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Spencer Leigh is a Actor born on 1 january 1963 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)
Spencer Leigh (born c. 1963) is an English TV and film actor.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Merseyside, he became interested in the theatre and joined the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre soon after it opened in Liverpool. He and fellow theatre student David Morrissey were chosen by Yorkshire Television to play as two poverty-stricken kids in the drama mini-series One Summer.
He has since appeared in various TV and film roles, including in several films directed by Derek Jarman, and in the premiere episode of the TV detective drama Inspector Morse where he played as a university student involved in a murder investigation. In the 1980s, he was considered one of the "Brit Pack". He moved to the United States in the early 1990s where he worked with music video producer Jake Scott, then directing TV commercials. Currently he is working with Criterion on documentary material for the Merchant Ivory Collection.
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Born and raised in Liverpool, Merseyside, he became interested in the theatre and joined the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre soon after it opened in Liverpool. He and fellow theatre student David Morrissey were chosen by Yorkshire Television to play as two poverty-stricken kids in the drama mini-series One Summer.
He has since appeared in various TV and film roles, including in several films directed by Derek Jarman, and in the premiere episode of the TV detective drama Inspector Morse where he played as a university student involved in a murder investigation. In the 1980s, he was considered one of the "Brit Pack". He moved to the United States in the early 1990s where he worked with music video producer Jake Scott, then directing TV commercials. Currently he is working with Criterion on documentary material for the Merchant Ivory Collection.
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Hitchcock (2012)
, 1h38Directed by Sacha Gervasi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Jessica Biel
Roles Nunzio
Rating67%
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, North by Northwest, to considerable success, but is troubled by a reporter's insinuation that it is time to retire. Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Hitchcock turns down film proposals like adapting Casino Royale in favor of a horror novel called Psycho by Robert Bloch, which is based on the crimes of murderer Ed Gein. Gein appears in sequences throughout the film in which he seems to prompt Hitchcock's imagination regarding the Psycho story, or act as some function of Hitchcock's subconscious mind (for instance, drawing Hitchcock's attention to sand on his bathroom floor, the quantity of which reveals how much time his wife Alma has been spending at the beachhouse with Whitfield Cook).
The Garden (1990)
, 1h32Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Michael Gough, Philip MacDonald, Pete Lee-Wilson, Jack Birkett
Roles Mary Magdalene / Adam
Rating63%
Une femme, peut-être la Madone, apporte son bébé à une foule de paparazzi intrusifs ; elle veut fuir. Deux amants homosexuels se marient et sont arrêtés par les forces de l'ordre. Ils sont humiliés et battus. Égarés dans ce monde contemporain où Jésus est encore fort présent, il faut pouvoir survivre à l'intolérance et le meurtre.
The Last of England (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Jonny Phillips, Spencer Leigh, Derek Jarman
Roles Soldier / Various roles
Rating64%
Composé majoritairement d’archives familiales du cinéaste, complétées d’images de ruines et de décadence, The Last of England, d’une actualité stupéfiante, dénonce la médiocrité d’une société, l’Angleterre ultra-libérale de Thatcher, dans une vision futuriste et altruiste où violences politiques, sociales et psychologiques sont intimement mêlées.
Strapless (1989)
, 1h40Directed by David Hare
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Bridget Fonda, Bruno Ganz, Blair Brown, Alan Howard, Michael Gough, Hugh Laurie
Rating57%
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
War Requiem (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Musical
Actors Laurence Olivier, Tilda Swinton, Nathaniel Parker, Sean Bean, Patricia Hayes, Nigel Terry
Roles Soldier 1
Rating65%
Sans utiliser de dialogue et seulement la pièce musicale de Benjamin Britten, War Requiem se veut une réflexion poétique autour des horreurs de la guerre, en s'axant principalement autour de la Première Guerre mondiale et des poèmes de Wilfred Owen, à travers les souvenirs d'un vieux soldat en fauteuil roulant.
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
, 1h51Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Frances Barber, Julie Walters
Roles Constable
Rating70%
The film tells the story of Orton and Halliwell in flashback, framed by sequences of Lahr researching the book upon which the film is based with Orton's literary agent, Peggy Ramsay. Orton and Halliwell's relationship is traced from its beginnings at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Orton starts out as the uneducated youth to Halliwell's older faux-sophisticate. As the relationship progresses, however, Orton grows increasingly confident in his talent while Halliwell's writing stagnates. They fall into a parody of a traditional married couple, with Orton as the "husband" and Halliwell as the long-suffering and increasingly ignored "wife" (a situation exacerbated by Orton's unwillingness, in 1960s England, to acknowledge having a male lover). Orton is commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles and Halliwell gets carried away in preparing for a meeting with the "Fab Four", but in the end Orton is taken away for a meeting on his own. Finally, a despondent Halliwell kills Orton and commits suicide.
Aria (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Derek Jarman, Charles Sturridge, Robert Altman, Nicolas Roeg, Julien Temple, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Beresford, Franc Roddam, Ken Russell, Bill Bryden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Anthology film, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Theresa Russell, Beverly D'Angelo, Elizabeth Hurley, Buck Henry, Bridget Fonda, John Hurt
Roles Young Man
Rating57%
De grands airs d'opéra vus par dix réalisateurs sur des musiques de Charpentier, Korngold, Leoncavallo, Lully, Puccini, Rameau, Verdi, Wagner. L'image est parfois sans rapport avec le thème de l'opéra, d'autres fois plus proche.
Caravaggio (1986)
, 1h33Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Robbie Coltrane, Jack Birkett, Nigel Davenport
Roles Jerusaleme
Rating64%
Told in a segmented fashion, the film opens as Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) dies from lead poisoning while in exile, with only his long-time deaf-dumb companion Jerusaleme (Spencer Leigh) (who was given by his family to the artist as a boy) by his side. Caravaggio thinks back to his life as a teenage street ruffian (Dexter Fletcher) who hustles and paints. While taken ill and in the care of priests, young Caravaggio catches the eye of Cardinal Del Monte (Michael Gough). Del Monte nurtures Caravaggio's artistic and intellectual development but also appears to molest him.
Smart Money (1986)
Directed by Bernard Rose
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Spencer Leigh, Bruce Payne, Iain Cuthbertson, Ken Campbell, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Roles Leon
Rating60%
The film is a comedy thriller about computer fraud. Leon, a computer hacker, and Freak, a programmer, team up with Fast Eddie, a video games expert, to get revenge on Lawrence McNeice, who framed Leon for a computer fraud he didn't commit.