Jet Storm
Encyclopedia
Jet Storm is a 1959
British
thriller film, where Richard Attenborough
plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance.
1959 in film
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....
British
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
thriller film, where Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance.
Cast
Actor/Actress | Character |
---|---|
Richard Attenborough Richard Attenborough Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi... |
Ernest Tilley |
Stanley Baker Stanley Baker Sir Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer.-Early career:William Stanley Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales. In the mid-1930s his parents moved to London, where Baker spent most of his formative years... |
Capt. Bardow |
Hermione Baddeley Hermione Baddeley Hermione Baddeley was an English character actress of theatre, film and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Room at the Top and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here... |
Mrs. Satterly |
Bernard Braden Bernard Braden Bernard Chastey Braden was a Canadian-born English actor and comedian.Braden was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and educated at Magee Secondary School, Kerrisdale, Vancouver. He produced plays on CJOR Vancouver in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He married Barbara Kelly in 1942 and they moved... |
Otis Randolf |
Diane Cilento Diane Cilento Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.-Biography:Cilento's parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Phyllis Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners.... |
Agelica Como |
Barbara Kelly Barbara Kelly Barbara Kelly was a Canadian-born actress, possibly best-known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s and for many appearances as a panelist on the British version of What's My Line?.-Early years:Barbara Kelly was born in... |
Edwina Randolph |
David Kossoff David Kossoff David Kossoff was a British actor. Following the death of his son Paul, a rock musician, he became an anti-drug campaigner... |
Dr. Bergstein |
Virginia Maskell Virginia Maskell Virginia Elizabeth Maskell , was an English actress.- Biography :After the outbreak of World War II, Maskell's family were evacuated to South Africa... |
Pam Leyton |
Harry Secombe Harry Secombe Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show... |
Binky Meadows |
Elizabeth Sellars Elizabeth Sellars Elizabeth Sellars is a British actress.Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She appeared on the stage from age 15 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts... |
Inez Barrington |
Sybil Thorndike Sybil Thorndike Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike CH DBE was a British actress.-Early life:She was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire to Arthur Thorndike and Agnes Macdonald. Her father was a Canon of Rochester Cathedral... |
Emma Morgan |
Mai Zetterling Mai Zetterling -Early life:Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.-Career:... |
Carol Tilley |
Marty Wilde Marty Wilde Marty Wilde is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, and is the father of pop singers Ricky Wilde, Kim Wilde and Roxanne Wilde.-Career:Wilde was performing under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in... |
Billy Forrester |
Patrick Allen Patrick Allen John Keith Patrick Allen was a British film, television and voice actor.-Life and career:Allen was born in Nyasaland , where his father was a tobacco farmer. After his parents returned to Britain, he was evacuated to Canada during World War II where he remained to finish his education at McGill... |
Mulliner |
Paul Carpenter Paul Carpenter (actor) Paul Carpenter was an Canadian actor and singer.He sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s.-Selected filmography :* Landfall * Albert R.N. * The House Across the Lake... |
George Towers |
Megs Jenkins Megs Jenkins Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins was an English character actress who appeared in British films and television programmes.-Life and career:... |
Rose Brock |
Jocelyn Lane Jocelyn Lane Jocelyn Lane, also known as Jackie Lane, was a model and actress active in the 1960s. She was married to Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.-Early life:... |
Clara Forrester |
Cec Linder Cec Linder Cec Linder was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing American characters in various films and television programmes.In film, he is probably best remembered for his role as James Bond's CIA counterpart... |
Col Coe |
Neil McCallum Neil McCallum (actor) Neil McCallum was a British Canadian actor, trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first major appearance on stage was with Sam Wanamaker in The Rainmaker in the mid-1950s. He appeared in many British TV series in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. He also appeared in several films... |
Gil Gilbert |
Lana Morris Lana Morris Lana Morris, born Averil Maureen Anita Morris was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s.... |
Jane Tracer |
George Rose George Rose (actor) \... |
James Brock |
Peter Bayliss Peter Bayliss Peter Bayliss was an English actor.Bayliss was born in Kingston-upon-Thames and trained at the Italia Conti Academy and the John Gielgud Company... |
Bentley |
Captain John Crewdson | Whitman |
Paul Eddington Paul Eddington Paul Eddington CBE was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s: The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.-Early life:... |
Victor Tracer |
Glyn Houston Glyn Houston Glyn Houston , is an actor best known for his television work. He is the brother of the late film actor Donald Houston.-Early life:... |
Michaels |
Peter Illing Peter Illing Peter Illing was an Austrian born, British film and television actor.-Filmography:* Silver Darlings * The End of the River * Against the Wind * Traveller's Joy... |
Gelderen |
Jeremy Judge | Jeremy Tracer |
George Murcell George Murcell George Murcell was a British character actor. His first wife was Josephine Tweedy whom he married in 1953, and his second was the actress Elvi Hale whom he was married to from 1960 until his death.... |
Saunders |
Alun Owen Alun Owen Alun Owen was a British screenwriter, predominantly active in television, but best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night .... |
Green |
Irene Prador | Sophia Gelderen |