Derek Godfrey
Nacimiento : 1924-06-03, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1983-06-18
Historia
Derek Godfrey (3 June 1924 – 18 June 1983) was an English actor, associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, who also appeared in several films and BBC television dramatisations during the 1960s and 1970s.
Born in London, he performed with the Old Vic from 1956 where he played the roles of Iachimo and Enobarbus. With the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960, he performed as Orsino, Hector, Petruchio and Malvolio. According to The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Godfrey "[w]ith his fine voice and often sardonic appearance...was a loyal company actor who revealed an intuitive grasp of the dark characters in Jacobean plays".
He created the role of Jack Gurney in Peter Barnes's play The Ruling Class. He also appeared in a number of films such as Hands of the Ripper and The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and the BBC television dramas The Pallisers (as Robert Kennedy), Warship (as Captain Edward Holt) and Nicholas Nickleby (1977, as Ralph Nickleby).
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Antonio
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
Mr. Praed
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.
Dysart
Londres, finales del siglo XIX. La hija de Jack el Destripador continúa la estela de su padre. Cuando se da cuenta de que la influencia de su padre la está llevando a cometer una serie de salvajes crímenes, busca la ayuda de un psiquiatra.
Crow
Después de que un equipo de cirujanos acabaran con la vida de su esposa durante una chapucera intervención quirúrgica, el Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price), un diabólico personaje, asesina a varios médicos con métodos horribles, todos ellos sacados de antiguas escrituras. El detective de Scotland Yard, Troute (Peter Jeffrey), está tras su pista con la ayuda del doctor Vesalius (Joseph Cotten), el jefe del equipo médico del que formaban parte los asesinados, y a los que Phibes responsabiliza de la muerte de su mujer.
Gregers Werle
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
Mr Parker
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.
Parker
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.
Theseus
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Men-Hari
Extrañas voces atormentan a la joven y hermosa Carol. Una fuerza misteriosa la empuja a emprender un viaje, durante el cual conoce al doctor Philip Smith, que decide acompañarla a un destino que ni ella misma conoce. Juntos llegan finalmente a la ciudad perdida de Kuma, donde Carol es recibida como la reencarnación de la reina Ayesha, amante del rey Killikrates (John Richardson). Philip es encarcelado y conoce a Za-Tor, quien le cuenta el ambicioso plan del sumo sacerdote para obtener el secreto de la inmortalidad devolviendo a Ayesha al rey Killikrates. ¿Podrá Philip escapar a tiempo para revelar la verdad y salvar a Carol de la destrucción?
Law
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name.
Hernandez
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Guard
En el Londres de 1537, dos niños semejantes entre intercambian los "papeles" por un corto tiempo. Uno de ellos es el Principe Eduardo y otro un mendigo. Después de muchas aventuras, el príncipe recupere la identidad que le corresponde y hace que su "gemelo" se venga a vivir con el a la corte El príncipe y el mendigo (1962 film), es un capitulo de El Maravilloso Mundo de Walt Disney.. Estuvo protagonizada por Guy Williams como Miles Hendon, y Scully Sean en doble función, como el príncipe Edward / Tom Canty.
