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Kenneth Colley is a Actor British born on 7 december 1937 at Manchester (United-kingdom)
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Unlike the other ill-fated officers who appeared alongside him in The Empire Strikes Back, Colley was the only actor to play an Imperial officer in more than one Star Wars film. Colley reprised his role as Piett in the Cartoon Network animated special Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out in September 2012.
Colley was born in Manchester, Lancashire. He played Jesus in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979.
Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood film Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets.
Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. He directed one film to date, Greetings, a 2007 horror film starring Kirsty Cox, Henry Dunn and Ben Shockley. According to comments which Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and acted with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stammerer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven.
Colley lives in Hythe, Kent.
Parmi ses autres films notables, citons La Symphonie pathétique (1969, avec Richard Chamberlain et Glenda Jackson) et Mahler (1974, avec Robert Powell dans le rôle-titre), tous deux réalisés par Ken Russell, Firefox, l'arme absolue de Clint Eastwood (1982, avec le réalisateur et Freddie Jones), J'ai engagé un tueur d'Aki Kaurismäki (1991, avec Jean-Pierre Léaud et Serge Reggiani), ou encore Les Virtuoses de Mark Herman (1996, avec Pete Postlethwaite et Ewan McGregor).
Comme acteur, son dernier film à ce jour sort en 2012. En outre, il est producteur, réalisateur et scénariste (en plus d'acteur) de deux courts métrages sortis en 2007.
À la télévision (britannique et américaine), Kenneth Colley apparaît dans quatre-vingt-trois séries à partir de 1961, dont Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (un épisode, 1963), Poigne de fer et séduction (un épisode, 1973), Hercule Poirot (un épisode, 1990) et Inspecteur Barnaby (un épisode, 2001). Sa dernière série à ce jour est Misfits, avec un épisode diffusé en 2013.
Sy ajoutent quinze téléfilms diffusés entre 1965 et 2012, dont Les Misérables de Glenn Jordan (1978, avec Richard Jordan et Anthony Perkins) et La Pourpre et le Noir de Jerry London (1983, avec Gregory Peck et Christopher Plummer). De plus, toujours pour le petit écran, il est acteur, réalisateur et scénariste d'un court métrage diffusé en 2006.
Également actif au théâtre (notamment au sein de la Royal Shakespeare Company), Kenneth Colley joue entre autres dans La Vie d'Édouard II d'Angleterre de Bertolt Brecht (1968, avec Graham Crowden et Derek Jacobi), Cromwell de David Storey (1973, avec Brian Cox, Albert Finney et Pete Postlethwaite), Beaucoup de bruit pour rien de William Shakespeare (1980, avec Alun Armstrong) et Burning Issues de Ron Hutchinson (2000).
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Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Unlike the other ill-fated officers who appeared alongside him in The Empire Strikes Back, Colley was the only actor to play an Imperial officer in more than one Star Wars film. Colley reprised his role as Piett in the Cartoon Network animated special Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out in September 2012.
Colley was born in Manchester, Lancashire. He played Jesus in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979.
Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood film Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets.
Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. He directed one film to date, Greetings, a 2007 horror film starring Kirsty Cox, Henry Dunn and Ben Shockley. According to comments which Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and acted with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stammerer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven.
Colley lives in Hythe, Kent.
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Au cinéma, Kenneth Colley contribue à trente-sept films (britanniques et étrangers — dont américains —, ou coproductions), le premier sorti en 1964. Son rôle sans doute le mieux connu du grand public est celui de l'amiral Piett, dans les épisodes V (1980 ; titre court : L'Empire contre-attaque) et VI (1983 ; titre court : Le Retour du Jedi) de la saga Star Wars de George Lucas.Parmi ses autres films notables, citons La Symphonie pathétique (1969, avec Richard Chamberlain et Glenda Jackson) et Mahler (1974, avec Robert Powell dans le rôle-titre), tous deux réalisés par Ken Russell, Firefox, l'arme absolue de Clint Eastwood (1982, avec le réalisateur et Freddie Jones), J'ai engagé un tueur d'Aki Kaurismäki (1991, avec Jean-Pierre Léaud et Serge Reggiani), ou encore Les Virtuoses de Mark Herman (1996, avec Pete Postlethwaite et Ewan McGregor).
