Owen Teale
Nacimiento : 1961-05-20, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Historia
Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor.
Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), Waterfront Beat (1990) and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 TV movie Robin Hood. He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again—opposite Stephen Tompkinson, Samantha Beckinsale and Kelly Harrison—in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character.
His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. His appearance in King Arthur, as Pelagius, was relegated to the DVD extended edition. He played Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in the HBO film Conspiracy. In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide"; in 1985, he had appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, called Game of Thrones.
Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel.
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Darek
La verdadera historia de Liz Evans, peluquera y directora de un teatro juvenil en Carmarthen, Gales, que inició una campaña en 1993 para evitar el cierre del teatro Lyric. Junto con el entonces alcalde de Carmarthen, Richard Goodridge, solicitaron la ayuda de Steven Spielberg, asegurando un estreno especial de Jurassic Park.
Michael Crown
An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.
Brian Vokes
Narra la historia real de Jan Vokes (Toni Colette), una camarera de Gales que decidió comprar y criar un caballo de carreras. Jan convenció a sus vecinos y amigos para que contribuyeran financieramente al proyecto. El improbable plan de inversión comenzó a valer la pena a medida que el caballo mejoró y comienzó a ganar, luchando por el campeonato nacional.
Glenn
Liam spends his days drinking with friends and racing his motorbike across the roads of his Welsh coastal town. He helps run a failing caravan park with his father, Glenn, who clings to the belief that prosperity will soon return. When an insurance inspector reveals the land they own is worthless as a result of rising sea levels, Liam must convince his father to abandon his lifelong home. Their conflict over control of the park leads to desperate measures.
Headmaster Gilson
Inglaterra, principios del siglo XX. El futuro escritor y filólogo John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) y tres de sus compañeros de escuela crean un fuerte vínculo entre ellos al compartir la misma pasión por la literatura y el arte, una verdadera hermandad que se fortalece a medida que crecen; pero el estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial amenaza con destruirla.
Briggs
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.
Murray
Three tortured souls in an underground parking lot; a little girl arrives; a crime is committed and tension keeps rising in this claustrophobic psychological thriller.
Alliser Thorne
El primer episodio de esta proyección IMAX se lleva a cabo íntegramente en The Wall with the Night's Watch, superando irremediablemente en número a medida que intentan defender Castle Black de Wildings y presenta una de las escenas de batalla más feroces e intensas jamás filmadas para televisión. El segundo episodio, que también es el final de temporada, presenta a Dany enfrentando las realidades de gobernar un reino, Bran aprendiendo la sorprendente realidad de su destino y Tyrion enfrentando la verdad de su desafortunada situación.
Dai Bread
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.
Edward Ashton
Luchando con su dolor, el pastor anglicano Rebecca Ashton intenta reemplazar a su difunta hija con otra chica.
Sgt. Perkins
It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the responsible for the killings?
Richard Newman
A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman specializes in helping women who have had trouble getting pregnant conceive, usually through artificial insemination techniques or transplanting donated eggs into his patients. Over the course of several weeks, Freeman inseminates nine women from different walks of life, eight become pregnant and give birth to healthy children, but when the new mothers compare notes, they discover their children bear a striking resemblance to one another...
Vatrenus
Caída del Imperio Romano de Occidente (476 d. C.). El día de la coronación del emperador Rómulo Augusto, Roma cae en poder de Odoacro, rey de los hérulos. Ambrosino, el mentor de Rómulo, había predicho un gran peligro para la ciudad. El padre del emperador, preocupado por la seguridad de su hijo, pone al niño bajo la protección del comandante Aurelio. Tras la captura de Rómulo por los bárbaros y su traslado a la isla de Capri, Aurelio intenta rescatarlo con la ayuda de sus hombres más leales y de un misterioso guerrero. Cuando, por fin, consiguen liberarlo, el grupo emprende la búsqueda de la única legión que queda: la novena, que se encuentra en Britania.
Bernie Sullivan
School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.
