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Howard Goorney is a Actor British born on 11 may 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Howard Goorney (11 May 1921 – 29 March 2007) was a British actor who starred in such programmes as Only Fools and Horses.
He was one of the founder members of Joan Littlewood's 'Theatre Workshop', and wrote 'The Theatre Workshop Story', published by Methuen - a definitive account of the company's early years, including their move to the Theatre Royal in Stratford East.
He is also known for numerous theatre roles, including Bill Bryden's 'The Mysteries' and 'Lark Rise to Candleford' at the National Theatre in the 1980's.
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Birth name Howard Jacob Goorney
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 11 may 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 29 march 2007 (at 85 years) at Bath (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 11 may 1921 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Death 29 march 2007 (at 85 years) at Bath (United-kingdom)
Howard Goorney (11 May 1921 – 29 March 2007) was a British actor who starred in such programmes as Only Fools and Horses.
He was one of the founder members of Joan Littlewood's 'Theatre Workshop', and wrote 'The Theatre Workshop Story', published by Methuen - a definitive account of the company's early years, including their move to the Theatre Royal in Stratford East.
He is also known for numerous theatre roles, including Bill Bryden's 'The Mysteries' and 'Lark Rise to Candleford' at the National Theatre in the 1980's.
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Blackball (2003)
, 1h36Directed by Mel Smith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Paul Kaye, Alice Evans, Vince Vaughn, Johnny Vegas, James Cromwell, Bernard Cribbins
Roles Reg Boyt
Rating55%
Cliff Starkey (played by Paul Kaye), is a rebellious young bowls player. He dreams of playing for his country but always preferring to play by his own rules, was always disapproved by the local bowls club. After winning the local competition, he is subsequently banned from competing in the sport for fifteen years by Ray Speight (James Cromwell), the head of the local lawn bowls association, for writing an expletive on an opponent's scorecard. Picked up by sports agent Rick Schwartz (Vince Vaughn), Starkey is re-branded as the "bad boy of bowls", turning the normally sedate sport into a glitzy, in-your-face competition. He and Speight take on Australia's unbeaten Doohan brothers in "The Ashes", a one-off tournament in a custom-made bowls arena in Torquay. They make a comeback thanks to Speight's experience and Starkey's extravagance, while Cliff also bends the rules to the maximum to force the game into extra time, much to the disbelief of Carl and Mark Doohan.
The Fool (1990)
, 2h20Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Derek Jacobi, Miranda Richardson, Cyril Cusack, Julian Firth, John Tams, Maria Aitken
Rating60%
The narrative is grounded in the double life of a humble clerk who poses as the reclusive, but widely respected "Sir John." He thus moves in wealthy upper class circles and participates in grand investment schemes while living in a London slum. The movie's grand-eloquent socialist soliliquaies and detailed evocation of life in Victorian London drew on the vast personal archive of interviews about contemporary London life by Henry Mayhew.
Othello (1981)
, 3h15Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Wilton, David Yelland, Joseph O'Conor, Rosemary Leach
Roles Second Senator
Rating71%
Othello, un « noble Maure » tout juste marié à Desdémone, s’apprête à affronter les Turcs, à la tête de la flotte vénitienne. Par chance, les navires turcs ont été détruits par une tempête, et Othello est nommé gouverneur de Chypre. Iago, qui convoitait la place de second d’Othello, échue à Cassio, tient le Maure de Venise pour responsable et décide de se venger de lui. Il commence par évincer Cassio en l’enivrant et en déclenchant une émeute dont il rejète la faute sur le bras droit d’Othello, qui le répudie. Puis il va faire germer la jalousie dans l’esprit de son seigneur, en lui faisant croire que Desdémone le trompe avec Cassio .
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
, 1h29Directed by Peter Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe
Roles Critic (Roger)
Rating57%
Occult writer John Verney (Widmark) is asked by Henry Beddows (Elliot) to pick up his daughter Catherine (Kinski) from the airport. Catherine is a nun with the Children of the Lord, a mysterious heretical order based in Bavaria and is allowed to come to visit once a year on her birthday. But after Catherine arrives, Beddows then insists that she stay with Verney. The order, however, under the sinister excommunicated heretic Father Michael Rayner (Lee), makes all efforts to get Catherine back and uses black magic to stop Verney as he protects her. Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists, who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.
