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Daniel Thorndike
Born March 10, 1920 · Headington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Died April 5, 2016 · aged 96
Daniel Thorndike was born on 10 March 1920 in Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Julius Caesar (1963), The Avengers (1961) and Romeo and Juliet (1962). He was married to Janet Douglas Lindsay. He died on 5 April 2016 in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK.
Known For
The Avengers · 1961The Avengers
★ 7.81961
SeriesAction & AdventureCrime
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Crossroads · 1964Crossroads
★ 5.51964
SeriesDrama
Crossroads is a British television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, the commercial ITV network originally broadcast the series between 1964 and 1988. Produced by ATV and later by Central it became a byword for cheap production values, particularly in the 1970s and early 1980s. The series was revived in a glossier version by Carlton Television in 2001, but was again cancelled in 2003.
The original theme tune was composed by Tony Hatch, and notably covered by Paul McCartney & Wings on their 1975 album Venus and Mars. A new version, which was first aired in 1987 when the series was relaunched as Crossroads, Kings Oak, was composed by Raf Ravenscroft and Max Early.
Blackadder · 1983Blackadder
★ 8.01983
SeriesComedy
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
A Bit of Fry & Laurie · 1989A Bit of Fry & Laurie
★ 7.91989
SeriesComedy
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Detective · 1964Detective
★ 9.01964
SeriesCrime
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
Sergeant Cork · 1963Sergeant Cork
★ 7.21963
SeriesDrama
Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series.
A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie.
At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.
Boy Meets Girl · 1967Boy Meets Girl
1967
SeriesDramaComedy
Anthology series of love stories.
Theatre Night · 1957Theatre Night
1957
SeriesDrama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
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