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Walter (TV Movie)
''Walter'' is a British television drama directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Tony Melody, David Ryall, Keith Allen, Paula Tilbrook, and Jim Broadbent. It was first broadcast on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982. Based on a 1978 novel of the same name by David Cook, it was the first ever Film on Four. Plot The film was directed by Stephen Frears and stars Ian McKellen as Walter, a man with a learning difficulties. The story focuses initially on his youth in which his parents attempt, with little success, to have him adapt into the conditions of a "normal" life. Walter's father dies, followed soon after by his mother. The social services bureaucracy then place him in a psychiatric institution. Walter is molested by another patient, witnesses the murder of a patient by another patient having a breakdown and remains in the institution for the rest of the film. Cast * Ian McKellen as Walter * Barbara Jefford as Sarah, Walter's mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (writer)
David Kenneth Cook (21 September 1940 – 16 September 2015) was a British author, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel ''Walter (TV movie), Walter'', and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme ''Rainbow (TV series), Rainbow''. He was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, from 1959 to 1961. His first role was in the 1962 film adaptation of ''A Kind of Loving (film), A Kind of Loving''. Thereafter, he worked on both stage and television. He began to write novels and also for television in the early 1970s. He presented the first and second series of ''Rainbow'', the first episode of which aired in October 1972. He left the show to concentrate on his writing before the third series in 1973, and was replaced as presenter by Geoffrey Hayes. Cook went on to write ''Walter'', a novel about a young man with learning disabilities, that won the Hawthornden Prize in 1978. In 1982, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film On Four
Film4 is a British free-to-air television network owned by Channel Four Television Corporation launched on 1 November 1998, devoted to broadcasting films. While its standard-definition channel is available on Freeview and Freesat platforms, its high-definition variant is offered only as a pay television service. The channel offered an online video on demand service, Film4oD until it was closed in July 2015. History The network has its origins in Channel Four Films, a production company opened by Channel Four Television Corporation in 1982 which has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom and around the world. The company's first production was Stephen Frears' ''Walter'', which was released in the same year. On 1 November 1998, the production company was re-branded as FilmFour to coincide with the launch of a new digital television channel of the same name on both Sky and ONdigital platforms, becoming Channel 4's second network. At its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Hooper (actor)
Sir Robin William John Hooper (26 July 1914 – 14 June 1989) was an English Royal Air Force pilot and diplomat. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and later became the British Ambassador to Greece. Hooper was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he became a member of the Oxford University Air Squadron. On the night of 16/17 November 1943, Flight Lieutenant Hooper, took off in Westland Lysander 'MA-D' (''"D" for "Dog"'') from RAF Tangmere, with Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents in the rear cockpit, for a field in France. The outward flight was uneventful, but upon landing in a field he soon realised that the ground was extremely soft, requiring a lot of throttle to keep the aircraft moving. In making the turn to return to meet the 'reception committee' of local maquis, the Lysander became stuck. The aircraft was immovable and even with maximum throttle the aircraft became bogged down in the mud. After attempts to manually push the Lysander out fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Laird
Trevor Laird is an English actor. Biography Born in Islington, London. Laird trained at the Anna Scher Theatre. Early roles included a 1976 role in a TV adaptation of the Peter Prince novel ''Playthings'', directed by Stephen Frears, and several ''Play For Today''s: ''Victims of Apartheid'' by Tom Clarke (1978), Barrie Keeffe's ''Waterloo Sunset'' (1979) and ''The Vanishing Army'' by Robert Holles (1980). Laird was a founder member of the Black Theatre Co-operative (now NitroBeat) in 1978 and performed in its inaugural play ''Welcome Home Jacko'' by Mustapha Matura the following year. He then had breakthrough roles in the 1979 film ''Quadrophenia'' - as Ferdy, a drug supplier for the main character Jimmy - and in Franco Rosso's 1980 cult classic ''Babylon'' as Beefy.Miguel Cullen"30 years on: Franco Rosso on why Babylon's burning" ''The Independent'', 11 November 2010. He played the boy under the car in ''The Long Good Friday'' (1980) and appeared in Menelik Shabazz's blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Surman (actor)
John Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for dance performances and film soundtracks. Life and career Surman was born in Tavistock, Devon, England. He initially gained recognition playing baritone saxophone in the Mike Westbrook Band in the mid-1960s, and was soon heard regularly playing soprano saxophone and bass clarinet as well. His first playing issued on a record was with the Peter Lemer Quintet in 1966. After further recordings and performances with jazz bandleaders Mike Westbrook and Graham Collier and blues-rock musician Alexis Korner, he made the first record under his own name in 1968. In 1969, he founded The Trio along with two expatriate American musicians, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Martin. In the mid-1970s, he founded one of the earliest all-saxophone jazz groups, S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lol Coxhill
