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John Franklyn-Robbins is a Actor British born on 14 december 1924 at Cheltenham (United-kingdom)
John Franklyn-Robbins (14 December 1924 – 21 March 2009) was an English character actor of stage and screen.
A prolific Shakespearean actor, he trained at RADA and proceeded to work at the Manchester Library Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic early in his career. He played a diverse number of roles ranging from Ariel in The Tempest to Macduff in Macbeth. His prestigious stage career included stints in both the West End and Broadway.
He also worked for both the BBC and ITV in their early formative years and went onto appear in such classic television series as The Avengers, The Baron, Z-Cars, Callan, I, Claudius, Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was one of only ten actors to appear in both the latter two series. Films include Asylum (1972), Overlord (1975), Mrs. Dalloway (1997) and The Golden Compass (2007).
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Birth name John Peregrine Franklyn-Robbins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 december 1924 at Cheltenham (United-kingdom)
Death 21 march 2009 (at 84 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 december 1924 at Cheltenham (United-kingdom)
Death 21 march 2009 (at 84 years) at London (United-kingdom)
A prolific Shakespearean actor, he trained at RADA and proceeded to work at the Manchester Library Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic early in his career. He played a diverse number of roles ranging from Ariel in The Tempest to Macduff in Macbeth. His prestigious stage career included stints in both the West End and Broadway.
He also worked for both the BBC and ITV in their early formative years and went onto appear in such classic television series as The Avengers, The Baron, Z-Cars, Callan, I, Claudius, Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was one of only ten actors to appear in both the latter two series. Films include Asylum (1972), Overlord (1975), Mrs. Dalloway (1997) and The Golden Compass (2007).
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The Golden Compass (2007)
, 1h53Directed by Chris Weitz, Gábor Csupó
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Steampunk films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Sam Elliott, Freddie Highmore, Eva Green, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig
Roles Librarian
Rating61%
At the beginning of the film, we learn that the story takes place in one of many alternate worlds, in which a person's soul is contained within an animal companion called a dæmon (pronounced demon). The Magisterium, represented as a unified religious power, exercises power in the secular world. Lyra Belacqua, an orphan that resides in Jordan College, in a city that resembles Oxford, with her dæmon Pantalaimon (Pan), accidentally witnesses a Magisterium member poison her uncle's bottle of Tokay. Lyra then warns her uncle, Lord Asriel, who instructs her to remain in hiding. Lyra watches Asriel give a presentation regarding Dust, a particle that the Magisterium has forbidden the mention of. The college gives Asriel a grant to fund a northern expedition.
Vanity Fair (2004)
, 2h22Directed by Mira Nair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, James Purefoy, Angelica Mandy, Gabriel Byrne, Eileen Atkins
Roles Mr. Sedley
Rating61%
1802, London. The mysterious Lord Steyne (Gabriel Byrne) goes to a painter's studio where he has agreed to buy a painting of a young woman. The young Rebecca "Becky" Sharp (Angelica Mandy), then a girl of ten, insists on having ten guineas, instead of four guineas, as the price of the painting. The painter explains that the model in the painting is Becky's mother, the painter's late wife. Steyne agrees to pay the higher amount and leaves with the painting. The young Becky is seen moving to Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies after her father's death.
Bright Young Things (2003)
, 1h42Directed by Stephen Fry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Simon McBurney, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbel Moore, Michael Sheen, Fenella Woolgar, James McAvoy
Roles Judge
Rating64%
The primary characters are earnest aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes and his fiancée Nina Blount. When Adam's novel Bright Young Things, commissioned by tabloid newspaper magnate Lord Monomark, is confiscated by HM customs officers at the port of Dover for being too racy, he finds himself in a precarious financial situation that may force him to postpone his marriage. In the lounge of the hotel where he lives, he wins £1000 by successfully performing a trick involving sleight of hand, and the Major offers to place the money on the decidedly ill-favored Indian Runner in a forthcoming horserace. Anxious to wed Nina, Adam agrees, and the horse wins at odds of 33–1, but it takes him more than a decade to collect his winnings.
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
, 2h14Directed by Jeroen Krabbé
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Stephen Fry, Greg Wise, Neil Newbon, Flora Montgomery, Jeroen Krabbé, Nettie Blanken
Roles Onno's father
Rating66%
À la fin des années 1960, Dieu, déçu par l'homme, veut récupérer les tables du Décalogue. Mais ses anges, incapables de le faire eux-mêmes, ont besoin de l'être humain. Ils doivent créer un homme apte à retrouver les tables de la Loi afin de les détruire. Ils font se rencontrer trois êtres géniaux, tant sur le plan des connaissances que sur le plan artistique, pour engendrer une espèce de nouveau Messie. Onno, philologue excentrique et fils d'un ancien ministre, Max, mathématicien et astrophysicien, dont le père était nazi et la mère juive, et Ada, une violoncelliste. De cette relation triangulaire naîtra un fils : Quinten.
