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  7. COP11 replied to Sweet Lu's topic in Television
    Kristen Renton will be there also
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  9. oh it's because u are jealous! He is not "hot" he is just super awesome like Clark Gable or Rock Hudson or Paul Newman or Burt Lancaster were. Men looking like men. Super masculine. And even if Rock Hudson was homosexual he was the man in all his glory. There aren't very many men around like Clooney any more. Clean shaven, suits, handsome. Now they are scruffy, go without washing their hair for 3 months, unclean and grungy.
  10. COP11 replied to COP11's topic in Music
    Thanks Andy!
  11. COP11 replied to COP11's topic in Actresses
    Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American film and television actress. Early life Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1944. Her father, Eddie Garr (born Edward L. Gonnoud), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis Lind (née Emma Schmotzer), was a dancer, a Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model. Education Garr graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1962. She briefly attended California State University, Northridge, then known as "San Fernando Valley State College". Career Early in her career, she was credited, variously, as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, Teri Hope, or Terry Carr. Garr's movie debut was as an extra in 1963's A Swingin' Affair. At the end of her senior year, Garr auditioned for the cast of the Los Angeles Road Company production of West Side Story, where she met one of the most important people in her early career David Winters, who became her friend, her dance teacher and her mentor and who cast her in many of his early movies and projects. Noticed by David Winters, Garr started out as a background dancer in uncredited roles for youth-oriented films and TV shows, which were choreographed by Winters like Pajama Party, a beach party film, the T.A.M.I. Show, Shindig!, Hullabaloo, Movin' with Nancy (a Nancy Sinatra / Frank Sinatra Special), and nine Elvis Presley features (many of which were also choreographed by Winters including Presley's most profitable film Viva Las Vegas). Teri Garr gave the following answer to a question in a magazine interview about how she landed the job in a Presley film "One of the dancers in the road show of West Side Story, (David Winters) started to choreograph movies, and whatever job he got, I was one of the girls he'd hire. So he was chosen to do Viva Las Vegas. That was my first movie." Her first speaking role in a motion picture was a one-line appearance as a damsel in distress in the 1968 Monkees film Head written by Jack Nicholson. In 1974, she got her first significant motion-picture role in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed film The Conversation. Her career breakthrough came in Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein (1974) as Inga. She went on to appear in a string of highly successful films, often playing a housewife. Her most popular films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Oh, God! (1977), The Black Stallion (1979), One From The Heart (1982), Mr. Mom (1983) and After Hours (1985). In 1982, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her supporting role as Dustin Hoffman's actress friend in Tootsie. Since the late 1960s, she has also appeared frequently on television. She, along with friend Toni Basil, began as go-go dancers on several musical variety shows such as Shindig! and Hullabaloo. In 1967, Garr made two appearances on Batman and one appearance on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1968, she was in two episodes of It Takes a Thief and appeared as Roberta Lincoln, secretary for Gary Seven in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Assignment: Earth", which was intended to be a backdoor pilot episode for a spinoff TV series of the same name in which she would co-star opposite Robert Lansing, who played Seven, though the proposed new series did not sell.[citation needed] In the early 1970s, she was a regular cast member on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour dancing and acting in comedy sketches. She also had a recurring role as a ditzy policewoman on McCloud, and appeared on M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, and Barnaby Jones. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980, 1983, and 1985 and was a frequent visitor on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. As a recurring guest on Late Night with David Letterman, she was renowned for her unscripted banter with personal friend David Letterman, who once goaded her into showering in his office while the camera rolled. She landed a role as recurring character Phoebe Abbott in Friends, playing the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow). Personal life In October 2002, Garr publicly confirmed that she was battling multiple sclerosis. After years of uncertainty and secrecy surrounding her diagnosis, Garr explained her reasons for deciding to go public: "I'm telling my story for the first time, so I can help people. I can help people know they aren't alone, and tell them there are reasons to be optimistic because today treatment options are available". In recent interviews, she has commented that she first started noticing symptoms while in New York filming Tootsie. For the next few years, as acting jobs brought her to various locations around the world, she continued to see different