Michael Bryant
출생 : 1928-04-05, London, England, UK
사망 : 2002-04-25
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Michael Dennis Bryant (5 April 1928 – 25 April 2002) was a British stage and television actor.
Bryant attended Battersea Grammar School and after service in the Merchant Navy and Army, he attended drama school and appeared in many productions on the London stage. He made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2's 1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy. His guest star appearance as Wing Commander Marsh, who feigns insanity in the 'Tweedledum' episode of the BBC drama series, Colditz (1972), is still widely remembered.
Bryant was chosen by Orson Welles to play the lead role in The Deep, Welles's adaptation of the Charles Williams novel Dead Calm. The production frequently ran out of money, and following the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, Welles stopped production and announced the movie - which had been completed except for one special effects shot of a ship exploding - would not be released. (The novel was finally adapted to film in 1989.)
In 1969 Bryant took his love of the stage on a strange trip into the realm of cult films, playing a clever male prostitute who outwits a delusional family of killers in the dark comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, an adaptation of a play by Maisie Mosco. Due to poor marketing and a lack of faith in the film by the distributor, the film quickly sank into obscurity even before it could develop a cult following.
One of Bryant's most memorable performances was in the classic BBC television play The Stone Tape (1972), in which he plays the leader of a team of scientists who investigate ghost sightings in a brooding gothic mansion.
Bryant also had a supporting role as a sadistic psychiatrist in the cult classic black comedy The Ruling Class, with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. He also appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) as a British diplomat.
Having played Lenin in the film Nicholas and Alexandria, Bryant would later reprise the role in Robert Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977). He had previously co-starred in Bolt's unsuccessful Gentle Jack. The 1977 production of a Bolt play though was significant for featuring the first role he performed at the National Theatre where he was a constant presence for a quarter of a century. Bryant, described by Michael Billington as "rock-solid company man", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965), in which he played Teddy, the returning academic.
In 1980, Michael Bryant won the London Drama Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and his other theatrical performances were equally well thought of. Bryant won Laurence Olivier Awards in 1988 and 1990 and was nominated twice more.
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Self
A computer analyst suddenly finds himself the focus of Hollywood elites after creating a character that goes viral online in the early days of internet video. After reaching the top he finds himself where he started and contemplates the meaning of success and the value of his own art. Securing a top Hollywood agent, promise of starring in a DreamWorks Film and his own TV show a true story.
as John Ingram
A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting. Shot in a piecemeal fashion between 1966 and 1969 and plagued with production problems, this film never completed principal photography and never entered post-production. The original negatives are now considered to be lost, and the film only exists in two incomplete workprint versions (one color and one black-and-white), which have received isolated public screenings since 2007.
God/ The Doctor
예수의 일대기를 그린 애니메이션으로서, 영국과 러시아의 동영상 애니메이션 작가 3백여 명이 참여, 3년 간의 작업기간을 거쳐 제작한 점토 애니메이션이라는 특징을 갖고 있다. 이스라엘을 배경으로 다말이란 이름을 가진 병에 걸린 어린 소녀와 바리새인이며 아이의 아버지인 회당장 야이로, 그리고 예수님의 우연한 만남에서 출발한다.'예수님은 세례요한으로부터 세례를 받은 이후 갖가지 이적을 행하고, 마침내 예수님은 로마 권력 앞에 무릎을 꿇은 유대교 지도자들과 로마 총독 빌라도의 최후 결정에 의해 십자가에 매어 달린다'는 성경 내용에 충실한 이야기를 담고 있다. 세계성서공회 총재 마틴 로빈슨은 “이 영화는 성경에 대한 깊은 학문적인 연구와 역사적 탐구의 결실로 이뤄진 권위가 충분히 입증된 작품”이라고 평했다.
Fool
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Priest
덴마크 왕국. 죽음처럼 뒤덮은 눈의 침묵 속에서 형의 왕위와 그의 아름다운 아내를 차지하기 위해 클라디우스는 평화롭게 잠이 든 왕의 귀에 독약을 흘려넣어 독살한다. 왕의 아들 햄릿은 아버지의 죽음 뒤에 연이은 어머니와 삼촌의 재혼을 두고 꼬리에 꼬리를 물고 이어지는 소문 속에서 고통받는다. 그러던 그의 앞에 아버지의 혼령이 나타나 자신의 죽음에 얽힌 진실을 토로한다. 그리고 아들에게 복수를 명령하는데..
Self (segment "The deep") (archive footage)
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).
Commander Martin Brierly
A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl
Advocate
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".
Syshchikov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Doctor Caius
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is beseiged by suitors.
