Roger Ashton-Griffiths
出生 : 1957-01-19, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK
略歴
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Roger Ashton-Griffiths (born January 19, 1957 in Hemel Hempstead) is a British character actor, screenwriter and film director.
He graduated from Lancaster University (BMus) and the University of East London (MA Fine Art), and began his career as a singer with English National Opera at the London Coliseum.
He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
He has also worked extensively in television, including Margaret and The Tudors (2009).
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Frank
Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from.
Stranger
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo gangsters.
Mr. Thompson
It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16 and her Dad, David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their sixteen-year-old daughters. He struggles to understand her, she refuses to communicate with him. He wants to be involved in her life, she wants her own space. In one important respect, however, David and Jules share a profound bond: the death of Jules’ mum, and David’s wife, in a car crash two years before. With both struggling to cope with everyday life in the shadow of their loss, Jules, inspired by happy memories of her mum, decides to take matters into her own hands.
Ralph Butterworth
少年クリストファー・ロビンが、親友のくまのプーや仲間たちと別れてから長い年月が経った。大人になった彼は、妻と娘と共にロンドンで暮らし、 仕事中心の忙しい毎日を送っていた。ある日、家族と実家で過ごす予定だった週末に仕事を任されてしまう。そんな折、彼の前にかつての親友プーが現れ、森の仲間を一緒に探してほしいと頼まれたので子供の頃プーたちと過ごした“100エーカーの森”へ行く。仲間たちとの再会に喜びと懐かしい日々を感じながらも、仕事のため急いでロンドンに戻ったクリストファー・ロビンは、森に会議の重要な書類を忘れてきてしまう。
Musician #1
大量虐殺による恐怖ですべてを支配してきた独裁者、スターリンが1953年に死去。そこから始まる後釜を狙いの熾烈な権力バトルを描く。スティーヴ・ブシェミほか個性派俳優陣共演によるブラック・コメディ。
Hospital Chaplain
1958年、28歳のロビン・カヴェンディッシュは、出張先のナイロビでポリオに感染し、首から下が全身マヒとなり、人工呼吸器なしでは息もできくなってしまう。それは、美しい妻ダイアナと結婚してまだ間もないときだった。医師からは余命数ヵ月と宣告され、絶望に打ちひしがれるロビンは、生まれてきた息子ジョナサンを見ることさえ拒んでしまった。それでもダイアナは献身的に夫を支え、彼の望みを叶えるべく、医師の強い反対にもかかわらずロビンを自宅で看病しようと決意する。それはあまりにも危険で無謀なことに思われたが、その決断がやがてロビンの運命を大きく変えていく。
Mr Gaitskill
ミステリーの女王アガサ・クリスティが1949年に発表した「ねじれた家」を映画化。無一文から巨万の富を築いた大富豪レオニデスが毒殺され、私立探偵のチャールズは、レオニデスの孫娘で元恋人のソフィアから捜査を依頼される。レオニデスの屋敷には3世代にわたる一族が勢ぞろいしており、巨額の遺産をめぐって疑惑や嫉妬、憎悪が入り乱れていた。捜査を開始したチャールズは、ソフィアを含めた一族全員に殺害の動機があることに気づく。そして真相に近づいていく中で、第2の殺人が起こり……。 一族を仕切る大伯母イーディス役に、「天才作家の妻 40年目の真実」ほかで7度のアカデミー賞ノミネートのグレン・クローズ。私立探偵チャールズ役は同作でクローズと共演しているマックス・アイアンズ。監督に「サラの鍵」「ダーク・プレイス」のジル・パケ＝ブレネール、脚本に群像劇「ゴスフォード・パーク」でアカデミー脚本賞を受賞しているジュリアン・フェロウズ。
The Contractor
Two hitmen wake up in the back of a truck to discover they have been drugged and their employer brutally murdered. Their attempts to escape bring about a bloody confrontation with a shocking twist in the tale.
