James Laurenson

James Laurenson

Nacimiento : 1940-02-17, Marton, New Zealand

Perfil

James Laurenson

Películas

Matilda de Roald Dahl: El musical
Ancient / Sleeping Teacher
Una joven extraordinaria descubre su superpoder y reúne el coraje extraordinario, contra viento y marea, para ayudar a otros a cambiar sus historias, al mismo tiempo que se hace cargo de su propio destino. Al defender lo que es correcto, se encuentra con resultados milagrosos.
The Riot Club
College President
Alistair Ryle y Miles Richards son dos estudiantes de primer año de la universidad de Oxford. A pesar de que los dos jóvenes son muy diferentes, ambos deciden unirse al famoso 'Riot Club', una sociedad exclusiva y muy selectiva para los hijos más privilegiados de Gran Bretaña, que tiene muy mala reputación, donde las cenas en restaurantes caros y el posterior destrozo de los mismos están entre las actividades favoritas de sus selectos miembros. Pero todo se enreda cuando los jovenes, novatos en el privilegiado club, comienzan a meterse en líos que dan lugar a muchos problemas que les complicaran su recién estrenada vida en la universidad...
Soldado Peaceful
Major Fitzpatrick
Historia ambientada en la Primera Guerra Mundial que narra la historia de dos hermanos adolescentes enamorados de la misma chica.
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Gaev
Madame Ranevskaya 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, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Siempre El Mismo Día
Mr. Cope
Emma y Dexter se conocen el día de su graduación universitaria, el 15 de julio de 1988. Ella es una chica de clase trabajadora que sueña con hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. Él es un joven rico con ganas de comerse el mundo. Durante los siguientes veinte años, las vidas de ambos se cruzan y separan, su amistad se debilita o se refuerza y comparten la risa y el romance, el dolor y la alegría. Pero por fin, un día, ambos se dan cuenta de que lo que habían estado buscando durante tanto tiempo estaba delante de ellos.
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Ghost / Player King
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
AfterLife
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
The Cry
Richard Crossdyke
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
El maullido del gato
Dr. Daniel Goodman
En noviembre de 1924, una misteriosa muerte sacude a todo Hollywood. A bordo de su yate, el magnate de la comunicación William Randolph Hearst comparte una violenta velada con su amante, la corista Marion Davies, el director y actor Charlie Chaplin, el productor Thomas Ince y la columnista de cotilleos Louella Parsons. Durante la fiesta, el poderoso Hearst asesina por error a Ince "cuyo cumpleaños era el motivo de la reunión" confundiéndolo con Chaplin, ya que estaba convencido de que su protegida Marion lo engañaba con el famoso cómico.
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Sharpe's Revenge
Major General Ross
Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
The Vanishing Man
Moreau
While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-course by a severe electrical storm and loses radio contact. To his surprise and horror, he is arrested upon landing and accused of being a traitor in connection with the cargo he has been carrying - which, unknown to him, contained plutonium. Although he pleads innocent, Nick is not believed and is sentenced to a long term in prison. While in prison, he is subjected to special experimentation at a mysterious laboratory - with one unnerving, and unexpected, side-effect of the experiments being intermittent invisibility. —David McAnally
The Cold Light of Day
Pavel Novak
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Sharpe's Mission
Major General Ross
Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.
Sharpe's Siege
Major General Ross
Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.
Sharpe's Regiment
Major General Ross
Dijo que su batallón se dividirá debido a la falta de reclutas en casa, Sharpe y Harper regresan a Inglaterra para investigar. Lo que debería haber sido una simple consulta se vuelve políticamente explosivo a medida que se acercan a exponer las especulaciones en el frente interno que podrían poner en peligro la guerra de Wellington.
La casa de la colina