doctors in different cities, until she finally found a doctor who correctly diagnosed her as having MS. Since Garr announced that she has MS, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for the condition and the latest treatments for it. She is a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society's Women Against MS program (WAMS). In November 2005, Garr was honored as the society’s Ambassador of the Year. This honor had been given only four times since the society was founded. On December 21, 2006, she suffered a brain aneurysm in her home. Her 13-year-old daughter called 911 when she could not wake her mother up. After therapy to regain her motor skills and speech, she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on June 19, 2008, without the need of a wheelchair. She was on the show to promote Expired, a 2007 film in which she played a set of twins. Academy awards nomination Academy Award 1983: Nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" in Tootsie Filmography Features A Swingin' Affair (1963) Fun in Acapulco (1963), backup dancer Kissin' Cousins (1964), backup dancer Viva Las Vegas (1964), backup dancer What a Way to Go! (1964), backup dancer Roustabout (1964), backup dancer Pajama Party (1964), backup dancer The T.A.M.I. Show (1964), backup dancer John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) Red Line 7000 (1965) The Cool Ones (1967) Clambake (1967), backup dancer For Pete's Sake (1968) Maryjane (1968) Head (1968), first speaking role Changes (1969) The Moonshine War (1970) The Conversation (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) Oh, God! (1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) The Black Stallion (1979) Java Junkie (1979) Witches' Brew (1979) Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) One from the Heart (1982) The Escape Artist (1982) Tootsie (1982) The Sting II (1983) The Black Stallion Returns (1983) Mr. Mom (1983) Firstborn (1984) After Hours (1985) Miracles (1986) Full Moon in Blue Water (1988) Out Cold (1989) Let It Ride (1989) Short Time (1990) A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder (1990) Waiting for the Light (1990) The Player (1992) Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) Dumb and Dumber (1994) Ready to Wear (1994) Perfect Alibi (1995) Michael (1996) The Definite Maybe (1997) Changing Habits (1997) A Simple Wish (1997) Nightscream (1997) Kill the Man (1999) Dick (1999) The Sky Is Falling (2000) Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) (voice) (direct-to-video) Ghost World (2001) Life Without Dick (2002) Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary) Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) (voice) (direct-to-video) A Taste of Jupiter (2005) Unaccompanied Minors (2006) Let It Ride (2006) (documentary) Expired (2007) Kabluey (2007) Short subjects Where Is the Bus? (1966) The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977) Java Junkie (1979), shown on Saturday Night Live Save the Rabbits (1994) God Out the Window (2007) [edit]Television Mr. Novak (1 episode, 1964) Dr. Kildare (1 episode, 1965) Batman (1 episode, 1966) That Girl (1 episode, 1967) The Andy Griffith Show (1 episode, 1968) Star Trek (in the episode "Assignment: Earth", 1968) Mayberry R.F.D. (1 episode, 1968) The Mothers-In-Law (1 episode, 1969) It Takes a Thief (2 episodes, 1969) Room 222 (1 episode, 1969) The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (13 episodes, 1971–1972) The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (unknown episodes, 1972) Banyon (1 episode, 1972) The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1 episode, 1973) The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973) (unknown episodes) The Girl with Something Extra (4 episodes, 1973–1974) The Bob Newhart Show (2 episodes, 1973–1974) McCloud (5 episodes, 1973–1975) M*A*S*H (2 episodes, 1973–1978) The Odd Couple (1 episode, 1974) Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1 episode, 1974) Barnaby Jones (1 episode, 1974) Maude (1 episode, 1975) Cher (1 episode, 1975) The Sonny and Cher Show (unknown episodes, 1976–1977) Law and Order (1976) Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977) Hunter (1 episode, 1977) Saturday Night Live (1 episode, 1979) Doctor Franken (1980) Faerie Tale Theatre (1 episode, 1982) Prime Suspect (1982) Hallmark Hall of Fame (2 episodes, 1983–1987) To Catch a King (1984) The New Show (1 episode, 1984) Fresno (1986) (unknown episodes) Intimate Strangers (1986) Trying Times (1 episode, 1987) Paul Reiser Out on a Whim (1987) Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie (1988) Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio (1988) A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder (1990) Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) Stranger in the Family (1991) Good & Evil (1991) (unknown episodes) Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1991) Adventures in Wonderland (1991) Dream On (1 episode, 1992) Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992) Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993) The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1 episode, 1993) Good Advice (1993) (unknown episodes, 1994) Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1 episode, 1994) Aliens for Breakfast (1994) Frasier (1 episode, 1995) Women of the House (12 episodes, 1995) Men Behaving Badly (1 episode, 1996) Double Jeopardy (1996) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1 episode, 1997) NightScream (1997) Ronnie & Julie (1997) Murder Live! (1997) Friends (3 episodes, 1997–1998) Casper Meets Wendy (1998) Sin City Spectacular (1 episode, 1998 or 1999) Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999) (voice) Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999) (unknown episodes) ER (1 episode, 1999) Half a Dozen Babies (1999) Batman Beyond (8 episodes, 1999–2000) King of the Hill (1 episode, 2000) Felicity (1 episode, 2001) A Colder Kind of Death (2001) Strong Medicine (1 episode, 2001) What's New, Scooby-Doo? (1 episode, 2003) Life with Bonnie (1 episode, 2003) Greetings from Tucson (1 episode, 2003) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode, 2005) Crumbs (1 episode, 2006)
