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Hamish McColl
Hamish McColl (born 28 January 1962) is a British comedian, writer and actor. He trained at the École Philippe Gaulier, Paris and the University of Cambridge. With Sean Foley, he formed the double act ''The Right Size'' in 1988, creating comic theatre shows which toured all over the world. More recently he has worked as a screenwriter, scripting ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' and ''Johnny English Reborn'', plus contributing to the story of ''Paddington''. Theatre * ''Ducktastic!'', 2005 * Hysterium, '' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'', Royal National Theatre, 2004 * ''The Play What I Wrote'', 2001 * Mr Puntila, “Mr Puntila and his Man Matti”, Edinburgh International Festival, 1998 Filmography Film Writer Acting credits Television Olivier Awards * Best Entertainment 1999 '' Do You Come Here Often?'' * Best New Comedy2001 ''The Play What I Wrote ''The Play What I Wrote'' is a comedy play written by Hamish McColl, Sean Foley and Eddie Braben, starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Gaulier
Philippe Gaulier (born in Paris, 4 March 1943) is a French master clown, pedagogue, and professor of theatre. He is the founder of École Philippe Gaulier, a prestigious French theatre school in Étampes, outside Paris. He studied under Jacques Lecoq in the mid-1960s and was an instructor at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in the late 1970s. As well as performing as a clown, he is also a playwright and Theatre director, director. He has published ''The Tormentor'' (''Le Gégèneur''), a book discussing his thoughts on the theatre and containing exercises designed to develop an actor's skill. Gaulier is known for performing both clown and bouffon comic genres and is thought by some to be the world's leading authority on the "Bouffon", a Comedic genres, comic genre he holds as a sort of inverted Clown, where a balance is struck between grotesqueness and charm. Approach to training Gaulier's methodology of teaching is designed to allow the student to develop their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has served as its president since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs (plus two honorary awards), two Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and knighted on 9 November 2012. He was made a Freeman of his native city of Belfast in January 2018. In 2020, he was listed at number 20 on ''The Irish Times'' list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Branagh has both directed and starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, of which he is a devoted fan, including ''Henry V'' (1989), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1993), ''Othello'' (1995), ''Hamlet'' (1996), '' Love's Labour's Lost'' (2000), and ''As You Like It'' (2006). He was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director for ''Henry V'' and for Best Adapted Screenplay for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Suspect
''Prime Suspect'' is a British police procedural television drama series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force. Plot ''Prime Suspect'' focuses on a no-nonsense female Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren), who is an officer in the Metropolitan Police, initially at the fictional Southampton Row police station. The series follows her constant battles to prove herself within a male-dominated profession in which many of her colleagues are determined to see her fail, though she has the support of her boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Mike Kernan (John Benfield), and the loyalty of Detective Sergeant Richard Haskons (Richard Hawley). In later series, Tennison is reassigned to rotating duties, including a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between The Lines (TV Series)
''Between the Lines'' is a television police drama series created by J. C. Wilsher and produced by World Productions for the BBC. It was first shown on BBC1 between 1992 and 1994, running for three series. The show centred on the eventful life of Detective Superintendent Tony Clark, played by Neil Pearson. Clark was an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB), an internal organisation of the Metropolitan Police that investigates complaints against officers as well as claims of corruption inside the police force. Along the way Clark had to overcome strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean (Lesley Vickerage). Throughout the series Clark was assisted by colleagues Harry Naylor (Tom Georgeson) and Maureen 'Mo' Connell (Siobhan Redmond). The show became a surprise hit for the BBC, winning a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Drama Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenplay (TV Series)
''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ''ScreenPlay''. Various writers and directors were utilized on the series. Writer Jimmy McGovern was hired by producer George Faber to pen a series five episode based upon the Merseyside needle exchange programme of the 1980s. The episode, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was entitled ''Needle'' and featured Sean McKee, Emma Bird, and Pete Postlethwaite''.'' The last episode of the series was titled "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" and featured Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson, who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie. Some scenes were shot at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Is True
