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Q What was the film where Agnes Moorehead played a character called Aunt Fanny? George Phillips, Glasgow
A It was the period drama The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) starring Joseph Cotton and Dolores Costello.
Q I loved all of the Poirot stuff shown over the festive season. I hadn't seen Sad Cypress before and I'm sure I recognised the actress who played Elinor Carlisle somewhere before. Marlene Cameron, Edinburgh
A Stunning Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh is the daughter of Irish actor Dermot Walsh. As well as starring in Sad Cypress (2003), she's popped up in Love Soup, Midsomer Murders and Holby City. She's currently starring as Dr Zara Carmichael in the popular afternoon soap Doctors.
Q Please settle a pub disagreement and tell me who first had a hit with Blinded By The Light? Mr J King, Dalkeith
A It was a number six hit in August, 1976 for Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Q Any info on the comedian Charlie Drake from the 60s and 70s? Is he still alive? George MacDonald, Turriff
A He was born Charles Edward Springall in London on June 19, 1925, taking his mother's surname for the stage. The tiny comic made his TV debut in The Centre Show (1953) and went on to star in Laughter In Store and Drake's Progress, both 1957. In 196, a props accident led to a fractured skull, leaving him in a three-day coma and unable to return to TV again for two years when he starred in The Charlie Drake Show which won him an award at the Montreaux Festival in 1968. His most popular role was in The Worker (1965-6) when he played unemployed Charlie, the bane of the life of job centre boss Mr Pugh (Henry McGee). He recorded a large number of songs including Splish Splash, a spoof of the Bobby Darin hit, which reached number six in August 1958 and My Boomerang Won't Come Back (number 14 in October 1961). Married twice, with three sons from his first marriage, he died in Twickenham on December 23, 2006 following a series of strokes.
Q My brother will be 30 on January 25 - can you tell me what was the number one record when he was born in 1980? Linda Gough, Paisley
A It was the end of a fortnight's run for the Pretenders with Brass In Pocket.
Q What was the name of the film when a woman wrote an SOS note in lipstick and threw it out of a skyscraper? John Cooper, Dundee
A I'm sure you're thinking of Priscilla Lane in the Hitchcock action thriller Saboteur (1942) in which she co-starred with Robert Cummings and Otto Kruger.
Q Did actress Gene Tierney write an autobiography? Brian Fisher, Glasgow
A The lovely lady (1920-92) penned a frank account of her life, Self-Portrait, in 1979.
Q We're trying to remember when The Darling Buds Of May was first shown on TV. Margaret Buchanan, Thurso
A There were 20 episodes of the adaptations of the five Larkin books by H E Bates shown from 1991-3. David Jason starred at the height of his comedic powers as 'Pop' with cuddly Pam Ferris as 'Ma' and a gorgeous young Catherine Zeta Jones as Mariette.
Q Can you tell me age and cause of death of actor and war hero Audie Murphy? Ann McLennan, Inverness
A Texan-born Murphy (1924) started in movies after his amazing war record (he won 27 medals and was credited with killing 240 Germans). He made 44 films, 33 of which were Westerns. He died in a plane crash in 1971.
A It was the period drama The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) starring Joseph Cotton and Dolores Costello.
Q I loved all of the Poirot stuff shown over the festive season. I hadn't seen Sad Cypress before and I'm sure I recognised the actress who played Elinor Carlisle somewhere before. Marlene Cameron, Edinburgh
A Stunning Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh is the daughter of Irish actor Dermot Walsh. As well as starring in Sad Cypress (2003), she's popped up in Love Soup, Midsomer Murders and Holby City. She's currently starring as Dr Zara Carmichael in the popular afternoon soap Doctors.
Q Please settle a pub disagreement and tell me who first had a hit with Blinded By The Light? Mr J King, Dalkeith
A It was a number six hit in August, 1976 for Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Q Any info on the comedian Charlie Drake from the 60s and 70s? Is he still alive? George MacDonald, Turriff
A He was born Charles Edward Springall in London on June 19, 1925, taking his mother's surname for the stage. The tiny comic made his TV debut in The Centre Show (1953) and went on to star in Laughter In Store and Drake's Progress, both 1957. In 196, a props accident led to a fractured skull, leaving him in a three-day coma and unable to return to TV again for two years when he starred in The Charlie Drake Show which won him an award at the Montreaux Festival in 1968. His most popular role was in The Worker (1965-6) when he played unemployed Charlie, the bane of the life of job centre boss Mr Pugh (Henry McGee). He recorded a large number of songs including Splish Splash, a spoof of the Bobby Darin hit, which reached number six in August 1958 and My Boomerang Won't Come Back (number 14 in October 1961). Married twice, with three sons from his first marriage, he died in Twickenham on December 23, 2006 following a series of strokes.
Q My brother will be 30 on January 25 - can you tell me what was the number one record when he was born in 1980? Linda Gough, Paisley
A It was the end of a fortnight's run for the Pretenders with Brass In Pocket.
Q What was the name of the film when a woman wrote an SOS note in lipstick and threw it out of a skyscraper? John Cooper, Dundee
A I'm sure you're thinking of Priscilla Lane in the Hitchcock action thriller Saboteur (1942) in which she co-starred with Robert Cummings and Otto Kruger.
Q Did actress Gene Tierney write an autobiography? Brian Fisher, Glasgow
A The lovely lady (1920-92) penned a frank account of her life, Self-Portrait, in 1979.
Q We're trying to remember when The Darling Buds Of May was first shown on TV. Margaret Buchanan, Thurso
A There were 20 episodes of the adaptations of the five Larkin books by H E Bates shown from 1991-3. David Jason starred at the height of his comedic powers as 'Pop' with cuddly Pam Ferris as 'Ma' and a gorgeous young Catherine Zeta Jones as Mariette.
Q Can you tell me age and cause of death of actor and war hero Audie Murphy? Ann McLennan, Inverness
A Texan-born Murphy (1924) started in movies after his amazing war record (he won 27 medals and was credited with killing 240 Germans). He made 44 films, 33 of which were Westerns. He died in a plane crash in 1971.