A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat, powered by a steam engine, using paddle wheels to propel it through the water. In antiquity, Paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans. Modern paddle wheelers may be powered by diesel engines. Save for tourism and small pleasure boats (paddle boats) paddle propulsion is largely superseded by the screw propeller and other marine propulsion that have a higher efficiency, especially in rough or open water.

Paddle wheels

The paddle wheel is a large wheel, built on a steel framework, upon the outer edge of which are fitted numerous paddle blades (called ''floats'' or ''buckets''). The bottom quarter or so of the wheel travels underwater. Rotation of the paddle wheel produces thrust, forward or backward as required. More advanced paddle wheel designs have featured ''feathering'' methods that keep each paddle blade oriented closer to vertical while it is in the water; this increases efficiency. The upper part of a paddle wheel is normally enclosed in a paddlebox to minimise splashing.

Types of paddle steamer

There are two basic ways to mount paddle wheels on a ship; either a single wheel on the rear, known as a ''stern-wheeler'', or a paddle wheel on each side, known as a ''side-wheeler''.

Both sternwheelers and sidewheelers were used as riverboats in the United States. Some still operate for tourists, for example on the Mississippi River.

Side-wheelers are used as riverboats and as coastal craft. While wider than a stern-wheeler, due to the extra width of the paddle wheels and their enclosing ''sponsons'', a side-wheeler has extra manoeuvrability since they are usually rigged so the paddles can move at different rates, and even in differing directions (one forward, one reversed giving rapid turning capabilities). Due to this extra manoeuvrability side-wheelers were more popular on the narrower, windy rivers of the Murray-Darling system in Australia where a number are still in operation today.

European side-wheelers such as the have solid drive shafts that require both wheels to turn ahead or astern together, which limits manoeuvrability and gives a wide turning circle. Some were built with paddle clutches to disengage one or both paddles and allow them to turn independently. However early experience with side-wheelers requires them to be operated with clutches out, or as solid shaft vessels. It was noticeable that as ships approached their piers for docking, passengers would move to the side of the ship ready to disembark. The shift in weight when added to independent movements of the paddles could lead to imbalance and potential for capsize.

Paddle tugs were frequently operated with clutches in, as the lack of passengers aboard meant that independent paddle movement could be used safely and the added manoeuvrability exploited to the full.

Western world

The use of a paddle wheel in navigation appears for the first time in the mechanical treatise of the Roman engineer Vitruvius (''De architectura'', X 9.5-7), where he describes multi-geared paddle wheels working as a ship odometer. The first mention of paddle wheels as a means of propulsion comes from the 4th–5th century military treatise ''De Rebus Bellicis'' (chapter XVII), where the anonymous Roman author describes an ox-driven paddle-wheel warship:

The Italian physician Guido da Vigevano (c. 1280−1349), planning for a new crusade, made illustrations for a paddle boat that was propelled by manually turned compound cranks.

One of the drawings of the Anonymous Author of the Hussite Wars shows a boat with a pair of paddle-wheels at each end turned by men operating compound cranks (see above). The concept was improved by the Italian Roberto Valturio in 1463, who devised a boat with five sets, where the parallel cranks are all joined to a single power source by one connecting-rod, an idea adopted by his compatriot Francesco di Giorgio. In the same year he showed Carlos I of Spain (also known as Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor), a new idea - a ship propelled by a giant wheel powered by steam. Carlos was not interested.

In 1787 Patrick Miller of Dalswinton invented a double-hulled boat, which was propelled on the Firth of Forth by men working a capstan which drove paddles on each side.

The first paddle steamer was the ''Pyroscaphe'' built by Marquis Claude de Jouffroy of Lyon in France, in 1783. It had a horizontal double-acting steam engine driving two 13.1-ft (4 m) paddle wheels on the sides of the craft. On July 15, 1783 it steamed up the Saône for fifteen minutes before the engine failed. Political events interrupted further development.

