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Lucan (2013 TV Series)
''Lucan'' is a two-part British television drama, starring Rory Kinnear, Christopher Eccleston and Catherine McCormack. It portrays the disappearance in 1974 of the Earl of Lucan, following the murder of his children's nanny. It was written by Jeff Pope and directed by Adrian Shergold. It was broadcast in December 2013. Although the drama describes actual events, it also has a fictional element. Plot In 2003, author John Pearson, while researching a book about gambling in high society London, becomes interested in the unexplained disappearance of Lord Lucan in 1974. He pieces the story together through interviews with some of Lucan's contemporaries, notably his family friend, Susie Maxwell-Scott. In 1974, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, is a member of the exclusive Clermont Club. The club is owned by John ("Aspers") Aspinall and is frequented by aristocrats and society figures. Lucan spends much of his time gambling at the club, losing heavily and getting into debt. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. The most common genres that overlap with the thriller genre include crime, horror and detective fiction. Characteristics Writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his lectures at Cornell University, said: In an Anglo-Saxon thriller, the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Wright
Rufus Gerrard-Wright, known as Rufus Wright, is an English film, stage and television actor. Personal life Wright is the son of Major-General Richard Gerrard-Wright and his wife, Susan (née Young). He is the younger brother of Lance Gerrard-Wright, who was the second husband of television presenter Ulrika Jonsson. Both brothers attended Lambrook Lambrook is an independent preparatory school for 615 boys and girls, aged 3–13, set in of Berkshire countryside. History The school was founded in 1860 by Robert Burnside, in a large country house built in 1853 by William Budd. Burnside ini ... Preparatory School at Winkfield Row in Berkshire. Wright is married to actress Melanie Gutteridge. Filmography References English male film actors English male stage actors English male television actors Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{England-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Organ
Stuart Organ is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Mr. Robson in the children's television drama ''Grange Hill''. Organ portrayed the series' longest-serving teacher, arriving in 1988 as the new head of PE. In 1998 he finally landed the headmaster's job, but left the series in 2003 soon after production of ''Grange Hill'' transferred to Liverpool. Prior to ''Grange Hill'', Organ appeared as Kevin Cross in the Mersey TV soap opera ''Brookside'', and played Bazin in the ''Doctor Who'' story '' Dragonfire'' in 1987. Since then, he has appeared in a variety of roles on T.V., including Monk, a flasher who exposed himself to Anna and yet was defended by Miles in '' This Life''; Richard Thornton, who stalked P.C. Sam Nixon across a double episode Special in ''The Bill''; and later as D.I Dixon in 2000, Leighton Peters, a top Civil Servant who was responsible for the downfall of Anthony Calf's regular in a double episode of ''Holby City'' and as solicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gemma Jones
Jennifer "Gemma" Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English actress. Appearing on both stage and screen, her film appearances include ''Sense and Sensibility (film), Sense and Sensibility'' (1995), the Bridget Jones (film series), ''Bridget Jones'' series (2001–2016), the Harry Potter (film series), ''Harry Potter'' series (2002–2011), ''You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger'' (2010), and ''Ammonite (film), Ammonite'' (2020). For her role in the BBC television film ''Marvellous'' (2014), she won the 2015 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other roles on television include ''Rainbow City (TV series), Rainbow City'' (1967), ''The Duchess of Duke Street'' (1976–1977), ''Trial and Retribution'' (2003–2008), ''Spooks (TV series), Spooks'' (2007–2008), ''Teacup Travels'' (2015–2017), ''Diana and I'' (2017), and ''Gentleman Jack (TV series), Gentleman Jack'' (2019). Early life Jones was born in Maryle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Llewellyn
Olivia Anna Cristina Llewellyn (born 1980) is an English actress, best known for her television appearances portraying Isabel Danforth in ''The Lizzie Borden Chronicles'' and Mina Harker in ''Penny Dreadful''. Career Trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Llewellyn appeared in supporting roles in several television series and films before portraying Mina Harker in the Showtime series ''Penny Dreadful'' in 2014 and 2015, and Isabel Danforth in the Lifetime series ''The Lizzie Borden Chronicles'' in 2015. Llewellyn has appeared onstage as Flaminia in ''Timon of Athens'' with the Royal National Theatre, as Luciana in ''The Comedy of Errors'' with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as Cecile De Volanges '' Les Liaisons dangereuses'' at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. Personal life Born in 1980, Llewellyn is the daughter of Sir David St Vincent "Dai" Llewellyn, 4th Baronet and Vanessa Hubbard. She has a younger sister, Arabella (born 1983). Llewellyn al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Lapotaire
Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944) is an English actress. Biography Lapotaire was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the daughter of Louise Elise (Burgess). Her stepfather, Yves Lapotaire, worked in the oil industry and was originally from Quebec, Canada. From the age of two months, she was raised as a foster child by an old-age pensioner, Grace Chisnell (Granny Grace), who was also the foster mother of Lapotaire's own biological mother, a French orphan, who was abandoned in England. When Lapotaire was about 12, her biological mother made a bid to get her back. The child welfare department of the Suffolk County Council intervened and decided that the mother had this right. Lapotaire chose to be with Granny Grace, but lived with her biological mother and stepfather, who worked in various French oil companies in North Africa (particularly Libya), three times a year. She also adopted their family name. The Lapotaires in North Africa were Francophones, and like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goldsmith
Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was a French-British financier, tycoon''Billionaire: The Life and Times of Sir James Goldsmith'' by Ivan Fallon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family. His controversial business and finance career led to ongoing clashes with British media, frequently involving litigation or the threat of litigation. In 1994 he was elected to represent a French constituency as a Member of the European Parliament. He founded the short-lived Eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom, which became an early campaigner for opposition to Britain's membership of the European Union. Early life Born in Paris, Goldsmith was the son of luxury hotel tycoon and former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Major Frank Goldsmith and his French wife Marcelle Mouiller, and younger brother of environmental campaigner Edward Goldsmith. Frank Goldsmith had previously changed the family name from the German ''Goldschmidt' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Petrie
Alistair Petrie (born 30 September 1970) is a British actor. He has starred in ''The Bank Job'' (2008), '' Cloud Atlas'' (2012), '' Rush'' (2013) and '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016). Petrie has also starred in the Channel 4 television series ''Utopia'', the BBC One television series' ''The Night Manager, Sherlock,'' and ''Undercover'' and as Mr. Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series ''Sex Education''. Early life Petrie was born 30 September 1970 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire. He was brought up in the Middle East, mainland Europe and East Africa. His father was an RAF fighter pilot. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career Theatre Petrie spent his early career in theatre around the country before joining the RSC where productions included Shakespeare's ''Troilus and Cressida'' and Henrik Ibsen's ''Brand'' opposite Ralph Fiennes. In 2005, he joined the National Theatre, where he stayed for 28 months performing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon (; born 19 October 1940) is an Irish-English actor. Regarded as one of Ireland and Britain's most distinguished actors, he is known for his work on stage and screen. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six decade long career he's received three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four BAFTA Awards. In 1999 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Having begun his professional career in the theatre with Olivier at the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic, Gambon appeared in many productions of works by William Shakespeare such as ''Othello'', ''Hamlet'', ''Macbeth'' and '' Coriolanus''. Gambon has been nominated for thirteen Olivier Awards winning three times for '' A Chorus of Disapproval'' (1985), ''A View from the Bridge'' (1987), and '' Man of the Moment'' (1990). In 1997 Gambon made his Broadway debut in David Hare's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Walton
Anna Walton (born 18 December 1980) is an English actress known for her roles in '' Vampire Diary'', ''Mutant Chronicles'', and the compassionate Princess Nuala in '' Hellboy II: The Golden Army''. Walton began working as a model while still at Queenswood School in Hertfordshire and later trained in acting at the Oxford School of Drama, from which she graduated in 2004. Walton appeared on NBC's ''Crusoe''. Walton's brother, Henry, was guitarist for the band Zulu Winter
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Ann Bell
Ann Forrest Bell (born 29 April 1938) is a British actress, best known for playing war internee Marion Jefferson in the BBC Second World War drama series '' Tenko'' (1981–84). She was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, the daughter of John Forrest Bell and Marjorie (née Byrom) Bell, and educated at Birkenhead High School. She played the title role in a BBC adaptation of ''Jane Eyre'' (1963) in addition to many guest roles on television, including ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'', '' Gideon's Way'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Sentimental Agent'', '' The Saint'', ''Armchair Theatre'', ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' (1965), ''Danger Man'', ''The Baron'', ''Mystery and Imagination'', ''The Troubleshooters'', '' Callan'', ''Journey to the Unknown'', '' Sherlock Holmes'' (the 1968 episode "The Sign of Four" with Peter Cushing), '' Department S'', ''The Lost Boys'', '' Enemy at the Door'', ''Shoestring'', ''Tumbledown'', '' Blackeyes'', '' Heartbeat'', '' Inspector Morse'', ''Agatha Christie's Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cox (actor)
Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is an English actor. He is perhaps most widely known for portraying a teenage Dr. Watson in Barry Levinson's production '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985). Life and career Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half brothers Orson Jonathan Cox and Torin Kamran Cox. Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer the 1982 TV adaptation of his play '' A Voyage Round My Father'', starring opposite Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include ''An Awfully Big Adventure ''An Awfully Big Adventure'' is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story concerns a teenage girl who joins a local repertory theatre troupe in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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