Comme acteur, son dernier film à ce jour sort en 2012. En outre, il est producteur, réalisateur et scénariste (en plus d'acteur) de deux courts métrages sortis en 2007.
À la télévision (britannique et américaine), Kenneth Colley apparaît dans quatre-vingt-trois séries à partir de 1961, dont Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (un épisode, 1963), Poigne de fer et séduction (un épisode, 1973), Hercule Poirot (un épisode, 1990) et Inspecteur Barnaby (un épisode, 2001). Sa dernière série à ce jour est Misfits, avec un épisode diffusé en 2013.
Sy ajoutent quinze téléfilms diffusés entre 1965 et 2012, dont Les Misérables de Glenn Jordan (1978, avec Richard Jordan et Anthony Perkins) et La Pourpre et le Noir de Jerry London (1983, avec Gregory Peck et Christopher Plummer). De plus, toujours pour le petit écran, il est acteur, réalisateur et scénariste d'un court métrage diffusé en 2006.
Également actif au théâtre (notamment au sein de la Royal Shakespeare Company), Kenneth Colley joue entre autres dans La Vie d'Édouard II d'Angleterre de Bertolt Brecht (1968, avec Graham Crowden et Derek Jacobi), Cromwell de David Storey (1973, avec Brian Cox, Albert Finney et Pete Postlethwaite), Beaucoup de bruit pour rien de William Shakespeare (1980, avec Alun Armstrong) et Burning Issues de Ron Hutchinson (2000).
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Shadow Run (1998)
, 1h34Directed by Geoffrey Reeve
Genres Thriller
Themes Heist films
Actors Michael Caine, James Fox, Christopher Cazenove, Rae Baker, Kenneth Colley, Leslie Grantham
Roles Larcombe
Rating43%
Haskell (Michael Caine) is a hardened gangster assigned to a job by his boss, Landon-Higgins (James Fox), to steal sheets of watermarked paper to print fake money.
Brassed Off (1996)
, 1h47Directed by Mark Herman
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Musical films, Political films
Actors Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson
Roles Greasley
Rating71%
Gloria Mullins has been sent to her old hometown of Grimley to determine the profitability of the pit for the management of British Coal. She also plays the flugelhorn brilliantly, and is allowed to play with the local brass band after playing Concierto de Aranjuez with them, the band is made up of miners from whom she must conceal her purpose. She renews a childhood romance with Andy Barrow, which soon leads to complications. It is later revealed during a confrontation between Gloria and the management of the colliery that the decision to close the colliery had been made two years previously, and that this was to have gone ahead regardless of the findings of her report; the report simply being a public relations exercise to placate the miners and members of the public sympathetic to their plight.
Solomon & Sheba (1995)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Malcolm Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Halle Berry, Miquel Brown, Jimmy Smits, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Norman Buckley, Kenneth Colley
Roles Nathan
Rating55%
La Vie de Bohème (1992)
, 1h40Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Matti Pellonpää, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Évelyne Didi, Christine Murillo
Roles Street Sweeper
Rating75%
Marcel (André Wilms) is an impoverished Parisian poet and playwright who is evicted from his extremely modest room after he is unable to pay rent for it. While roaming the streets of Paris, he meets Rodolfo (Matti Pellonpää), a painter from Albania who is almost equally poor and is in the country illegally. They quickly discover they are kindred spirits since they both share the same love for art without much regard for their worldly well-being. The two eventually make another friend in Schaunard (Kari Väänänen), an Irish composer who is now renting Marcel's former room. The three friends help each other in the daily struggle to survive by sharing whatever little money they have among each other in order to maintain a basic and simple standard of living.
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
, 1h28Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed, Peter Vaughan
Roles Capt. Dreyfus
Rating65%
The film documents the events that saw a French Captain, Alfred Dreyfus, sent to Devil's Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. Colonel Georges Picquart (Richard Dreyfuss) is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence. Instead, he discovers that Dreyfus (Kenneth Colley), a Jew, was merely a convenient scapegoat for the actions of the true culprit, a member of the French General staff. His attempt to right the wrong sees his military career ended and the famous French author, Émile Zola (Martin Friend), found guilty of libel.
