Kenneth Colley
Nascimento : 1937-12-07, Manchester, England, UK
História
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979.
Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets.
Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing".
According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven. He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law.
He currently lives at Hythe in Kent.
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Weaver
When Luke wakes up and finds a mutilated corpse in his bathroom, his life changes for ever. Stalked by a terrifying psychopathic serial killer, he has to place his trust in the hands of a smart but volatile female cop, Sam Cross. The secret they uncover shatters Luke s life and brings Sam face to face with demons from her tragic childhood..
Admiral Piett (voice)
Uma nova ameaça imperial foi detectada e os heróis deverão cortar o mal pela raiz. Mas o Jedi em treinamento Luke descobre que a fama instantânea como um "Death-Star-Blower-Upper" pode ser uma faca de dois gumes, já que sua missão secreta a Naboo é prejudicada pelos mais incansáveis dos inimigos, seus fãs alucinados!! Enquanto isso, o dia de Darth Vader vai de mal a pior quando seu relacionamento com o imperador é ameaçado pela chegada inesperada de Darth Maul. As tentativas de Luke e Vader de se provar os levam a uma luta contra seus próprios destinos.
Ken
It's Cathy's party, but she's not having a good time. The boys have found an Ouija board and are out for some harmless fun. When strange things start to happen, they blame each other, but the joke goes too far and soon they realize it isn't a joke at all...
Rawsthorne
Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and Dee was hounded from her home. Dee has kept all this a secret from her 15-year-old son Jamie. Now he has discovered the truth about his father and demands to see him.
Uncle Bob
A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway through a forest with the purpose of having sex with their leader. But when morning comes and the authorities show up to disband the protesters, she hits a man with a log. This causes the two to have to go on the run. With the help of a sickly, but sympathetic woman, the two slip through police roadblocks. Traveling with her, they learn she is an ex-army lesbian who just wants to see a final sunrise at the Orkney Islands before her death.
Larcombe
Haskell (Michael Caine) is assigned a job by his boss, the aristocratic Landon-Higgins (James Fox), to highjack a high security van in broad daylight while it's in the shadow run (out of radio contact with the main security firm). He assembles a team to carry out the heist, but things don't go according to plan and Haskell begins to think his boss might be double crossing him. Add to this, a teenage boarding school pupil has already witnessed some of the meetings of the team and Haskell's in real trouble.
Greasley
A notícia de que a mina de carvão de uma cidade inglesa irá fechar deixa os moradores apreensivos. Eles temem o desemprego, pois a mina é a principal empregadora da região. Mas todos encontram na banda de música local a motivação que faltava para continuar lutando por seus ideais.
Archdale
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
Nathan
In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.
Inspector Gerry Reckless
Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a further degree of difficulty, Dalgliesh must contend with a colleague on the case, the aptly named Inspector Reckless.
John Ireland
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
Street Sweeper
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Capt. Dreyfus
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.
Nick
In a brilliant, modern version of the classic shipwreck tale, director Marleen Gorris manages to capture both a gay male’s and feminist perspective. After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue fade as the survivors come to realise that the world may have suffered a major disaster. They have to rely on their own resources and at first manage to live harmoniously. But gradually tensions rise after a failed attempt to escape. Intolerance threatens their very existence as one of the men begins to put himself forward as the leader of the group.
The Killer
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
Sergej
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Wilhelm Keitel
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Mr. Brunt
Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (teaching), she has an affair with a young Army officer, who wants to marry her. Unable to accept a future of domesticity, she breaks with him, and eventually leaves home in search of her destiny.
Jim
A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
Le Duc
TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.
Bill Pickett
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Adolph Eichmann
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
The Traveller
A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.
Admiral Piett
O imperador está supervisionando a construção de uma nova Estrela da Morte. Enquanto isso Luke Skywalker liberta Han Solo e a Princesa Leia das mãos de Jaba. Luke só se tornará um cavaleiro jedi quando destruir Darth Vader, que ainda pretende atraí-lo para o lado sombrio da Força.
