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Jonny Phillips (actor)
Jonathan Mark Phillips (born 5 September 1963) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Charles Lightoller in the film ''Titanic'' (1997). Life and career Philips is best known for his portrayal of 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller in the 1997 blockbuster film ''Titanic''. He also appeared in an episode of ''Midsomer Murders'' entitled ''Country Matters''. In 2012, he appeared in 11 episodes of ''I Shouldn't Be Alive'' a documentary television series as 'David Hunt'. In 2012 he starred in a new series '' Hunted'' for BBC One and HBO. He plays DI 'Evertt', a corrupt police Detective Inspector. In 2013 he appeared in an episode of ''Death in Paradise'' credited as Jonny Phillips. Since 2014 played in a leading role Father Crowe in the Webseries The Outer Darkness. In 2014 he appeared as Alistair Stoke, a neurosurgeon, in "Entry Wounds Pt 1" in series 8 of ''Inspector Lewis''. Theatre Selected filmography *''Rumpelstiltskin'' (1987) - Ralph *''Prick Up Your Ears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laureate Academy
Laureate Academy is a secondary school in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The academy was launched in September 2018 on the site of Cavendish School. Laureate Academy is part of Future Academies, a multi-academy trust. History Cavendish Grammar School was officially opened in 1962 and was one of the first of the new breed of post-war technical grammar schools. From 1970 the school became a comprehensive school, The Cavendish School. In 2018, Cavendish School closed and reopened as Laureate Academy; the takeover was part of an expansion of Lord Nash's Future Academies multi-academy trust which controversially extended to other schools in Hertfordshire in 2019 despite concerns about the trust's governance and despite parents' opposition. Concerns were raised about the introduction of compulsory Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Greig (dramatist)
David Greig (born 1969) is a Scottish playwright and theatre director. His work has been performed at many of the major theatres in Britain, including the Traverse Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and been produced around the world. Early life and education Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969, and was brought up in Nigeria until he was 11, when the family returned to Scotland. He studied at Bristol University, where he shared a flat with Sarah Kane. Career After university, in 1993 he co-founded a drama collective with fellow students Graham Eatough and Nick Powell called Suspect Culture, based in Glasgow. Their work was highly influenced by European theatre. Greig would go on to write the texts for almost all of their shows until 2004, including ''Timeless'' (1997), ''Mainstream'' (1999), ''Candide 2000'' (2000), ''Casanova'' (2001), ''Lament'' (2002), and ''8000m'' (2004). His stand-alone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (2004 Film)
''Vanity Fair'' is a 2004 historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. Nair's version made notable changes in the development of the main character Becky Sharp, played by Reese Witherspoon. The film received several awards and nominations, including being nominated for the Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. Plot In 1802 UK, Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a poor painter, has finished her studies and offered to be a governess to Sir Pitt Crawley's daughters. Before starting, she travels to London with her close friend Amelia Sedley and her family. While there she begins a campaign to charm Amelia's awkward and overweight brother "Jos" Sedley, a wealthy trader living in India. Smitten with Becky, he almost proposes, but is dissuaded by Amelia's snobbish fiancé George Osborne, reminding him that Becky has no dowry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One For The Road (2003 Film)
''One for the Road'' is a 2003 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Chris Cooke. Filmed on location in and around Nottinghamshire, the film stars Hywel Bennett, Gregory Chisholm, Mark Devenport, and Rupert Procter as four men who meet at a compulsory rehabilitation class after being sentenced for drink driving. The film was nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the 2003 Edinburgh International Film Festival and for the Golden Hitchcock Award at the 2003 Dinard Festival of British Film. Cast * Rupert Procter as Paul * Gregory Chisholm (billed as Greg Chisholm) as Jimmy * Mark Devenport as Mark * Hywel Bennett Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor. He had a lead role in '' The Family Way'' (1966) and played the titular "thinking man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom '' Shelley'' ( ... as Richard Stevens * Julie Legrand as Liz * Micaiah Dring as Eve Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Great Wilderness
''The Last Great Wilderness'' is a 2002 film directed by David Mackenzie. It stars Alastair Mackenzie and Jonathan Phillips. It was produced by Gillian Berrie at Sigma Films. Scottish band The Pastels provided the soundtrack, which was released as an album in 2003. Cast *Alastair Mackenzie as Charlie * Jonathan Phillips as Vincente * Ewan Stewart as Magnus *David Hayman as Ruaridh *Victoria Smurfit Victoria Smurfit (born 31 March 1974) is an Irish actress. She is known for playing Orla O'Connell in the BBC television series '' Ballykissangel'', Detective Chief Inspector Roisin Connor in the ITV police procedural '' Trial & Retribution'' ... as Claire *Martin Bell as William References External links * 2002 films Films directed by David Mackenzie (director) 2000s road comedy-drama films British road comedy-drama films 2002 comedy-drama films 2000s English-language films 2000s British films English-language road comedy-drama films {{2000s-comedy-drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful People (film)
