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Scrubbers
''Scrubbers'' is a 1982 British drama film directed by Mai Zetterling and produced by Don Boyd starring Amanda York, Kathy Burke, and Chrissie Cotterill. It was shot primarily in Virginia Water, Surrey, England Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes .... It was inspired by the success of the 1979 film '' Scum''. A novel based on the film, and also entitled ''Scrubbers'', was written by Alexis Lykiard and published in London by W. H. Allen & Co. in 1982. Alexis Lykiard website. Plot Two girls escape from an open borstal. An ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kathy Burke
Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress and comedian. She appeared in sketch shows such as '' French and Saunders'' (1988–1999), played a recurring role as Magda on the BBC sitcom '' Absolutely Fabulous'' (1992–2012), and performed frequent collaborations with fellow comedian Harry Enfield. From 1999 to 2001, she starred as Linda La Hughes on the BBC sitcom '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'', for which she received a British Comedy Award and two BAFTA nominations. Burke made her film debut in the 1982 drama '' Scrubbers''. For her portrayal of Valerie in the 1997 film '' Nil by Mouth'', she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her other film appearances include ''Sid and Nancy'' (1986), ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' (1998), '' Elizabeth'' (1998), ''This Year's Love'' (1999), '' Kevin & Perry Go Large'' (2000), '' The Martins'' (2001), '' Anita and Me'' (2002) and '' Once Upon a Time in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alexis Lykiard
Alexis Lykiard (born 1940) is a British writer of Greek heritage, who began his prolific career as novelist and poet in the 1960s. His poems about jazz have received particular acclaim, including from Maya Angelou, Hugo Williams, Roy Fisher, Kevin Bailey and others. Lykiard is also known as translator of Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud and many notable French literary figures. In addition, Lykiard has written two highly praised intimate memoirs of Jean Rhys: ''Jean Rhys Revisited'' (2000) and ''Jean Rhys: Afterwords'' (2006). According to David Woolley of ''Poetry Wales'': As poet, novelist and translator, Alexis Lykiard has won many admirers over the years, but the early novels apart, his work has not received the popular attention it deserves. He has created a body of work that is erudite and witty but never obscure ... Lykiard's language is vivid, breathtaking in its sheer physicality, while still suggesting more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Roy Minton
Roy Minton (28 August 1933 – 17 August 2024) was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for ''Scum (film), Scum'' and his other work with Alan Clarke. He is notable for having written over 30 one-off scripts for London Weekend Television, Rediffusion, BBC, Associated TeleVision, ATV, Granada Television, Granada, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television, including ''Sling Your Hook'', Horace (television play), ''Horace'', Funny Farm (play), ''Funny Farm'', Scum (television play), ''Scum'', ''Goodnight Albert'', and ''The Hunting of Lionel Crane''. Minton translated and performed several of his plays overseas and at festivals in the UK, including a reading of his play for ''Scum'' at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London; and ''Gradual Decline'' at the Riverside Studios London. Minton also wrote the screenplay for ''Scrubbers'', a film from which he disassociated himself. He felt the original screenplay had been "savaged" during his absence overseas, and described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robbie Coltrane
Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March 195014 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor. He gained worldwide recognition in the 2000s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the ''Harry Potter'' film series. He was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In 1990, Coltrane received the Evening Standard British Film Award Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In 2011, he was honoured for his " outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards. Coltrane started his career appearing alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series '' Alfresco''. In 1987, he starred in the BBC miniseries '' Tutti Frutti'' with Thompson, for which he received his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination. Coltrane then gained national prominence starring as criminal psychologist Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series '' Cracker'', a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brian Croucher
Brian Croucher is an English actor and director best known for his role as Ted Hills, which he played from 1995 to 1997, in the soap opera ''EastEnders''. Croucher also had a regular role in the science fiction series ''Blake's 7''. Career Croucher has appeared in a number of science fiction programmes, including being the second actor to portray Travis in ''Blake's 7''. He played Borg in the ''Doctor Who'' story '' The Robots of Death''. He also appeared in the ''Doctor Who'' spin-off '' Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans''. Earlier, in 1973, he played a key protagonist in the children's adventure series '' The Jensen Code''. In 1978, Croucher played a major role opposite Tom Bell in the Thames Television/Euston Films thriller series ''Out''. He also played the role of Rooky in the Southern Television series '' The Famous Five'', in the double episode "Five Get into Trouble". One of Croucher's earliest film roles was in the Carol Reed film musical of Lionel Bart's ''Olive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mai Zetterling
