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Christopher McHallem is a Actor British born on 1 january 1960 at London (United-kingdom)
Christopher McHallem (born 1960) is a British actor, writer, musician and director.
McHallem began his career in 1977 with the punk rock/post-punk band the Transmitters under the pseudonym "Dexter O'Brian", but left the band shortly after its formation to pursue a career in acting.
He is well remembered for playing the role of Rod Norman, the kind-hearted roadie with a soft spot for hopeless causes, in the popular BBC soap opera, EastEnders. A role that he played from 1987 to 1990.
Since quitting EastEnders McHallem has appeared in the 1991 film Edward II; the ITV drama Heartbeat (1993); in the Steve Coogan comedy sketch show Coogan's Run (1995); the 1998 film St. Ives; the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring - a screenplay adapted from the Tracy Chevalier novel of the same name; and the 2005 film Breakfast on Pluto among others.
His most recent projects were roles in the films Becoming Jane (2007) and House of Boys (2009).
As well as acting McHallem is also a script writer. In 2001 he wrote and directed the short film This Little Piggy about two cops in Dublin, who try to find a missing finger at a cab rank. He was also one of the writers on the Liza Tarbuck comedy Linda Green (2001) and was the writer of the television comedy Big Dippers in 2005, which starred James Nesbitt.
Recently Chris has returned to music as singer and songwriter with the mysterious, Five Mile Family.
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McHallem began his career in 1977 with the punk rock/post-punk band the Transmitters under the pseudonym "Dexter O'Brian", but left the band shortly after its formation to pursue a career in acting.
He is well remembered for playing the role of Rod Norman, the kind-hearted roadie with a soft spot for hopeless causes, in the popular BBC soap opera, EastEnders. A role that he played from 1987 to 1990.
Since quitting EastEnders McHallem has appeared in the 1991 film Edward II; the ITV drama Heartbeat (1993); in the Steve Coogan comedy sketch show Coogan's Run (1995); the 1998 film St. Ives; the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring - a screenplay adapted from the Tracy Chevalier novel of the same name; and the 2005 film Breakfast on Pluto among others.
His most recent projects were roles in the films Becoming Jane (2007) and House of Boys (2009).
As well as acting McHallem is also a script writer. In 2001 he wrote and directed the short film This Little Piggy about two cops in Dublin, who try to find a missing finger at a cab rank. He was also one of the writers on the Liza Tarbuck comedy Linda Green (2001) and was the writer of the television comedy Big Dippers in 2005, which starred James Nesbitt.
Recently Chris has returned to music as singer and songwriter with the mysterious, Five Mile Family.
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The Green Knight (2021)
Directed by David Lowery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Actors Dev Patel, Joel Edgerton, Alicia Vikander, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Sean Harris
Roles Lord in Waiting
Rating65%
Sire Gauvain, chevalier de la table ronde et neveu du Roi Arthur, accepte un défi lancé par un mystérieux chevalier vert : Gauvain doit le décapiter. Le chevalier accepte le défi et en ressort victorieux. Mais le chevalier vert repart avec sa tête sous le bras en lui disant qu'ils devront se retrouver, dans un an.
Frank (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy, François Civil, Tess Harper
Roles Paramedic
Rating68%
Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), an aspiring songwriter, witnesses a man trying to drown himself while walking along the beach of his town. The man is taken to the hospital and Jon talks to Don (Scoot McNairy), who explains the man was a keyboardist in an experimental band, the Soronprfbs, managed by him. Jon mentions that he plays keyboards and is invited to play with them that night. Jon goes along and meets the rest of the band, all of whom are reluctant about Jon, except Frank (Michael Fassbender), the band leader who wears a papier-mâché mask. The concert goes well, until Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal) breaks her theremin and storms offstage.
Stay (2013)
, 1h39Genres Drama
Actors Taylor Schilling, Aidan Quinn, Michael Ironside, Briain Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Carrie Crowley
Rating55%
House of Boys (2009)
, 1h57Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Layke Anderson, Udo Kier, Joanna Scanlan, Stephen Fry, Michael Kuehl, Christopher McHallem
Roles Frank's Father
Rating64%
Gay teenager, Frank (Layke Anderson) is part of a typical bourgeois family in Luxembourg in 1984. For unknown reasons, he decides to run away with his best friend, Rita. They settle in Amsterdam, where Frank starts enjoying life. When Rita leaves with her boyfriend, Frank is left with no place to go. He goes to a public house called the "House of Boys" in which young, attractive men dance and provide sexual services for older men. The place is run by the mysterious performer and drag queen Madame (Udo Kier), who takes Frank in and employs him. In the club he meets Angelo, who aspires to transition from male to female, and raises funds for her gender reassignment surgery; and Jake (Benn Northover), a veteran performer and favorite of customers, who considers himself to be straight. Frank falls in love with him, but struggles with Jake's claim of heterosexuality in light of his male-hustler lifestyle. Jake's long time girlfriend steals his money and uses it to have an abortion. He breaks up with her and finds comfort in Frank's arms. They start a relationship which for both seems to transcend superficial sex into love. Soon Jake begins to fall ill, faints, and develops spots on his skin. He's diagnosed with AIDS. Meanwhile, Europe sees the start of the AIDS epidemic. The remainder of the film chronicles Jake's decline and eventual death while the "House of Boys" closes. The closing scenes show Frank travelling to Morocco to scatter Jake's ashes over the sea.