The Offence (1973)
, 1h58Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark
Roles Lambert
Rating68%
Detective-Sergeant Johnson (Connery) has been a police officer for 20 years, and is deeply affected by the murders, rapes, and other violent crimes he has investigated. He is plagued by images of violence, and is losing his mind under the strain.
Innocent Bystanders (1972)
, 1h51Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt
Roles Zimmer
Rating58%
John Craig (Baker) is an aging British secret agent who is tasked with returning a defector, the Russian scientist Kaplan (Mayne) who has foregone science for a modest life as a goatherd in Turkey. Craig faces opposition from his boss, his younger replacements, an American secret agent, a Turkish hotel keeper, and an organization of Russian Jews hostile to Kaplan. Craig's mission is complicated by Miriam (Chaplin), an innocent bystander who is taken hostage.
Savage Messiah (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Peinture, Sculpture
Actors Dorothy Tutin, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Aubrey Richards
Roles Gendarme (uncredited)
Rating68%
La vie du sculpteur français Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
Crucible of Horror (1972)
, 1h31Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Nicholas Jones, David Butler, Howard Goorney, David Butler
Roles Petrol Pump Attendant
Rating52%
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
, 2h52Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Paul Michael Glaser
Roles Nachum
Rating79%
In 1905, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the Russian village of Anatevka, explains to the audience what keeps the Jews of Anatevka going is the balance they achieve through following their ancient traditions, comparing their precarious circumstance to a fiddler on a roof: trying to scratch out a pleasant tune, while not breaking their necks. The fiddler appears throughout the film as a metaphoric reminder of the Jews' ever-present fears and danger, and also as a symbol of the traditions Tevye is trying to hold on to as his world changes around him. While in town, Tevye meets Perchik, a radical Marxist from Kiev. Tevye invites Perchik to stay with him and his family, and as a deal, offers him food, in exchange for Perchik tutoring his daughters.
The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Witches in film
Actors Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Michele Dotrice, James Hayter, Wendy Padbury, Anthony Ainley
Roles The Doctor
Rating63%
In early 18th century England. Ralph Gower (Barry Andrews) uncovers a deformed skull with one eye and strange fur on it while ploughing a field. Ralph insists that local judge (Patrick Wymark) look at it, but the skull has vanished and the judge disregards Ralph's supernatural fears. Later, many people in the village become affected by its supernatural power, including a young woman (Tamara Ustinov) who sprouts a claw, and children who find a strange claw and then behave oddly and grow patches of fur on their bodies.
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Fikret Hakan, Michèle Mercier, Grégoire Aslan, Patrick Magee
Rating57%
Les aventures d'un vétéran britannique (Charles Bronson) de la Grande Guerre et d'un armateur américain (Tony Curtis) en Turquie, durant la guerre civile turque et la guerre gréco-turque de 1919-1922.
Take a Girl Like You (1970)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Oliver Reed, Hayley Mills, Noel Harrison, John Bird, Sheila Hancock, Ronald Lacey
Roles Labour Agent
Rating56%
In one of a small set of adult roles she did during the 1970s and 1980s, Mills plays Jenny, a good girl who comes to a small British town to start a simple life. Soon she becomes the centre of male attention all around the town. Leading the pack is the honest but gruff Patrick who shares one thing along with the other men: have sex with the right girl, and who he and the others consider the right girl is
Where's Jack? (1969)
Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Michael Douglas
Roles Surgeon
Rating64%
Berserk! (1967)
, 1h36Directed by Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Circus films
Actors Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Judy Geeson, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy
Roles Emil
Rating53%
Un cirque itinérant, dirigé par Monica Rivers, subit une série de drames; plusieurs de ses artistes trouvant la mort au cours de représentations. Et il parait évident qu'il ne s'agit pas d'accidents. Alors qui est le meurtrier ?
Bedazzled (1967)
, 1h43Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Peter Cook, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Dudley Moore, Robert Russell, Valentine Dyall
Roles Sloth
Rating67%
Stanley Moon (Moore) is a dissatisfied introverted young man who works in a Wimpy's restaurant and admires, from afar, the waitress Margaret (Eleanor Bron). Despairing of his unrequited infatuation, he is in the process of an incompetent suicide attempt, when he is interrupted by the Devil, incarnated as George Spiggott (Cook). Spiggott is in a contest with God, trying to be the first to gather 100 billion souls. If he achieves this first, he will be readmitted to Heaven.