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How the 30-minute drama powered British television

Half-hour anthology dramas ruled the airwaves throughout the 60s and 70s, showcasing radical new work and offering a training ground for a who’s who of British screen talent.

From Hollywood to Paris: Charles Laughton and I

From Hollywood to Paris: Charles Laughton and I
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Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary

Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Alamy Faulkner: he got his nickname Trader from his habit of stealing his father s whisky and bartering it at school for marbles - Alamy Ronald “Trader” Faulkner, who has died aged 93, was an Australian actor, writer, flamenco enthusiast and a friend of Hollywood stars from John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier to Peter Finch, whose biography he wrote; with his matinée idol looks, Faulkner was a regular supporting player in Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s. He met John Gielgud in 1950, when auditioning to replace Richard Burton in the transfer to Broadway of The Lady’s Not for Burning – directed by Gielgud. When Gielgud heard Faulkner’s real name, he cried: “ ‘Ronald!’ Oh, God! What a dreary name!’’ He was elated to learn that Faulkner’s “down-under’’ nickname was Trader: “We’ll bill you on Bro

Rosalind Knight obituary

The best directors always wanted Rosalind Knight in their casts. Photograph: Simon Annand/PA In a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass character actor Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, renewed her TV profile with younger audiences in two quirkily original comedy sitcoms: Jonathan Harvey’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001) and Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner (in the second series, 2012). She dressed down and mussed up her hair for Beryl Merit, a retired prostitute and landlady of the north London flat shared by Kathy Burke’s foul-mouthed Linda La Hughes and James Dreyfus’s acidulous actor; and reversed that process for Cynthia Goodman, aka “Horrible Grandma”, who aggressively stiffens the tone of the Friday night ritual hosted by her son (Paul Ritter) and his wife (Tamsin Greig).

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