Capt. Hirsch
O padre Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) tomou para si uma missão corajosa e perigosa: ajudar a esconder refugiados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele monta uma verdadeira rede de colaboradores em Roma, para evitar que as tropas alemãs prendam e matem ainda mais pessoas. Porém, quando o chefe da polícia nazista, coronel Kappler (Christopher Plummer), descobre, passa a perseguir o clérigo. Além disso, O'Flaherty tem de lidar com a indiferença do Papa Pio XII, que insiste numa suposta "neutralidade" da Igreja.
Martin
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
Colonel Kontarsky
Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) é um piloto americano aposentado, que foi abatido e se tornou prisioneiro na Guerra do Vietnã, lhe gerando traumas de guerra. Por ser filho de russos recebe como missão roubar o “Firefox”, o mais avançado caça já fabricado e criado pelos soviéticos. Ele é enviado para a Rússia, mas há um problema: as ordens para comandar a aeronave são dadas por pensamento, mas é necessário que se pense em russo.
Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Admiral Piett
Após a destruição da Estrela da Morte, as forças imperiais continuam a perseguir os rebeldes. Após a derrota da Rebelião no planeta de gelo Hoth, Luke viaja para o planeta Dagobah para treinar com o Mestre Jedi Yoda, que vive escondido desde a queda da República. Numa tentativa de converter Luke para o lado negro, Darth Vader atrai o jovem Skywalker para uma armadilha na Cidade Nuvem de Bespin.
Jesus
A produção é uma sátira aos filmes bíblicos e à intolerância religiosa. Na Palestina do ano 1 d.C., três reis magos trazem presentes à mãe de Brian, confundindo-o com Jesus que nasceu no mesmo dia, na manjedoura ao lado. Brian, depois de crescido, engaja-se em um dos muitos grupos revolucionários que se opõem ao domínio romano. Após tentar seqüestrar a mulher de Pôncio Pilatos com seu grupo, ele é visto como Messias pela uma multidão, ávida por lideranças religiosas.
Duke Vincentio
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Frank Benyon
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
Bruce Tetley
Flashpoint for the Revolution is at Bellevue, Manchester. Will the plumber's mates be part of that revolution?
1st Fanatic
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Frederic Chopin
Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and destruction.
Tony Devlin
Light the Rock 'n Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame. Set in the hardships of North England's seventies working class society and music scene. This build-up from rags to riches is a parody of realism and grit, with double-dealings and harsh unforgiving dog eat dog mentalities, and the golden rule; if you play with matches then you're going to get burnt, in the flames of the music industry.
Detective Brown
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Krenek
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
Boldt
Baseada em testemunhas oculares, o filme acompanha os últimos dias de Hitler (Alec Guinness) antes de ter cometido suicídio, percorrendo desde os momentos em que passou no bunker com seus capangas militares até sua relação conturbada com Eva Braun (Doris Kunstmann).
Provo Corporal
After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant posted nearby.
Legrand
Ambientado durante o violento regime católico que tomava conta da França nos idos de 1631, parte da suposta possessão de uma madre-superiora cujas fantasias sexuais com o mais proeminente padre do vilarejo de Loudon resulta num dos mais sangrentos episódios daquela era.
Modeste Tchaikovsky
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Tony Farrell
A primeira de várias incursões de Jagger no cinema, o pôlemico Performance sofreu várias montagens diferentes até seu lançamento. Um gângster (James Fox) jurado de morte por seus pares se refugia na mansão de um rockstar decadente (Mick Jagger), junto com duas garotas andróginas (Anita Pallenberg e Michelle Breton), e lá tem seus sentidos testados por um coquetel de drogas e perversão. Ao mesmo tempo, há um choque entre os mundo do gângster e do roqueiro, com suas diferenças.
Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies. (BFI Screenonline)
James
A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
2nd Replacement
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
De Winter
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Nick
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Covent Garden porter
A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
