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The Nine Lives Of Tomas Katz
''The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz'' is a 2000 Anglo-German black and white surreal comedy. It has been described as an "avant-garde comedy about the Apocalypse", co-written and directed by Ben Hopkins. Premise On the last day of creation, a stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from but by the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased. Cast * Tom Fisher as No / Tomas Katz * Ian McNeice as Inspector * Tony Maudsley as Taxi Driver * Sachiko Hidari as Cuthbert Will Keen * Andrew Melville as Minister of Fish * Toby Jones as Civil Servant * Asif Kapadia as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Kris Krishnamma as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Jamille Jinnah as Gwupigrubynudnylandian * Sophie Bevan as Journalist * Trevor Thomas as Schlauch * Amelia Curtis as Underworld Announcer * Tilly Blackwood as Underworld Secretary * David de Keyser as Exhumed Rabbi * John Ramm as Ivul Gurk * Janet Henfrey as Janice Waily * Boyd Clack as Abel Mularchy * Tara Sav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hopkins
Ben Hopkins (born 1969) is a British film director, screenwriter and novelist. His film ''Simon Magus'' entered the 49th Berlin International Film Festival competition in 1999. His 2008 film, '' The Market: A Tale of Trade'' ( tr, Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı) won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition. In 2021, Ben Hopkins wrote a novel called Cathedral. David Wiley in a review on the Rain Taxi, writes that Hopkins as a screenwriter and filmmaker, Hopkins also employs far more filmic allusions than literary ones, such as stone facedly referencing Monty Python at two very unfunny moments and making a few glancing nods toward The Princess Bride, another work of a great screenwriter/novelist. Nicknaming his jejune stonecutter “Rettich” and placing great stress on the association with the word radish, Hopkins almost certainly invokes the celebrated Chartres scene in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Clack
Boyd Daniel Clack (born 7 March 1951) is a Canadian-born Welsh writer, actor, and musician. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Welsh parents. At a young age, he emigrated with his family to Wales, where he grew up in Tonyrefail, where his family were originally from. His acting credits include ''Twin Town'', '' High Hopes'', and ''Satellite City'', the latter two of which he also co-wrote. He has also released the first part of his autobiography. ''Kisses Sweeter than Wine'', and two music albums, '' Welsh Bitter'' and '' Labourer of Love'' . Clack is a supporter of Welsh independence and attended a pro-independence rally in Merthyr Tydfil in September 2019, organised by AUOB Cymru. "I have always favoured Welsh Independence because every country should be independent," he said. "The opposite of independent after all is dependent and to be dependent on anyone or an organisation where that dependence isn’t based on love, kindness and genuine care is demeanin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Films
BBC Film (formerly BBC Films) is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded on 18 June 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including '' Truly, Madly, Deeply'', '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'', '' Quartet'', '' Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'', '' Saving Mr. Banks'', ''My Week with Marilyn'', ''Jane Eyre'', '' In the Loop'', '' An Education'', '' StreetDance 3D'', '' Fish Tank'', '' The History Boys'', '' Nativity!'', '' Iris'', '' Notes on a Scandal'', '' Philomena'', '' Stan & Ollie'', '' Man Up'', '' Billy Elliot'' and ''Brooklyn''. BBC Film co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Rose Garnett is Head of BBC Film, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations. The company was founded in 1990 by David M. Thompson as a wholly owned but independent film-making company, based in offices in Mortimer St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is a British writer and film critic. He has been chief film critic at ''The Guardian'' since 1999, and is a contributing editor at ''Esquire''. Early life and education Bradshaw was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire and studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Cambridge Footlights. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984, followed by postgraduate research in the Early Modern period in which he studied with Lisa Jardine and Anne Barton. He received his PhD in 1989. Career In the 1990s, Bradshaw was employed by the ''Evening Standard'' as a columnist, and during the 1997 general election campaign, editor Max Hastings asked him to write a series of parodic diary entries purporting to be written by the Conservative MP and historian Alan Clark, which Clark thought deceptive and which were the subject of a court case resolved in January 1998, the first in newspaper hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Harrison (actor)
Andrew Stuart Harrison (born 7 February 1957 in Edmonton, London) is an English actor. Career Andrew Harrison began his career in repertory theatre playing the lead roles in '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' and '' Serious Money'' at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter. His West End (London) debut came with a role in Sir Michael Hordern's ''Trelawny of the 'Wells'''. Andrew has numerous TV credits include ''The Bill'', ''Miss Marple'', and '' Birds of a Feather'', and the films ''A Sea Change'' and '' An Ideal Husband''. He contributes regularly to BBC Radio. In television, Andrew is perhaps best known for his roles in ''Beyond Narnia'' and ''Florence Nightingale''. Filmography * 2011 ''King James' Bible'' as Bishop Lancelot Andrews * 2010 ''Derelict'' as Governor Phillips * 2010 '' Summer in Transylvania'' Dr. Tempest * 2009 ''Dorian Gray'' as House Seller * 2008 ''Home'' as Dad * 2005 ''Florence Nightingale'' as Lord Palmerston * 2005 ''C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia'' as Albert Lewis, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Potter
Tim Potter is an English actor in theatre, films and TV since the 1980s. Career Potter's stage work includes playing the role of Salvador Dalí in the original production of Terry Johnson's ''Hysteria'' at the Royal Court in 1993, and Charles II in Stephen Jeffreys' '' The Libertine'' the following year. He has appeared in productions of plays by Edward Bond, Oscar Wilde, Dario Fo, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, George Etherege and Jim Cartwright. and worked for directors including Sam Mendes, Phyllida Lloyd, Neil Bartlett, Ken Russell, Benjamin Ross, Julian Jarrold, Steven Berkoff, Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Prowse, Uberto Pasolini, Deborah Warner and Stephen Frears. He was a founder member, with Jim Cartwright and Louis Mellis of Acme Acting, a theatre company which performed plays in domestic homes, using the whole house, with the audience following the actors room to room. His roles included Blanche DuBois in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and Col. Kurtz in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Noble
Kim Noble is a comedian and artist, and was one half of the BAFTA-nominated comedy duo Noble and Silver, who won the 2000 Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. Kim has featured in shows such as ''The Mighty Boosh'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', and '' Man to Man with Dean Learner'', as well as appearing onstage in his own one-man shows and exhibitions. His stage work, by himself and with Stuart Silver, had an emphasis on performance art, as well as surreal comedy. Career Noble and Silver Kim Noble and his writing and performance partner Stuart Silver first came to national prominence upon winning the Best Newcomer Perrier Award in 2000. Trained in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, the duo received as much praise from the art community as from comedy aficionados. This work draws together visual art, stand-up, theatre, and performance art. Post-Perrier shows as Noble and Silver include ''Pleasance Above'' at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a collage of video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Farr (theatre Director)
David Farr (born 29 October 1969) is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Background Farr was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and the University of Cambridge (English Literature double first). Career Farr began directing theatre at University and won the ''Guardian Student Drama Award'' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1991 with ''Slight Possession'' starring Rachel Weisz. His professional directorial debut came at The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill in 1995 (aged 25) under Stephen Daldry. He was also Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic from 2002 to 2005 and Lyric Hammersmith from 2005 to 2009. In 2009, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as Associate Director. He wrote regularly for ''Spooks'' for the BBC and is a film writer having co-written the Joe Wright film '' Hanna'', released in 2011. Farr's adaptation of John le Carré's novel ''The Night Manager'' was aired in 2016 on BBC1. His first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British-born Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in '' Shine'', Locke in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', Darby Sabini in the BBC One series ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr. Bucket in '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and Danny in the Australian cult film ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand''. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in both the American television series ''Preacher'' and the 2002 film '' Max''. Early life Taylor, elder of two sons, was born in London to Australian parents, Maggie (née Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew up in Clifton Hill and St Kilda, suburbs of Melbourne. After performing in plays at St Martins Youth Arts Centre in South Yarra for a year, he gained the attention of director John Duigan, who cast him in the 1987 film '' The Year My Voice Broke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven O'Donnell (British Actor)
Steven O'Donnell (born 19 May 1963 in Oldham) is an English actor. Before O'Donnell became an actor, he spent five years working at Charing Cross Hospital as a Scientific Officer in a medical laboratory. He has appeared in several comedies with Rik Mayall, including '' The Comic Strip'', '' Bottom'', and the film ''Guest House Paradiso''. He also starred in various advertisements in the United Kingdom for Sega in the mid 1990s, for systems such as the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear. Television Filmography Radio * 1995: ''Old Harry's Game ''Old Harry's Game'' is a UK radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical, world-weary Satan. "Old Harry" is one of many names for the devil. The show's title is a humorous play on the title of the 1982 TV ser ...'' as The Demon Gary References External links * 1963 births English male television actors English male film actors English people of Irish descent Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ritter (actor)
Simon Paul Adams (20 December 1966 – 5 April 2021), known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including ''Son of Rambow'' (2007), ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009), '' The Eagle'' (2011), and '' Operation Mincemeat'' (2021), as well as television programmes including ''Friday Night Dinner'' (2011–2020), ''Vera'', ''The Hollow Crown'', '' The Last Kingdom,'' ''Chernobyl'', ''Belgravia'' and '' Resistance.'' Early life Ritter was born Simon Paul Adams on 20 December 1966 in Gravesend, Kent. His father Ken Adams, a toolmaker, worked at various power stations; his mother Joan ( Mooney) was a school secretary. His family were Catholic and he had four older sisters. Adams attended Gravesend Grammar School where he acquired an A Level in Theatre Studies. He went on to study Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating, he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
