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Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.^[1]

Plays and films[link]

Humphrey Bogart in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Films dealing with crime and its detection are often based on plays rather than novels^{[citation needed]}. Agatha Christie's stage play Witness for the Prosecution (1953; based on her own short story, published in 1933) was adapted for the big screen by director Billy Wilder in 1957. The film starred Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton and is a classic example of a "courtroom drama". In a courtroom drama, a charge is brought against one of the main characters, who says that they are innocent. Another major part is played by the lawyer (in Britain a barrister) representing the defendant in court and battling with the public prosecutor. He or she may enlist the services of a private investigator to find out what really happened and who the real perpetrator is. However, in most cases it is not clear at all whether the accused is guilty of the crime or not—this is how suspense is created.

Often, the private investigator storms into the courtroom at the very last minute in order to bring a new and crucial piece of information to the attention of the court. This type of literature lends itself to the literary genre of drama focused more on dialogue (the opening and closing statements, the witnesses' testimonies, etc.) and little or no necessity for a shift in scenery. The auditorium of the theatre becomes an extension of the courtroom. When a courtroom drama is filmed, the traditional device employed by screenwriters and directors is the frequent use of flashbacks, in which the crime and everything that led up to it is narrated and reconstructed from different angles.

In Witness for the Prosecution, Leonard Vole, a young American living in England, is accused of murdering a middle-aged lady he met in the street while shopping. His wife (played by Marlene Dietrich) hires the best lawyer available (Charles Laughton) because she is convinced, or rather she knows, that her husband is innocent. Another classic courtroom drama is U.S. playwright Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men (1954), which is set in the jury deliberation room of a New York Court of Law. Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a unanimous verdict of "guilty", try to get it over with as quickly as possible. And they would really succeed in achieving their common aim if it were not for the eighth juror (played by Henry Fonda in the 1957 movie adaptation), who, on second thoughts, considers it his duty to convince his colleagues that the defendant may be innocent after all, and who, by doing so, triggers a lot of discussion, confusion, and anger.

In television[link]

The popularity of TV brought about the emergence of TV series featuring detectives, investigators, special agents, lawyers, and the police. In Britain, The Avengers (1960s) about the adventures of gentleman agent John Steed and his partner, Emma Peel, achieved cult status. U.S. TV stations produced series such as 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1963); The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977), starring Karl Malden and a young Michael Douglas; Kojak (1973–1978), with Telly Savalas playing the lollipop-addicted police lieutenant; Switch (1975–1978), with Eddie Albert playing the retired bunco cop to Robert Wagner's role as a former con man; Charlie's Angels (1976–1981); Murder, She Wrote (starting in 1984), about the adventures of Cabot Cove-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury. In Germany, Derrick became a household word.

Subgenres[link]

Crime films may fall under several different subgenres. These include:

• Crime comedies - A hybrid of crime and comedy films. Mafia comedies look at organized crime from a comical standpoint. Humor often comes from the incompetence of the criminals or dark comedy. Examples include Analyze This, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, In Bruges, and Mafia!.

• Crime thrillers - Thrillers in which crime plays a large part. Examples include Untraceable, Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Seven, Witness, Memories of Murder, and Running Scared.

• Film noir - A genre popular in the 1940s and 1950s often fall into the crime and mystery genres. Private detectives hired to solve a crime are in such films as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Long Goodbye (1973), and Chinatown (1974). Neo-noir refers to modern films influenced by film noir such as Sin City.

• Heist films - These films deal with a group of criminals attempting to perform a theft or robbery, as well as the possible consequences that follow. Heist films that are lighter in tone are called "Caper films". Examples include The Killing, Oceans 11, Dog Day Afternoon, and Reservoir Dogs.

• Hood films - Films dealing with African-American urban issues and culture. They do not always revolve around crime, but often criminal activity features heavily in the storyline. Examples include Menace II Society and Boyz n the Hood.

• Legal dramas - Not usually concerned with the actual crime so much as the trial in the aftermath. A typical plot would involve a lawyer trying to prove the innocence of his or her client. Examples include 12 Angry Men and A Time To Kill.

• Mob films - Films which focus on characters who are involved seriously with the Mafia. Notable mob films include: Goodfellas, The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America, Bugsy, Little Caesar, The Untouchables, The Public Enemy, and Scarface.

• Police procedural - Have remained a mainstay with He Walked By Night (1948), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Madigan (1968), and The French Connection (1971).

See also[link]

• List of crime films
• Pre-Code crime films

References[link]

3TK4 (3 Teens Kill 4) was a musical group based in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s. They are most notable for featuring David Wojnarowicz, a famous artist, as a member.

3TK4 worked with Point Blank Records and recorded songs at Crossfire Studios. They were also early performers at Wigstock and the East Village venue, The Pyramid Club.

