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How To Get Ahead In Advertising
''How to Get Ahead in Advertising'' is a 1989 British black comedy fantasy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a ''Head'' in Advertising". Plot The film is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Rachel Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife, Julia Bagley. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss. Bagley has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a boil on his right shoulder that comes to life with a face and voice. The voice of the boil, although uncredited, is that of Bruce Robinson. The boil takes a cynical and unscrupulous view of the advertising profession in contrast to Bagley's new-found ethical concerns. Eventually, Bagley decides to have the boil remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed the cult classic ''Withnail and I'' (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town. As an actor, he has worked with Franco Zeffirelli, Ken Russell and François Truffaut. Early life Bruce Robinson was born in London. He grew up in Broadstairs, Kent, where he attended the Charles Dickens Secondary Modern School. His parents were Mabel Robinson and American lawyer Carl Casriel, who had a short-term relationship during World War II. His father was a Lithuanian Jew. As a child, Robinson was constantly brutally abused by his stepfather Rob (an ex RAF navigator and a wholesale newsagent), who knew the boy was not his son. He had an elder sister Elly, whom he asked to teach him some French. Film career In his youth, Robinson aspired to be an actor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Tong
Jacqueline Tong (born 21 May 1951) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Daisy Peel in the television series '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1973–1975), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1977. Early life Tong was born in Bristol in 1951, and attended Rose Bruford College. She started her television career in the 1970s, and one of her first roles was in an episode of '' Thriller''. Career In 1973, she joined the cast of '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' as the new housemaid Daisy Peel (later Barnes). She played this role for 32 episodes until the programme's end in 1975. After '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' finished she went back to theatre and played at Coventry rep. She also had roles on television in '' Hard Times'', '' Spearhead'', '' Thriller'' (1 episode, 1974), and, alongside Lesley-Anne Down who had appeared with her in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', in ''The One and Onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Bean
Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean on 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a theatre production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' in 1983. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series '' Sharpe'', which originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2020, Bean is also narrator of the BBC Radio 4 series ''Legacy of War'', exploring the impact of the Second World War on subsequent generations through interviews and oral history. Bean's film roles include ''Patriot Games'' (1992), ''GoldenEye'' (1995), '' Ronin'' (1998), ''Don't Say a Word'' (2001), ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003), ''Equilibrium'' (2002), ''National Treasure'' (2004), ''Troy'' (2004), ''Flightplan'' (2005), '' North Country'' (2005), '' The Island'' (2005), ''Silent Hill'' (2006), '' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'' (2010), ''Black Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanveer Ghani
Tanveer Ghani is a British actor. He has appeared in various British television programmes and British films. One of his first roles was in the BBC hospital drama, ''Angels'' (1982). He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Rezaul Kabir in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 1986–1987. Other credits include ''Boon'' (1986); ''How to Get Ahead in Advertising'' (1989); ''Bhaji on the Beach'' (1993); '' Goodnight Sweetheart'' (1993); ''Love Hurts'' (1994); ''The Knock'' (1997); playing Ron in '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' (2000); ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002); ''The Bill'' (2002); ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'' (2003); ''Steel River Blues'' (2004); '' The Golden Hour'' (2005), ''Dracula'' (2006) and '' Badla''(2019) Filmography * '' Badla'' (2019) * ''Viceroy's House'' (2017) * ''Amar Akbar & Tony'' (2015) * ''Rules of the Game Part One'' (2008) * * ''The Bill 2/10/2002' (2002) References External linksTanveer Ghaniat BFI The British Film Institute (BFI) is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Roderick A. Maude-Roxby (born 2 April 1930) is a retired English actor. He has appeared in numerous films, such as Walt Disney's ''The Aristocats'', where he voiced the greedy butler Edgar Balthazar (his only voice role); ''Unconditional Love''; and Clint Eastwood's ''White Hunter Black Heart'', playing Thompson. An early innovator at the Royal College of Art, RCA, alongside David Hockney and Peter Blake, he was one of the UK's first performance artists, before it was a recognized art form. At the RCA he edited ARK magazine in 1958 and was president of the college's Theatre Group. He had a joint exhibition with Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1960. He also collaborated in a pre-''Monty Python'' series with Michael Palin and Terry Jones, called ''The Complete and Utter History of Britain''. He also made theatrical and television appearances in, among other shows, ''The Goodies,'' ''Rowan and Martin's Laugh In,'' '' Not Only... But Also'' and '' The Establishment''. He won the The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English/Guyanese-born writer and former actor of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing – which encompasses short stories, novels and essays – are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the ''Guardian'' Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years." Background and early career Melville was born in the former colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana), where she spent her pre-school years in the 1940s; her mother was English, and her father Guyanese of mixed race, "part South American Indian, African and Scottish". The family moved to south London in the early 1950s, and after leaving school in the early 1960s, Melville worked at London's Royal Court Theatre, which would eventually lead to her bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Slattery
