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Farewell to Ivor Novello

Date released

15 Mar 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2091

NoS ID

042932

Story no

2 / 8

Five thousand people and many film and stage stars attend crematorium for funeral of famous actor-composer-dramatist.

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Master of the Stage, A (195 Film)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A leading Bulgarian actor, Constantin Kisimov, in excerpts from a number of plays; examples of Stanislavski method acting.

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Swan Song (1993 Film, Television)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

David Parfitt

Short film. Adaptation by Hugh Cruttwell of Anton Chekhov’s one-act play Kalchas. A ageing actor wakes up in his dressing room long after the play has ended and walks on to the stage where he meets his...

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Black Joy (1977)

Director

Anthony Simmons

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (95 minutes), £15.99

Based on Jamal Ali’s stage play Dark Days and Light Nights, this film, which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at Cannes in 1977, tells the story of a naïve Guyanese immigrant who learns the hard...

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Speer in London (2001 Video)

Director

Martin Wagner

Producer

Martin Wagner

Subject

Drama; German studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min., 2001 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

In February 1999 actor Klaus Maria Brandauer arrived in London for his English-speaking stage debut in Esther Vilar’s ‘Speer’. Directing and playing the title role at the Almeida Theatre, he and his...

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Friedrich Schiller: Eine Dichterjugend (2009)

aka: Friedrich Schiller: The Poet As a Young Man

Director

Curt Goetz

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), 19.95 Euros

Silent film. After 16 years’ experience on stage, the actor and playwright Curt Goetz (1888-1960) made his debut as a film director and producer with the silent movie ‘Friedrich Schiller - Eine...

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Kes (1970)

Director

Ken Loach

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 106 minutes), £14.99

Ken Loach’s landmark film tells the story of Billy Caspar (played by David Bradley) - a working-class teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining community. Bullied at home and picked on and ridiculed at...

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Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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Stein (1991 Film)

Director

Egon Gunther

Producer

Herbert Ehler

Feature film. Ernst Stein (Ludwig) is a classical actor on the East German stage, but becomes so disgusted by the use of his country’s soldiers to help put down the 1968 freedom movement in Czechoslovakia...

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Peccato di Anna, Il (1952 Film)

aka: Anna’s Sin

Director

Camillo Mastrocinque

Feature film. An American black actor (Johnson) arrives in Rome to star in a stage production of Othello and also to locate Sam, a man for whom he served seven years in prison on a false charge of raping a...

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