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Casanova (1987 Film)
''Casanova'' is a 1987 American made-for-television biographical romantic comedy film directed by Simon Langton. It depicts real life events of Giacomo Casanova. Plot Giacomo Casanova has to give up law studies because he sleeps with his teacher's daughters. He tries the priesthood but seduces a young widow. He feuds with an Austrian noble, Razetta, after stealing the latter's mistress. He is thrown into prison but escapes. He later helps the French king establish a lotto. Cast * Richard Chamberlain: Giacomo Casanova * Faye Dunaway: Madame D'Urfe * Sylvia Kristel: Maddalena * Ornella Muti: Henriette * Hanna Schygulla: Casanova's Mother * Sophie Ward: Jacqueline * Frank Finlay: Razetta * Roy Kinnear: Balbi * Kenneth Colley: Le Duc * Richard Griffiths: Cardinal * Patrick Ryecart * Jean-Pierre Cassel: Louis XV * Toby Rolt: Young Giacomo Casanova * Bruce Purchase: Major Grandi * Traci Lind: Heidi * Janis Lee Burns: Louison * Christopher Benjamin: Massimo * John Wells: Judg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Harry Paget Flashman, Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the The Flashman Papers, Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film ''Octopussy'', ''The Three Musketeers (1973 live-action film), The Three Musketeers'' (along with The Four Musketeers (1974 film), both its The Return of the Musketeers, sequels) and Royal Flash (film), an adaptation of his own novel ''Royal Flash''. Biography Fraser was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle, England, on 2 April 1925, son of medical doctor William Fraser and nurse Annie Struth, née Donaldson. Both his parents were Scottish. It was his father who passed on to Fraser his love of reading, and a passion for his Scottish heritage. Fras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Kinnear
Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English character actor and comedian. He was known for his acting roles in movies such as Henry Salt in the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'', Algernon in The Beatles' ''Help! (film), Help!'' (1965), Clapper in ''How I Won the War'' (1967) and Planchet in ''The Three Musketeers (1973 live-action film), The Three Musketeers'' (1973). He reprised the role of Planchet in the 1974 and 1989 sequels, and died following an accident during filming of the latter. He also played Private Monty Bartlett in ''The Hill (1965 film), The Hill'' (1965), and cruise director Curtain in ''Juggernaut (1974 film), Juggernaut'' (1974). On television, Kinnear was in ''Dick Emery, The Dick Emery Show'' (1979–1981), ''Man About the House'' (1974–1975), ''George and Mildred'' (1976–1979), and ''Cowboys (TV series), Cowboys'' (1980–1981). Early life Kinnear was born on 8 January 1934 in Wigan, Lancashire, the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Baker
Marina Augusta Pepper (''née'' Baker; born 8 December 1967) is an English Liberal Democrat local politician, journalist, children's book author and former model and actress. She was ''Playboy'''s Playmate of the Month for March 1987. Early life Born in Windsor, Berkshire, and originally from Taplow, Buckinghamshire, she and her older brother Martin "moved around a lot" until they reached Norfolk. She had an unconventional, hippie, nomadic upbringing in the rural environs of Norfolk, as well as different parts of the Midlands and the Southeast. By her own account, her family "thought we were getting a new-built home, but it wasn't ready, and my mother, being as practical as ever, said: 'Well, we are homeless, so we are travellers until we are housed'. I remember trees, bushes and grass and a toilet in a shed. There was this enormous chrome caravan with those sort of lacy doily things in the window, and my birthday party in a tent, playing pass the parcel in the pouring rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Boswell (actor)
John Eastburn Boswell (March 20, 1947December 24, 1994) was an American historian and a full professor at Yale University. Many of Boswell's studies focused on the issue of religion and homosexuality, specifically Christianity and homosexuality. Much of his work addressed the history of marginalized groups, particularly in the context of religion and sexuality. His first book, ''The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century'', appeared in 1977. In 1994, Boswell's fourth book, ''Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe'', was published. He died that same year from AIDS-related complications. Biography Early life Boswell was born on March 20, 1947, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Colonel Henry Boswell Jr. and Catharine Eastburn Boswell. He earned his BA at the College of William & Mary, and his PhD at Harvard University before being hired to teach at Yale University. Career A medieval philologist, Boswell spoke or read several Scandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Balfour (actor)
Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's ''The Marvellous History of St Bernard'', in 1938. He was a recognisable face, often in small character parts and supporting roles, in nearly two hundred films and TV shows, from the 1940s to the 1990s, often playing comical heavies or otherwise shady characters notable for their "loud" clothes, sometimes convincingly cast as an American. He worked for a roll call of film directors, including Tony Richardson, Pete Walker, Billy Wilder, Lewis Gilbert, Roman Polanski, Leslie Norman, Tim Burton, John Frankenheimer, François Truffaut, John Gilling, Stanley Donen, Ken Annakin, Cavalcanti, Lance Comfort, Terence Young, Gerald Thomas, Pasolini, John Paddy Carstairs, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Frank Launder, John Huston, Basil Dearden and Howard Hawks. Balfour had parts in many popular TV shows of the era including '' Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wells (satirist)
John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist. Early life The son of a cleric, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Career Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on '' That Was The Week That Was'', the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme '' Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life'', as well as in '' The Secret Policeman's Other Ball''. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as '' Casino Royale'' (1967) and ''Rentadick'' (1972), television dramas like ''Casanova'' (1987), an episode of '' Lovejoy'' (1991) and comedy shows like '' Yes Minister'', he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as '' Princess Caraboo'' (1994). In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Benjamin (actor)
Christopher John Benjamin (27 December 1934 – 10 January 2025) was an English actor with many stage and television credits from 1958 to 2016. He played Henry Gordon Jago in the 1977 ''Doctor Who'' story ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'', a role he reprised for the audio drama series ''Jago & Litefoot'' (2010–2017, 2021), and made two other appearances in the series, portraying Sir Keith Gold in ''Inferno (Doctor Who), Inferno'' (1970) and Colonel Hugh Curbishley in "The Unicorn and the Wasp" (2008). He also provided the voice of Rowf in the animated film ''The Plague Dogs (film), The Plague Dogs'' (1982). His radio acting career included two BBC Radio adaptations of Christopher Lee (historian), Christopher Lee's crime drama ''Colvil and Soames''. Early life Benjamin was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on 27 December 1934. He served in the Royal Air Force for his national service and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Benjamin appeared regularly in television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Lee Burns
Janis may refer to: Film and music * ''Janis'' (film), a 1974 film about Janis Joplin ** ''Janis'' (1975 album), a compilation and the soundtrack album for the film ** ''Janis'' (1993 album), a Joplin career overview collection * "Janis", a track recorded by Focus on their 1971 album ''Focus II'' Fictional characters *Janis Gold, in the TV series ''24'' *Janis Day, in the comic strip ''Arlo and Janis'' *Janis Hawk, in the TV series ''FlashForward'' *Janis Ian, in the film ''Mean Girls'' *Janis (ジャニス, "Janisu"), in '' Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel'' People * Janis (given name) * Jānis, a Latvian masculine given name *Byron Janis (born 1928), American concert pianist (no relation to Conrad Janis) *Conrad Janis (1928–2022), American actor and jazz musician (no relation to Byron Janis) *Dorothy Janis (1912 –2010), American silent film actress *Elsie Janis (1889–1956), American musical theatre and vaudeville performer *Irving Janis, a social psychologist who pion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traci Lind
Traci Lind is a retired American film actress known for playing Janine in the 1990 film ', Missy McCloud in '' My Boyfriend's Back'', and stuntwoman Cat in Wim Wenders' ''The End of Violence''. She also had supporting roles in several other films including Nurse Graves in ''The Road to Wellville'', Christie Langford in ''Class of 1999'', and Natalie St. Clair in ''Bugsy''. Prior to her film career, Lind played the role of Pru Shepherd on the soap opera ''Ryan's Hope'' from 1984 to 1985. She also had a starring role in the video for Lou Gramm’s hit song "Midnight Blue", released in January 1987. She began modeling at age 13 after being discovered by the Elite agency's head, John Casablancas. In 1997, Lind went public with accusations of abuse regarding former boyfriend Dodi Fayed, who later died in a car accident along with his new partner, Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Purchase
Bruce Purchase (2 October 1938 – 5 June 2008) was a New Zealand actor known for his roles on stage and television. Born in Thames, New Zealand, he won a scholarship to study acting in England, training at RADA, and went on to become a founding actor-member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre. He also performed regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His TV credits included '' Callan'', ''The First Churchills'', '' Clayhanger'', '' A Picture of Katherine Mansfield'', ''Doomwatch'', ''Fall of Eagles'', '' I, Claudius'', '' The New Avengers'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Quatermass'' and ''The Tripods''. His films included ''Macbeth'' (1971), ''Mary, Queen of Scots'' (1971), ''The Optimists of Nine Elms'' (1973), ''Soft Beds, Hard Battles'' (1974), ''Meetings with Remarkable Men'' (1979), ''Pope John Paul II'' (1984), '' Wallenberg: A Hero's Story'' (1985), ''Playing Away'' (1987), '' Lionheart'' (1987) and '' Another Life'' (2001). In 2007, Purchase became seriou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Rolt
Toby is a given name in many English speaking countries. The name is derived the Middle English vernacular form of Tobias. Tobias itself is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew טוביה ''Toviah'', which translates to ''Good is Yahweh''. Yahweh is the name of the Jewish God. It is also used as a contraction of Tobin, an Irish surname now also used as a forename. The name is traditionally masculine, but has also been in use for women since the 19th century. Men * Toby Alderweireld (born 1989), Belgian professional football player * Toby Bailey (born 1975), American sports agent former professional basketball player * Toby Balding (1936–2014), British racehorse trainer * Toby Barker (born 1981), American politician * Toby Barrett (born 1945), Canadian politician * Edmund "Toby" Barton (1849–1920), first prime minister of Australia * Toby Cadman, British international lawyer * Toby Colbeck (1884–1918), English cricketer * Toby Cosgrove (born 1940), American surgeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (; born Jean-Pierre Crochon; 27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic actor, and accrued over 200 film and television credits in a career spanning over 50 years. He worked with many notable directors, including Luis Buñuel, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Sidney Lumet, Joseph Losey, Chantal Akerman and Robert Altman. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' La Cérémonie'' (1995). Cassel was also the father of actor Vincent Cassel, actress/singer Cécile Cassel, and rapper Mathias Cassel. Early life Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite (née Fabrègue), an opera singer, and Georges Crochon, a doctor. Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |