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Nicholas Ball is a Actor British born on 11 april 1946 at Royal Leamington Spa (United-kingdom)

Nicholas Ball

Nicholas Ball
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 11 april 1946 at Royal Leamington Spa (United-kingdom)
Death 6 june 2024 (at 78 years)

Nicholas Ball (born 11 April 1946) is an English actor.
He is best known for playing the title role of James Hazell in the television series Hazell.

He portrayed the violent gangster Terry Bates in EastEnders between 2007 and 2009. He played Garry Ryan in series five of Footballers' Wives and both series of its spin-off programme Footballers' Wives: Extra Time. The voice of Nicholas Ball can be heard as well on various audio books offered via the internet; he has narrated books from such authors as Christopher Hitchens and James Maybrick. He can currently be seen in an advert for Premier Inn, playing the part of Lenny Henry's manager.

Biography

He was married to psychologist and former actress/comedienne Pamela Stephenson until her affair, and eventual elopement, with Billy Connolly. In an interview for the Mail on Sunday in 2010 he admitted to having been "a bit on the wild side" during his relationship with Stephenson and liked the star struck girls.

Usually with

Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
(1 films)
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro
(1 films)
Stuart Cooper
Stuart Cooper
(2 films)
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
(2 films)
Tamer Hassan
Tamer Hassan
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nicholas Ball (14 films)

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Actor

Dead Man Running
Dead Man Running (2009)
, 1h32
Directed by Alex De Rakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Blake Ritson, 50 Cent, Monet Mazur, Esmé Bianco
Roles Fight Bookie
Rating58% 2.949742.949742.949742.949742.94974
After an increasing number of his clients fail to make good on their payments, Mr. Thigo (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson) decides to take matters into his own hands, travelling to London to make an example of debtor Nick (Tamer Hassan). Thigo gives Nick just 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes, and, just to make sure, Thigo holds Nick's wheelchair-using mother (Brenda Blethyn) hostage. Since Nick is already financially challenged, he is forced to be creative in order to come up with the money. At the same time, Thigo sabotages Nick's efforts in order to be sure that he can make an example of Nick to the other debtors.
Mutant Chronicles
Mutant Chronicles (2008)
, 1h51
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Disaster films
Actors Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich, Devon Aoki, Sean Pertwee, Benno Fürmann
Roles Plutocrat
Rating52% 2.600932.600932.600932.600932.60093
The story is set in the year 2707. The world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, where many technologies are steam powered and mankind has exhausted Earth’s natural resources. The protagonists must battle against mutated humans that were accidentally unleashed.
Hellboy
Hellboy (2004)
, 2h2
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Demons in film, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Disaster films
Actors Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, John Hurt
Roles Russian General (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.447853.447853.447853.447853.44785
In 1944, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland. With the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, they intend to free the Ogdru Jahad—monstrous entities imprisoned in deep space—to aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin knows this will be an apocalyptic event that he believes will create a paradise. He opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, member of the Thule Society and Adolf Hitler's top assassin. An Allied team is sent to destroy the portal, guided by young Trevor Bruttenholm, who is well-versed in the occult. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyed—in the process absorbing Rasputin—while Haupstein and Kroenen escape. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone came through the portal; they dub him "Hellboy" and Bruttenholm adopts him.
Croupier
Croupier (1998)
, 1h34
Directed by Mike Hodges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Jeu
Actors Clive Owen, Alex Kingston, Gina McKee, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball, Barnaby Kay
Roles Jack Snr.
Rating69% 3.4980853.4980853.4980853.4980853.498085
Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet and against his better judgment, he takes a job as a croupier. The interview was set up by his father, a small-time hustler back home in South Africa.
Lifeforce
Lifeforce (1985)
, 1h56
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Michael Gothard
Roles Roger Derebridge
Rating61% 3.051883.051883.051883.051883.05188
The crew of the space shuttle Churchill finds a 150-mile long spaceship hidden in the corona of Halley's Comet. The crew finds hundreds of dead, shrivelled bat-like creatures and three naked humanoid bodies (two male and one female) in suspended animation within glass containers. The crew recovers the three aliens and begins the return trip to Earth.
A.D. (miniseries)
A.D. (miniseries) (1985)
, 5h
Directed by Stuart Cooper
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman, Richard Kiley
Roles Römischer Offizier
Rating71% 3.5839153.5839153.5839153.5839153.583915
The story tells the life histories about Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus after the crucifixion of Jesus, and their individual fates in old Rome in the time of the persecution of Christians. Events in the New Testament Book of Acts by Luke and in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius are dramatized and interwoven with the contrasting histories of political intrigues in the public and private lives of the Caesars from Tiberius through Nero related in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, together with the fictional drama of the lives of two Jews and two Romans: Caleb the Zealot and his sister Sarah, and Julius Valerius the Imperial Guard and Corinna the patrician woman who has chosen to be a gladiator.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
, 1h52
Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Bernard Cohn
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Cooking films, Serial killer films
Actors George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort
Roles Skeffington
Rating63% 3.193253.193253.193253.193253.19325
Natasha O'Brien (Jacqueline Bisset) is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for the Queen, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer (Robert Morley). Natasha's ex-husband, Robby (George Segal) is a fast food entrepreneur ("the Taco King") serving the "everyman" consumer while she caters to the affluent. Max is the "calamitously fat" grand gourmand publisher of a gourmet magazine Epicurious and is patron of several famous European chefs, each renowned for a signature dish.
Rogue Male
Rogue Male (1976)
, 1h43
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Actors Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Michael Byrne, Ray Smith
Roles 2nd Seaman
Rating65% 3.2953853.2953853.2953853.2953853.295385
In early 1939, before the start of World War II, Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high-powered rifle, but misses when he is spotted and tackled by an SS guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he is then left for dead, but manages to make his way back to England where, to his shock, he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Believing that the government would, in all likelihood, turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground (literally) to escape his pursuers.
Overlord
Overlord (1975)
, 1h23
Directed by Stuart Cooper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors John Franklyn-Robbins, Nicholas Ball, Stella Tanner
Roles Arthur
Rating70% 3.544393.544393.544393.544393.54439
Beginning with a premonition of his death, the film follows a young everyman through his call up to the East Yorkshire Regiment, his training, his meeting a young girl, his journey to France, and his death on Sword Beach. Director Cooper also includes footage of the London Blitz and bombing of Europe to emphasise the events leading up to the invasion and the comparatively short distance between England and France.