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Graham Greene is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer British born on 2 october 1904 at Berkhamsted (United-kingdom)

Graham Greene

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Birth name Henry Graham Greene
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2 october 1904 at Berkhamsted (United-kingdom)
Death 3 april 1991 (at 86 years) at Vevey (Suisse)

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH, (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was noted for his ability to combine serious literary acclaim with widespread popularity.

Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair. Several works such as The Confidential Agent, The Third Man, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana and The Human Factor also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage.

Greene suffered from bipolar disorder, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life. In a letter to his wife Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life", and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material". William Golding described Greene as "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." Greene never received the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he finished runner-up to Ivo Andrić in 1961.

Biography

Le père de Graham Greene était le principal de l'école communale où il fit sa scolarité. Il rejoignit ensuite le Balliol College d'Oxford et sa première œuvre (un recueil de poésie) fut publiée en 1925 avant qu'il ne soit diplômé. Dans son autobiographie, il donne de nombreux détails à propos de son enfance difficile. Après ses études, il se lança dans le journalisme. Il devint catholique en 1926 afin d'épouser Vivien Daryell-Browning, ce qu'il fit l'année suivante.

Son travail de journaliste consistait à rédiger des critiques de livres et de films pour le magazine politique britannique The Spectator et à coéditer le magazine Night and Day, qui fit faillite peu après la parution de ses commentaires à propos de Shirley Temple (et de l'exploitation sexuelle de son corps par les magnats du cinéma hollywoodien).

Ses romans sont écrits dans un style contemporain et réaliste, mettant souvent en scène des personnages envahis par le doute et marqués par une vie déracinée et misérable. Leurs doutes sont souvent de nature religieuse, faisant écho à l'attitude ambiguë de l'auteur envers le catholicisme, admiration et doute. Les romans de François Mauriac avaient une influence sur son œuvre.

Tout au long de sa vie, Graham Greene a été obsédé par l'idée de s'éloigner de son pays natal, pour aller vers ce qu'il appelait les lieux « sauvages et éloignés » du monde. Ses voyages lui ont donné l'occasion de se lancer dans l'espionnage au profit du Royaume-Uni (en Sierra Leone, par exemple). Il fut recruté au MI6 par le célèbre agent double Kim Philby. On retrouve les personnages et les lieux hauts en couleurs rencontrés alors dans les pages de ses romans.

Les livres de Graham Greene pouvaient originellement être classés en deux genres principaux : les thrillers ou romans à suspense tels que Rocher de Brighton, qu'il qualifiait lui-même de « divertissements », mais qui incluaient souvent une part notable de philosophie, et les livres purement littéraires comme La Puissance et la Gloire, sur lequel sa réputation s'est construite. Toutefois, ses ouvrages ultérieurs tels que Le Facteur humain, Notre agent à La Havane et Un Américain bien tranquille combinent allègrement les deux genres.

Beaucoup de ses livres ont été adaptés au cinéma, et il écrivit aussi le scénario original du film Le Troisième Homme (The Third Man) sorti en 1949. Facétieux, il participa au film de François Truffaut, La nuit américaine, tourné à Nice, dans le rôle d'un agent d'assurance anglais. Le réalisateur ne s'en aperçut qu'au montage.



Greene passa les dernières années de sa vie dans le village de Corseaux (Suisse) au bord du Lac Léman. À sa mort en 1991, il fut inhumé dans le cimetière de cette même commune. Même s'il ne divorça jamais de Vivien Daryell-Browning, ils se séparèrent peu après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et, au moment de son décès, il vivait avec Yvonne Cloetta.

L'influence de Graham Greene ne s'est pas éteinte avec lui. En 2000, la grande journaliste américaine Gloria Emerson a écrit un roman intitulé Loving Graham Greene, inspiré en partie par un entretien que l'écrivain anglais lui avait accordé à Antibes en mars 1978. Ce roman, dont le sujet principal est le début de la Guerre civile algérienne des années 1990, et l'impuissance des bonnes volontés occidentales à la comprendre, constitue un vibrant hommage à Graham Greene en tant qu'écrivain engagé. Ce livre a été traduit et publié en français en 2007.

Best films

The Green Mile (1999)
(Actor)
The Quiet American (2002)
(Novel)
The End of the Affair (1999)
(Novel)
The Third Man (1949)
(Scriptwriter)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
(Novel)

Usually with

Graham Greene
Graham Greene
(13 films)
Carol Reed
Carol Reed
(3 films)
John Cox
John Cox
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Graham Greene (45 films)

