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Brian Ackland-Snow is a Production Design British born on 31 march 1940 at London (United-kingdom)
Brian Ackland-Snow (31 March 1940 – 30 March 2013) was an English production designer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film A Room with a View.
(1982)
(Art Direction)
(1986)
(Production Design)
(1978)
(Art Direction)
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Brian Ackland-Snow
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 31 march 1940 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 30 march 2013 (at 72 years)
Birth 31 march 1940 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 30 march 2013 (at 72 years)
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(1982)(Art Direction)
(1986)(Production Design)
(1978)(Art Direction)
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Yesterday's Children (2000)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Jane Seymour, Clancy Brown, Kyle Howard, Claire Bloom, Stanley Anderson, Hume Cronyn
Roles Production Design
Rating68%
Jenny Cole vit avec son mari et son fils aux États-Unis. Elle est enceinte d'un deuxième enfant et sujette à des rêves récurrents qui la transportent des décennies plus tôt dans une petite ville d'Irlande, où elle voit une femme, Mary Sutton, mère de quatre enfants et battue par un mari alcoolique. Jenny en parle à sa mère, qui lui montre les dessins qu'elle faisait quand elle était enfant. À sa grande surprise, ses visions sont identiques aux dessins. Jenny et sa mère font des recherches au cadastre et apprennent que les visions correspondent à un petit village du comté de Fingal, Malahide, dans les années 1930. Jenny décide de se rendre en Irlande avec sa famille pour éclaircir le mystère qui plane autour de la famille Sutton, persuadée d'être chargée d'une mission.
Animal Farm (1999)
, 1h31Directed by John Stephenson, John Stephenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about anarchism, Politique, Political films
Actors Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield
Roles Production Design
Rating59%
As a storm washes away the ruins of Manor Farm, Jessie, a female Border Collie, Benjamin the donkey, Muriel the goat, and other farm animals make their return to the farm after years of hiding in the wilderness. Jessie reflects on the events that led them to their current situation. The film flashes back years earlier.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox, Michael Jayston, Paul Gross, Patrick Dempsey
Roles Set Designer
Rating51%
Haunted (1995)
, 1h48Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud, Anna Massey, Geraldine Somerville
Roles Production Design
Rating61%
David Ash (Aidan Quinn), an American professor, has entered into the field of parapsychology and has spent a majority of his life disproving the existence of ghosts. He was motivated by the untimely death of his twin sister, Juliet, for which he blames himself. In 1928, he receives an invitation from the Mariell family to investigate the alleged hauntings at their home, Edbrook House. At the train station, he is met and is immediately smitten by the beautiful Christina Mariell (Kate Beckinsale), who informs him that she and her brothers actually hired him to try to calm the fears of their ageing nanny. Christina believes that due to her declining mental health since their mother's death, Nanny Tess (Anna Massey) has convinced herself that Mrs. Mariell's ghost returns every evening to haunt Edbrook House.
Without a Clue (1988)
, 1h47Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport
Roles Production Design
Rating68%
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the central character in a series of short stories published in Strand Magazine. Watson uses the character to enable him to solve crimes incognito, so as not to disrupt his career as a doctor during a period when he was applying for a post at an exclusive hospital, one in which the senior staff would frown on Watson's "hobby". Although he does not secure the job, Watson decides to satisfy public demand to see Holmes in person by hiring unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to play the part of the fictional detective.
Maurice (1987)
, 2h20Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Ben Kingsley, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow
Roles Production Design
Rating75%
During a trip to a windswept beach, Maurice Hall, an 11-year-old schoolboy, receives instructions about the "sacred mysteries" of sex from his teacher, who wants to explain to the fatherless boy the changes he would experience in puberty.
A Room with a View (1986)
, 1h57Directed by James Ivory
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Daniel Day-Lewis
Roles Production Design
Rating71%
Miss Lucy Honeychurch is from an English village in Surrey and is on holiday in Italy with her much older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Charlotte is conventionally English, with an extremely restrictive personality and tends to get her way by expressing her emotions to manipulate others. Lucy has been brought up in an upper-middle class but loving and easygoing household, and had fewer inhibitions, which creates a strong tension between herself and Charlotte. They are in contrast with the more free-thinking and free-spirited backdrop of Italy. At a small pensione Lucy meets such people as Reverend Beebe, the two Miss Alans, and the author Miss Eleanor Lavish, but most importantly, the nonconformist Mr. Emerson and his handsome, philosophical son, George, who becomes friends with Charlotte. These men, although also English, represent the forward-thinking ideals of the turn-of-the-century, seeking to leave behind the repression and caution that was the norm in Victorian times. At first, the Emersons seem strange and unfamiliar to Lucy and Charlotte. They seem sincere but unaware of finer upper class Victorian manners. Mr. Emerson offers to switch rooms with the women, who desire a room with a view. Charlotte is offended, believing him to be rude and tactless for what she perceives to be indebting them with his offer. As Lucy begins her journey to maturity, she finds herself drawn to George due to his mysterious thinking and readily expressed emotions.
