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10 results found for '"Leo Genn"' in Person.

  • Music of Smetana (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Rhapsody
    Producer
    Stanford Robinson; Harold Neden

    First performance of Smetana’s opera fragment Viola, which is based on Twelfth Night.The music, performed by the BBC Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, includes the overture of the opera as well as other...

  • Green for Danger (1946 Film)

    Director
    Sidney Gilliat
    Producer
    Sidney Gilliat; Frank Launder

    Comedy crime film. In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill...

  • Julius Caesar (1945 Film)

    Series
    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare
    Director
    Henry Cass
    Producer
    Sydney Box

    Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows Mark Antony and Brutus in the Forum following Caesar’s murder (III ii). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.

  • Henry V (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...

  • John V. Hansen Footage of Hamlet at Kronberg (1937 Film)

    Silent amateur film shot by John V. Hansen, engineer and member of the Amateur Cinema League, of a performance of Tyrone Guthrie’s Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as...

  • Immortal Gentleman, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Widgey R. Newman
    Producer
    Widgey R. Newman

    Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...

  • King Richard II (1935 Radio)

    Producer
    Henry Cass

    Radio production of the play by Henry Cass, broadcast with members of the Old Vic Company London. Maurice Evans performs the title role, Abraham Sofaer is Bolingbroke. With music specially composed by...

  • Sir Thomas More: A Tribute to the Memory of a Brave Man (1935 Radio)

    Producer
    Laurence Gilliam

    Radio adaptation written by D. G. Brodson and produced by Laurence Gilliam. The play comprises three sequences ('The Trial’, ‘The Dream’, ‘The End’) and an epilogue. The cast includes Lewis Casson...

  • Merchant of Venice, The (1934 Radio)

    Producer
    Cyril Wood

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced by Cyril Wood with Stephen Haggard (Bassanio), Abraham Sofaer (Shylock) and Celia Johnson (Portia). Music by the Vocal Octet.

  • Julius Caesar (1933 Radio)

    Producer
    Howard Rose

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting in 14 scenes by Barbara Burnham and produced by Howard Rose. With Shayle Garner as Caesar, Ralph Richardson as Antony and Robert Donat as...