The members include[link]

• Doug Bressler
• Brian Butterick
• William Gerstel
• Julie Hair
• Jesse Hultberg
• David Wojnarowicz

[edit] No Motive

• Recorded January, 1983

Track listing[link]

Side one

1. "Hold Up"
2. "Tell Me Something Good"
3. "5/4"

Side two

1. "Crime Drama"
2. "Hut/Bean Song"
3. "Hunger"

External links[link]

• More info about 3TK4
• Interview with Jesse Hultberg
• www.wigstock.nu
• Video of the band performing at the Mudd Club reunion in 2010

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Reece Dinsdale (born 6 August 1959 in Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire) is an English actor of stage, screen and television.

Acting career[link]

He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1977 until 1980. After initially working in Theatre in Exeter, Nottingham, Birmingham and at The Edinburgh Festival, Reece got his first TV role in the Granada thriller Knife Edge in 1981. He followed this up by appearing in Out On The Floor a single drama for the BBC in 1982. This led to him being cast as Albert in Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime series for ITV also in 1982. More theatre followed with Beethoven's Tenth with Peter Ustinov at The Vaudeville Theatre London and the highly acclaimed Red Saturday at The Royal Court. Then in 1984 he played Jimmy Kemp in the powerful nuclear war BAFTA award-winning BBC docudrama Threads, a-soon-to-be-father and husband caught up in a nuclear attack on Sheffield. Interestingly, that same year Dinsdale would also star in the Cold War drama Winter Flight, in which he played a shy, introverted Royal Air Force man who falls in love with a feisty barmaid. 1984 also saw Dinsdale appearing in one of his first feature films, Alan Bennett's A Private Function.

Glamour Night, another single drama for the BBC followed in 1984 before Dinsdale was cast as Matthew Willows in the British sitcom Home to Roost written by Eric Chappell and co-starring John Thaw. Dinsdale played Thaw's unruly teenaged son Matthew who comes to live with his estranged father after his mother throws him out. The core of the show's comedy came from constant clashing between Henry Willows (Thaw's character), who resents his son for imposing on his bachelor solitude, and Matthew's adolescent antics, which clash with his father's conservatism. The show ran for four series between 1985 and 1990. Interspersed with this were many appearances on stage, including the award-winning play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme at The Hampstead Theatre London in 1986, Woundings and Don Carlos at The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester and Old Years Eve at The Royal Shakespeare Company. Whilst on television Dinsdale had leading roles in the three-part series Take Me Home, in The Attractions by Tony Marchant and the single drama Coppers opposite Tim Roth (all BBC).

Dinsdale played the leading role of Jack Rover in Wild Oats in the inaugural production at the newly built West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1990. He then appeared opposite Julia Ormond and Vanessa Redgrave in the American mini-series Young Catherine in which he played The Grand Duke Peter. Following this he appeared at The National Theatre in David Hare's Racing Demon. From 1990-1992 he co-starred in Haggard, a comedy set in the late 18th century written once again by Eric Chappell. In 1994 Dinsdale played the leading role in ID, a British feature film charting the demise of a police officer who goes under-cover to root out a firm of football hooligans. Based on a true story, Dinsdale won the International Critics Award for best actor at the Geneva Film Festival for his portrayal.

Since then, Reece has continued to play leading roles on both stage and screen. Highlights include: two series of Thief Takers in which he played the central role of Charlie Scott, Kenneth Branagh's film of Hamlet in which he played Guildenstern opposite Timothy Spall's Rosencrantz, and guesting in Spooks, Life on Mars, Murder in Mind, Silent Witness and many others. He starred opposite Julie Walters in the ITV drama Ahead of the Class and played the enigmatic Robert in Red Production's award-winning series Conviction for the BBC. He starred in two series of The Chase (also for the BBC) and in two thrillers for ITV; Love Lies Bleeding and Midnight Man.

In the summer of 2008, Reece joined the cast of Coronation Street to play the ill-fated Joe McIntyre, leaving of his own volition in February 2010. Since then he has filmed leading guest roles in Waterloo Road, Taggart and Moving On. Reece has also recently played Doctor Wengel in Ibsen's 'The Lady From The Sea' at The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Directing[link]

In January 2012 Reece Directed his first drama for television; a 45 minute single drama called 'The Crossing' starring Lee Boardman, Ramona Marquez and Susie Blake, in the 'Secrets and Words' series for BBC1.

Writing[link]

In 2009 Reece wrote the short film Imaginary Friend which was subsequently filmed and stars Maxine Peake and Zara Turner. The film was premiered on May 8, 2010 at The 360/365 Film Festival in New York.