The next successful attempt at a paddle-driven steam ship was by the Scottish engineer William Symington who suggested steam power to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton. Experimental boats built in 1788 and 1789 worked successfully on Lochmaben Loch. In 1802, Symington built a barge-hauler, ''Charlotte Dundas'', for the Forth and Clyde Canal Company. It successfully hauled two 70-ton barges almost 20 miles (30 km) in 6 hours against a strong headwind on test in 1802. There was much enthusiasm, but some directors of the company were concerned about the banks of the canal being damaged by the wash from a powered vessel, and no more were ordered.

While ''Charlotte Dundas'' was the first commercial paddle-steamer and steamboat, the first commercial ''success'' was possibly Robert Fulton's ''Clermont'' in New York, which went into commercial service in 1807 between New York City and Albany. Many other paddle-equipped river boats followed all around the world.

East Asia

The first mention of a paddle-wheel ship from China is described in the ''History of the Southern Dynasties'', compiled in the 7th century but describing the naval ships of the Liu Song Dynasty (420–479) used by admiral Wang Zhene in his campaign against the Qiang people in 418 AD. The mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi (429–500) had a paddle-wheel ship built on the Xinting River (south of Nanjing) known as the "thousand league boat". When campaigning against Hou Jing in 552, the Liang Dynasty (502–557) admiral Xu Shipu employed paddle-wheel boats called "water-wheel boats". At the siege of Liyang in 573, the admiral Huang Faqiu employed foot-treadle powered paddle-wheel boats. A successful paddle-wheel warship design was made in China by Prince Li Gao in 784 AD, during an imperial examination of the provinces by the Tang Dynasty (618–907) emperor. The Chinese Song Dynasty (960–1279) issued the construction of many paddle-wheel ships for its standing navy, and according to historian Joseph Needham:

"...between 1132 and 1183 (AD) a great number of treadmill-operated paddle-wheel craft, large and small, were built, including stern-wheelers and ships with as many as 11 paddle-wheels a side,”.

It is asserted that the standard Chinese term "wheel ship" was used by the Song period, whereas a litany of colorful terms were used to describe it beforehand. In the 12th century, the Song government used paddle-wheel ships ''en masse'' to defeat opposing armies of pirates armed with their own paddle-wheel ships. At the Battle of Caishi in 1161, paddle-wheelers were also used with great success against the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234) navy. The Chinese used the paddle-wheel ship even during the First Opium War (1839–1842) and for transport around the Pearl River during the early 20th century.

Seagoing paddle steamers

The first seagoing trip of a paddle steamer was that in 1808 of the ''Albany''', which steamed from the Hudson River along the coast to the Delaware River. This was purely for the purpose of moving a river-boat to a new market, but the use of paddle-steamers for short coastal trips began soon after that.

The first paddle-steamer to make a long ocean voyage was , built in 1819 expressly for this service. ''Savannah'' set out for Liverpool on May 22, 1819, sighting Ireland after 23 days at sea. This was the first powered crossing of the Atlantic, although ''Savannah'' also carried a full rig of sail to assist the engines when winds were favorable. In 1822, Charles Napier's ''Aaron Manby'', the world's first iron ship, made the first direct steam crossing from London to Paris and the first seagoing voyage by an iron ship.

In 1838, , a fairly small steam packet built for the Cork to London route, became the first vessel to cross the Atlantic under sustained steam power, beating Isambard Kingdom Brunel's much larger by a day. ''Great Western'', however, was actually built for the transatlantic trade, and so had sufficient coal for the passage; ''Sirius'' had to burn furniture and other items after running out of coal. The ''Great Western''’s more successful crossing began the regular sailing of powered vessels across the Atlantic. ''Beaver'' was the first coastal steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Paddle steamers helped open Japan to the Western World in the mid-19th century.

The largest paddle-steamer ever built was Brunel's , but it also had screw propulsion and sail rigging. It was 692 ft (211 m) long and weighed 32,000 tons, its paddle-wheels being 56 ft (17 m) in diameter.

In oceangoing service, paddle steamers became much less useful after the invention of the screw propeller, but they remained in use in coastal service and as river tugboats, thanks to their shallow draught and good maneuverability.

