Showing posts with label knighthood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knighthood. Show all posts

Wednesday 13 September 2017

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: CHRISTOPHER LEES MEDALS GO UNDER THE HAMMER AND ITS FREDDIES 90TH!


NEWS: Sir Christopher Lee's awards, including WW2 medals, will go on sale for as little as £100! Here's a feature from a UK newspaper TODAY. What do you think?? 'The widow of Sir Christopher Lee is to sell the honours he amassed during his lifetime, from wartime medals to film accolades and the badge he received upon being knighted.


Around 50 awards will go under the hammer, representing a remarkable screen career that took Sir Christopher from Hammer Horror to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and a role as one of the great Bond villains, Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun. The actor died in June 2015, aged 93. In interviews he was reticent about his war record, but he kept a certificate recording the fact that he was mentioned in dispatches in 1944. It will be offered for auction alongside his campaign medals.


Christopher Lee ,  Peter Cushing, and Veronica Carlson with the cast of Hammer films, 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' being presented with the Queen's Award for Industry at Pinewood studios.

The lots include the British Film Institute Fellowship Award presented by Johnny Depp in 2013 (estimated to fetch £2,000-£3,000) and the Knight Bachelor badge bestowed by the Prince of Wales when Sir Christopher was knighted in 2009. The star's Bafta Fellowship is the one award that will remain with the family. They will be offered with no reserves, allowing fans the opportunity to acquire a piece of memorabilia for a relatively modest price. The evening auction will take place at Spink's in London on November 1. Lady Lee said: "Christopher was greatly appreciative of the recognition of his fans and his peers, and these honours and awards adorned our apartment for many years, bringing him great pleasure. "It's fitting that now a wider audience might have the opportunity to enjoy them, and to celebrate so many high points of his life.


Christopher Lee was  awarded the BAFTA FELLOWSHIP in 2011 

"These awards represent a lifetime of dedicated work and diverse experiences, starting with his role as a young RAF officer in the Second World War, a period that went on to influence him throughout his life. "He remains sorely missed but his family hope that the forthcoming auction will be a celebration of his life and achievements, and a catalyst for future owners of his awards to have many happy memories of their own."


 Bestowed by Prince Charles, he became Sir Christopheri Lee Knighted in 2009

A percentage of the sale proceeds will be donated to Denville Hall in north London, a retirement home for actors.


Please join us in wishing #Happybirthday to the one and only Freddie Jones, who is the grand age of 90 TODAY! Freddie is an actor who is always a joy to watch. Always surprising and entertaining. His voice and delivery are unique, as is, his style and the line he follows in all his performances. Never the obvious, always the unpredictable path. There are have been many highs in the Freddie Jones career, but for us here today, we focus on his roles where working with Peter Cushing, brought us EXTRA value and entertainment. 


As the wrecked and manipulated, Professor Julian Keeley in Hammer films, 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' in 1973, to the pathetic and trapped Professor Richter in 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' in 1969.



Freddie Jones still works, as busy as ever...some would say wasted in a disposable soap opera... but disposable or not, Freddie has played the role of Sandy Thomas since 2005, and in all 552 episodes of ITV's 'Emmerdale', with the same level of authenticity and investment, as any role he has played since he began his long career back in 1960. Fifty six years, and still you can't take your eyes off him! Happy Birthday Freddie From Us All!



#TOOCOOLTUESDAY:! I LOVE it when you send in pics, comments, reviews...candy! This was sent in today by Mark Waddington from the UK. How many of you remember this magazine and this PETER CUSHING GALLERY????
 

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Wednesday 31 December 2014

A KNIGHTHOOD FOR JOHN HURT


Many CONGRATULATIONS to actor JOHN HURT on the news of his being award a Knighthood today in the Queen's New Year Honours List. The 74-year-old was appointed for his services to drama after a career lasting more than five decades. Among some of finest film work like The Elephant Man, Alien, The Naked Civil Servant, Hellboy, V for Vendetta and Doctor Who...there is 'The Ghoul' with Peter Cushing in 1975 as the disturbing and creepy, Tom Rawlings. Congratulations Sir John Hurt!

Saturday 10 May 2014

MARKING A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY IN THE CAREERS OF PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE : NEXT WEEK


NEXT WEEK we'll be marking a very special anniversary in the careers of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a exclusive pictorial feature at our UK Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page... plus there will be a celebration COMPETITION with superb prizes, exclusive to followers of the page! Please keep check this page for details and remember to join us

Friday 9 May 2014

ROMANTIC DRAGON SLAYER: 25 YEARS AGO TODAY MADE HONOURS LIST


It's 25 years today, that marks the processing of Peter Cushing's OBE award from the Queen back in 1989.... it wasn't a knighthood..but PC was so honoured and proud of the OBE, it may as well have been!
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