Stars on Sunday (TV Series 1969–1979) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Title: Stars on Sunday (1969–1979) 4.4/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? (Ambrosia) – See all my reviews In the early 1990's, I.T.V. abolished the 'God slot', meaning that religious programmes could no longer be broadcast in the early part of Sunday evening, instead viewers would have to make do with family movies and game shows of the 'Family Fortunes' variety. It was quite a jump from Sir Cliff Richard singing 'Abide With Me' to 'Honey I Shrunk The Kids'.

'Stars On Sunday', made by Yorkshire Television, was a religiously themed variety show, a sort of 'Sunday Night At The London Palladium' with hymn books. Internationally famous stars of the calibre of Kenneth McKellar, Moira Anderson, Eartha Kitt, James Mason, Harry Secombe and Christopher Lee ( yes, you read that correctly! Old Count Dracula himself used to read extracts from The Bible on this show ) appeared. Normally such talent did not come cheap, but producer and presenter Jess Yates had a knack for persuading stars to work for next to nothing. Perhaps they thought it a worthy cause, like the bands who went on Live Aid in 1985. Perhaps they thought that by going on the show it would greatly increase their chances of reaching Heaven. We shall never know. Millions tuned in each week to see Sir Harry and co. performing spiritually uplifting songs against a background of cardboard cut-out sheep and tinsel. It was the complete opposite of his later show 'Highway' ( how I miss that! ) which took him around the country. Not all the 'turns' were stars.

There was The Poole Family, Britain's answer to The Osmonds, who grinned their way through the hymn back catalogue. I forget how many there were ( it seemed like a new member joined each week ). The youngest member was chirpy Glyn, whom a T.V. Times reader likened to actor Kenneth Haigh, star of I.T.V.'s sleazy drama 'Man At The Top'. I never found out whether that was intended as a complement or not. Linking the acts was, of course, Jess Yates, seated before an organ ( a musical one, so don't worry ) which he would then play a la Terry Jones in 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' ( only fully clothed ). Yates was known as 'The Bishop' on account of his oh-so solemn delivery. Watching him you would think you had tuned into a funeral service by mistake. Viewers used to send in requests for hymns. One night, he introduced 'When The Saints Go Marching In' and made it sound as though Judgement Day had arrived. Stanley Baxter did a splendid spoof on his 'Picture Show' called 'Scars On Sunday' in which he caught to a tee Yates' sepulchral manner.

'Stars On Sunday' used to go out ahead of sitcoms such as 'On The Buses' and 'Doctor In Charge' which meant that one minute you were watching David Frost reciting the parable of The Good Samaritan, the next Reg Varney and Bob Grant were insulting Stephen Lewis. Alas, it came to pass that Yates had been having it off with a woman half his age, and Yorkshire T.V. did thus cast him out into the wilderness forevermore, much to the amusement no doubt of his long-term rival Hughie Green. The show carried on without The Bishop for a good few years, finally ending in 1979. Other shows moved into the 'God slot', thankfully none quite as stuffy or pretentious. This show did more to promote atheism in Britain than any other, before or since. 7 of 7 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Obituary: Jess Yates | The Independent Obituary: Jess Yates Sunday 11 April 1993 23:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Jesse Frederick Joseph Yates, television presenter and producer: born Tyldesley, Manchester 20 December 1918; married 1958 Heller Toren (Elaine Smith: one daughter; marriage dissolved 1975); died Llandudno 9 April 1993. MAKING POPULAR, quality television on small budgets was Jess Yates's forte. During his years in television, he did just about everything there was to do, from designing sets and writing, to producing, directing and presenting, but never have the television authorities dumped anyone as unceremoniously as they did him. Born in Tyldesley, Manchester, Yates subsequently moved with his family to North Wales and he became a cinema organist in Colwyn Bay at the age of 15. On leaving school, he took a job as organist at the then new Odeon cinema in Llandudno and, when Rank took over the circuit, he played across the whole country.

