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Guido Lorraine is a Actor Australien born on 2 september 1912 at Kraków (Pologne)
Guido Lorraine (2 September 1912 – 31 December 2009) was a Polish-born actor, musician and singer, known primarily for his roles in war films. He was also sometimes known by the stage name Guy Borucki. Lorraine appeared in twenty-eight films during his career, as well as many theatre productions.
Lorraine was born Gwidon Alfred Gottlieb in present-day Kraków, Poland in 1912. He studied at the School of Foreign Trade in Lwów (Lviv), where he sang in restaurants to earn money. He learned to play the accordion and piano as a child.
Lorraine founded a military theatre group during World War II. He is credited as the first singer to perform the song, "Red Poppy Flowers of Monte Cassino", in public.
He adopted the pseudonym Guy Borucki after World War II and moved to London. He appeared on BBC radio, television and film. His film credits during the era included Hotel Sahara in 1951, 1955's The Colditz Story and Blue Murder at St Trinian's in 1957. He also starred in a number of musical comedies and other British productions during the 1950s.
Lorraine moved to Australia in 1959 to pursue his acting career. Much of career centred on entertainment for the Polish community living in Australia, including a series of theatre performances, revues and cabarets. He also starred his own television show in 1960 called Two for Two, a musical programme on Melbourne station HSV-7
Guido Lorraine died in Melbourne, Australia, on 31 December 2009, at the age of 97.
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Guido Lorraine
Birth name Gwidon Alfred Gottlieb
Nationality Australie
Birth 2 september 1912 at Kraków (Pologne)
Death 31 december 2009 (at 97 years) at Melbourne (Australie)
Nationality Australie
Birth 2 september 1912 at Kraków (Pologne)
Death 31 december 2009 (at 97 years) at Melbourne (Australie)
Lorraine was born Gwidon Alfred Gottlieb in present-day Kraków, Poland in 1912. He studied at the School of Foreign Trade in Lwów (Lviv), where he sang in restaurants to earn money. He learned to play the accordion and piano as a child.
Lorraine founded a military theatre group during World War II. He is credited as the first singer to perform the song, "Red Poppy Flowers of Monte Cassino", in public.
He adopted the pseudonym Guy Borucki after World War II and moved to London. He appeared on BBC radio, television and film. His film credits during the era included Hotel Sahara in 1951, 1955's The Colditz Story and Blue Murder at St Trinian's in 1957. He also starred in a number of musical comedies and other British productions during the 1950s.
Lorraine moved to Australia in 1959 to pursue his acting career. Much of career centred on entertainment for the Polish community living in Australia, including a series of theatre performances, revues and cabarets. He also starred his own television show in 1960 called Two for Two, a musical programme on Melbourne station HSV-7
Guido Lorraine died in Melbourne, Australia, on 31 December 2009, at the age of 97.
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The Great Van Robbery (1959)
, 1h11Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Philip Saville, Guido Lorraine, Julian Orchard, Robert Raglan
Roles Leprave
Rating58%
Scotland Yard teams up with Interpol to discover the origins of stolen money in a private bank account in Rio de Janeiro. Assigning their best detective Caesar Smith to the case, the money is soon traced to a robbery from a Royal Mint van. Investigations lead to a coffee storehouse where a worker is found murdered and the remaining loot discovered.
That Woman Opposite (1957)
, 1h25Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, Wilfrid Hyde-White, William Leo Franklyn, Petula Clark, Jack Watling
Roles Prefect Aristide Goron
Rating60%
In a town on the French coast, English antiques dealer Maurice Lawes (Wilfrid Hyde-White) is a witness to the night-time murder of a gendarme. The killer spots Lawes at his window, and realises he has been seen. The following evening, Lawes' daughter Janice (Petula Clark) finds her father also murdered.
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
, 1h26Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Richard Wattis
Roles Prince Bruno
Rating63%
Spiv "Flash Harry" has set up a marriage agency for the Sixth Form and an Italian Prince is interested in meeting the girls. Meanwhile, the father of one of the Sixth Formers is involved in a diamond theft and recklessly decides to hide out at the school.