Una aspirante a actriz, que trabaja como camarera mientras le llega su oportunidad, acepta cuidar de una casa propiedad de una pareja adinerada en las afueras de Hollywood. Sin embargo ella desconoce que en una vivienda cercana acaba de producirse un crimen, y cuando un vecino llama a su puerta y ella se hace pasar por la propietaria, tampoco sospechará que el personaje no es quien aparenta ser...
The Care of Time
General Newell
A thriller directed by John Davies.
Project: Tinman
Wheeler
A mechanical man with a moral code and soul looking for adventure and his creator after escaping the military. He attempts to discover the reasons why he was created. An action-adventure pilot for ABC, a series that never happened.
Asesinato en el callejón del arco iris
Hans Roerhrig
Cinco personas han sido asesinadas al estilo Charles Mason. Mike, que está al frente de la división de homicidios de la policía de Hollywood, pasó la noche del crimen en la casa de enfrente con una amiga, por lo que se toma el homicidio múltiple como algo personal.
Countdown to War
Ciano
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Codename: Kyril
Sikarov
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Felix Hawthorne
In this made-for-TV movie, an alien lands on earth, and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.
Paint Me a Murder
Luke Lorenz
Luke Lorenz is an artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
Los rompecorazones
Terry Ray
Blue and Eli, dos amigos, tienen problemas con las mujeres. Blue, es abandonado por su novia, porque lo considera demasiado inmaduro para una larga relación. Eli, por otro lado, sigue buscando a una mujer que sea lo suficientemente interesante como para estar más de una noche con ella. Su amistad se opone a una dura prueba, ya que ambos se enamoran de Liliane.
Pink Floyd: El muro
Pink's Father
Película visualmente evocativa, basada en la música del disco homónimo y las visiones del grupo de rock psicodélico "Pink Floyd". Narra la vida de una estrella de rock ficticia: "Pink". Una mezcla de relaciones humanas, abuso de drogas, sexo, infancia, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fascismo se combinan en un relato que alterna cine en vivo con animación creada por el caricaturista británico Gerald Scarfe.
El club de los monstruos
Raven (the Shadmock)
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.
Jude
Dick
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
The Witches of Pendle
Abraham Law
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
Children of the Sun
Howard
"You expect to face a bit of danger when you travel. Half the fun of it. But you keep cool and bluff your way out. After all, we're all British aren't we?"
The Prison
Alain Poitaud
A successful Paris magazine proprietor embarks on a destructive voyage of self-discovery after his wife shoots dead her own sister, with whom he has had an affair for several years.
The Turn of the Screw
Peter Quint
An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
The Man in the Sidecar
Gerald
Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.
Pánico en el bosque
Greg Lomax
La bella profesora de arte de una escuela para señoritas, se ofrece como carnada para que la policía pueda atrapar a un asesino y violador que ha despachado ya a varias de sus estudiantes.
Edward II
Piers Gaveston
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Sir Pierce of Exton
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Si quieres ser millonario no malgastes el tiempo trabajando
Oxford Crew
Sir Guy Grand es “el millonario más grande del mundo”. Tras adoptar a un vagabundo joven e introducirlo en las complejidades de su vida cotidiana, Sir Grand se dedicará, principalmente, a probar hasta dónde puede llegar la ambición durante un viaje en el crucero llamado El Cristiano Mágico.
Mujeres enamoradas
Minister
Gudrum y Úrsula son dos hermanas educadas en la recatada Inglaterra de los años 20. Una es maestra y la otra escultora pero ambas coinciden en que saben muy poco del amor. Por eso cuando emprenden sus tórridas aventuras amorosas con un playboy de mala fama, Rupert, y un oscuro conquistador, Gerald, lo que descubren acerca de sus amantes y de sí mismas resulta mucho más fascinante y peligrosamente arrollador, de lo que hubieran atrevido a imaginar nunca.
Dead Bolt Dead
The Boss
Dead Bolt Dead takes a twisted look at the dark underworld of organised crime, with its assassins, its bosses, its drivers and its sharply suited thugs. Set in two locations in and outside London, it charts the night after a bold attempt to take out a rival gang fails.