  12. COP11 replied to COP11's topic in Male Actors
    Stephen Greif (born 26 August 1944) is an award-winning English actor. TV appearances include Waking the Dead, Spooks, Mistresses 2, He Kills Coppers, Holby City,The Last Days of Pompeii as Sporus, Judge John Deed, Space Race, EastEnders, The Bill and many more including the series Blake's 7, three series of Citizen Smith, and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Films include Boogie-Woogie, Shoot on Sight, Eichmann, Back to Business, Casanova, Sixty-Six, Spartan, The Upside of Anger, Fakers, and Dirty Money amongst others. He has also appeared in many plays in the West End including" Six degrees of Separation" Epitaph for George Dillon with Joseph Fiennes, Fallen Angels with Felicity Kendal and Frances de la Tour, Reflected Glory with Albert Finney and Many Seasons at the National Theatre at The Old Vic in the Laurence Olivier era and on the South Bank under Peter Hall and Nicholas Hytner, winning Laurence Olivier Award and Critics' Circle Best Actor nominations for "Death of a Salesman" and "Saturday, Sunday, Monday" both for the National Theatre. He has also appeared with The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Prospect Theatre Company. He has narrated countless talking books including The Match King, He Kills Coppers, Seeking Robinson Crusoe, The Boy with the Magic Numbers (for which he won the prestigious Earphones Award from BBC Audiobooks America), The Pianist, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and His Dark Materials. His radio work includes Peter Lorre V Peter Lorre,"Small acts of kindness", Harry and the Angels, The Grand Hotel Babylon, The Babbington Plot, The Devil was here Yesterday, The Iceman, Witness, Take-away, Down and Out in London and Paris, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and Hooligan Nights. He has also voiced hundreds of radio and television commercials as well as thousands of cinema and television promos and trailers, corporate presentations, narratives and scores of voices for computer games. He co-founded "VoiceQuality", a system for describing voices and being utilised by the actors' directory The Spotlight.
  13. COP11 replied to Sweet Lu's topic in Television
    I didn't know this, Scott Glenn was orginally cast to play Clay, not Ron Perlman
  14. COP11 replied to COP11's topic in Male Actors
    Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941) or (January 26, 1942) is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), and Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Early life Glenn was born Theodore Scott Glenn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Theodore Glenn, a business executive. He grew up in Pittsburgh and has Irish and Native American ancestry. During his childhood he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden. Through intense training programs he recovered from his illnesses, also overcoming a limp. After graduating from a Pittsburgh high school, Glenn entered The College of William and Mary where he majored in English. He then joined the Marine Corps for three years and worked roughly five months as a reporter for the Kenosha Evening News. He then tried to become an author, but found he could not write good dialogue. To learn the art of dialogue, he began taking acting classes. In 1965, Glenn made his Broadway debut in The Impossible Years. He joined George Morrison's acting class, helping direct student plays to pay for his studies and appearing onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions. In 1967, he married Carol Schwartz; Glenn converted to his wife's Judaism upon their marriage. In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio and began working in professional theatre and TV. In 1970, director James Bridges offered him his first movie role, in The Baby Maker, released the same year. Career Glenn left for LA and spent about 8 years there acting small roles in films and doing brief TV stints, including a TV movie Gargoyles. He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), in a small role, while there and also worked with directors like Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. Fed up with Hollywood, in 1978 Glenn left Los Angeles with his family for Ketchum, Idaho and worked for the two years he lived there as a barman, huntsman and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions. In 1980, Glenn got back into acting in films, by appearing as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges' Urban Cowboy. After that he appeared in a gothic horror film The Keep, action films like Wild Geese II (1985) opposite Laurence Olivier, Silverado (1985), The Challenge (1982) and drama films like The Right Stuff (1983), TV film Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), The River (1984) and Off Limits (1988) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980s. He