Ronald Pickup
Nacimiento : 1940-06-07, Chester, England, UK
Muerte : 2021-02-25
Historia
Pickup was born in Chester, England, the son of Daisy (née Williams) and Eric Pickup, who was a lecturer.[1] Pickup was educated at The King's School, Chester, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, and became an Associate Member of RADA.
His television work began with an episode during the second series of Doctor Who in 1964, for which he was paid £30. Pickup worked with Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre, most notably in Three Sisters and Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1973, he starred in the BBC drama series The Dragon's Opponent, playing a World War II bomb disposal expert and also appeared in The Day of the Jackal. He played Lt. Harford in Zulu Dawn in 1979, portrayed Igor Stravinsky in Nijinsky in 1980, Prince John in Ivanhoe in 1982, and in 1983 he appeared opposite Penelope Keith in Moving, in 1988 in the BBC miniseries The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988 TV Serial) as the voice of Aslan, and in 1990 he starred in the short lived sit-com, Not with a Bang. More modern roles have included parts in Hornblower, Hustle, Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, The Bill, Silent Witness, Sherlock Holmes, and Inspector Morse. He is also a regular character in the BBC sitcom The Worst Week of My Life. His most recent appearance was in Holby City as Lord Charles Byrne.
Pickup gave a highly acclaimed performance as a decayed Russian aristocrat in the BBC series Fortunes of War, based on a work by Olivia Manning. He also provided the voice for Aslan in the BBC's adaptation of the Chronicles of Narnia and starred opposite Judi Dench in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly.
He is also an accomplished stage actor. He was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 1997 for his performance in Amy's View.
Pickup had the starring role as composer Giuseppe Verdi in the acclaimed The Life of Verdi, written and directed by Renato Castellani. In 2005, he had a supporting role in the family-based film, The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby.
Between March and August 2009, he starred as Lucky in Sean Mathias' production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett opposite Sir Ian McKellen (Estragon), Patrick Stewart (Vladimir) and also Simon Callow (Pozzo). The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand.
In February 2010 he also appeared as 'Pegleg' in the BBC's period drama Lark Rise to Candleford.
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Damian Self
A group of students are tormented by the lingering menace of Garth Stroman, an artist who had a disturbing vision fifty years prior. The pupils discover that true art can only be achieved through suffering and pain.
Judge
En 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) era el escritor más famoso de Londres, y Bosie Douglas, hijo del famoso marqués de Queensberry, era su amante. Acusado y condenado por ultraje a la moral, fue encarcelado durante dos años y sometido a trabajos forzados. Una vez libre, abandona Inglaterra para vivir en Francia, donde pasará sus últimos años, atormentado por los recuerdos del pasado, la pobreza y una inmensa tristeza.
Neville Chamberlain
The year is 1940. As Hitler's forces storm across Europe, Winston Churchill is elected the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His leadership is immediately tested as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops become trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, with the Germans closing in. As the desperate battle for survival unfolds on land, air, and sea, Churchill must fight his own battles to launch a daring rescue effort across the English Channel. This fan edit combines the intense frontline action of Dunkirk with the backroom political intrigue of Darkest Hour, to create an epic supercut that tells the full story of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Neville Chamberlain
En mayo de 1940 el destino de Europa occidental depende del primer ministro británico Winston Churchill, quien debe decidir si negociar con Adolf Hitler o luchar sabiendo que podría significar una derrota humillante para Gran Bretaña y su imperio.
Udo
A woman confronting a painful time in her life after she discovers the truth about a mysterious old man living across from her.
Frank
Determinada a detener el funeral de su ex amante en el glamoroso escondite francés Île de Ré, la ex sirena de Hollywood Helen escapa de su casa de retiro en Londres con la ayuda de la reprimida ama de casa inglesa Priscilla y salieron a la carretera juntos en una carrera para llegar al funeral a tiempo.
Bentham
The thin line between happiness and disaster: Jakob cancels a business trip to New York City because he finds out his ex-girlfriend is coming to a party in Berlin on that day: 9/11/2001. His friend Hans goes to the US instead.