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
, 1h44Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Cyril Cusack, Laurence Payne, Wolfe Morris
Rating64%
During World War II, the Greek Mediterranean island of Crete was occupied by the Nazis. British officers Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO (Dirk Bogarde) and Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC (David Oxley) of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) land on the island. With the help of the local Cretan resistance in April 1944, they kidnap General Kreipe (Marius Goring), the commander of the island. They take Kreipe across rough country to a secluded cove on the far side of the island, where they are picked up and taken to Cairo, the Middle East headquarters of British forces.
Loser Takes All (1956)
, 1h28Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Glynis Johns, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Morley, Tony Britton, Felix Aylmer, Joyce Carey
Roles Room Waiter (uncredited)
Rating51%
Un couple de jeunes mariés va se trouver pris par la fièvre du jeu à Monte-Carlo.
Port Afrique (1956)
, 1h25Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Pier Angeli, Philip Carey, Dennis Price, James Hayter, Anthony Newley, Guido Lorraine
Roles Abdul
Rating52%
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
, 1h39Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Rudy Vallée, Alan Young, Scott Brady, Guy Middleton
Roles M. Marcel
Rating51%
Bonnie and Connie Jones are showgirls, who are also sisters. They are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting anywhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous and find true love.
The Colditz Story (1955)
, 1h34Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors John Mills, Eric Portman, Ian Carmichael, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Guido Lorraine
Roles Polish officer
Rating68%
British, French, Dutch and Polish Prisoners of War (POWs) (and some other nationalities), who have made escape attempts but been recaptured, are sent to Oflag IV-C, a supposedly secure castle in Saxony, in the heart of Germany during the Second World War. At first the different nationalities try to initiate their own plans until the senior British officer steps in and suggests co-operation between the different contingents. At first, the coordination fails because one of the prisoners is supplying information to the German guards. After he is discovered, plans remain secret and there follows a number of escapes; some successful, some not.
Above Us the Waves (1955)
, 1h39Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Theodore Bikel, Michael Medwin
Roles Officer Interpreter
Rating65%
The Royal Navy is concerned about constant attacks on convoys by German submarines and having to keep "half the fleet" watching for the German battleship Tirpitz. The Tirpitz is 60 miles from the sea inside a Norwegian fjord and attempts by the Royal Air Force to sink her have failed. Commander Fraser (Mills) is determined to prove that an attack by human torpedoes is practical, despite scepticism from the higher echelons that such an operation would be feasible.
Break in the Circle (1955)
, 1h27Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton, Eric Pohlmann, David King-Wood
Roles Franz
Rating48%
They Can't Hang Me (1955)
, 1h15Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan, André Morell, Anthony Oliver, Reginald Beckwith, Ursula Howells
Roles Pietr Revski
Rating58%
A senior civil servant, Pitt (Morell) has been convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Days before his execution, Pitt reveals that he has been passing on top secret information to an agent of a foreign power and offers to reveal the identity of his handler in exchange for a reprieve. With only five days before Pitt's execution, debonair Special Branch Inspector Ralph Brown (Morgan) takes on the task of identifying the spy before he flees the country.
Father Brown (1954)
, 1h31Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Sid James
Roles Café Patron
Rating66%
Father Brown tries to transport an historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.
The Village (1953)
, 1h38Directed by Leopold Lindtberg
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama
Actors John Justin, Eva Dahlbeck, Guido Lorraine, Maurice Régamey
Roles Mr. Karginski
Rating74%
The Red Beret (1953)
, 1h28Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Susan Stephen, Stanley Baker, Donald Houston
Roles German Officer
Rating59%
Steve MacKendrick (Alan Ladd), nicknamed "Canada" because that is where he claims he is from, volunteers in 1940 for the British Army's paratroop school. He obviously has a good deal more background and leadership skills than he lets on. Canada tries to become better acquainted with a pretty parachute rigger named Penny Gardner (Susan Stephen). She is initially put off by his attitude, but they eventually start dating. Both Penny and his new commander, Major Snow (Leo Genn), see potential (and a mystery that does not add up) in him, despite his strong efforts to avoid assuming any responsibility. Canada turns down Snow's offer to send him to officer school.
Top Secret (1952)
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Jay, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles 1st M.V.D.
Rating62%
George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans for a modern plumbing system. The Russians offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing, he believes),and while there he falls in love with secret agent Tania, and discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.