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John McEnery is a Actor British born on 1 november 1943 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)

John McEnery

John McEnery
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 november 1943 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 12 april 2019 (at 75 years)

John McEnery (born 1 November 1943) is an English actor and writer.

Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, he trained (1962–64) at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, playing, among others, Mosca in Ben Jonson's Volpone and Gaveston in Marlowe's Edward II. At the age of 20 he found his first stage work, spending three seasons with the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He joined the National Theatre company in 1966. While working at the Everyman, he met actress Stephanie Beacham, whom he later married. The couple had two daughters, Phoebe and Chloe, but subsequently divorced.

His first notable screen role was in 1968 as Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet; he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance. In 1970 he starred in a major role alongside Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Cassel in Gérard Brach's bittersweet The Boat on the Grass about a girl between two friends. He later played Russian politician Alexander Kerensky in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and took the title role in the 1972 film Bartleby, in which he starred opposite Paul Scofield. His other film credits include The Land That Time Forgot (1975) and The Krays (1990) as gangster Eddie Pellam.

In the 1980s, at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, he took the title role in Gogol's The Government Inspector, directed by the Russian actor and director Oleg Tabakov.

In 1998 he wrote the play Merry Christmas, Mr. Burbage in honour of the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Globe Theatre. In 2011 he appeared as Rowley in The School for Scandal (directed by Deborah Warner) at the Barbican Centre. In 2008, he appeared in a guest role in Sidetracked, the first episode of Wallander.

One of his brothers is actor Peter McEnery, and another is photographer David McEnery.

Best films

Romeo and Juliet (1968)
(Actor)
The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
(Actor)

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Filmography of John McEnery (30 films)

