British director Piers Haggard has passed away aged 83.
He died “peacefully on January 11, 2023,” a statement from his agents said.
“He is deeply missed by his family, friends, colleagues, and the industry at large,” the statement continued.
Haggard worked in film, TV, and theater in a career that spanned five decades.
His work included credits on BBC TV shows such as The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) and Love for Lydia (1977) and films such as Wedding Night and influential folk horror feature The Blood on Satan’s Claw.
His best-known work was the BAFTA-winning 1979 series Pennies from Heaven, which was written by Dennis Potter and starring Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell.
Born in London to parents Morna Gillespie and the actor, poet, and novelist Stephen Haggard, he started his career as an assistant director at the Royal Court in 1960, before moving to television in 1965.
His daughter is Daisy Haggard, the comedy actor...
He died “peacefully on January 11, 2023,” a statement from his agents said.
“He is deeply missed by his family, friends, colleagues, and the industry at large,” the statement continued.
Haggard worked in film, TV, and theater in a career that spanned five decades.
His work included credits on BBC TV shows such as The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) and Love for Lydia (1977) and films such as Wedding Night and influential folk horror feature The Blood on Satan’s Claw.
His best-known work was the BAFTA-winning 1979 series Pennies from Heaven, which was written by Dennis Potter and starring Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell.
Born in London to parents Morna Gillespie and the actor, poet, and novelist Stephen Haggard, he started his career as an assistant director at the Royal Court in 1960, before moving to television in 1965.
His daughter is Daisy Haggard, the comedy actor...
- 1/17/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
[caption id="attachment_45756" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Susie Parks (Sara Stewart), Gemma Foster (Suranne Jones), Kate Parks (Jodie Comer), Chris Parks (Neil Stuke), Simon Foster (Bertie Carvel) and Andrew Parks (Charlie Cunniffe). Photo by Des Willie. Copyright 2016./caption]
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Suranne Jones stars as Gp Gemma Foster. She suspects her husband, Simon (Bertie Carvel) is unfaithful. The cast also includes: Clare-Hope Ashitey, Cheryl Campbell, Jodie Comer, Navin Chowdhry, Victoria Hamilton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Adam James, Thusitha Jayasundera, Sara Stewart, Neil Stuke, Tom Taylor, and Robert Pugh.Read More…...
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Suranne Jones stars as Gp Gemma Foster. She suspects her husband, Simon (Bertie Carvel) is unfaithful. The cast also includes: Clare-Hope Ashitey, Cheryl Campbell, Jodie Comer, Navin Chowdhry, Victoria Hamilton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Adam James, Thusitha Jayasundera, Sara Stewart, Neil Stuke, Tom Taylor, and Robert Pugh.Read More…...
- 3/17/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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- 11/4/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, is set to star in the new film adaptation of Vera Brittain's war memoir Testament of Youth.
He will star opposite Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in the BBC Films feature being produced by David Heyman, directed by James Kent, with a screenplay written by Juliette Towhidi.
Alicia is portraying Vera Brittain (a role previously rumoured to have Saoirse Ronan attached) and Kit will play her fiance Roland.
Based on the classic First world war memoir, Testament of Youth is the true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.
Kit Harington (represented in the UK by United Agents) landed the Game of Thrones role soon after graduating from Central drama school. He will next be...
He will star opposite Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in the BBC Films feature being produced by David Heyman, directed by James Kent, with a screenplay written by Juliette Towhidi.
Alicia is portraying Vera Brittain (a role previously rumoured to have Saoirse Ronan attached) and Kit will play her fiance Roland.
Based on the classic First world war memoir, Testament of Youth is the true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.
Kit Harington (represented in the UK by United Agents) landed the Game of Thrones role soon after graduating from Central drama school. He will next be...
- 2/5/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
DVD Playhouse—August 2009
By
Allen Gardner
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By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...
- 8/10/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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