After serving in the Army for four years during the Second World War, based at Radcliff, in Lancashire, he went back to organ-playing on the Rank Circuit, as the last touring organist in Britain. Involved in the formation of the Children's Film Foundation as 'Uncle Jess', he also made singalong records for children's Odeon Cinema Clubs. In 1951, Yates formed the Littlewoods and Vernon girls' choirs for both of the pools organisations, moving to television in the same year as a freelance designer for the BBC, which was keen to broadcast from the regions. He worked on the first Sooty show, in 1952, and the first three years of the long-running music-hall programme The Good Old Days - starting in 1953 at the celebrated City Varieties Theatre, Leeds - as well as Come Dancing, Top Town and the Miss World contest. In 1955, Yates switched to producing and made Out of the Blue, presented by Tyrone Power, wrote and produced A Boy Named Will, as a celebration of Shakespeare's birthday, and presented three series of programmes about the film world, Behind the Scenes, Junior Picture Parade and Filmland.

Moving to Warwick Films in 1957, he wrote and directed documentary shorts on stars such as Kim Novak, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Trevor Howard, Tyrone Power and Anna Neagle, for screening on television. In 1959, a year after his marriage to the former dancer and actress Heller Toren (nee Elaine Smith), he gave up show business to buy a seaside hotel in Llandudno. The couple had a daughter, Paula, now a successful television presenter herself and married to the Band Aid organiser Bob Geldof, and his wife later became a best-selling novelist. But the marriage soon foundered and Yates sold his hotel business, first moving back to Warwick Films, then making a feature film about the Second World War, before joining Yorkshire Television, which became one of the new ITV franchise holders in 1968. As head of children's programmes, his first success was the puppet series Diane's Magic Book, which he wrote and produced. Other series masterminded by him included the children's dramas The Flaxton Boys, starring a young Peter Firth, and Boy Dominic, featuring Richard Todd and Brian Blessed.

He also created and presented How We Used to Live, the longest-running schools programme and a winner of BAFTA awards. One of his greatest successes was Junior Showtime, a talent show for children that launched the careers of Bonnie Langford, Joe Longthorne, Keith Chegwin, Mark Curry and Rosemarie Ford. Yates was particularly successful with his religious programmes. Choirs on Sunday (1968) was a forerunner to the hugely popular Stars on Sunday (from 1969), which Yates created, produced, directed and presented. He also played the organ for it. Its blend of international stars singing well- known hymns and giving Bible readings made it the most popular religious series ever, with regular audiences of more than 15 million. For a minimum Equity fee of pounds 49, stars such as James Mason, Norman Wisdom, Dames Anna Neagle, Janet Baker and Kiri Te Kanawa, Ken Dodd, Bing Crosby, Eartha Kitt and Johnny Mathis appeared in the programme. Lord Mountbatten, Edward Heath and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were on the show too, giving Bible readings.

Yates also persuaded two of the greatest stars of the century to come out of retirement for two Christmas specials: Gracie Fields for A Gift of Gracie and Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Kelly) for The Glories of Christmas. Princess Grace also appeared in Stars on Sunday many times. However, after five years and more than a thousand programmes at Yorkshire Television, Yates's world came crashing around him with the News of the World's revelation on 7 July 1974 that he had been having a relationship with Anita Kay, an actress, more than 30 years his junior, who had appeared in the series Origami, which he directed. Although Yates was still married, he and his wife had been apart for 10 years: she was in Majorca with another man and Yates and Kay were not even living together, but this was hardly mentioned dirung the relentless press campaign waged against him. He lost his job and never worked in television again - apart from a few appearances as a judge in the talent show New Faces - although Stars on Sunday carried on for a further five years without him.

Yates, who was divorced from his wife by mutual consent a year after the scandal, lived with Anita Kay until they parted and she later married someone else. During his troubles, Yates gained great encouragement and support from those in the North Wales village of Rowen, in the Conway Valley, where he had lived in a 20-room house since childhood, and he still hoped that his experience and ideas might enable him to work again. To those of us who could count him as a friend, he was an unending source of stories from more than half a century in show business. However, he did not simply reminisce about 'the good old days' but watched the latest television programmes and enthused over new camera and production techniques. In recent times, fired with a new spirit of determination and hope, he talked of taking his ideas to daytime television or satellite channels, desperate to do what he enjoyed most - making television shows for large audiences. It was not to be.

