Ralph Nossek

Ralph Nossek

Nascimento : 1923-01-01, St. George in the East, London, England, UK

Morte : 2011-12-05

Perfil

Ralph Nossek

Filmes

Falando Grego
Barnaby
Georgia (Nia Vardalos) é uma americana de origem grega que trabalha como guia turística acompanhando viajantes justamente.... pela Grécia. Ela vive entediada, uma vez que o grupo de turistas parece curtir mais as compras de camisetas do que aprender alguma coisa sobre história. Esse choque de personalidades e culturas deixa a situação da jovem cada vez pior. Até um dia em que aparece um turista muito especial, o senhor Irv Gordon (Richard Dreyfuss). É ele quem vai mostrar a ela as possibilidades de viver de forma feliz, aconselhando a moça a prestar atenção naquele que Georgia jamais imaginaria que pudesse se apaixonar: o grego e sexy motorista de ônibus Poupi (Alexis Georgoulis).
Sra. Henderson Apresenta
Leslie Pearkes
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs. Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
The Tichborne Claimant
Workhouse Master
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Cidadão X
Dunenkov
Baseado na história real de um serial killer russo que, que ao longo dos anos, alegou ter matado mais de 50 pessoas. Suas vítimas eram na maioria menores de 17 anos. No que era então um estado comunista, as investigações policiais foram dificultadas pela burocracia, incompetência e pessoas no poder. A história é contada do ponto de vista do detetive responsável pelo caso.
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
Insp. Tansill
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.
The Rainbow
Vicar
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.
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Sergei Akhromeyev
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
T. Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia
Home Secretary
An experimental mix of thriller and documentary exploring the scandal centred on the one-time Newcastle Council Leader, aka The Mouth of the Tyne, who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1974 for corruption. A dynamic and visionary politician, Smith collaborated closely as Amber unpicked the story of a leftwing group of ex-war resisters who took control of the city council in 1960, the socialist and civic ambitions and the betrayals; the claims of MI5 involvement, of ministerial cover-ups and the unseen role of the Privy Council. With Smith appearing as himself and filmmakers Murray Martin and Steve Trafford as two journalists, the film interrogates the interviews and archive footage, weaving them together with a fictional scandal unfolding on the streets around them…
The Whistle Blower
Make-Up Man
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...
Brazil: O Filme
Interview Official
Sam Lowry vive num Estado totalitário, controlado pelos computadores e pela burocracia. Neste Estado, que lida com o terrorismo, todos são governados por fichas e cartões de crédito e ainda precisam pagar por tudo, até mesmo a permanência na prisão. Neste mundo opressivo, Sam acaba se apaixonando por Jill, uma terrorista.
Anna Karenina
Grisha
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Success Is the Best Revenge
Magistrate
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland and the politics of exile at a West End theater. His single-minded determination to succeed causes him to take advantage of others, and because of his need for backing, he turns to a low-life businessman (John Hurt) to bail him out. His wife is anything but happy about his behavior and dislikes this last decision even more. This is an interesting study of how a father and son become alienated in a conflict between cultural identity and its exploitation.
Squaring the Circle
Official
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
A Pattern of Roses
Mr. Bellinger (The Past)
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
Country
Mr Joseph
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.
Murphy's Stroke
Magistrate
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
Comedians
Bert Challenor
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Last Summer
Tattersall
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.