Don't Tempt Me (2001)
, 1h55Directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Penélope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Demián Bichir, Gael García Bernal, Fanny Ardant, Elsa Pataky
Rating63%
In Heaven, the last ten years have been tough—Hell has been winning the battle between Good and Evil. The managers of Heaven receive a request by a mother to save her son's soul and see the possibility of winning the soul of a boxer named Manny (Demián Bichir) as an opportunity to shift the balance of power. Although Manny is severely in debt and is even thinking of suicide, Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel, is sent to Earth to take over the role of the boxer's wife. To counter this, Hell's manager Jack Davenport (Gael García Bernal) decides to send one of his more troublesome agents, Carmen (Penélope Cruz), who was a male ex-gangster punished by being converted into a waitress, to fight back by impersonating Manny's cousin. Though it starts out as a simple fight between heaven and hell for the soul of one man, a conspiracy in Hell and conflicting emotions interrupt the war between saints and sinners. Manny is overprotective of Lola and after looking through the porn magazines that Carmen reads, he suspects a relationship between Lola and Carmen. Suddenly Manny's soul becomes increasingly important and his weakened physical state creates a deadline by which he must go to Hell or Heaven. It is the job of the supernatural agents to tempt or save Manny. The obstinate womanizing boxer inconsistently shows signs of regret and change, for example when he writes a letter of apology to his mother but doesn't send it. His ups and downs make it a hard job for both Carmen and Lola.
A Christmas Carol (1999)
, 1h35Directed by David Hugh Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, Saskia Reeves, Kenny Doughty
Roles Crump
Rating73%
In a prologue, Ebenezer Scrooge (Patrick Stewart) buries his business partner, Jacob Marley, in a rural churchyard. The funeral is poorly attended.
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
, 1h37Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Lena Headey, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel
Roles Lionel
Rating64%
Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter, a passionate old suitor, returns from India, there is a suicide, Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).
Emma (1996)
, 2h1Directed by Douglas McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, James Cosmo
Roles Mr. Cole
Rating66%
The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow), a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor (Greta Scacchi), gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston (James Cosmo), Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the couple together. Her father and their old family friend (and brother of Emma's sister's husband) George Knightley (Jeremy Northam) dispute her claim and disapprove of her trying to make more matches, but she ignores their warnings and sets her mind on setting up Mr Elton (Alan Cumming), the minister who performed the Westons' marriage ceremony, with Harriet Smith (Toni Collette), an unsophisticated young woman on the verges of society.
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Comedy science fiction films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sean Young, Timothy Daly, Lysette Anthony, Harvey Fierstein, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jeremy Piven
Rating45%
Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a perfumer fed up working at a major fragrance company, where he is the butt of jokes with many employees. His projects are failures and the sexist chief executive (Polly Bergen) is thinking of replacing him with a woman.
The Woman in Black (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Herbert Wise
Genres Horror, Historical
Actors Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran, David Ryall, Clare Holman
Roles Reverend Greet
Rating70%
A young solicitor, Arthur Kidd, is sent to a big city on the East Coast of England to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow, an elderly reclusive widow. On the train, Kidd meets Sam Toovey, a local land owner who is unsettled upon hearing that Kidd is dealing with the Drablow estate. Arriving at Crythin Gifford, Kidd lodges at a local inn where he finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about Mrs. Drablow's dreary home, Eel Marsh House.
Lionheart (1987)
, 1h44Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Sammi Davis, Nicholas Clay, Dexter Fletcher
Roles The Abbot
Rating51%
Au Moyen Âge en Europe, un jeune chevalier exilé, Robert Nerra, va prendre en charge une bande d'orphelins pour rejoindre la troisième sainte croisade menée par Richard Cœur de Lion. Il devra les protéger du Chevalier noir, un ancien croisé devenu un marchand d'enfants qu'il destine à l'esclavage...
The Jigsaw Man (1983)
, 1h31Directed by Terence Young, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray, Michael Medwin
Roles English doctor
Rating51%
Sir Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays MI6 and the KGB off against each other.
The Plague Dogs (1982)
, 1h43Directed by Martin Rosen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about dogs, Political films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam, Nigel Hawthorne, Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hepton
Roles Williamson (voice)
Rating77%
Rowf (a Labrador-mix) and Snitter (a smooth fox terrier) are two of many dogs used for experimental purposes at an animal research facility in the Lake District of north-western England. Snitter has had his brain experimented upon while Rowf has been drowned and resuscitated repeatedly. One evening, Snitter squeezes under his cage and into Rowf's, where they discover his cage is unlatched. Eager to escape the tortures of life inside the facility, they explore, knocking over other cages and finally sneaking into the incinerator, where they are nearly killed before escaping.
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
, 1h55Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Actors Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Nigel Hawthorne, John Franklyn-Robbins, Rowena Cooper, Barbara Hicks
Roles Prof White
Rating54%
Overlord (1975)
, 1h23Directed by Stuart Cooper
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors John Franklyn-Robbins, Nicholas Ball, Stella Tanner
Roles Dad
Rating70%
Beginning with a premonition of his death, the film follows a young everyman through his call up to the East Yorkshire Regiment, his training, his meeting a young girl, his journey to France, and his death on Sword Beach. Director Cooper also includes footage of the London Blitz and bombing of Europe to emphasise the events leading up to the invasion and the comparatively short distance between England and France.