John Fortune

John Fortune

出生 : 1939-06-30, Bristol, England, UK

死亡 : 2013-12-31

略歴

John Fortune was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John Bird.

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Coup!
Writer
Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.
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John the Chauffeur
ロンドンの会員制テニスクラブでコーチとして働きだした、元プロ選手のアイルランド人青年クリス。富豪の御曹司トムの知遇を得たクリスは、その妹クロエと付き合うように。そんな折、クリスの前に魅惑的な女性ノラが出現。トムの婚約者である彼女は、女優として成功するのを夢見る米国人だった。クロエと結婚したクリスの人生が上り調子になるのと対照的に、ノラとトムは別れてしまうが、クリスとノラは不倫をするようになる。
Calendar Girls
Frank
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes. They begin with the formation of Iraq by the British in the early 20th Century, through the bombing of villages to control the tribes, the establishment of a king in the area through to the modern day trade meetings with Saddam Hussein.
テイラー・オブ・パナマ
Maltby
太平洋と大西洋を結ぶ、パナマ運河の運営に苦しむ政府。この運河が他国へ売却されたらどうなるのか? ピアース・ブロスナンが、ボンドとは違ったタイプのスパイを演じるサスペンス・アクション。
Maybe Baby
Acupuncturist
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.
Saving Grace
Melvyn
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Giving Tongue
Chief Executive
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters are complicated when she rekindles her friendship with Barb, who still works for a hunt. The plot thickens further when it becomes aparent that the House of Lords is likely break with convention and block the bill, an event which the Prime Minister hopes to use for his own ends.
Giving Tongue
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters are complicated when she rekindles her friendship with Barb, who still works for a hunt. The plot thickens further when it becomes aparent that the House of Lords is likely break with convention and block the bill, an event which the Prime Minister hopes to use for his own ends.
A Very Open Prison
Prime Minister
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor
England, My England
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
The story of Henry Purcell.
Don't Leave Me This Way
George Saunders
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
Life After Life
Detective Inspector Curtin
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
Bloodbath at the House of Death
John Harrison
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.
Timon of Athens
Poet
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
The Light Princess
Prince
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
The Cobblers of Umbridge
Writer
A parody of the long running radio show "The Archers", an everyday story of country-folk based in the fictional village of Umbridge.
The Cobblers of Umbridge
Phil Cobbler
A parody of the long running radio show "The Archers", an everyday story of country-folk based in the fictional village of Umbridge.
Rentadick
Additional Dialogue
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Take a Girl Like You
Sir Gerald
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Server
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
The Drinking Party
Phaedrus
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.