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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Guy Ritchie
Produced by
Akiva Goldsman
Joby Harold
Tory Tunnell
Steve Clark-Hall
Guy Ritchie
Lionel Wigram
Screenplay by
Joby Harold
Guy Ritchie
Lionel Wigram
Story by
David Dobkin
Joby Harold
Starring
Charlie Hunnam
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey
Djimon Hounsou
Aidan Gillen
Jude Law
Eric Bana
Music by
Daniel Pemberton
Cinematography
John Mathieson
Edited by
James Herbert
Production
companies
Warner Bros. Pictures[1]
Weed Road Pictures[1]
Safehouse Pictures[1]
Ritchie/Wigram Productions[1]
Village Roadshow Pictures[1]
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
May 8, 2017 (2017-05-08) (TCL Chinese Theatre)
May 12, 2017 (2017-05-12) (United States)
May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19) (United Kingdom)
Running time
126 minutes[2]
Country
United States[3]
Australia[3]
United Kingdom[3]
Language
English
Budget
$175 million[4]
Box office
$148.7 million[5]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a 2017 epic fantasy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie and co-written by Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram, inspired by Arthurian legends. The film stars Charlie Hunnam as the eponymous character, with Jude Law, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen and Eric Bana in supporting roles.[6]
King Arthur premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater on May 8, 2017 and was theatrically released in 2D and RealD 3D on May 12, 2017 in the United States and May 19, 2017 in the United Kingdom. The film grossed $148 million worldwide against its $175 million production budget, with critics "warning audiences to stay away".[7]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Casting
3.2 Filming
4 Release
4.1 Promotion
4.2 Home media
5 Reception
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
Mordred, an iron-fisted warlock, and his armies lay siege to Camelot, seeking to establish the dominance of magic-wielding mages over humankind. Uther Pendragon, king of the Britons, infiltrates Mordred's lair and beheads him, saving Camelot. Uther's treacherous brother Vortigern, who covets the throne, orchestrates a coup and sacrifices his wife Elsa to moat hags to become a demon knight, who kills Uther's wife and slays him in combat. The only survivor is Uther's son, who drifts away in a boat and ends up in Londinium, where he is found and raised by prostitutes.
Arthur grows into a skilled fighter and man of the streets. Arthur and his friends confront a group of Vikings who had mistreated one of the prostitutes, forcing him to pay her restitution. Afterwards, the brothel is raided by the Blacklegs, Vortigern's minions, and Arthur learns that the Vikings were under the king's protection. Arthur tries to escape the city but is caught and put on a ship with hundreds of other men; the Blacklegs have been forcing all men of Arthur's age to try to pull a sword that has appeared near the castle from the surrounding stone. Arthur is able to remove the sword but is quickly overwhelmed by its power and passes out. Vortigern meets with him in the dungeon, revealing his true lineage.
Meanwhile, a mage identifying herself as an acolyte of Merlin presents herself to Uther's former general, Sir Bedivere. At Arthur's planned execution, the mage uses her magic to stage a diversion while Bedivere's men rescue Arthur. Taken to Bedivere's hideout, Arthur initially refuses to help them. The mage persuades Bedivere to take Arthur to a realm called the "Darklands," where he's given a vision of how Uther sacrificed himself to save Arthur and entomb the sword in stone. Arthur learns Vortigern was responsible for persuading Mordred to rebel against humanity, and he returns determined to destroy Vortigern.
With his friends and Bedivere's men, Arthur stages a series of ambushes against Vortigern, culminating in an assassination attempt in Londinium. The rebels sense a trap but attack anyway, fleeing to a fighters' school run by Arthur's mentor George, where they are overrun by the Blacklegs. Seeing the mage held at knifepoint, Arthur unleashes Excalibur's potential, single-handedly killing all of the soldiers. The rebels are able to escape the city except for Arthur's injured friend Back Lack, who is killed at Vortigern's hand in front of his son Blue.
Ashamed of his failures, Arthur tries to throw away the sword, but the Lady of the Lake returns it and shows him a vision of England's future under Vortigern's rule. Coming to terms with his responsibility, Arthur reunites with Bedivere. When they return to the rebel hideout, however, they discover all of their allies dead, Vortigern having found them and delivered an ultimatum: if Arthur does not surrender himself, the captured mage and Blue will die.
Arthur surrenders himself, but as Vortigern is about to execute his nephew, a giant snake summoned by the mage attacks and devours Vortigern's men. While Bedivere and the others lead an attack on the castle, a desperate Vortigern sacrifices his only daughter and is transformed into the demon knight, confronting Arthur in a separate dimension. Despite his fighting skill, Arthur is beaten, and he is about to submit when he witnesses a vision of his father, convincing him to accept the sword and his character as his own. Arthur violently slays Vortigern but blesses him as he dies.
In the aftermath, Arthur dissolves Vortigern's pact with the Vikings and begins building a Round Table where his knighted friends will meet. Blue and the prostitutes arrive with the crown of Uther, which Arthur accepts, holding the sword aloft.
Cast[edit]
Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur, Uther's son, Vortigern's nephew and the would-be king of Britain who was raised by prostitutes.
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as the Mage, a woman working for Merlin who supports Arthur and the resistance.
Djimon Hounsou as Sir Bedivere, the leader of the resistance and a former knight of Uther.
Aidan Gillen as Goosefat Bill, a skilled archer, Bedivere's friend, former knight of Uther and member of the resistance.
Jude Law as Vortigern, Uther's brother, Elsa's husband, Catia's father, Arthur's uncle and the tyrannical ruthless king of Britain.
Eric Bana as Uther Pendragon, Vortigern's brother, Arthur's father and the king of Britain.
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Sir Tristan "Wet Stick", Arthur and Back Lack's childhood friend who is later knighted by Bedivere.
Craig McGinlay as Sir Percival, a member of the resistance who is later knighted by Bedivere.
Tom Wu as Sir George, Arthur's mentor and a skilled fighter who helps the resistance and is later knighted by Bedivere.
Neil Maskell as Back Lack, Arthur and Tristan's childhood friend and Blue's father, who helps the resistance.
Freddie Fox as Rubio, a member of the resistance who later betrays them under torture and helps Vortigern.
Annabelle Wallis as Maggie, Vortigern's maid who helps the resistance.
Bleu Landau as Blue, Back Lack's son.
Mikael Persbrandt as Greybeard, a viking who has deals with Vortigern.
Poppy Delevingne as Igraine, Arthur's mother and Uther's wife: she is killed by Vortigern in the beginning of the film.
Jacqui Ainsley as Lady of the Lake
Rob Knighton as Mordred
Katie McGrath as Elsa, Vortigern's wife.
Millie Brady as Catia, Vortigern's daughter.
Lorraine Bruce, Eline Powell and Hermione Corfield as the three Syrens.
Michael McElhatton as Jack's Eye, Arthur's scout on the kingdom.
David Beckham as Trigger, a smart-mouthed and scarred soldier of King Vortigern
Production[edit]
After 2004's King Arthur, Warner Brothers made multiple attempts to make a new film based on Arthurian legend: One was to be a remake of Excalibur, helmed by Bryan Singer, while the other was a movie to have been titled Arthur & Lancelot, which would have starred Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman, as King Arthur and Lancelot respectively.[8] Warner Brothers suits worried that names were not big enough, and attempted to replace both actors with more profitable ones, before eventually dropping the project all together.[8]
Warner's next attempt to create a new King Arthur film was an attempt to create an Arthurian cinematic universe which would span six films, following different characters before their eventual team up.[8] For this endeavour they hired director Guy Ritchie, who has himself attempted to make a King Arthur movie prior to that. According to The Guardian, the script soon became "a strange Frankenstein's Monster-style screenplay" incorporating elements from several of the unproduced Arthurian scripts.[8]
Casting[edit]
Film's cast at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International, to promote King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
In August 2014, Charlie Hunnam, Ritchie's choice for the role, was cast to play King Arthur.[9] Elizabeth Olsen was in talks for the female lead,[10] but on 18 September, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey landed the role instead.[11] On 14 November, Jude Law was in talks to play the lead villain role in the film.[12] On 11 February 2015, Eric Bana was added to the cast to play Uther, the father of King Arthur.[13] Mikael Persbrandt joined the film on 6 March 2015, to play a villainous role.[14] Although there were reports Idris Elba had been cast, he would confirm, in a Reddit AMA, this was a rumour.[15][16]
Filming[edit]
Filming in Windsor Great Park was underway in February 2015,[17] then later in North Wales from 2 March 2015.[18] Later on 10 March 2015, Ritchie tweeted a photo and confirmed the first day of shooting.[citation needed] In April 2015, filming took place in Snowdonia, where locations used were Tryfan, Nant Gwynant near Beddgelert and Capel Curig.[19] Early in July filming continued in the Shieldaig, Loch Torridon and Applecross areas of Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands. One day of filming also took place at The Quiraing on the Isle of Skye. Filming also took place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden.
Release[edit]
In April 2014, Warner Bros. set the film for a July 22, 2016 release, alongside Lights Out, but it was then moved by Warner Bros. from its original release date of July 22, 2016 to February 17, 2017, alongside Maze Runner: The Death Cure.[20] Warner Bros. moved the release date from February 17, 2017 to March 24, 2017.[21] The title was changed to King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in July 2016.[22] In December 2016 the release date was again moved, this time to May 12, 2017, possibly so as not to compete with CHiPs.[23][24]
Promotion[edit]
The trailer was released on 23 July 2016, during the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con and was attached to screenings of Mechanic: Resurrection, Don't Breathe, Shut In, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
It was originally planned for an IMAX release on 22 July 2016, as evident in the Comic-Con trailer,[25] but was cancelled due to it being postponed and only received non-IMAX presentations. The first extended TV spot was released on 22 January 2017, and was shown on the 2017 NFC Championship Game on Fox Broadcasting Company between the Atlanta Falcons and the Green Bay Packers and the 2017 AFC Championship Game on CBS between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots.
A second trailer was released on 20 February 2017 and was attached to Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Power Rangers and Ghost in the Shell. The third and final trailer was released on 1 April 2017 and was attached to The Fate of the Furious, The Lost City of Z (which also starred Hunnam) and Free Fire. All-in-all, Warner Bros. spent $135 million on marketing the film.[7]
The film was shown at select AMC Theatres in a special preview on 27 April 2017, in a promotional event titled "King for a Day." Demand for tickets led AMC to expand the event to 200 theatres.[26]
Home media[edit]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was released on DVD, Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray and Ultra HD on 8 August 2017.[27]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword grossed $39.2 million in the United States and Canada and $107 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $146.2 million, against a production budget of $175 million.[5]
In North America, the film was released alongside Snatched and was initially projected to gross around $25 million from 3,702 theatres during its opening weekend.[4] It made $1.15 million from Thursday night previews at about 3,200 theatres, but after making just $5.3 million on Friday, weekend projections were lowered to $15 million.[28] It ended up debuting to $15.4 million, finishing third at the box office. Deadline.com noted that due to the film's $175 million production budget, as well as at least an additional $100 million spent on marketing, the film was destined to be a box office bomb.[29] Regarding the cost of the film, the site quoted one finance expert as saying: "Make original IP [intellectual property] for a cost effective price. If it works then spend more if necessary on the sequel. King Arthur should have been done for $60M-$80M. Warner Bros. had no reason to spend $175M-plus on this picture."[7] Comparing its opening to cost, IndieWire called the film's failings "historic".[30] The Hollywood Reporter noted that the film would likely lose about $150 million.[31] In its second weekend the film grossed $7.2 million (a drop of 53.5%), finishing 5th at the box office.[32]
The film debuted at No. 1 in an estimated 29 countries, including Russia and Scandinavia, with openings to follow in the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, and Australia.[33] Over its opening weekend, it made only $29.1 million worldwide, in 51 non-American countries.[34]
Critical response[edit]
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 28% based on 217 reviews and an average rating of 4.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword piles mounds of modern action flash on an age-old tale – and wipes out much of what made it a classic story in the first place."[35] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating, the film has a score 41 out of 100 based 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[36] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale; 56% of the opening weekend filmgoers were under the age of 35, and 59% were men.[7]
Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film a generally positive review: "Guy Ritchie’s cheerfully ridiculous Arthur is a gonzo monarch, a death-metal warrior-king. Ritchie’s film is at all times over the top, crashing around its digital landscapes in all manner of beserkness, sometimes whooshing along, sometimes stuck in the odd narrative doldrum. But it is often surprisingly entertaining, and whatever clunkers he has delivered in the past, Ritchie again shows that a film-maker of his craft and energy commands attention, and part of his confidence in reviving King Arthur resides here in being so unselfconscious and unconcerned about the student canon that has gone before."[37]
In a pan of the film for the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips questioned the long-term longevity of the projected series of six Arthur films from Ritchie: "I'm no businessman, but plans for a six-film franchise may be optimistic. Optimism is nowhere to be found in Ritchie's movie itself. It is a grim and stupid thing, from one of the world's most successful mediocre filmmakers, and if Shakespeare's King Lear were blogging today, he'd supply the blurb quote: 'Nothing will come of nothing.'."[38] Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that despite the potential for a revisionist King Arthur story with "[t]he Ritchie sense of style", the overall problem is the film's lack of modulation: "Ritchie keeps rushing us along for two hours, as if to make absolutely certain that we never have time to absorb any character or moment, much less revel in the glorious, cheeky ridiculousness of the whole thing."[39]
Alissa Wilkinson of Vox writes that the film is "surprisingly good, and surprisingly political" in relation to the British withdrawal from the European Union, and "occasionally, it's even pretty great".[40] Chris Hartwell of The Hollywood Reporter expressed disappointment in the film's lackluster box office performance denying a sequel for the introduction of Merlin, stating it would have been more successful as a solo film instead of setting up a franchise.[41]
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External links[edit]
Official website
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword on IMDb
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword at Box Office Mojo
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword at Metacritic
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword at Rotten Tomatoes
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A Hard Day's Night (song)
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"A Hard Day's Night"
US picture sleeve
Single by the Beatles
from the album A Hard Day's Night
B-side
"Things We Said Today" (UK)
"I Should Have Known Better" (US)
Released
10 July 1964 (UK)
13 July 1964 (US)
Format
7"
Recorded
16 April 1964
Studio
EMI Studios, London
Genre
Rock[1]
Length
2:32
Label
Parlophone (UK)
Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s)
Lennon–McCartney
Producer(s)
George Martin
The Beatles UK singles chronology
"Can't Buy Me Love"
(1964) "A Hard Day's Night"
(1964) "I Feel Fine"
(1964)
"Can't Buy Me Love"
(1964) "A Hard Day's Night"
(1964) "I Feel Fine"
(1964)
The Beatles US singles chronology
"Love Me Do"
(1964) Love Me Do1964 "A Hard Day's Night"
(1964) A Hard Day's Night1964 "And I Love Her"
(1964) And I Love Her1964
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"A Hard Day's Night" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon,[2] with some collaboration from Paul McCartney. It was released on the film soundtrack of the same name in 1964. It was also released in the UK as a single, with "Things We Said Today" as its B-side.
The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, A Hard Day's Night, and was on their album of the same name. The song topped the charts in both the United Kingdom and United States when it was released as a single. The American and British singles of "A Hard Day's Night" as well as both the American and British albums of the same title all held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat.[3]
Contents
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1 Title
2 Composition
3 Release and reception
4 Opening chord
5 Music
5.1 Recording
5.2 Lyrics
6 Personnel
7 In popular culture
8 Live renditions
9 Cover versions
10 Tributes
11 Charts and certifications
11.1 Charts
11.2 Certifications
12 Notes
13 References
14 External links
Title[edit]
The song's title originated from something said by Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. Starr described it this way in an interview with disc jockey Dave Hull in 1964: "We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day …' and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, '… night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's Night.'"[4]
Starr's statement was the inspiration for the title of the film, which in turn inspired the composition of the song. According to Lennon in a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine: "I was going home in the car and Dick Lester [director of the movie] suggested the title, 'Hard Day's Night' from something Ringo had said. I had used it in In His Own Write [a book Lennon was writing then], but it was an off-the-cuff remark by Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said it not to be funny … just said it. So Dick Lester said, 'We are going to use that title.'"[5]
In a 1994 interview for The Beatles Anthology, however, McCartney disagreed with Lennon's recollections, basically stating that it was the Beatles, and not Lester, who had come up with the idea of using Starr's verbal misstep: "The title was Ringo's. We'd almost finished making the film, and this fun bit arrived that we'd not known about before, which was naming the film. So we were sitting around at Twickenham studios having a little brain-storming session … and we said, 'Well, there was something Ringo said the other day.' Ringo would do these little malapropisms, he would say things slightly wrong, like people do, but his were always wonderful, very lyrical … they were sort of magic even though he was just getting it wrong. And he said after a concert, 'Phew, it's been a hard day's night.'"[6]
In 1996, yet another version of events cropped up. In an Associated Press report, the producer of the film A Hard Day's Night, Walter Shenson, stated that Lennon described to Shenson some of Starr's funnier gaffes, including "a hard day's night", whereupon Shenson immediately decided that that was going to be the title of the movie (replacing other alternatives, including Beatlemania).[7] Shenson then told Lennon that he needed a theme song for the film.[8]
Composition[edit]
Regardless of who decided on the title, Lennon immediately made up his mind that he would compose the movie's title track.[9] He dashed off the song in one night, and brought it in for comments the following morning. As he described in his 1980 Playboy interview, "the next morning I brought in the song … 'cuz there was a little competition between Paul and I as to who got the A-side – who got the hits. If you notice, in the early days the majority of singles, in the movies and everything, were mine … in the early period I'm dominating the group … The reason Paul sang on 'A Hard Day's Night' (in the bridge) is because I couldn't reach the notes."[5] However, Paul McCartney and others remember Paul collaborating on the song,[10] though John was the dominant writer.
On 16 April 1964, the Beatles gathered at Studio 2 of the EMI Studios and recorded "A Hard Day's Night". It took them less than three hours to polish the song for its final release, eventually selecting the ninth take as the one to be released.[11] Evening Standard journalist Maureen Cleave described a memorable taxi ride the morning the song was recorded:
One day I picked John up in a taxi and took him to Abbey Road for a recording session. The tune to the song 'A Hard Day's Night' was in his head, the words scrawled on a birthday card from a fan to his little son Julian: 'When I get home to you,' it said, 'I find my tiredness is through …' Rather a feeble line about tiredness, I said. 'OK,' he said cheerfully and, borrowing my pen, instantly changed it to the slightly suggestive: 'When I get home to you/I find the things that you do/Will make me feel all right.' The other Beatles were there in the studio and, of course, the wonderful George Martin. John sort of hummed the tune to the others – they had no copies of the words or anything else. Three hours later I was none the wiser about how they’d done it but the record was made – and you can see the birthday card in the British Library.[12]
In the Associated Press report, Shenson described his recollection of what happened. At 8:30 in the morning, "There were John and Paul with guitars at the ready and all the lyrics scribbled on matchbook covers. They played it and the next night recorded it." Shenson declared, "It had the right beat and the arrangement was brilliant. These guys were geniuses."[8]
Release and reception[edit]
"A Hard Day's Night" was first released to the United States, coming out on 26 June 1964 on the album A Hard Day's Night, the soundtrack to the film, and released by United Artists. It was the first song to be released before single release (see below).
The United Kingdom first heard "A Hard Day's Night" when it was released there on 10 July 1964, both on the album A Hard Day's Night, and as a single, backed with "Things We Said Today" on the B-side. Both the album and single were released by Parlophone Records. The single began charting on 18 July 1964, a week later ousting the Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now" from the top spot on the British charts on 25 July 1964, coincidentally the day when both the American and British albums too hit the peak of their respective charts. The single stayed on top for three weeks, and lasted another nine weeks in the charts afterwards.
America first saw the single of "A Hard Day's Night" on 13 July 1964, featuring "I Should Have Known Better" on the B-side, and released by Capitol Records. Capitol had been in a quandary about cashing in on the success of the movie A Hard Day's Night, as United Artists held the publishing rights for the soundtrack (thus owning the rights to release the album of the same title). However, there was nothing preventing Capitol from releasing the songs in other forms, leading to six out of the seven songs from the movie's soundtrack coming out on singles.[citation needed]
The American single began its 13-week chart run five days after release, and on 1 August started a two-week-long run at the top, setting a new record – nobody before had ever held the number one position on both the album and singles charts in the United Kingdom and the United States at the same time. The Beatles were the first to do so, and continued to be the only ones who had done this until 1970 when Simon and Garfunkel achieved the same feat with their album Bridge over Troubled Water and its title track.
The song was the fifth of seven songs by the Beatles to hit number 1 in a one-year period, an all-time record on the US charts. In order, these were "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Love Me Do", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Feel Fine" and "Eight Days a Week". It was also the sixth of seven songs written by Lennon-McCartney to hit number 1 in 1964, an all-time record on the US charts for writing the most songs to hit number 1 in the same calendar year (see List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones).
In 1965, "A Hard Day's Night" won the Beatles the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group. In 2004, this song was ranked number 154 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[13]
Opening chord[edit]
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Opening chord
Possible chord options
G7sus4
Dm7sus4
Jason Brown's analysis, as published in his 2008 report "Mathematics, Physics and 'A Hard Day's Night'"
F9
"A Hard Day's Night" is immediately identifiable before the vocals even begin, thanks to George Harrison's unmistakable Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string guitar's "mighty opening chord".[14] According to George Martin, "We knew it would open both the film and the soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly strong and effective beginning. The strident guitar chord was the perfect launch,"[11] having what Ian MacDonald called "a significance in Beatles lore matched only by the concluding E major of "A Day in the Life", the two opening and closing the group's middle period of peak creativity".[15]
Analysis of the chord has been debated,[16] it having been described as G7add9sus4,[17] G7sus4,[18][19] or G11sus4[14] and others below.
The exact chord is an Fadd9 as confirmed by Harrison during an online chat on 15 February 2001:[20]
Q: Mr Harrison, what is the opening chord you used for "A Hard Day's Night"?
A: It is F with a G on top, but you'll have to ask Paul about the bass note to get the proper story.
According to Walter Everett the opening chord has an introductory dominant function because McCartney plays D in the bass: Harrison and Martin play F A C G, over the bass D, on twelve-string guitar and piano respectively, giving the chord a mixture-coloured neighbour, F; two diatonic neighbours, A and C; plus an anticipation of the tonic, G – the major subtonic as played on guitar being a borrowed chord commonly used by the Beatles, first in "P.S. I Love You" (see mode mixture), and later in "Every Little Thing", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Got to Get You into My Life" (in the latter two against a tonic pedal).[21]
Alan W. Pollack also interprets the chord as a surrogate dominant, the G being an anticipation that resolves on the G major chord that opens the verse. He suggests it is a mixture of D minor, F major, and G major (missing the B).[22] Tony Bacon calls it a Dm7sus4 (D F G A C),[23] which is the minor seventh chord (plus the fourth, G) (for more information regarding chord functions see diatonic function).
Everett points out that the chord relates to the Beatles' interest in pandiatonic harmony.[24]
Dominic Pedler has also provided an interpretation of the chord,[25] with the Beatles and George Martin playing the following:
George Harrison: Fadd9 in 1st position on Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string electric guitar
John Lennon: Fadd9 in 1st position on a Gibson J-160E 6-string acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: high D played on the D-string, 12th fret on Hofner 500/1 electric bass
George Martin: D2-G2-D3 played on a Steinway Grand Piano
Ringo Starr: subtle snare drum and ride cymbal
This gives the notes: G-B-D-F-A-C (the B is a harmonic). One of the interesting things about this chord (as described by Pedler) is how McCartney's high bass note reverberates inside the soundbox of Lennon's acoustic guitar and begins to be picked up on Lennon's microphone or pick-up during the sounding of the chord. This gives the chord its special "wavy" and unstable quality. Pedler describes the effect as a "virtual pull-off".[20]
The chord's notes were estimated using Fourier analysis,[26] according to which Harrison played the A2, A3, D3, D4, G3, G4, C4, and another C4 on his 12-string guitar; McCartney played a D3 on his bass; producer George Martin played D3, F3, D5, G5, and E6 on the piano; and Lennon played a loud C5 on his six-string guitar.[27]
In 2008, Jason Brown, a mathematics professor at Dalhousie University, published a report titled "Mathematics, Physics and 'A Hard Day's Night'", in which he analysed the properties of the song's opening chord using Fourier transforms. He concluded that Martin's piano contribution provided the important element in the chord beside Harrison's playing.[28] In November the following year, Wired published an article on Brown's use of Celemony's Melodyne Editor with Direct Note Access technology to further analyse the chord.[29] Brown's findings were partly challenged in 2012 by another mathematician, Kevin Houston from the University of Leeds. Houston, who also used a Fourier transform, attributed a greater importance in Lennon's contribution on acoustic guitar, rather than the piano notes played by Martin.[30]
Randy Bachman has stated that he heard the original masters of the recordings and could hear the 12-string guitar playing "an F chord, but you put a G on top, and you put a G on the bottom, and you put a C next to that G", "a D on the bass", and "rhythm guitar was a D chord with a sus 4".[31]
A repeated arpeggio outlining the notes of the opening chord ends the song in a circular fashion. This provides, "a sonic confirmation that the thirty-six hours we have just seen [in the movie] will go on and on and on".[17] This was an inspiration of George Martin, who said: "Again, that's film writing. I was stressing to them the importance of making the song fit, not actually finishing it but dangling on so that you're into the next mood."[32] The song contains 12 other chords.[14]
Music[edit]
The song is composed in the key of G major[21][22] and in a 4/4 time signature.[19] The verse features the ♭VII or major subtonic chord that was a part of the opening chord as an ornament or embellishment below the tonic. Transposed down a perfect fifth, the modal frame of the song though pentatonic features a ladder of thirds axially centred on G with a ceiling note of B♭ and floor note of E♭ (the low C being a passing tone).[33]
"A Hard Day's Night" melody.
According to Middleton, the song, "at first glance major-key-with-modal-touches", reveals through its "Line of Latent Mode" "a deep kinship with typical blues melodic structures: it is centred on three of the notes of the minor-pentatonic mode (E♭-G-B♭), with the contradictory major seventh (B♮) set against that. Morever, the shape assumed by these notes - the modal frame - as well as the abstract scale they represent, is revealed, too; and this - an initial, repeated circling round the dominant (G), with an excursion to its minor third (B♭), 'answered' by a fall to the 'symmetrical' minor third of the tonic (E♭) - is a common pattern in blues."[34]
Lennon opens the twelve-measure-long verse and carries it along, suddenly joined at the end by McCartney, who then sings the bridge.
Recording[edit]
During the recording of "A Hard Day's Night", Lennon and McCartney doubletracked their vocals throughout including the chorus. Lennon sings the lead vocal on the verses and Paul sings lead on the middle eight. During the chorus McCartney handles the high harmony and Lennon the low harmony. Take 7 reveals that the lyrics were still not set with Lennon singing "you make me feel all right" and McCartney and Harrison still unsteady with their respective lines, ending with Lennon chiding them with the line "I heard a funny chord".
The instrumental break, is played by Harrison on a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar, with Martin doubling on a piano recorded to tape at half-speed and then sped up to normal.[35] Recording this solo was the most challenging aspect of the session; a take that surfaced on a bootleg in the 1980s reveals Harrison fumbling over his strings, losing his timing and missing notes. But by the time the session ended at 10 p.m. that night, he had sculpted one of his most memorable solos – an upward run played twice and capped with a circular flourish - in illustration of an observation made by engineer Geoff Emerick: "George would spend a lot of time working out solos. Everything was a little bit harder for him, nothing quite came easily."[32]
The song closes with Harrison playing an arpeggio of the opening chord (Fadd9) during the fade-out.
Lyrics[edit]
The lyrics speak about the singer's undying devotion to his lover, and how he works so she can buy the things she wants. The singer sings about his tiredness when he comes home from work, but how the things that his lover does perk him up. Critics have pointed out that the first verse, repeated as the last verse, exploits three worn-out-sounding cliches, "a hard day's work", "working like a dog" and "sleeping like a log", only to quicken up the pace with a patter-couplet reassuring the singer's girlfriend that his energy and pleasure level have been renewed by her ministrations.[36]
In 1965, Peter Sellers released a 45 rpm single on which he recited the lyrics to "A Hard Day’s Night" in the manner of Laurence Olivier's famous performance of Shakespeare's Richard III.[37] He later performed the piece in full costume for the Granada television show The Music of Lennon and McCartney.[38]
Personnel[edit]
Personnel per Ian MacDonald[15]
John Lennon – double-tracked vocals (verses), electric and acoustic rhythm guitars
Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocals (middle-eight), harmony vocal, bass
George Harrison – twelve-string lead guitar
Ringo Starr – drums, bongos, cowbell
George Martin – piano
In popular culture[edit]
"A Hard Day's Night" was used as wake-up music on Space Shuttle Missions STS-30, STS-61, and STS-69.[39]
The song was played to conclude the Channel Four breakfast programme The Channel Four Daily in 1992.[40]
The song was used as the main theme for the controversial Mikie arcade video game from the mid eighties.
Live renditions[edit]
The Beatles regularly played the song live throughout 1965.
During his 2016 One on One tour, Paul McCartney played the song for the first ever as a solo artist and for the first time by a Beatle in half a century since the Beatles played it for the last time on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.[41]
Cover versions[edit]
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Year
Group or artist's name
Album title
Additional information
1964 Chipmunks, TheThe Chipmunks The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits
1964 Supremes, TheThe Supremes A Bit of Liverpool
1964 Jones, QuincyQuincy Jones Golden Boy[42]
1964 Lewis, RamseyRamsey Lewis In Person 1960-1967[42]
1964 McFarland, GaryGary McFarland single
1964 Santo and Johnny !Santo & Johnny single[42]
1964 The Typhoons !The Typhoons EP Side One A Hard Day's Night And I Love Her Side Two I Should Have Known Better Tell Me Why [43]
1965 Kingsmen, TheThe Kingsmen The Kingsmen On Campus Instrumental. Also on Greatest Hits in 1966.
1965 Lee, PeggyPeggy Lee Pass Me By
1965 Fitzgerald, EllaElla Fitzgerald Ella in Hamburg[42] Instrumental
1965 Indexi !Indexi With title "Učini jednom bar"
1965 Sellers, PeterPeter Sellers single[42] A comedy version in which he recited the lyrics in the style of Laurence Olivier in Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's play Richard III.[44] Sellers' version was a UK Top 20 hit in 1965.[45]
1966 Atkins, ChetChet Atkins Chet Atkins Picks on The Beatles[42]
1966 Grant, EarlEarl Grant Bali Hai'h Instrumental
1966 Preston, BillyBilly Preston The Wildest Organ in Town!
1967 Rivers, JohnnyJohnny Rivers Whisky à Go Go Revisited
1968 Bar-Kays !Bar-Kays Single (Volt148) Appears on the 1993 various artists compilation album Rubber Souled.
1969 Ebstein, KatjaKatja Ebstein The In-Kraut: Vol 3.[46][47]
1969 Warwick, DionneDionne Warwick Soulful[42]
1976 Mayall, JohnJohn Mayall Notice to Appear
1979 Knack, TheThe Knack Live at Carnegie Hall
1979 Bygraves, MaxMax Bygraves At His Very Best
1982 Redding, OtisOtis Redding Recorded Live: Previously Released Performances
1982 Shockabilly !Shockabilly The Dawn Of Shockabilly (EP)[42]
1984 Kelly, PatPat Kelly One In A Million
1985 Tenney and the Lost Tribe, GerryGerry Tenney and the Lost Tribe Heart Will Carry On Sung in Yiddish and titled Shvere togndike nakht/שװערע טאגנדיקע נאכט
1991 Kelly Family, TheThe Kelly Family Honest Workers
1995 Barrueco, ManuelManuel Barrueco Manuel Barrueco plays Lennon & McCartney[42]
1996 Gurus, HoodooHoodoo Gurus Electric Chair
1997 Joel, BillyBilly Joel Greatest Hits Volume III 1983-1997
1998 Hawn, GoldieGoldie Hawn In My Life
1998 Shameless !Shameless Flaming Youth Titled "Hard Dayz Night"
1998 Punkles, TheThe Punkles The Punkles
2000 Marvin, HankHank Marvin Marvin at the Movies Instrumental
2001 Lee, RitaRita Lee Aqui, Ali, em Qualquer Lugar
("Here, There and Everywhere")
2001 Zonjic, AlexanderAlexander Zonjic Reach for the Sky[48][49]
2002 Ektomorf I Scream Up to the Sky
2004 Marie, ReneRene Marie Serenade Renegade
2005 Joel, BillyBilly Joel My Lives[50] Recorded live
2005 Sugarcult !Sugarcult A Hard Day's Night[42]
2007 Diao, MandoMando Diao single B-side to "TV & Me"
2009 Alex Wolff, Nat andNat and Alex Wolff single Live Performances "TBA Album"
2011 Joel, BillyBilly Joel Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert Recorded live in 2008 (but not released until 2011). It was performed as an interlude in the middle of "The River of Dreams," which Joel does often at his concerts.