returned to Broadway in Burn This in 1987. That same year he tried his hand at gangster movies when he starred as the real-life sheriff turned gunman Verne Miller in a movie of the same name. Verne Miller was only given a theatrical release in Finland and went straight to video in the U.S. In the beginning of the 1990s his career was at its peak as he appeared in several well-known and/or blockbuster films such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Backdraft (1991), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and The Player (1992). He played a vicious mob hitman in a critically acclaimed performance in Night of the Running Man (1995). Later he gravitated toward more challenging movie roles, such as in the Freudian farce Reckless (1995/I), tragicomedy Edie and Pen (1997) and Ken Loach's socio-political declaration Carla's Song. In the late '90s Glenn alternated between mainstream films (Courage Under Fire (1996), Absolute Power (1997)), independent projects (Lesser Prophets (1997) and Larga distancia (1998), written by his daughter Dakota Glenn) and TV (Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)). He was also cast in a supporting role in Training Day (2001). Glenn was cast in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy (2008) as the leader of an outlaw biker gang, but he was replaced after an early pilot episode by Ron Perlman. Glenn appeared in the drama Freedom Writers, in which he played the father of Hilary Swank's character, and in The Bourne Ultimatum. Filmography The Baby Maker (1970) Hex (1973) Nashville (1975) Apocalypse Now (1979) More American Graffiti (1979) Urban Cowboy (1980) Personal Best (1982) The Challenge (1982) The Right Stuff (1983) The Keep (1983) The River (1984) Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) Wild Geese II (1985) Silverado (1985) As Summers Die (1986) Man on Fire (1987) Off Limits (1988) Miss Firecracker (1989) The Hunt for Red October (1990) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991) Backdraft (1991) Women & Men 2 (1991) Shadowhunter (1993) Extreme Justice (1993) Past Tense (1994) Night of the Running Man (1995) Tall Tale (1995) Reckless (1995) Courage Under Fire (1996) Carla's Song (1996) Absolute Power (1997) Firestorm (1998) Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998) The Virgin Suicides (1999) Vertical Limit (2000) Training Day (2001) Buffalo Soldiers (2001) The Shipping News (2001) A Painted House (2003) Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004) Homeland Security (2004) Faith of My Fathers (2005) Code Breakers (2005) Journey to the End of the Night (2006) Freedom Writers (2007) Camille (2007) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Nights in Rodanthe (2008) Surfer, Dude (2008) W. (2008) Secretariat (2010) Sucker Punch (2011)
  15. COP11 replied to COP11's topic in Male Actors
    Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish-born British actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlowe in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films, replacing the late actor Richard Harris. Early life Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, during World War II. His father, Edward Gambon, was an engineer, and his mother, Mary was a seamstress. His father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London, and so the family moved to Mornington Crescent in North London, when Gambon was five. His father had him made a British citizen, a decision that would later allow Gambon to receive an actual, rather than honorary, knighthood and CBE. Brought up as a strict Roman Catholic, he attended St Aloysius Boys' School in Somers Town and served at the altar. He then moved to St Aloysius' College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London, whose former pupils include Peter Sellers and Joe Cole. He later attended a school in Kent, before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker. By the time he was 21, he was a fully qualified engineer. He kept the job for a further year, acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks, watches, and classic cars. Career Early work At the age of 18, Gambon went off to attend drama school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and studied classical acting for 3 years, eventually receiving a BA in Classical Acting. Gambon built a very solid CV whilst at RADA consisting of the works of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov and many others. Aged 19, while at RADA, he joined the Unity Theatre in King's Cross. Five years later he wrote a letter to Michael MacLiammoir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career – and he was taken on. Gambon made his professional stage début in the Gate Theatre Dublin's 1962 production of Othello, playing "Second Gentleman", followed by a European tour. A year later, cheekily auditioning with the opening soliloquy from Richard III, he caught the eye of star-maker Laurence Olivier who was recruiting promising spear carriers for his new National Theatre Company. Gambon, along with Robert Stephens, Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay, was hired as one of the "to be renowned" and played any number of small roles, appearing on cast lists as Mike Gambon. The company initially performed at the Old Vic, their first production being Hamlet, directed by Olivier and starring Peter O'Toole. Gambon played for four years in many NT productions, including named roles in The Recruiting Officer and The Royal Hunt of the Sun, working with directors William Gaskill