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The Yeoman of the Guard is a 1978 British TV version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy opera The Yeomen of the Guard. [1] It was a filmed version of a 1978 stage production which was produced in the Tower of London during the City of London Festival at a budget of £150,000. [2]
The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a bodyguard of the British monarch. The oldest British military corps still in existence, it was created by King Henry VII in 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth Field. The Yeomen of the Guard are popularly known as Beefeaters, a nickname they share with the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London ...
Scene from The Yeomen of the Guard D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1906 Revival. The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888 and ran for 423 performances.
Wallace Brownlow portraying Richard Cholmondeley in The Yeomen of the Guard, 1888. Sir Richard Cholmondeley (or Cholmeley) (c. 1460–1521) was an English farmer and soldier, who served as Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1513 to 1520 during the reign of Henry VIII.
The Yeomen of the Guard (Hallmark Hall of Fame) (1957) (TV) as Wilfred Shadbolt; Zorro (1957–1959) as Sergeant Garcia; Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) as Ben Cotter; Walt Disney Presents (in four Zorro episodes, 1960–1961) as Sergeant Garcia; Babes in Toyland (1961) as Gonzorgo
The Yeoman of the Glass and China Pantry is responsible for everything from unpacking glasses to folding 170 monogrammed napkins into Dutch bonnets before a state banquet at Buckingham Palace ...
Yeomen of the Guard Royal Company of Archers. Sovereign's Bodyguard is the name given to three ceremonial units in the United Kingdom who are tasked with guarding the Sovereign. These units are: His Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms – formed 1509; King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard – formed 1485
Barrington and Pounds as Giuseppe and Marco. The Gondoliers was preceded by the most serious of the Gilbert and Sullivan collaborations, The Yeomen of the Guard.On 9 January 1889, three months into that opera's fourteen-month run, Sullivan informed the librettist that he "wanted to do some dramatic work on a larger musical scale", that he "wished to get rid of the 'strongly marked rhythm', and ...