Modern paddle steamers

thumb|300px|Sternwheeler paddleboat, the ''[[Natchez (boat)|SS Natchez IX'' in Louisiana]] A few paddle steamers serve niche tourism needs as cruise boats on lakes and others, such as the ''Delta Queen'', still operate on the Mississippi River and in the Pacific Northwest along the Willamette River, as do a few in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe.

PS ''Skibladner'' is the oldest steamship in regular operation. Built in 1856, she still operates on lake Mjøsa in Norway.

, built in 1912 by the New York Shipbuilding Company, was the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built with a capacity for 6,000 passengers. It was operated on the Hudson River from 1913 until it was sunk in an accident in 1926. One of the last paddle steamers built in the U.S. was the dredge , built in 1934 and now a National Historic Landmark.

, built in 1947, is the last seagoing paddle steamer in the world. This ship sails a full season of cruises from ports around Britain, and sailed across the English Channel to commemorate the sinking of her predecessor of 1899 at the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk.

PS ''Adelaide'' is the oldest wooden-hulled paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1866, she operates from the Port of Echuca, on Australia's Murray River, which has the largest fleet of paddle steamers in the world. The replica paddle steamer ''Curlip'' was constructed in Gippsland, Australia, and launched in November 2008.

Also in Australia, the PS ''Kookaburra Queen'' services the Brisbane River, operating as a floating restaurant or venue for hire. thumb|left|PS ''Kookaburra Queen'' and a CityCat The PS ''Enterprise'', built in Echuca in 1876-78 and now berthed at a wharf on the Acton Peninsula, Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, has been restored to full working order. PS ''Enterprise'' was used on the Murray River, the Darling River and the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales between 1978 and 1988, when it was recommissioned after restoration.

The Elbe river Saxon Paddle Steamer Fleet in Dresden (known as "White Fleet"), Germany, is the oldest and biggest in the world, with around 700,000 passengers per year. The 1913-built ''Goethe'' was the last paddle steamer on the River Rhine. Previously the world's largest sidewheeler with a two-cylinder steam engine of , a length of 83 m and a height above water of 9.2 m, the Goethe was converted to Diesel-Hydraulic power during the winter of 2008/09.

Switzerland has a large paddle steamer fleet, most of the "Salon Steamer-type" built by Sulzer in Winterthur or Escher-Wyss in Zurich. There are five active and one inactive on Lake Lucerne, two on Lake Zurich, and one each on Lake Brienz, Lake Thun and Lake Constance. Swiss company CGN operates a number of paddle steamers on Lake Geneva. Their fleet includes three converted to diesel electric power in the 1960s and five retaining steam. One, ''Montreux'', was reconverted in 2000 from diesel to an all-new steam engine. It is the world's first electronically remote-controlled steam engine and has operating costs similar to state-of-the-art diesels, while producing up to 90 percent less air pollution.

In the USSR, river paddle steamers of the type ''Iosif Stalin'' (project 373), later renamed ''Ryazan''-class steamships, were built until 1951. Between 1952 and 1959, ships of this type were built for the Soviet Union by Obuda Hajogyar Budapest factory in Hungary. In total, 75 type ''Iosif Stalin/Ryazan'' side-wheelers were built. They are 70 m long and can carry up to 360 passengers. Few of them still remain in active service.

In Italy, a small paddle steamer fleet operates on Lake Como and Lake Garda, primarily for tourists.

On the Isle of Wight, (one of the smallest passenger-carrying vessels of her type) takes trips on the River Medina. ''Monarch'' is a side wheeler built at Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent.

The restored paddle steamer is based in Wanganui, New Zealand. The ''Waimarie'' was built in kitset form in Poplar, London in 1899, and originally operated on the Whanganui River under the name ''Aotea''. Later renamed, she remained in service until 1949. She sank at her moorings in 1952, and remained in the mud until raised by volunteers and restored to begin operations again in 2000.

Paddle tugs

The British Admiralty used diesel-electric paddle tugs in recent times. Each paddle wheel was driven by an individual electric motor, giving outstanding maneuverability. Paddle tugs were able to more easily make use of the inherent advantage of side wheel paddle propulsion, having the option to disconnect the clutches that connected the paddle drive shafts as one. This enabled them to turn one paddle ahead and one astern to turn and maneuver quickly.