and John Dexter. Theatre After three years at the Old Vic, Olivier advised Gambon to gain experience in provincial rep. In 1967, he left the NT for the Birmingham Repertory Company, which was to give him his first crack at the title roles in Othello (his favourite), Macbeth and Coriolanus. His rise to stardom began in 1974 when Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich. A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a brilliant comic actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair and sublimely agonising over a choice between black or white coffee. Back at the National, now on the South Bank, his next turning point was Peter Hall's premiere staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, an unexpectedly subtle performance – a production photograph shows him embracing Penelope Wilton with sensitive hands and long slim fingers (the touch of a master clock-maker). He is also one of the few actors to have mastered the harsh demands of the vast Olivier Theatre. As Simon Callow once said: "Gambon's iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances". This was to serve him in good stead in John Dexter's masterly staging of The Life of Galileo in 1980, the first Brecht to become a popular success. Hall called him "unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful", even The Sunday Times' curmudgeonly critic of the day called his performance "a decisive step in the direction of great tragedy... great acting", while fellow actors paid him the rare compliment of applauding him in the dressing room on the first night. From the first Ralph Richardson dubbed him The Great Gambon, an accolade which stuck, outshining his 1990 CBE, even the later knighthood, although Gambon dismisses it as a circus slogan. But as Sheridan Morley perceptively remarked in 2000, when reviewing Cressida: "Gambon's eccentricity on stage now begins to rival that of his great mentor Richardson". Also like Richardson, interviews are rarely given and raise more questions than they answer. Gambon is a very private person, a "non-starry star" as Ayckbourn called him. Off-stage he prefers to back out of the limelight, an unpretentious guy sharing laughs with his fellow cast and crew. While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll. There were also notable appearances in Old Times at the Haymarket Theatre and Volpone and the brutal sergeant in Pinter's Mountain Language. David Hare's Skylight, with Lia Williams, which opened to rave reviews at the National in 1995, transferred first to Wyndham's Theatre and then on to Broadway for a four-month run which left him in a state of advanced exhaustion. "Skylight was ten times as hard to play as anything I've ever done" he told Michael Owen in the Evening Standard. "I had a great time in New York, but wanted to return". Gambon is almost the only leading actor not to grace Yasmina Reza's ART at Wyndham's. But together with Simon Russell Beale and Alan Bates he gave a deliciously droll radio account of the role of Marc. And for the RSC he shared Reza's two-hander The Unexpected Man with Eileen Atkins, first at The Pit in the Barbican and then at the Duchess Theatre, a production also intended for New York but finally delayed by other commitments. In 2001 he played what he described as "a physically repulsive" Davies in Patrick Marber's revival of Pinter's The Caretaker, but he found the rehearsal period an unhappy experience, and felt that he had let down the author. A year later, playing opposite Daniel Craig, he portrayed the father of a series of cloned sons in Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Royal Court, notable for a recumbent moment when he smoked a cigarette, the brightly lit spiral of smoke rising against a black backdrop, an effect which he dreamed up during rehearsals. In 2004, Gambon played the lead role (Hamm) in Samuel Beckett's post-apocalyptic play Endgame at the Albery Theatre, London. In 2004 he finally achieved a life-long ambition to play Falstaff, in Nicholas Hytner's National production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, co-starring with Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal. Films and television He made his film debut in the Laurence Olivier Othello in 1965. He then played romantic leads, notably in the early 1970s BBC television series, The Borderers, in which he was swashbuckling Gavin Ker. As a result, Gambon was asked by James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli to audition for the role in 1970, to replace George Lazenby. His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor, although he won critical acclaim as Galileo in John Dexter's production of The Life of Galileo by Brecht at the National Theatre in 1980. But it was not until Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) that he became a household name. After this success, for which he won a BAFTA, his work includes such controversial films as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, which also starred Helen Mirren. In 1992 he played a psychotic general in the Barry Levinson film Toys and he also starred as Georges Simenon's detective Inspector Jules Maigret in an ITV adaptation of Simenon's series of books. He starred as Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Hungarian director Károly Makk's movie The Gambler (1997) about the writing of Dostoyevsky's novella The Gambler. In recent years, films such as Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Plunkett & Macleane (1998), and Sleepy Hollow (1999), as well as television