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Clocking Off
''Clocking Off'' is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott. It was effectively an anthology programme, following the lives of a group of workers at a Manchester textile factory, with each episode focusing on the home life of a different character. Well-known actors and actresses who appeared in the series included Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Okonedo, Philip Glenister, John Simm, Lesley Sharp, Siobhan Finneran, Emma Cunniffe, Diane Parish, David Morrissey, Ricky Tomlinson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, William Ash, Ben Crompton, Jack Deam, Jack P. Shepherd, Tina O'Brien, Jason Merrells, Pam Ferris, Wil Johnson, Ashley Jensen, Susan Cookson, Mark Benton, Lindsey Coulson, Paul Copley, Sarah Lancashire, Crissy Rock, Marshall Lancaster, Marc Warren, Claire Sweeney and Maxine Peake. The series was highly acclaimed by the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the Epic poetry, epic and the Lyric poetry, lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'' ()—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Ancient Greek, Greek word meaning "deed" or "Action (philosophy), act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional Genre, generic division between Comedy (drama), comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''Play (theatre), play'' or ''game'' (translating the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Copley
Paul Mackriell Copley (born 25 November 1944) is an English actor and voice over artist. From 2011 to 2015 he appeared as Mr. Mason, father of William Mason, in 16 episodes of ''Downton Abbey'', and from 2020 to 2021, he appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' as Arthur Medwin. Early life Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family. He went to Penistone Grammar School, then to the Northern Counties College of Education in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he received an Associate of the Drama Board (ADB) in Drama. He taught English and Drama in Walthamstow, before he joined the Leeds Playhouse Theatre-in-education Company in 1971. Career Copley was the male lead character in the four-part BBC series '' Days of Hope'' in 1975, which depicted events between the First World War and the General Strike from a family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pugh
Robert Pugh (born 3 November 1948) is a Welsh actor, known for his many television appearances, including the role of Craster in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones''. Life and career Pugh was born in Tyntetown, Mountain Ash and attended Ynysboeth school down the road and grew up with his grandmother in Tynte, near Pontypridd. He decided to become an actor after watching '' From Russia with Love'' at a cinema in Treforest with a cousin. A few years later he took night courses at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in North London, before being accepted at Rose Bruford College, where he graduated in 1976. He appeared in the 1979 production of Danger UXB as Sapper Powell, a young Royal Engineer in a Bomb Disposal Company during the Second World War. He later appeared as Harold Wilson in the 2005 Channel 4 drama '' Longford'' and as Hermann Göring in the 2006 BBC drama-documentary '' Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial''. In 2007, he co-starred alongside Genevieve O'Reilly and Geraldine J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Okonedo
Sophie Okonedo (born 11 August 1968) is a British actress and narrator. The recipient of a Tony Award, she has been nominated for an Academy Award, three BAFTA TV Awards, an Emmy Award, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honors and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2019 New Year Honors, both for services to drama. Having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she starred as Cressida in the 1999 Royal National Theatre production of ''Troilus and Cressida''. She made her Broadway debut portraying Ruth Younger in the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry's ''A Raisin in the Sun'' for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway as Elizabeth Proctor in the 2016 revival of Arthur Miller's ''The Crucible'' for which she was nominated for her second Tony Award. She returned to the stage portraying Cleopatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murray (English Actor)
James Murray (born 22 January 1975) is an English actor, artist, and river conservationist. He is well known for his work campaigning for British rivers and is a wild salmon advocate. He currently holds the position of Deputy Chair foRiver Action and foundeActivist Anglersin 2023. Jim and his wife Sarah Parish set up The Murray Parish trust in 2014 in memory of their late daughter Ella-Jayne and have raised over £5 million for paediatric facilities. He was awarded an MBE in the king’s honours list 2025. His television roles include Stephen Hart in '' Primeval'' (2007–2008), Niles Pottinger in '' Defiance'' (2014), Daniel Coltrane in ''Cucumber'' (2015), Chief Superintendent John Houseman in '' McDonald & Dodds'' (2020–2021), Prince Andrew in ''The Crown'' (2022–2023), and Colonel Neil 'Chick' Harding in '' Masters of the Air'' (2024). Early life Murray was born in Manchester. He was awarded a classics scholarship by Malvern College, and has a degree in film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Morrissey
David Mark Joseph Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He had numerous small roles in films and television series throughout the 1990s before achieving wider recognition for playing Gordon Brown in '' The Deal'' (2003), Stephen Collins in '' State of Play'' (2003), The Governor in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of '' The Walking Dead'' (2012–2015), and DCS Ian St Clair in '' Sherwood'' (2022–present). He has also acted extensively on stage with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre. Morrissey has directed short films and the television dramas '' Sweet Revenge'' (2001) and '' Passer By'' (2004). His feature-length directorial debut, the television film ''Don't Worry About Me'' (2010), premiered on BBC Two. He was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for ''State of Play'' and won a Best Actor award from the Royal Television Society for ''The Deal''. He was awarded an honorary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Lancaster