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
, 1h20Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani, Trevor Bowen, Aki Kaurismäki
Roles The Killer
Rating71%
Henri Boulanger (Léaud), a French man living in London, is laid-off from his job after fifteen years of service. He tries to commit suicide but because he continuously fails, decides to hire a hitman (Kenneth Colley) to finish the job. After making the contract he meets Margaret (Margi Clarke) and finds new meaning to life, however, he is unable to call off the hitman.
The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990)
, 1h29Directed by Lawrence Schiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Brad Davis, Ian William Richardson, Michael Byrne, Rupert Graves, Helmut Griem, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Wilhelm Keitel
Rating61%
The Plot to Kill Hitler is a historical re-creation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government, with the ultimate intention of surrendering their country to the Allies. Led by Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, this group of dedicated officers managed to plant a bomb, hidden in Stauffenberg's briefcase, in Hitler’s battlefield headquarters. By sheer luck, Hitler survived the blast and the SS quickly arrested and executed most of those involved.
, 50minutesDirected by Andrew Grieve
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Kenneth Colley
Roles Mathew Davenheim
Rating77%
The Rainbow (1989)
, 1h53Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson
Roles Mr. Brunt
Rating62%
Set during the final years of England's Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen is one of several children of wealthy Derbyshire farmer Will Brangwen and his wife Anna. Ursula, since age 3, has a fascination with rainbows and after one rainstorm, she runs off with a suitcase hoping to look for a pot of gold at the end of it. Will tries to ease her fascination by giving her coloring books of rainbows and making her peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with several spreads of different flavored jelly resembling a rainbow.
A Summer Story (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley, Jerome Flynn, Sophie Ward
Roles Jim
Rating72%
In the summer of 1902 Frank Ashton, an educated young man from London, is on a walking holiday in Devon with a friend. When he falls and twists his ankle, Ashton is helped at a nearby farmhouse and stays there for a few days to recover, while his friend goes on. Ashton quickly falls for the village girl who looks after him, Megan David, and she falls in love with him, to the great distress of her cousin Joe Narracombe, who wants her for himself. Ashton and Megan spend a night together, and after that he takes the train to a seaside town to cash a cheque at a bank, promising to return the next morning and take Megan away with him and marry her.
Casanova (1987)
Directed by Simon Langton
Genres Biography, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Sophie Ward
Roles Le Duc
Rating59%
The Whistle Blower (1986)
, 1h40Directed by Simon Langton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Barry Foster, Nigel Havers, Gordon Jackson, John Gielgud, David Langton
Roles Bill Pickett
Rating61%
Frank Jones (Caine) is a retired British naval officer and Korean War veteran, who is now a businessman. His bright but naive and idealistic son, Robert (Nigel Havers), works as a linguist at GCHQ, the top secret British intelligence listening station, using his love of Russian to listen to various pieces of communication on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985)
, 3h20Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley, Melanie Mayron, Stuart Wilson, Bibi Andersson
Roles Adolph Eichmann
Rating72%
Raoul Wallenberg est un fonctionnaire suédois qui s'illustre pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale. Alors que les déportations de juifs sévissent dans toute l'Europe, Wallenberg se sert de sa position diplomatique pour délivrer de faux passeports à des dizaines de milliers de juifs leur évitant ainsi la Shoah.
Return to Waterloo (1984)
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Kenneth Colley, Tim Roth, Joan Blackman, Myrtle Devenish, Gretchen Franklin, Christopher Godwin
Roles The Traveller
Rating67%
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
, 2h23Directed by Jerry London
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Barbara Bouchet, Fabiana Udenio, Raf Vallone
Roles Capt. Hirsch
Rating74%
In 1943, the Nazi military occupies Rome. Pope Pius XII (John Gielgud) is approached by General Max Helm and SS Head of Police for Rome Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler (Christopher Plummer). The Colonel expresses concern that escaped Allied prisoners may attempt to seek refuge in the Vatican, and requests permission to paint a white line across St. Peter's Square in order to mark the extent of Vatican sovereignty. The Pope grants his permission, and when the SS officers leave, he sees out of the window that the white line has already begun to be painted.