Erucius
Pelagius (uncredited)
Arturo está deseando abandonar Bretaña para regresar a la paz y estabilidad de Roma. Pero antes, una última misión le hace comprender tanto a él como a los caballeros de la Mesa Redonda (Lancelot, Galahad, Bors,Tristán y Gawain) que, tras la caída de Roma (476 d.C.), lo que Bretaña necesita es un rey que la defienda de la amenaza de la invasión sajona en un tiempo nuevo. Guiado por Merlín y por la valiente y hermosa Ginebra, Arturo tendrá que encontrar en sí mismo la fuerza necesaria para cambiar el curso de la historia.
Flavius
Judas meets Jesus and at first doesn't know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him. A cynical city boy, Judas makes fun of the country bumpkin disciples who follow Jesus but eventually decides to join the band, as well. He and Jesus become good friends, even though they often see things very differently. Ultimately, Judas is convinced that Jesus needs to use his popularity and wonder-working powers to free the Jews from the Romans, and Jesus sees a larger, spritual perspective. As a friend, Judas convinces Jesus to give his disciples his miraculous powers, and he does with good results. Finally, the Jewish leaders spy on Judas and convince him of the greater good of betraying Jesus, in order to save the Jewish people. Judas gets caught between the corrupt leaders, Caiaphus and Pontius Pilate, and Jesus.
Giles Hanagan
Matthew Barnes, un joven ejecutivo, es enviado a Londres para supervisar la fusión de varias empresas. En este trabajo sustituye a John Gissing, que se encargará de que Barnes y su esposa Linda lo pasen lo peor posible. Cuando Matthew se da cuenta, pasa a la ofensiva para evitar un traslado a Detroit. Pero Gissing todavía guarda muchas cartas en la manga.
Dr. Roland Freisler
El 20 de enero de 1942, líderes del partido nazi y oficiales del gobierno alemán mantuvieron una reunión secreta en las afueras de Berlín para planificar la llamada "solución final", es decir el exterminio de los judíos. Esta película es una recreación histórica de la Conferencia de Wannsee, presidida por Reinhard Heydrich, general de las S.S. y máximo responsable de la seguridad del Tercer Reich.
Lopahin
Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Adolph
In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.
Dan Somers
In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice White (Amanda Ooms), a beautiful and obsessed woman with a painfully sinister secret: once a month when the moon is full, she locks herself away and transforms into a she-wolf. When a passionate triangle ensues between a psychiatrist who can hardly believe her erotically charged tales and a man who may be her one shot at love, Alice flees to the wilderness where she is free to satiate her most personal and sometimes shocking desires. Originally a three part British TV Mini-series, later released as a single episode on DVD.
Happy
Willy Loman clings to the belief that he is a success as a salesman, that he is a beloved family man, that he is well-liked; but, as he grows older, he is forced to contemplate the unpleasant reality of his existence.
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.
Edmund Platt
Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.
Ken Marsh
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
Will Scarlett
Otra versión de la epopeya clásica, con variación suficiente para que sea interesante. La historia es la misma, pero algunos de los personajes son muy diferentes de los habituales, en particular, Uma Thurman, una lady Marian muy especial. La fotografía es también excelente, dando a la historia un tono algo más oscuro.
The Unknown Soldier
Como en la mayoría de sus películas, Derek Jarman introduce en War Requiem elementos de diferentes artes: la música de War Requiem de Britten, la poesía de guerra de Wilfred Owen y las referencias pictóricas de cuadros de John Martin, William Blake y Piero della Francesca. Además, la película integra elementos de teatro, iconografía religiosa, alusiones del cine mudo y bélico, la poesía de John Keats y fragmentos de documentales y de telediarios.
John O'Brien
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Maldak
When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.
Dylan's nightmares are becoming more real. He's got to get away or he might not wake up. Jenny is all he lives for and he'll do anything for them to escape. In an isolated part of Wales, Dylan leads a humble life working the family farm. His only company is his father with whom he shares a fractious relationship. He's started making some extra money through some local low level drug dealers and plans to use the money to start his new dream life, away from the farm, his dad, and his visions of death.
