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Nicholas Blane
Nicholas Blane is an English actor. Career He is best known for his roles in stage productions such as '' Year of the Rat'', '' See How They Run'' and ''Democracy''. He has appeared in numerous British television and film projects, including ''Coronation Street'' (1993–2010), '' Heartbeat'' (1993–1998), ''Trial & Retribution'' (1997–2002), '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' (1997), ''Life Force'', ''Sharpe's Challenge'' (2006) and '' The Great Fire'' (2014). He played the role of Wopsle in the BBC adaptation of ''Great Expectations'' (1999) and he appeared in minor roles in '' The Illusionist'' (2006) and ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007). In 2012 he starred as the Spice King in the second season of the HBO TV series ''Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of '' A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R.&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National Forest, England, National Forest. It is situated to the north-east of Birmingham and Coventry, south of Nottingham and west of Peterborough. The population size has increased by 38,800 ( 11.8%) from around 329,800 in 2011 to 368,600 in 2021 making it the most populous municipality in the East Midlands region. The associated Urban area#United Kingdom, urban area is also the 11th most populous in England and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 13th most populous in the United Kingdom. Leicester is at the intersection of two railway lines: the Midland Main Line and the Birmingham to London Stansted Airport line. It is also at the confluence of the M1 motorway, M1/M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseline (database)
Studio System by Gracenote, formerly known as Baseline StudioSystems, is an American e-commerce company. It was founded in 1982 and licenses its commercial entertainment database, known as Studio System. It is owned by Gracenote, a subsidiary of Nielsen Holdings. History James Monaco founded Baseline in 1982. Their primary product, an entertainment database, was launched in 1985. Monaco left Baseline in 1992, and Paul Kagan Associates purchased it the following year. Big Entertainment purchased the database in 1999 and subsequently renamed themselves to Hollywood.com. The same year, Creative Planet purchased The Studio System, a rival database founded in 1987, from Brookfield Communications. In 2004, Hollywood.com's parent company, Hollywood Media, purchased The Studio System and merged the two databases. Two years later, The New York Times Company purchased the now-renamed Baseline StudioSystems and integrated it into NYTimes.com, only to sell it back to Hollywood.com i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good Traitor
The Good Traitor ( da, Vores mand i Amerika) is a 2020 Danish drama film about Henrik Kauffmann and the signing of the Greenland treaty with the United States after the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II. Cast * Ulrich Thomsen as Henrik Kauffmann * Denise Gough as Charlotte Kauffmann * Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Povl Bang-Jensen * Zoë Tapper as Zilla Sears * Burn Gorman as Berle * Henry Goodman as Franklin D. Roosevelt * as * Ross McCall as Mason Sears * Pixie Davies as Poppin Sears * Amber Fernée as Tilda Kauffmann * Rosemary Aburrow as Lisa Kauffmann * Søren Sætter-Lassen as * Nicholas Blane as Winston Churchill * as Lauring * Henrik Noël Olesen as Arno * as Statsminister Buhl * Scott Alexander Young as General Hobbs * Robert Jackson as Ejendomsmágler Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, ''The Good Traitor'' holds an approval rating of based on reviews. The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Gap
''Hope Gap'' is a 2019 British drama film written and directed by William Nicholson, adapted from his 1999 play ''The Retreat from Moscow''. The film stars Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O'Connor, Aiysha Hart, Ryan McKen, Steven Pacey and Nicholas Burns. ''Hope Gap'' had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019 and was released in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2020 by Curzon Artificial Eye. Premise A family drama of the aftermath of a husband's revelation that he is leaving after 29 years of marriage. Cast * Annette Bening as Grace * Bill Nighy as Edward * Josh O'Connor as Jamie * Aiysha Hart as Jess * Ryan McKen as Dev * Steven Pacey as Solicitor * Nicholas Burns as Gary * Rose Keegan as Receptionist * Nicholas Blane as Priest * Sally Rogers as Angela * Liam Hadfield as Waiter Production The project was announced on October 31, 2017, with William Nicholson directing and writing the story, and Annette Bening and Bill Nighy ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Caroe
Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe, (15 November 1892 – 23 November 1981) was an administrator in British India, working for the Indian Civil Service and the Indian Political Service. He served as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India during the World War II and later as the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province (the frontier with Afghanistan). As Foreign Secretary, he was responsible for reviving the McMahon Line, which included the Assam Himalayan frontier (present day Arunachal Pradesh) within India. After retirement, Caroe took on the role of a strategist of the Great Game and the Cold War on the southern periphery of the Soviet Union. His ideas are believed to have been highly influential in shaping the post-War policies of Britain and the United States. Scholar Peter Brobst calls him the "quintessential master of the Great Game" and the "foremost strategic thinker of British India" in the years before independence. Early life Born in London, Olaf Caroe w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viceroy's House (film)
