"Benedict Sandiford Benedict Sandiford is a British actor who is best known for his role as son Neil on the British sitcom ""Barbara"" and for 'Harry Enfield & Chums' in 1997. He also made guest appearances on ""Heartbeat"", ""Peak Practice"", ""A Touch of Frost"", ""Touching Evil"", ""At Home with the Braithwaites"", ""Pie in the Sky"", ""Cadfael"", ""This Life"", ""Foyle's War"", ""Midsomer Murders"" and ""Coronation Street"". He played rent boy Alfred Wood in the 1997 film ""Wilde"", alongside Stephen Fry and Jude Law, and starred in the TV drama ""Eskimo Day"" and its sequel ""Cold Enough For Snow"", both penned by"
"""Shopping"", which also featured his future wife, Sadie Frost. In 1997, he became more widely known with his role in the Oscar Wilde biopic ""Wilde"". Law won the ""Most Promising Newcomer"" award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards for his role as Lord Alfred ""Bosie"" Douglas, the glamorous young lover of Stephen Fry's Wilde. In Andrew Niccol's science fiction film ""Gattaca"", Law played the role of a disabled former swimming star living in a eugenics-obsessed dystopia. In Clint Eastwood's ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"", he played the role of the ill-fated sex-worker murdered by an art"
"Stephen Fry Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. With Hugh Laurie, he is half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, who starred in ""A Bit of Fry & Laurie"" and ""Jeeves and Wooster"". Fry's acting roles include a Golden Globe Award–nominated lead performance in the film ""Wilde"", Melchett in the BBC television series ""Blackadder"", the title character in the television series ""Kingdom"", a recurring guest role as Dr Gordon Wyatt on the crime series ""Bones"", and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller ""V for Vendetta"". He has"
"Wilde (film) Wilde is a 1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert with Stephen Fry in the title role. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann. The film opens with Oscar Wilde's 1882 visit to Leadville, Colorado during his lecture tour of the United States. Despite his flamboyant personality and urbane wit, he proves to be a success with the local silver miners as he regales them with tales of Renaissance silversmith Benvenuto Cellini. Wilde returns to London and weds Constance Lloyd (Jennifer Ehle), and they have"
"1992. In the 1994 romantic comedy film ""I.Q."", he played the role of James Moreland. Portraying Oscar Wilde (of whom he had been an ardent admirer since the age of 13) in the 1997 film ""Wilde"", he fulfilled to critical acclaim a role that he has said he was ""born to play"". It also earned him a nomination for Best Actor – Drama in the 1998 Golden Globe Award. A year later, Fry starred in David Yates' small independent film ""The Tichborne Claimant"", and in 2001 he played the detective in Robert Altman's period costume drama, ""Gosford Park"". In the"
"Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in ""A Bit of Fry and Laurie"", and the duo also played the title roles in ""Jeeves and Wooster"". Fry played the lead in the film ""Wilde"", was Melchett in the ""Blackadder"" television series and was the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, ""QI"". He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, ""Moab Is My Washpot"", """", and ""More"
"deep-seated emotion and first rate playing from his cast."" In the ""Evening Standard"", Alexander Walker called the film ""an impressive and touching work of intelligence, compassion and tragic stature"" and said Stephen Fry ""returns to the top of the class with a dominating screen performance."" The film was released on DVD in 2002. A region 2 Blu-ray was released in December 2015. Wilde (film) Wilde is a 1997 British biographical film directed by Brian Gilbert with Stephen Fry in the title role. The screenplay by Julian Mitchell is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde by Richard"
"Fool Me: A Memoir"". Stephen Fry bibliography and filmography Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in ""A Bit of Fry and Laurie"", and the duo also played the title roles in ""Jeeves and Wooster"". Fry played the lead in the film ""Wilde"", was Melchett in the ""Blackadder"" television series and was the host of celebrity comedy trivia show, ""QI"". He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, ""Moab Is My"
"Robert Hardy Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", Cornelius Fudge in the ""Harry Potter"" film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series """". He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for ""All Creatures Great and Small"" in 1980 and ""Winston Churchill: The Wilderness"
"Oscar Wilde (film) Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on the play ""Oscar Wilde"" by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes. Original music score was by Kenneth Jones. The film starred Robert Morley as Oscar Wilde, Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Carson, Phyllis Calvert as Constance Wilde, John Neville as Lord Alfred Douglas, Dennis Price as Robbie Ross, Alexander Knox as Sir Edward Clarke and Edward Chapman as"
"Eddie Albert Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in ""Roman Holiday"", and in 1973 for ""The Heartbreak Kid"". Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the ""Brother Rat"" films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical ""Oklahoma!"", and the sadistic prison warden in 1974's ""The Longest Yard"". He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom ""Green Acres"" and as Frank MacBride in the"
"John Fraser (actor) John Fraser (born 18 March 1931, Glasgow) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor and writer. One of his earliest roles was as Inigo Jollifant in the second film version of J. B. Priestley's ""The Good Companions"" (1957). He went on to have leading roles in films such as ""El Cid"", ""The Trials of Oscar Wilde"" (playing Lord Alfred Douglas), Roman Polanski's ""Repulsion"", ""Isadora"" and ""Schizo"". He made appearances on television series including ""Danger Man"" (1964), ""Randall and Hopkirk"" (1969), ""Columbo"" (1972), ""Doctor Who"" (1981) and ""The Bill"" (1995). In 2004, he published his autobiography, ""Close Up"", in which"
"a home for retired actors. Robert Hardy Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", Cornelius Fudge in the ""Harry Potter"" film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series """". He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for ""All Creatures Great and Small"" in 1980"
"David Bradley (English actor) David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor. He is known for playing Argus Filch in the ""Harry Potter"" film series, Walder Frey in the HBO fantasy series ""Game of Thrones"" and Abraham Setrakian in the FX horror series ""The Strain"". He is also an established stage actor with a career that includes a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of ""King Lear"". Other acting credits include the BBC series ""Our Friends in the North"", the ITV series ""Broadchurch"" (for which he won the best supporting actor award at the"
"Wild Wild West Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk western action comedy film produced and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Loosely based on ""The Wild Wild West"" 1960s TV series created by Michael Garrison, the film stars Will Smith and Kevin Kline as two Secret Service agents who protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States during the American Old West. The supporting cast features Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, M. Emmet Walsh and Bai Ling. Produced by Peters Entertainment and Sonnenfeld-Josephson Worldwide"
"Freddie Fox (actor) Frederick Samson Robert Morice ""Freddie"" Fox (born 5 April 1989) is an English actor. His screen career highlights include roles as singer Marilyn in the BBC's Boy George biopic ""Worried About the Boy"" (2010), King Louis XIII in ""The Three Musketeers"" (2011), Edwin Drood in the BBC's ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" (2012), and Freddie Baxter in the two gay-themed television series ""Cucumber"" (2015) and ""Banana"" (2015). His many notable theatre credits include starring as Oscar Wilde's young lover Lord Alfred ""Bosie"" Douglas in ""The Judas Kiss"" (2012–2013), opposite Rupert Everett, at London's Hampstead Theatre plus a"
"Ray Liotta Raymond Allen Liotta (born December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor. Liotta is best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in the crime drama ""Goodfellas"" (1990); other notable roles include Ray Sinclair in Jonathan Demme's ""Something Wild"" (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, Shoeless Joe Jackson in ""Field of Dreams"" (1989), Officer Pete Davis in ""Unlawful Entry"" (1992), Officer Gary Figgis in ""Cop Land"" (1997), Paul Krendler in ""Hannibal"" (2001), Fred Jung in ""Blow"" (2001), Tommy Vercetti in the video game """" (2002), Chief Gus Monroe in ""John Q"""
"owner in the Amicus horror anthology film ""The House That Dripped Blood"" (1970). His other films included ""The Abominable Snowman"" (1957), ""The Camp on Blood Island"" (1958), ""I Only Arsked!"" (1958), ""Nine Hours to Rama"" (1963), ""The Best House in London"" (1969), ""The Mackintosh Man"" (1973), ""The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"" (1975), ""The Message"" (1976), ""Cuba"" (1979), and ""The London Connection"" (1979). Wolfe Morris Wolfe Morris (born Woolf Steinberg, 5 January 1925 – 21 July 1996) was an English actor, who played character roles on stage, television and in feature films from the 1950s until the 1990s. He"