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Actor

Elizabeth I (TV miniseries), 3h43
Directed by Tom Hooper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Malahide, Toby Jones, Hugh Dancy, Barbara Flynn
Roles Jesuit Priest
Rating78% 3.9457553.9457553.9457553.9457553.945755
By 1579, Elizabeth I has reigned for about 20 years and has refused to marry. Her chief advisor Lord Burghley and her spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham plan to have her marry the Duke of Anjou, brother of Henry III of France, to make an alliance against Spain. Elizabeth's favourite the Earl of Leicester strongly opposes the match because of his own longstanding affections for her. The Duke of Anjou eventually comes to court Elizabeth, but despite him being to her liking, she is later convinced by Burghley not to marry him because of negative popular opinion towards the match.
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1h40
Directed 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 Apothecary
Rating68% 3.4475753.4475753.4475753.4475753.447575
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 Saturday Comes, 1h38
Directed by Maria Giese
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite, Craig Kelly, Jimmy McKenna, Melanie Hill
Roles Joe Muir
Rating59% 2.9992752.9992752.9992752.9992752.999275
A factory worker who gets scouted, firstly by the well-known non-league side Hallam F.C. and then later by Sheffield United Football Club. It was filmed at various locations around South Yorkshire including Rotherham, Sandygate Road and Bramall Lane.
Black Beauty, 1h28
Directed by Caroline Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Andrew Knott, Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Jim Carter, Peter Davison, Alan Cumming
Roles Mr. York
Rating66% 3.301293.301293.301293.301293.30129
Black Beauty (voiced by Alan Cumming; played by Docs Keepin Time) narrates his story. He is born on a farm in the English countryside and remains by his mother's side until he is sent to Birtwick Park to serve Squire Gordon and his family.
Abraham
Abraham (1993)
, 2h55
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey, Vittorio Gassman, Maximilian Schell, Gottfried John, Kevin McNally
Roles Königsberater
Rating72% 3.60763.60763.60763.60763.6076
Abram lives in Harran, a rich city. His wife Sarah (Barbara Hershey) is childless, and their only heir is Eliezer of Damascus. One day he hears the voice of God, who says that he must leave Haran and travel to an unknown land. God promises to make a great nation from him and renames him Abraham. The pattern for the plot is the Genesis chapters 11-25.
Hamlet
Hamlet (1991)
, 2h10
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter
Roles Osric
Rating66% 3.348963.348963.348963.348963.34896
In Denmark, Prince Hamlet finds himself involved in a conspiracy of power to the royal palace. Cruel uncle Claudius kills his brother and takes the power of the kingdom. After an encounter with the restless ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to take vengeance.
The Krays
The Krays (1990)
, 1h59
Directed by Peter Medak
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Martin Kemp, Susan Fleetwood
Roles Eddie Pellam
Rating65% 3.2970653.2970653.2970653.2970653.297065
The film charts the lives of the Kray twins from childhood to adult life. The plot focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother (Whitelaw). Ronald (Gary Kemp) is the dominant one, influencing his brother Reginald (Martin Kemp) to perform several acts of violence.
Le Mystère du bahut espagnol, 50minutes
Directed by Andrew Grieve
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, John McEnery, Caroline Langrishe, Pip Torrens
Roles Colonel Curtiss
Rating75% 3.794583.794583.794583.794583.79458
A l'opéra, Lady Chatterton rencontre Poirot. Elle lui demande son aide car elle craint que son amie Marguerite Clayton soit en danger. Le mari jaloux de Marguerite, Edward Clayton, s'apprêterait à la tuer, pensant qu'elle a une liaison avec le Major Rich. Poirot se rend donc à une fête chez le Major pour rencontrer Edward Clayton, mais celui-ci ne vient pas. Et le lendemain ce n'est pas le corps de Marguerite que l'on retrouve mais celui de son mari, dans le bahut espagnol du Major.
Codename: Kyril, 3h28
Directed by Ian Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Edward Woodward, Ian Charleson, Joss Ackland, Richard E. Grant, John McEnery, Espen Skjønberg
Rating69% 3.491283.491283.491283.491283.49128
In Moscow, Marshal Stanov (Peter Vaughan), the head of the KGB, realizes that there must be a traitor within the KGB Moscow Center who is leaking high-level information to MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service. He secretly sends his most trusted operative, Colonel Ivan Bucharensky (Ian Charleson), as an agent provocateur to the West in order to force the traitor to reveal himself out of fear of exposure.
Little Dorrit, 6h
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall, Patricia Hayes, Alec Guinness, Miriam Margolyes
Roles Captain Hopkins
Rating71% 3.5912853.5912853.5912853.5912853.591285
Le film est présenté en deux parties. Dans la première, sous-titrée "La faute à personne" (une allusion à un des titres auxquels avait pensé Dickens pour le roman), l'histoire est présentée en fonction du personnage d'Arthur Clennam. La seconde, sous-titrée "L'histoire de la petite Dorrit", reprend une grande partie des mêmes événements, mais cette fois selon le point de vue de l'héroïne.
Pope John Paul II, 2h30
Directed by Herbert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Albert Finney, Caroline Bliss, Brian Cox, John Forgeham, Alfred Burke, Derek Francis
Roles Monsignor Kuczkowski
Rating65% 3.288053.288053.288053.288053.28805
This film's timeline begins with the death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978, and then flashes back to Karol Wojtyła as a young man growing up decades earlier in Wadowice, Poland. The storyline then returns to pre-October 16 dates in 1978 and flashes back to Wojtyła's early life, family relationships, his political involvements fighting against Nazism during World War II and against Communism after the war, and his relationship and involvement in the Roman Catholic Church as he becomes a priest, a bishop, a cardinal, and is eventually installed as the titular new pope.
Gulag
Gulag (1985)

Directed by Roger Young
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, John Benfield, Bruce Boa, Warren Clarke, Eugene Lipinski
Roles Diczek
Rating65% 3.291663.291663.291663.291663.29166
TV reporter and former star athlete Mickey Almon is covering a World athletic event in Moscow when he is arrested by the KGB after being approached by a scientist wanting him to smuggle secret information out of the Soviet Union. Almon is imprisoned and interrogated over several days by prison official Bukovsky who ultimately forces him to confess to being a spy for the United States. Though promised with release for doing so, Almon is instead transported to a railway station and placed aboard a train on a Stolypin prison car with other political prisoners bound for a labour camp near the Arctic Circle.
A.D. (miniseries), 5h
Directed by Stuart Cooper
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman, Richard Kiley
Roles Caligula
Rating71% 3.584053.584053.584053.584053.58405
The story tells the life histories about Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus after the crucifixion of Jesus, and their individual fates in old Rome in the time of the persecution of Christians. Events in the New Testament Book of Acts by Luke and in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius are dramatized and interwoven with the contrasting histories of political intrigues in the public and private lives of the Caesars from Tiberius through Nero related in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, together with the fictional drama of the lives of two Jews and two Romans: Caleb the Zealot and his sister Sarah, and Julius Valerius the Imperial Guard and Corinna the patrician woman who has chosen to be a gladiator.