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Stuart Urban is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Editor British born on 11 september 1958 at Newport (United-kingdom)
Stuart Urban (born 1959) is a British film and television director. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon.
At the age of thirteen in 1972, he became the youngest director to have a film shown at the Cannes Film Festival with his short feature The Virus of War. The thirty-minute film was later shown on television in various countries.
He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Modern History. He began writing and directing full-time in the early 1980s, working on television drama series such as Bergerac for the BBC. In 1992, his one-off television film An Ungentlemanly Act, a dramatisation of the first thirty-six hours of the Falklands War starring Ian Richardson and Bob Peck, was widely acclaimed. The production won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama in 1993.
The same year, Urban set up his own independent production company, Cyclops Vision, which has produced the majority of his work ever since. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed and award-winning 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, although he left the production early after disagreements with writer Peter Flannery, and one of his episodes was entirely re-shot by another director, though not before being entirely re-written by Peter Flannery — a fact generally withheld from public knowledge at the time.
Urban went on to write, produce and direct the feature films Preaching to the Perverted (1997) and Revelation (2001), both produced by Cyclops Vision and released around the world. His documentary film work includes the first polemical film against Western interventions, Against the War (BBC, Cyclops Vision; 1999) co-written with Harold Pinter, who also presented.
In 2006 Urban completed Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead, his long-gestating full length theatrical documentary about his father Garri, an escaper from both the Gulag and the Holocaust. It was released in UK cinemas in 2008 to critical approval, earning a number of nominations and awards, including a nomination at the British Independent Film Awards and Grierson Awards.
In 2011 Urban wrote, produced and directed May I Kill U? a new black comedy feature film starring Kevin Bishop, Frances Barber and Rosemary Leach. The plot follows a cycling vigilante who starts a lethal campaign in the London riots in 2011: "a psychopath on the cycle path". The film was released in 2013 in UK, Russia, and other territories, winning the European Competition at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, earning the Melies D'Argent (Silver Melies)and a nomination as one of the best European genre films of the year contending for the Melies D'Or.
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Stuart Urban (born 1959) is a British film and television director. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon.
At the age of thirteen in 1972, he became the youngest director to have a film shown at the Cannes Film Festival with his short feature The Virus of War. The thirty-minute film was later shown on television in various countries.
He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Modern History. He began writing and directing full-time in the early 1980s, working on television drama series such as Bergerac for the BBC. In 1992, his one-off television film An Ungentlemanly Act, a dramatisation of the first thirty-six hours of the Falklands War starring Ian Richardson and Bob Peck, was widely acclaimed. The production won the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama in 1993.
The same year, Urban set up his own independent production company, Cyclops Vision, which has produced the majority of his work ever since. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed and award-winning 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, although he left the production early after disagreements with writer Peter Flannery, and one of his episodes was entirely re-shot by another director, though not before being entirely re-written by Peter Flannery — a fact generally withheld from public knowledge at the time.
Urban went on to write, produce and direct the feature films Preaching to the Perverted (1997) and Revelation (2001), both produced by Cyclops Vision and released around the world. His documentary film work includes the first polemical film against Western interventions, Against the War (BBC, Cyclops Vision; 1999) co-written with Harold Pinter, who also presented.
In 2006 Urban completed Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead, his long-gestating full length theatrical documentary about his father Garri, an escaper from both the Gulag and the Holocaust. It was released in UK cinemas in 2008 to critical approval, earning a number of nominations and awards, including a nomination at the British Independent Film Awards and Grierson Awards.
In 2011 Urban wrote, produced and directed May I Kill U? a new black comedy feature film starring Kevin Bishop, Frances Barber and Rosemary Leach. The plot follows a cycling vigilante who starts a lethal campaign in the London riots in 2011: "a psychopath on the cycle path". The film was released in 2013 in UK, Russia, and other territories, winning the European Competition at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, earning the Melies D'Argent (Silver Melies)and a nomination as one of the best European genre films of the year contending for the Melies D'Or.
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An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
, 2h10Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Bob Peck, Rosemary Leach, Ian McNeice, Marc Warren, Elizabeth Bradley
Rating70%
Director
Revelation (2001)
, 1h51Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Natasha Wightman, James D'Arcy, Udo Kier, Terence Stamp, Liam Cunningham, Manuel Cauchi
Rating47%
In two flashbacks a relic is created in 50 AD and then hidden by Jews from a Crusader mob in medieval Rennes-le-Château. In present-day Rennes-le-Château an academic under instructions from Magnus Martel is seen with the relic - the Loculus - researching on the ground to find the right place to hide it. Magnus's son Jake, an ace cryptographer, is released from Wormwood Scrubs and recruited by his father for research on the Loculus. Magnus reveals that the Loculus relates to the Knights Templar and its sinister successor organisation known as "the order", and in secret receives calls from this organisation threatening him if he does not accelerate his research - in spite of this, Magnus realises the Loculus' massive power for good or evil and has hidden it to ensure it does not fall into the order's hands. After breaking a code on the Loculus to reveal the word "palingenesis", Jake hides whilst members of the organisation kill and flay his father. Jake then flees with another researcher on the project (the occultist Mira) and seeks help from the Roman Catholic priest Father Ray Connolly.
Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell, Christien Anholt, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sue Johnston
Rating58%
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.
An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
, 2h10Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Bob Peck, Rosemary Leach, Ian McNeice, Marc Warren, Elizabeth Bradley
Rating70%
Scriptwriter
Revelation (2001)
, 1h51Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Natasha Wightman, James D'Arcy, Udo Kier, Terence Stamp, Liam Cunningham, Manuel Cauchi
Roles Writer
Rating47%
In two flashbacks a relic is created in 50 AD and then hidden by Jews from a Crusader mob in medieval Rennes-le-Château. In present-day Rennes-le-Château an academic under instructions from Magnus Martel is seen with the relic - the Loculus - researching on the ground to find the right place to hide it. Magnus's son Jake, an ace cryptographer, is released from Wormwood Scrubs and recruited by his father for research on the Loculus. Magnus reveals that the Loculus relates to the Knights Templar and its sinister successor organisation known as "the order", and in secret receives calls from this organisation threatening him if he does not accelerate his research - in spite of this, Magnus realises the Loculus' massive power for good or evil and has hidden it to ensure it does not fall into the order's hands. After breaking a code on the Loculus to reveal the word "palingenesis", Jake hides whilst members of the organisation kill and flay his father. Jake then flees with another researcher on the project (the occultist Mira) and seeks help from the Roman Catholic priest Father Ray Connolly.
Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell, Christien Anholt, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sue Johnston
Roles Writer
Rating58%
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.
Deadly Voyage (1996)
, 1h30Directed by John Mackenzie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, Sean Pertwee, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Suchet, Jean-Claude La Marre
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Aboard the cargo ship MC Ruby, docked in New York, six stowaways burst from one of the containers being unloaded. They flee from the ship, but are apprehended by dock workers and the New York police. The MC Ruby's Ukrainian crew watches the detention with some amusement, but the ship's captain and his first mate, Ion Plesin, are displeased, aware that the illegal immigrants will cost the shipping company hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. In response, company representative Andreas Vlachos arrives to oversee future operations and warn that the crew will be liable for any more such fines.
An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)
, 2h10Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Bob Peck, Rosemary Leach, Ian McNeice, Marc Warren, Elizabeth Bradley
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Producer
Revelation (2001)
, 1h51Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Natasha Wightman, James D'Arcy, Udo Kier, Terence Stamp, Liam Cunningham, Manuel Cauchi
Roles Producer
Rating47%
In two flashbacks a relic is created in 50 AD and then hidden by Jews from a Crusader mob in medieval Rennes-le-Château. In present-day Rennes-le-Château an academic under instructions from Magnus Martel is seen with the relic - the Loculus - researching on the ground to find the right place to hide it. Magnus's son Jake, an ace cryptographer, is released from Wormwood Scrubs and recruited by his father for research on the Loculus. Magnus reveals that the Loculus relates to the Knights Templar and its sinister successor organisation known as "the order", and in secret receives calls from this organisation threatening him if he does not accelerate his research - in spite of this, Magnus realises the Loculus' massive power for good or evil and has hidden it to ensure it does not fall into the order's hands. After breaking a code on the Loculus to reveal the word "palingenesis", Jake hides whilst members of the organisation kill and flay his father. Jake then flees with another researcher on the project (the occultist Mira) and seeks help from the Roman Catholic priest Father Ray Connolly.
Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
, 1h40Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell, Christien Anholt, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sue Johnston
Roles Producer
Rating58%
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.
Editor
Caligula (1979)
, 1h42Directed by Tinto Brass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Erotic, Historical, Peplum, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paolo Bonacelli
Roles Assistant Editor
Rating53%
Caligula is the young heir to the throne of the syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius. One morning, a blackbird flies into his room; Caligula considers this a bad omen. Shortly afterward, the head of the Praetorian Guard Macro tells Caligula that Tiberus, his great uncle, demands his immediate presence at Capri, where the Emperor lives with his close friend Nerva, a dim-witted relative Claudius, and Caligula's younger stepbrother Gemellus. Fearing assassination, Caligula is afraid to leave but his sister and lover Drusilla persuades him to go.