Doctor
独身者であれば身柄を確保され、とあるホテルへと送られる世界。そこでパートナーを45日以内に見つけなければ、自身が選んだ動物に姿を変えられて森に放たれてしまう。そのホテルにシングルになったデヴィッド（コリン・ファレル）が送られ、パートナー探しを強いられることに。期限となる45日目が迫る中、彼はホテルに充満する狂気に耐え切れず独身者たちが潜んでいる森へと逃げ込む。そこで心を奪われる相手に出会って恋に落ちるが、それは独身者たちが暮らす森ではタブーだった。
The Potter
When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago. After Drago saves Gareth's life the two become intricately bonded, and must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight in this fantasy action-adventure for the ages.
Henry William Pickersgill
第67回カンヌ国際映画祭をはじめ、数々の映画賞で高く評価された感動の物語。ロマン主義の巨匠として知られる天才画家、ターナー。名画創作の影で旅を愛した彼の素顔と創作の秘密を描く。出演はティモシー・スポールら。
Alfred Hitchcock
人気の絶頂でハリウッド・スターの座を捨て、モナコ公妃となったグレース・ケリーはモナコ宮殿のしきたりに馴染めず、公務に勤しむ夫レーニエ3世とのすれ違いも重なり孤独を感じていた。結婚から5年が過ぎた1961年12月、グレースのもとにハリウッド時代の知己だったヒッチコックが新作映画「マーニー」の脚本を携え会いに来る。ヒッチコックは、宮殿で孤立するグレースに「マーニー」の主演を引き受けて欲しい」と依頼する。
Jory
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
Mr. Maddock
Author Terry Finch struggles to find an outlet that will stock or reprint his violent pulp crime series "The Reprisalizer"
Jonathan
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
shopkeeper
世界で最も美しい詩を生み出しながら、25歳という若さで他界した英国詩人ジョン・キーツの半生を映画化。キーツ最期の恋をジェーン・カンピオン監督が繊細に描き上げている。主演はアビー・コーニッシュ。
Mr Humpage
Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
John Sergeant
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.
Science Monk
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine that was once defeated thousands of years ago. The order that awaited its return must now lead a small group of soldiers to destroy it once and for all.
General Doppet
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled in Napoleon's struggle. The opponents are the English but the enemy are the revolutionaries authorities who seek to keep him in his place. Using his astonishing tactical mind, his sheer audacity and extraordinary military bravery, Napoleon emerges victorious and sets out on a path that would one day lead him to the throne of France.
'Khaki' Roberts
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he meets Eddie McNally, who is on leave from the air force and the pair embark on an affair together. However, it is their weekend at the estate of Lord Edward Montagu which eventually leads to a scandal which rocked modern Britain and led to a reconsideration of, and the eventual decriminilisation of homosexuality.
Tom Flannery
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
Mayor
19世紀のフランス占領下のドイツで、兄ウィルと弟ジェイコブのグリム兄弟は、自作自演で怪物退治をして賞金を稼ぎながら、古い物語を収集する旅を続けていた。将軍にそのイカサマを知られてしまった彼らは、少女連続失踪事件の調査を命じられる。＜グリム童話の誕生秘話を、斬新な発想のもとに映像化した大人のファンタジー作品。監督をテリー・ギリアムが務め、グリム兄弟にはマット・デイモンとヒース・レジャーが扮する。“あかずきんちゃん”“ヘンゼルとグレーテル”などおなじみのキャラクターたちが登場するなど斬新なアイデアが満載。＞
Eagle
Laura Fraser stars as a young woman forced to return to her hometown and confront the demons in her past, in this British thriller.
Lord Orwood
ニューヨーク。現在17歳のダフネは、自由で愛を尊重する母リビーと2人暮らし。彼女は今まで明るく幸せな生活を送ってきたが、ただ1つ満たされない気持ちをずっと抱えている。それは、まだダフネが生まれる前に母と別れてしまった実の父親に会いたい、という切実な想いだった。彼の家族が上流階級に属しているせいで離ればなれになった父は今、ロンドンにいる。ある時、ダフネはとうとう意を決し、父のもとへ旅立った。そして、今では爵位を持ち、政治家として活躍する父ヘンリーと念願の対面を果たすダフネだったが…。
Doctor
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
P.T. Barnum
舞台は19世紀半ばのニューヨーク。移民同士の抗争で父を殺され、自身も投獄された少年アムステルダム。15年後、復讐のために素性を隠して、父を殺したギャング団に入り込む。しかし、そこで謎めいた女ジェニーと出会い、許されない恋に落ちてしまう……。
Old Bishop
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament champion—assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.