Tony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian. He appeared on British television regularly from the mid-1980s, most notably as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' His serious and comedic film work has included roles in ''The Crying Game'', ''Peter's Friends'' and ''How to Get Ahead in Advertising''. Early life and education Slattery was born in Stonebridge, north London, into a working-class background, the fifth and last child of Catholic Irish immigrants, Michael and Margaret Slattery. In 2019 Slattery revealed that he had been repeatedly sexually abused by a priest at the age of eight, but had never told his parents; he believes the event contributed to his unstable character later in life. He was educated at Gunnersbury Boys' Grammar School in west London and won a scholarship to read Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in French literature and Spanish poetry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pip Torrens
Philip D'Oyly "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor. Known for playing urbane, authoritative figures, Torrens portrayed courtier Tommy Lascelles in the Netflix drama ''The Crown'', aristocrat Lord Massen in the HBO series ''The Nevers'' and held leading roles in ''Poldark'' and ''Versailles''. His film appearances include ''The Danish Girl'', '' The Iron Lady'', ''War Horse'' and '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens''. In 2017, he joined the main cast of AMC's ''Preacher'', portraying the antagonist Herr Klaus Helmut Starr. He also provided his voice to Lofty Thaddeus Worthington in the 2005 film '' Valiant''. Early life and education Son of Rev. Robert Harrington Torrens, MA, and descendant of the lawyer and colonial official Henry Whitelock Torrens, Torrens was born in Bromley, Kent, and educated at Bloxham School. He studied English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1981, MA 1987), and subsequently studied acting at Drama Studio London. Career Torre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Gostelow
Gordon Massey Gostelow (14 May 1925 – 3 June 2007) was an Australian actor. He was educated in Australia at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University where he graduated in Economics. Gostelow went to England in 1950 and worked in the theatre (regional repertory), including the Royal Shakespeare Company and various roles on British television. In Shakespeare he was especially associated with the role of the alcoholic reprobate Bardolph in the Henriad plays. He played the character on television in both ''An Age of Kings'' in 1960 and in the BBC Television Shakespeare's version of the plays in 1979. He also played several other roles in the former production, but was said to have been "born" to play Bardolph. He played the parts of Perks in the 1968 TV serial of ''The Railway Children'', Milo Clancey in the '' Doctor Who'' serial ''The Space Pirates'' in 1969, and the Duke of Medina Sidonia in '' Elizabeth R''. Between 1969 and 1970 he also narrated in twelve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Simon
Christopher Simon (born 5 June 1963) is an Australian actor and producer. Born in Sydney, Australia. He produced the film '' Miss You Already'' directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Simon is also a producer of such films as ''The Sweeney (2012 film)'' directed by Nick Love, '' Pusher'', ''I, Anna'', ''Still Life'', ''Me and Me Dad'', ''Boogie Woogie'', '' The Proposition'', ''Beyond the Ocean'', ''The Trouble with Men and Women''. He also produced short films by Joe Wright such as ''The End'' and Nick Love's ''Love Story''. Simon's various television acting roles include Eddie in The Long Firm, Pedro in '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'', Michael Hassan in ''The Bill'', Lee Andersen in ''Casualty'', Abdel in ''Lovejoy'', Samir in ''Ultimate Force'', Da Souza in Lynda La Plante’s ''Supply and Demand'', Nathan Morgan in ''Wire In The Blood'' and he appeared in ''Lenny Henry in Pieces''. Film acting roles include Room To Rent, The Delivery and O Jerusalem. He appeared as Hussein in the '' Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Pearce
Jacqueline Pearce (20 December 1943 – 3 September 2018) was a British film and television actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the principal villain Servalan in the British science fiction TV series ''Blake's 7'' (1978–1981), a performance which her obituarist in ''The Times'' wrote produced "a sexual awakening for a generation of sci-fi fans". Pearce studied at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and at the Actors Studio. After early roles in two Hammer horror films, ''The Plague of the Zombies'' and ''The Reptile'', she played opposite Jerry Lewis in '' Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River''. On stage, she acted in ''Otherwise Engaged'', directed by Harold Pinter, and in Tom Stoppard's '' Night and Day'', and she had numerous television, theatre and audio roles, including in '' Doctor Who''. She suffered from clinical depression during periods of her life, which she discussed in her memoir, ''From Byfleet to the Bush'' (2012). Pearce spent five year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Ford
Mick Ford (born 1 August 1952) is a British actor, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his portrayal of intellectual convict Archer in the cinema version of ''Scum (film), Scum''. Early life and education Ford was born on 1 August 1952 in Croydon, Croydon, Surrey. His father, Noel Ford, fought on the front lines as a 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom), Desert Rat during World War II. He attended John Ruskin College, John Ruskin Grammar School as a teenager and later joined the National Youth Theatre, where he appeared in numerous plays, including the premieres of ''Zigger Zagger'' and ''The Secret Rapture (play), The Secret Rapture''. Career After appearing in the 1978 film ''The Sailor's Return (film), The Sailor's Return'', Ford's best known role came in the 1979 film ''Scum (film), Scum''. Set in a borstal, Ford plays the inmate Archer, an intelligent vegetarian trouble-maker who just wants to serve his time ''"In (his) own little way"''. Ford also had a role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