(Photograph omitted) alienlanes: Hughie Green, Most Sincerely Hughie Green, Most Sincerely … Directed by Dan Percival Written by Tony Basgallop, based on the book ‘Hughie and Paula’ written by Christopher Green and Carol Clark Starring Trevor Eve, Mark Benton, Emma Stansfield, Kim Thomson, Julia Ford, Kate Williams and Danny Webb I am old enough to remember the real Hughie Green (pictured on the right) from our television screens and even as a child with no real frame of reference I thought he was odious. This one-off 90-minute drama is based on the life of Hughie Green, the host of two hugely popular British television shows in the 1960s and 1970s – ‘Double Your Money’ and ‘Opportunity Knocks’.

It is part of a series of dramas that began with the award winning ‘Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!’ in 2006 and has also included dramatisations of the lives of Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell (‘The Curse of Steptoe’), Tony Hancock (‘Hancock and Joan’) and the great Frankie Howerd (‘Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me’). Hughie Green was not, as is often supposed, born in Canada. He was born in London and was a regular performer on BBC radio in his teens. However, after extensively touring Canada with his show ‘Hughie Green and his Gang’ he became a Canadian citizen. In the mid 1930s he also worked in Hollywood. It was with his return to show business after serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II that he became a household name. ‘Double Your Money’ was broadcast between 1955 and 1968. ‘Opportunity Knocks’ was first broadcast on radio in 1949, but is most celebrated for the television version that ran between 1961 and 1978.

‘Hughie Green, Most Sincerely’ covers this period of Green’s life through to his death from lung cancer in 1997. In particular, it concentrates on his fractious relationship with Jess Yates and the shock revelation, two days after his death, that he was the biological father of Paula Yates, the daughter of Jess Yates. The cast is excellent. Trevor Eve plays Hughie Green and although he doesn’t quite look the part, he just about nails the odd mid-Atlantic accent, even if occasionally he seems to slip into an impersonation of James Stewart. The always-reliable Mark Benton plays Jess Yates. Hughie Green was by all accounts an extremely unpleasant person, a whiskey swilling compulsive womaniser who displayed no affection for his two children. Later in his life he was addicted to amphetamines. However, it is implied here that he also had an instinctive understanding of his audience and a genuine degree of respect for the contestants who appeared on his shows. One scene also implies that he challenged the institutionalised racism that existed in British television in the 1970s. Jess Yates, on the other hand, is portrayed as an detestable individual of little or no redeeming qualities.

Yates was known as ‘The Bishop’. He created the popular religious show ‘Stars on Sunday’, which ran from 1969 to 1979. He also presented the show until 1974, when a sexual scandal ended his career. It is now accepted that it was Green who leaked the story to News Of The World journalist Noel Botham (played here by Danny Webb) as retribution after Yates had become a producer on ‘Opportunity Knocks’, brought in to bump up the ratings. It was also Botham who revealed that Hughie Green was the biological father of Paula Yates. This revelation came as a shock to all concerned, but was subsequently proved to be true by a DNA test. All of this occurred less than one month after the death of Michael Hutchence, who was the partner of Paula Yates and the father of her fourth child. To some degree, ‘Hughie Green, Most Sincerely’ chooses the wrong path by deciding to concentrate on Green’s supposed distant devotion to his secret daughter. He did not, as far as is known, meet her during his lifetime and the knowledge that he was her father was a closely guarded secret until after his death.

There was plenty of other material to draw from his decidedly sleazy life without resorting to this tissue-thin speculation – for example, the infamous “Stand Up And Be Counted” song and speech at the end of an episode of ‘Opportunity Knocks’ in December 1976 that somehow lit the spark that resulted in the election of Margaret Thatcher as the British Prime Minister some two and a half years later. It is also true that the material is stretched very thin over ninety minutes. However, Trevor Eve’s central performance is superb and that alone makes it all worthwhile - and I mean that most sinecerely! … Astrology: Horoscopes of celebrities with the Moon in the astrological sign of Scorpio [5/86] 22,763 clicks, 1,290th man, 2,239th celebrity Biography of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (born Nicolas Dupont on March 7, 1961 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French gaullist and souverainist politician.

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21,334 clicks, 1,445th man, 2,469th celebrity Biography of Prince Andrew, Duke of York The Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960 (birth time source: Gwen Stoney, Astrodatabank, copy of newspaper on the day with a photo of palace announcement)) is a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II. He has held the title of Duke of York since 1986. The Duke of York has been 4th in the line of succession since the birth of Prince Harry in 1984. The Duke of York married and subsequently divorced Sarah Ferguson. He also served in the Royal Navy, seeing action in the Falklands War aboard HMS Invincible. He currently serves as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. Early life Andrew was born on 19 February 1960 in the Belgian Suite of Buckingham P...

