Alfred Lynch
Nascimento : 1931-01-26, London, England, UK
Morte : 2003-12-16
História
Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was a British actor on stage, film and television.
Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a draughtsman's office before entering national service. Then, whilst working in a factory, he attended theatre acting evening classes, at which he met his life partner, James Culliford.
In 1958 he joined the Royal Court Theatre and acted in a number of plays. After 1960 his career moved more into film and television, for example appearing with Sean Connery in the 1961 film On the Fiddle and the 1965 film The Hill. He also appeared in the 1968 adaptation of The Sea Gull, and the 1990 film The Krays. Some of his later television credits include reading children's stories on Jackanory, Going Straight and the Doctor Who serial The Curse of Fenric as Commander Millington.
After James Culliford's stroke in 1972, Lynch moved from London to Brighton until James's death in 2002. Lynch himself died from cancer in 2003.
Edward
Homem solteiro resolve adotar um menino. Após superar dificuldades de integração o menino o adota como pai.
The Professor
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Old Man Alfred
Até o fim do mundo é uma odisséia para a era moderna. Como na Odisséia de Homero, o objetivo da jornada é restaurar a visão - uma reconciliação espiritual entre um pai obcecado e um filho. Farber, ao tentar encontrar uma cura para a cegueira de sua esposa, criou um dispositivo que permite ao usuário enviar imagens diretamente para o cérebro, permitindo que os cegos vejam.
Charlie Kray Snr
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.
Commander Millington
The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...
Saul Rutledge
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Aegisthus
Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play. Directed by Peter Brook for the National Theatre, this is an all-male performance with masks.
Harry
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
Larshen
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert
Semyon Medvedenko
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Tranio
Itália, século XVI. Petruchio, um proprietário rural pobre e irado de Verona, chega a Pádua em busca de fortuna e uma esposa, enquanto Baptista, um comerciante rico, anuncia que não permitirá que Bianca, sua filha mais nova, se case até que a temperamental e indisciplinada Katherina, sua filha mais velha, o faça.
George Stevens
Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial, o exército britânico mantém um acampamento para disciplinar militares, que tenham uma conduta reprovável, principalmente a deserção. Lá, os militares são obrigados diariamente a escalar uma colina, sob o sol escaldante. Um dia chegam 5 novos prisioneiros e cada um enfrentará de modo diferente a autoridade e o sadismo dos seus comandantes.
Peter
A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an underlying theme of homosexuality a couple of years before legalisation.
Joe Beckett
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Corporal Bill Pope
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
Thomas 'Tom' Ernest Bennett
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
Horace Pope
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
2nd Commercial Traveller
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
