Richard Wilson
Nacimiento : 1936-07-09, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Historia
Richard Wilson OBE (born Ian Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He played Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. A later role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin.
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Mr. Capulet (voice)
Los famosos gnomos de jardín Gnomeo y Julieta contratan a un mundialmente conocido detective: Sherlock Gnomes, para investigar la misteriosa desaparición de algunos ornamentos del jardín.
Starveling
Shakespeare's comedy adapted for television by Russell T. Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...
Narrator
A varied history of gay people and Scotland.
James Broughton
A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
Mr. Capulet
La obra de Shakespeare experimenta una transformación disparatada: la gran historia de amor es protagonizada por enanos de jardín. Gnomeo y Juliet, al igual que sus cuasi homónimos, tienen que superar un sinfín de obstáculos, pero en este caso no se deben al odio que enfrenta a sus familias, sino a una disputa entre vecinos. ¿Podrá este pareja vivir feliz para siempre entre flamencos rosas de plástico y demenciales carreras de cortadoras de césped?. Los dos enanos intentarán que su destino fatal no se cumpla. Lucharán para que su historia de amor tenga un final feliz. Cuenta con canciones clásicas y también originales de Elton John.
One of Britain's most enduring and best-loved comics, Ronnie Corbett, turned 80 in December 2010. In this brand new comedy sketch show, the octogenarian comic legend appears alongside some of the biggest names in British comedy, in sketches featuring everything from a superannuated super-hero to a stage-struck dog. Add in a sprinkling of one-liners and a brand new Ronnie monologue in the famous chair for the must-see comedy of the festive season.
Arthur Conan Doyle
A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in the Scottish capital with an old friend - a crime writer researching the new novel. Buchan's investigation takes him into the dark underworld of Edinburgh's literary past and leads him to question the very nature of his own existence.
Sir James Thornhill
Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Registrar
Emily Jackson "Jacks" es la celestina ideal para sus amigos del alma: Peter, un gay que comparte piso con ella, y Tallulah, una neurótica hambrienta de hombres. Pero con tanto arreglar las parejas de los demás, ¿sabrá Jacks reconocer a su gran amor cuando éste llame a su puerta?
Frank
A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
Duke of Edinburgh
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.
Sally the Cook
An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.
Ronald
Dos mujeres muy diferentes se hacen muy amigas en Edinburgo. Ellen (Gina McKee) es una tímida aunque exitosa dibujante que se ha enamorado sin remedio del seductor Daniel (James Purefoy). Por su parte la excéntrica Cora (Helena Bonham Carter) se enamoró de un francés llamado Claude, y acaba de convertirse en una madre soltera que procura llegar a final de mes. Ellen y Cora tratan de ayudarse mutuamente ante todo lo que la vida les va deparando: amantes, divorcios, niños, deudas, y los excesos de vodka, siempre rodeadas por un grupo de personajes pintorescos y extravagantes.
Landowner at Party
One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded stately home. His only friend is Ted (Paul Whitehouse), the elderly Irish estate-worker. But their way of life is under threat: Ralph must marry before his 35th birthday or lose everything. Just when it all seems hopeless, along comes Wendy (Kathy Burke). But as Ralph's affection for Wendy grows, his dependence on Ted wanes. Is this the end of a beautiful friendship? Is Wendy all that she seems? Will Ralph go through with the marriage? And will he save the Hall?
Sir Roger Daggenhurst
Comedia de enredo protagonizada un provinciano de Estados Unidos cuya máxima aspiración es convertirse en actor. Cuando acude a visitar a su hermano, un banquero de Londres que está a punto de cerrar un importante negocio, éste intenta deshacerse de su hermano enviándole a una audición de teatro. Pero debido a una confusión, se verá envuelto en una compleja trama de espías soviéticos y británicos que intentan desestabilizar la paz mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Steven Williams
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.
Victor Meldrew
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.
Uncle Salvatore
Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchicker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.
Don Juan Felipe
El Gran Abdul está preocupado. Sus espías le han comunicado que un tal Cristóbal Colón prepara un viaje para descubrir nuevas rutas a las indias, lo que arruinará sus negocios. Por lo tanto decide enviar su mejor espía para intentar sabotear el viaje.
Hector Duff
An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.
Henri Nannen
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Director
Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
Lebedev
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Sir Hugo Armstrong
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept into Tinseltown, it drove one out of the country and the other to suicide.
Cloete
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)
John Bristol
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley es un joven y brillante publicista en busca de un eslogan para promocionar una crema contra los granos. Pero su enfermiza obsesión por el asunto pronto empezará a crearle problemas con su mujer, sus amigos y su jefe; e incluso empezará a notar "extrañas irregularidades" en su propio cuerpo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Harold Abrahams
A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
Director
A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex ‘n’ sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating “a wholly healthy Glasgow… a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?
Max
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
Psychiatrist
Inglaterra, 1967. Kenneth Hallywell (Alfred Molina), un hombre desequilibrado, mató a martillazos a su amante, el famoso dramaturgo Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), mientras dormía. Después se suicidó tomando una sobredosis de barbitúricos. Ambos tenían en común una infancia solitaria desprovista de amor y una ardiente ambición por conquistar el mundo. Ken enseñó a Joe todo lo que sabía de literatura y de arte, y Joe inició a Ken en la promiscuidad sexual (principalmente en los urinarios públicos). Pero, en aquella época, la homosexualidad era ilegal en Inglaterra, y los dos fueron a parar a la cárcel. La prisión supuso una liberación para Joe, que por primera vez terminó una obra que le proporcionó fama y éxito; pero para Ken fue el principio de una pesadilla que terminó la noche fatal en que murieron. Lo habían compartido todo menos la fama.
Colonel Partridge
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Aerobic Instructor
Sam Stone, un magnate de la confección, odia a su esposa y justamente el día que toma la determinación de matarla recibe una llamada telefónica en la que le comunican que Bárbara ha sido secuestrada. Los culpables, unos raptores novatos y nerviosos, sólo pretenden conseguir algo del dinero que Stone ha ganado con el invento de la minifalda elástica. Al pedir el rescate al marido, éste se niega a pagar, con lo que despierta las iras de la víctima y le obliga a planificar el contraataque.
Nigel Lipman (Foreign Secretary)
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Sir Max Mallowan
Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.
Theodore Watts-Dunton
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Mr. Turton
Adaptación de una novela del escritor inglés E.M. Forster. India colonial, años 20. Adela, una joven inglesa, viaja a la India, en compañía de su futura suegra, para contraer matrimonio con un magistrado de Chandrapore. La joven está obsesionada por conocer a fondo la realidad del país y encuentra la oportunidad de satisfacer su deseo gracias al doctor Aziv, un médico hindú. Sin embargo, cuando éste organiza una excursión para mostrarle las cuevas de Marabar, ocurre algo absolutamente impensable.
Director
All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.
Arnold - Journalist
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
Director
Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.
Director
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
Abercrombie
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Consultant
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.
Registrar
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of her post-operative care.
Mr Potter
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.
Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...
George III
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.
84-year-old cellist Ceri has lost his husband to cancer and his ability to play to a debilitating stroke. His dull life is spent in solitude, save for the interruptions of agency carers and the solace of his iPad. Seizing the opportunity that a night-time staff shortage brings; he uses Grindr to invite 20-year-old rent-boy Iestyn to visit.