21,315 clicks, 1,027th woman, 2,472nd celebrity Biography of Jena Malone Jena Malone (born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. She is widely known for starring in a large number of independent films. She made her film debut with a critically acclaimed performance in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). Malone is perhaps best known for her roles in Donnie Darko (2001), Saved! (2004), and Stepmom (1997). Early life Malone was born in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and lived in 27 different locations by the age of nine. Malone was raised by her mother and her mother's girlfriend, whom Jena calls "Godmom". Malone discussed this on a March 2004 appearance on Loveline. She began taking an interest in acting after watching her mother, who was involved in community theatre. She briefly moved to Las Vegas, hated it, and persuaded her mother to move on to Los Angeles. ...

21,253 clicks, 1,034th woman, 2,489th celebrity Biography of Evelyne Thomas ï¿½velyne Thomas (born January 10, 1964 in Pï¿½rigueux (birth time source: civil registrar)) is the hostess of the French talk show C'est mon choix (It's my choice). In 2003 she was controversially chosen as the new Marianne. The town mayors who elect her went for a populist choice, which was at odds with the views of the Parisian intelligentsia. This was compounded by her stating that, while she was in favour of liberty and fraternity, she opposed equality, which implied making everyone the same. See Libertï¿½, ï¿½galitï¿½, fraternitï¿½....

20,983 clicks, 1,061st woman, 2,542nd celebrity Biography of Basia (singer) Barbara Trzetrzelewska, known professionally as Basia, born September 30, 1954 in Jaworzno in Poland, is a Polish singer, songwriter and producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly in the United States, Japan, England and France. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range, approximately three octaves that span from contralto to soprano tessituras, as well as her singular jazz-influenced stylings and multi-layered harmonies. Basia was born in Jaworzno, Poland, in 1954. In 1969, she debuted with her local amateur rock band Astry, and performed with them on Polish Festival Of Beat Avangarde in Kalisz. From 1972 to 1974, she was a member of ...

20,923 clicks, 1,068th woman, 2,556th celebrity Biography of Giovanna Antonelli Giovanna Antonelli, born March 18, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian actress. Height: 5' 6ï¿½" (1.68 m) Filmography Television Minissï¿½ries 2007 - Amazï¿½nia, de Galvez a Chico Mendes ... Delzuite Gonï¿½alves 2003 - A Casa das Sete Mulheres ... Anita Garibaldi Programas 2006 - Minha Nada Mole Vida (episï¿½dio: Procura-se uma namorada) ... 1999 - Vocï¿½ Decide Movies 2007 - Por Acaso 2007 - Caixa 2 .... ï¿½ngela 2004 - A Cartomante .... Karen Albuquerque 2003 - Maria, Mï¿½e do Filho de Deus .... Maria 2002 - Avassaladoras ....

Laura (tambï¿½m produtora associada) 2000 - Bossa Nova .... Sharon Theater 2003 A Paixï¿½o de Cristo ... Maria 2004 Dois na Gangorra ... Gittel... 20,908 clicks, 1,070th woman, 2,558th celebrity Biography of Molly Ringwald Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Early life Ringwald was born outside Sacramento, California in Roseville, California, the daughter of blind jazz pianist Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, and Adele Edith (Frembd), a housewife and chef. Ringwald has two siblings, Elizabeth and Kelly. She started her acting career at age five, starring in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the dormouse.

By the time she was six years old, she had recorded I Wanna Be Loved by You, a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band; th... 20,870 clicks, 1,495th man, 2,568th celebrity Biography of Antoine Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 ï¿½ May 8, 1794) the "father of modern chemistry," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, co-discovered, recognized and named oxygen (1778), as well as hydrogen, disproved the phlogiston theory, introduced the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He was also an investor and administrator of the "Ferme Gï¿½nï¿½rale," a private tax collection company; chairman of the board of the Discount Bank (later the Banque de France); and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic administrative councils.

