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David Collings is a Actor British born on 4 june 1940 at Brighton (United-kingdom)
David Collings (born 4 June 1940 in Brighton, East Sussex) is an English actor. He has played various roles on television, including the leading dramatic role in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in 1964 (with Associated-Rediffusion Television).
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
, 1h51Directed by Ralph Fiennes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Jonathan Harden, Michelle Fairley
Rating60%
In 1857, eighteen-year-old English actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan (Felicity Jones) is noticed by forty-five-year-old writer Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. Soon after, he casts her, along with her mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and sister Maria (Perdita Weeks), in a performance of The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins at Dickens' Free Trade Hall in Manchester. At a party following the performance, the famous author and the actress share a brief moment alone.
Persuasion (1995)
, 1h47Directed by Roger Michell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Fiona Shaw, Corin Redgrave, Susan Fleetwood, Sophie Thompson
Roles Mr. Shepherd
Rating76%
The film opens by cutting back and forth between scenes of a naval ship carrying Admiral Croft (John Woodvine), and a buggy carrying Mr. Shepherd (David Collings) and his daughter Mrs. Clay (Felicity Dean) to Kellynch Hall. Shepherd and Clay are accosted by creditors due to the debts owed by the residence's owner, Sir Walter Elliot (Corin Redgrave), while Croft discusses the end of the Napoleonic Wars with fellow men of the navy. Sir Walter, a vain foppish baronet, is faced with financial ruin unless he retrenches. Though Sir Walter initially opposes the idea, he eventually agrees to temporarily move to Bath while the hall is let; the idea came from Shepherd, family friend Lady Russell (Susan Fleetwood), and Sir Walter's second eldest daughter, the intelligent Anne (Amanda Root).
Tangiers (1985)
Directed by Michael E. Briant
Actors Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber, Ronald Lacey, Jack Watson, Ronald Fraser
Rating67%
A Murder Is Announced (1984)
Actors Joan Hickson, Renée Asherson, Samantha Bond, Simon Shepherd, Ralph Michael, Sylvia Syms
Roles le révérend Harmon
Rating79%
Lorsqu'un meurtre est annoncé dans la gazette locale de Little Paddocks pour le soir même, à 18 heures 30, tout le monde pense à une amusante "murder party", imaginée par quelque facétieux. Aussi, tout le voisinage, émoustillé, arrive au rendez-vous. Quand survient l'heure fatidique, la lumière s'éteint, l'assassin paraît et des coups de feu éclatent ! Mais, c'est ce même étranger qu'on retrouve, mort, tombé sur le parquet, son pistolet à la main...
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Miles Anderson
Roles Tillotson
Rating65%
In 1914, German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger. He turns to Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, who happens to be staying in a flat in the same building. Scudder tells Hannay of a plot by Prussian 'sleeper' agents, who are planning to pre-empt a war against the Triple Entente powers by assassinating a foreign minister of state visiting the UK.
The Story of David (1976)
, 3h11Directed by David Lowell Rich, Alex Segal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Quayle, Norman Rodway, Keith Michell, Jane Seymour, Susan Hampshire
Roles Nathan
Rating62%
The narrative follows David's life from the time he was a boy shepherd to his death as the aged King of Israel. Part 1: David and King Saul relates the exploits of the young David (Bottoms) and his relations with King Saul (Quayle). It begins with David as a humble shepherd who becomes harp player to the King who is distraught after the prophet Samuel has chastised him for failing to follow the instructions of the Israelite god, Yahweh, in a battle. Samuel informs Saul that Yahweh will anoint another king in his place. Saul is full of jealous rage as David becomes hero to his people after the battle with Goliath and his subsequent anointment. Saul makes attempts on David's life. David is highly conflicted over his devotion to Saul as Yahweh's first anointed King over the people. He will not kill Saul, despite Saul's constant attempts on his own life, as he feels it will offend the deity. Saul dies in battle and David assumes the throne. Part 2: David the King begins with a mature David (Michell) and tells the story of his sinning with Bathseba (Seymour), including the scenes with her bath and their subsequent love-making. As David ages he is challenged by the treason of one of his sons, and eventually passes the crown on to another of his sons, Solomon.
Hennessy (1975)
, 1h43Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Rod Steiger, Patrick Stewart, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Peter Egan
Rating61%
After the death of his family during a riot in Belfast, Niall Hennessy comes up with a plan to blow up the British Houses of Parliament.
Mahler (1974)
, 1h55Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Ronald Pickup, Rosalie Crutchley
Roles Hugo Wolf
Rating69%
After a spectacular prelude, the film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life.
For the Love of Ada (1972)
, 1h28Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Handl, Jack Smethurst, Patsy Kensit, Arthur English, Larry Martyn, Hilda Braid
Rating57%
An elderly couple are about to celebrate the first anniversary of their wedding, and their friends and neighbours plan a surprise party.
Scrooge (1970)
, 2hDirected by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Laurence Naismith
Roles Bob Cratchit
Rating74%
Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is a cold-hearted and greedy old miser whose only concern is money and profit and hates everything to do with Christmas. After Scrooge scares off a group of boys who were singing a carol outside his door, his nephew Fred (Michael Medwin) arrives to invite him to Christmas dinner with his wife and friends. Scrooge, however, refuses. After Fred leaves, Scrooge gives his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the next day off as it is Christmas, but he expects him back all the earlier the next morning. Bob meets two of his children, including Tiny Tim (Richard Beaumont), in the streets, and they buy the food for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge, meanwhile, is surveyed by two other men (Derek Francis and Roy Kinnear) for a donation for the poor but Scrooge refuses to support the prisons and workhouses and even says "if they rather die, then they better do it and decrease the surplus population." On his way home, Scrooge meets some of his clients, including Tom Jenkins (Anton Rogers), and reminds them the debts they owe him. In a running gag, Scrooge is stalked and being made fun of by the same street urchins seen at the start of the film, calling him "Father Christmas.
Song of Summer (1968)
, 1h12Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, David Collings, Ken Russell
Rating79%