Norman Cousins
El Hotel Marigold, segundo lugar más exótico es el sueño expansionista de Sonny (Dev Patel), y está haciendo más reclamaciones en su tiempo de las que tiene disponibles, teniendo en cuenta su matrimonio inminente con el amor de su vida, Sunaina (Tina Desai).
Bearded Man
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his local cinema as well as regular sessions with his therapist. A disturbance outside his flat leads to a strange encounter, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
Miniserie televisiva de 5 episodios. Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX. Christopher Tietjens es un aristócrata conservador, leal a su infiel y cínica esposa, a la que sigue unido en nombre del honor familiar y personal. Christopher se enamora de una joven sufragista, pero entonces el mundo entra en guerra y él es llamado a filas. Mientras Inglaterra se desmorona, Christopher descubre que la terrible vida en las trincheras y los crueles juegos de poder de la clase alta no son tan diferentes.
Norman Cousins
Un grupo de ancianos ingleses deciden disfrutar de su jubilación en Bangalore, una exótica población de la India, pero las diferencias culturales pronto se pondrán de manifiesto creándoles todo tipo de problemas.
King Sharaman
La historia comienza cuando un rey y su hijo derrotan al Maharajá, gracias a la traición de su visir. Entre los exóticos tesoros del Maharajá se encuentra un enorme reloj de arena y una daga. Solamente el visir conoce el terrible poder de estos objetos, quien engaña al protagonista para que libere las arenas del tiempo. Este acto convierte en criaturas de arena a casi todos los presentes, incluido el rey, padre del protagonista. Éste debe buscar la manera de deshacer el entuerto. En su aventura, contará con la ayuda de Farah, hija del depuesto Maharajah.
Himself
8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. Also covers the early stages of Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel and Joseph Cross.
Tobias
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
William McDowell
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
Cecil Johnson
Bobby, un valiente Skye Terrier, se convierte en leyenda local cuando se niega a abandonar la tumba de su amo después de que muere. La gente del pueblo alimenta al perro hasta que las autoridades locales prohíben a los extraviados. Los niños deciden ayudar a Bobby a desafiar la ley. Basado en hechos reales.
Monsieur Moitessier
Follows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to spend his life in a succession of imprisonments.
Professor Sir Roy Meadow
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited.
Aron Richter
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
Monsieur Moitessier
Las aventuras de Tulse Luper continúan desde Amberes. Comienza la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Tulse Luper es un prisionero que recorre el norte de Europa. Se convierte en espía en la mansión en Vaux (Francia) que se ha convertido en una clínica Aria. En Estrasburgo, es obligado a ser acomodador en el cine Arc-en-Ciel y le obligarán a vestirse de mujer para hacerse pasar por una costurera en la residencia burguesa de una anatomista obsesiva y fanática de Ingres en la localidad de Dinard, en la costa francesa.
Da Monte
Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel's authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara's daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.
Dr. Maclaren
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
Don Massaredo
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
Young Humbert's Father
Humbert es un europeo culto, brillante y atractivo que se instala en una ciudad de Nueva Inglaterra como profesor. Una vez allí, se hospeda en casa de Charlotte, una voluptuosa viuda, que ve en Humbert la encarnación de sus fantasías provincianas. Pero Humbert oculta una herida envenenada: el recuerdo de un frustrado amor de adolescencia. Por eso, Lolita, la hija de Charlotte, se le aparece a Humbert como la materialización de sus sueños.
Percy Stone
Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.
Narrator
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.
Dr. Bartnik
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.
Brian Silcott
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
Henry IV
An adaptation of the two parts of Henry IV.
Jocelyn Fry
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors.The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes.Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
Richard Browning
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.
Morris
It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, determined to escape the Tower of London once and for all and return to Devon. When Sir Raleigh learns that a pair of dastardly brothers have designs on his ancestors' farm, he devises a plan to thwart them.
The ancient Aztec world inadvertantly welcomes its doom in the form of the Conquistadors.
Siegfried Shrager
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Felix D'Arcy
Por petición de un antiguo amigo en tiempos de guerra, el espía George Smiley accede a investigar el asesinato de Stella Rode, la mujer de un profesor en un exclusivo colegio masculino. Pronto descubre que a Stella le encantaba descubrir los secretos de los demás para cotillear y hacer chantaje. Introduciéndose en la tortuosa sociedad del colegio, Smiley descubre sociedades secretas, abusos sexuales y a un misterioso muchacho llamado Perkins que puede ser al mismo tiempo sospechoso, testigo y víctima.