2012 Rush, Big TimeBig Time Rush single Big Time Movie Soundtrack - EP
2013 Glee Glee Sings The Beatles Duet between Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) and Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) in the season 5 opener Love Love Love.
2015 Sheryl Crow John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert Live Broadcast
2017 Skank Pega Pega's soundtrack
Tributes[edit]
The Rutles' song "I Must Be In Love" is a pastiche of this song.
Beatallica recorded a thrash version of this song called "A Garage Dayz Nite" whose lyrics reference the songs "Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica and "Love at First Sting" by Scorpions.
The Cirque Du Soleil production Love uses the opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night" to introduce "Get Back". The chord is played forward, and while the drum solo from "The End" is playing, the chord is reversed to the beginning.
Charts and certifications[edit]
Charts[edit]
Chart (1964)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[51] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[52] 4
Ireland (IRMA)[53] 1
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[54] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[55] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[56] 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[57] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[58] 1
US Cash Box Top 100[59] 1
West German Media Control Singles Chart[60] 2
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
United States (RIAA)[61]
Gold 1,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Notes[edit]
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Jump up ^ Turner Classic Movies 2009.
Jump up ^ White 2008.
Jump up ^ Badman, p. 93.
^ Jump up to: a b Sheff 2000, pp. 174–175.
Jump up ^ Miles 1997, p. 164.
Jump up ^ Harry 2000, p. 486.
^ Jump up to: a b Campbell 1996.
Jump up ^ Miles 1997, p. 165.
Jump up ^ Compton 2017, pp. 79-80.
^ Jump up to: a b Lewisohn 1988, p. 43.
Jump up ^ "A Hard Day's Night". The Beatles Bible. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
Jump up ^ Rolling Stone 2007.
^ Jump up to: a b c Jackson 2005, p. 112.
^ Jump up to: a b MacDonald 2005, p. 115.
Jump up ^ Hook 2005.
^ Jump up to: a b Glynn 2004, pp. 33, 68.
Jump up ^ Rooksby 2004, p. 61.
^ Jump up to: a b Leonard 2003, p. 126.
^ Jump up to: a b Pedler 2003, pp. 478–479.
^ Jump up to: a b Everett 2001, pp. 236–237.
^ Jump up to: a b Pollack.
Jump up ^ Bacon 2000, p. 5.
Jump up ^ Everett 2001, p. 109.
Jump up ^ Pedler 2003, pp. 511–12.
Jump up ^ Brown 2004.
Jump up ^ CBC Radio 2004.
Jump up ^ Van Buskirk, Eliot (31 October 2008). "How Math Unraveled the 'Hard Day's Night' Mystery". Wired. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
Jump up ^ Celemony’s Melodyne Makes Easy Work of 'Hard Day's Night'", Wired.com.
Jump up ^ von Radowitz, John (9 September 2012). "Mathematician cracks Beatles mystery – perhaps". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
Jump up ^ Vinyl Tap, 9 July 2011, part 2, 30:25-32:55
^ Jump up to: a b "'A Hard Day's Night'". 100 Greatest Beatles Songs. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
Jump up ^ Middleton 1990, p. 203.
Jump up ^ Middleton 1990, p. 201.
Jump up ^ Kehew, Brian; Ryan, Kevin (2006). Recording The Beatles. Curvebender Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9785200-0-7.
Jump up ^ Stevens, John. "Analysis of "A Hard Day's Night"". The Songs of John Lennon:The Beatles Years. Scribd Inc. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
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Preceded by
"It's All Over Now" by The Rolling Stones UK number one single
"A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles
23 July 1964 (three weeks) Succeeded by
"Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann
Preceded by
"Rag Doll" by The Four Seasons Billboard Hot 100 number one single
"A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles
1 August 1964 (two weeks) Succeeded by
"Everybody Loves Somebody" by Dean Martin
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A Hard Day's Night
Songs
Side one
"A Hard Day's Night"
"I Should Have Known Better"
"If I Fell"
"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
"And I Love Her"
"Tell Me Why"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
Side two
"Any Time at All"
"I'll Cry Instead"
"Things We Said Today"
"When I Get Home"
"You Can't Do That"
"I'll Be Back"
Outtakes
"No Reply"
"You Know What to Do"
"Slow Down"
"Matchbox"
"Long Tall Sally"
"I Call Your Name"
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With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
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Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (White Album)
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
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t
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The Beatles singles discography
UK and US
(all labels)
1963
"Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why"
"From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl"
"She Loves You" / "I'll Get You"
1964
"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That"
"I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"
1965
"Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is"
"Help!" / "I'm Down"
"We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"
1966
"Paperback Writer" / "Rain"
"Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"
1967
"Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever"
"All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
"Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus"
1968
"Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light"
"Hey Jude" / "Revolution"
1969
"Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down"
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe"
"Something" / "Come Together"
1970
"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life"
1982
"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
1995
"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"
1996
"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"
UK only
(Parlophone,
Apple)
1962
"My Bonnie" / "The Saints"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"
1964
"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"
1976
"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"
US only
(Vee-Jay,
Swan,
Tollie,
Capitol,
Apple)
1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There"
1964
"Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place"
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl"
"Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"
"Sie liebt dich" / "I'll Get You"
"I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"
"And I Love Her" / "If I Fell"
"A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better"
"Matchbox" / "Slow Down"
1965
"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"
"Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"
1966
"Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On"
1970
"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"
1976
"Got to Get You into My Life" / "Helter Skelter"
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia"
Other
countries
(Odeon,
Parlophone,
Apple)
1963
"All My Loving" / "This Boy" (Canada)
1964
"Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich" (Germany)
1966
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" / "Nowhere Man" (Australia)
1968
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europe, Japan, Australia)
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "I Will" (Philippines)
"Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" (Sweden)
1969
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan)
1970
"Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan)
1972
"All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europe)
1978
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Within You Without You" (Germany)
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Martin Henderson
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Martin Henderson
Henderson in 2006
Born
(1974-10-08) 8 October 1974 (age 43)
Auckland, New Zealand
Education
Birkenhead Primary
Westlake Boys High
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1989–present
Martin Henderson (born 8 October 1974) is a New Zealand actor, best known for his roles on the ABC medical drama Off the Map as Dr. Ben Keeton, the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Nathan Riggs, and for his performance as Noah Clay in the critically lauded 2002 horror film The Ring, while remaining known in his home country for his teenage role as Stuart Neilson in the soap opera Shortland Street.[1]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
4.3 Web series
4.4 Music videos
5 References
6 External links
Early life[edit]
Martin was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and began acting at the age of thirteen, appearing in Strangers, a local television production. He attended Birkenhead Primary and Westlake Boys High schools.[2]
Career[edit]
Henderson starred in the prime-time soap opera Shortland Street, where he played the character of Stuart Neilson from 1992 to 1995. He subsequently appeared in a number of Australian films and television productions including Echo Point and Home and Away, before moving to the United States in 1997, to pursue a career in Hollywood films and to train in a two-year program at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
Henderson spent more than a year unsuccessfully auditioning for film roles in Los Angeles. In 2001, he was finally cast in a supporting role in the John Woo-directed war film Windtalkers. In 1999, he appeared in Kick, for which he was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[3]
In 2002, he starred opposite actress Naomi Watts in the horror film The Ring. Following the box office success of the film, Martin received a role playing the character of Drew in Perfect Opposites,[4] and subsequently was cast as the lead character in the biker film Torque, released in early 2004 to mixed reviews. In 2004, he starred opposite Indian actress Aishwarya Rai in the romantic film Bride and Prejudice and appeared in Britney Spears' "Toxic" music video. In 2005, he appeared in the award-winning Little Fish starring Cate Blanchett. In 2006, Henderson received rave reviews in London's West End in a theatre production of Fool for Love with Juliette Lewis.
He was set to star alongside Jordana Brewster in the television series adapted from the 2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. However, the series was not picked up by any network. In 2006, he appeared in the movie Flyboys. Henderson also appeared in a commercial for the 2008 Cadillac CTS, and the House episode "Painless". In 2010, Henderson was cast in Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes' short-lived television series Off the Map. In 2014, Henderson starred in the multi-platform Australian drama television series Secrets & Lies and starred in the SundanceTV drama series The Red Road.
In June 2015, Deadline reported Henderson would join Grey's Anatomy starting in November, as a potential love interest for series lead Ellen Pompeo's Meredith Grey. The actor exited two years later, his final appearance in October 2017. Henderson told Deadline that his departure was a storytelling based decision, adding, "This [was] my final year so I was expecting Nathan’s storyline to be wrapped up."[5][6] That same year, he appeared in Everest, with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Personal life[edit]
Henderson is both a New Zealand and American citizen.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1999 Kick Tom Bradshaw Nominated—AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2000 Summer of My Deflowering, TheThe Summer of My Deflowering Luke Short film
2002 Windtalkers Private Thomas Nellie
2002 Ring, TheThe Ring Noah Clay
2003 Skagerrak Ian/Ken
2004 Torque Cary Ford
2004 Perfect Opposites Drew Curtis
2004 Bride and Prejudice William Darcy
2005 Little Fish Ray Robert Heart Nominated—AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated—FCCA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2006 Flyboys Reed Cassidy
2006 Smokin' Aces Hollis Elmore
2007 Battle in Seattle Jay
2009 Cedar Boys Mathew
2010 Home by Christmas Young Ed
2013 Moment, TheThe Moment John/Peter
2013 Devil's Knot Brent Davis
2015 Everest Andy Harris
2016 Miracles from Heaven Kevin Beam
2018 The Strangers: Prey at Night Mike
Television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1989 Strangers Zane N/A
1990 Betty's Bunch N/A N/A
1990 Raider of the South Seas Jack Taylor Television film
1992–1995, 2017 Shortland Street Stuart Neilson 27 episodes
1995 Echo Point Zac Brennan N/A
1996 Sweat Tom Nash 26 episodes
1996 Home and Away Geoff Thomas 7 episodes
1997–1999 Big Sky Scotty Gibbs 53 episodes
2009 House Jeff Episode: "Painless"
Nominated—AFI International Award for Best Actor
2011 Off the Map Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Keeton 13 episodes
2012 Rake Joshua Floyd 2 episodes
2014–2015 Red Road, TheThe Red Road Harold Jensen 12 episodes
2014 Secrets & Lies Ben Gundelach 6 episodes
2015–2017 Grey's Anatomy Dr. Nathan Riggs 45 episodes
Web series[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2013–2014 Auckland Daze Martin Henderson 3 episodes
Music videos[edit]
Year
Title
Notes
2003 Toxic Britney Spears' boyfriend
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Shorty Street actor is the new McDreamy". Stuff. 18 January 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
Jump up ^ "Past Pupil Martin Henderson Visits Westlake". 4 May 2010. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010.
Jump up ^ IMDb: Awards for Kick
Jump up ^ Martin Henderson in Perfect Opposites Archived 8 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Ausiello, Michael (27 October 2017). "Grey's Anatomy Shocker: [Spoiler] Exits". tvline.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
Jump up ^ Boardman, Madeline (16 June 2015). "Martin Henderson takes Patrick Dempsey's spot in Grey's Anatomy". usmagazine.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
External links[edit]
Martin Henderson on IMDb
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