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actress. Early life Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the Swedish national theatre, appearing in war-era films. Career Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough as an actress came in the 1944 film '' Torment'' written for her by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards, she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's '' Frieda'' (1947), playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden, in which she worked with Bergman again in his film '' Music in Darkness'' (1948), she returned to Britain and starred in a number of UK films. Some of her notable films as an actress i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Don Boyd
Donald William Robertson Boyd (born 11 August 1948) is a Scottish film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was a Governor of the London Film School until 2016 and in 2017 was made an Honorary Professor in the College of Humanities at Exeter University. Biography Boyd was brought up by his Scottish father and Russian mother in Hong Kong, Uganda and Kenya and educated at the noted Scottish public school Loretto School in Musselburgh, East Lothian. After leaving school in 1965 he trained as an accountant in Edinburgh before enrolling in the London Film School in 1968. He graduated in 1970 and began his career working for the BBC television series '' Tomorrow's World''. After two years directing commercials for the likes of Coca-Cola, Shell and Chrysler, he directed his first feature film, '' Intimate Reflections'', which premiered at the London Film Festival in 1975. This was followed by '' East of Elephant Rock'' starring John Hurt, which also premiered at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ken Shorter
Kenneth Shorter (1945 – November 2024) was an Australian actor. Shorter's career spanned theatre, television and film, but he was best known for starring opposite Mick Jagger in a film adaptation of ''Ned Kelly'' (1970), as the title character in the cult biker film ''Stone'' (1974) and in American fantasy film ''Dragonslayer'' (1981). Early life Shorter was born in 1945, and worked as a police officer and truck driver before becoming an actor. Career In 1967, he commenced playing the character of Frankie McCoy on the Seven Network series '' You Can't See 'Round Corners''. He later reprised the role for the 1969 theatrical film adaption. It was announced in 1969 that Shorter had been cast as Aaron Sherritt in the film ''Ned Kelly'', in which he starred alongside Mick Jagger. In the early 1970s, Shorter was a member of Sydney's Old Tote Theatre Company and appeared in several of the company's productions including '' Lasseter'', ''The Man of Mode'', ''The Government Insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes ( ; born 18 May 1941) is a British and Australian actress. Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Mingott in Martin Scorsese's '' The Age of Innocence'' (1993), and achieved international prominence with her portrayal of Professor Sprout in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2001–2011). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama. After starting her career in theatre, Margolyes made the transition to film with a small part in the British comedy '' A Nice Girl Like Me'' (1969). Subsequent credits include '' Yentl'' (1983), '' Little Shop of Horrors'' (1986), '' Little Dorrit'' (1988), '' I Love You to Death'' (1990), '' Immortal Beloved'' (1994), '' Balto'' (1995), '' Different for Girls'', '' Romeo + Juliet'' (both 1996), '' Magnolia'', '' End of Days'' (both 1999), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pam St Clement
Pamela Ann Clements (born 11 May 1942), known professionally as Pam St Clement, is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Pat Butcher in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 12 June 1986 until 1 January 2012, with a guest appearance in May 2016, thereby becoming one of the programme's longest-serving cast members. Early life St Clement's parents, Ann Tribe and Reginald Clements, married in 1940. Shortly after St Clement's birth in 1942, her mother died of tuberculosis, and she was put into foster care when her father remarried. St Clement subsequently grew up in various foster homes until she was taken in by a family who owned a farm in Devon. She has commented: "I was very fortunate in the end. I was always being farmed off to holiday homes, then when I was just pre-teens I went down to Devon to some people who were very good at taking on youngsters, and what originated as a business arrangement became my home." St Clement's father rose to become the mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing – which encompasses short stories, novels and essays – are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the ''Guardian'' Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said of Melville: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years.""Pauline Melville" – Literature. . Background and early career Melville was born in the former colony of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dana Gillespie
Richenda Antoinette de Winterstein Gillespie (born 30 March 1949), known professionally as Dana Gillespie, is an English actress, singer and songwriter. Originally performing and recording in her teens, over the years Gillespie has been involved in the recording of over 70 albums, and appeared in stage productions, such as ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', and several films. Her musical output has progressed from teen pop and folk in the early part of her career, to rock in the 1970s and, more recently, the blues. Early life Gillespie was born in Woking, Surrey, the second daughter of Anne Francis Roden (; 1920–2007) and Hans Henry Winterstein Gillespie (1910–1994), a London-based radiologist of Austrian nobility. Her older sister, Nicola Henrietta St. John Gillespie, was born in 1946. Dana Gillespie was the British Junior Water Skiing Champion in 1962. Career Gillespie began a personal and professional relationship with the singer David Bowie in 1964 when he was 17 and she was 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
