Valentine Dyall
Actor
Brief Encounter...meet furtively, constantly fearing chance meetings with friends. After several meetings, they go to a room belonging to a friend (Valentine Dyall) of the doctor, but they are interrupted by the friend's unexpected return. This brings home the... In this article: Brief Encounter, Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter, and David Lean |
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Datchet
...the Datchet Health Centre. Many famous people connected with literature, sport, film and stage live or have lived in Datchet: Valentine Dyall, Billy Cotton, Billy Whitelaw, and Sir Donald Pleasance. As of 2009 Joan Collins still retains...
In this article: Thomas Sopwith, London, River Thames, Domesday Book, and King Edward III
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Valentine Dyall
Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908-24 June 1985) was an English character actor, the son of veteran actor Franklin Dyall, who was especially popular as a voice actor, due to his very distinctive sepulchral voice. He was known for many years as "The...
In this article: Franklin Dyall, Doctor Who, Love's Labour's Lost, Black Guardian, John Antrobus, The Bed-Sitting Room, Yellow Canary, Richard Greene, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
The Haunting (1963 film)
...Jackson. It stars Julie Harris as Eleanor, Richard Johnson as Dr. Markway, Russ Tamblyn as Luke, Claire Bloom as Theo, Valentine Dyall and Rosalie Crutchley as Mr. and Mrs. Dudley, and Lois Maxwell as Mrs. Markway. The film centers around...
In this article: The Haunting, The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, and Suicide
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Cyril Luckham
...the White Guardian in the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who - the antithesis of the Black Guardian played by Valentine Dyall. He appeared in The Ribos Operation, the first serial in The Key to Time season, and...
In this article: Cyril Luckham, White Guardian, Black Guardian, Enid Blyton, Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, The Famous Five, Doctor Who, and Omega Factor
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Black Guardian
The Black Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was played by Valentine Dyall. The Black Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of the forces of entropy and chaos, the...
In this article: Black Guardian, Doctor, White Guardian, Fourth Doctor, Tardis, Entropy, Fifth Doctor, and Big Finish
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
The Bed-Sitting Room (film)
...Martin. At one time Barry Humphries played this role, which he names as Captain Martin Bules. Lord Fortnum of Alamein, Valentine Dyall. (Ralph Richardson in the film) Plastic Mac Man, John Bluthal (Roy Kinnear in the film) Chest of...
In this article: The Bed-Sitting Room, Spike Milligan, London, John Antrobus, and Ralph Richardson
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Neddie Seagoon
...ten stone , I went down to a mere twenty stone". In Robin Hood, Prince John (Dennis Price) and The Sheriff of Nottingham (Valentine Dyall) discuss their adversary: He also appears to have been Major Bloodnok's batman at some point of time.
In this article: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Wallace Greenslade, George Orwell, and Robin Hood
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Wikipedia | August 20, 2009
The City of the Dead (film)
City of the Dead (US title: Horror Hotel) is a 1960 film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall. Production began on October 12, 1959 at Shepperton Studios with a budget of GBP45,000. Milton...
In this article: The City of the Dead, Christopher Lee, Massachusetts, Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter, Patricia Jessel, Misfits, Milton Subotsky, and Venetia Stevenson
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Wikipedia | May 09, 2009
The Destroyer of Delights
...appeared in the classic TV series, first in The Armageddon Factor and lastly in ''Enlightenment ''. He was played by Valentine Dyall. The White Guardian was also in the TV series, first in The Ribos Operation and finally in Enlightenment.
In this article: Doctor, White Guardian, Second Doctor, Big Finish Productions, Patrick Troughton, David Troughton, Cyril Luckham, and Doctor Who
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Observer.com - All Articles | September 09, 2008
Lean Times The New York Observer
...14 and 15, is Brief Encounter (1945), with Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Cyril Raymond, Joyce Carey, and Valentine Dyall. Showtimes are 2:50, 6:20, and 9:50. Also showing: Blithe Spirit (1945), with Rex Harrison, Constance...
In this article: John Mills, Joyce Carey, Kay Walsh, Ann Todd, The New York Observer, The Passionate Friends, Trevor Howard, Robert Newton, Stanley Holloway, and Alec Guinness
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Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908–24 June 1985) was an English character actor, the son of veteran actor Franklin Dyall, who was especially popular as a voice actor. He was known for many years as "The Man in Black", narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment With Fear.
Dyall also made guest appearances in several episodes of The Goon Show, parodying his familiar radio persona.
He played the witch Jethrow Keane in The City of the Dead (1960). He appeared in Robert Wise's 1963 film The Haunting as the sinister caretaker of the haunted Hill House.
He voiced the character of evil mastermind Dr. Noah in the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale.
He later appeared in the radio version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy playing Gargravarr, and on the television and LP versions, where he played the voice of the computer Deep Thought.
He portrayed the Black Guardian in several Doctor Who serials, and also voiced a major role in the Doctor Who radio serial Slipback. He also played Norl in the episode "City at the Edge of the World" in the series Blake's 7.
Dyall also made regular appearances in all three seasons of the series Secret Army as Dr. Pascal Keldermans, but not within the sequel Kessler.
In his early career, he appeared in one movie with his father, the spy thriller Yellow Canary, which starred Anna Neagle and Richard Greene. His part was that of a German U-boat commander attempting to kidnap a British agent from a ship in the Atlantic, Franklin Dyall playing the ship's captain.
- Birth Date:
- May 07, 1908
- Death Date:
- June 24, 1985
- Place of Death:
- London, England
- Known for:
- The Haunting (1963)
- Casino Royale (1967)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series
- Years Active:
- 1942-1985
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