''Beautiful People'' is a 1999 British satirical comedy film written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar. The film won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival. ''Beautiful People'' is set in London during the time of the Bosnian War. Plot In London during October 1993, England are playing the Netherlands in the FIFA World Cup qualification, World Cup qualifiers. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from former Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by an encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs Netherlands match. Cast * Rosalind Ayres as Nora Thornton * Julian Firth as Edward Thornton * Charles Kay as George Thornton * Charlotte Coleman as Portia Thornton * Edward Jewesbury as Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Infiltrator (1995 Film)
''The Infiltrator'' is a 1995 American thriller drama film directed by John Mackenzie based on the book ''In Hitler's Shadow: An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement'' by Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany in the early 1990s and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction with the intent to bring Nazism back to the forefront in Germany. It stars Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Tony Haygarth, Julian Glover and Michael Byrne. The film was released on June 24, 1995, on HBO. It was final film under HBO Showcase banner before it was renamed to HBO NYC Productions in 1996. Cast * Oliver Platt as Yaron Svoray * Arliss Howard as Ricky Eaton * Tony Haygarth as Gunther Fischer * Michael Byrne as Dieter Creutz * Julian Glover as Bielert * Alex Kingston as Anna Original airing The film originally aired on HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television service, which is the flagship p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', or simply ''Poirot'' (), is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2020. The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator Hercule Poirot. David Suchet stars as the title character. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada, and on PBS and A&E in the US. The programme ran for 13 series and 70 episodes in total. Each episode was adapted from a novel or short story by Christie that featured Poirot. In each episode Poirot is both the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and the protagonist at the centre of most of the episode's action. At the programme's conclusion, which finished with " Curtain: Poirot's Last Case", based on the 1975 novel of the same name, every major literary work by Christie t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (1993 Film)
''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' is a 1993 film, the fourth film adaptation of the Charles Dickens unfinished 1870 novel of the same name. This was the last film of Barry Evans. Cast * Robert Powell as John Jasper * Jonathan Phillips as Edwin Drood * Peter Pacey as Septimus Crisparkle * Nanette Newman as Mrs. Crisparkle * Freddie Jones as Sapsea * Gemma Craven as Miss Twinkleton * Marc Sinden as Mr Honeythunder * Rosemary Leach as Mrs. Tope * Glyn Houston as Grewgious * Andrew Sachs as Durdles * Barry Evans as Bazzard * Ronald Fraser as Dean * Finty Williams as Rosa Locations Many scenes were filmed in Rochester, including Minor Canon Row and Rochester Cathedral Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat (''cathedra'') of the Bishop of Rocheste ... which doubled as Cloisterham Cathedral. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarissa (TV Series)
''Clarissa'' is a 1991 British period drama television miniseries starring Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham and Lynsey Baxter. It aired on BBC2 in three episodes between 27 November and 11 December 1991. Based on the 1748 novel '' Clarissa'' by Samuel Richardson, it follows a virtuous young woman who is oppressed by her ambitious family and a rake who becomes obsessed with her. It was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial.http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=television%20drama&f integer_year%3A1992 Plot The virtuous Clarissa (Wickham) inherits a fortune from her grandfather but gives it into the control of her jealous family. Clarissa is the image of a youthful, virtuous young woman. Lovelace (Bean) arrives to seduce Clarissa's sister Arabella (Baxter) and the two go out for a walk. Clarissa is also in the gardens and comes across the two in embrace. Lovelace catches sight of Clarissa and is immediately enchanted by her, which Arabella notices and becomes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max And Helen
''Max and Helen'' is a 1990 American drama film directed by Philip Saville and written by Corey Blechman. It is based on the 1982 book ''Max and Helen'' by Simon Wiesenthal. The film stars Treat Williams, Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Jonny Phillips, Adam Kotz and Jodhi May. The film premiered on TNT on January 8, 1990. Plot Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal based on his 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able to take him to justice, he must find witnesses who can help him. This leads him to Max Rosenberg, a still tormented individual who lost his wife, Helen, in the camps. Initially Max refuses to cooperate, but gradually his story unfolds beginning before the Holocaust. Venice, 1944, Max, a Jewish student, is captured by the Nazis. Hélène, his French fiancée, pretends she is Jewish as well, so they both get deported to Poland. They get married on the train from where they esc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of England (film)
''The Last of England'' is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton. It is a poetic depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Margaret Thatcher, Thatcher's England, including the formation of Section 28, Section 28 Local Government Act. It is named after ''The Last of England (painting), The Last of England'', a painting by Ford Madox Brown. One of the film's most famous scenes is of Tilda Swinton as a bride mourning her executed husband. The scene was shot near the director's home on the beach of Dungeness (headland), Dungeness, Kent. Jarman wrote a book, with the same title, to accompany the film. Cast * Tilda Swinton as The Maid * Spencer Leigh (actor), Spencer Leigh as Soldier / Various roles * 'Spring' Mark Adley as Spring / Various roles * Gerrard McArthur as Various roles * Jonny Phillips (actor), Jonny Phillips (credited as Jonathan Phillips) as Various roles * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
