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Roy London is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 3 march 1943 at New York City (USA)
Roy London (March 3, 1943 – August 8, 1993) was an American actor and acting coach and teacher.
London was mid pre-production for his second feature film as a director when he became ill and died from complications due to AIDS. London is buried in a cemetery overlooking the ocean in Santa Barbara, where he shared a home with Tim.
A documentary about his work, featuring interviews with over 50 of his students and friends, including Sharon Stone, Sherilyn Fenn, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Swayze, Patricia Arquette, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Garry Shandling, Lanford Wilson, Lois Chiles, Elizabeth Berkley, Drew Carey and Janel Moloney, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005.
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Nationality USA
Birth 3 march 1943 at New York City (USA)
Death 8 august 1993 (at 50 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 3 march 1943 at New York City (USA)
Death 8 august 1993 (at 50 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Roy London (March 3, 1943 – August 8, 1993) was an American actor and acting coach and teacher.
Biography
London's partner in life and work for his last ten years was Tim Healey; they had a commitment ceremony in 1988.London was mid pre-production for his second feature film as a director when he became ill and died from complications due to AIDS. London is buried in a cemetery overlooking the ocean in Santa Barbara, where he shared a home with Tim.
A documentary about his work, featuring interviews with over 50 of his students and friends, including Sharon Stone, Sherilyn Fenn, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Swayze, Patricia Arquette, Geena Davis, Famke Janssen, Garry Shandling, Lanford Wilson, Lois Chiles, Elizabeth Berkley, Drew Carey and Janel Moloney, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005.
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Filmography of Roy London (5 films)
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Rampage (1987)
, 1h37Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Biehn, Nicholas Campbell, Alex McArthur, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, John Harkins, Art LaFleur
Roles Dr. Paul Rudin
Rating60%
Charles Reece is a serial killer who commits a number of brutal mutilation-slayings in order to drink blood as a result of paranoid delusions.
Jake Speed (1986)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Roy London
Rating49%
In Paris, a girl named Maureen Winston (Becca C. Ashley) is abducted by two evil-looking men. While her family prays for her safe return, Maureen's father heaps guilt on her sister Margaret (Karen Kopins), since she convinced her to go see the world. However, Margaret's grandfather (Leon Ames) has an idea: call for Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) to go and rescue her. One problem exists: Jake Speed is a character in a series of 40's-style pulp fiction novels.
Hardcore (1979)
, 1h43Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Films about pornography, Films about psychiatry
Actors George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, Larry Block, Gary Graham
Rating70%
Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mm stag film of his daughter with two young men.
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Diary of a Hitman (1992)
, 1h30Directed by Roy London
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Forest Whitaker, Sherilyn Fenn, James Belushi, Sharon Stone, Peter White, Wayne Crawford
Rating52%
Hitman Dekker, tueur à gages, est sur le point de raccrocher. Il doit exécuter un dernier contrat, mais il ne parvient pas à s’y résoudre…
Scriptwriter
Tiger Warsaw (1988)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Patrick Swayze, Lee Richardson, Piper Laurie, Mary McDonnell, Barbara Williams, Bobby Di Cicco
Rating47%
Chuck "Tiger" Warsaw (Swayze) brought sorrow to his family fifteen years earlier when he shot his father Michael (Lee Richardson) and made him a semi-invalid. After fifteen years of self-destruction, Tiger returns home to the steel production community of Sharon to seek forgiveness.