His family moved to Johannesburg 1933. Age 15, he joined the Entertainment Unit of SA Army in WW2. In 1946 he briefly enrolled at London's Royal Academy Dramatic Art.
He soon left RADA, and as Larry Skikne, appeared on stage in Manchester, this led to a film, House of Darkness (1948). His choice of stage name, Harvey, or Nichols, from upmarket London store, Harvey + Nichols.
House of Darkness (1948) * The Black Rose * Good Die Young * King Richard and Crusaders * I am a Camera (Cabaret) * Storm Over Nile * Silent Enemy * Room at the Top * Expresso Bongo * The Alamo * BUtterfield 8
Long and Short and Tall * A Walk on Wild Side * Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm * Manchurian Candidate (OscarNom) * Running Man * Of Human Bondage * The Outrage * Darling * Life at the Top * Spy with Cold Nose
Winter's Tale * Dandy in Aspic (co-directed) * The Magic Christian * #OrsonWelles The Deep * Escape to the Sun * Nightwatch * #OrsonWelles F is for Fake * Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974 + directed, final film)
"The fact it manages to be a reasonably arresting experience, carved from a questionable melodrama is attributed to the visual excitement produced by those who who made it ... Its major asset though, is, Miss Taylor." - Variety
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#BOTD 1904 – 1991 Graham Greene, Aged 86, English novelist, playwright.
Man Within (1929) Stamboul Train (1932) It's a Battlefield (1934) England Made Me (1935) A Gun for Sale (1936) Journey Without Maps (1936) Brighton Rock (1938) Lawless Roads (1939) Confidential Agent (1939)
#BOTD 1904 – 1991 Graham Greene, 86, English novelist, playwright.
Power and Glory (1940) Ministry of Fear (1943) Heart of Matter (1948) Third Man (1949) End of the Affair (1951) Loser Takes All (1955) The Quiet American (1955) Our Man in Havana (1958) A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
#BOTD 1904 – 1991 Graham Greene, 86, English novelist, playwright.
The Comedians (1966) Travels with My Aunt (1969) A Sort of Life (1971) Honorary Consul (1973) Human Factor (1978) Ways of Escape (1980) Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980) Monsignor Quixote (1982) Tenth Man (1985)
#OTD 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (b. 1906) #Hitchcock's original cool Blonde
Star of 1930-40s. In 1938, the world's highest-paid actress. She returned to UK after her sister was killed in WW2 Blitz. She then devoted herself to the Red Cross and child refugees.
#OTD 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress (b. 1906) #Hitchcock's Blonde The 39 Steps + Secret Agent.
Film debut Guns of Loos (1928) * Escape (1930) School for Scandal * Madame Guillotine * #Hitchcock The 39 Steps (1935) + Secret Agent (1936) * The General Died at Dawn
Lloyd's of London * Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Northwest Mounted Police * My Favorite Blonde (1942) * White Cradle Inn (1947) An Innocent Affair * The Fan (1949 final film)
A child actress and singer, she appeared West End 1948, Broadway, 1954, as 'Britain's youngest prima donna'. On Broadway in My Fair Lady (1956), as Eliza, and Camelot (1960), as Guinevere, with Richard Burton.
#BOTD 1935 – Julie Andrews, 86, English actress, singer.
Mary Poppins (1964) * Americanization of Emily * Sound of Music * #Hitchcock's Torn Curtain * Hawaii * Thoroughly Modern Millie * Star! * Darling Lili * Tamarind Seed * 10 * Little Miss Marker * S.O.B. * Victor/Victoria
#BOTD 1935 – Julie Andrews, 86, English actress, singer.
Duet for One * Relative Values * Princess Diaries * Shrek 2 (Queen) * Princess Diaries 2 * Shrek the Third * Enchanted (Narrator) * Tooth Fairy * Shrek Forever After * Despicable Me * Minions: Rise of Gru (2022 as Marlena)
#BOTD 1930 – 2002 Richard Harris, Aged 72, Irish actor.
Film debut 1959 * Wreck of the Mary Deare * Guns of Navarone * Long and Short and Tall * Mutiny on Bounty * This Sporting Life (1963 OscarNom) * Heroes of Telemark * Major Dundee * Camelot (King Arthur) * The Molly Maguires
#BOTD 1930 – 2002 Richard Harris, Aged 72, Irish actor.
Man Called Horse * Cromwell (as Oliver Cromwell) * Snow Goose * Juggernaut * Robin and Marian (Richard I) * Return Man Called Horse * Cassandra Crossing * Gulliver's Travels * Orca * Wild Geese * Triumphs Man Called Horse
#BOTD 1930 – 2002 Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.
The Field (1990 OscarNom) * Patriot Games * Unforgiven (as English Bob) * Cry, the Beloved Country * To Walk with Lions * Gladiator * Harry Potter (Professor Albus Dumbledore) * Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets (2002 posthumous)
#BOTD 1920 – 2000 Walter Matthau, Aged 79, US actor.
Film debut: The Kentuckian (1955) * The Indian Fighter * Bigger Than Life * A Face in the Crowd * Slaughter on Tenth Avenue * King Creole * Ride a Crooked Trail * Gangster Story (+ Director) * Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962) * Charade * Ensign Pulver * Fail Safe * Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie (first film with Jack Lemmon) * The Odd Couple (1968) * Cactus Flower * Hello, Dolly! (1969)
A New Leaf (1971) * Plaza Suite * Kotch * Pete 'n' Tillie * Charley Varrick * The Taking of Pelham One Two Three * The Front Page * The Sunshine Boys * The Bad News Bears * House Calls * California Suite * Little Miss Marker (1980)
#BOTD 1921 – 2007 Deborah Kerr, (b. Trimmer), 86, Scots-English actress, dancer. OscarNom six times, one of most nominated actress to never win (Honorary Oscar 1994)
Major Barbara * The Day Will Dawn * The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp * I See A Dark Stranger * Black Narcissus
Edward My Son (OscarNom) * King Solomon's Mines * Quo Vadis * Prisoner of Zenda * From Here to Eternity (OscarNom) * End of Affair * King and I (OscarNom) * Tea and Sympathy * Heaven Knows Mr Allison (OscarNom)
"Roman general Marcus, (Robert Taylor), sparks rebellion when he falls in love with Christian slave Lygia (Kerr). When atrocities are performed on Christians, can Marcus save Lygia, and her family."