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Christopher Menaul
Christopher Menaul (born 25 July 1944) is a British film, television director and television writer. Since the late 1970s, Menaul has amassed credits in episodic television and by directing television films. Filmography Film *''Feast of July'' (1995) *''First Night'' (2010) *''Summer in February'' (2013) *''Another Mother's Son'' (2017) TV *2015 Killing Jesus (film) (TV film) *2013 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II *2011 Combat Hospital (TV series) *2011 Zen (TV mini-series) *2009 Above Suspicion (TV film) *2007 Saddam's Tribe (TV film) *2006 See No Evil: The Moors Murders (TV film) *2005 Secret Smile (TV film) *2005 Planespotting (TV film) *2004 Belonging (TV film) *2004 Wall of Silence (TV film) *2003 State of Mind (TV film) *2002 The Forsyte Saga (TV mini-series) *2000 One Kill (TV film) *1999 The Passion of Ayn Rand (TV film) *1997 Bright Hair (TV film) *1994 Fatherland (TV film) *1994 Homicide: Life on the Street (TV series) *1992 Great Performances (TV series) *1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatherland (1994 Film)
''Fatherland'' is a 1994 American historical drama television film directed by Christopher Menaul and written by Stanley Weiser and Ron Hutchinson, based on the 1992 novel of the same title by Robert Harris. The film stars Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson, and aired on HBO on November 26, 1994. Plot A prologue outlines the story's alternate timeline. The failure of the Normandy invasion causes the United States to withdraw from the European theater of the Second World War and General Dwight D. Eisenhower to retire in disgrace. The United States continues its Pacific War against the Empire of Japan, and led by General Douglas MacArthur, it uses atomic bombs for its victory. In Europe, Nazi Germany successfully achieves its invasion of the United Kingdom, which results in King George VI fleeing with his family to Canada and continuing to rule the British Empire. Under Nazi supervision, Edward VIII assumes the throne in the United Kingdom, and Wallis Simpson become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC2 Playhouse
''BBC2 Playhouse'' is a UK anthology television series of one-hour episodes produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many performers were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, Peggy Ashcroft and Margaret Whiting. It premiered in the UK on 13 March 1974 and ran until 20 May 1983. Productions This table is based on records in the BBC Genome archive of the '' Radio Times'' and the BFI database. See also Other BBC2 drama anthology series include * ''Theatre 625'' * ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' * ''Screen Two'' * ''Second City Firsts ''Second City Firsts'' is a British drama anthology series of single plays, broadcast by the BBC, all lasting thirty minutes. Recorded at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham, or sometimes filmed on location, the series was broadcast between 1973 and 19 ...'' References External links *''{{IMDb title, id=0762803, title=BBC2 Playho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucker's Luck
''Tucker's Luck'' is a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series is a spin-off from the school drama ''Grange Hill (TV series), Grange Hill'' and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters – Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty. ''Tucker's Luck'' followed the exploits of Tucker and his friends, Alan Humphries (George Armstrong (actor), George Armstrong) and Tommy Watson (Paul McCarthy), after they had left school and their attempts to find employment and cope out there in the "real world". Three series were made (although by Series Three, Tommy was gone – his absence explained by his having decided to join the Navy), with several former ''Grange Hill'' cast members reprising their roles for the spin-off (such as Linda Slater as Susi MacMahon, Alan's former school girlfriend, in Series One; Michelle Herbert as Tucker's old class enemy Trisha Yates in the final episode of Series Three) and Peter McNamara as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Play For Today
''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below) between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration. A handful of these plays, including '' Rumpole of the Bailey'', subsequently became television series in their own right. History The strand was a successor to ''The Wednesday Play'', the 1960s anthology series, the title being changed when the day of transmission moved to Thursday to make way for a sport programme. Some works, screened in anthology series' on BBC2, like Willy Russell's ''Our Day Out'' (1977), were repeated on BBC1 in the series. The producers of ''The Wednesday Play'', Graeme MacDonald and Irene Shubik, transferred to the new series. Shubik continued with the series until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minder (TV Series)
''Minder'' is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television, and shown on ITV for ten series between 1979 and 1994. The series was notable for using a range of leading British actors, as well as many up-and-coming performers before they found their greatest success; at its peak it was one of ITV's most watched shows. The series was revived by Channel 5 in 2009 but was discontinued after only six episodes. Plot The first seven series starred Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, a Fulham fan, an honest and likeable bodyguard (''minder'' in London slang) and George Cole as Arthur Daley, a socially ambitious, but highly unscrupulous importer/exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman and purveyor of anything else from which there was money to be made, legally or not. The series is principally set in inner west London (specifically Shepherd's Bush, Ladbroke Grove, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tandoori Nights