"Finch as Wilde, Lionel Jeffries as Queensberry, and John Fraser as Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) with James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Maxine Audley, Paul Rogers and James Booth. The production was filmed in Technirama. It was one of two films about Wilde released in 1960, the other being ""Oscar Wilde"". According to production designer Ken Adam, producer Irving Allen set up four editing rooms for the production, working in parallel during principal photography; the setup permitted the film on the screen in the West End seven weeks after they had started filming. In his review of the film, Bosley"
"Stephen Meadows Stephen Meadows (born 1950) is an American actor, architect and inventor. Meadows was born in 1950, in Atlanta, Georgia. He has appeared in Movies and TV shows such as ""Ultraviolet"" with Esai Morales, ""V.I. Warshawski"" with Kathleen Turner, ""Santa Barbara"" (as Peter Flint, from 1984–85) and ""One Life to Live"" (as Patrick London from, 1986–87). He played a role in the T.V. Movie ""A Cry in the Wild"" as Brad Robeson. Stephen has appeared in numerous feature films and TV movies including a notable role in ""Sunstroke"" with Jane Seymour. He is also an architect and inventor of"
"1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The book was the basis for the 1997 film ""Wilde"", directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry as the title character. Neil McKenna's 2003 biography, ""The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde,"" offers an exploration of Wilde's sexuality. Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Thomas Wright's ""Oscar's Books"" (2008) explores Wilde's reading from his childhood in Dublin to his death in Paris. After tracking down many books that once belonged to Wilde's Tite Street library (dispersed at the time of his trials),"
"the lead, ""Wilde Alliance"" (1978), lasted for only one series. He also played one of the main parts in the BBC's adaptation of Kingsley Amis's novel ""The Old Devils"" (1992). Stride died on 20 April 2018, aged 81. John Stride John Edward Stride (11 July 1936 – 20 April 2018) was an English actor best known for his television work during the 1970s. Stride was born in London, the son of Margaret (née Prescott) and Alfred Teneriffe Stride. He attended Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and trained at RADA, where he met his first wife, Virginia Stride (""née"" Thomas). He made his"
"Douglas Seale Douglas Seale (28 October 1913 – 13 June 1999) was an English actor, producer and director. He provided the voice of Krebbs the koala in ""The Rescuers Down Under"" (1990) and, two years later, the Sultan in ""Aladdin"" (1992) (with Val Bettin replacing him in the later productions). He also appeared in several films, including Milos Forman's ""Amadeus"" (1984), and ""Ernest Saves Christmas"" (1988), in which he played Santa Claus. He appeared in the 1986 Christmas film, ""A Smoky Mountain Christmas"", as Vernon. Douglas had a small starring role as Santa in Steven Spielberg's ""Amazing Stories"". In 1989,"
"""Inspector Morse"" ""'1994 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward ""Fitz"" Fitzgerald in ""Cracker"" ""'1995 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward ""Fitz"" Fitzgerald in ""Cracker"" ""'1996 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward ""Fitz"" Fitzgerald in ""Cracker"" ""'1997 Nigel Hawthorne as Edgar Pascoe in ""The Fragile Heart"" ""'1998 Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool in ""A Dance to the Music of Time"" ""'1999 Tom Courtenay as Roy Southgate in ""A Rather English Marriage"" ""'2000 Michael Gambon as Squire Hamley in ""Wives and Daughters"" ""'2001 Michael Gambon as John Harrison in ""Longitude"" ""'2002 Michael Gambon as Raymond Symon in ""Perfect Strangers"" ""'2003 Albert Finney as Winston"
"drama to light"" while ""The Mirror""'s Jane Simon called him ""absolutely brilliant"". David Dawson (actor) David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in ""The Road to Coronation Street"" (2010), season 2 of ""Luther"" (2011), ""Ripper Street"" (2012–2016), ""The Secret Agent"" (2016), and as King Alfred in ""The Last Kingdom"" (2015–2018). On stage, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"". His other notable performances were in the 2009 production of ""Comedians"", the 2010 production of ""Posh"","
"responsible for ordering the hit on Den Watts. He is also known for the role of Lord Alexander Felsham in the many series of BBC's ""Lovejoy"" (1986–93). In December 1989, Douglas appeared on BBC 1's adaptation of ""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"" as Lord Bern. He has since taken on many more television and feature film roles including Charles Devon in ""Passport to Murder"" (1993), John ""The Red"" Comyn in ""The Bruce"" (1996), French Warship Captain in ""GoldenEye"" (1995), Nigel Wheeler in ""Heartbeat"" (1996), and Chris Duncan in ""Silent Witness"" (2006). In 2007 he guest starred in ""Doctors"", where"
"Actor for Kline. Cleese and Palin won BAFTA Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for their performances. A spiritual sequel, ""Fierce Creatures,"" was released in 1997. The British Film Institute ranked ""A Fish Called Wanda"" the 39th-greatest British film of the 20th century. London-based gangster George Thomason and his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter, plan a jewel heist. They bring in two Americans: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West, a mean-spirited anglophobe. Wanda and Otto are lovers, but they hide this from George and Ken, pretending to be siblings, so"
"Wildean witticisms . . . Fry's warmly sympathetic performance finds the gentleness beneath the wit."" Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" said the film ""has the good fortune to star Stephen Fry, a British author, actor and comedian who looks a lot like Wilde and has many of the same attributes: He is very tall, he is somewhat plump, he is gay, he is funny and he makes his conversation into an art. That he is also a fine actor is important, because the film requires him to show many conflicting aspects of Wilde's life . . . [He] brings"
"David Dawson (actor) David Robert Dawson (born 7 September 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in ""The Road to Coronation Street"" (2010), season 2 of ""Luther"" (2011), ""Ripper Street"" (2012–2016), ""The Secret Agent"" (2016), and as King Alfred in ""The Last Kingdom"" (2015–2018). On stage, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Smike in the 2007 production of ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"". His other notable performances were in the 2009 production of ""Comedians"", the 2010 production of ""Posh"", and the 2011 production of ""Luise Miller"". Dawson was born in Widnes,"
"main villain in the live-action cutscenes of """" (1997). Christopher Neame Christopher Neame (born 12 September 1947, London) is an English actor now living in the United States. Neame's UK film credits include appearances in two Hammer Horror films: ""Lust for a Vampire"" (1971) and ""Dracula AD 1972"" (1972), as well as ""No Blade of Grass"" (1970). He is known to television viewers in the United Kingdom and abroad for a number of roles. In 1975 he played Kaiser Wilhelm II in the ITV 13-part drama series, ""Edward the Seventh"". In the same year he played the role of lawyer"
"Lives"" for the 2012 Chichester Festival, reprised at the Gielgud Theatre in 2013. Toby Stephens Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is an English stage, television, and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film ""Die Another Day"" (for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor), Edward Fairfax Rochester in a BBC television adaptation of ""Jane Eyre"" and in his role as Captain Flint in the Starz television series ""Black Sails"". Stephens is a"
"Dallas Adams Dallas Roland Adams (17 February 1947 – 29 August 1991) was an English actor noted for his television performances. His television credits include ""Strange Report"", ""Thriller"", """", ""Bergerac"", ""Doctor Who"" (in the serial ""Planet of Fire""), ""Robin of Sherwood"" and ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"", and his film credits include ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1968), ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971), """" (1973), ""From Beyond the Grave"" (1974), ""Gulag"" (1985) and ""King Ralph"" (1991). According to the audio memoirs of John Nathan-Turner, in the early 1980s, Adams was the largest gay palimony lawsuit winner in English legal history, and his casting"
"Toby Stephens Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is an English stage, television, and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film ""Die Another Day"" (for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor), Edward Fairfax Rochester in a BBC television adaptation of ""Jane Eyre"" and in his role as Captain Flint in the Starz television series ""Black Sails"". Stephens is a lead in the science fiction series ""Lost in Space"" released on Netflix 13"