Chris Langham
Рождение : 1949-04-14, London, England, UK
История
Christopher Langham is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the television series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.
Alan
A romantic comedy set in space, or - to be more specific - planet Earth which follows world-weary banker Zac on his search for his eccentric sister, Alice, who goes missing while on a narrowboat trip with her new boyfriend.
Vinnie
Michael returns to his childhood home in the north of England to accompany his father to one last trip to the football. Michael, a successful photographer in London, no longer feels at home in the parochial environment of his upbringing. With little interest in football and almost no emotional connection with his father, Michael struggles through the game as a bored spectator whilst his father is both irritable and irritating. As time passes, though, Michael soon realizes that his father's bad-tempered quirks could be the signs of something graver. Full Time examines the fragile connections that bind love, memory and the gaps in between
Doctor
Gene has the world - he's a successful entrepreneur, beautiful home, beautiful car, everything he could ask for except for one thing. Then he meets Gilda and the two fall in love and marry. They travel the world and live a life of pure happiness until tragedy strikes...
Danny
Эрик Уильямс уже 27 лет находится в бегах. Его разыскивают за убийство, которого он не совершал. Когда на его дочь совершают нападение на улицах Лондона, полиция не предпринимает активных действий. Тогда Эрик решает вернуться в город, когда-то бывший его домом, и взять правосудие в свои руки.
Tom Thompson
The Thompson family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Six months later, family friend Tim visits freelance therapist Dr. Eric Sacks and the story finds it's way to the press. The facts are bent and the details spun as the Thompsons become known to the public as 'The Family of Killers'.
Various Roles (archive footage)
A look behind the scenes of satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News.
Writer
Funnyman John Cleese leads viewers through an exhaustive -- and hilarious -- tour of the world of soccer, complete with the sport's most memorable goals, kicks, saves, goofs and penalties. Also included are reflections on soccer's impact on culture, including the Monty Python sketch "Philosophy Football," and interviews with celebrities Dave Stewart, Dennis Hopper and Henry Kissinger, as well as soccer icons Pelé, Mia Hamm and Thierry Henry.
Attention, comedy fans: NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is the real thing. This is scathing, no-holds-barred Brit humor at its best. Rapid-fire skits starring Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) are as politically incorrect as they are side-bustingly funny, sparing no one as they take on the British Royal Family, Margaret Thatcher, Scotland Yard, country music, Christianity, devil worship, punk rock and bathroom etiquette. NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS is so irreverent that when the pilot was due to air in April 1979, the BBC cancelled it due to its incendiary political content. When at last it aired, the greatest comedy group to hit England since Monty Python's Flying Circus stormed the airwaves and revolutionized British and American television alike. Discover the show that set the standard for the anarchic cynicism that defined the alternative comedy of the 80's.
Theodore Stephanides
Сумасбродная семейка — невинный натуралист и бесстрашный биолог 12-летний Джеральд, прыщавая Марго, любитель пострелять Лесли и властный интеллектуал Лэрри, — возглавляемая их нежной и переживающей за них матерью, испытывают радости от внезапной возможности жить жизнью свободы и приключения.
John Wyndham
Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
Jack
Как это ни покажется странным, но такая история случилась на самом деле. Однажды с фермы сбежали два поросенка, решив посмотреть мир. Ведь вокруг столько неизвестного и очень интересного! Известие о подвиге двух удивительных поросят попало на первые страницы всех местных газет. Виданное ли дело чтоб поросята путешествовали по свету! На поиски беглецов отправилась целая армия полиции и охотников за вознаграждением, которое назначил хозяин за их поимку. Но не так-то просто отыскать в лесу таких умных и храбрых свинок!
George Orwell
Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
Himself
Gonzo the Great talks about the Muppets creator Jim Henson and what he did before the television show was made in 1976.
Maurice
Фильм в комедийном ключе рассказывает о противоречащих утверждениям историков событиях, произошедших с Наполеоном после заточения на острове Святой Елены.
BBC Interviewer
Одержимый манией величия парикмахер Кроуфорд Маккензи отправляется на Мировой Фестиваль Парикмахеров в Лос-Анджелес с твёрдым намерением покорить мир своим мастерством. Кроуфорда сопровождает съёмочная группа, которой предстоит запечатлеть триумф шотландского цирюльника. Но оказывается, на фестивале их никто не ждёт. Не растерявшись, Кроуфорд и его команда изобретают хитроумный план…
Dr. Keelover
Parody of 1960's spy capers.
Hubba
Намереваясь отыскать альтернативный путь в Индию, Христофор Колумб убеждает королевскую чету Испании проспонсировать его морскую экспедицию. Но ему решает помешать турецкий султан, чья казна не в последнюю очередь формируется за счёт налогов с караванов, идущих по старому маршруту.
Cop
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
Story
A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.
Teleplay
A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.
Screenplay
A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi movie. Things get interesting when the nephews' bizarro invention starts bringing visitors from other times, including Napoleon, Archimedes, and people from the future and cavemen from the past. Just when they are filming what they are convinced will be one of the greatest movies ever, the same machine sends an alien visitor to their set. Also includes a last-minute cameo from James Coburn, as the infuriated head of the studio.
Himself
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 era with a primary focus on comedy. Pat Duffy was dropped from organising any further benefit events for Amnesty and for the 1989 show, Amnesty hired producer Judith Holder.
Detective
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Keating
Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Drinkwater
A Russian in London finds himself targeted by British Intelligence.
Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show
Writer
In this one-hour special taped between March 9-17, 1981, Lily Tomlin and Dudley Moore join the Muppets in a tribute to film classics. Kermit the Frog hosts the program, which begins with an all-cast rendition of "Hey a Movie!" from The Great Muppet Caper.
Alfonso / Giggling Guard
Оказывается, 2000 лет назад волхвы слегка промахнулись и из-за небольшой астрономической ошибки явили, было, свои дары не тому новорожденному, которому следовало. Дитя звали Брайан, и он просто родился в тот же час и лишь домом дальше, чем Сами-Знаете-Кто. По причине сего инцидента потом все путали Брайана с Мессией, а ему было лень разубеждать своих поклонников. Однако в почитании масс помимо приятной стороны есть и другая, и вот Брайан с тревогой обнаруживает себя в роли отчаянного религиозного лидера народного Фронта Иудеи, борющегося за свободу от римского ига — и в эпицентре больших неприятностей с оккупационными властями!…
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.
Self
This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.
Police Driver
Инспектор полиции Клузо своим непрофессионализмом довел коллегу до сумасшествия. Тот сбежал из больницы, захватил в заложники главного психиатра, взорвал здание ООН и даже пытался собрать атомную бомбу. И все это только для того, чтобы убить Клузо…