Because of his prominence in the pre-revolutionary government in Fr... 20,857 clicks, 1,075th woman, 2,571st celebrity Biography of Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 (birth time source : Didier Geslain) - December 17, 1987). She was the daughter of Michel de Crayencour and Ferdinande (Fernande) de Cartier de Marchienne. Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman to be elected to the Acadï¿½mie Franï¿½aise, in 1980. Yourcenar was born in Brussels, Belgium, and educated privately to a prodigious standard at her father's estate in northern France. Her Belgian mother, died ten days after Marguerite was born, due to puerperal fever and peritonitis.

Jeanne von Vietinghoff, an author nï¿½e Bricou, the daughter of a Belgian architect and a schoolfriend of her mother, became for Marguerite a kind of idol, the mother dreamed of. Yourcenar read Racine and Arist... 20,699 clicks, 1,086th woman, 2,602nd celebrity Biography of M.I.A. (artist) Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (Tamil: மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British songwriter, record producer, singer, rapper, fashion designer, visual artist, political activist, and artist of Tamil Sri Lankan origin. An accomplished visual artist by 2002, M.I.A. came to prominence in early 2004 through file-sharing of her singles "Galang" and "Sunshowers" on the Internet. She released her Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Arular in 2005.

Her second album, Kala, was released in 2007 and obtained Gold status in the United States according to the RIAA. "Paper Planes," a track from this a... 20,696 clicks, 1,518th man, 2,605th celebrity Biography of Richard Gasquet Richard Gasquet (pronounced )(born 18 June, 1986 in Bï¿½ziers (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French tennis player. He reached a career high of World Number 7 in July, 2007 after making it to the semi-finals of Wimbledon 2007, defeating American Andy Roddick. Later that year, Gasquet qualified for the 2007 Tennis Masters Cup. He is currently the World No. 23. It was reported on 9 May 2009 that he failed a drugs test at the Miami Masters in March, with 1.46 mg of cocaine discovered in his A-sample. He is reportedly facing a ban for up to two years if his B-sample also tests positive.

Career Early years Gasquet was born in Bï¿½ziers in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. He is the only child in the family. He began playing tennis at the age of 4 under the guidance of his father, F... 20,610 clicks, 1,528th man, 2,621st celebrity Biography of Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) ï¿½ 2 April 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He was born in the commune of Montboudif, in the department of Cantal in central France. After his khï¿½gne at Lycï¿½e Louis-le-Grand, where he befriended Senegalese poet and statesman Lï¿½opold Sedar Senghor, he graduated from the ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure with a degree of Agrï¿½gation in literature.

He first taught literature at a lycï¿½e until hired in 1953 by Guy de Rothschild to work at de Rothschild Frï¿½res. In 1956, he was appointed the bank's general manager, a position he held until 1962. Later, he was hired by Charles de Gaulle to manage the Anne de Gaulle Foundation for Down's Syndrome (de Gaulle's daughter Anne had Down's Syndrome).... 20,602 clicks, 1,095th woman, 2,624th celebrity Biography of Olivia Palermo Olivia Palermo (born February 28, 1986) is currently a cast member on the MTV reality television series The City. The daughter of a Connecticut real estate developer named Douglas Palermo, Palermo came to New York to attend the New School. She has been noted as a former socialite and has graced the cover of New York Magazine as the It-Girl in 2007. Palermo was born in New York and was raised between New York City and Connecticut. Growing up as an athlete, Palermo participated in sports such as ice hockey, skiing, lacrosse and tennis.

She studied abroad in Paris before returning to New York to complete her undergraduate degree in Communications Studies at The New School. She is currently dating German model, Johannes Huebl. Career Palermo made her debut on the New York social sce... 20,547 clicks, 1,533rd man, 2,630th celebrity Biography of Jean-Marc Morandini Jean-Marc Morandini (Marseille, 5 August 1965 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) ï¿½ ) is a French journalist. In 1985, aged 20, Morandini became the youngest TV speaker of France. He worked for channel La Cinq, before creating and animating the programme Tout est possible on TF1 for 4 years. The programme was sharply criticised for it lack of intelligence, particularly by Libï¿½ration and Les Guignols de l'Info, and was eventually discontinued. Morandini then turned to radio, working for RMC Info and, since 2003, for Europe 1.