Marshall Lancaster (born 5 October 1974) is an English former actor. He has appeared in television dramas including ''Coronation Street'', ''Holby City'', ''The Lakes (TV series), The Lakes'' and ''Family Affairs''. He is best known for playing DC Chris Skelton in the BBC time-travel police dramas, ''Life on Mars (British TV series), Life on Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes (British TV series), Ashes to Ashes'', the former set in 1973, and the latter set between 1981 and 1983. Lancaster is a former member of the Macclesfield-based theatre groups SCAMPS Youth Company, Paragon Youth Theatre and Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society. Until 23 August 2008 he starred in the York Theatre Royal's production of Mike Kenny (writer), Mike Kenny's adaptation of ''The Railway Children'' alongside Colin Tarrant and Sarah Quintrell at the National Railway Museum. Lancaster has one green and one blue eye, a condition known as heterochromia. In January 2013 he started his own construction company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Kelly (actor)
Craig Kelly (born 31 October 1970) is an English actor and voice-over narrator. He is known for his roles as Vince Tyler in the Channel 4 television series '' Queer as Folk'' and as Luke Strong in ''Coronation Street''. Early life Kelly was born on 31 October 1970 in Lytham St Annes near Blackpool, Lancashire. He is the brother of actor Dean Lennox Kelly. Career Kelly moved to London and attended the Drama Centre from 1989 to 1992, where he studied the Stanislavski School of method acting alongside John Simm and Joe Duttine. Graduating in 1992, Kelly played a minor speaking role in ''Titanic'' as Assistant Wireless Operator, Harold Bride and also as Russell Muir in the film ''When Saturday Comes''. TV work Kelly is best known for his role as Vince Tyler in '' Queer as Folk''. He also appeared in ''Casualty'' as Daniel Perryman between 1995 and 1996. A very brief role was as the Mercedes-Benz driver in the " Rabbit in Your Headlights" video, who utters the line 'Nice coat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Duce
Sharon D. Duce (born 17 January 1948) is an English actress. Career Born in Sheffield, she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art then became a stage actress at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre, the York Theatre Royal, and the Theatre in the Round, before joining Ian McKellen and Edward Petherbridges Actors Company. Apart from her career in film and television, she has had leading roles at the Royal Court Theatre and other West End theatres. Duce began her acting career in 1970; She made her first appearance on the short-lived ITV crime drama series '' Parkin's Patch'', before going on to many television guest appearances throughout the decade, in shows including '' Armchair Theatre'', ''Z-Cars'', ''Play for Today'' and ''Crown Court'', as well as film roles in '' The Tamarind Seed'', which was her film debut, and ''Absolution''. Her television guest roles continued into the 1980s in a number of mainstream productions, such as '' The Professionals'', '' Minde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Cunniffe
Emma Cunniffe (born 3 July 1973) is an English film, stage and television actress. Early life Cunniffe was raised in Frodsham, Cheshire and attended Frodsham High School. She was in the local Frodsham panto group whilst growing up and was once in a pantomime with Gary Barlow. Originally it was dance she was into, until she went to theatre school at the age of 13 and fell in love with drama. Career Her television credits include '' Hetty Wainthrop Investigates'' (Chrissie in 'Safe as Houses', 1996), '' The Lakes'' (BBC 1997, 1999), "Biddy" in a TV adaptation of ''Great Expectations'', ''All the King's Men'', '' Clash of the Santas'', alongside Robson Green and Mark Benton, '' Clocking Off'' (BBC), and ''Flesh and Blood'' with Christopher Eccleston. She played DS Tina Murray in New Tricks (S3:E4 Diamond Geezers, 2006.). She also appeared in the sixth series ''Doctor Who'' episode " Night Terrors", alongside the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith. She appeared in the BBC d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Barry
Alice Barry (born 1946 in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English actress and Tiktok creator. Her first regular television role was playing Peggy Hargreaves in '' Clocking Off''. She regularly appeared in '' Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights'' and '' Bob & Rose'', and has had minor roles in ''Linda Green'' and ''The Royal''. She then appeared in '' Shameless'' as Lillian Tyler, and advertisements for Nutrigrain cake bars. On 9 April 2007, she appeared as a neighbour in ''Coronation Street''. On 3 April 2008, she appeared on ''The Paul O'Grady Show'' alongside fellow ''Shameless'' star Sean Gilder, who portrayed Paddy Maguire. In October 2013, she reappeared in ''Coronation Street'' as Mary Ann Galloway. A year later, she portrayed the role of Mrs Waverly in an episode of the BBC soap opera ''Doctors''. Selected filmography References External links * Alice Barryon Tiktok TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Tomlinson
Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in the soap opera '' Brookside'' (1982–1988), DCI Charlie Wise in '' Cracker'' (1993–2006) and Jim Royle in '' The Royle Family'' (1998–2012). He also played the titular character in the 2001 football mockumentary '' Mike Bassett: England Manager''. Early life Eric Tomlinson was born on 26 September 1939 at Burleigh House in Bispham, Blackpool, Lancashire, and has lived in Liverpool nearly all his life. His father was a baker and he was born in Bispham because, just after the outbreak of World War II, his mother Peggy was evacuated there over concerns that Liverpool would be bombed. He attended Walton Technical College in Walton, after passing an exam when he was just 13. His favourite subject was English. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Tomlinson played banjo in bands known as the Guitanjos, Hobo Rick & The City Slickers, and Hobo Rick a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