''Tandoori Nights'' is a television sitcom that was broadcast on Channel 4 between 1985 and 1987. It consisted of two series of six episodes each. The series was directed by Jon Amiel and written by Farrukh Dhondy. It is the story of two rival restaurants in London, and starred Saeed Jaffrey, Tariq Yunus, Rita Wolf and Zohra Sehgal. It was Channel 4's first Asian comedy series. After the sitcom had been commissioned to be written, Farrukh Dhondy himself became Channel 4's commissioning editor for multicultural programmes. Meera Syal wrote an episode for the sitcom (4 July 1985). ''Tandoori Nights'' traded on some pre-existing Asian stereotypes: an Indian restaurant setting; a conniving businessman (Jimmy Sharma, played by Saeed Jaffrey) who views dating white women as 'social climbing'; a rebellious daughter (played by Rita Wolf); and a bumbling servant-fool (Alaudin, played by Tariq Yunus). Plot summary Jimmy Sharma is the owner of Jewel in the Crown, a Tandoori restaurant on Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casualty (TV Series)
''Casualty'' (stylised as ''CASUAL+Y'') is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1986. The original producer was Geraint Morris. Having been broadcast weekly since 1986, ''Casualty'' is the longest-running primetime medical drama series in the world. The programme is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. The show has strong ties to its sister programme '' Holby City'', which began as a spin-off series from ''Casualty'' in 1999, set in the same hospital. The final episode of ''Holby City'' was broadcast in March 2022. ''Casualty''s exterior shots were mainly filmed outside the Ashley Down Centre in Bristol from 1986 until 2002, when they moved to the centre of Bristol. In 2011, ''Casualty'' celebrated its 25th anniversary and moved production to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worlds Beyond (TV Series)
''Worlds Beyond'' is a British television anthology series based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a nonprofit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. It describes itself as the "first society to co ... that was broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988. A book was also released to accompany the series.Ian Wilson. ''Worlds Beyond'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1986) Episode list # The Haunted Garden # Serenade for Dead Lovers # The Barrington Case # Captain Randolph # The Black Tomb # Home # Voice of the Gallows # The Eye of Yemanja # Guardian of the Past # Suffer Little Children # Undying Love # Reflections of Evil # Oliver's Ghost References External linksHaunted TV, 1980–1989 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Sherwood Forest
Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller * ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film * ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series * ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure game * ''Tales'' (video game series), a series of role-playing games *"Tales", or "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes", a song by Wolfmother from ''Wolfmother'' *"Tales", a song by Schoolboy Q from ''Crash Talk'' Geography *Tales, Castellón, a municipality in Spain *Täles Railway (other), two railway lines in Baden-Württemberg in Germany People *Rémi Tales (born 1984), French rugby union player *Tales Schütz Tales Schütz (born 22 August 1981 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a Brazilian ex-footballer. He is also of German ancestry. Honours * Hong Kong First Division League :''Winner (4):'' 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 * Hong Kong Se ..., Brazilian footballer See also * Tale (other) {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precious Bane
''Precious Bane'' is a historical romance by Mary Webb, first published in 1924. It won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1926. Synopsis The story is set in rural Shropshire during the Napoleonic Wars. It is narrated by the central character, Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a cleft lip and cleft palate. Only the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, perceives the beauty of her character, but Prue cannot believe herself worthy of him. Her brother Gideon is overridingly ambitious to attain wealth and power, regardless of who suffers while he does so. Gideon is set to wed his sweetheart Jancis, but he incurs the wrath of her father, the cruel and scheming self-proclaimed wizard Beguildy. An act of vengeance by Beguildy makes Gideon reject Jancis and tragedy engulfs them both. Prue is wrongly accused of murder and set upon by a mob, but Kester defies them and carries Prue away to the happiness she believed she could never possess because of her deformity. The setting for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice Work (TV Drama)
''Nice Work'' is a British television adaptation of the Booker prize-shortlisted 1988 novel of the same name by David Lodge. It was broadcast in 1989 on BBC2 and starred Warren Clarke and Haydn Gwynne. Characters The series considered of the following cast: * Robyn Penrose, played by Haydn Gwynne * Vic Wilcox, played by Warren Clarke * Marjorie Wilcox, played by Janet Dale * Brian Everthorpe, played by John Forgeham * Stuart Baxter, played by David Calder * Philip Swallow, played by Christopher Godwin * Rupert Sutcliffe, played by Terry Coates Production The screenplay was directed by Christopher Menaul. The first TV episode was broadcast on BBC2 on 4 October 1989. Subsequent episodes were broadcast on 11 October, 18 October, and 25 October. A DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
