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Dreamchild
''Dreamchild'' is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. The film, starring Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley, is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. The story is told from the point of view of an elderly Alice (now the widowed Mrs. Hargreaves) as she travels to the United States from England to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University celebrating the centenary of Carroll's birth. It shares common themes with Potter's television play ''Alice'' (1965). The film evolves from the factual to the hallucinatory as Alice revisits her memories of the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Holm), in Victorian-era Oxford to her immediate present in Depression-era New York. Accompanied by a shy young orphan named Lucy (Cowper), old Alice must make her way through the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor. After graduating from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and beginning his career on the British stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in film. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with a nomination for an Academy Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 Birthday Honours, 1998 for services to drama. Holm won the 21st Tony Awards, 1967 Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play ''The Homecoming''. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End (theatre), West End production of ''King Lear''. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear, and the HBO film ''The Last of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Millar
Gavin Millar (11 January 1938 – 20 April 2022) was a Scottish film director, critic and television presenter. Biography Millar was born in Clydebank, near Glasgow, the son of Tom Millar and his wife Rita (née Osborne). The family relocated to the Midlands when he was nine and he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He undertook Conscription in the United Kingdom, national service in the Royal Air Force and then read English at Christ Church, Oxford from 1958 to 1961. Millar took a Postgraduate education, postgraduate film course at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Career Millar was a film critic for ''The Listener (magazine), The Listener'' from 1970 to 1984. He also contributed to ''Sight and Sound'' and the ''London Review of Books''. He wrote a new section to Karel Reisz's book ''The Technique of Film Editing'' for the 1968 edition. On television, he wrote, produced and presented ''Arena (UK TV series), Arena Cinema'' for the BBC from 1976 to 1980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick McCallum
Richard McCallum (born August 22, 1954) is an American film producer known for his work on ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' as well as the ''Star Wars'' Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with American filmmaker George Lucas, though he was also a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter, most notably on '' The Singing Detective'' and '' Dreamchild.'' Early career and collaboration with Dennis Potter McCallum's career as producer began with '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1981), the film version of the 1978 BBC TV drama, for director Herbert Ross and writer Dennis Potter. After the commercial failure of the film, Potter invited McCallum to go to work in England. During the 1980s, McCallum's work with Potter included producing the films '' Dreamchild'' (1985), an unusual exploration by Potter of the creation of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', which was nominated for two BAFTA awards, and '' Track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Browne
Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of ''Macbeth'' (1956), '' The Rehearsal'' (1963) and '' The Right Honourable Gentleman'' (1965). She won the 1984 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC TV film '' An Englishman Abroad'' (1983). Her film appearances included '' Auntie Mame'' (1958), '' The Killing of Sister George'' (1968), '' The Ruling Class'' (1972) and '' Dreamchild'' (1985). She was actor Vincent Price's third wife. Family Coral Edith Brown was the only daughter of railway clerk Leslie Clarence Brown (1890–1957), and Victoria Elizabeth Brown (1890–1989), née Bennett, both of Victorian birth. She and her two brothers were raised in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne. Career She studied at the National Gallery Art School. Her amateur debut was as Gloria in Shaw's ''You Never Can Tell'', directed by Frank Clewlow. Gregan McMahon sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Shankley
Amelia Shankley is a British actress (born 18 June 1972), the daughter of actor and singer Jeff Shankley. Career Shankley is known for her role as the young Alice Liddell in the film ''Dreamchild'' (1985), from a script by Dennis Potter, and Sara Crewe in the LWT version of ''A Little Princess'' (1986), based upon the novel ''A Little Princess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Shankley also portrayed Vicki Lovejoy in seasons two and three of the television series ''Lovejoy''. Filmography Awards ''Winner'': *1986 Paris Film Festival - Best Actress, ''Dreamchild'' ''Nominated'': *1986: Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor - ''Dreamchild ''Dreamchild'' is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar, and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. The film, starring Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley, ...'' References External links * 1972 births English television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Cowper
Nicola Jane Cowper (born 21 December 1967) is a British actress. Cowper is the younger sister of twin actresses Gerry Cowper and Jackie Cowper. Cowper made an impression as a film actress in her early career, but she is best known for her work on British television, in particular her role as D.S Helen Diamond in BBC's '' Dangerfield''. Career Cowper's career began in the 1980s. She made early appearances on television in programmes such as '' Break in the Sun'' (1981), ''S.W.A.L.K'' (1982), ''A Game of Soldiers'' (1983) and ''Minder'' (1984) and then went on to appear in several feature films. Her film credits include '' Winter Flight'' (1984), ''Dreamchild'' (1985); ''Underworld'' (1985); '' Lionheart'' (1987) and ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1989). Leading filmmakers David Puttnam and Francis Ford Coppola tipped Cowper "for the top" after she appeared in the American films ''Lionheart'' and ''Dreamchild''— her performance in ''Dreamchild'' has been described as "ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Williams (cinematographer)
William Desmond Williams (3 June 1929 – 20 May 2025) was a British cinematographer. Williams was responsible for shooting a number of films, including ''Women in Love'' (1969), '' On Golden Pond'' (1981) and ''Gandhi'' (1982), for which he won an Academy Award. Early life Williams was born in Walthamstow in 1929. His father was a cinematographer. Williams left school at the age of 14, having failed the 11 plus; his father offered him an apprenticeship. Williams joined his father, also named Billy, as an apprentice cameraman, remaining with him for four years. Career When he was eighteen, he spent two years in the RAF as a photographer. On leaving the RAF, he obtained a job with British Transport Films (BTF), filming all forms of transportation as an assistant cameraman for five years. After this, Williams spent his entire savings on an Arriflex IIC 35mm film camera and went to Iraq (where he later shot the opening scenes to ''The Exorcist'', 1973), filming for the Iraq P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (''née'' Liddell, ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the classic 1865 children's novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. She shared her name with " Alice", the story's protagonist, but scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her. Early life Alice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of the editors of ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell (''née'' Reeve). She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (1850–53), an older sister Lorina (born 1849), and six younger siblings, including her sister Edith (born 1854) to whom she was very close, and her brother Frederick (born 1865). At the time of her birth, her father was the Headmaster of Westminster School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gallagher
Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series '' The O.C.'' from 2003 to 2007, and recurring roles in television such as Deputy Chief William Dodds on '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, '' Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama '' Californication'', Nick on the Netflix series '' Grace & Frankie'', and Director of Clandestine Services (DCS) Arthur Campbell on ''Covert Affairs''. He also is known for his roles in the films '' Bob Roberts'' (1992), '' The Player'' (1992), '' Short Cuts'' (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995),'' American Beauty'' (1999), '' Mr. Deeds'' (2002), and '' Palm Springs'' (2020). In musical theatre, his best-known role is that of Sky Masterson in the 1992 Broadway revival of '' Guys and Dolls''. Early life Gallagher was born in New York City. His mother, Mary Ann (née O'Shea), was a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Lambert
Verity Ann Lambert (27 November 1935 – 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s. She began her career as a producer at the BBC by becoming the founding producer of the science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'' from 1963 until 1965. She left the BBC in 1969 and worked for other television companies, notably having a long association with Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Her many credits as producer include ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', '' The Naked Civil Servant'', '' Rock Follies'', '' Minder'', ''Widows'', '' G.B.H.'', ''Jonathan Creek'', '' Love Soup'' and '' Eldorado''. She also worked in the film industry for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. She was an associate of the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein. From 1985 she ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. She continued to work as a producer until the year she died. Women were rarely television producers in Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Myers
Stanley Myers (6 October 19309 November 1993) was an English composer and conductor, who scored over sixty films and television series, working closely with filmmakers Nicolas Roeg, Jerzy Skolimowski and Volker Schlöndorff. He is best known for his guitar piece " Cavatina", composed for the 1970 film '' The Walking Stick'' and later used as the theme for '' The Deer Hunter''. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for ''Wish You Were Here'' (1987), and was an early collaborator with and mentor of Hans Zimmer. Biography Myers was born in Birmingham, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham.Nicolas RoegObituary: Stanley Myers ''The Independent'', Saturday, 13 November 1993 He married choreographer Eleanor Fazan. Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series ''Doctor Who''; the theme to '' All Gas and Gaiters''; and the theme for the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (1871). He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. His poems ''Jabberwocky'' (1871) and ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876) are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Some of Alice's nonsensical wonderland logic reflects his published work on mathematical logic. Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicanism, Anglicans, and pursued his clerical training at Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar, teacher and (necessarily for his academic fellowship at the time) Anglican deacon. Alice Liddell – a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, Dean of Christ Church – is wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