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
, 1h33Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Historical
Actors Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan
Roles Art Direction
Rating61%
Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" by the medical establishment to procure additional specimens. Dr. Rock's young assistant Dr. Murray (Julian Sands) is given the task of buying the bodies, for which he is authorized to pay a small fortune, particularly for fresher corpses. When alcoholic miscreants Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Broom (Stephen Rea) overhear details of the arrangement, they begin to murder the locals and sell their bodies. Gradually, Dr. Murray becomes more suspicious of the string of fresh bodies turning up at the medical school, but Dr. Rock dismisses his concerns. Meanwhile, Murray has begun to fall for beautiful local prostitute Jennie Bailey (Twiggy), who soon becomes the target of Fallon and Broom's murderous enterprise. When Jennie's friend Alice (Nichola McAuliffe) turns up dead in Dr. Rock's dissection room, Murray realizes what is happening and heroically rescues Jennie from a murderous Fallon. Both killers are soon arrested, but Broom agrees to turn state's evidence against his former partner, and is set free, unrepentant. Fallon is executed by hanging. Dr. Rock, for his part in the killings, is the subject of widespread public outrage, but ultimately not punished or censured by his colleagues. The film ends with Rock pondering his responsibility for the horrors and concluding, "oh my God -- I knew what I was doing.
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
, 1h52Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Michael Caine, Victoria Tennant, Anthony Andrews, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Michael Lonsdale
Roles Art Direction
Rating56%
The story concerns Noel Holcroft's late father (a former associate of Adolf Hitler) who left behind a fortune, supposedly to make amends for his wrongdoings. Now, 40 years later, Noel finds himself embroiled in a web of conspiracies involving the children of two of his father's Nazi colleagues, a mysterious organization supposedly devoted to ensuring the Nazis never again come to power, and a woman who may be Noel's downfall, or his only hope.
Scandalous (1984)
, 1h32Directed by Rob Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Hays, M. Emmet Walsh, John Gielgud, Pamela Stephenson, Ron Cook, Jim Dale
Roles Art Direction
Rating44%
Lassiter (1984)
, 1h40Directed by Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton, Bob Hoskins, Joe Regalbuto, Ed Lauter
Roles Art Direction
Rating57%
Nick Lassiter (Tom Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion and, after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German Embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route to South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.
The Dark Crystal (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Frank Oz, Jim Henson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Lisa Maxwell, Barry Dennen, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Billie Whitelaw, Dave Goelz
Roles Art Direction
Rating70%
A thousand years ago on the planet Thra, a magical crystal cracked, and two new races appeared: the malevolent Skeksis, who use the power of the "Dark Crystal" to continually replenish themselves, and kind wizards called Mystics.
Dracula (1979)
, 1h49Directed by John Badham
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Films based on plays
Actors Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Sylvester McCoy, Trevor Eve
Roles Art Direction
Rating64%
In Whitby, England in 1913, Count Dracula (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania via the ship Demeter one stormy night. A sickly Mina Van Helsing (Jan Francis), who is visiting her friend Lucy Seward (Kate Nelligan), discovers Dracula's body after his ship has run aground. The Count visits Mina and her friends at the household of Lucy's father, Dr. Jack Seward (Donald Pleasence), whose clifftop mansion also serves as the local asylum. At dinner, he proves to be a charming guest and leaves a strong impression on the hosts, Lucy especially. Less charmed by this handsome Romanian count is Jonathan Harker (Trevor Eve), Lucy's fiancé.
Death on the Nile (1978)
, 2h20Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Peter Ustinov, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis, George Kennedy
Roles Art Direction
Rating71%
The film begins with a meeting between wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway (Lois Chiles) and her close friend Jacqueline de Bellefort (Mia Farrow). Jacquie wants her fiancé, Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale), to work for Linnet, but he and Linnet have a whirlwind affair and end up marrying. While honeymooning in Egypt, they are continually hounded by the jilted Jacquie. In an attempt to get away, the Doyles pretend to go to the Cairo Railway Station before backtracking to board their booked cruise on a Nile paddle steamer, the S.S. Karnak.
Cross of Iron (1977)
, 2h13Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger, Klaus Löwitsch
Roles Production Design
Rating73%
The movie opens with German children's song "Hänschen klein" mixed with black-and-white footage of prewar and war scenes. It then segues to color and a German platoon raid on a Russian forward outpost led by Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn), during which his men capture a young Russian boy-soldier (Slavko Štimac).