''All Is True'' is a 2018 British fictional historical film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Ben Elton. It stars Branagh as playwright William Shakespeare. The film takes its title from an alternative name for Shakespeare's play ''Henry VIII''. Plot After the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare's play ''Henry VIII'', William Shakespeare, aged 49, returns home from London to Stratford-upon-Avon to rejoin his wife, Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare and Anne have a distant relationship, as he has spent most of their marriage working in London, and she is a down-to-earth country woman who cannot read or write. Their marriage has never recovered from the death of their son Hamnet, aged 11, in an outbreak of plague in Stratford while his father was in London. While they also have two daughters, Hamnet was Shakespeare’s favourite child, especially because of the poems which he believes the child wrote. Shakespeare now devotes his time to tending t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Richardson (British Director)
Peter Richardson (born 15 October 1951) is an English director, screenwriter, actor and comedian. He founded the Comic Strip troupe of performers, which showcased his double act with Nigel Planer and launched the careers of French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and Alexei Sayle. Richardson approached Channel 4 to make a series of short, self-contained one-off comedy films with this group, which led to ''The Comic Strip Presents...'', many of which were written, directed by and featured him in acting roles. Richardson began his career as a teenager acting in Alan Bennett's '' Forty Years On''. Trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 1971–73. He later created his own experimental theatre shows with Nigel Planer amongst others, mixing comedy and improvisation with rock music. Two of these shows, ''Rank'' and ''The Wild Boys'' toured nationally. Although he did not reach the same level of public recognition as some of his contemporaries, Richardson was influ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Years
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGuigan (filmmaker)
Paul McGuigan (born 19 September 1963) is a Scottish film and television director, best known for directing films such as ''Lucky Number Slevin'', ''Gangster No. 1'' and ''Push''. He has also directed episodes of '' Sherlock'', ''Scandal'', '' Monroe'' and '' Smash''. He was born in Bellshill Maternity Hospital, Scotland. Filmography * ''The Acid House'' (1998) * ''Gangster No. 1'' (2000) * '' The Reckoning'' (2003) * '' Wicker Park'' (2004) * ''Lucky Number Slevin'' (2006) * ''Push'' (2009) * ''Victor Frankenstein'' (2015) * ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' is a 2017 biographical romantic drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, with a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Walters. It is based on the memoir o ...'' (2017) Television Awards References External links * BBC - ''Paul McGuigan on Movies''Telegraph - ''Film-makers on film: Paul McGuigan'' {{DEFAULTSORT:McGuig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reckoning (2003 Film)
''The Reckoning'', also known as ''Morality Play'' (and as ''El misterio de Wells'' in Spain), is a 2003 British-Spanish murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel. It was written by Mark Mills and based on the 1995 novel ''Morality Play'' by Barry Unsworth. Filming was done on location in Spain, Wales, and England. The story, which is set during the medieval period in England, alludes to the evolution of the theatre arts from what was strictly Biblical morality plays in the period to dramas based on real or extra-Biblical fictional subjects. Plot In 1380, in England, the priest Nicholas ( Bettany) flees his village when found in flagrante delicto with a married woman. During flight, he witnesses a group euthanise a member to give him relief from his long-recurring internal pain. He becomes known to the group and is captured. The group is a travelling acting troupe who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gypsy Woman (film)
''Gypsy Woman'' is a 2001 film directed by Sheree Folkson and written by Steven Knight, filmed on location in London and The Isle of Man ) , anthem = "O Land of Our Birth" , image = Isle of Man by Sentinel-2.jpg , image_map = Europe-Isle_of_Man.svg , mapsize = , map_alt = Location of the Isle of Man in Europe , map_caption = Location of the Isle of Man (green) in Europe .... It is a romantic comedy, set against the backdrop of the Black Mountains, Wales. Plot overview 'Leon Hawthorne (Davenport) is a recently widowed property developer left to raise his young daughter on his own. While at a coroner’s inquest into the death of one of his workers, Leon meets the dead man’s widow, Natalie (McIntosh). A bright and exotic woman, Natalie’s beauty captivates Leon and after the verdict of the court case comes, he sets out to track the widow down. This brings him into the countryside and on an unexpected journey full of humour, danger and self-discovery as he enters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Williams (film Director)
Margaret Williams is a British film and television director based in London, UK. She has directed mainly arts and music-drama films and documentaries. Career Williams directed films for the BBC, including the dance film ''Cross Channel'' in 1992. She created a number of films with choreographer Victoria Marks, including ''Mothers and Daughters'' in 1994 and later ''Outside In''. ''The Wapping Project'' organized a retrospective of Margaret’s dance films in 2007. Her dance film ''Veterans'' was performed and co-created with US Veterans from the West Los Angeles combat rehab/PTSD clinic and won First Prize, the Premi Internacional VideoDansa in Barcelona in 2009. In 2011, ''One Man Walking'', a dance film directed by Williams, was broadcast on Channel 4. The film was choreographed by Kenrick Sandy and devised with Jonzi D. Williams has also adapted stage works for the screen such as Thomas Adès's opera Powder Her Face and Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, both for Channel 4. Margare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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