Movies starring Peter Vaughan
| Biography: His brilliant performance as Denethor in the BBC radio dramatization of "The Lord of the Rings" is considered by some to be the unsurpassed and defining portrayal of this character. |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed. |
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)Thursday, February 11th, 2010 |
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A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who’s engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters. |
The Remains of the Day (1993)Thursday, December 10th, 2009 |
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A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master’s cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude. |
The Legend of 1900 (1998)Monday, November 30th, 2009 |
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Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. Abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents, 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms, learning to read by reading horseracing reports to his adoptive dad. After Danny’s death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship. Increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom, he eventually became a gifted pianist, a great jazz improvisationist, a composer of rich modern music inspired by his intense observation of the life around him, the stories passengers on all levels of the ship trusted him enough to tell. He also grew up to be a charming, iconoclastic young man, at once shrewd and oddly innocent. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, and bested Jelly Roll Morton in an intense piano duel that had poor Max chewing paper on the sofa in agonies of suspense. And yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once, in the aftermath of his infatuation with a beautiful young woman immigrant who inspired the music committed to the master Max discovers in the pawnshop. Max realizes that 1900 must still be on the ship, and determines to find him, and to find out once and for all why he has so consistently refused to leave. |
Porridge (1979)Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
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This prison comedy is based on the popular British televison series of the same name. Long time Slade prison inmate Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is ordered by Grouty (Peter Vaughan) to arrange a football match between the prisoners and an all-star celebrity team. Fletcher is unaware that the match is only a diversion so that an escape can take place. When Fletcher and his cell mate Lennie (Richard Beckinsale) stumble on the escape, they are taken along, and find themselves having to break back into prison to avoid getting into trouble. |
The Crucible (1996)Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 |
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America. |
Straw Dogs ()Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 |
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Migration to Britain from the violence of America, taking advantage of his wife, Amy DEBIDDOSAMUNA and astrophysicist, please use the bully in the local construction. David ultimately attacked the house of his soon escalated into a bloody battle for position as a local. 英国への移行時にはアメリカの暴力から、天体物理学者デビッドサムナーとその妻エイミーとの撮影の利点は、地元でいじめ施工を採用してください。デビッドが最終的にはすぐに彼の家を襲撃、地元としての立場をとって血みどろの争いにエスカレート。 |
Time Bandits ()Thursday, July 10th, 2008 |
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A cloakroom of a young boy contains a time hole. By this hole an arrangement of short people (I. e. rises about) come, while he escapes from her master, the highest being. They take Kevin with them on her adventures in the course of the time of Napoleonic times up to the middle age at the beginning of the 1900s, at the moment from legends and the fortress of the extreme darkness where they face evil. Eine Garderobe eines jungen Jungen enthält ein Zeitloch. Durch dieses Loch eine Zusammenstellung von kurzen Leuten (ich. e. ragt über) kommen, indem er ihrem Master, dem höchsten Wesen entflieht. Sie nehmen Kevin mit ihnen auf ihren Abenteuern im Laufe der Zeit von Napoleonischen Zeiten bis zum Mittleren Alter zum Anfang der 1900er Jahre, zur Zeit von Legenden und der Festung der Äußersten Finsternis, wo sie Übel gegenüberstehen. |
Brazil (1982)Thursday, June 5th, 2008 |
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Sam Lowry is a technocrat harassed in a futuristic society which is convoluted unnecessarily and badly organised. He dreams about a life where he can fly off of technology and bureaucracy of suppression and cross the eternity with the wife of his dreams. By trying to rectify the unjustified arrest of Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman whom he always hunts in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, bureaucracy touched him responsible for redness of bombings of the terrorists and both Sam and Jill’s lives are endangered. Sam Lowry est un technocrate harcelé dans une société futuriste qui est alambiquée inutilement et mal organisée. Il rêve d’une vie où il peut s’envoler de la technologie et de la bureaucratie de répression et passer l’éternité avec la femme de ses rêves. En essayant de rectifier l’arrestation injustifiée d’un Harry Buttle, Lowry rencontre la femme qu’il pourchasse toujours dans ses rêves, Jill Layton. Pendant ce temps, la bureaucratie l’a touché responsable de rougeurs de bombardements des terroristes et tant Sam que les vies de Jill sont mis en danger. |
Misérables, Les ()Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 |
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Jean Valjean, Frenchman imprisoned to steal some bread, must escape a policeman called Javert. Chase uses the lives of both men and soon Valjean is right in the middle of student revolutions in France. Jean Valjean, un Français emprisonné pour voler du pain, doit fuir un agent de police appelé Javert. La poursuite consomme les vies des deux hommes et bientôt Valjean se trouve au beau milieu des révolutions étudiantes en France. |
Death at a Funeral (1976)Monday, November 12th, 2007 |
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Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, living still at home on his father. When his father dies, it sound until him to organise his funeral. This hard morning, the proper serious expression on the face, Daniel is ready to welcome the friends of his father and the parents. But to preserve inherent dignity in such circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who dashes off his job, the return of the United States of his famous but selfish brother, the fiancé of his cousin who ingested medicaments incidentally, presence a moron who uses sad event to recover the heart (or rather the body) of a woman who is about to get married to other one, of a disabled person the old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To crown all that, Daniel points out presence among the grumblers of a mysterious dwarf which nobody else seems to know. Daniel est un jeune homme décent, marié à Jane, vivant encore à la maison de son père. Quand son père meurt, cela son jusqu’à lui pour organiser son enterrement. Ce matin pénible, l’expression grave convenable sur son visage, Daniel est prêt à accueillir les amis de son père et les parents. Mais préserver la dignité inhérente dans une telle circonstance sera une tâche dure. Particulièrement avec un entrepreneur de pompes funèbres qui bâcle son travail, le retour des Etats-Unis de son frère célèbre mais égoïste, le fiancé de son cousin qui a ingéré par hasard des médicaments, la présence un crétin qui profite de l’événement triste pour récupérer le coeur (ou plutôt le corps) d’une femme qui est sur le point de se marier avec un autre, d’un handicapé le vieil oncle qui est aussi la douleur la plus insupportable dans le cou. Pour couronner tout cela, Daniel remarque la présence parmi les pleureuses d’un nain mystérieux que personne d’autre ne semble connaître. |
Ideal Husband, An ()Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 |
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a Minister of the prosperous, lucky Government and with a fondness wife. Completely that is threatened when sra. Cheveley appears in London with condemnatory evidence of a past bad action. Sir Robert faces the help to his friend’s Sir Goring, lover apparently idle and the despair because of his father. Goring knows the lady of old man, and, for him, that takes everything quite seriously. Senhor Robert Chiltern é ministro do Governo próspero, sortudo e com uma esposa de carinho. Tudo isso é ameaçado quando sra. Cheveley aparece em Londres com evidência condenatória de uma ação má passada. Senhor Robert vira para a ajuda ao seu Senhor de amigo Goring, namorador ao que parece ocioso e o desespero por causa do seu pai. Goring conhece a senhora de velho, e, para ele, toma tudo isso bastante seriamente. |











