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Urban Myths (2017 Film)
''Urban Myths'' is a British biographical comedy drama television series first aired on 19 January 2017 on the Sky Arts. Each episode featured an anecdote surrounding popular culture loosely based on a true story, ranging from Muhammad Ali talking a man down from a ledge to Bob Dylan turning up on a stranger's doorstep in London. A second series was announced featuring The Sex Pistols and Salvador Dalí, which began airing on 12 April 2018. The series was most notable for a controversy surrounding the casting of Joseph Fiennes in the role of Michael Jackson, an episode that was pulled from transmission. Episodes Series 1 (2017) Series 2 (2018) Series 3 (2019) Series 4 (2020) Reception Although stories surrounding the pulled episode overshadowed the rest of the series, the aired episodes attracted a positive response. In particular the opening episode, featuring Eddie Marsan as Bob Dylan, was described in approving newspaper reviews as "charming and hilariou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', ''Northern Exposure'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure *Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Forsyth
Neil Forsyth (born 1978) is a Scottish author, television writer and journalist. Early life Forsyth grew up in Dundee, Scotland where he attended the High School of Dundee and his first writing appeared in a Dundee United fanzine. He graduated from Edinburgh University and held several jobs including as a nightclub promoter before working as a freelance journalist. He is also a graduate of the New York Film Academy. Books Forsyth's first book ''Other People's Money'' (2007) told the true story of the Scottish fraudster Elliot Castro. It received significant coverage and was well received though some newspapers questioned the book's moral purpose. "They thought it was wrong that we should profit from Elliot's crimes," Forsyth said, "But that's always something I protested against quite vigorously. Elliot was caught, and sentenced, and paid for his crimes." The film rights were purchased by the producers of ''The Last King of Scotland''. In 2014 it was reported the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Sax
Geoffrey Sax (sometimes credited as Geoff Sax) is a British film and television director, who has worked on a variety of drama productions in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Life and career He began his directing career in the late 1970s, initially working in comedy, directing episodes of a number of sketch shows such as '' Cannon and Ball'' and ''End of Part One''. He made the move into directing drama in the early 1980s, working on episodes of popular BBC dramas such as '' Bergerac'' and '' Lovejoy''. Later in the decade he worked on ITV programmes such as ''Spitting Image'' and ''The New Statesman''. In the early 1990s he worked for a time in America, directing television films and miniseries for various networks there. His most noted production during this time was the BBC / Universal Studios / Fox Network TV movie version of the popular science-fiction series '' Doctor Who'', screened in 1996 and starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. In 1998 Sax returned to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Franklin
Vincent Warren Franklin (born 3 November 1966) is an English actor from Haworth, Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He is best known for his roles in comedy television programmes. He has appeared in a number of feature films including the Mike Leigh films ''Topsy-Turvy'' (1999), ''Vera Drake'' (2004) and ''Mr Turner'' (2014), and the 2006 films ''Confetti'' and '' The Illusionist'', as well as '' The Bourne Identity'' (2002). In 2018, he played the role of Mike Travis in the BBC television series ''Bodyguard''. Early life Franklin was born in Haworth, and was raised there until the age of 9 when his family moved to Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. A couple of years later they moved back to the City of Bradford when Franklin was 11. Franklin was educated at Bradford Grammar School. Franklin studied from 1988 to 1990 at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Franklin has had roles in many TV series including '' Five Days'', ''Doc Martin'', '' Being Human'', '' G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fleet
James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor of theatre, radio and screen. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' and the dim-witted but kind hearted Hugo Horton in the BBC sitcom television series ''The Vicar of Dibley''. Early life Fleet was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, to a Scotland, Scottish mother, Christine, and an English father, Jim. He lived in Bilston until he was 10 but, when his father died, he moved to Aberdeenshire with his mother.James Fleet 'in his own words' http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2008/05/15/james_fleet_interview_feature.shtml He studied engineering at university in Aberdeen, where he joined the university dramatic society. Afterwards, he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Career Stage Fleet began his career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, appearing in several plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Demri-Burns
