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Sink the Bismarck! was the inspiration for Johnny Horton's highly popular 1960 song, "Sink the Bismarck", [8] credited by Variety with boosting the film's American gross alone by an estimated half a million dollars. [9] The film had its Royal World Premiere in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Odeon Leicester Square on 11 February 1960.
Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter; 8 June 1931 [1] [2] – 5 May 2011) was a German-born British actress, who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the 1950s.
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Civilian Worker on 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited) Life Is a Circus (1960) as Removal man; Dead Lucky (1960) as Harry Winston; Follow That Horse! (1960) as Farrell; The Price of Silence (1960) as Slug; There Was a Crooked Man (1960) as Foreman; Suspect (1960) as Slater. (Released in the United States as 'The Risk')
He agreed to star in The Angry Silence at a discount fee but pulled out in order to make Sink the Bismarck! (1960), directed by Gilbert, a more lucrative assignment (More's role was played by Richard Attenborough). [30] This film was a hit in Britain and the US.
The Bismarck was a battleship of the German navy during World War II, named after Otto von Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck!, a 1960 war film about the sinking of the Bismarck starring Kenneth More and Dana Wynter "Sink the Bismark", a 1960 Johnny Horton song inspired by the movie
He made his first, uncredited, screen appearance in the film, Sink the Bismarck! (1960). He also played the role of Bob, the barman, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963), based on the trilogy 20,000 Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton. He made his West End debut in February 1959 in Five Finger Exercise.
He also had roles in Men of Tomorrow (1959), In the Wake of a Stranger (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960) and The Wind of Change (1961). Hemmings began to be known for playing young men, for example in The Painted Smile (1962) and Some People (1962). His first lead role was in the low budget teen musical Live It Up!
Jamila Massey (born 7 January 1934) is an Indian actress and writer.Massey has had a long career on UK television and radio. She is known for playing Auntie Satya in the long-running radio soap The Archers, Jamila Ranjha in Mind Your Language, and Sanjay Kapoor's mother Neelam in EastEnders.