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Father Brown is a British period detective television series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholic priest. Broadcast began on BBC One on 14 January 2013.
Father Brown on a case, illustrated by Sydney Seymour Lucas for The Innocence of Father Brown. Father Brown is a short, plain Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human behaviour. His unremarkable, seemingly naïve appearance hides an unexpectedly sharp intelligence and keen powers of ...
Father Brown is visiting his old Rector (Dudley Sutton) at Upcott Seminary for trainee priests when a student commits suicide, Father Brown attempts to find the truth behind his death and that of a student a year earlier, both members of a secret fraternity that has closed ranks. Father Brown enlists Sid to go undercover as a trainee priest ...
Father Brown is a British television series, which originally aired on ITV in 1974. It featured Kenneth More as Father Brown , a Roman Catholic priest who solved crime mysteries. [ 1 ] The episodes were closely based on the stories by G. K. Chesterton .
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. [2]Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, [3] and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.
Father Brown is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film Father Brown, Detective (1934), it is based loosely on The Blue Cross (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton .
The Innocence of Father Brown " The Sign of the Broken Sword " is a short story by G. K. Chesterton and the sixth to feature Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective Father Brown . It was published in the January 7, 1911, issue of The Saturday Evening Post and later reprinted in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), the first compilation of ...
"The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was the first Father Brown short story and also introduces the characters Hercule Flambeau and Aristide Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin.