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Good (film)
''Good'' is a 2008 drama film based on the Good (play), stage play of the same name by C. P. Taylor, Cecil Philip Taylor. It stars Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, and Jodie Whittaker, and was directed by Vicente Amorim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008. Plot The story begins in 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Third Reich’s ascendancy. John Halder (Viggo Mortensen) is a German university professor who lives with his overly anxious wife, 2 children and a mother with senile dementia. He writes a paper called, “The Case for Mercy Death on the Grounds of Humanity”, to explore his personal predicament and the justification of euthanasia. His paper catches the attention of the Nazi party, who send a high-ranking nazi officer, Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler (Mark Strong), to help them push their agenda and offer him a job. After publishing the paper his career and social status advance, but he does not realise the consequenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Gemmell
Ruth Katrin Gemmell (born 1967) is an English actress. She starred in the film ''Fever Pitch'' in 1997 which was followed by supporting roles in television series ''EastEnders'', ''Casualty'', '' Home Fires'', and ''Penny Dreadful.'' She has played Carly Beaker, the mother of the title character in the '' Tracy Beaker'' franchise since 2004. In 2020, she began playing Violet, Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton in the Netflix series ''Bridgerton''. Early life and education Ruth Katrin Gemmell was born in Bristol and grew up in County Durham, first in Barnard Castle before moving to Darlington with her mother upon her parents' divorce. She has three older brothers and a sister. She attended Polam Hall School. Gemmell later moved to London, where her father lived, to pursue acting. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Gemmell has played roles in both theatre and TV dramas. She played the leading female role in ''Fever Pitch'', based on Nick Hornby's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Wenham
Kelly Wenham (born 28 November 1983) is an English actress, director, screenwriter and comedian. Life and career Wenham was born in Stockport. Her early career was spent in modelling, before answering a casting call for a bit part in '' Always and Everyone''. Following this she entered drama school, but quit three months later after being cast in a regular role in '' Where the Heart Is'', as Jess Buckley, a role she kept for three years. In 2003 Wenham appeared in Will Young's music video “Leave Right Now”. After leaving ''Where the Heart Is'', she appeared in ''Coronation Street'' as barmaid Danielle Spencer. Wenham also appeared in 'Waterloo Road' series 6 episode 14 as union rep leader Anna. In 2004 she was cast in a leading role as Julie Priestly in '' Steel River Blues'', though the programme lasted only one series. Wenham has also made one-off appearances in ''Life on Mars'', ''Holby City'', '' Wild At Heart'', '' Heartbeat'' and '' Dead Set''. Kelly provided the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Condou
Charlie Condou (born 8 January 1973) is a British actor, columnist and LGBT rights activist. Condou secured a series of television movie roles during his teenage years in the 1980s. He later had guest roles in British television series during the 1990s. In 2007, Condou gained wider recognition when he took the role of sonographer Marcus Dent in the soap opera ''Coronation Street'', in which he remained until 2014. He also played the role of Ben Sherwood in the medical drama ''Holby City''. Condou has used his fame as a platform to promote LGBT rights, becoming a patron for charities and being an advocate for same-sex parenting. Career Condou's acting career began in the 1985 American television movie, '' The Key to Rebecca'' as Billy Vandam, the young son of the main character, William, played by Cliff Robertson. He then appeared in the 1985 movie ''Exploits at West Poley'' at the age of twelve. His television career continued throughout his teens with appearances in the shows ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownshirt
The (; SA; or 'Storm Troopers') was the original paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany. It played a significant role in Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and early 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the '' Roter Frontkämpferbund'' of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the ''Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold'' of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews. The SA were colloquially called Brownshirts () because of the colour of their uniform's shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's Blackshirts. The official uniform of the SA was a brown shirt with a brown tie. The color came about because a large shipment of Lettow-shirts, originally intended for the German colonial troops in Germany's former East Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Warden
Richard George Warden (born 29 September 1971) is an English actor. Warden was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, he studied at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and received a B.A. honours in history at Churchill College, Cambridge, 1994. He married actress Lucy Barker on 1 May 2004. He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries '' Band of Brothers'' as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh, the BBC docudrama ''Dunkirk'' as Major Phillip Newman RAMC, the HBO/BBC Two historical drama, ''Rome'', as Quintus Valerius Pompey and Channel 4's period drama '' Indian Summers'' as Ronnie Keane. He also appeared in ''Evol'' (2006) (with his wife) and in the film adaptation of '' Bravo Two Zero''. He performed in the BBC serial production, '' Apparitions'', as the character Michael, who is possessed by a demon. He played Mike Taylor, a police inspector, in the crime drama '' Happy Valley''. He also appears in The Chemical Brothers' 1999 music video " Hey Boy Hey Girl" and New Order's 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his skills in public speaking and his virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a doctorate in philology from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924 and worked with Gregor Strasser in its northern branch. He was appointed ''Gauleiter'' of Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its programme. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels's Propaganda Ministry quickly gain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Schiller
Adrian Townsend Schiller (21 February 1964 – 3 April 2024) was an English actor. His credits include ''A Touch of Frost'' (2000), '' Bright Star'' (2009), ''Terry Pratchett's Going Postal'' (2010), '' Being Human'' (2010), '' A Little Chaos'' (2014), ''Son of God'' (2014), '' The Danish Girl'' (2015), ''Suffragette'' (2015), ''Doctor Who'' (episode " The Doctor's Wife" 2011), '' Victoria'' (2016–2019), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (2017), '' The Mercy'' (2017), ''Tolkien'' (2019), '' Raised by Wolves'' (2020), '' Censor'' (2021), and '' The New Look'' (2024). His most notable work was as Ealdorman Aethelhelm for three seasons of '' The Last Kingdom'' (2018-2022). Early life and career Adrian Townsend Schiller was born in Oxford on 21 February 1964. He described himself as "a Jew, but not Jewish", as he "was brought up outside of any sort of Jewish tradition". An actor with a career spanning over thirty years, Schiller began his career appearing in an episode of ''Prime Suspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Henry (actor)
Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is an English actor whose roles include Henrik Hanssen in ''Holby City'', Pius Thicknesse in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' and '' Part 2'', Cassius in ''Rome'' and Grand Moff Tarkin in '' Rogue One''. Early life and career Henry was born on 17 October 1960 in London. He attended Homefield School and then Brockenhurst College in Hampshire where he took A levels. He trained at RADA (1979–81). In 1982, he took the title role in ITV's ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' series, playing Holmes as a teenager (though Henry was by then nearly 22). In February 2015, Henry was announced as a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Stage work Highcliffe Charity Players Henry first appeared on stage as a footman in amateur dramatic society Highcliffe Charity Players' production of Cinderella at age 11. He is now the president of HCP and continues to support their productions. RSC work Henry's main wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandelstam
Mandelstam or Mandelshtam () is a Jewish surname which may refer to: * Leonid Mandelstam (1879–1944), Russian theoretical physicist ** Mandel'shtam (crater), lunar crater named for Leonid Mandelstam * Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), Russian writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam * Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938), Russian poet * Rod Mandelstam (born 1942), South African-born tennis player * Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016), South African-born particle physicist ** Mandelstam variables In theoretical physics, the Mandelstam variables are numerical quantities that encode the energy Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical ..., relativistically invariant representation for particle scattering, introduced by Stanley Mandelstam {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David De Keyser
David de Keyser (22 August 1927 – 20 February 2021) was an English actor and narrator. Life and career Born in London in August 1927, in the mid-1960s de Keyser worked twice with the writer, actor and director Jane Arden. Their first collaboration, ''The Logic Game'' (January 1965), was directed by Philip Saville. They acted together again in another Jane Arden script in the film '' Separation'' ( Jack Bond 1968) which was set in London and featured music by Procol Harum, Matthew Fisher and Stanley Myers. The themes of both pieces were marital strife and disintegrating relationships. De Keyser also worked on four occasions for the British director John Boorman, twice on screen in '' Catch Us If You Can'' (1965) and '' Leo the Last'' (1970), and on two further occasions Boorman used de Keyser's rich voice, firstly as the Voice of the Tabernacle in ''Zardoz'' (1974), and as the Voice of the Grail in ''Excalibur'' (1981). Other unseen roles were the voice of Count Mitterhaus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commandant
Commandant ( or ; ) is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy. This usage is common in English-speaking nations. In some countries it may be a military or police rank. It is also often used to refer to the commander of a military prison or prison camp (including concentration camps and prisoner of war camps). Bangladesh In Bangladesh Armed Forces and Bangladesh Marine Academy commandant is not any rank. It is an appointment. The commandant serves as the head of any military or merchant navy training institutes or unit. Canada ''Commandant'' is the normal Canadian French-language term for the commanding officer of a mid-sized unit, such as a regiment or battalion, within the Canadian Forces. In smaller units, the commander is usually known in French as the ''officier commandant''. Conversely, in Canadian English, the word commandant is used exclusively for the commanding officers of military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