See also

Delta Queen

Personal paddlewheel boats

Roller ship

River cruise

Technology of the Song Dynasty

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References

Needham, Joseph (1986). ''Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics''. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.

Needham, Joseph (1986). ''Science and Civilization in China: Volume 5, Part 7, Military Technology; The Gunpowder Epic''. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.

Clark, John and Wardle, David (2003). ''PS Enterprise''. Canberra: National Museum of Australia.

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs

Dumpleton, Bernard, "The Story of the Paddle Steamer", Melksham, 2002.

Notes

Footnotes

External links

links to videos on paddle wheelers

links to photos of a modern design on paddle wheelers

PS ''Enterprise'' A restored 19th century paddle boat at the National Museum of Australia

Australian paddle steamers A brief history

Forum Navis Romana: about the Rotaremis vehiculum (late-Roman paddle-wheel ship)

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name	Paddy Considine
birth name	Patrick George Considine
birth date	September 05, 1973
birth place	Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, England, UK
occupation	Actor, film director, writer, musician
yearsactive	1999–present
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Patrick George "Paddy" Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, musician and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. Best-known to audiences for his portrayals of dark, troubled, morally or mentally ambiguous characters. He has starred in films such as ''In America'', ''Dead Man's Shoes'', ''The Cry of the Owl'', ''Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee'' and ''Hot Fuzz'', as well as in television movies such as ''The Red Riding Trilogy'', ''The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher'', and ''PU-239''.

Considine came to prominence in the early-2000s with a string of strong performances in independent films that prompted The Observer to describe him as "The best-kept secret in British movies". In addition to leading and supporting roles in Hollywood films, Considine has frequently acted in independent British films and television shows. Aside from acting, he directed and wrote Tyrannosaur, a film based on his directorial debut, the short film ''Dog Altogether'' both of which feature actors Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Paul Popplewell. He was both actor and writer on several music videos, namely the video for The Arctic Monkeys, "Leave Before the Lights Come On".

Among other accolades, Considine has received an Evening Standard British Film Award, Empire Award and Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards as well as eight other award nominations for his acting work. He has also won a BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award, Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize) for best short with Dog Altogether as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut film, ''Tyrannosaur'', at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Early life

Considine was born, raised and still resides in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, and retains his regional accent. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a suburb of Burton. In 1990 he enrolled to do a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows. Neither Considine nor Meadows completed the Performing Arts course.

He attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College, all in Burton upon Trent. In 1993, Meadows moved from his home town of Uttoxeter to study in Nottingham, and Considine moved away in 1994 to study photography at the University of Brighton, where he went on to get a first-class degree in photography. In April 2011, Considine revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

Film career

Film debut and foray into American cinema

After graduating with a BA in Photography from the University of Brighton, Meadows cast Considine in several short films, as well as his second feature, ''A Room for Romeo Brass'' (1999), in which Considine, in his screen debut, plays the disturbed character Morell.

Considine's performance in ''A Room For Romeo Brass'' led to Pawel Pawlikowski casting him in his first starring role in ''Last Resort'' (2000) the following year. Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the best actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

After coming to prominence for his role as Alfie and Morell, Considine increased his profile during the early-to-mid 2000s via supporting and starring roles in cult films such as Michael Winterbottom's ''24 Hour Party People'' (in which he played the first of many real-life portrayals: Rob Gretton, manager of the post punk band Joy Division/New Order) and Jim Sheridan's ''In America''.

Mainstream success in the mid-2000s

In 2004, Considine starred in what was at that point the most significant role of his career; as Richard in Shane Meadows' revenge film, ''Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004), a film he co-wrote and won the 'Best British Actor' award for at the 2005 Empire Awards. In the same year, he co-starred alongside Emily Blunt and Natalie Press in ''My Summer of Love'' (2004), his second film with director Pawel Pawlikowski. Both films were recognized on the award circuit where Considine earned five nominations and two wins. The following year, Considine played the suspected murderer of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in ''The Builder''; Frank Thorogood in Stephen Woolley's ''Stoned'' (2005).

