John Normington

John Normington

Nacimiento : 1937-01-28, Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, UK

Muerte : 2007-07-26

Perfil

John Normington

Películas

Expiación, más allá de la pasión
Vicar
En el verano de 1935, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), una precoz escritora de 13 años, cambia irremediablemente el curso de varias vidas cuando acusa al amante de su hermana Cecilia (Keira Knightley), el joven Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), de haber cometido un crimen. Los productores y el realizador de "Orgullo y prejuicio" vuelven a unirse en este drama.
Longitude
Mr. Greene
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Wilt
Treadaway
Comedia que adapta la popular novela de Tom Sharpe. Henry Wilt (Griff Rhys Jones) es un tímido profesor de un conflictivo instituto de formación profesional a punto de ser adquirido por los japoneses. En una obra de construcción de al lado del centro escolar, aparece un cuerpo del que se sospecha que es la mujer del propio Wilt, quien se convertirá en el principal inculpado del asesinato.
Work Experience
Senior Floor Manager
Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Trevor Sigma
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Terra Alpha, where the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover a society in which sadness is against the law - a law enforced zealously by the brightly uniformed Happiness Patrol. The planet is ruled by Helen A with the aid of her companion, Joseph C, and her carnivorous pet Stigorax, Fifi.
Mary Rose
Mr Moreland
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
El engaño (TV)
Stephanie y Sabrina son hermanas gemelas. Mientras que Stephanie es un ama de casa insatisfecha, Sabrina pertenece a la alta sociedad londinense. Después de reunirse en Venecia para celebrar su cumpleaños, cada una de ellas decide vivir la vida de la otra. Así es como Sabrina se convierte en madre y esposa. Stephanie, por su parte, se siente un poco insegura en su relación con un atractivo estudiante.
Hitler S.S.: El Retrato del Mal
Heinrich Himmler
Dos hermanos descubren lo más oscuro del nazismo tras alistarse en la SS y las SA. (FILMAFFINITY)
Función privada
Lockwood
En 1947, dos años despues del fin de la II Guerra Mundial, el pueblo británico se ve obligado a pasar penurias, pues escasean toda clase de provisiones. Así, los alimentos están sujetos a un estricto racionamiento y a rigurosos controles llevados a cabo por los inspectores del Ministerio de Alimentación. Sin embargo, un acontecimiento mantiene al pueblo alegre y expectante: el matrimonio entre la princesa Elizabeth y el teniente Philip Mountbatten. En todas partes se quiere celebrar la boda, y en un pequeño pueblo del Yorkshire se hacen planes para cebar un cerdo de contrabando, que será el plato principal del banquete. Sacrificarlo a espaldas del inspector, escondiendo las pruebas y acallando los rumores, será el principal objetivo de Gilbert Chilvers y su esposa Joyce.
Sakharov
OVIR Clerk
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Morgus
Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...
The Oresteia
Cassandra
Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play. Directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, this is an all-male performance with masks.
El club de los monstruos
Narrator
Un vampiro muerde a un escritor para saciar su sed de sangre. Una vez repuesto, le ofrecerá asistir a una discoteca regentada por monstruos, donde le relatará tres historias.
C2H5OH
Dr Simpson
Play on the problems of alcoholism.
Coming Out
Letter Writer
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
Afternoon Off
Duggie
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
School Play
Michael Bland
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
39 escalones
Fletcher
Es el año 1914 y Richard Hannay, ingeniero de minas que está visitando Gran Bretaña por un corto tiempo antes de regresar a Sudáfrica, se sorprende cuando uno de sus vecinos, el coronel Scudder, irrumpe en sus habitaciones una noche y le cuenta una historia de que el durmiente de Prusia Los agentes planean pre-comenzar la Primera Guerra Mundial asesinando a un ministro de Asuntos Exteriores visitante. Sin embargo, Scudder es asesinado y Hannay es incriminada por los "durmientes". Huyendo a Escocia, Hannay intenta limpiar su nombre y detener a los agentes con la ayuda de Alex Mackenzie, pero no solo es perseguido por el Jefe Supt Lomas por la muerte de Scudder, sino también por los agentes encabezados por Appleton que ha logrado esconderse un puesto de alta posición en el gobierno británico ...
Alarma, catástrofe
Mr. Copley
El famoso escritor inglés John Morlar, un hombre que vive atormentado debido a una revelación, según la cual él es el culpable de todos los males del mundo, muere brutalmente asesinado. Cuando la policía llega a su apartamento, la mente de Morlar, sin embargo, parece seguir viva. La investigación del caso parece indicar que todo el que hiere a Morlar muere de forma extraña. Morlar posee poderes telequinésicos que le permiten matar o provocar terribles catástrofes. Su psiquiatra tratará de ayudar la policía a resolver este enigmático caso.
Amazing Stories
Eddie
Weird tale of a sci fi convention and a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.
Rollerball
Executive
En el año 2018, el mundo se encuentra agrupado en seis corporaciones: Energia, Alimentación, Lujo, Vivienda, Comunicación y Transporte. La tranquilidad social es absoluta, pero la gente carece de libertad. Se desahogan con el Rollerball, un violento juego donde los jugadores corren peligro de muerte.
Stardust
Harrap
Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour.
A Day Out
Arthur Ackroyd
Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
Horatio Bottomley
Julius Elias
Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.
The Reckoning
Benham
Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police
Inadmissible Evidence
Maples
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
The Wars of the Roses
Duke of Bedford
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.