Principal Secretary
영국에 유학해 변호사 자격을 딴 간디(벤 킹슬리)는 1893년 남아프리카에 가 소송사건을 맡는다. 간디는 그 곳에서 유색인종에 대한 차별대우를 받게 된다. 이를 계기로 그는 남아프리카의 인도 거류민을 돕기 위한 다양한 활동을 시작한다. 이후 1915년, 간디는 인도로 돌아와 인도독립을 위한 노력을 하게 된다. 그는 비폭력운동을 주도하면서 수차례 투옥되기도 한다. 인도는 마침내 1947년 8월 영국으로부터 독립을 이룬다. 그러나 힌두교와 이슬람교의 종교적 대립으로 인해 인도와 파키스탄으로 나뉘어 독립을 하게 된다. 이후에도 종교분쟁을 해결하기 위해 노력했던 간디는 1948년 1월 과격파 힌두교도가 쏜 총탄에 암살당한다.
Mike
Documentary portrait of the life of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in April 1967.
Reader
Perhaps this is Robert Vas' most personal film; a portrait of his country - Hungary - as seen through the eyes of an exile. Robert Vas escaped from his homeland after the brutal crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising by the Russians and he was never able to return. He portrays his country through the writings of Hungary's national poets and illustrates the film with images of the Revolution and of the society it would become in the years immediately following 1956. The film was transmitted on the 20th anniversary of the crushing of the uprising.
Sam McInstrey
Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
The Rev. Justin Somerton
Pride comes before a fall in John Bowen' adaptation of MR James' tale of a treasure hunt with a sticky end. Michael Bryant plays The Reverend Somerton whose self-assured intellectual arrogance masks a naked greed.
Mr Axelford
A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Bosola
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her.
Dr. Herder
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Peter Brock
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
Lenin
대내외적으로 전운이 감도는 제정 러시아 말기. 오랫동안 기다려왔던 왕자가 태어나자 로마노프 왕가는 기쁨에 휩싸인다. 그러나 그것도 잠시, 왕자의 혈우병 사실이 밝혀지면서 황제 니콜라스(Nicholas: 마이클 제이스톤 분)와 황후 알렉산드라(Alexandra: 자넷 수즈만 분)는 깊은 슬픔에 삼긴다. 기적을 행하는 것으로 알려진 그레고리 신부가 죽음 직전에 이른 왕자를 살려내자 알렉산드라는 맹목적으로 그의 말만을 따르게 된다. 부동항을 얻기 위한 러.일 전쟁도 실패로 돌아가고, 전쟁과 굶주림에 시달린 백성들은 대규모의 폭동을 일으키는데 군대의 과잉 충성으로 수백명이 사살되는 엄청난 사건이 발생한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 왕권 신수설을 신봉하는 니콜라스는 의회와 사사건건 대립하면서 독일을 치기 위해 군대 총동원령을 선포하여 백성들로부터 신임을 잃고 만다. 한편, 활발한 지하 활동을 벌이던 공산 세력은 레닌을 중심으로 혁명을 꾀하는데...
New Friend
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.
Vershinin
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Max Staefel
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Colin Williams (segment 1 "Enoch")
마을축제에서 Dr. Diabolo의 Torture Garden에 들어선 사람들..그저 허접한 고문이나 시체들을 보여주겠거니 했더니 디아블로는 5파운드를 더 내면 무시시한 공포를 보게해 주겠단다..이에 5명이 돈을 내고 들어서는데..닥터 디아블로는 그저 돈은 태워버리고 다섯 명에게 무시무시한 경험을 안긴다.
Dr. Danny Tate
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
John's Counsel
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Sixth Officer James Moody
모든 면에서 세계 최고를 자랑하며 영국인들에게 자부심을 주었던 타이타닉 호는 1912년 리버풀을 출발해 뉴욕으로 처녀 항해를 시작한다. 대부호와 귀족들인 1등실 승객들과 그 보다는 초라하고 옹색하지만 짙은 인간미를 지닌 2등실, 3등실 승객들, 그리고 모든 선원들까지 합해 2,200명에 달하는 사람들을 태우고 항해를 하던 타이타닉은 몇 차례의 다른 배들로부터 항로에 얼음과 빙산이 있다는 경고를 받지만 이를 무시하고 항해하다 빙산에 부딪쳐 침몰하는 운명에 처하게 된다. '가라앉지 않는 배'라고 자부하며 항해하던 이 세계 최고의 초호화 여객선 타이타닉호가 속수무책으로 침몰하는 동안 사람들은 죽음의 사투를 벌이게 되는데...
Peterson
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins (Dennis Morgan) and mining engineer Grady Mathews (William Talman) find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams (Patricia Medina.) Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancee. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
Stebbings
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
