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Paddy Higson
Patricia Anne "Paddy" Higson (née Frew; 2 June 1941 – 13 April 2025) was a Scottish producer of film and television. She is known for her work with Bill Forsyth, including the films '' That Sinking Feeling'' and '' Gregory's Girl''. Early life Patricia Anne Frew was born on 2 June 1941 in Belfast, Northern Ireland while her father was briefly stationed there while he served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War. The family returned to Scotland and she grew up in Glasgow where she was educated at Laurel Bank School. After leaving school, she spent some time in France. Career She began her career at the BBC in the 1970s as a production secretary. She met editor Patrick Higson there, and through the Films of Scotland Committee they became involved in making documentary films together. With Paddy now married to Patrick, he left the BBC in 1970 and set up a film company with Murray Grigor that they named Viz. A New Zealand costume drama series ''The Mackenzie Affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast
Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald (Scotland)
''The Herald'' is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. ''The Herald'' is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. The title was simplified from ''The Glasgow Herald'' in 1992. Following the closure of the ''Sunday Herald'', the ''Herald on Sunday'' was launched as a Sunday edition on 9 September 2018. History Founding The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the ''Glasgow Advertiser''. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. ''The Herald'', therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow Film Theatre
The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is an independent cinema in the city centre of Glasgow. It occupies a purpose-built cinema building, first opened in 1939, and now protected as a category B listed building. History and architecture Predecessor: The Cosmo GFT's predecessor, the Cosmo, was Scotland's first arts cinema and only the second purpose-built arthouse in Britain, after the Curzon Mayfair in London. Opened on 18 May 1939, it was also the last cinema to be built in Glasgow before the outbreak of WW2. The Cosmo arrived at the close of an important decade for British film culture. With the advent of sound in film, language became a barrier and popular films from the continent quickly disappeared from British screens. In Glasgow, audiences for world cinema were served by the Film Society of Glasgow. Founded in 1929, this was the first cultural film group in Scotland, and its growing membership demonstrated a real appetite for foreign-language film in the city. In fact, Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hayman
David Hayman (born 9 February 1948) is a Scottish film, television and stage actor and director from Glasgow. His acting credits include '' Sid and Nancy'' (1986), '' Hope and Glory'' (1987), '' Rob Roy'' (1995), '' The Jackal'' (1997), '' Trial & Retribution'' (1997–2009), '' Legionnaire'' (1998), '' Ordinary Decent Criminal'' (2000), '' Vertical Limit'' (2000), '' The Tailor of Panama'' (2001), ''Flood'' (2007), '' The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' (2008), '' The Paradise'' (2012), ''Taboo'' (2017), '' Our Ladies'' (2019), '' The Nest'' (2020), ''Bull'' (2021), and '' Andor'' (2022). Early life Hayman was born in Glasgow. At the age of six, his family were relocated to Drumchapel, Glasgow. He had a happy upbringing in Drumchapel, nearer to the countryside, as part of a working class family with three children. He left school at 16 years of age without any academic qualifications, but like his father, secured a job in the shipyards as an apprentice electrician. Despite h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Scream (1990 Film)
''Silent Scream'' is a 1990 biopic film about convicted murderer Larry Winters, in which Robert Carlyle made his film debut. It was directed by David Hayman. Plot Based on a true story. Larry Winters was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder in a Soho bar in London in 1963. Silent Scream, directed by David Hayman and starring Iain Glen as Winters, is based on the life and writing of Winters. A violent and drug addicted member of the Barlinnie Special Unit in Scotland, Larry died in 1977 of a drug overdose at the age of 34. The film is composed of flashbacks into his younger life as a soldier in the parachute regiment and his childhood in Glasgow and Carbisdale. The memories are triggered by drugs and isolation. Since the film deals primarily with the convict Winters, the viewer experiences his memories to the fullest. His life as a child, in which he is encouraged by his brother to do wrong, is captured in beautiful nostalgia. His life as a young man is beset with pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magdalene Sisters
