Foyle's War - Fifty Ships - 1:20 pm Monday, January 12 on ITV3

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Fifty Ships
Season 2, Episode 1

The year is 1940, and Sam is made homeless when a bomb destroys her boarding house, alerting Foyle to a system of organised looting around Hastings. However, when a corpse is found on the beach, the investigation brings the team into conflict with British attempts to secure vital American aid for the war effort. Police drama, starring Michael Kitchen, with Anthony Howell and Honeysuckle Weeks

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Detective/Thriller Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

Michael Kitchen (Actor) .. Christopher Foyle

Anthony Howell (Actor) .. Paul Milner

Honeysuckle Weeks (Actor) .. Sam Stewart

Julian Ovenden (Actor) .. Andrew Foyle

Nicholas Le Prevost (Actor) .. Arthur Lewes

Rebecca Johnson (Actor) .. Jenny Wentworth

Giles Foster (Director)

Simon Passmore (Producer)

Jill Green (Producer)

Anthony Horowitz (Writer)

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Did You Know..

Michael Kitchen (Actor) .. Christopher Foyle

Born: October 31, 1948 in Leicester

Best Known For: Foyle's War.

Early-life: Born October 31, 1948, in Leicester. As a boy, he was the head chorister in the Church of the Martyrs choir. The acting bug bit early, and he started treading the boards with the National Youth Theatre and later the Belgrade Theatre. He then went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the Emile Littler Award, which is given to students with outstanding talent and aptitude for the professional theatre. He graduated in 1969.

Career: Kitchen immediately began gaining roles on stage, quickly building a reputation for himself. He was also keen to shun small parts in glossy productions, preferring to play larger roles in less well-attended plays. He made his movie debut in 1971's little-seen Unman, Wittering and Zigo, following it up with Dracula AD 1972. Since then, he's worked steadily on TV and in films. Among his most famous projects are Brimstone and Treacle, Breaking Glass, Out of Africa, The Russia House, Dandelion Dead, A&E and the hugely acclaimed TV series Foyle's War. He also appeared in two of Pierce Brosnan's Bond movies and starred in ITV's 2007 drama Mobile.

Quote: On playing criminals: "I've done quite a few very unpleasant, extremely nasty people and they keep coming - but there seems to be a lot more money in evil, so I'm happy to take them."

Trivia: Kitchen has two sons with Rowena Miller, whom he met while she was a dresser at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1980s.