Herbert Wise
Nacimiento : 1924-08-31, Wien, Austria
Muerte : 2015-08-05
Historia
Productor y director de cine y televisión inglés nacido en Viena, Austria. Nacido como Herbert Weisz, comenzó su carrera como director en la Shrewsbury Repertory Company en 1950. Inició su prolífica carrera en televisión en 1956, dirigiendo multitud de adaptaciones, siendo la más famosa la que hizo para la BBC de Yo, Claudio (1976), basada en la novela de Robert Graves. El ciclo de la obra de Alan Ayckbourn, Las conquistas de Norman en 1977, algunos de los telefilmes de Cadfael y tres episodios del Inspector Morse, fueron adaptaciones igualmente notables. Wise únicamente dirigió dos películas para la gran pantalla, la primera una introspección en los misterios del escritor Edgar Wallace titulada Para tener y sostenerse (To Have And To Hold, 1963), y la versión cinematográfica de la sitcom televisiva Los amantes (The Lovers, 1973). Estuvo casado con la actriz Fiona Walker.
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The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.
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A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
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A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
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Arthur, un joven abogado, es enviado a una pequeña localidad de la costa inglesa para preparar los tramites de la venta de una casa, cuya propietaria acaba de fallecer. El joven asiste al entierro de la mujer junto a un colega. Es entonces cuando percibe la presencia de una misteriosa mujer vestida de negro que no deja de observarle.
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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.
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When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His father as his conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while his mother does try to offer support.
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World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mitchum
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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.
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A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
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Arriving in Bath to take up his first job away from home young Billy Weaver decides to take a room with a charmingly maternal if eccentric landlady. Her dog and cat are both stuffed and the only other names in her guest-book seem vaguely familiar to him but he cannot think why. Sadly he will never find out as he drinks the tea which the landlady has poisoned to add him to her collection.
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The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
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The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and murdered, and the attitude of some is not always sympathetic.
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Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
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Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
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Retomando los papeles de la serie de televisión que primero los convirtieron en nombres familiares, Richard Beckinsale y Paula Wilcox interpretan a Geoffrey Scrimshaw y Beryl Battersby, una joven pareja vacilante e inexperta que intenta negociar el campo minado sexual de la sociedad "permisiva". Esta transferencia a la pantalla grande de la comedia de situación enormemente simpática de Jack Rosenthal muestra a la chica anticuada Beryl que continúa abofeteando los avances de su frustrado novio, cuyos torpes intentos de iniciar 'Percy Filth' sugieren que él mismo no está del todo preparado. Como todos los demás, Geoffrey y Beryl quieren enamorarse, o creen que lo hacen; como todos los demás, desde Adán y Eva. Pero Adán y Eva no vivían en Manchester en 1972...
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Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.
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A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
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A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.
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A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
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A black saxophonist and small time crook is picked up by police on suspicion of murder. His problems multiply when the investigating officer lets his own issues influence the subsequent interrogation.
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A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.
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"In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation. The political themes explored remain incredibly prescient." - BFI
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"In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation. The political themes explored remain incredibly prescient." - BFI
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Three Guyanese jail breakers escape, not only from the law, but from the harsh realities of their pasts.
