High Noon High Noon High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal who is torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting
Fred Ferris (actor) as "Sky West and Crooked". One of these parts was in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of Giants". Ferris died in 1978, aged 72. Fred Ferris (actor) Fred Ferris (1905–1978) was a British actor. Ferris was born in West Derby, Liverpool. In the earlier years of his career, he was known as a comic actor, featuring in the BBC Home Service's radio comedy "Club Night", which starred Dave Morris and ran between 1950 and 1955. Ferris was briefly in "Coronation Street" in 1962. He played Mr Appleby, the father of Colin Appleby. In later years, Ferris played a large number