George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano and sopranino saxophone. Biography Coxhill was born to George Compton Coxhill and Mabel Margaret Coxhill (née Motton) at Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. He grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and bought his first saxophone in 1947. After national service he became a busy semi-professional musician, touring US airbases with Denzil Bailey's Afro-Cubists and the Graham Fleming Combo. In the 1960s he played with visiting American blues, soul and jazz musicians including Rufus Thomas, Mose Allison, Otis Spann, and Champion Jack Dupree. He also developed his practice of playing unaccompanied solo saxophone, often busking in informal performance situations. Other than his solo playing, he performed mostly as a sideman or as an equal collaborator, rather than a conventional leader – there was no regular Lol Coxhill Trio or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Flag (actor)
''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', also known as ''1984'', is a 1984 British dystopian dark drama film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level. The film, which was Burton's last screen appearance, is dedicated to him. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Art Direction, and won two Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Film and Best Actor. Plot In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Shaban
Nabil Shaban (born 12 February 1953) is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded Graeae—a theatre group which promotes disabled performers. He's best known as the recurring villain Sil in '' Doctor Who''. Early years and career Shaban was born in Amman, Jordan, with brittle bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta. He was sent to England for medical care, where he grew up in a series of hospitals and residential homes. He studied at the University of Surrey in the late 1970s and contributed to the Students' Union newspaper "Bare Facts". In 1997, Shaban was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university for services in the promotion of Disability Arts. One of his most memorable television roles was that of the reptilian alien Sil in the BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Shaban played Sil in two serials: ''Vengeance on Varos'' (1985) and ''Mindwarp'' (1986), and created Sil's laugh. He reprised the role in the Big Finish audio dramas '' Missio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McKillop
Donald Harley McKillop (15 February 1928 – 19 December 2005) was an English actor who trained at RADA. Notable roles include Bert the Landlord in the '' Doctor Who'' fifth and final serial of the eighth season, ''The Dæmons'' in 1971, Jack in ''The Likely Lads'', Bill in '' Rosie'' and as Sgt. McKechnie in the first series of the Scottish TV production '' Sutherland's Law'', opposite Maev Alexander. He appeared in five episodes of ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' between 1964 and 1970. He also appeared in notable films such as ''The Breaking of Bumbo'' (1970), '' An American Werewolf in London'' (1981) and '' Walter'' (1982). During the 1970s, between acting work, McKillop worked as a metalwork teacher at the Roger Manwood School in South-East London. Filmography References External links * Don McKillop at Theatricalia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Ireland
George Ian Kenneth "Kenny" Ireland (7 August 1945 – 31 July 2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in '' Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV'' in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in ''Benidorm'' from 2007 until his death in 2014. Career Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Ireland was prominent in Scottish theatre and spent ten years as director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. When he left the post in 2003 he controversially attacked the Scottish arts establishment for providing "theatre on the cheap" and the Scottish Executive for putting plans for a National Theatre of Scotland on "the back burner". The National Theatre of Scotland was finally launched in 2006. He also appeared in an episode of ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' as journalist Sid Payne. In some early TV appearances (e.g. the BBC's "''Five Red Herrings''") he was credited as "Ian Ireland". Ireland's directing credits include ''Guys & Dolls, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Yeats
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin ''Margarita'' (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj and Jorie. People *Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce *Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman * Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist * Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor *Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), British actress and BBC radio broadcaster *Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer * Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist *Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987), Australian write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Claire O'Neill
Lesley is a placename, given name and surname, a variant of Leslie that can be male or female name and is ultimately an anglicization of a Scottish (Gaelic) placename. Places * Fort Lesley J. McNair, American army facility * Lesley University, American academic institution People Given name * Lesley Baker (b. 1944), Australian actress * Lesley Bamberger (born 1965/1966), Dutch billionaire, owner of Kroonenberg Groep * Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), British writer and editor * Lesley M. M. Blume, American author * Lesley Turner Bowrey (b. 1942), Australian tennis player * Lesley-Ann Brandt (b. 1981), South African-born actress * Lesley Choyce (b. 1951), American-born writer based in Canada * Lesley Douglas (b. 1963), British radio executive * Lesley-Anne Down (b. 1954), British actress * Lesley Ann Downey (1954–1964), British murder victim * Lesley Duncan (1943–2010), British singer-songwriter * Lesley Dunlop (b. 1956), British actress * Lesley Elliott (other), multiple p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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