''Viceroy's House'' is a 2017 fictional film directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini, and Chadha. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, and Michael Gambon. It was selected to be screened out of competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2017, while the Hindi dubbed version titled ''Partition: 1947'' was released in India on 18 August 2017, 3 days after its 70th Independence Day. It was released worldwide on 1 September 2017. ''Viceroy's House'' is based on ''Freedom at Midnight'' by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, and ''The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of Partition'' by Narendra Singh Sarila. Plot Lord Dickie Mountbatten arrives at Viceroy's House in New Delhi in 1947 with his strong-willed wife Edwina and daughter Pamela. As the final Viceroy of India, he is in charge of overseeing the dissolution of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Secret (film)
''In Secret'' (also known as ''Thérèse'') is a 2013 American erotic thriller romance film written and directed by Charlie Stratton. Based on Émile Zola's classic 1867 novel ''Thérèse Raquin'' and the 2009 stage play by the same name penned by Neal Bell, the film stars Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Lange. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received a regional release on February 21, 2014. Plot In the lower echelons of Parisian society in the 1860s, Thérèse Raquin is a beautiful, sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, who she was forced to marry by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame Raquin play dominoes with an eclectic group of acquaintances. After she meets her husband's alluring friend Laurent LeClaire, the two embark o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glorious 39
''Glorious 39'' is a 2009 British war thriller film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jeremy Northam, Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter and Eddie Redmayne. The film was released on 20 November 2009. On the eve of the Second World War, as the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold its traditional way of life, daughter Anne sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the appeasement movement. Plot In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page. Interested in family history, he asks them about his great aunt, Anne Keyes, the sister of his grandmother, Celia. Anne, an actress, was the eldest of the three Keyes children. Desperate for children, her father, Sir Alexander, a Member of Parliament and mother, Maud, had adopted her. Maud subsequently gave birth to Ralph and Celia. Michael is curious to learn what happened to Anne, which lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow In The North
''The Shadow in the North'' (1986) is a book by the English author Philip Pullman. It was originally published as ''The Shadow in the Plate''. Plot This second ''Sally Lockhart'' mystery takes place in late 1878, six years after the events of ''The Ruby in the Smoke''. A Miss Walsh walks into the offices of Sally Lockhart's office (Sally is now working as a financial consultant) about some poor business advice Sally gave her; as a result Miss Walsh has lost her life savings. Sally vows to get the money back and investigate Anglo-Baltic, the company Miss Walsh lost all her money from. We also learn that Sally has a huge but lovable black dog called Chaka and that Frederick Garland (Sally's friend from ''The Ruby in the Smoke'') is in love with Sally but that she is unsure of her feelings and so continuously refuses to decide on whether to marry him. Sally's friend Jim Taylor (now working as a stagehand in a local theatre) helps stage magician Alistair Mackinnon escape two men Mack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinky Boots (film)
''Kinky Boots'' is a 2005 British comedy-drama film directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth. Based on a true story, the film tells of a struggling British shoe factory's young, straight-laced owner, Charlie, who forms an unlikely partnership with Lola, a drag queen, to save the business. Charlie develops a plan to produce custom footwear for drag queens, rather than the men's dress shoes that his firm is known for, alienating many in the process. Plot In Northampton, in the East Midlands of England, Charlie Price is attempting to save the family shoe factory, which has been floundering since his father died. While on a business trip to London to sell the company's extra stock, Charlie encounters a woman being harassed by drunken hoodlums and intervenes to his detriment. He wakes up backstage, in the dressing room of Lola, a drag queen performer and alter ego of Simon. Charlie is intrigued when he sees that drag queens' high heels snap easily, and wish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierrepoint (film)
''Pierrepoint'' is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766. It was released on DVD on 30 October 2007. Commissioned as a television film in 2004, ''Pierrepoint'' was broadcast on ITV Network, ITV on 25 August 2008, when it attracted an estimated audience of 3.6 million. The film was renamed ''Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman'' for its North American release, although Pierrepoint was not the last British hangman. Premise The film is loosely based on the life of Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (played by Timothy Spall), from the time he is trained for the job and accepted onto the list of the country's official executioner, hangmen in 1932 until his resignation in 1956. Cast *Timothy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Kind Of Life
''Some Kind of Life'' is an ITV's 1995 TV drama written by Kay Mellor and directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Jane Horrocks and Ray Stevenson, it was aired on 11 August 1996 and produced by Granada Television for the ITV Network ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passin .... Synopsis In this drama, Alison (Jane Horrocks) is a young wife and mother whose life is turned upside down after her beloved husband, Steve (Ray Stevenson), is involved in a motorcycle crash, suffers massive head trauma, and regresses to a mental and emotional age of 5. Much of the story centres on the mundane aspects of being forced to deal with the loss of her husband as a man and the acquisition of him as a child. Time passes and things do not improve. Slowly, even Steve's closest friends begin withd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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