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Twelfth Night (1988 Film)
''Twelfth Night, or, What You Will'' is a videotaped 1988 television adaptation of Kenneth Branagh's stage production for the Renaissance Theatre Company of William Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night'' first broadcast in the UK by Channel 4 on 30 December 1988.Michael Brook"Twelfth Night (1988)" BFI screenonline Made by Thames Television, in collaboration with Renaissance, it stars Frances Barber as Viola and Richard Briers as Malvolio. The recording was shot on a single set with the appearance of a wintry garden. The costumes are Victorian, and the time of year is Christmas Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year .... Cast Reception Michael Brooke, in his piece for the BFI's screenonline website, particularly commends Briers performance. His "Malvolio is a delight, segueing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Barber
Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays '' Camille'' (1985), and ''Uncle Vanya'' (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in '' Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987), ''We Think the World of You'' (1988) and ''Dead Fish'' (2005); as well as '' Sammy and Rosie Get Laid'' (1987); '' Soft Top Hard Shoulder'' (1992); and latterly ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include '' The Street'' (2009), ''Doctor Who'' (2011), and ''Silk'' (2012–2014). Life and career Barber was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Her parents are S.W. Brookes and Gladys Simpson; Barber is the fourth of six children. She attended the Wolverhampton Municipal Grammar School. Barber studied drama at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, where she was a contemporary of director Danny Boyle, who became her boyfriend. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Prendergast
Shaun Prendergast (born 1958) is an English actor and writer. Career He was born in North Shields and holds a BA Hons from Bretton Hall College. He was an actor and playwright in residence for Northumberland Theatre Company before joining the BBC Radio Drama Company, and subsequently became a founder member of Kenneth Branagh's newly formed Renaissance Theatre Company. Awards include a Sony Award, a Writers' Guild Award and a Time Out Award. in 2020 he published his first novel, Benny Blue Eyes. Selected TV credits Prendergast has appeared in ''The Bill'', ''EastEnders'', ''Holby City'', ''Hotel Babylon'', ''The Lightning Kid'', ''Heartbeat'', ''New Tricks'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''Collision'' by Anthony Horowitz. In summer 2010, he filmed an episode of ''Tracy Beaker Returns'', which aired on CBBC Channel. As well as appearances in ''Casualty'', ''Doctors'', ''WPC 56'', and ''Father Brown'' he plays the role of Robert Bain, the Head of Education for East Kilbride, in the drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television Films
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Films Scored By Patrick Doyle
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Series By Fremantle (company)
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Shows Produced By Thames Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4 Television Dramas
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. * Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia. Europe * Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy * Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel * English Channel, called simply "The Channel", the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France North America * Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, United States * Channel Lake, Illinois, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States * Channels State Forest, a state forest in Virgini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * May 25 – '' Rambo III'' was released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film failed to match the box office earnings from '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). * July 15 – ''Die Hard'' defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influenced a common formula for many '90s action films, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who's usually holding hostages in an isolated setting. Such films and their sequels are often referred to as "''Die Hard'' on a _____": '' Under Siege'' (battleship), ''Cliffhanger'' (mountain), ''Speed'' (bus), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Television Films
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian Bicentenary, Bicentennial on January 26; The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea; Soviet Union, Soviet troops begin their Soviet-Afghan War, withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is completed the 1989, next year; The 1988 Armenian earthquake kills between 25,000-50,000 people; The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar, led by students, protests the Burma Socialist Programme Party; A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the plane to crash down on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland- the event kills 270 people., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Piper Alpha rect 200 0 400 200 Iran Air Flight 655 rect 400 0 600 200 Australian Bicentenary rect 0 200 300 400 Pan Am Flight 103 rect 300 200 600 400 1988 Summer Olympics rect 0 400 200 600 8888 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is an English actor. He is well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series '' Game of Thrones'', as Thomas More in ''Wolf Hall'', as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in ''The Crown'', as Prime Minister Clement Attlee in ''A United Kingdom'' and as Chief Superintendent Bright in '' Endeavour''. Early life Born in Birmingham, Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977 he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year. He is of Jewish background. Career As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played many of Shakespeare's great roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare productions including Troilus (''Troilus and Cressida''), Edgar (''King Lear''), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (''Julius Caesar''), Leontes (''Winter's Tale'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail McKern
Abigail McKern (born 1955) is an English actress. She appeared, alongside her father Leo McKern, in the last three series of ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' as Rumpole's young pupil Liz Probert. She has also played many other stage and television roles.- In 1983, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Celia in ''As You Like It''. McKern is the daughter of Leo McKern and fellow Australian actor Jane Holland (''A Son is Born ''A Son Is Born'' is a 1946 Australian melodrama directed by Eric Porter and starring Ron Randell, Peter Finch, and Muriel Steinbeck. Synopsis In 1920, Laurette marries an irresponsible drifter, Paul Graham. They have a son, David, but later di ...'', 1946), and also has a sister, Harriet. References External links * 1955 births Living people English television actresses English stage actresses Actresses from London Laurence Olivier Award winners English people of Australian descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Saxon (actor)
William James Smyth (12 June 1955 – 2 July 2003), better known by his stage name James Saxon was an English television and theatre character actor. He began his career in British television productions in the early 1980s, and as the decade progressed he became an in-demand charismatic support actor with the plump physique and expressive moon face that he developed in his thirties, noted for his acting range, from frenetic intensity and garrulousness through to refined genteel introspection. To the mid-1980s generation of British children he was known for his role as Roland Rat's inept agent, D'Arcy DeFarcy, who would mistakenly refer to his client as "Reynard". Early life Saxon was born William James Smyth on 6 April 1955, in the town of Swindon in the county of Wiltshire. He trained to be an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, in London. Career Saxon began his career on television in the series ''Jukes of Piccadilly'' in 1980 before landing the part of Morris Hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
