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Jeremy Brock
Jeremy Brock MBE (born 14 July 1959) is a British writer and director whose works include the screenplays '' Mrs Brown'', '' Driving Lessons'', '' The Last King of Scotland'', '' Charlotte Gray'', and '' The Eagle''. Brock has also written two plays for the Hampstead downstairs theatre. Early life He was born in Malvern, Worcestershire. He had an older brother (born 1952) and sister (born 1954). He studied drama at the University of Bristol, where he met Paul Unwin in 1979. Career His awards include the ''Evening Standard'' award for ''Mrs. Brown''. ''Driving Lessons'' was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. In 2007, he received the BAFTA award for best-adapted screenplay for '' The Last King of Scotland'', co-written with Peter Morgan. Casualty He is the co-creator of ''Casualty'' with Paul Unwin. They created ''Casualty'' in reaction to what they saw as a "Thatcherite attack on our National Health Service", and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours, knight if male or a dame (title), dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M*A*S*H (TV Series)
''M*A*S*H'' is an American war comedy drama television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983. It was developed by Larry Gelbart as the first original spin-off series adapted from the 1970 film of the same name, which, in turn, was based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel '' MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors''. The series, produced by 20th Century-Fox Television, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War (1950–1953). The ensemble cast originally featured Alan Alda and Wayne Rogers as surgeons Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Trapper" John McIntyre, respectively, as the protagonists of the show; joined by Larry Linville as surgeon Frank Burns, Loretta Swit as head nurse Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, McLean Stevenson as company commander Henry Blake, Gary Burghoff as company clerk Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Jamie Farr as orderly Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Very Royal Scandal
''A Very Royal Scandal'' is a British three-part historical drama series from Amazon MGM Studios with Emily Maitlis as executive producer and starring Ruth Wilson as Maitlis and Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew, Duke of York. It is written by Jeremy Brock and directed by Julian Jarrold. ''A Very Royal Scandal'' was released on 19 September 2024 on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. Premise It is a dramatic retelling of Emily Maitlis' professional and personal journey leading up to the 2019 BBC television interview of Prince Andrew by Maitlis for BBC Two news and current affairs programme ''Newsnight'' regarding the Prince's ties to human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Plot Episode 1 In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein cops a plea to state criminal charges in Florida in exchange for federal immunity. Later, in December 2010, Prince Andrew's photo is taken in New York Central Park. The two had been meeting because Andrew was seeking financial advice from Epstein. In spite of the Flori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana And I
''Diana and I'' is a British made-for-television film that explores how the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, affected ordinary people. Written by Jeremy Brock and directed by Peter Cattaneo, it tells the stories of four people, and how they react to the news of the Princess's death, following their lives from when the news broke on 31 August 1997 to Diana's funeral on 6 September 1997. The film aired on BBC Two in the UK on 4 September 2017. Cast * Charlotte Hope – Sophie Lewis * Tamsin Greig – Mary McDonald * Tuppence Middleton – Laura Phillips * Laurie Davidson – Michael Lewis * Gemma Jones – Mrs. McDonald * Nico Mirallegro – Jack Taylor * Neil Morrissey – Colin Taylor * Ben Abell – Mechanic * Zoe Aldrich – Anne * Lisa Allen – Karaoke woman * Kelva Barrett – Debt collector * Kingsley Ben-Adir – Russell * Rosalind Carn – Hotel receptionist * Laurie Davidson – Michael Lewis * Elly Fairman – Julie * John Gordon Sinclair – Gordon * Joanne James � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Crimes
''Dark Crimes'' is a 2016 crime drama film directed by Alexandros Avranas and written by Jeremy Brock. The film was based on a 2008 article in ''The New Yorker'' by David Grann titled "True Crime: A Postmodern Murder Mystery", about convicted murderer Krystian Bala who supposedly wrote a fictionalized novel about a murder he committed. The film stars Jim Carrey as a detective who notices similarities between a cold case murder and a best-selling novel. The supporting cast includes Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Marton Csokas. Producer Brett Ratner had ''True Crimes'' in development since 2010. Principal photography began on 12 November 2015 in Kraków, Poland and ended a month later. It held its premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival on 12 October 2016 with the title ''True Crimes'', and had a limited theatrical release in only a few countries, such as the United States, in 2018. Despite some praise for the cast, critics panned ''Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Little Chaos
''A Little Chaos'' is a 2014 British period drama film directed by Alan Rickman, based on a story conceived by Alison Deegan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rickman and Jeremy Brock. It stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle and Rupert Penry-Jones. It was financed by Lionsgate UK and produced by BBC Films. The second film directed by Rickman, after his 1997 debut '' The Winter Guest'', and the last before his death in 2016, it was also the second collaboration of Rickman and Winslet after their 1995 film ''Sense and Sensibility''. Production took place in London in mid-2013, and it premiered as the closing night film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2014. Plot King Louis XIV of France assigns the design and construction of the Gardens of Versailles to his head landscape architect André Le Nôtre. Already managing numerous large projects, Le Nôtre interviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How I Live Now (film)
''How I Live Now'' is a 2013 Romance film, romantic Speculative fiction, speculative drama film based on the 2004 How I Live Now, novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff. It was directed by Kevin Macdonald (director), Kevin Macdonald, written by Tony Grisoni, Jeremy Brock and Penelope Skinner while starring Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay (actor), George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Anna Chancellor and Corey Johnson (actor), Corey Johnson. The film centres around American teenager, Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) and her British cousins, Eddie (MacKay), Isaac (Holland), and Piper (Bird), as they try to reunite during an Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic nuclear war. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival during the special presentation section. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews, with some critics praising the romance between Ronan and MacKay and positively comparing the former's role as Daisy to Jennifer Lawrence's role as Katnis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Slave
''I Am Slave'' is a 2010 television film produced for Channel 4 on the story of one woman's fight for freedom from modern-day slavery. It premiered on Channel 4 on 30 August 2010. The movie is mostly based on the experiences of Mende Nazer, a Sudanese author, human rights activist and a former slave in Sudan and London. Selected cast * Wunmi Mosaku - Malia * Isaach De Bankolé - Bah * Lubna Azabal - Halima * Yigal Naor - Said * Hiam Abbass - * Nonso Anozie - *Nyokabi Gethaiga - Hana *Nasser Memarzia - Ibrahim *Selva Rasalingam - Amir *Amaar Sardharwalla - Assi *Jameel Sardharwalla - Rami See also * List of films featuring slavery Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public. The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades often avoided the topic. Films such a ... References External links * * 2010 television films 2010 films 2010 crime drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brideshead Revisited (film)
''Brideshead Revisited'' is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as the television serial '' Brideshead Revisited''. Plot Although he aspires to become an artist, middle-class Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain, strongly disapproves of Sebastian's lifestyle, especially his heavy drinking. When Sebastian takes Charles home to visit his nanny, Charles is enthralled by the grandeur of the Marchmain family estate, known as Brideshead, and entranced by its residents, including the devout Roman Catholic Lady Marchmain and her other children, Sebastian's elder brother Bridey and his sisters Julia and Cordelia. When Lord Marchmain invites Sebastian and Julia to visit him and his mistress Cara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraint Morris
Geraint Morris (28 March 1941 – 12 July 1997) was a profound Welsh film and television director and producer. Career Morris joined BBC Wales in 1963 after graduating from the University College of North Wales in Bangor. His first work as a director was on ''Sutherland's Law''. Later contributions included ''Barlow at Large'', ''The Onedin Line'' and ''Juliet Bravo''. During the 1970s, Morris became a producer, beginning with the television police drama '' Softly, Softly: Task Force'', from 1973 to 1976. By 1980, Morris had completed his career change to dedicate his working life to TV producing. He helped create the highly successful and long running hospital drama ''Casualty'' and contributed to the series for its first three seasons before leaving at the end of 1988. He also produced 12 episodes of the police drama ''The Bill'' during 1989 before returning to ''Casualty'' in 1990 for two series. His final contributions to television production were '' Wycliffe'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