Capt. Crawford
En el siglo 17 Japón se divide entre dos fuerzas. El ejército principal del este por el señor de la guerra Tokugawa Ieyasu y el ejército occidental que lucha por el clan de Toyotomi. A pesar de ganar una batalla reciente, las cosas se ven sombrías para el ejército oriental. El ejército de Toyotomi tiene un suministro de armas de fuego modernas, un arma que podría cambiar el rumbo de la guerra. Tokugawa Ieyasu envia a su samurai de confianza samurai, Mayeda, y su hijo Yourimune a España para adquirir 5.000 fusiles. Pero es un viaje peligroso y hay muchos que conspiran en su contra. Y cuando por fin llegan a España, nada sale como esperaban.
Aslan (voice)
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of Narnia, where they are entrusted with a task by Aslan: to rescue the king's stolen son, Prince Rilian. Together with Puddleglum the Marshwiggle, they must travel north across the mountains, dodge giants, and journey down into the earth itself to rescue Rilian from the mysterious evil that holds him bound there.
Jeffrey Utterson, Esquire
En las calles de Londres una escurridiza figura ha despertado el temor de sus habitantes. Se le achacan varios asaltos a mujeres, incendios e incluso asesinatos. La policía cree haber identificado al sospechoso y lo persigue, pero en su huida empuja a un muchacho que cae bajo los cascos de un caballo y resulta gravemente herido.
Aslan (voice)
Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
Louw
Sudáfrica, años setenta. El prestigioso profesor blanco Ben du Toit ha vivido toda su vida al margen de los horrores e injusticias del apartheid sudafricano. Nunca quiso tomar partido. Cuando el hijo de su jardinero negro es arrestado en Soweto durante una manifestación de protesta, Ben piensa que la policía tiene sus razones. Pero, cuando el chico es detenido otra vez por la policía y no regresa a casa. Ben le promete a su jardinero investigar el incidente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Captain Lancaster
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
Aslan (voice)
Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
Marshall Tukhachevsky
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Barrymore
Episodio especial de la serie "El regreso de Sherlock Holmes". Sobre la familia Baskerville pesa una maldición que ha provocado muerte y desgracias sin cuento a través de varias generaciones. El viejo Sir Charles Baskerville ha sido asesinado. En su rostro una expresión de terror indescriptible y junto al cuerpo la huella de un sabueso gigante. Cuando el joven Sir Henry, el único superviviente de la familia Baskerville, llega para reclamar su herencia empiezan a producirse siniestros acontecimientos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Wynne-Evans
Se basa en una novela de Frederick Forsyth. El gobierno británico busca a un implacable y frío oficial del ejército ruso que llega a Inglaterra con una identidad falsa y se instala cerca de una base militar norteamericana. Se trata de averiguar cuál es su misión para impedir que la lleve a cabo.
James Tripp
A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.
Hontar
Siglo XVIII. Los grandes imperios colonialistas, España y Portugal, se disputan el dominio de Ámerica del Sur. El padre Gabriel dirige una misión en lo alto de las montañas de Brasil, donde los nativos son evangelizados y llevan una vida pacífica. Hasta allí llega Mendoza, un mercader arrepentido, en busca de redención que, fascinado por la labor del padre Gabriel, se ordena sacerdote. La presión llevada a cabo por Portugal obliga a la Iglesia a ceder las tierras en las que se haya la misión. El padre Gabriel y Mendoza, aunque por caminos muy diferentes, harán lo imposible por defender la obra y evitar que los nativos sean esclavizados.
Spiro
Eleni es una mujer griega que lucha por mantener unida a su familia pese al clima de confusión que reina en su país desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Su tortura y asesinato a manos de guerrilleros rebeldes ha destrozado la vida de su hijo Nick, un periodista del New York Times que decide regresar a su pueblo para descubrir la verdad sobre la muerte de su madre. A partir de algunos recuerdos de su infancia, su obsesiva investigación lo conduce directamente al hombre responsable del crimen. Basada en hechos reales.
