John McEnery
Nascimento : 1943-11-01, Birmingham, England
Morte : 2019-04-12
História
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John McEnery (1943-2019) was a British actor and writer.
At age 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the British National Theatre Company in 1966. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
He starred alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet The Boat on the Grass about a girl between two friends and appeared as Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. He was nominated for a BAFTA for the latter performance. He also appeared in the film Nicholas and Alexandra. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander.
In 1998 he wrote the play Merry Christmas, Mr. Burbage in honour of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Globe Theatre.
McEnery is survived by two daughters, Phoebe and Chloe, by his former wife, actress Stephanie Beacham. One of his brothers is actor Peter McEnery, and another is photographer David McEnery.
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Apothecary
Em pleno século XVII vive Griet, uma jovem camponesa. Devido a dificuldades financeiras, Griet é obrigada a trabalhar na casa de Johannes Vermeer, um renomado pintor. Aos poucos, ele começa a prestar atenção na jovem, de apenas 17 anos, fazendo dela a sua musa inspiradora para um dos seus mais famosos trabalhos: "Rapariga com Brinco de Pérola".
John of Gaunt
A performance of Shakespeare's Richard II broadcast live from the Globe Theatre, London.
Jack Durbeyfield
Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child of Nature who is tossed around by the dark forces of fate. Jason Flemyng is the dark and sinister Alec D'Urberville whose relentless pursuit of Tess triggers the heroine's downfall. Oliver Milburn plays the handsome young Angel Clare, the caring rebel who falls deeply in love with Tess.
The Governor of Harfleur / Archbishop of Canterbury / Pistol
A documentary about Shakespeare's Globe opening performance of "Henry V" in 1997. The documentary combines the performance of Act IV with rehearsal shots and opening gala footage.
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.
Joe Muir
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
Mr. York
No final do século passado, no pequeno estábulo da fazenda do Sr. Grey nasceu um potro com uma marca de nascença muito especial: uma estrela branca, bem no meio de sua testa. Negra era seu nome! Destinado a viver em um mundo sofrendo as mudanças do tempo, Beleza Negra fez vários amigos, como o simpático Jerry Barker e o jovem Joe Green, mas também muitos inimigos. Confiou em estranhos... Sobreviveu às armadilhas da natureza... E enfrentou todo o tipo de perigo... Sempre em busca de um lugar seguro, onde pudesse encontrar amor e carinho. Das belas paisagens do campo aos becos mais escuros de Londres, ele viveu a maior aventura de sua vida.
Königsberater
Deus decide fazer uma nova promessa à humanidade depois das calamidades que culminaram no desastre da Torre de Babel. Abraão é escolhido para torna-se o "Pai das Nações" e a história da redenção se inicia.
Reg Faulkner
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Walter
Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Osric
Hamlet (Mel Gibson), Príncipe da Dinamarca, retorna ao seu país-natal quando seu pai, o rei, morre. Ao chegar, já encontra sua mãe (Glenn Close) casada com seu tio (Alan Bates), que se tornara rei. Mas logo o fantasma do pai de Hamlet surge e conta ao filho que seu tio e sua mãe o tinham assassinado. Hamlet passa então a ser atormentado pela decisão de vingar a morte do pai ou ter uma atitude passiva em relação ao fato.
Eddie Pellam
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Wizard Beguildy
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently.
Loshkevoi
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.
Captain Hopkins
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
Algernon Swinburne
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
Diczek
Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
Monsignor Kuczkowski
João Paulo II foi um dos líderes religiosos mais influentes do século 20. Reconhecido por ajudar a acabar com o regime comunista da Polônia, e eventualmente de toda a Europa, ele melhorou significativamente as relações da igreja com outras religiões.
Reverend Francis Davey
The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.
Lucio
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.
Chevalier
Keith Carradine e Harvey Keitel estrelam este filme dirigido por Ridley Scott (Gladiador), sobre dois oficiais do exército de Napoleão, que se enfrentam violentamente numa série de duelos. Os duelos começam por causa de um incidente insignificante e se tornaram ferozmente compulsivos, passando a reger a vida dos dois homens, durante 15 anos. Baseado na história de Joseph Conrad, Os Duelistas explora os temas de obsessão, honra e violência. Este filme visualmente deslumbrante desenrola uma trama instigante até seu inesperado final. Foi premiado com Melhor Filme de Estréia em 1977, no Festival de Cannes.
Stephens
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Federzoni
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
Captain Von Schoenvorts
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um navio alemão afunda um navio inglês e traz os sobreviventes para bordo. Depois de uma curva errada, o submarino os leva à terra desconhecida de Caprona, onde encontram dinossauros e neandertais.
Wick Blagdon
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts a couple of other unsavoury confused characters.
Vadim
Old Man on Wagon
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
Kerensky
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Olivier
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.
Bartleby
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Philippe
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
John
Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin. One morning Peter, John and Colin see a middle aged man, Clive, fall out of a motor cruiser into the water. They rescue him and decide to ransom him for £1,000. Peter and Elsa are-reunited but Elsa then commences an affair with Colin. Clive turns out to be Elsa's father.
Mercutio
Na cidade italiana de Verona, as famílias Montecchio e Capuleto brigam eternamente. Quando Romeu, um belo jovem Montecchio, vai a um baile dos Capuletos, se apaixona pela bela Julieta, uma Capuleto. Após um breve namoro, os dois fogem, criando maiores tensões entre as famílias.
Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
