Paul Jesson
Nacimiento : 1946-01-01, UK
John
Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
Humphrey
Fiona Maye es una prestigiosa jueza del Tribunal Superior de Londres especializada en derechos familiares que atraviesa por una grave crisis matrimonial. Cuando llega a sus manos el caso de Adan, un adolescente con leucemia que se niega a hacerse una transfusión de sangre al ser Testigo de Jehová, Fiona descubrirá sentimientos ocultos que desconocía, y luchará para que Adan entre en razón y sobreviva.
Doctor
En 1969, los cuatro hermanos Jack, Billy, Jane y Sam llegan a Marrowbone junto a su madre después de haber escapado de Inglaterra. En la nueva casa intentan empezar una nueva vida lejos de su padre, un hombre violento y con un pasado criminal. Poco después de su llegada, su madre fallece repentinamente y los chicos deciden esconder el asunto para que no los separen. Se esconderán en su granja, donde serán acechados por una siniestra presencia.
Admiral von Schreiber
The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.
William Turner Snr
Narra veinticinco años de la existencia del pintor británico J.M.W Turner (1775-1851). Artista reconocido, miembro apreciado y disipado de la Royal Academy of Arts, vive con su padre, quien también es su asistente, y de su fiel ama de llaves. Es amigo de aristócratas, visita burdeles y viaja frecuentemente en busca de inspiración. A pesar de su fama, también es víctima de las burlas del público y del sarcasmo de la sociedad. El fallecimiento de su padre le afecta profundamente, y Turner se aísla. Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Mrs Booth, propietaria de una pensión familiar a orillas del mar.
Studio Manager
Strong se pondrá en la piel de Max Rosenthal, un antiguo jefe de una unidad de investigación policial de Bucarest que roba un banco junto a varios hombres (para ello utilizan como tapadera la supuesta filmación de un largometraje). El atraco sale mal y, tras su juicio, son condenados a muerte (el hecho de que sean judíos influye en la decisión). Antes de ejecutar la sentencia, el gobierno comunista quiere que vuelvan a representar el crimen en una película de propaganda. Farmiga se pondrá en la piel de la ex amante y madre del hijo del protagonista (la mujer regresa a la ciudad tras haber estudiado en Moscú).
Maurice Montgomery
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
Tribune Brutus
Adaptación del "Coriolanus" de Shakespeare ambientada en la Roma contemporánea. Coriolano es un general que cae en desgracia y es desterrado a una región remota. Allí reclutará los hombres necesarios para formar un ejército y vengarse de sus enemigos.
Earl of Gloucester
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Magistrate
Londres, 1950. Vera Drake es una humilde mujer que vive con su marido y sus hijos. Ella es limpiadora, y su marido es mecánico. No tienen dinero, pero son una familia unida y se sienten felices. Vera se dedica completamente a su familia, pero tiene un secreto: ayuda a jovencitas a practicar abortos, una actividad ilegal.
Brian Boyce
Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman. The only witness to the killing of Stephen Cameron was his fiancée, Danielle Cable, who was forced to change her identity after giving the evidence which convicted Noye.
Ron
Penny, una cajera de supermercado, ha dejado de querer a su marido Phil, un taxista tierno y de espíritu filosófico. Su hija Rachel es limpiadora en una residencia de ancianos, pero su hijo Rory, un chico de carácter agresivo, está en el paro. Phil y Penny han perdido la alegría de vivir, pero cuando Rory cae enfermo y tiene que ser ingresado urgentemente en el hospital, el dolor los une de nuevo y vuelven a descubrir el amor.
Det Chief Supt Jack Skelton
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice
Det Chief Supt Jack Skelton
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
Derek Meadle
The setting is the staffroom of an English language college for foreign students somewhere in Cambridge. I think that Edward Fox was born to play the role of protagonist St. John Quartermaine. St. John (pronounced 'sinjun') is a kind and lonely language professor who is becoming increasingly absent-minded and forgetful, probably due to some form of creeping dementia. Having loyally served at the college since its founding, his life revolves around work as he appears to have no social life of his own. He is well liked by his colleagues, however they take advantage of his good nature and are always too preoccupied with their own concerns to really notice what we the viewers see- a man gradually and inexorably heading towards crisis, in desperate need of care and support.
Costard
When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.
First Citizen
BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
George, Duke of Clarence
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
George, Duke of Clarence
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
John Holland / George Plantagenet
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Second Messenger to King
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Major Green
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.
Cloten
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
(Archive Material)
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Man in Dressing Gown
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
Clown
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
John
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Ron
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?