Becoming Jane (2007)
, 1h52Directed by Julian Jarrold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Joe Anderson
Roles Mr. Curtis
Rating70%
Jane Austen is the younger daughter of Reverend George Austen and his wife and has yet to find a suitable husband. She wishes to be a writer, to the dismay of her mother and proud delight of her father.
, 1h54Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films
Actors Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Michael Maloney, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anna Chancellor, Christopher McHallem
Roles Footman
Rating64%
The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder.
Breakfast on Pluto (2006)
, 2h9Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Cillian Murphy, Ruth Negga, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Gavin Friday
Roles Punter
Rating71%
The film is divided in over 30 chapters. In the fictional Irish town of Tyrellin, near the border of Northern Ireland in the late 1940s, cartoon robins narrate as Patrick Braden's mother, Eily Bergin, abandons him on the doorstep of the local parochial house where his father, Father Liam, lives. He is then placed with an unloving foster mother. Biologically male, a young Patrick is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers his foster family. Patrick is accepted by his close friends Charlie, Irwin, and Lawrence, as well as by Lawrence's father, who tells Patrick Eily looked like blonde American movie star Mitzi Gaynor.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
, 1h40Directed by Peter Webber
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Peinture, Films about the labor movement
Actors Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Judy Parfitt, Alakina Mann
Roles Griet's Father
Rating68%
Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and putting his family in a precarious financial situation. To help matters, Griet is sent to work as a maid in the household of famed painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). Griet works hard, almost wordlessly, in the lowest position in a harsh hierarchy, doing her best despite spiteful treatment by one of Vermeer's children. While she is on a routine shopping trip outside the house, a butcher's son, Pieter (Cillian Murphy), notices Griet and falls in love with her, even though she is slow to return his affections.
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
, 1h35Actors Flora Montgomery, Peter McDonald, Maynard Eziashi, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn, Don Wycherley
Roles Male Choristor
Rating64%
Brendan (Peter McDonald) is a shy, reserved teacher who takes his profession seriously. Away from the classroom, he has a love of films and classical music. One night, after practising with his church choir, he meets Trudy (Flora Montgomery), a bright, witty and free-spirited woman whom he believes is a Montessori teacher. Despite the differences in their personalities, the two begin a relationship. Brendan is unaware that his new girlfriend is actually a burglar, and is shocked when Trudy asks him to prove his love by helping her on one of her 'jobs'. Brendan is torn between his feelings for Trudy, and the desire to do what is right. Throughout his relationship with her, Brendan slowly begins to discover himself, and realises that there is more to life than music and movies.
St. Ives (1998)
, 1h23Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Jean-Marc Barr, Miranda Richardson, Anna Friel, Michael Gough, Richard E. Grant, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Gautier
Rating64%
A dashing French Army officer, capitaine Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves, is captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars and sent to a Scottish prison camp. There he falls for a local girl, befriends the commanding officer, and discovers a surprising secret about his long-lost grandfather.
Brave (1994)
, 50minutesDirected by Richard Stanley
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Richard Stanley, Caroline O'Neill, Christopher McHallem
Roles Premier Boelgaxof (archive footage)
Rating70%
The movie tells the story in pictures accompanied by the entire Brave record minus "Paper Lies" and the final song "Made Again". On the recording, it is left ambiguous as to whether the main character commits suicide in the end. In the film, she does. Thus, "Made Again", which concludes the story on the record as a happy ending of sorts, is not included.
Edward II (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan, Kevin Collins, Dudley Sutton, Jerome Flynn
Roles Thug
Rating67%
Once installed as king, Edward II summons his friend and lover, Piers Gaveston, to his side and showers him with gifts, titles and abiding love. Their relationship is fiery and passionate, but it is the focus of gossip and derision throughout the kingdom. Upon his return, Gaveston takes revenge on the Bishop of Winchester, who had been responsible for his banishment from England during the previous reign, by personally torturing him. Kent, Edwards’ brother, is the first to protest Gaveston's return. Many others feel the same way, including the Bishop of Winchester and Lord Mortimer, who is in charge of the army forces of the kingdom. Nevertheless, Edward defends his lover from his mounting enemies.
Hardware (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Richard Stanley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, Iggy Pop, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Mark Northover
Roles Premier Boelgaxof
Rating59%
A nomad scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy steps away, Mo buys the robot parts from the nomad and sells all but the head to Alvy. Intrigued by the technology, Alvy begins to research its background. Mo and Shades visit Jill, Mo's reclusive girlfriend, and, after an initially distant welcome where Jill checks them with a Geiger counter, Mo presents the robot head as a Christmas gift. Jill, a metal sculptor, eagerly accepts the head. After Shades leaves, Mo and Jill argue about a government sterilization plan and the morality of having children. Later, they have sex, while being unknowingly watched by their foul-mouthed, perverted, voyeuristic neighbor Lincoln Weinberg via telescope.