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Post by roverpup on Aug 5, 2017 2:21:40 GMT
Love that mini-series. We just rewatched it (we have it on DVD). One of my very most favourite eries of all time.
It was like "Six Degrees of Separation" sometimes with all the people who have worked with BC.
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Tom Hardy (TTSS, Stuart: A Life Backwards), Simon Pegg (STiD), Dominic Cooper (Starter for 10), James McAvoy (Starter for. 10), Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hollow Crown), and even Jimmy Fallon had a small speaking part in the series - not that he has worked with BC in a drama but he has interviewed him a number of times.
And in a related sense, Damien Lewis has worked with Sophie in Friends and Crocodiles. Plus, Tom Hanks produced (and directed one episode and had a bit part in one episode) and he produced Starter for 10. And Steven Spielberg (who directed Ben in War Horse) produced BoB as well. And Jamie Bamber (one of my other fav actors) was in 3 episodes and he did a photo shoot with BC.
That's a lot of connections!
:-))
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Post by queenzod on Aug 5, 2017 4:02:19 GMT
England is an incestuous den of actors, isn't it? Lol!
Jamie Bamber! Didn't he play the wonderfully obsequious Mr. Collins in the 1995 Pride & Prejudice? I saw him in a play in London called...gosh I can't remember. It was a bedroom farce where the power had gone out and when the lights on stage were on, the power was out, and vice versa. He was hilarious!
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Post by roverpup on Aug 5, 2017 11:49:38 GMT
I think you are thinking of David Bamber (who is a very good actor as well). Jamie Bamber (whose real name is Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith) is this chap - He was in the limited series Hornblower with Ioan Gruffudd (which is where I came across him) in 1999. He also was in Daniel Deronda that also had David Bamber in it (but they aren't related). Later he went on to star in the re-conceptualised "Battlestar Gallactica" (2003-04+) among other things. He has done some stage acting and radio work (like a lot of classically trained UK actors - he is a graduate of LAMDA after graduating with a first in Modern Languages (Italian and French) from St John's College, Cambridge) - He did Dr. Faustus (as Mephistopheles) in 2005 and Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 at the Bristol Old Vic in 2002. He also did a wonderful version of Brideshead Revisited and Where Angels Fear to Tread for BBC4 radio. One of my other favourite TV roles of his was the short-lived series he did called The Smoke with Jodie Whittaker who now is the new Dr. Who! They were great together in that show! I wish it had lasted longer than one season on Sky1TV. :-))
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Post by queenzod on Aug 5, 2017 13:53:09 GMT
Yes, I had it wrong. Thanks for the update!
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Post by igs on Aug 19, 2017 6:42:58 GMT
It's one of my very favorite mini-series of all-time. It's insane that it's basically the first screen work of Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy and James McAvoy! That show was a golden ticket for a fine generation of British A-listers. I haven't watched it in years now, but I too have it on DVD so might give it a re-watch soon. Nixon (Ron Livingston's character) was always my favorite, but the characterization in general was superb. I watched a documentary once with some of the living members of the E-company (I don't remember where, maybe it was on YouTube or maybe it's an extra on the box set? I can't check cause it's in storage along with all my DVDs due to having moved so much in the past 5 years) it was a great watch. HBO really knows how to make a mini-series.
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