Friar Tuck
Sherwood forest has a courageous new hero - Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and intelligence of her mother Maid Marian, Gwyn is anxious to follow in her father's footsteps. King Richard nears death and Robin Hood and his Merry Men are summoned to help bring Richard's son Philip to his rightful place on the throne before the evil Prince John can assume power. Robin Hood's life and that of the future King of England soon lies in Gwyn's hands when Robin is captured and sentenced to death.
Writer
Pride going before the fall.
Editor
Pride going before the fall.
Meditating Man
Pride going before the fall.
Director
Pride going before the fall.
Dr. Alwyn Mosgrave
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy's past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her dangerous allure. Betsan Morris Evans's period drama is based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon's.
Sinister German
In the thirteenth film in the series, in March 1917, Indiana Jones, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible Bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort.
Cliff Sniffton (bank manager)
A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
Canon Van Stone
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Bob Bantling
ヘンリー・ジェイムズの原作恋愛大河小説をジェーン・カンピオン監督が映画化。ニコール・キッドマン、ジョン・マルコビッチら豪華キャストで、自由を愛する生き方を貫いたある貴婦人の人生を描いた名作。
The Prosecution Counsel
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
Gent at Mint
After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.
Auctioneer
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Mr. Bung
舞台は中世のイングランド。禁断の恋に苦しんだ青年が運命の女性と巡り合うまでをリリカルに描いた史劇。監督はマイケル・ホフマン、出演はロバート・ダウニーJr.、サム・ニールら。
Walsh
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
MP
1788年の英国。国王ジョージ3世が突然錯乱して王室は大混乱。この英国王室史上最大のスキャンダルをどう収めるのか? 国王をめぐる王室の人々のそれぞれの思惑が巡って……。その行方は?
Dr Eddie Monk
童話作家C・S・ルイスとその妻の実話を映画化した大人のラブストーリー。
Royal Photographer
由緒ある英国バッキンガム宮殿である日、大事件が。王室諸氏の記念撮影中、落雷で全員が感電死してしまったのだ。慌てた英国は、急いで王の後釜を据えるのだが、それは偶然抜擢されたアメリカの観光客で、彼は単なる品のないピアノ弾きだった……。珍妙な王位据え替えを軸に展開するコメディで、監督は「スティング」「ミラグロ／奇跡の地」等の脚本、「メジャーリーグ」の監督として名高いＤ・Ｓ・ウォード。Ｊ・グッドマンのキャラクターに頼りすぎたせいか、少しアイディア倒れの感があるが、気楽に見る分には良い。脇役にＰ・オトゥール、Ｊ・ハートといった曲者が並んでおり、こちらの怪演は楽しめる。
Insp. Tarr
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Lord Cowley
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Harvey
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.
Turpin
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Punter in cafe
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.
Cousin Francis Jr.
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
Moonhead
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?
Det. Sgt. Lestrade
1870年、ロンドンの寄宿舎でホームズとワトソンは出会った……。若き日のふたりの冒険を描いた、スティーヴン・スピルバーグ製作総指揮の傑作アドベンチャー・ムービー。
Mr. Duckworth
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
Radio Producer
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Priest
20世紀のどこかの国。情報省はテロの容疑者「タトル」を「バトル」と打ち間違えてしまい、無関係なバトル氏を無理やり連行していく。それを一部始終見ていた上の階に住むトラック運転手のジルが抗議をするも、全く相手にされない。 一方、情報局に勤めるサムは、このミスをなんとかするために試行錯誤していた。近頃サムは、夢の中でナイトの格好をして、美女を助け出すというおかしな夢を見ていたが、情報省に抗議に来ていたジルがその美女にそっくりだということに気づく。 ある日、サムが家に帰るとダクトが故障しており、非合法のダクト修理屋と名乗るタトルが勝手に直してしまう。サムはまた夢の中でサムライの怪物と戦い、美女を救う夢を見る。サムはジルの正体を知るために断っていた昇格を望み、友人であったジャックの元を訪ねる。そして、様々な事柄が複雑に絡まりあっていく。
1st Coachman
The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course.
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests
