when the moon comes out, Wallace transforms into the Were-Rabbit in a delightful sequence that captures the best of claymation.
Park and Box can now spoof all the old monster movies, everything from werewolves to King Kong himself. From here on the movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters. And always there’s Gromit working feverishly to prevent disaster after disaster.
Julian Nott’s jolly music with its mock epic swells just barely keeps up with the breakneck pace, one-liners and jokey signs that fly by too fast for the eye to catch every one.
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Animation presents an Aardman Animations production
Credits: Directors: Nick Park, Steve Box; Writers: Steve Box, Nick Park, Bob Baker, Mark Burton; Producers: Claire Jennings, Carla Shelley, Peter Lord, David Sporxton, Nick Park; Executive producers: Michael Rose, Cecil Kramer; Director of photography: Tristan Oliver, Dave Alex-Riddett; Production designer: Phil Lewis; Music: Julian Nott; Editor: Dave McCormick, Greg Perler.
Cast: Wallace: Peter Sallis; Victor Quatermaine: Ralph Fiennes; Lady Tottington: Helena Bonham Carter; Rev.Hedges: Nicholas Smith; PC McIntosh: Peter Kay; Mrs. Mulch: Liz Smith.
MPAA rating G, running time 80 minutes.
- 9/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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