David Weston

David Weston

Nacimiento : 1937-08-28, London, United Kingdom

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Weston (born 28 July 1938, London) is an English actor, director and author. Since graduating from RADA in 1961 (having won the Silver Medal for that year) he has acted in numerous film, television and stage productions, including twenty-seven plays in Shakespeare's canon. With Michael Croft he was a founder member of the National Youth Theatre. Much of his directing work has been for that organization; he has directed also at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and a number of other theatres in London. He wrote and narrated a series of non-fiction audio books, including Shakespeare His Life and Work which won the 2001 Benjamin Franklin Award for best audio non-fiction book. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Weston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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David Weston

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King Lear
Duke of Burgundy
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Biroc
The Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter the enslaved time-sensitive Tharils, who lead them to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship - a dimension that might be the key to escaping E-Space.
Nobody Ordered Love
Jacques Legrand
During the shooting of a First World War film entitled The Somme a tragic series of events unfolds for the cast and crew. The film was withdrawn from distribution shortly after it's release and is considered to be lost and may have been destroyed after the director died.
El Barón Rojo
Murphy
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Muestra la rivalidad en los combates aéreos entre dos prestigiosos pilotos enemigos: el barón alemán Von Richthofen y el inglés Brown. Basada en hechos reales.
En busca del amor
Johnny Prescott
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Nicholas Muss
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
Los héroes de Telemark
Arne
II Guerra Mundial. En 1942, en la Noruega ocupada por los nazis, los aliados encuentran un documento que es la prueba irrefutable de que los alemanes están avanzando en la búsqueda de la fisión atómica. Con la ayuda de partisanos noruegos, un comando británico intenta sabotear las instalaciones alemanas dedicadas a la fabricación de la bomba atómica.
The Beauty Jungle
Harry
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
La máscara de la muerte roja
Gino
Edad Media, siglo XII. Inspirada en el relato homónimo de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Mientras una plaga devastadora -conocida como la Muerte Roja- diezma la población de una pequeña provincia italiana, el sádico y excéntrico príncipe Próspero se encierra con sus amigos en una de sus propiedades fortificadas para evitar el contagio. Para evadirse de la tragedia, decide organizar una fiesta de máscaras, en la que somete a los invitados a todo tipo de juegos depravados, de los que sólo podrán salir indemnes dos inocentes.
Becket
Brother John
Inglaterra, siglo XII. Drama histórico en el que se narran los enfrentamientos entre Enrique II Plantagenet, rey de Inglaterra, y Thomas Becket, que llegó a ser canciller y después arzobispo de Canterbury (desde 1162). Las desavenencias entre ambos comienzan cuando en 1164 (Constitución de Clarendon) el rey lleva a cabo una reforma del sistema judicial que reduce substancialmente las prerrogativas de la Iglesia.
Brujería
Todd Lanier
Una familia de brujos del siglo XVII, fueron aniquilados en aquella época por cazadores de brujas, pero juraron volver para vengarse. 300 años después, en la era moderna, aprovechan una situación propicia para regresar de la tumba y utilizarán su poder para vengarse de los descendientes de sus verdugos.
Doctor in Distress
Dr Stewart
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
El extraño caso del doctor Longman
Student at Party (uncredited)
Filme cuya trama combina espionaje y ciencia ficción, sobre los experimentos en el campo mental que realiza un científico, los cuales terminan por despojarlo de toda sensación. Esto lo vuelve un sádico, permaneciendo incurable, ante los intentos de todos sus colegas. (FILMAFFINITY)
That Kind of Girl
Keith Murray
That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.