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Edward Sinclair is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Editor British born on 3 february 1914 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Edward "Teddy" Sinclair Perry, known as Edward Sinclair (3 February 1914 – 29 August 1977) was an English actor best remembered for his role as the verger Maurice Yeatman in Dad's Army. He also made appearances in Z-Cars and Danger Man.
Sinclair was born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a stage actor. His father died when he was 14. Drama school was too expensive so he worked for amateur theatre companies. He served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the Second World War, and was a salesman before deciding to become a professional actor in his late forties. Although born into a theatrical family, Edward had to resist the temptation to turn professional until he had safely brought up his family. In the meantime, he continued to perform with amateur dramatics societies, enjoying the experience while continuing to earn a living from being a salesman.
The earliest work in his belated main career was in radio before being noticed and offered small parts on TV. His first appearance in Dad's Army was in the fifth episode (before audiences had been introduced to the Vicar) as the caretaker, playing the verger from the second series. He also appeared in several films and theatre productions, and was being offered work in panto just as the series finished, but died soon after from a heart attack while living in Cheddar, Somerset. This came as a shock to all the cast members, and it was Arthur Lowe, who stated at his funeral service, "With the loss of Teddy, it is now quite clear that there will be no more Dad's Army.
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Birth name Edward Sinclair Perry
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 february 1914 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Death 29 august 1977 (at 63 years) at Cheddar (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 february 1914 at Oldham (United-kingdom)
Death 29 august 1977 (at 63 years) at Cheddar (United-kingdom)
Sinclair was born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a stage actor. His father died when he was 14. Drama school was too expensive so he worked for amateur theatre companies. He served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the Second World War, and was a salesman before deciding to become a professional actor in his late forties. Although born into a theatrical family, Edward had to resist the temptation to turn professional until he had safely brought up his family. In the meantime, he continued to perform with amateur dramatics societies, enjoying the experience while continuing to earn a living from being a salesman.
The earliest work in his belated main career was in radio before being noticed and offered small parts on TV. His first appearance in Dad's Army was in the fifth episode (before audiences had been introduced to the Vicar) as the caretaker, playing the verger from the second series. He also appeared in several films and theatre productions, and was being offered work in panto just as the series finished, but died soon after from a heart attack while living in Cheddar, Somerset. This came as a shock to all the cast members, and it was Arthur Lowe, who stated at his funeral service, "With the loss of Teddy, it is now quite clear that there will be no more Dad's Army.
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No Sex Please: We're British (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Cliff Owen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Deryck Guyler
Roles Postman
Rating54%
Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a farcical series of events including a bank inspector, the police and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.
Dad's Army (1971)
, 1h35Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley
Roles Henry Yeatman - the Verger
Rating68%
1940 - Operation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the white cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Flag. The colonel fumes contemptuously, "How can the stupid British ever hope to win?!"
The Magic Christian (1969)
, 1h32Directed by Joseph McGrath
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston
Roles Park Attendant
Rating58%
Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers), an eccentric billionaire, together with his newly adopted heir (formerly a homeless derelict), Youngman Grand (Ringo Starr), start playing elaborate practical jokes on people. A big spender, Grand does not mind handing out large sums of money to various people, bribing them to fulfill his whims, or shocking them by bringing down what they hold dear. Their misadventures are designed as a display of father Grand to his adoptive charge that "everyone has their price"—it just depends on the amount one is prepared to pay. They start from rather minor spoofs, like bribing a Shakespearean actor (Laurence Harvey) to strip during a stage performance of Hamlet, and convincing a traffic warden (Spike Milligan) to take back a parking ticket and eat it (delighted by the size of the bribe, he eats its plastic cover too) and proceed with increasingly elaborate stunts involving higher social strata and wider audiences. As their conversation reveals, Grand sees his plots as 'educational' ("Well, you know, Youngman, sometimes it's not enough merely to teach. One has to punish as well").
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
, 1h36Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Peter C. Bull, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Frederick Valk
Roles Nils
Rating64%
Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) seeks solace from dashing Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) when her husband Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), later to become King George I of Great Britain, wants nothing to do with her. The lovers are brought down by a jealous Countess Platen (Flora Robson).
Tower of Terror (1941)
, 1h18Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Spy films
Actors Wilfrid Lawson, Michael Rennie, Movita Castaneda, Morland Graham, Charles Rolfe, Olive Sloane
Roles Fletcher - Hale's contact
Rating59%
Anthony Hale is a British secret agent in Germany who takes a job as assistant to lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristan; and who plans to make off with some valuable papers when a British boat arrives to pick them up. Marie meanwhile has escaped from a concentration camp and swims to the lighthouse, where she is rescued by the deranged Kristan, who sees in her the image of a wife he killed 16 years earlier and buried on the lighthouse grounds. Can Hale rescue Marie from a similar fate at the lighthouse keepers hands?
The Bells (1931)
, 1h15Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Donald Calthrop, Jane Welsh, Edward Sinclair, O. B. Clarence, Ralph Truman
Roles Sergeant Christian Nash
Rating58%
Mathias (Calthrop), an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad.
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Kiss of Araby (1933)
, 1h10Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Actors Maria Alba, Walter Byron, Claire Windsor, Theodore von Eltz, Claude King, Frank Leigh
Roles Dialogue
Rating23%
Editor
The Captain's Table (1936)
, 55minutesDirected by Percy Marmont
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Percy Marmont, Mark Daly, Hugh McDermott
Roles Editor
Rating45%