Malcolm Muggeridge

Nascimento : 1903-03-24, Sanderstead, Surrey, England

Morte : 1990-11-14

História

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a prominent socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, and the experience turned him into a forceful anti-communist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris. In the aftermath of the war, he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was also a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use. Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life, which were published in 1981 under the title Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge, and he developed them into two volumes of an uncompleted autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge)

Filmes

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears
Himself (archive footage)
The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".
Herostratus
Radio Presenter (voice)
When Max, a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
Alice in Wonderland
Gryphon
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Twilight of Empire
Self
Documentary following British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, as he returns to India for the first time in decades. He discusses his youthful experience teaching in an Indian college and writing for a Calcutta newspaper, and reflects on the changes in India since those days.
O Pior dos Pecados
Cleric
Um capelão da prisão ingênuo, porém caridoso, que por acaso tem o mesmo sobrenome de um clérigo de classe alta, é por engano indicado como vigário de uma pequena e próspera cidade rural. Sua crença na caridade e no perdão o coloca em desacordo com os moradores locais conservadores e tacanhos, e ele logo cria ações sociais nomeando um lixeiro negro como seu sacristão da igreja, recebendo uma família cigana, e persuadindo o dono da terra local a fornecer comida de graça para a igreja distribuir gratuitamente na cidade. Quando os líderes da congregação percebem o erro e pedem para a Igreja da Inglaterra removê-lo, isso acaba sendo uma questão muito, muito difícil - até que um clérigo se lembra que um projeto britânico para enviar um homem ao espaço está precisando de um astronauta. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)