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Index A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money is a 1949 Ealing Studios comedy film starring Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as two Welshmen visiting London for the first time.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 30 relations: Alec Guinness, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Bard, Charles Frend, Clifford Evans (actor), Clive Morton, Comedy film, Diana Morgan (screenwriter), Donald Houston, Douglas Slocombe, Ealing Studios, Eisteddfod, Ernest Irving, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, Leslie Norman (director), Leslie Perrins, London, Meredith Edwards (actor), Michael Balcon, Michael Truman, Moira Lister, Nantymoel railway station, Newspaper, Richard Hughes (British writer), Rugby union, Scam, The Independent, Twickenham Stadium, Wales.

  2. Films directed by Charles Frend

Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Bard

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

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Charles Frend

Charles Herbert Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977, London) was an English film director and editor, best known for his films produced at Ealing Studios.

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Clifford Evans (actor)

Clifford George Evans (17 February 1912 – 9 June 1985) was a Welsh actor.

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Clive Morton

Clive Morton (16 March 1904 – 24 September 1975) was an English actor best known for playing upper class Englishmen, he made many screen appearances, especially on television.

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Comedy film

Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.

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Diana Morgan (screenwriter)

Mary Diana Morgan (29 May 1908 – 9 December 1996) was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and novelist, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan.

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Donald Houston

Donald Daniel Houston (6 November 1923 – 13 October 1991) was a Welsh actor whose first two films—The Blue Lagoon (1949) with Jean Simmons, and A Run for Your Money (1949) with Alec Guinness—were highly successful.

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Douglas Slocombe

Ralph Douglas Vladimir SlocombeDuncan Petrie, "Slocombe, (Ralph) Douglas Vladimir (1913–2016)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2020.

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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London, England. A Run for Your Money and Ealing Studios are Ealing Studios films.

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Eisteddfod

In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.

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Ernest Irving

Kelville Ernest Irving (6 November 1878 – 24 October 1953) was an English music director, conductor and composer, primarily remembered as a theatre musician in London between the wars, and for his key contributions to British film music as music director at Ealing Studios from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Hugh Griffith

Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor.

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Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Irene Grenfell OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English diseuse, singer, actress and writer.

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Leslie Norman (director)

Leslie Armande Norman (25 February 1911 – 18 February 1993) was an English post-war film director, producer and editor who also worked extensively on 1960s television series later in his career.

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Leslie Perrins

Leslie Perrins (7 October 1901 – 13 December 1962) was an English actor who often played villains.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Meredith Edwards (actor)

Gwilym Meredith Edwards (10 June 1917 – 8 February 1999) was a Welsh character actor and writer.

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Michael Balcon

Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in west London from 1938 to 1955.

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Michael Truman

Michael Truman (25 February 1916, in Bristol, England – 11 July 1972, in Newbury, Berkshire) was a British film producer, director and editor.

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Moira Lister

Moira Lister Gachassin-Lafite, Viscountess of Orthez (6 August 192327 October 2007) was a South African-British film, stage and television actress and writer.

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Nantymoel railway station

Nantymoel railway station served the village of Nant-y-moel, in the historical county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1873 to 1958 on the Ogmore Valley Railway.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.

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Richard Hughes (British writer)

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Twickenham Stadium

Twickenham Stadium in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, is a rugby union stadium owned by the Rugby Football Union (RFU), English rugby union governing body, which has its headquarters there.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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See also

Films directed by Charles Frend

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Run_for_Your_Money