• Rodney Ackland (18 May 1908 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex – 6 December 1991 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English playwright, actor, theatre director...
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  • English actor Oliver Ackland (born 1979), Australian actor Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), English dramatist and playwright Ron Ackland (1934–2013), New Zealand...
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  • film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay (including Rodney Ackland for additional dialogue). Powell was nominated for Best Director by...
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  • by Alexander Pushkin, with a script written by Arthur Boys and Rodney Ackland. Ackland was also originally the film's director, before disagreements with...
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  • Thursday's Child is a 1943 British comedy-drama film directed by Rodney Ackland and starring Sally Ann Howes and Wilfrid Lawson. It was produced by John...
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  • had wished to direct Number Seventeen. Hitchcock was assigned writer Rodney Ackland for the film, which was intended as a comedy-oriented thriller. Although...
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  • Murder Directed by Lawrence Huntington Written by Emeric Pressburger Rodney Ackland Maurice Cowan (additional dialogue) Based on Wanted for Murder (play)...
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  • Edward Black, with cinematography from Arthur Crabtree and screenplay by Rodney Ackland, Wolfgang Wilhelm and Terence Rattigan based on the 1937 novel of the...
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  • Avice Landone, Clare Greet, John Ruddock, and Jack Livesey in the cast. Rodney Ackland and Harold Clayton were directors. 1938 - In St. John Ervine's play...
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  • Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Joss Ackland Rodney Ackland Razaaq Adoti Naana Agyei-Ampadu Riz Ahmed Hajaz Akram Wendy Allnutt...
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  • Original Story Yes Oscar nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Yes Rodney Ackland One of Our Aircraft Is Missing Oscar nominated for Best Writing, Original...
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  • Robert Newton, Simone Simon and William Hartnell. It was adapted by Rodney Ackland and Frederick Gotfurt from Newhaven-Dieppe (also known as L'Homme de...
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    simultaneously as an actor and attorney. In 1933, he appeared in Ballerina by Rodney Ackland. Between September 1934 and March 1936, Leo Genn was a member of the...
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    Together (1945) Bond Street (1948; uncredited; with de Grunwald and Rodney Ackland) The Sound Barrier (1952; U.S. title Breaking the Sound Barrier; Rattigan's...
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    nominated for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Screenplay. Shared with Rodney Ackland 1943: Oscar nominated for One of Our Aircraft Is Missing for Best Writing...
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  • dramatists who wrote their plays in the 1950s or later. Michael Abbensetts Rodney Ackland Jim Allen Karim Alrawi Jeffrey Archer John Arden Alan Ayckbourn Enid...
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  • Achternbusch (1938–2022, Germany) J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967, England) Rodney Ackland (1908–1991, England) Adam de la Halle (c. 1237 – c. 1288, France) Arthur...
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  • and Prime Minister. Hein van der Zee, 62, Dutch boxer and Olympian. Rodney Ackland, 83, English playwright, actor, and screenwriter. György Aczél, 74,...
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  • the Mrs. Miniver newspaper columns by Jan Struther‡ 49th Parallel – Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger, based on a story by Emeric Pressburger The Pride...
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    Crown of Violet (also Web of Traitors) E. B. White – Charlotte's Web Rodney Ackland – The Pink Room Jean Anouilh The Lark (L'Alouette) The Waltz of the...
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    Mackenzie, and directed one new and one classic play, Strange Orchestra by Rodney Ackland in the West End, and The Merchant of Venice at the Old Vic, with Malcolm...
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    taking her five children with her. In the 1957 play A Dead Secret by Rodney Ackland, the character of Seddon under the name of Frederick Dyson, was played...
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    March 1984 Four Attempted Acts (Martin Crimp), 1984 The Dark River (Rodney Ackland), September 1984 Hard Times (Charles Dickens/Stephen Jeffreys), November...
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    directed by Robin Winfield-Smith. Blackborow then played Frances in Rodney Ackland's After October. Blackborow took on the roles Ursula in Much Ado About...
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  • Power as Gordon Jane Carr as Delia Edana Romney as Winkler's Assistant Rodney Ackland as Winker's Assistant Elisabeth Welch as Singer Olga Lindo as Mlle....
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    Fedoseitch Mamaev Phoenix Theatre Written by Alexander Ostrovsky; adapted by Rodney Ackland Oct 24, 1957 Feb 22, 1958 Compulsion Horn The Prosecuting Attorney Ambassador...
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    Desmond Hurst Written by Terence Young (original story and screenplay) Rodney Ackland and Brian Desmond Hurst (contributing writers, uncredited) Produced...
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  • George Froeschel. Claudine West Arthur Wimperis Random Harvest Nominated Rodney Ackland Emeric Pressburger 49th Parallel Nominated Pressburger was a Hungarian-British...
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  • 1912) 5 December – Jack Trevor Story, novelist (born 1917) 6 December Rodney Ackland, actor, playwright and screenwriter (born 1908) Mimi Smith, nurse, secretary...
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    by playwright and screenwriter Rodney Ackland, also a close neighbour to the Howes family, and it would become Ackland's directorial debut. Thursday's...
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