[3], In the late 1960s, Adrian toured as George Bernard Shaw in the one-man show An Evening with GBS, which played in London, on Broadway, and in Asia, Africa and Australia. Up Pompeii! [14] The Times said that the show "presented a deeply understanding portrait... impish, malicious, playful, outrageous, affectionate, angry and almost always eloquent. je britanski televizijski sitkom koji se originalno prikazivao na programu kanala BBC One od 1970. godine. Add a Biography. | Lurcio is a much-put-upon slave in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. "[1], Adrian was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and Mabel Lloyd Thornton. [2], There were concerns in the Corporation's copyright department that the parallels between the musical and the comedy series might lead to litigation over possible plagiarism, but Rothwell told the BBC that he had seen neither the stage musical nor its film adaptation.[2]. Up Pompeii! Anderson To Direct Pompeii Disaster Flick. Radnja se događa u antičko doba u drevnom rimskom gradu Pompeji, a protagonist i narator je rob po imenu Lurcio (fonetski:Lurkio), koga tumači Frankie Howerd, čije su se pustolovine uglavnom ticale porodice njegovih gospodara. Away from the classics, he played the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz at the Phoenix Theatre in 1943. Howerd is the slave Lurcio (pronounced Lurk-io); his bumbling old master Ludicrus Sextus (Max Adrian, then Wallas Eaton), the promiscuous wife is Ammonia (Elizabeth Larner), their daughter Erotica (Georgina Moon) and their virginal son Nausius (Kerry Gardner). He also starred with Dorothy Tutin, Richard Johnson and John Barton in The Hollow Crown, an anthology of prose and verse about the monarchs of England, devised by Barton and frequently revived in later years. Guest Star (21) Role. ... Frankie Howerd, Max Adrian, Wallas Eaton, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford, Georgina Moon, William Rushton and others Writers Talbot Rothwell and Sid Colin Directors "[13] He then played In the late 1970s, missing episodes of Up Pompeii! the Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya, Balance in The Recruiting Officer and Brovik in The Master Builder. were found in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) archive. The later series was shelved due to the outbreak of the Falklands War and – thought politically insensitive – the series was aired after Howerd's death in 1993. "[9] He continued classical work with John Gielgud's company at the Haymarket Theatre (1944–45), where he appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Osric in Hamlet, and Tattle in William Congreve's Love for Love.[1]. Grandiose Irish stage, film and television character player Max Adrian, a noted classical performer and musical comedy revue star with a highly distinctive voice and "old school" acting style, was born Max Bor on November 1, 1902, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. A full cast audio play celebrating 50 years since the first episode of Up Pompeii was broadcast. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Uz Pompeje!) However, Aubrey Woods appeared in the TV series and the film, playing different roles. on 31st March 1975 and 14th December 1991. The collection includes not only both original series of Up Pompeii!, but also the 1975 BBC special Further Up Pompeii! Ludicrus Sextus S 1: Ep 0 "Up Pompeii" 9/1/69. Up Pompeii. (not to be confused with the 1991 ITV special Further Up Pompeii), the already-released Comedy Greats: Frankie Howerd DVD, and another Howerd series along a similar vein, Then Churchill Said to Me. From "Veronica Mars" and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen. He made his stage debut in the chorus of Katja the Dancer in 1925. In addition there had been a pilot episode (1969) as part of Comedy Playhouse, and two later special episodes both called Further Up Pompeii, one in 1975 and the other, written by Brian Leveson and Paul Minett, in 1991. for a proposed national UK tour, but the play was shelved when Howerd was offered a chance by Larry Gelbart to reprise his role as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End. Up Pompeii! No biography is available for Max Adrian. is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. In 1988, Howerd asked one of his writers, Miles Tredinnick, to work on an updated stage version of Up Pompeii! Up Pompeii! Infamy!" The images should not contain any sexually explicit content, race hatred material or other offensive symbols or images. Looking for something to watch? 30 min The series was written by Talbot Rothwell and Sid Colin. Wikipedia. 1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes. This may have been due to the second series being commissioned, filmed and broadcast within four months from the end of the first. In 2004–2005, through the success of a group of BBC employees' restoration work on similar NTSC-only episodes of Doctor Who, the BBC decided to convert all their NTSC-only productions (as reclaimed from various international stations) back to their original PAL format using a new computer-controlled process, Reverse Standards Conversion. Other regulars are Senna the Soothsayer (Jeanne Mockford) who constantly warns of impending death and destruction and, in series … More often than not, Lurcio finds himself keeping his owner's family members apart, in order to keep them together. Max Adrian (born Guy Thornton Bor; 1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He made his West End debut in The Squall at the Globe Theatre in December 1927. "[8], Adrian joined the Old Vic company in 1939, playing the Dauphin in Shaw's Saint Joan, "a beautifully malicious study in slyness, effeminacy, meanness, and a curious lost, inverted dignity. Check out the movies and shows we're excited about this month, including "Star Trek: Discovery" and After We Collided. The format of Up Pompeii inspired two later TV series, Whoops Baghdad (1973) and Then Churchill Said to Me (1982), both starring Howerd. Radnja se događa u antičko doba u drevnom rimskom gradu Pompeji, a protagonist i narator je rob po imenu Lurcio (fonetski:Lurkio), koga tumači Frankie Howerd, čije su se pustolovine uglavnom ticale porodice njegovih gospodara. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. See, Performances in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&oldid=976961878, Male television actors from Northern Ireland, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Max Mandeville aka Mr. Max / Lord Hubert Brockhurst, This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 03:24. Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American NTSC television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted (dating long before digital conversion methods) NTSC state. In between there also was a 13 minute Up Pompeii segment in the 1970 Royal Television Gala Performance.[3]. Howerd is the slave Lurcio (pronounced Lurk-io); his bumbling old master Ludicrus Sextus (Max Adrian, then Wallas Eaton), the promiscuous wife is Ammonia (Elizabeth Larner), their daughter Erotica (Georgina Moon) and their virginal son Nausius (Kerry Gardner). He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.. Grandiose Irish stage, film and television character player Max Adrian, a noted classical performer and musical comedy revue star with a highly distinctive voice and "old school" acting style, was born Max Bor on November 1, 1902, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. When revue became less popular in the mid-1950s, Adrian went to America in 1956 to appear as Dr. Pangloss and Martin in Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide on Broadway. BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 17 January 1983, BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 1 March 1983, BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 4 August 1983, BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 18 January 1983, BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 19 January 1983, BBC Breakfast Time Episode dated 20 January 1983, http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=asc&q=Up+Pompeii&svc=9371541#search%7CUp, http://allthetropes.wikia.com/wiki/Up_Pompeii!%7CUp, https://bbc.fandom.com/wiki/Up_Pompeii! Based on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, itself based on the Roman comedies of Plautus and Terence, which were in turn based on the Greek New Comedy of Menander. 's first series originally aired on BBC1 between 30 March 1970 and 11 May 1970. in which he also later played on Broadway. The son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and wife Mabel Lloyd Thornton, Max ... Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, UK [now Northern Ireland, UK], Review: "Pool Of London" (1951); Blu-ray Special Edition, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The latter sparked speculation that there could be a new series, but Howerd's death in 1992 put an end to any such prospect. on Wikipedia 1970s British Sitcom ostensibly about the humorous misadventures of a Roman slave, Lurcio, before Vesuvius erupted. ", premiered on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse on 17 September 1969. [6] The script was adapted by Barnaby Eaton-Jones, Daniel McGachey and Iain McLaughlin, with Eaton-Jones serving as producer and director of the live recording sessions at London's Shaw Theatre on 12 October 2019. in Sandra R. Joshel (et al., eds. Up Pompeii! {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125650%7CUp Pompeii!}} Nicholas J. Cull "Infamy! FilmShaft.com In addition to his success as a character actor in classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably Ken Russell's Song of Summer as the ailing composer Delius. The cast included Frankie Howerd, Max Adrian, Elizabeth Larner, Georgina Moon, Kerry Gardner, Jeanne Mockford and Willie Rushton. It was revised for two one off specials entitled Further Up Pompeii! [11] Adrian's musical numbers included "Prehistoric Complaint" (as a misfit caveman), "Excelsior" (as a put-upon Sherpa), "Guide to Britten" (as a manic conductor), "In the D'Oyly Cart [sic]" (as a jaded Gilbert and Sullivan performer), and "Surly Girls" (as headmistress of St. Trinian's). Adrian's first film was in 1934. [2] He was educated at the Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, whose past pupils also included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.