On the 12 April 2007, Morandini started a small scandal from his blog, where he stated his intentions to publish estimations of results of the presidential election as soon as 18h ; according the French applicable laws (loi ï¿½lectorale du 19 fï¿½vrier 2002), the ... 20,460 clicks, 1,108th woman, 2,655th celebrity Biography of Catherine Nay Catherine Nay, born January 1, 1943 in Tours (not in Pï¿½rigueux. Birth time source: Didier Excoffon, acte nï¿½9, Mairie de Tours), is a French journalist, author, and TV host. Works La Double Mï¿½prise, Paris, Grasset,‎ 1980, 294 p.

(ISBN 978-2-246-25241-2, notice BnF no FRBNF346815127) Le Noir et le Rouge, ou l'Histoire d'une ambition, Paris, Grasset,‎ 1er dï¿½cembre 1984 (ISBN 978-2-246-28191-7) Les Sept Mitterrand, ou les Mï¿½tamorphoses d'un septennat, Paris, Grasset,‎ 1987, 286 p.

(ISBN 978-2-246-36291-3, notice BnF no FRBNF34924789c) Le Dauphin et le Rï¿½gent, Paris, Grasset,‎ 1er octobre 1994 (ISBN 978-2-246-47171-4, notice BnF no FRBNF35720752v) Un pouvoir nommï¿½ dï¿½sir, Paris, Grasset,‎ 17 janvier 2007, 475 p. (ISBN 978-2-246-68001-7, notice BnF no FRBN... 20,439 clicks, 1,550th man, 2,660th celebrity Biography of Gï¿½rard Darmon Gï¿½rard Darmon (born 29 February 1948 in Paris (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF)) is a French actor and singer. He is the second husband of Mathilda May.

He has three children: Virginie (born 1968) and the last two by Mathilda May, daughter Sarah (born 17 August 1994) and son Jules (born 4 March 1997). Darmon also did a cover of Mambo Italiano. Darmon is of Algerian Jewish origin. In July 2012, he was naturalized Moroccan by a decree from King Mohamed VI. Filmography 1972 : The Bar at the Crossing 1973 : Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob), directed by Gï¿½rard Oury 1979 : Courage - Let's Run, directed by Yves Robert 1981 : Diva, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix 1982 : Le Grand Pardon (fr), directed by Alexandre Arcady 1982 : L... 20,390 clicks, 1,560th man, 2,673rd celebrity Biography of Sam Worthington Samuel Henry J.

"Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an English/Australian actor. After almost a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Worthington gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation (2009), the lead role as Jake Sully in the James Cameron-directed film Avatar (2009), Perseus in the movie Clash of the Titans (2010) and Captain Alex Mason in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. In 2004, Worthington received Australia's highest film award for his lead performance in Somersault. He performed predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low-budget films before transitioning to major studio films, ranging from romantic drama and comedy-drama to science fiction and action. He was selected as one of the entrant... 20,371 clicks, 1,115th woman, 2,676th celebrity Biography of Stacy Valentine Stacy Valentine (born Stacy Baker on August 9, 1970 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American porn star, now retired from the pornographic business.

She is sometimes credited as Stacy Valentine, Stacey Valentin, Stacey Valentine or Staci Valentine. Married at a young age, Valentine was pressured by her husband to get breast implants and pose for an amateur photo contest run by Hustler magazine. Her confidence increased when she won the contest, eventually ending the marriage and moving to California to pursue stardom. Valentine took her stage name from the fact that she appeared in her first adult film on February 14, 1996. It has been said that her last film, by coincidence, was made exactly four years later, also on Valentine's Day. Currently Stacy lives in California working as a Dire... 20,313 clicks, 1,570th man, 2,689th celebrity Biography of Wes Anderson Wesley Mortimer Wales "Wes" Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials. He was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums. Anderson has been called an auteur, as he is involved in every aspect of his films' production.

His films employ a similar aesthetic, employing a deliberate, methodical cinematography, with mostly primary colors. His soundtracks feature early folk and rock music, in particular classic British rock. Anderson's films combine dry humor with poignant portrayals of flawed characters ï¿½ often a mix of the wealthy and the working class. He is also known for working with many of the same actors and crew on varying projects. He also works at I...

Question: Which religious t.v. programme, first broadcast in 1969, was created and presented by Jess Yates?
Answer: 'STARS ON SUNDAY'