Charles Wood

Nascimento : 1932-08-06, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

História

Charles Wood was born on August 6, 1932 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK. He is a writer and director, known for Iris (2001), The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) and The Bed Sitting Room (1969). He has been married to Valerie Newman since February 24, 1954. They have two children

Filmes

O Amante
Screenplay
Peter (Liam Neeson) e Lisa (Laura Linney) são casados e levam uma vida pacata. Ele dirige sua própria companhia, enquanto que ela é designer de sapatos. Até que, na festa de lançamento de sua última coleção, Lisa pergunta a Peter se jamais desejara ficar com outra pessoa. Logo em seguida desaparece, o que o leva ao desespero. Tentando encontrá-la ele segue à Itália, onde conhece Ralph (Antonio Banderas). Peter sabe que ele é o amante de sua esposa, mas Ralph guarda alguns segredos.
Iris
Screenplay
A história de amor entre a novelista e filósofa Iris Murdoch e seu marido, o professor John Bayley, contada em duas épocas distintas: na juventude, quando se conheceram, e na velhice, quando Iris sofre do mal de Alzheimer.
Alta Velocidade
Production Design
No perigoso universo do automobilismo, pilotos arriscam suas vidas para chegar ao topo do pódio. Para vencer o rival Beau Brandenburg, o iniciante Jimmy Blye pede ajuda a Joe Tanto, veterano astro das pistas que precisa superar os próprios traumas.
O Implacável
Production Design
De volta sua cidade natal por causa do enterro de seu irmão, Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone) resolve investigar quem o matou e, consequentemente, parte para uma sangrenta vingança. Durante sua jornada, ele forçado a reavaliar a situação de sua famíia, sua carreira e a si mesmo.
Sharpe's Waterloo
Screenplay
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Sharpe's Regiment
Screenplay
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
Jogos de Ilusão
Writer
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
England, My England
Writer
The story of Henry Purcell.
A Breed of Heroes
Writer
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
Sharpe's Company
Writer
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Tumbledown
Writer
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Puccini
Writer
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
Red Monarch
Writer
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Cuba
Writer
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Do as I Say
Writer
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
The Bed Sitting Room
Adaptation
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
The Long Day's Dying
Screenplay
Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
A Carga da Brigada Ligeira
Writer
1954. O capitão Louis Edward Nolan (David Hemmings) é um oficial do exército que está desapontado com seu comandante, o lorde Cardigan (Trevor Howard). Ele é enviado à Turquia juntamente com o lorde Raglan (John Gielgud), um oficial desastrado que tem problemas de memória. A missão deles é combater a invasão russa ao local, durante a Guerra da Criméia.
How I Won the War
Screenplay
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Beatles - Help!
Screenplay
Help é o segundo filme da banda Britânica The Beatles. O álbum homónimo saiu no mesmo ano. O filme conta a história dum culto indiano que a cada dia escolhe uma vítima para ser sacrificada perante a deusa da morte kaili. Para isso, fornecem-lhe um anel que usará até que chegue a hora da sua morte. Porém este anel desaparece e descobre-se que foi enviado para Inglaterra, como presente a Ringo Starr, que caso não o devolva, se tornará a nova vítima. Porém, há um problema, ele não consegue tirá-lo do dedo.
A Bossa da Conquista
Screenplay
Em Londres um professor, Colin (Michael Crawford), aluga quartos em sua casa. Um inquilino, Tolen (Ray Brooks), é um sedutor incansável, que transa pelo menos 5 horas por dia. Colin quer aprender um pouco da arte de sedução, pois em dois anos só esteve com duas mulheres. A situação incomoda tanto Colin que ele imagina uma longa fila de jovens mulheres na sua casa, esperando para entrar no quarto de Tolen. Sentindo ciúme de Tolen com as mulheres, Colin lhe pede conselhos para ser um bom conquistador mas estes se revelam pouco práticos. Então Colin decide que seu primeiro passo será comprar uma cama grande e, quando está fazendo isto, conhece Nancy Jones (Rita Tushingham), que acaba de chegar na cidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)