Dustin Demri-Burns (born 11 July 1978) is a British actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work in ''Cardinal Burns''. He appeared in films as the roles of Danny Sinclair in the 2013 film '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa'' (2013), Viktor in the 2018 action comedy film ''The Spy Who Dumped Me'' (2018) and Crazy Cedric in the 2019 comedy film '' Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'' (2019). In television, he appeared in shows as Julian in '' Stath Lets Flats'', Will_5000 in ''Sick Note'', Simon in ''GameFace'', Daniel in ''Turn Up Charlie'' and Voltaire in ''The Great''. Early life Demri-Burns was born in Lancaster, Lancashire on 11 July 1978. He attended Elliott School, Putney, Putney Heath, South West London (1989–96). He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with a degree in acting. Career Demri-Burns started his acting career when he played a minor character in the 2003 short film ''Nightswimming'' (2003). His film credits inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kubizek
August "Gustl" Friedrich Kubizek (3 August 1888 – 23 October 1956) was an Austrian musical conductor and writer best known for being a close friend of Adolf Hitler, when both were in their late teens. He later wrote about their friendship in his book ''The Young Hitler I Knew'' (1955). Early life August was born in Linz, Austria, the only surviving child to parents of Czech and Sudeten-German origin. He was baptized Catholic at the St. Matthias Church where his parents had married the previous year. His father Michael Kubíček (also born in Linz) was an upholsterer while his mother Maria Panholzer-Bláhová was born illegitimate in Rosee was 14. His sisters Maria, Therese and Karoline died in early childhood. Kubizek later wrote that this was a striking parallel between his own life and that of Adolf Hitler, whose mother had lost four children prematurely. As the surviving sons of grief-stricken mothers, Kubizek and Hitler could not help but feel they had been spared or "c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (; born 24 August 1988) is an English actor. Grint rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group. Since then, he continued his work on film, television, and theatre. Beginning in 2002, he began to work outside of the ''Harry Potter'' franchise, with a co-leading role in ''Thunderpants''. He has had starring roles in ''Driving Lessons'', a dramedy released in 2006, and '' Cherrybomb'', a limited-release drama film in 2010. He co-starred with Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt in the comedy ''Wild Target''. His first film project after the ''Harry Potter'' series was a supporting role in the 2012 anti-war film ''Into the White.'' In 2013, his film ''CBGB'' was released, and he was cast in CBS's new show ''Super Clyde''. He made his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's ''Mojo'' in October 2013 at the Harold Pinter Theatre i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the Chancellor of Germany, chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated European theatre of World War II, World War II in Europe by invasion of Poland, invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his Military career of Adolf Hitler, service in the German Army in Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwan Rheon
Iwan Rheon (, ; born 13 May 1985) is a Welsh actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Bellamy in the E4 series ''Misfits'', Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', and Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars in the film '' The Dirt''. He has also appeared in the series '' Vicious'', ''Riviera'', and ''Inhumans''. Early life Rheon was born in Carmarthen on 13 May 1985, the son of Einir and Rheon Tomos. When he was five years old, his family moved to Cardiff. His older brother, Aled, is a musician; the two performed together on the 2015 single "Rhodd". Rheon attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, a Welsh-speaking school, where he began acting in school drama productions at age 17. He was later spotted by a talent scout at a National Eisteddfod of Wales. Career Acting At age 17, Rheon joined the Welsh language soap ''Pobol Y Cwm'', in which he originated the role of Macsen White, but later left to train at the London Academy of Music and Dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Zeff
Dan Zeff is a BAFTA Award-winning United Kingdom, British TV director and writer currently living and working in the UK. He works across Drama (modern genre), drama and comedy television, comedy. Recent work includes the highly acclaimed ''Inside No. 9'' episodes "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge" and "Séance Time", the BBC3 comedy series ''Siblings (TV series), Siblings'' and ''The Ice Cream Girls'', an award-winning three-part psychological thriller for ITV (TV network), ITV. His drama credits include the critically acclaimed BBC4 film ''Hattie (film), Hattie'' (the highest rating show in BBC4's history ), ''Lost in Austen'' for ITV and the 2-part ''Case Histories (TV series), Case Histories'' – an adaptation of Kate Atkinson (writer), Kate Atkinson's ''When Will There Be Good News?'' starring Jason Isaacs, which won the Scottish Bafta for Best Television Drama in 2011. He also directed an episode of the 2006 series of ''Doctor Who'', entitled "Love & Monsters (Doctor Who), Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André The Giant
André René Roussimoff (; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormone. It also led to him being called "The Eighth Wonder of the World". Beginning his career in 1966, Roussimoff relocated to North America in 1971. From 1973 to the mid-1980s, Roussimoff was booked by World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) promoter Vincent J. McMahon as a roving "special attraction" who wrestled for promotions throughout the United States, as well as in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. During the 1980s wrestling boom, Roussimoff became a mainstay of the WWWF (by then renamed the World Wrestling Federation), being paired with the villainous manager Bobby Heenan and feuding with Hulk Hogan. The two headlined WrestleMania III in 1987, and in 1988, he defeated Hogan to win the WWF Championship, his sole wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
