John McGrath
Рождение : 1935-07-01, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Смерть : 2002-01-22
История
Born in Birkenhead from Irish Catholic stock, John McGrath was a British playwright, screenwriter. producer, director and socialist who took up the cause of Scottish independence and the principles of a radical, popular theatre with the creation of the 7:84 theatre company alongside his wife, Elizabeth MacLennan, and brother-in-law, David MacLennan. His most famous plays are arguably The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil which was brought to television in 1974 by John Mackenzie for the Play for Today strand, and Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun which was made into the film The Bofors Gun in 1968. He also wrote the screenplays for films such as Billion Dollar Brain, The Virgin Soldiers, The Reckoning, The Dressmaker and 1991's Robin Hood, and produced films such as Carrington and Aberdeen.
Co-Producer
Кайза — девушка норвежско-шотландского происхождения. Перед ней открываются блестящие перспективы до тех пор, пока не раздается телефонный звонок от ее матери, которая смертельно больна раком и лежит в клинике в Абердине. Теперь Кайзе приходится везти из Норвегии в Шотландию спившегося отца для последней драматической ссоры и последнего «прости».
Producer
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
Writer
A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.
Producer
В центре сюжета запутанные отношения художницы Доры Кэррингтон и писателя Литтона Стрейчи.
Writer
In 1871, 'tired of the speakers of English', Mairi Mhor began writing resistance songs in Gaelic, protesting at the displacement of the Scottish Highland and Island folk by the Southern landlords. Unjustly imprisoned in Inverness at the age of 51, she expresses her anger in song, discovering a talent for music; these songs became central to the identity of the region and are still sung today. The achingly beautiful landscape of Skye, and the music it inspired, provide a haunting canvas for this valuable piece of historical research.
Writer
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
Writer
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
Executive Producer
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Writer
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Writer
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Director
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Writer
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
Director
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
Writer
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected
Director
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected
Various
The "ceilidh play", as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC's 1974 "Play for Today" production to a live audience intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags. Restored in high definition from the original film masters held in the BBC Archives.
Writer
The "ceilidh play", as writer John McGrath styled it, is presented in the BBC's 1974 "Play for Today" production to a live audience intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags. Restored in high definition from the original film masters held in the BBC Archives.
Writer
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Novel
Screenplay
Основан на романе 1967 года "Арфа, которая когда-то" Патрика Холла. Майкл Марлер, успешный бизнесмен из Лондона, вот-вот поднимется на вершину своей карьеры. Смерть отца возвращает его, спустя пять лет, в родной город Ливерпуль. Он узнаёт, что его отец умер из-за драки с английскими "Тедди бойз". Для него становится делом чести отомстить за него, не привлекая британскую полицию...
Writer
Ядром сюжета является романтический треугольник, образованный главным героем, призванным солдатом по имени Рядовой Бригг; всемирно профессиональный солдат по имени сержант Дрисколл и Филипп Раскин, дочь полкового сержанта майора. Местоположение - база британской армии в Сингапуре во время Малайской чрезвычайной ситуации.
Director
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Writer
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Screenplay
Палмер, ушедший из разведки и открывший свое детективное агентство, вынужден отложить в сторону многочисленные дела о супружеских изменах и вернуться к своему ненавистному начальнику, полковнику Россу. Палмеру предстоит отправиться в Латвию, где его ждет новая встреча с полковником КГБ Стоком, а затем в США, где необходимо обезвредить безумного генерала Мидвинтера, мечтающего о мировом владычестве и освобождении земного шара от коммунистической заразы с помощью огромного компьютера.
Producer
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
Producer
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Writer
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Producer
FADE TO BLACK follows the history of movie theatres in and around Kansas City. From its humble beginnings as family-owned single screens in the early 20th century to the large multiplexes of today. Theatre owners have overcome technological advances in entertainment but can they overcome a pandemic and a wearing public.