It was around this time that Considine earned his reputation as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes and darker characters. 2005 also saw the release of Considine's second 'Hollywood' film in Ron Howard's ''Cinderella Man''.

Since 2005

Considine appeared opposite Gary Oldman in the Spanish thriller ''Bosque de Sombras'' (2006). It was during the filming of Bosque de sombras that Considine penned what later became his debut short, ''Dog Altogther''; Considine claims that it was Oldman who gave him confidence to make the film and subsequently led to his thanking Oldman during his BAFTA award acceptance speech.

In 2006, he starred opposite Radha Mitchell in his first TV Movie; ''PU-239'' (also known as ''The Half Life of Timofey Berezin''; 2006), as Timofey Berezin, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility who gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market. In 2007 Considine landed roles in two popular big budget films. In the third film in the ''Bourne Trilogy'' film series, playing a Guardian newspaper reporter Simon Ross in ''The Bourne Ultimatum'' alongside Matt Damon., and his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Police action comedy ''Hot Fuzz''.

In 2008 Considine starred in ''My Zinc Bed'' a TV movie for BBC/HBO alongside Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce. In 2009 he starred as Peter Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries ''Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord'' (1980), based on the novels by David Peace and another collaboration with Meadows, ''Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee'', a low-budget mock-rock-umentary (it was unscripted, adlibbed and filmed in five days at a cost of £48,000), featuring the Arctic Monkeys and UK rapper Scorzayzee, in which Considine plays roadie "Le Donk", which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

In 2011, Considine co-starred with Sally Hawkins, Michael Sheen and Noah Taylor on a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book ''Submarine'', for which Richard Ayoade directed and wrote the screenplay. Also in 2011, Considine appeared as Porter Nash in the adaptation of the Ken Bruen novel ''Blitz'', directed by Elliott Lester, also starring Jason Statham, David Morrissey and Aidan Gillen, as well as starring in ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher''.

Also in 2011, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his 'A Room For Romeo Brass' co-stars; The BAFTA-winning English actress Vicky McClure. The two shared the screen in a big-budget TV advert to promote "Films For Life Season". The ad was shot over two days in Spain by director Kate Dunn.

Considine has consistently displayed a flair for regional and world accents; along with the Gypsy Midlander Morell in his first role in 2009's ''A Room for Romeo Brass'', Considne has played Londoner Frank Thorogood and Detective Whicher in ''Stoned'' and ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'', respectively, as well as a Russian nuclear plant worker in ''PU-239''. Two roles as a Welshman in ''Submarine'' and ''Happy Now'', respectively. An Irish immigrant in ''In America'', a Yorkshireman in both ''Red Riding'' and ''My Summer of Love'', an American in ''Cry of the Owl'' and ''Cinderella Man'', and a British South-Westerner in ''Hot Fuzz''.

Considine has appeared in several music videos, most notably "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (2002) by Coldplay and Moloko's "Familiar Feeling" (2003), as well as the Arctic Monkeys track "Leave Before The Lights Come On" (2006) (he wrote the video).

Other ventures

Filmmaking

In 2007, Considine directed and wrote the award-winning ''Dog Altogether'', starring Peter Mullan, partially based on the life of Mullan's father Joseph. Dog Altogether won the 2007 BAFTA award for Best Short Film, as well as a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival a Best British Short at the 2007 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize), as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Current and future projects

Considine is currently writing his next film a ghost story called 'The Leaning, and continues to work with Meadows on ''King of the Gypsies'', a biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Bartley Gorman, whom Considine met and became friends with whilst working as a photographer. Considine is currently attached to work with Dakota Fanning, Olivia Williams and Jeremy Irvine on ''Now Is Good'', a film adaptation of Jenny Downham's novel, ''Before I Die''.

Musical activity

After a short stint in a virtual, comedy thrash group called Grunt during college, Considine and Shane Meadows formed the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name) with friends Richard Eaton, Simon Hudson, Nick Hemming as lead guitar, Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer. He is now in a rock band called Riding The Low, and released an EP in 2009.

Personal life

Despite numerous lead and supporting roles in popular British and Hollywood movies, Considine remains private in his personal life, once stating if he ever became a celebrity he'd "f*cking disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis" (a reference to Day-Lewis' long sabbatical working as a cobbler in Italy), Considine was born and brought up in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and continues to live in the Midlands with his own family.

Aspergers Syndrome

In 2010, aged 36, Considine was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, one of a spectrum of disorders relating to difficulties with communication and social skills that includes autism at its furthest extreme. In a candid interview with ''The Telegraph'', he revealed that he suffered from "a debilitating sense of detachment” from both the people around him and his surroundings and that He struggled on a practical level too – certain noises, bright lights, and even wallpaper and fabrics presented problems." Of the diagnosis Considine revealed that discovering that he had Asperger's was a relief.

Family

, he resides in Burton upon Trent with his wife and three children.

Filmography (actor)

! Year !! Film !! Role!! Notes
1999	''A Room for Romeo Brass''	Morell
		Alfie
''Born Romantic''	Ray
	''Happy Now''	Glen Marcus
	Hatfield Recorder Editor
	''24 Hour Party People''	Rob Gretton
''Doctor Sleep''	Elliot Spruggs
''My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117''	Him	Short
''Bouncer''	Knife Man	Short
2003		Johnny
		Richard
''My Summer of Love''	Phil
	''Cinderella Man''	Mike Wilson
	Frank Thorogood
	''Bosque de Sombras''	Norman	International English Title: ''BackWoods''
	Timofey Berezin	TV Movie
	''Hot Fuzz''	DS Andy Wainwright
''The Bourne Ultimatum''	Simon Ross
2008		Paul Peplow	TV Movie
	''The Cry of the Owl''	Robert Forrester
''Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980''	Detective Peter Hunter	TV Miniseries
''Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee''	Le Donk
2010		Graham Purvis
	''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher''	Detective Jonathan Whicher	TV Movie
	Sgt. Porter Nash
		Voice only. Also Writer & Director
2012	''Girl on a Bicycle''	Derek

Filmography (writer)

''Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004)

''This is England'', Uncredited (2006)

''Leave Before The Lights Come On'' Arctic Monkeys music video (2006)

''Dog Altogether'' (Short) (2007)

''Tyrannosaur'' (2011)

Filmography (director)

''Dog Altogether'' (Short) (2007)

''Tyrannosaur'' (2011)

Awards and nominations

! Year !! Group !! Award !! Film/Show !! Result
2000	Thessaloniki Film Festival Award	Best Actor (Tied with Misel Maticevic)
2003	British Independent Film Award	Best Actor
	British Independent Film Awards	Best Actor
British Independent Film Awards	Best Screenplay (Shared with Shane Meadows)
British Independent Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor/Actress	''My Summer of Love''
London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year
Golden Satellite Award	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Empire Awards	Best British Actor
Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Actor
London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year
2006	British Independent Film Award	Best Actor
	Chlotrudis Awards	Best Supporting Actor	''My Summer of Love''
London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Supporting Actor of the Year	''Cinderella Man''
	Venice Film Festival Award	Silver Lion - Best Short Film	''Dog Altogether''
British Independent Film Award	Best British Short Film	''Dog Altogether''
Seattle International Film Festival Award	Special Jury Prize, Narrative	''Dog Altogether''
Edinburgh International Film Festival Award	Best British Short Film 2nd Place	''Dog Altogether''
2008	BAFTA Awards	Best Short Film	''Dog Altogether''
	Sundance International Film Festival Award	The World Cinema Award for Directing: Dramatic
Nantucket Film Festival Award	Best Writer/Director
Munich Film Festival	CineVision Award Outstanding Debut Feature
2nd Voices Festival of independent European Cinema	Voices Festival Prize: Best Film

Quotation

''The Observer'' - September 2005

References

External links

In his own words; Paddy Considine Interview

Here comes the sun; Paddy Considine Interview

Paddy Considine Interview

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