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Richard Dillane is a Actor British born on 1964 at England (United-kingdom)
Richard Dillane (born 1964) is an English actor. He played British agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's 2012 Iran-based political thriller, Argo, winner among other things of the 2013 Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Merv the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.
He was Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama Space Race, Nero in Howard Brenton's play Paul at the National Theatre of GB and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the BBC radio adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey–Maturin novels and Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations.
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Birth name Richard Dillane
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1964 (60 years) at England (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1964 (60 years) at England (United-kingdom)
He was Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama Space Race, Nero in Howard Brenton's play Paul at the National Theatre of GB and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the BBC radio adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey–Maturin novels and Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations.
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He grew up near London with his brother Stephen (also an actor), took a philosophy degree at Manchester University and lived in Australia for ten years working in Perth, Sydney and Hobart as actor and director before returning to the UK. In 1988 he directed a production of Molière's "Tartuffe" for the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania, Hobart.Usually with
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United Passions (2014)
, 1h50Directed by Frédéric Auburtin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill, Stellan Skarsgård, Tim Roth, Fisher Stevens, Thomas Kretschmann
Roles Larsen
Rating21%
Au début du XX siècle, les dirigeants de plusieurs fédérations européennes de football souhaitent renforcer leurs liens afin d'organiser la pratique de ce sport au plan mondial. Ils envisagent de fonder une Fédération Internationale de football et exposent leur projet à Frederick Wall et Arthur Kinnaird, dirigeants de la Fédération anglaise, qui a édicté les lois du jeu au XIX siècle. Les Anglais refusent de se joindre à eux. Malgré leur défiance, la FIFA est créée à Paris en mai 1904. Dans ses statuts, la FIFA déclare reconnaître une seule fédération par pays et se réserve le droit d'organiser des rencontres internationales.
Altar (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Nick Willing
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Steve Oram, Richard Dillane
Rating49%
The Hamilton family move into a large country house on the Yorkshire Moors to supervise its restoration from a dilapidated B&B to the original Victorian grandeur. When Meg Hamilton, wife, mother and renovation expert loses first her London renovation team after an accident, then a local Yorkshire team too superstitious to continue, she’s forced to carry on alone. The discovery of a secret attic room, a Rosicrucian mosaic, a bricked up root cellar and many other unexplainable events gradually convince Meg, her husband Alec and children Penny and Harper, that they’re not only restoring the house, but also its original Victorian owners who died 150 years ago. But before they can escape, the house - and its former occupants - force them to spend one last, terrifying night under its roof.
Anna (2013)
, 1h39Directed by Jorge Dorado
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox, Noah Taylor, Indira Varma, Saskia Reeves
Roles Robert Greene
Rating64%
John Washington (Mark Strong) is a recently widowed man who can enter people's memories. In the past, John used this ability to help solve criminal cases but, after a stroke during a session that goes wrong, he is left incapacitated for two years and financially ruined; he is a shell of his former self. He still owns the beach house where his wife died but refuses to sell it. Desperate for money, John asks his old superior, Sebastian (Brian Cox), for a new job. The case he receives is that of a brilliant but troubled 16-year-old girl, Anna Greene (Taissa Farmiga), who is on a hunger strike. Her stepfather (Richard Dillane) wants her sent to a mental institution which Anna is adamantly against. John is there to determine whether she is a sociopath, based on something that occurred at her boarding school, or if she is the victim of psychological trauma.
Dead in Tombstone (2013)
, 1h40Directed by Roel Reiné
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Horror, Western
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Danny Trejo, Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke, Dina Meyer, Richard Dillane, Emil Hostina
Roles Jack Sutter
Rating49%
In the Frontier of the Wild West, Red Cavanaugh is to be hanged for his crimes. Calm, he says that every man at the gallows will be dead before sunrise. Moments later, the Blackwater Gang – Darko, Washington, Snake, Baptiste, and Ramos – arrive led by his half-brother Guerrero De La Cruz. After slaughtering everyone and freeing Red, they retreat. The next morning, Red tells them about Edendale, Colorado, where gold ore is being stored in a bank until a mineral dispute can be settled. Guerrero agrees to steal it, so long as they avoid unnecessary deaths. After the seven rob the bank, Red betrays Guerrero, as he had acquired the deed to the mine and desires to take over the town. He shoots Guerrero, and despite Guerrero's orders, Red convinces the rest of the gang to turn on him; they all gun Guerrero to death.
Argo (2012)
, 2hDirected by Ben Affleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Bryan Cranston, Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Michael Cassidy
Roles Peter Nicholls
Rating76%
On November 4, 1979, Iranian activists storm the United States embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah asylum in the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution. More than 50 of the embassy staff are taken as hostages, but six avoid capture and hide in the home of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. With the escapees' situation kept secret, the U.S. State Department begins to explore options for exfiltrating them from Iran. Tony Mendez, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency exfiltration specialist, is brought in for consultation. He criticizes the proposals, but is at a loss when asked for an alternative. While on the phone with his son, he is inspired by watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes and begins plans for creating a cover story for the escapees: that they are Canadian filmmakers who happened to be in Iran scouting exotic locations for a similar science-fiction film.