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Actor

We Are Boats, 1h48
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy
Actors Angela Sarafyan, Luke Hemsworth, Graham Greene, Amanda Plummer, Graham Greene, Jack Falahee
Roles Cliff
Rating56% 2.8033852.8033852.8033852.8033852.803385
Les vies s'entremêlent et se connectent lorsque Francesca navigue dans le monde vivant en rencontrant des étrangers au moment précis où elle en a besoin.
Maïna
Maïna (2013)
, 1h42
Directed by Michel Poulette
Origin Quebec
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Graham Greene, Roseanne Supernault, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Eric Schweig, Natar Ungalaaq
Roles Chef Innus Mishtenapeu
Rating66% 3.3386353.3386353.3386353.3386353.338635
Maïna relate la première rencontre des Inuits et des Innus. Maïna, le personnage principal du film, en essayant de sauver Nipki, un autre Innus, se fait capturer par les inuits. Elle y rencontre alors l'Inuit Natak, et ils tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre... Maina est Innu de Betsimites
Phil the Alien, 1h22
Directed by Rob Stefaniuk
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Rob Stefaniuk, Nicole de Boer, Graham Greene, Boyd Banks, Seán Cullen, Christopher Barry
Roles Wolf
Rating55% 2.7511252.7511252.7511252.7511252.751125
Phil is an extraterrestrial who crash-lands in a small town in Northern Ontario. He befriends a talking beaver (played by Joe Flaherty), and adopts the persona and mannerisms of a stereotypical Canadian hoser to hide from a military general who is trying to capture him. He eventually joins a local rock band as a singer, and is chased by an assassin (Nicole deBoer) as he and the band go out on tour. Also great fun as Phil uses his alien powers to fool the Christians along the road trip that the messiah has returned!
Snow Dogs
Snow Dogs (2002)
, 1h39
Directed by Brian Levant
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Nichelle Nichols, Sisqó, Joanna Bacalso, Christopher Judge
Roles Peter Yellowbear
Rating52% 2.605022.605022.605022.605022.60502
Dr. Theodore "Ted" Brooks (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is a dentist from Miami, Florida whose picture appears on every city bus in advertisements to promote his dental practice at the beginning of the film. When Brooks receives his letter from Alaska one day naming him as the only heir of a Lucy Watkins, his mother, Amelia (Nichelle Nichols), reveals that he is adopted. Brooks travels to the village of Tolketna to claim his inheritance left by his biological mother: seven Siberian Huskies and a Border Collie named Nana, and discovers his roots. Totally out of his element, Brooks has to experience challenges he has never dreamed of: blizzards, thin ice, foxes, skunks, bears, an intimidating, crusty old mountain man named James "Thunder Jack" Johnson (James Coburn), and the aggressive, defiant lead dog, Demon. All of this happens with the buzzing excitement of the Arctic Challenge Sled Dog Race--the winner of which is the last musher to finish--which is only two weeks away. During his stay in Tolketna, Brooks attempt to find the reason why he was given up for adoption, and including any information about his biological father. He meets a bar owner named Barb (Joanna Bacalso), who was a close friend of his biological mother. Eventually, Barb helps Brooks to deal with the dogs and teaches him how to drive a sled, and falls in love with him throughout the film. Brooks continues to encounter Thunder Jack, who wants all of his biological mother's sled dogs, and especially Demon. Barb tells Brooks that Thunder Jack is Brooks' real father. Brooks feels that the truth is worth the dogs themselves, and trades them to Thunder Jack. However, Jack tells Brooks that he and Lucy stayed in a cave during one of the Arctic Challenges. It is there that Brooks was conceived. The next morning, when Thunder Jack woke up, Lucy was gone. He says that he was looking for Lucy, but never found her. Lucy then gave Brooks up for adoption. With Demon, Thunder Jack takes part in the Arctic Challenge Race, but is unable to finish it when he attempts to gain time by continuing through a huge snowstorm. Meanwhile, Brooks, who just returned to Miami, learns that his personal journey to Alaska is unfinished. Infuriated by evidence found proving that Thunder Jack was at the hospital when he was born, Brooks returns to Alaska to look for answers. When Brooks learns of the missing musher and his team, he feels that this may be the opportunity to save a man, and perhaps find out the whole truth once and for all. Brooks sets out to rescue Thunder Jack, with Nana as the lead dog. He eventually finds Thunder Jack in the old cave, who confirms that he had been there when Brooks was born. Thunder Jack reveals that he and Lucy agreed then that neither one of them could raise a baby, and confessed his love for Lucy. Brooks also finds out the reason for Demon's bad temper is the pain caused by his bad tooth. He pulls it out and Demon now becomes a friendly dog (despite keeping his name). During the journey back to Tolketna, the sled nearly goes over a cliff into a river, but the dogs manage to pull themselves back up. Brooks finally brings Thunder Jack across the finish line. After Brooks introduces Thunder Jack to his adopted mother, Brooks and Thunder Jack decide to share their trophy together. Sometime later, Brooks and Barb are married and Nana and Demon have four puppies. Now having grown to love Tolketna, Brooks moves his dentistry practice there. Barb is shown to be pregnant and working as his receptionist. The film ends when back in Miami, Brooks' adoptive cousin, Rupert (Sisqó), becomes the new famous Miami dentist with his face on every city bus (possibly due to Brooks' absence).
Duct Tape Forever, 1h30
Directed by Eric Till
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Actors Patrick McKenna, Wayne Robson, Steve Smith, Bob Bainborough, Graham Greene, Graham Greene
