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Peter James is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 22 august 1948 at Brighton (United-kingdom)

Peter James

Peter James
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 august 1948 (76 years) at Brighton (United-kingdom)

Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international bestselling British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton, the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. Cornelia was a Jewish refugee from Vienna who came to England in 1938.

Biography

Fils de Cornelia James, gantière de la reine Élisabeth, Peter James fait ses études à Charterhouse School et à la Ravensbourne Film School. Il passe ensuite plusieurs années aux États-Unis, où il travaille comme producteur de cinéma et comme scénariste. Certains de ses scénarios sont des adaptations de ses propres œuvres pour la télévision. Aujourd’hui, il vit à Ditchling, dans le Sussex de l'Ouest, et à Notting Hill, un quartier de Londres.

En littérature, à partir de 1981, il publie une trentaine de romans appartenant aux genres policier, fantastique et d'horreur, traduits en quelque 29 langues. À partir de 2005, il crée le commissaire Roy Grace de la police de Brighton pour une série policière d'une dizaine de titres. Ses livres sont publiés en Grande Bretagne par Pan Books et en France par Les Éditions du Panama, Pocket, Bragelonne, Milady et J'ai lu.

Durant les années 1970, il participe à la production de plusieurs films, entre autres, à The Blockhouse (1973), avec Peter Sellers et Charles Aznavour, ainsi que Le Mort-vivant (Dead of Night), de Bob Clark, avec John Marley. En 2004, il est producteur exécutif du film Le Marchand de Venise (The Merchant of Venice) réalisé par Michael Radford, avec Al Pacino et Jeremy Irons. Il est également propriétaire d'une société de production en Grande-Bretagne.

Usually with

Mary McGuckian
Mary McGuckian
(1 films)
Bob Clark
Bob Clark
(1 films)
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
(1 films)
Alan Ormsby
Alan Ormsby
(1 films)
Jim Piddock
Jim Piddock
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Peter James (9 films)

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Actor

Bean
Bean (1997)
, 1h30
Directed by Mel Smith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Peinture, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Burt Reynolds, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin
Roles Dr. Rosenblum
Rating64% 3.249563.249563.249563.249563.24956
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well meaning, but hopelessly clumsy and destructive security guard, at the Royal National Gallery in London, though his reputation for sleeping on the job compels the board of directors to attempt to fire him, they are thwarted by the chairman (Sir John Mills) who is sympathetic with him. In order to rid themselves of Bean, the board send him to Los Angeles to represent them at the unveiling of the portrait Whistler's Mother. The famous painting has been purchased for $50 million by the fictional Grierson Art Gallery with a grant from General Newton (Burt Reynolds). Bean's visit is arranged by the gallery's curator, David Langley (Peter MacNicol), who, impressed with the National Gallery's false profile of "Dr. Bean", agrees to accommodate Bean in his house for two months, much to the chagrin of his wife Allison (Pamela Reed), son Kevin (Andrew Lawrence) and daughter Jennifer (Tricia Vessey), who subsequently leave for Allison's mother's house.

Scriptwriter

Producer

A Different Loyalty
A Different Loyalty (2004)
, 1h36
Directed by Marek Kanievska
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Joss Ackland, Michael Cochrane, Anne Lambton
Roles Executive producer
Rating49% 2.4549952.4549952.4549952.4549952.454995
Leo Cauffield, reporter de guerre, ex-espion anglais et époux de Sally Tyler, une américaine, disparaît un jour sans explications. Sa femme Sally effectue toutes les recherches possible pour le retrouver et découvre que son mari est un agent double travaillant pour le KGB.....
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
, 2h
Directed by Mary McGuckian
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Roles Executive producer
Rating50% 2.5031852.5031852.5031852.5031852.503185
The film starts at a public hearing of a council led by Diego de Parada, the Archbishop of Lima (De Niro). Brother Juniper (Byrne) defends his work and his conclusions to the Inquisition, trying to assess whether the people who died were worthy or unworthy of suffering such a tragedy. He analyses the lives of four of the characters and the film flashes back and forth between the hearing and the events that lead to the tragedy.
Shivers
Shivers (1975)
, 1h25
Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Paul Hampton, Barbara Steele, Lynn Lowry, Joe Silver, Joan Blackman, Vlasta Vrána
Roles Executive producer
Rating63% 3.151183.151183.151183.151183.15118
Dr. Emil Hobbes is conducting unorthodox experiments with parasites for use in transplants. He believes that humanity has become over-rational and lost contact with its flesh and its instincts, so the effects of the organism he actually develops is a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease. Once implanted, it causes uncontrollable sexual desire in the host.
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1973)
, 1h27
Directed by Bob Clark
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Alan Ormsby, Bruce Solomon, Bob Sherman
Roles Executive producer
Rating53% 2.65222.65222.65222.65222.6522
The story focuses on a theatre troupe, led by Alan (Alan Ormsby). He is a mean-spirited director, who travels with the others by boat to a small island that is mainly used as a cemetery for deranged criminals, to have a night of fun and games. Once on the island Alan tells his group, which he refers to as his "children"— numerous stories relating to the island's history and buried inhabitants. he leads them to a cottage where they are supposed to spend the night. He then opens a chest they had brought with them, puts on a mystical robe and says that they are to prepare for the summation at midnight. Alan takes sheer delight in torturing his cast with threats of firing them if they do not do as he pleases which always makes them go along with his plan. At midnight using a grimoire, Alan begins a séance to raise the dead after digging up the body of a man named Orville Dunworth (Seth Sklarey). Though the original intent of the ritual may have been solely as a joke, Alan appears disappointed that nothing happens.