appearances in series such as Wives and Daughters (1999) (for which he won another BAFTA), a made-for-TV adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2001) and Perfect Strangers (2001) have revealed a talent for comedy. Gambon played President Lyndon B. Johnson in the television film Path to War. For this performance, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Movie and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture made for Television. In 2004, he appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the British gangster flick Layer Cake; theatrical drama Being Julia; and CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In 2004, he was Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts's headmaster in the third instalment of J. K. Rowling's franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over from the late Richard Harris. (Harris had also played Maigret on television four years before Gambon took that role.) Gambon reprised the role of Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was released in November 2005 in the United Kingdom and the United States. He returned to the role again in the fifth film, 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He appeared in the seventh film; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II, released in two parts in 2010 and 2011. Despite having deliberately misled an interviewer (something Gambon enjoys doing often, to mix things up a bit), he hasn't read the books, as evidenced in the Prisoner of Azkaban interviews. Similarly, he has also misled another interviewer to believe that, when playing Dumbledore, he does not "have to play anyone really. I just stick on a beard and play me, so it's no great feat. I never ease into a role—every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. I'm not really a character actor at all..." Ongoing work He performed as Joe in Beckett's Eh Joe, giving two performances a night at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. He currently does the voice over to the new Guinness ads with the penguins. In 2007 he played major roles in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace, and the five-part adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford novels, both for BBC TV. In 2008 Gambon appeared in the role of Hirst in No Man's Land by Harold Pinter in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, opposite David Bradley as Spooner, in a production directed by Rupert Goold, which transferred to the London West End's Duke of York's Theatre, for which roles each received nominations for the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He also appeared as the Narrator in the British version of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire. After Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009. In late 2009 he had to withdraw from his role of W. H. Auden in The Habit of Art (being replaced by Richard Griffiths) because of ill health. That same year he played his role as Mr. Woodhouse in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's famously irrepressible Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai. Gambon received a 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie nomination for his performance. In April 2010, Gambon returned once again to the Gate Theatre Dublin to appear in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, which transferred to London's Duchess Theatre in October 2010. Gambon appeared alongside Katherine Jenkins in the 2010 Christmas Special of Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol. Personal life Gambon married Anne Miller when he was 22, but has always been secretive about his personal life, responding to one interviewer's question about her: "What wife?" The couple lived near Gravesend, Kent, where she has a workshop. Gambon was invested by Prince Charles as a Knight Bachelor on 17 July 1998 for "services to drama". (Queen Elizabeth II's approval for the award was notified in the 1998 New Year Honours List.) Anne Miller thus became Lady Gambon. The couple were later separated and estranged. They have one son, Fergus, an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. While filming Gosford Park, Gambon brought Philippa Hart on to the set and introduced her to co-stars as his girlfriend. When the affair was revealed in 2002, he moved out of the marital home and bought a bachelor pad. Hart, who worked with Gambon on the film, Sylvia in 2003, in late 2006 moved into a £500,000 terraced home in Chiswick, west London. In February 2007, it was revealed that Hart was pregnant with Gambon's child, and gave birth to son, Michael, in May 2007. On 22 June 2009 she gave birth to her second child, a boy named William, who is Gambon's third child. Gambon is a qualified private pilot and his love of cars led to his appearance on the BBC's Top Gear programme. Gambon raced the Suzuki Liana and was driving so aggressively that it went round the last corner of his timed lap on two wheels. The final corner of the Dunsfold Park track has been named "Gambon" in his honour. He appeared on the programme again on 4 June 2006, and set a time in the Chevrolet Lacetti of 1:50.3, a significant improvement on his previous time of 1:55. He clipped his namesake corner the second time, and when asked why by Jeremy Clarkson, replied, "I dunno – I just don't like it." Work Theatre Othello (Second Gentleman), Gate Theatre, Dublin, professional debut 1962, followed by a European tour Hamlet, National Theatre at the Old Vic, 1963 Saint Joan, National/Old Vic, 