Timothy Peter Dalton was born on 21 March 1944 or 1946. He is a British actor of film and television.
Dalton is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind. In addition, he is known for his roles as Phillip II of France inThe Lion In Winter; Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1970); Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre(1983); Prince Barin in Flash Gordon (1980); and various roles in Shakespearean films and plays such as Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2. Recently, he had a voice acting part in Toy Story 3 as Mr. Pricklepants. he has also appeared as Skinner in the mystery comedy film Hot Fuzz; portrayed the recurring character of Alexei Volkoff in the US TV series Chuck; andRassilon in the Doctor Who two-part episode "The End of Time".
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English screen and stage actor, filmmaker and musician. As an actor, he has collaborated with many of Hollywood's biggest filmmakers, including Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Nolan, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of his best-known roles are Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional, Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved, Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, James Gordon in Nolan's Batman series and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Other films in which Oldman plays significant roles include Meantime, The Firm, State of Grace, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, True Romance, Basquiat, The Fifth Element, Air Force One, The Contender, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Lawless. Aside from film acting, Oldman has written and directed Nil by Mouth, appeared in television shows like Friends and Knots Landing, and recorded music with David Bowie and Glen Matlock. A Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre alumnus, he is also a classically-trained actor who has appeared in many stage productions.
In this day in 1993 Jake Brian Bidwell was born. He is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Brentford, on loan from Everton.
ReplyDeleteBidwell made his reserve team debut in April 2009. In December 2009 he made his first-team debut at Goodison Park versus BATE Borisov in the Europa League, becoming Everton's youngest ever player in a European game in the process.
Internationally Bidwell has played for England's Under-17 team, with whom he won the 2009 Nordic Tournament.
As I am fun of Harry Potter I want to add that today celebrates a birthday famous David Thewlis
ReplyDeleteHe is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series. Other notable performances include his work in the films Timeline (2003), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Omen (2006), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), London Boulevard (2010) and War Horse (2011). He made his name known in 1993 with his performance of Johnny in Naked – for which he won multiple awards – and became known publicly for his performance of main antagonist King Einon in the 1996 film Dragonheart. He has also done voice work in the films James and the Giant Peach (1996) and The Miracle Maker (2000).
Guy Stephen Chadwick (born 21 March 1956 in Hanover, Germany) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of alternative band, The House of Love, for which he wrote the majority of the band's material.
ReplyDeleteThe son of a British Army officer, Chadwick spent his formative years at various army bases in Singapore and Malaysia before returning with his family to England aged 6.After forming his first band The Kingdoms who released one single via RCA and whom he'd later describe as "dreadful", Chadwick met guitarist Terry Bickers in 1987 through an advert and formed The House Of Love who released their debut album in 1989.
Following the departure of Bickers, the House of Love eventually split in 1993 and Chadwick re-appeared as a solo artist in 1997 and released the album Lazy Soft and Slow in 1998.
The House of Love reunited in 2003. They went on to tour throughout the UK. Ireland and Sweden, and released an album, Days Run Away in 2005. The band's self-titled debut album was reissued in 2007.
Dalton was born in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, North Wales to an English father, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during World War II and had become an advertising executive at the time of his son's birth, and an American mother of Italian and Irish descent. Before his fourth birthday, the family moved back to England to Belper in Derbyshire. While in Belper, he attended the Herbert Strutt Grammar School. As a teenager, he was a member of the Air Cadets. He decided to become an actor at 16 after seeing a production of Macbeth. He left school in 1964 to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and tour with the National Youth Theatre. Dalton did not complete his RADA studies, leaving the academy in 1966 to join the ensemble of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
ReplyDeleteGary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English screen and stage actor, filmmaker and musician. As an actor, he has collaborated with many of Hollywood's biggest filmmakers, including Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Nolan, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of his best-known roles are Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Drexl Spivey in True Romance, Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional, Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved, Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, James Gordon in Nolan's Batman series and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
ReplyDeletePeter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.
ReplyDeleteMajor productions for the RSC
1950 Measure for Measure with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
1952 The Winter's Tale with John Gielgud (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
1958 Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier (Shakespeare Memorial Theatre)
1962 King Lear with Paul Scofield
1964 Marat/Sade
1966 US an anti-Vietnam protest play with The Royal Shakespeare Company, documented in the film Benefit of the Doubt
1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream with John Kane (Puck), Frances de la Tour (Helena), Ben Kingsley (Demetrius) and Patrick Stewart (Snout): see 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
one of my favourite actors!
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