Paul Jesson

Nascimento : 1946-01-01, UK

Filmes

Sitting
John
Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
A Balada de Adam Henry
Humphrey
À medida que casamento com Jack se desmorona, a eminente Juíza do Supremo Tribunal, Fiona Maye, tem de tomar uma decisão difícil no seu trabalho – é seu dever forçar um adolescente, Adam, a receber a transfusão de sangue que lhe irá salvar a vida? A visita pouco ortodoxa da juíza ao hospital onde se encontra Adam tem um impacto profundo nos dois, provocando novas e fortes emoções no rapaz e sentimentos há muito esquecidos nela.
O Segredo de Marrowbone
Doctor
Quatro irmãos, devastados com a morte trágica da mãe, decidem se refugiar em uma localidade rural, temendo ser separados pelo serviço social. No entanto, o local esconde um obscuro e perigoso segredo que desafiará a união e sobrevivência dos quatro.
The Sound of Music Live!
Admiral von Schreiber
The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.
Sr. Turner
William Turner Snr
"Sr. Turner" explora o último quarto de século da vida do ótimo e excêntrico pintor britânico JMW Turner (1775-1851). Profundamente afetado pela morte de seu pai, amado por sua governanta que ele ocasionalmente explora sexualmente, ele cria uma relação estreita com uma senhoria à beira-mar com quem ele eventualmente vive incógnito no Chelsea, onde ele morre. Enquanto tudo isso acontece ele viaja, pinta, convive com a aristocracia do país, visita bordéis, é um membro popular e anárquico da Royal Academy of Arts, se faz amarrar ao mastro de um navio para que possa pintar uma tempestade de neve e é, ao mesmo tempo, celebrado e insultado pelo público e pela realeza.
Closer to the Moon
Studio Manager
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
National Theatre Live: Travelling Light
Maurice Montgomery
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
Coriolano
Tribune Brutus
A população de Roma está faminta. Coriolano (Ralph Fiennes), considerado o herói da cidade, é um grande soldado que despreza o povo. Manipulado por políticos e até mesmo por sua própria mãe, Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave), ele acaba sendo banido da cidade e oferece seus serviços ao maior inimigo, Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler). Juntos, eles marcham rumo a Roma no intuito de destruir a cidade.
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Earl of Gloucester
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Margaret
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
O Segredo de Vera Drake
Magistrate
Londres, 1950. Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) mora com seu marido Stan (Philip Davis) e seus filhos já crescidos, Sid (Daniel Mays) e Ethel (Alex Kelly). Eles não são ricos, mas formam uma família feliz e unida. Vera trabalha como faxineira e Stan é mecânico na oficina de seu irmão. Porém, Vera mantém uma atividade paralela que esconde do resto da família: sem aceitar pagamento, ajuda jovens mulheres a abortarem. Quando uma dessas garotas precisa seguir para o hospital, a polícia começa uma investigação que faz o mundo de Vera desabar.
Danielle Cable:  Eyewitness
Brian Boyce
Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion robbery and the murder of a policeman. The only witness to the killing of Stephen Cameron was his fiancée, Danielle Cable, who was forced to change her identity after giving the evidence which convicted Noye.
Agora ou Nunca
Ron
O amor de Penny (Lesley Manville) por seu companheiro, o motorista de táxi Phil (Timothy Spall), secou. Phil é gentil e sem ambições, enquanto que ela trabalha como caixa de supermecado. Rachel (Alison Garland), filha deles, faz faxina na casa de idosos e o filho do casal, Rory (James Corden), está desempregado e desenvolveu uma agressividade acentuada, preferindo ficar sentado o dia todo no sofá a fazer algo produtivo da vida. A alegria abandonou completamente a relação de Phil e Penny. Até que Rory fica doente, é internado no hospital com problemas cardíacos e muda a perspectiva das coisas. O incidente primeiro evidencia os problemas no relacionamento deles, depois acaba aproximando-os pela primeira vez em anos.
Resnick: Rough Treatment
Det Chief Supt Jack Skelton
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Det Chief Supt Jack Skelton
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
Quartermaine's Terms
Derek Meadle
The setting is the staffroom of an English language college for foreign students somewhere in Cambridge. I think that Edward Fox was born to play the role of protagonist St. John Quartermaine. St. John (pronounced 'sinjun') is a kind and lonely language professor who is becoming increasingly absent-minded and forgetful, probably due to some form of creeping dementia. Having loyally served at the college since its founding, his life revolves around work as he appears to have no social life of his own. He is well liked by his colleagues, however they take advantage of his good nature and are always too preoccupied with their own concerns to really notice what we the viewers see- a man gradually and inexorably heading towards crisis, in desperate need of care and support.
Love's Labour's Lost
Costard
When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
First Citizen
BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
The Tragedy of Richard III
George, Duke of Clarence
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
Henry VI Part 3
George, Duke of Clarence
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Henry VI Part 2
John Holland / George Plantagenet
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Henry VI Part 1
Second Messenger to King
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Acceptable Levels
Major Green
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.
Cymbeline
Cloten
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
(Archive Material)
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Home Sweet Home
Man in Dressing Gown
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
The Winter's Tale
Clown
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
The Muscle Market
John
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Waiting at the Field Gate
Ron
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?