Rating62% 3.148553.148553.148553.148553.14855
When a developer's limousine gets stuck in a sink hole on Possum Lodge's property and several attempts to recover it send it into the lake, the developer takes the matter to court. The town and the presiding judge, who have been looking for decades for a way to shut down the Lodge, fine the lodge $10,000 and give them thirty days to pay, and in default the Lodge reverts to the town. Red's nephew Harold Green (Patrick McKenna) pleads with the judge for a change to the time limit and she agrees - she makes it ten days instead.
Lost and Delirious, 1h43
Directed by Léa Pool
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton, Emily VanCamp Bowman, Graham Greene, Jackie Burroughs
Roles Joseph Menzies
Rating68% 3.4001153.4001153.4001153.4001153.400115
When shy and introspective Mary arrives as a new freshman student at an all-girls boarding school, she shares a dorm room with two seniors, Paulie and Victoria (nicknamed Tori). In contrast to the timid Mary, Paulie is full of life. For example, at Mary's very first day at the school during a quiet afternoon party on the campus thrown by the staff as a welcome back gathering, Paulie turns the events into a loud music-blasting dance party and spikes the punch with hard liquor. In an effort to break Mary out of her shell, Paulie and Tori involve her in their activities, such as running in the morning. When Mary's roommates learn that her mother recently died, Paulie nicknames her "Mary Brave".
The Green Mile, 3h8
Directed by Frank Darabont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Graham Greene
Rating85% 4.255264.255264.255264.255264.25526
In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb becomes nervous while watching the 1935 film Top Hat. He is with his elderly friend Elaine, who becomes concerned, and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of his past, when he was a prison officer in charge of death row inmates at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The scene shifts to 1935, where Paul works with fellow guards Brutus "Brutal" Howell, Harry Terwilliger, and Dean Stanton. Unlike the other guards, Paul is a very calm guard and is sympathetic with some inmates.
The Education of Little Tree
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Joseph Ashton Valencia, James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Graham Greene, Christopher Heyerdahl
Roles Willow John
Rating70% 3.544063.544063.544063.544063.54406
In the 1930s, an eight-year-old boy who is later given the Native American name "Little Tree" (Joseph Ashton) was being raised alone by his widowed mother and is left an orphan when she dies of illness. His white mother's sister comes to take him but his paternal grandfather (James Cromwell) and grandmother (Tantoo Cardinal), whose ancestors had escaped from the Trail of Tears and hid in the Great Smoky Mountains, arrive and take the boy to live with them. In his grandparents' care, the boy, learns about his heritage as a descendant of Native Americans in the United States through them and their Cherokee friend Willow John (Graham Greene).
The Pathfinder, 1h34
Directed by Donald Shebib
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Kevin Dillon, Laurie Holden, Graham Greene, Graham Greene, Stacy Keach, Russell Means
Rating51% 2.572792.572792.572792.572792.57279
L'épopée d'un chef indien, d'une jeune fille venue rejoindre son père, en poste dans un fort britannique, et un guide, pendant la guerre entre les Français et les Anglais.
North
North (1994)
, 1h27
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Elijah Wood, Jon Lovitz, Jason Alexander, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Kathy Bates
Roles le père de l'Alaska
Rating45% 2.2548152.2548152.2548152.2548152.254815
A boy named North is listening to his parents argue about their problems at the dinner table. North has a panic attack, and begins to lose consciousness. As he does, the narrator explains that North is having difficulties with his parents, putting a damper on what is otherwise a successful life; North is a child prodigy, skilled in academics, sports, and drama, and is admired by many for his good work and obedient attitude, but constantly ignored by his own parents.
Day for Night, 1h52
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Roles Insurance company representative
Rating79% 3.997033.997033.997033.997033.99703
Day for Night chronicles the production of Je Vous Présente Paméla (Meet Pamela, also referred to as I want you to meet Pamela), a clichéd melodrama starring aging screen icon, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), former diva Séverine (Valentina Cortese), young heart-throb Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and a British actress, Julie Baker (Jacqueline Bisset) who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy leading to her marriage with her much older doctor.

Scriptwriter

Brighton Rock, 1h35
Directed by Rowan Joffé
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Helen Mirren, Sean Harris
Roles Novel
Rating57% 2.8503352.8503352.8503352.8503352.850335
In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Rose's employer and a friend of Hale's, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married.
The Quiet American, 1h41
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Đỗ Thị Hải Yến, Rade Šerbedžija, Tzi Ma, Holmes Osborne
Roles Novel
Rating69% 3.497323.497323.497323.497323.49732
Set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam, toward the end of the French war against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945-1954), on one level The Quiet American is a love story about the triangle that develops between Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in his fifties; a young American idealist, supposedly an aid worker, named Alden Pyle; and Phuong, a Vietnamese woman. On another level it is also about the growing American involvement that led to the full-scale American war in Vietnam.