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  1. Doubtful Death, A (2020 Radio)

    Series
    Charles Paris Mystery, A
    Director
    Sally Avens

    Radio comedy-drama in four episodes by Jeremy Front from a story by Simon Brett. Charles Paris, a small-time actor and amateur sleuth, is cast as Polonius in an immersive theatre production of Hamlet in...

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  2. Decent Interval, A (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Charles Paris Mystery, A
    Director
    Sally Avens

    Radio drama in four episodes. Jeremy Front’s adaptation of Simon Brett’s 2013 novel about Charles Paris, a small time actor and amateur sleuth. Paris returns to the stage as the Ghost in Hamlet, but...

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  3. Sicken and So die (2006 Radio)

    Series
    Charles Paris Mystery, A
    Director
    Sally Avens

    Bill Nighy stars as the actor-cum-amateur sleuth in the four-part detective drama series adapted by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. Louche actor Charles Paris has managed to secure a role in a...

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  4. Venus (2006 Film)

    Director
    Roger Michell
    Producer
    Kevin Loader

    Feature film. Maurice Russell (O’Toole) is a fading, ailing, not very famous actor who meets his friend’s grandniece, Jessie (Whittaker), a surly girl in her early twenties. They form a friendship which...

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  5. Grand Role, Le (2004 Film)

    aka: Great Role, The

    Director
    Steve Suissa

    Feature film. A tragicomedy about an actor and his dying wife. Maurice Kurz (Freiss) is a forty-something jobbing actor who has never had a big career break. One day a world-renowned director Grichenberg...

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  6. Imposters, The (1998 Television)

    aka: Ship of Fools

    Director
    Stanley Tucci
    Producer
    Stanley Tucci; Elizabeth W. Alexander

    Slapstick comedy feature film set in the Depression. Maurice (Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) are two struggling actors who insult a famous hammy and declamatory Shakespearean actor, Jeremy Burtom (Molina) who is...

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  7. Desmond Olivier Dingle’s Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare by Desmond Oliver Dingle: Episode 1 (1995 Radio)

    Producer
    Liz Anstee

    First episode of a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare. The theme is Shakespearean comedy and the guest star is Richard E. Grant.

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  8. Desmond Olivier Dingle’s Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare by Desmond Oliver Dingle: Episode 2 (1995 Radio)

    Producer
    Liz Anstee

    Second episode of a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare. Desmond and Company attempt to tackle Shakespeare’s verse and perform Julius Caesar. They are helped by guest stars Juliet...

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  9. Desmond Olivier Dingle’s Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare by Desmond Oliver Dingle: Episode 3 (1995 Radio)

    Producer
    Liz Anstee

    Third episode of a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare. This time Brian Cox is invited to run a masterclass on Shakespearean tragedy with the Royal Dingle Company.

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  10. Desmond Olivier Dingle’s Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare by Desmond Oliver Dingle: Episode 4 (1995 Radio)

    Producer
    Liz Anstee

    Fourth episode in a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare. This time Dingle and his Company attempt to do an outside broadcast from Stratford-upon-Avon. The guest star is Louise Lombard of...

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