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Paul Clayton is a Actor born on 8 march 1957
Paul Clayton (born 8 March 1957) is an English actor, director and author.
Clayton played Ian Chapman in award-winning Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. In 2011, Clayton portrayed Sam Foster, father of Frank Foster in Coronation Street. Clayton also appears in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her where he plays Graham. In 2013 and 2014, he played Superintendent Marlow in Hollyoaks, until his character was murdered on 21 April.
Clayton has made other notable television appearances in Doctor Who, My Family, Doctors and Wire in the Blood as well as films such as Ali G Indahouse. He also features in the British crime thriller, The Rise (originally called Wasteland]).
On stage, Clayton was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company where he appeared alongside actors including Judi Dench and Zoe Wanamaker. In the West End, Clayton played the leading role of Tony in the improvised comedy whodunnit Scissor Happy at the Duchess Theatre alongside the Comedy Store Players.
Directing credits include Privates on Parade at the Greenwich Theatre, starring Tony Slattery, The Comedy of Errors at Nottingham Playhouse starring Robert Bathurst, The Pocket Dream at York Theatre Royal starring Lucy Benjamin and seven productions at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Clayton is also an established actor, presenter, director and trainer in the corporate sector with over 1,400 corporate event credits. He has recently written a guide to corporate acting called So You Want to Be A Corporate Actor, published by Nick Hern Books.
Clayton is Chairman of the Actors' Centre in Covent Garden and a former member and associate artist of the National Youth Theatre.
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Paul Clayton (born 8 March 1957) is an English actor, director and author.
Clayton played Ian Chapman in award-winning Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show. In 2011, Clayton portrayed Sam Foster, father of Frank Foster in Coronation Street. Clayton also appears in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her where he plays Graham. In 2013 and 2014, he played Superintendent Marlow in Hollyoaks, until his character was murdered on 21 April.
Clayton has made other notable television appearances in Doctor Who, My Family, Doctors and Wire in the Blood as well as films such as Ali G Indahouse. He also features in the British crime thriller, The Rise (originally called Wasteland]).
On stage, Clayton was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company where he appeared alongside actors including Judi Dench and Zoe Wanamaker. In the West End, Clayton played the leading role of Tony in the improvised comedy whodunnit Scissor Happy at the Duchess Theatre alongside the Comedy Store Players.
Directing credits include Privates on Parade at the Greenwich Theatre, starring Tony Slattery, The Comedy of Errors at Nottingham Playhouse starring Robert Bathurst, The Pocket Dream at York Theatre Royal starring Lucy Benjamin and seven productions at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Clayton is also an established actor, presenter, director and trainer in the corporate sector with over 1,400 corporate event credits. He has recently written a guide to corporate acting called So You Want to Be A Corporate Actor, published by Nick Hern Books.
Clayton is Chairman of the Actors' Centre in Covent Garden and a former member and associate artist of the National Youth Theatre.
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Greed (2019)
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, David Mitchell, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson
Roles Headmaster
Rating57%
Une satire sur un homme avide d'argent et sa femme, qui est la seule personne capable de le comprendre.
Affinity (2008)
, 2hDirected by Tim Fywell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Women in prison films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Zoë Tapper, Anna Madeley, Domini Blythe, Amanda Plummer, Mary Jo Randle, Anne Reid
Rating61%
Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class woman, Margaret (Anna Madeley), who becomes an official "Visitor" to a woman's prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina (Zoe Tapper).
Fakers (2004)
, 1h29Directed by Richard Janes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Tom Chambers, Tony Haygarth, Art Malik, Jonathan Cecil
Rating57%
In this crime caper set in the eccentric London art world, Nick Edwards (Rhys) owes £50,000 to the super-smooth, yet brutal, crime lord Foster Wright (Malik) and has four days to find the cash.
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
, 1h28Directed by Mark Mylod
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Freeman, Michael Gambon, Gina La Piana, Charles Dance, Rhona Mitra
Roles Alan Swan
Rating61%
Ali G is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of a group of wannabe gangsters from Staines (a suburban town in north Surrey, to the west of London); their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv. Ali and Da West Staines Massiv are heartbroken to learn that their beloved local leisure centre (where they like to chill out and also where Ali teaches his "Keep it Real" classes) will be demolished by the local council. Ali and his friends decide to protest at this injustice. After he goes on a hunger strike and is spotted chained to some railings by the nefarious Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton, he is drawn into a world of seedy political intrigue, as the Deputy Prime Minister tries to use Ali as a tool to destroy the Prime Minister's credibility. Ali is put forward as a candidate to be the next MP for Staines in a crucial by-election and manages to alienate most who cross his path, including feminists and the elderly. During a debate with his rival candidate, Ali tries to insult his rival by claiming that he "sucked off a horse". Unknown to Ali and the public, it turns out that the rival did indeed do such a thing, and trying to explain it away, he claims when he was out hunting with a friend he slipped, and his mouth landed on a horse's penis, which due to the mating season was erect. Ali then wins.
The Man Who Cried (2000)
, 1h40Directed by Sally Potter
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Iva Bittová, Harry Dean Stanton
Roles Second Official
Rating60%
Fegele Abramovich (Christina Ricci), a Russian Jew is separated from her father (Oleg Yankovsky) as a child in 1927. Her father has travelled to America to seek his fortune and plans to send for Fegele and her grandmother. Before leaving, he sings "Je Crois Entendre Encore" from the Bizet opera Les pêcheurs de perles to her. After her father leaves, the village is attacked and burned in a pogrom. Fegele escapes with the help of neighbours; after many obstacles, she is crowded onto a boat headed for Britain, with only a photo of her father and a coin given to her by her grandmother.
Salome's Last Dance (1988)
, 1h27Directed by Ken Russell
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Ken Russell, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Denis Lill
Roles 1st Nazarean
Rating63%
In the play, all the roles are played by prostitutes or their clients, and each actor (except Grace) plays two roles, one in the brothel and the other in the play. King Herod (Stratford Johns) begs his young stepdaughter Salome (Imogen Millais-Scott) to dance for him, promising to give her anything she desires, much to the irritation of her mother, Herodias (Glenda Jackson). Salome ignores him, choosing instead to try and seduce John the Baptist, who is Herod's prisoner. John responds by loudly condemning both Herod and Salome in the name of God. A spurned and vengeful Salome then agrees to dance for Herod — on the condition that she be given anything she asks for. Herod agrees, but it is only after the dance is over that Salome asks for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Herod is appalled, tries to dissuade her, but finally gives in to her request. The scenes from the play are interwoven with images of Wilde's exploits at the brothel.