''The Magdalene Sisters'' is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as " fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders, usually by the Catholic Church. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. Former Magdalene inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. Some people have questioned some of the depictions of these institutions in the film. Though set in Ireland, the film was shot entirely on location in Dumfries and Galloway, South-West Scotland. The film was distributed by Miramax, run at the time by Harvey Weinstein. The convent used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan (; born 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. His credits include '' Riff-Raff'' (1991), '' Shallow Grave'' (1994), ''Braveheart'' (1995), '' Trainspotting'' (1996), '' My Name Is Joe'' (1998), '' The Claim'' (2000), '' Neds'' (2010), '' War Horse'' (2011), '' The Fixer'' (2008), '' Top of the Lake'' (2013), '' Mum'' (2016-2019), '' Ozark'' (2017-2018), '' Westworld'' (2018-2020), '' Cursed'' (2020), '' The North Water'' (2021), '' The Underground Railroad'' (2022), '' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' (2022–2024), '' After the Party'' (2023), and '' Baghead'' (2023). He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International Film Festival for his direction of '' The Magdalene Sisters'' (2002). Early life and education Peter Mullan was born in 1959 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Patricia (a nurse) and Charles Mullan (a lab technician at Glasgow University). The seventh of eight children, Mullan was brought up in a working class Roman Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orphans (1998 Film)
''Orphans'' is a 1998 Scottish black comedy film written and directed by Peter Mullan and starring Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis and Rosemarie Stevenson. This was the first full-length film directed by Mullan, who later won a Best Actor award at Cannes for ''My Name is Joe'', and who went on to direct ''The Magdalene Sisters'' and ''Neds''. He has said that the film is not autobiographical, but that he wrote the film shortly after the death of his mother, and that each of the four main characters represent an element of what he was feeling at the time. The film was funded by Channel 4 Films, the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund, and the Glasgow Film Fund. The soundtrack includes music by Craig Armstrong, and Billy Connolly singing Mairi's Wedding and two songs he wrote for the film. Plot On a grey day in Glasgow, Scotland, three brothers and their disabled sister meet to arrange their mother, Mrs Flynn's, funeral. Afterwards, they go to a public house and an incide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Times
The ''Glasgow Times'' is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Called ''The Evening Times'' from 1876, it was rebranded as the ''Glasgow Times'' on 4 December 2019. HoldTheFrontPage. 4 December 2019. History The paper, an evening sister paper of '' The Herald'', was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Our City Better". Publication of the ''Evening Times'' (and its sister paper) moved to a |
John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair (born Gordon John Sinclair; 4 February 1962) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing Gregory in the 1981 film '' Gregory's Girl''. There was a Gordon Sinclair already registered with Equity, so he took John Gordon Sinclair as his professional name. In 2019, Sinclair played Drew Cubbin in the BBC drama '' Traces''. Life and career Sinclair was born on 4 February 1962 in Glasgow and started work as an apprentice electrician. At 15, he joined Glasgow's Youth Theatre after he visited one night and met Robert Buchanan, a fellow fan of Canadian progressive rock group Rush. As a result, he starred in a number of films by director Bill Forsyth, perhaps the most notable of which is 1981's '' Gregory's Girl'', shot when he was 19 years old. He reprised the role nearly two decades later in '' Gregory's Two Girls'' (1999), and also appeared in Forsyth's '' Local Hero'' (1983). His other film roles included appearances in '' Britannia Hospital'' (1982), '' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl In The Picture (1985 Film)
''The Girl in the Picture'' is a 1985 Scottish film directed by Cary Parker and starring John Gordon Sinclair as Alan, a Glaswegian photographer, keen to get back with his former girlfriend Mary ( Irina Brook). Meanwhile, his assistant Ken (played by David McKay) is smitten by a girl he knows only through her photograph. The film also stars Gregor Fisher, Rikki Fulton and Simone Lahbib Simone Nicole Jean Lahbib Ould Cheikl (; born 6 February 1965) is a Scottish actress. She is known for her roles as Helen Stewart in the ITV drama series '' Bad Girls'', DCI Alex Fielding in the ITV crime series '' Wire in the Blood'' and Katy ..., with a score composed by Scottish musician Ron Geesin. External links * 1985 films 1985 comedy-drama films British comedy-drama films Films set in Glasgow The Samuel Goldwyn Company films 1980s English-language films 1980s British films English-language comedy-drama films {{1980s-comedy-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Restless Natives
''Restless Natives'' is a 1985 Scottish adventure comedy film, directed by Michael Hoffman. Plot The story follows the adventures of two Scottish youths from the Wester Hailes district of Edinburgh, played by Vincent Friell and Joe Mullaney, who, in rebellion to their drab lives in urban Scotland in the mid-1980s, become modern highwaymen. Donning masks of a clown and a wolf-man and riding a Suzuki GP 125 motorbike, they waylay and hold up with a toy gun tourist coaches in the Highlands, but in the process becoming a tourist attraction themselves. Having acquired substantial amounts of money, they proceed to become modern-day Rob Roys, doling it out to the poor of their city by scattering it on bike rides through its streets, attracting national media attention and pursuit by the police. In the end, after escaping the police, they try to hold up another coach, but it is not driven by a woman as it first seems but by a man (Ned Beatty) who has been pursuing them. The poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
