More familiar for television roles, who played King Edward the First in the film “Braveheart”?
"Braveheart Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed by Mel Gibson. The film is fictionally based on the struggle of William Wallace, played by Gibson, a late 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The film also stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan and Catherine McCormack. The story is inspired by Blind Harry's epic poem ""The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace"" and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace. Development on the film initially started at Metro Goldwyn"
"where he started his acting journey Peter Hanly Peter Hanly (born 28 November 1964) is an Irish actor best known for his performances in ""Braveheart"" as Edward, Prince of Wales, and as Garda Ambrose Egan in the BBC TV series ""Ballykissangel"". Hanly began his acting career about the time he began playing Young Oliver in Da. Hanly's repertoire encompasses plays, television performances, as well as movies. In 2007, he played Major Sparks in ""My Boy Jack"". Hanly continues to work as an actor in Dublin, where he lives with his wife Jennifer O'Dea and their two children. He attended Dublin"
"Peter Hanly Peter Hanly (born 28 November 1964) is an Irish actor best known for his performances in ""Braveheart"" as Edward, Prince of Wales, and as Garda Ambrose Egan in the BBC TV series ""Ballykissangel"". Hanly began his acting career about the time he began playing Young Oliver in Da. Hanly's repertoire encompasses plays, television performances, as well as movies. In 2007, he played Major Sparks in ""My Boy Jack"". Hanly continues to work as an actor in Dublin, where he lives with his wife Jennifer O'Dea and their two children. He attended Dublin Youth Theatre as a young teen"
"play, Edward and Gaveston are presented as victims of homophobia and prejudice. In the 1995 movie ""Braveheart"", on the other hand, Gaveston (thinly disguised as the character ""Phillip"") is again caricatured as arrogant and effeminate. There is also an Oxford University dining and drinking club called the Piers Gaveston Society. Primary: Secondary: Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1284 – 19 June 1312) was an English nobleman of Gascon origin, and the favourite of King Edward II of England. At a young age he made a good impression on King Edward I ""Longshanks"","
"effort. In winning the Academy Award for Best Director, Gibson became only the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to do so. ""Braveheart"" influenced the Scottish nationalist movement and helped to revive the film genre of the historical epic; the Battle of Stirling Bridge sequence is considered by critics to be one of the all-time-best-directed battle scenes. The film's depiction of the Prince of Wales as an effeminate homosexual caused the film to be attacked by the Gay Alliance. The Gay Alliance was especially enraged by a scene in which King Edward I murders his son's male lover by throwing him out of a"
"have been more historically inaccurate, even if a ""Plasticine dog"" had been inserted in the film and the title changed to """"William Wallace and Gromit"""". In the DVD audio commentary of ""Braveheart"", Mel Gibson acknowledges many of the historical inaccuracies but defends his choices as director, noting that the way events were portrayed in the film was much more ""cinematically compelling"" than the historical fact or conventional mythos. Edward Longshanks, King of England, is shown invoking ""Jus primae noctis"", allowing the Lord of a medieval estate to take the virginity of his serfs' maiden daughters on their wedding nights. Critical"
"Richard Leaf Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor. He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf married actress Tamsin Greig in 1997 and they have 3 children. The actor is notable for his role as the Governor of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's ""Braveheart"". He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film ""Hannibal Rising"". He also appeared as John Dawlish, an Auror, in the film ""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"", and portrayed Jack, the bartender of the Cloverdilly public house, in the 2006"
"Angus Macfadyen reprising his role from ""Braveheart"". The cast will also include Jared Harris, Patrick Fugit, Zach McGowan, Emma Kenney, Diarmaid Murtagh, Seoras Wallace, Shane Coffey, Kevin McNally and Melora Walters. Richard Gray will direct the film, with Macfadyen and Eric Belgau writing the script. Helmer Gray, Macfadyen, Hutchison, Kim Barnard, Nick Farnell, Cameron Nuggent and Andrew Curry will produce the film. Braveheart Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed by Mel Gibson. The film is fictionally based on the struggle of William Wallace, played by Gibson, a late 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the"
"rarely been portrayed on screen. He was portrayed by Charles Kent in the 1911 silent short ""The Death of King Edward III"" and by Michael Hordern in the 1955 film ""The Dark Avenger"", about Edward, the Black Prince. As a boy he has been portrayed by Stéphane Combesco in the 1982 French TV adaptation of Marlowe's play and by Jody Graber in Derek Jarman's 1991 version. In ""World Without End"" (2012), Blake Ritson portrayed Edward III. Edward is portrayed as the son of Isabella and the Scottish rebel, William Wallace, in the 1995 film ""Braveheart"". This is historically impossible, as"
"film,"" Penelope. Richard Leaf Richard Leaf (born 1 January 1967) is an English actor. He has had several small parts in television and stage productions. Leaf married actress Tamsin Greig in 1997 and they have 3 children. The actor is notable for his role as the Governor of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's ""Braveheart"". He appeared as Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film ""Hannibal Rising"". He also appeared as John Dawlish, an Auror, in the film ""Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"", and portrayed Jack, the bartender of the Cloverdilly public house, in"
"place around the character of Edward's kingship, his political skills, and in particular his management of his earls, and the degree to which this was collaborative or repressive in nature. There is also a great difference between English and Scottish historiography on King Edward. G. W. S. Barrow, in his biography on Robert the Bruce, accused Edward of ruthlessly exploiting the leaderless state of Scotland to obtain a feudal superiority over the kingdom. This view of Edward is reflected in the popular perception of the King, as can be seen in the 1995 movie ""Braveheart""'s portrayal of the King as"
"Brendan Gleeson Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA Awards, and an Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and thrice for a Golden Globe Award. His best-known performances include supporting roles in ""Braveheart"" (1995), ""Lake Placid"" (1999), """" (2000), ""Gangs of New York"" (2002), ""28 Days Later"" (2002), ""Troy"" (2004), as Alastor Moody in the ""Harry Potter"" films (2005–10), ""Albert Nobbs"" (2011), ""Edge of Tomorrow"" (2014), and ""Assassin's Creed"" (2016), and leading roles in films such as ""In Bruges"""
"Dublin. He played Albert Runcorn and Harry Potter disguised as Runcorn in ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1"". David O'Hara David Patrick O'Hara (born 9 July 1965) is a Scottish actor. O'Hara was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Martha (née Scott) and Patrick O'Hara, a construction worker. He has appeared in many films and TV series, including a featured role in the US series ""The District"", which he left after one season to return to the UK. He had a memorable role as the 'mad' Irishman Stephen in ""Braveheart"". In 2006, O'Hara appeared as Fitzy,"
"Knights Templar. The subjection of Wales and its people and their staunch resistance was commemorated in a poem, ""The Bards of Wales"", by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857 as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of Austria over Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Edward is portrayed by Patrick McGoohan as a cruel, hard-hearted tyrant in the 1995 film ""Braveheart"", in which he is falsely proclaimed a 'pagan'. He was played, as an idealist seeking to unite Norman and Saxon in his kingdom, by Brian Blessed, in the 1996 film ""The Bruce"". He has"
"George Sanders George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in ""Rebecca"" (1940), Scott ffolliott in ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940) (a rare heroic part), Addison DeWitt in ""All About Eve"" (1950), for which he won an Academy Award, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in ""Ivanhoe"" (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in ""King Richard"
"Clive Wood Clive Wood (born 1954) is an English actor, known for his television roles in ""Press Gang"" (1989–93), ""The Bill"" (1990), ""London's Burning"" (1996–99), and as King Henry I in ""The Pillars of the Earth"" (2010). His stage roles include playing Stephano in ""The Tempest"" at Shakespeare's Globe (2011) and Antony in ""Antony and Cleopatra"" at the Haymarket (2014). His film appearances include ""The Innocent"" (1985), ""Buster"" (1988) and ""Suffragette"" (2015).(2018)casualty. Born in Croydon, Surrey, Wood's first starring TV role was as Vic Brown, opposite Joanne Whalley and Susan Penhaligon, in the 1982 ITV drama series based on the"
"Richard the Lionheart (2013 film) Richard The Lionheart is a 2013 film, starring Chandler Maness as Richard the Lionheart, Malcolm McDowell as King Henry II and Andrea Zirio as Henry the Young. The aging King Henry II has chosen his son Richard to lead England in the coming war against France. To test Richard's loyalty, honor and skill, Henry sends him to a hellish prison in which the captives must fight a never-ending stream of enemies in order to survive. As Richard overcomes each new challenger, his strength, ingenuity and character are proven, and the legend of Richard the Lionheart"
"1949, and the couple had daughter Sally (1950) before divorcing in 1963. He next married actress Diana Scougall in 1968, and the couple had son Michael (1969) before divorcing in 1974. He married actress Elizabeth Annear that same year, and the couple had two daughters, actress Elisabeth Dermot Walsh (1974) and Olivia (1977), before Elizabeth Annear died in 1993. Dermot Walsh Dermot Walsh (10 September 1924 – 26 June 2002) was an Irish stage, film and television actor, known for portraying King Richard the Lionheart in the 1962 television series """"Richard the Lionheart"""". Born in Dublin, Walsh was the son"
"his unfinished work, ""Mortimer His Fall"". The filmmaker Derek Jarman adapted the Marlowe play into a film in 1991, creating a postmodern pastiche of the original, depicting Edward as a strong, explicitly homosexual leader, ultimately overcome by powerful enemies. In Jarman's version, Edward finally escapes captivity, following the tradition in the Fieschi letter. Edward's current popular image was also shaped by his contrasting appearance in Mel Gibson's 1995 film ""Braveheart"", where he is portrayed as weak and implicitly homosexual, wearing silk clothes and heavy makeup, shunning the company of women and incapable of dealing militarily with the Scots. The film"
"spent several years writing for television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He gained recognition and commercial success by penning the screenplay for ""Braveheart"" (1995), which was inspired by a trip to Scotland to learn more about his Scottish roots. While there, he discovered the legend of the medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace; he is not, however, related to William Wallace in any way. ""Braveheart"" became Wallace’s first screenplay to be produced, after drawing the interest of director and star, Mel Gibson. It ended up as one of the most successful films of 1995, earning the Academy Award for"
"England with his Queen, the fictional Gertrude of Flanders, during a rewritten period of history. The character of Queen Elizabeth I was later revisited in ""Blackadder II"", when Miranda Richardson played the role of Queenie, a skittish caricature of the Virgin Queen. Another major difference to the first series is the cast – most notably, comic actor Philip Fox plays the character Baldrick, rather than Tony Robinson, who was to play the role in all subsequent series. John Savident plays the role of the King, who was replaced by Brian Blessed for the first series. Prince Harry is played by"
"of the Round Table"" (1953) and ""The Adventures of Quentin Durward"" (1955). All three were made at MGM's British Studios at Elstree, near London. In 1951, the year of production, one of the screenwriters, Marguerite Roberts, was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and MGM received permission from the Screen Writers Guild to remove her credit from the film. Richard the Lionheart (Norman Wooland), King of England, vanishes while returning from the Crusades. One of his knights, the Saxon Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), searches tirelessly for him, finally finding him being held by Leopold of Austria for an"
"Jared Harris Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Lane Pryce in the television drama series ""Mad Men"", David Robert Jones in the science fiction series ""Fringe"", King George VI in the historical series ""The Crown"", Anderson Dawes on the science fiction series ""The Expanse"" and captain Francis Crozier in the AMC series ""The Terror"". He has also had significant supporting roles in films such as ""Mr Deeds"" (2002), ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" (2008), """" (2011), ""Lincoln"" (2012), and ""Allied"" (2016). Harris was born in Hammersmith, London, one"
"Hunter, Black Heart"" (1990) with Clint Eastwood, ""Patriot Games"" (1992) with Harrison Ford, ""Braveheart"" (1995) starring Mel Gibson and """" (2006) with Johnny Depp. He played Captain Bellamy, a captain of a supposedly haunted ship; a rumour sparked the discovery of Elizabeth Swann's dress on board. Norton's character Bellamy picked up the character of William Turner who was lost at sea. This decision ultimately lead to his death by the Kraken. This role was suited to Norton to play because of his Scottish roots. He portrayed a perfectly believable, honest and logical Scottish Pirate. Norton also voiced Thurston McCondry in"
"which told the story of the unlikely friendship between a museum curator, a nun, and a playwright. McGoohan played George Bernard Shaw alongside Sir John Gielgud as Sydney Cockerell and Dame Wendy Hiller as Sister Laurentia McLachlan. In the United States, the drama was shown as part of ""Masterpiece Theatre"" by PBS. Also in this period he featured as King Edward I in ""Braveheart"" (1995), which won five Academy Awards. It seemed to revitalise McGoohan's career: he was then seen as Judge Omar Noose in ""A Time to Kill"" (1996), and in ""The Phantom"" (also 1996) a cinema adaptation of"
"also been portrayed by Michael Rennie in the 1950 film ""The Black Rose"", based on the novel by Thomas B. Costain, and by Donald Sumpter in the 2008 BBC TV comedy-drama ""Heist"". Edward is featured as the main antagonist in the cutscenes of the tutorial campaign of the 1999 video game """". Cultural depictions of Edward I of England Edward I of England has been portrayed in popular culture a number of times. Edward's life was dramatised in the ""Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First"", a Renaissance theatrical play by George Peele. Edward is unflatteringly depicted in several novels"
"""Hamlet"". Gibson was cast alongside experienced Shakespearean actors Ian Holm, Alan Bates, and Paul Scofield. He compared working with Scofield to being ""thrown into the ring with Mike Tyson"". Scofield said of Gibson ""Not the sort of actor you'd think would make an ideal Hamlet, but he had enormous integrity and intelligence."" In 1995, Mel Gibson directed, produced, and starred in ""Braveheart"", a biographical film of Sir William Wallace, a Scottish nationalist who was executed in 1305 for ""high treason"" against King Edward I of England. Gibson received two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Picture, for his second directorial"
"The King, weakened by exhaustion, appoints his brother, Richard, as Lord Protector, and dies soon after hearing of the death of George. Edward's son, soon to become Edward V (Paul Huson), is met by Richard whilst en route to London. Richard has the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Hastings (Alec Clunes) arrested and executed, and forces the young King, along with his younger brother the Duke of York (Andy Shine), to have a protracted stay at the Tower of London. With all obstacles now removed, Richard enlists the help of his cousin the Duke of Buckingham (Sir Ralph Richardson) to alter his"
"Bard"" (1757), in which Isabella rips apart the bowels of Edward II with her ""unrelenting fangs"". The ""She-Wolf"" epithet stuck, and Bertolt Brecht re-used it in ""The Life of Edward II of England"" (1923). In Derek Jarman's film ""Edward II"" (1991), based on Marlowe's play, Isabella is portrayed (by actress Tilda Swinton) as a ""femme fatale"" whose thwarted love for Edward causes her to turn against him and steal his throne. In contrast to the negative depictions, Mel Gibson's film ""Braveheart"" (1995) portrays Isabella (played by the French actress Sophie Marceau) more sympathetically. In the film, an adult Isabella is"
"Richard the Lionheart (TV series) Richard the Lionheart was a British ITV television series which ran during 1962 and 1963, and was aimed at a younger audience. It began with the death of King Henry II, and put forward the traditional view of King Richard the Lionheart as a hero, and his brother Prince John (played by Trader Faulkner) as the villain. Richard was played by Irish actor Dermot Walsh who said, ""he was not always all one would like to see as a man. We have concentrated on his good side."" Richard was perhaps a product of his time."
"Dragonheart DragonHeart is a 1996 British-American fantasy action-adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and various other awards in 1996 and 1997. An English knight of 'The Old Code', Bowen, mentors a Saxon prince named Einon, in his ideals with the hope that he will be a better king than his tyrannical father King Freyne. While suppressing a peasant rebellion, the king is killed and Kara, a young peasant girl, accidentally causes Einon to"
"2017 that she had miscarried a second child. On 9 September 2017, an intoxicated Rhys Meyers was ejected from Dublin airport. Jonathan Rhys Meyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles in the films ""Velvet Goldmine"" (1998), ""Bend It Like Beckham"" (2002), ""Match Point"" (2005), """" (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries ""Elvis"" (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama ""The Tudors"""
"Jonathan Rhys Meyers Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles in the films ""Velvet Goldmine"" (1998), ""Bend It Like Beckham"" (2002), ""Match Point"" (2005), """" (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries ""Elvis"" (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama ""The Tudors"" (2007–10). He has been the face model for several Hugo Boss fragrances advertising campaigns. In 2013, Meyers appeared as the villain"