Jean
Camille es una cortesana de París. Ella cae profundamente enamorada de un joven prometedor, Armand Duval. Cuando el padre de Armand le ruega no arruinar su esperanza de una carrera y la posición al casarse con Armand, ella asiente y deja a su amante. Sin embargo, cuando la pobreza y la enfermedad la acechan, Camille descubre que Armand no ha perdido su amor por ella.
Jan Tyranowski
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
George Orwell
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
Elliott
La temible organización criminal Spectra ha ideado un ingenioso plan que le permite conseguir dos proyectiles nucleares, los cuales harán estallar si el gobierno no cede a su chantaje. El agente 007 se encargará del caso.
Howard Joyce
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Prince John
Adaptación de la novela histórica de Sir Walter Scott. Ivanhoe es hijo de Sir Cedric, un caudillo sajón que se propone restaurar la estirpe sajona en el trono de Inglaterra, casando a su pupila Lady Rowena con Athelstane, el último sajón de sangre real. Pero Inglaterra está dominada por los normandos, y entre éstos y los sajones existe una gran rivalidad. Ivanhoe se enfrenta al príncipe Juan Sin Tierra, el pérfido hermano del rey Ricardo Corazón de León, que ha aprovechado la ausencia de Ricardo (prisionero del archiduque de Austria) para usurpar el trono.
Giuseppe Verdi
Igor Stravinsky
Film basado en los diarios de Vaslav Nijinsky (George de la Peña), quien, entre 1909 y 1917, fue primer bailarín del legendario ballet ruso Diaghilev. Primero como bailarín y luego como coreógrafo, Nijinsky escandalizó a un público demasiado acostumbrado a los convencionalismos del siglo XIX, con su interpretación de obras como “El espectro de la rosa” (Fokine), “Scheherezade” (Rimsky-Korsakov), “Petrushka” (Stravinski), “La siesta de un fauno” (Debussy), o “La consagración de la primavera” (Stravinski). En todas ellas dejó su provocadora e innovadora huella. Entre 1912 y 1913, vivió un conflictivo triángulo amoroso que repercutió de manera trágica tanto en su vida profesional como personal. Mantuvo una larga relación laboral y amorosa con Diaghilev (Alan Bates), el posesivo y celoso director del Ballet Ruso; pero, cuando se enamoró de Romola de Pulsky (Leslie Browne), dejó a Diaghilev para casarse con ella. Éste, despechado, hizo uso de toda su influencia para perjudicarlo.
Lt. Harford
1879 el Imperio Británico trata de imponer su voluntad sobre el poderoso rey zulú Cetshwayo, que controla parte de la zona de ZuluLand. Al negarse Cetshwayo a cumplir las órdenes de su Majestad la Reina de Inglaterra, los británicos deciden movilizar sus tropas lideradas por el General Chelmsford hacia los dominios de los zulús para someterlos confiando en su aparente superioridad táctica, técnica, militar y armamentística.
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
Bayliss
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 ...
A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio no. 5. The film repeats the imagery, and then shows what he has been reacting to.
A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.
Mr. Wilson
Inglaterra, siglo XVIII. Joseph Andrews es un sirviente que trabaja para la señora Booby, una voluptuosa dama de la alta sociedad. A pesar de sus insinuaciones, Joseph se mantiene fiel a a su prometida Fanny. Por lo demás, Fanny es muy bella y son muchos los hombres que la cortejan.
The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Nick
Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) fue un eminente compositor y director de orquesta. De origen judío, desde muy niño soportó el antisemitismo. Tuvo una salud precaria y una neurosis obsesiva por la muerte. Ya mayor se casó con una mujer joven, culta y muy bella, teniendo un matrimonio apasionado y lleno de conflictos.
On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration that results in dramatic revelations.
The Forger
La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.
Edmund Tyrone
On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.
Baron Tusenbach
En una pequeña ciudad rusa, los huérfanos Prozoroff (Olga, Irina, Masha y Andrei) sueñan con regresar a su hogar en Moscú. Mientras tanto viven entre matrimonios infelices, amantes militares furtivos y trabajos solitarios. Cuando Andrei se casa con una chica de provincias llamada Natasha y ésta toma el control familiar, el refugio privado de las hermanas llega a la destrucción.
Don Pedro
A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.
Physician
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
