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Malcolm Richard Needs (19 December 1957, Edmonton, North London) is an English writer and filmmaker.
He is the owner of TheMovieWorks and is an avid
Tottenham Hotspur
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supporter.
Early life
Malcolm Needs was born on 19 December 1957, the fourth of five children to parents John and Gwen Needs. He attended Fleecefield Primary school in Edmonton and later Chace Boys in Enfield. He became the assistant golf professional at Whitewebbs Golf course, Enfield and later became the teaching professional after qualifying at the
Professional Golfers Association school at the National Sports Centre, Lilleshall.
Career
Radio
He started writing comedy in the late eighties and soon became a commissioned writer for
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radio. Writing gags and sketches for ''
The News Huddlines
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Performers
T ...
'' starring
Roy Hudd,
June Whitfield
Dame June Rosemary Whitfield (11 November 1925 – 29 December 2018) was an English radio, television, and film actress.
Her big break was a lead in the radio comedy '' Take It from Here'', which aired on the BBC Light Programme in 1953. ...
, and Chris Emmet.
Theatre
His first play ''Strip Poker'', starring Barbara Drennan,
Ione Skye, and
Gary Hailes
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Hales attended Holloway School.[ The Old ...]
was performed at the Fox Theatre in North London. The play moved to the
Jermyn Street Theatre
Jermyn Street Theatre is a performance venue situated on Jermyn Street, in London's West End. It is an off-west end studio theatre.
History
Jermyn Street Theatre opened in August 1994. It was formerly the changing rooms for staff at a Spaghetti ...
, Piccadilly. Needs directed the play and the cast changed to include
Sue Hodge
Sue Hodge (born 4 June 1957 in Orsett, Essex) is an English actress, best known for her role as the waitress Mimi Labonq in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!''. Trained as a dancer and theatre performer at Bird College, she has performed extensiv ...
,
Carol Harrison, and
Peter Dean. His second play ''Pin Money'', starred and directed by
June Brown
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. Other plays of his are ''On Holiday'' and ''Manhattan Weekend''.
Films
He is the screenwriter of ''
London Rocks'', a heist movie currently in development in
Los Angeles
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with producers Mark Ordesky and Jane Fleming, and co-writer with Rich Nathanson, of ''
SafeWord
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'', a psychological thriller. He also wrote ''
The Last Cemetery in Berlin'', a feature film for producer
Jonathan Sanger
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Early life and career
Sanger spent much of his early childhood traveling with his family around Central and South Am ...
and co-wrote with
Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt (; born 5 May 1957) is a British actor and film director.
Biography
Early life
Howitt was born on 5 May 1957, the son of Frank Howitt, a renowned Fleet Street journalist who, in 1963, broke the infamous Profumo Scandal by get ...
, ''
The Persuaders'', a feature film based on the 1970s hit TV series that starred
Tony Curtis
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and
Roger Moore. He was the creative consultant on ''Dangerous Parking'' a feature film starring,
Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt (; born 5 May 1957) is a British actor and film director.
Biography
Early life
Howitt was born on 5 May 1957, the son of Frank Howitt, a renowned Fleet Street journalist who, in 1963, broke the infamous Profumo Scandal by get ...
,
Saffron Burrows
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,
Tom Conti
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,
Alice Evans
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Early life
Evans was born in Summit, New Jersey, to British parents, mathematician David Evans and teacher Janet Evans. She was raised in Bristol, and attended Henbury sch ...
,
Rachael Stirling
Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 30 May 1977).. is an English stage, film and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for her stage work. She played Nancy Astley in the BBC drama '' Tipping the Velvet'', an ...
, and
Sean Pertwee
Sean Carl Roland Pertwee''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' (born 4 June 1964) is an English actor, narrator and producer with an extensive career since the 1980s in television and cinema productions.
He is known ...
. As creative consultant, he sat in the director's chair for the scenes that included Howitt as an actor. The movie won for Best Director at the
Tokyo Film Festival
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. In 2003, he wrote and directed ''Charlie'', a feature film based on real life London criminal
Charlie Richardson
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. Starring
Luke Goss
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,
Steven Berkoff,
Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949) is an English stage, film and television actress, and singer. She is best known for her role from 1985 to 1988 as Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. In 1986, she reached number four in the UK Si ...
, and
Leslie Grantham. The movie received a ''
Variety
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* Variety show, in theater and television
Films
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'' Critics' Choice award at the
Karlovy Vary film festival, the first British Film considered for the award for six years. His first film ''Shoreditch'' starred
Joely Richardson
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and
Shane Richie
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. Panned by the critics the movie lasted only two weeks in theatres. But more intriguing were the behind the scenes arguments between Needs and the producers, with Needs refusing to attend the opening night in Leicester square. In 2007 he was listed as one of twenty-two directors "unjustly under the critical and popular radar" by ''Variety''.
He is currently represented by Stephen Marks of
Evolution Entertainment
Evolution Entertainment is an American independent entertainment management and film production company. The company was founded in 1998 by Mark Burg and Oren Koules and is best known for executive producing the ''Saw'' film series.
History
Gr ...
in LA.
Campaign and others
He created "Wrap up Warm". A campaign DVD for
Sir Paul McCartney
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and
Heather Mills that used previously shot undercover footage highlighting the trade in cat and dog fur around the world. The DVD won an IVCA Clarion Award
and was shown to politicians at the
European Parliament
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, Strasbourg and representatives of the Chinese Government. The images were so powerful they helped the campaign convince China to change their trading policies on the use of cat and dog fur. He also directed for McCartney's Adopt-A-Mine campaign. He also created the DVD that accompanied "My Brilliant Feat". It is a single (a charity tribute to the late footballer
George Best
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) by
Colin Hay
Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay's music ha ...
, former lead vocalist of the Australian band
Men at Work
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. The song was number one in the iTunes albums download chart for Christmas 2021. He co-directed the viral comedy "Brilliant," for Comedy Ink Productions. He also wrote the question for the English version of the popular board game Apples-to-Apples
Awards
*Variety Critics Choice Award – "Charlie"
*IVCA Clarion Awards – "Wrap up Warm"
References
External links
*
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1957 births
Living people
British writers
People educated at Chace Community School
People from Edmonton, London