1963 The Recruiting Officer (Coster Permain), National/Old Vic, 1963 Andorra, National/Old Vic, 1964 Philoctetes, National/Old Vic, 1964 Othello, National/Old Vic, 1964 The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Diego), Chichester Festival and National/Old Vic, 1964 The Crucible (Herrick), National/Old Vic, 1965 Mother Courage and Her Children (Eilif), National/Old Vic, 1965 Love for Love (Snap), National/Old Vic, 1965, also tour to Russia and Germany Juno and the Paycock (Jerry Devine), National/Old Vic, 1966 The Storm, National/Old Vic, 1966 Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun by John McGrath (Flynn), Birmingham Rep, 1967 A Severed Head (Palmer Anderson), Birmingham Rep, 1967 The Doctor's Dilemma (Patric Cullen), Birmingham Rep, 1967 Saint Joan (Cauchon), Birmingham Rep, 1967 Peer Gynt (The Button Moulder), Birmingham Rep, 1968 Othello (title role), Birmingham Rep, 1968 Macbeth, The Forum Theatre, Billingham, 1968 In Celebration (Andrew), Liverpool Playhouse, 1969 Coriolanus (title role), Liverpool Playhouse, 1969 The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Wiebe), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1970 Major Barbara (Charles Lomax), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1970 Henry VIII (Surrey), RSC Aldwych Theatre, 1971 When Thou Art King (Hotspur), RSC Roundhouse, 1971 The Brass Hat (Guy Holden), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 1972 Not Drowning But Waving by Leonard Webb (Robin), Greenwich Theatre, 1973 The Norman Conquests trilogy (Tom), Greenwich Theatre, 1974 The Norman Conquests (Tom), Globe Theatre, London 1975 The Zoo Story (Gerry), Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park lunchtime production, 1975 Otherwise Engaged (Simon), Queen's Theatre, 1976 (replacing Alan Bates) Just Between Ourselves (Neil), Queen's Theatre, 1977 Alice's Boys by Felicity Browne and Jonathan Hales (Bertie), Savoy Theatre, London, 1978 Betrayal (Jerry), National Theatre, 1978 Close of Play (Henry), National Lyttelton Theatre, 1979 Richard III (taking over as Buckingham), National, 1980 Othello (Roderigo), National, 1980 Sisterly Feelings (Patrick), National, 1980 The Life of Galileo (title role), National Olivier Theatre, 1980 King Lear (title role) RSC Stratford,1982; Barbican Theatre, 1983 Antony and Cleopatra (Antony), RSC Stratford, 1982; Barbican, 1983 Tales from Hollywood (Ödön von Horváth), National, 1983 Old Times (Deeley), Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1985 A Chorus of Disapproval (Dafyd ap Llewellyn), National Olivier, 1985 Tons of Money (Sprules), National Lyttelton, 1986 A View from the Bridge (Eddie Carbone), National Cottesloe Theatre, 1987 A Small Family Business (Jack McCracken), National Olivier, 1987 Mountain Language (Sergeant), National Lyttelton, 1988 Uncle Vanya (title role), Vaudeville Theatre, 1988 Veterans' Day (Walter Kercelik), Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1989 Man of the Moment (Douglas Beechey), Globe Theatre, London, 1990 Othello (title role), Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, 1991 Taking Steps, Stephen Joseph, Scarborough, 1981 Volpone (title role), National Olivier, 1995 Skylight (Tom Sergeant), National Cottesloe, 1995 Skylight (Tom Sergeant), Broadway, 1996 Tom and Clem (Tom Driberg), Aldwych Theatre, 1997 The Unexpected Man (The Man), RSC The Pit, Barbican, 1998 Juno and the Paycock (Captain Jack Boyle), Gaiety Theatre, 1999 Cressida (John Shank), The Almeida Theatre at the Albery, 2000 The Caretaker (Davies), Comedy Theatre, 2001 A Number (The Father), Royal Court Theatre, 2002 Endgame (Hamm), Albery Theatre, 2004 Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 (Sir John Falstaff), National Olivier, 2005 Celebration Pinter staged reading (Lambert), Gate Theatre, Dublin/Albery, 2005 Eh Joe (Joe), Gate Theatre, transfer to Duke of York's Theatre, 2006 No Man's Land (Hirst), Gate Theatre, transfer to Duke of York's Theatre 2008/09 Krapp's Last Tape (Krapp), Gate Theatre, transfer to Duchess Theatre, 2010 Filmography 1965 Othello Company Film debut 1973 Nothing But the Night Inspector Grant 1974 The Beast Must Die Jan Jarmokowski 1985 Turtle Diary George Fairbairn 1988 Paris by Night Gerald Paige Missing Link Narrator (voice) 1989 The Rachel Papers Doctor Knowd A Dry White Season Magistrate The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Albert Spica 1991 Mobsters Salvatore Maranzano 1992 Toys General Leland Zevo 1994 A Man of No Importance Ivor J. Garney Clean Slate Philip Cornell Squanto: A Warrior's Tale Sir George The Browning Version Dr. Frobisher 1995 Bullet to Beijing Alex Two Deaths Daniel Pavenic Nothing Personal Leonard 1996 Mary Reilly Mr. Reilly The Innocent Sleep Det. Insp. Matheson Midnight in Saint Petersburg Alex 1997 The Gambler Fyoder Dostoyevsky The Wings of the Dove Lionel Croy 1998 Dancing at Lughnasa Father Jack Mundy Plunkett & Macleane Lord Gibson 1999 Le Château des singes Master Martin (voice in English version: A Monkey's Tale) Dead on Time Maurice The Insider Thomas Sandefur The Last September Sir Richard Naylor Sleepy Hollow Baltus Van Tassel 2001 Gosford Park Sir William McCordle Charlotte Gray Levade High Heels and Low Lifes Kerrigan Christmas Carol: The Movie Ghost of Christmas Present (voice) 2002 Ali G Indahouse Prime Minister 2003 Little Wolf's Book of Badness Uncle Bigbad (voice) The Actors Barreller Open Range Denton Baxter Sylvia Professor Thomas Deep Blue Narrator Documentary (voice) 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Albus