The Dinosaur Project (2012)
, 1h23Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Richard Dillane, Matthew Kane
Rating46%
A group of explorers from the British Cryptozoological Society go on an expedition into the Congo in search of a cryptid—the so-called Mokele Mbembe—which is believed to be a Plesiosaur. Along with the five explorers are two television cameramen who will be recording the whole expedition. The explorers consist of their leader Jonathan, their medic Liz, their sponsor organizer Charlie, their pilot, and a local guide, named Amara. During the helicopter flight, Johnathan discovers that his son Luke sneaked into the chopper as a stowaway.
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Jim Loach
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane, Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
Roles Merv Humphreys
Rating70%
The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
, 1h26Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Adventure, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune
Actors Daniel Lapaine, James Marsters, Andrew Lincoln, Michael J. Reynolds, Anna Maxwell Martin, William Hope
Roles Tom Stafford
Rating63%
Le téléfilm retrace l'histoire de la mission Apollo 11 et incorpore des images d'archives de l'époque.
The Dark Knight (2008)
, 2h33Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about terrorism, Batman films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Rating85%
In Gotham City, the Joker and his crew rob a mob bank of millions of dollars, killing each other in the process, the Joker as sole survivor.
The Edge of Love (2008)
, 1h50Directed by John Maybury
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Actors Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Lisa Stansfield, Alastair Mackenzie
Roles Lt Col David Talbot Rice
Rating61%
The story is based loosely on real events and real people, drawing on David N. Thomas' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.
Mrs McGinty est morte (2007)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors David Suchet, Zoë Wanamaker, David Yelland, Sarah Smart, Raquel Cassidy, Richard Dillane
Roles Major Summerhayes
Rating76%
James Bentley est jugé coupable du meurtre de sa logeuse Mrs McGinty et est condamné à mort. Mais le Superintendant Spence a des doutes sur sa culpabilité et par précaution il appelle Poirot. Celui-ci, aidé de son amie écrivain Ariadne Oliver, part approfondir l'enquête, ce qui ne semble pas plaire à tout le monde…
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
, 2h5Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Origin German
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Children's films
Actors James Franco, Sophia Myles, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rufus Sewell, David O'Hara, Mark Strong
Roles Aragon
Rating67%
The film is set in Great Britain and Ireland, in the Dark Ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. Lord Marke of Cornwall (Rufus Sewell) plans to unify the peoples of Britain – Celts, Angles, Saxons and Jutes – under himself as high king to resist Irish domination.
The Jacket (2005)
, 1h43Directed by John Maybury
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Alternate history films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro
Rating70%
After miraculously recovering from a bullet wound to the head, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, Jackie (Laura Marano), and her alcoholic mother (Kelly Lynch) in despair beside their broken-down truck. Starks and Jackie quickly form a certain affinity; she asks him to give her his dogtags and he does so. He gets the truck started for them and continues on his way. Shortly after, a man driving along the same highway gives Jack a ride and they get pulled over by a policeman. The scene changes: Starks is found lying on the deserted roadside near the dead policeman, with a slug from the policeman's gun in his body. The murder weapon is on the ground nearby. Although he testifies there was someone else at the scene, he is not believed because of his amnesia. Starks is found not guilty by reason of insanity and is incarcerated in a mental institution.
De-Lovely (2004)
, 2h5Directed by Irwin Winkler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson, Allan Corduner
Roles Bill Wrather
Rating65%
As he is about to die, Porter's life flashes before him in the form of a musical production staged by the archangel Gabriel in the Indiana theater where the composer first performed on stage.
Spartacus (2004)
, 2h54Directed by Robert Dornhelm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Actors Goran Višnjić, Alan Bates, Angus Macfadyen, Rhona Mitra, Ian McNeice, James Frain
Roles Julius Caesar
Rating70%
The movie starts with Varinia (Rhona Mitra), a Gaul woman and her village being attacked by the Romans. Her entire village is taken into slavery, and she is sold to Lentulus Batiatus (Ian McNeice). Spartacus (Goran Višnjić), a Thracian slave condemned to the mines, attempts to protect another slave. Spartacus is nearly crucified before Batiatus purchases the man. Spartacus and a handful of other slaves are brought to Batiatus' ludus to be trained as gladiators. Spartacus and the other slaves are brought to the Gladiators to eat, where he meets Nardo (Chris Jarman), Draba (Henry Simmons) and David (James Frain), before a fight breaks out between Draba and Gannicus (Paul Telfer), they are stopped by their trainer Cinna (Ross Kemp).