Those Glory Glory Days
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Those Glory Glory Days is a 1983 British made-for-television film about football. The screenplay was written by the sports journalist Julie Welch
. The film is inspired by Welch's childhood love of football, and helped to establish her as a screenwriter. It was released on 17 November 1983 and featured Zoë Nathenson
, Sara Sugarman
and Cathy Murphy
in leading roles.
and support for Tottenham Hotspur
, which became the first English team in the 20th century to win both the English league and the FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls is making a documentary on the sporting achievement and tracks down players from the 1960-1961 team.
Julie Welch
Julie Welch is a British sports journalist, author and screenwriter who in 1969 became Fleet Street's first female football reporter. As a screenwriter she writes both screenplays and scripts for television, while as an author she has written both fiction and non-fiction...
. The film is inspired by Welch's childhood love of football, and helped to establish her as a screenwriter. It was released on 17 November 1983 and featured Zoë Nathenson
Zoë Nathenson
Zoë Nathenson is a British actress.In 1986, at the age of 17, she performed as daughter of Bob Hoskins in the successful criminal film Mona Lisa...
, Sara Sugarman
Sara Sugarman
Sara Sugarman is a Welsh actress and film director whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Very Annie Mary...
and Cathy Murphy
Cathy Murphy
Cathy Murphy is a British actress who studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She played the role of Lorna in 1991, a love interest of Mark Fowler in soap opera EastEnders. In 2005 she returned to play the recurring role of Trisha Taylor. She had earlier played the ongoing role of Cheryl...
in leading roles.
Plot summary
The film is about a group of girls growing up in 1960-61 London, who develop an interest in footballFootball (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
and support for Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
, which became the first English team in the 20th century to win both the English league and the FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls is making a documentary on the sporting achievement and tracks down players from the 1960-1961 team.
Cast
- Zoë NathensonZoë NathensonZoë Nathenson is a British actress.In 1986, at the age of 17, she performed as daughter of Bob Hoskins in the successful criminal film Mona Lisa...
- Danny Julia - Sara SugarmanSara SugarmanSara Sugarman is a Welsh actress and film director whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Very Annie Mary...
- Toni - Cathy MurphyCathy MurphyCathy Murphy is a British actress who studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She played the role of Lorna in 1991, a love interest of Mark Fowler in soap opera EastEnders. In 2005 she returned to play the recurring role of Trisha Taylor. She had earlier played the ongoing role of Cheryl...
- Tub - Liz Campion - Jailbird
- Amelia Dipple - Petrina
- Elizabeth SpriggsElizabeth Spriggs-Early life and career:Born in Buxton, Derbyshire as Elizabeth Jean Williams, Spriggs had an unhappy childhood and grew up entirely without affection, particularly from her distant, domineering father, a master builder and farmer. She studied at the Royal College of Music and taught speech and...
- Mistress - Julia McKenzieJulia McKenzieJulia McKenzie is an English actress, singer, and theatre director. She is best-known for her performance in Fresh Fields, but to current television audiences, she is best known for her role as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple...
- Mrs. Herrick - Peter TilburyPeter TilburyPeter Tilbury born 20 October 1945 in Redruth, Cornwall in England is a British actor and writer.As an actor Tilbury's television appearances include Dixon of Dock Green , It Takes a Worried Man , Miss Marple , Fortunes of War Casualty , The Bill , Birds of a Feather , and Chef! .As a television...
- Herrick - Julia GoodmanJulia GoodmanJulia Goodman née Salaman was a British portrait painter.The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
- Journalist Julia - Stephan Chase - Father
- Bryan PringleBryan PringleBryan Pringle was a British actor who appeared in television, film and theatre productions.Born in Tamworth, Staffordshire but raised in the Lancashire town of Bolton he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1958, he married character actress Anne Jameson; together they had...
- Reg - John SalthouseJohn SalthouseJohn Salthouse is a British actor and producer. He is perhaps best known for creating the role of Tony in Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party and DI Roy Galloway in The Bill from 1984 to 1987...
- Young Danny - Danny BlanchflowerDanny BlanchflowerRobert Dennis "Danny" Blanchflower was a former Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager, and journalist who captained Tottenham Hotspur F.C. during its double-winning season of 1961. He was ranked as the greatest player in Spurs history by The Times in 2009...
- Himself - Rachel Meidman - Young Julia
- Roddy Maude-RoxbyRoddy Maude-RoxbyRoddy Maude-Roxby is an English actor.Maude-Roxby has appeared in numerous films, such as The Aristocats, Unconditional Love, and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart, playing the British Partner Thompson....
- Brian
External links
- Those Glory Glory Days review at Film4.com