Dumbledore Standing Room Only Larry Being Julia Jimmie Langton Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Morris Paley Layer Cake Eddie Temple The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Oseary Drakoulias 2005 Stories of Lost Souls Larry (segment "Standing Room Only") Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Albus Dumbledore 2006 The Omen Bugenhagen The Good Shepherd Dr. Fredericks John Duffy's Brother Narrator (voice) Amazing Grace Lord Charles Fox 2007 The Good Night Alan Weigert The Baker Leo The Alps Narrator Documentary (voice) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Albus Dumbledore 2008 Brideshead Revisited Lord Marchmain 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Albus Dumbledore Fantastic Mr. Fox Franklin Bean (voice) 2010 The Book of Eli George Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Albus Dumbledore The King's Speech King George V 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Albus Dumbledore Page Eight Benedict Baron Television Year Title Role Notes 1967 Much Ado About Nothing Watchman No.4 TV film 1968 Public Eye Unknown Episode 3.4: "Have Mud, Will Throw" 1969 Fraud Squad Rex Lucien Episode 1.3: "Last Exit to Leichstenstein" 1968–1970 The Borderers Gavin Ker Appeared in 26 episodes: Episodes of The Borderers 1970 Confession Mr. Tennent Episode 1.4: "People Who Visit Glass Houses" 1971 Eyeless in Gaza Mark Staithes Episode 1.1: "O Dark, Dark, Dark, Amid the Blaze of Noon" Episode 1.2: "With Inward Eyes Illuminated" Episode 1.5: "And Calm of Mind, All Passion Spent" 1972 The Challengers John Killane Episode 1.1: "The Tomorrow Business" The Man Outside Ralph Kenward Episode 1.6: "Cuculus Canorus" 1967–1972 Softly, Softly Cranley Episode 2.21: "Appointment in Wyvern" Episode 8.11: "Welcome to the Club" 1973 Menace Ellis Episode 2.1: "Judas Goat" A Picture of Katherine Mansfield Harry Episode #1.5 Special Branch Muller Episode 3.12: "Hostage" Arthur of the Britons Roland Episode 2.3: "The Prisoner" Six Days of Justice Mr.Golding Episode 3.2: "Stranger in Paradise" ITV Saturday Night Theatre Brother Kevin Episode 6.9: "Catholics" Great Mystery Major Rolfe Episode 1.16: "An Affair of Honour" 1974 Zodiac Reuben Keiser Episode 1.2: "The Cool Aquarian" Masquerade Stewart Episode 1.2: "May We Come In?" 1976 Centre Play Edith Harrison Episode 3.9: "In the Labyrinth" 1972–1976 Play for Today Various characters Episode 2.17: "Cows" Episode 6.11: "The Other Woman" Episode 6.21: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" 1977 ITV Sunday Night Drama Various characters Episode 1.11: "Now Is Too Late" Episode 2.15: "The Man Who Liked Elephants" 1967–1978 Play of the Month Various characters Episode 3.3: "Romeo and Juliet" Episode 4.3: "The Seagull" Episode 7.1: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Episode 11.8: "French Without Tears" Episode 13.4: "The Seagull" 1978 Premiere Kenny Episode 2.5: "One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day" 1977–1979 The Other One Brian Bryant Appeared in 13 episodes 1979 Chalk and Cheese Unknown Unknown episodes 1980 Tales of the Unexpected Andrew Episode 2.11: "The Umbrella Man" 1982 ITV Playhouse Unknown Episode 14.4: "The Breadwinner" La ronde Unknown TV film 1985 Absurd Person Singular Geoffrey Jackson TV film Oscar Oscar Wilde TV mini-series Episode 1.1: "Gilded Youth" Episode 1.2: "Trials" Episode 1.3: "De Profundis" Tropical Moon Over Dorking Bill TV film 1986 The Singing Detective Philip Marlow TV serial Episode 1.1: "Skin" Episode 1.2: "Heat" Episode 1.3: "Lovely Days" Episode 1.4: "Clues" Episode 1.5: "Pitter Patter" Episode 1.6: "Who Done It". 1987 Bergerac Jarvis McLeod Episode 5.2: "Winner Takes All" Night Theatre: Ghosts Pastor Manders TV serial 1989 The Heat of the Day Harrison TV film Monster Maker Ultragorgon TV serial (voice) About Face Trevor Episode 1.1: "Searching for Señor Duende" 1990 Blood Royal: William the Conqueror William I TV film 1991 The Storyteller The Storyteller Appeared in 4 episodes: Episodes of The Storyteller Minder Tommy Hanbury Episode 8.5: "Guess Who's Coming to Pinner?" 1992–1993 Maigret Insp. Maigret Appeared in 12 episodes: Episodes of Maigret 1993 Performance Archie Rice Episode 1.1: "The Entertainer" 1994 Faith Peter John Moreton TV film 1995 The Wind in the Willows Badger TV film (voice) 1996 Expert Witness Himself Presenter/Narrator Samson and Delilah King Hanun TV mini-series The Willows in Winter Badger TV film (voice) 1999 Wives and Daughters Squire Hamley TV mini-series 2000 Longitude John Harrison TV film Endgame Hamm TV film adaptation of the play by Samuel Beckett 2001 Perfect Strangers Raymond TV film 2002 Path to War Lyndon B. Johnson TV mini-series 2003 The Lost Prince Edward VII TV mini-series Angels in America Prior Walter Ancestor TV mini-series Episode 1.2: "Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two – In Vitro" Episode 1.3: "Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three – The Messenger" 2006 Celebration Lambert TV film adaptation of the play by Harold Pinter 2007 Joe's Palace Elliot Graham TV film Cranford Mr. Holbrook TV mini-series Episode 1.2: "August 1842" Episode 1.3: "November 1842 " 2009 Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire The Narrator Episode 1.1: "Wench Trouble" (voice) Emma Mr. Woodhouse Appeared in 4 episodes: Episodes of Emma 2010 Doctor Who Kazran/Elliot Sardick 2010 Christmas Special: "A Christmas Carol"[16] 2011 Luck Michael Video games Ghosthunter (2003) – Lord William Hawksmoor
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