Credits (include)[link]

2011 Waterloo Road, BBC

2010 Taggart, STV and ITV

2009 Acid Burn, Short film - Red Productions

2008-2010 Coronation Street, ITV

2008 Silent Witness, BBC

2007 Midnight Man, ITV

2007 The Chase, BBC

2006 Life on Mars, BBC

2006 Dalziel and Pascoe, BBC

2006 The Chase, BBC

2005 Love Lies Bleeding, ITV

2004 Ahead of the Class, ITV

2004 The Trouble with George, BBC

2004 Conviction, BBC

2004 Rabbit on the Moon, Feature Film - Headgear Films

2003 Spooks, BBC

2002 Born and Bred, BBC

2001 The Investigation, Canadian TV/BBC

2000 Murder in Mind BBC

2000 In Deep, BBC

2000 Visiting Mr. Green, Theatre - West Yorkshire Playhouse

1999 Family Fortunes, Theatre - Kings Head

1998 Love You, Too, Theatre - The Bush

1997 Romance and Rejection, Feature Film

1996 Thief Takers (second series), ITV

1996 Hamlet, Feature Film - Fishmonger Films

1996 China, Short film - Channel 4

1995 Bliss, ITV

1995 Thief Takers, ITV

1994 Morning and Evening, Theatre - Hampstead Theatre

1994 Mirandolina, Theatre - Lyric Hammersmith

1994 ID, Feature Film - Parallax Pictures

1993 A Going Concern, Theatre - Hampstead Theatre

1992 Full Stretch, ITV

1992 Revengers Tragedy, Theatre - West Yorkshire Playhouse

1991 Racing Demon, Theatre - The National Theatre

1991 Playboy of the Western World, Theatre - West Yorkshire Playhouse

1991 Young Catherine, Mini-Series - America/Canada TV

1990 Haggard, ITV

1990 Wild Oats, Theatre - West Yorkshire Playhouse

1989 Haggard, ITV

1989 Boys Mean Business, Theatre - The Bush

1989 Home to Roost IV, ITV

1989 The Attractions, BBC

1988 Rhinoceros, Theatre - Nuffield Theatre, Southampton

1988 Take Me Home, BBC

1987 Old Years Eve, Theatre - The Royal Shakespeare Company

1987 Don Carlos, Theatre - The Royal Exchange, Manchester

1987 Coppers, BBC

1987 Home To Roost III, ITV

1986 Woundings, Theatre - The Royal Exchange, Manchester

1986 The Storyteller, Channel 4

1986 Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Theatre - Hampstead Theatre

1986 Home To Roost II, ITV

1985 Bergerac, BBC

1985 Robin of Sherwood, ITV

1985 Home To Roost, ITV

1984 Glamour Night, BBC

1984 Minder, ITV

1984 A Private Function, Feature Film - Handmade Films

1984 Winter Flight, Channel 4

1984 Threads, BBC

1983/4 Red Saturday, Theatre - The Royal Court

1983 Beethoven’s Tenth, Theatre - The Vaudeville Theatre, London

1982 The Secret Adversary, ITV

1982 Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, ITV

1982 Out on the Floor, BBC

1981 Knife Edge, ITV

1980/81 Various Theatre (Northcott Theatre, Exeter - Nottingham Playhouse - Birmingham Rep)

Personal life[link]

Privately Dinsdale lives with his wife, British actress Zara Turner, in Yorkshire England. The couple have two children, a daughter Elwy, and a son Luca.^[1][2] Dinsdale is also a great supporter of Huddersfield Town Football Club. He presented the video Beyond the Touchline that went behind the scenes at Huddersfield's former Leeds Road ground. Starting in 2009 his Coronation Street character's van displayed a Huddersfield Town Badge stuck on the windscreen.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Reece Dinsdale at the Internet Movie Database

Perry Fenwick
Born	(1962-05-29) 29 May 1962 (age 50) Canning Town, East London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Angela Lonsdale (m. 2005) «start: (2005-02-26)»"Marriage: Angela Lonsdale to Perry Fenwick" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Perry_Fenwick) (Separated)[1]

Perry Fenwick (born 29 May 1962) is an English film and television actor.^[2] He has one sister, Tracey, and two brothers, Faron and Lee. He is, also, the second cousin of Georgina Hagen, who played Lauren Waters in the series of Britannia High.

His first regular TV role was in the 1980s sitcom Watching. He has appeared in Inspector Morse, The Brittas Empire, Minder, The Thin Blue Line, in a cameo role, and Bergerac. His film credits include 'Party Party',I.D., Greenwich Mean Time, Janice Beard, The Winslow Boy and Mona Lisa. He has also shown up in the long-running ITV police drama series The Bill five times, 1984–97, playing a different minor character each time.

He currently plays Billy Mitchell in EastEnders, a role which he has played since 1998, and is probably his most notable television role so far.^[3]

Personal life[link]

He is good friends with Kathy Burke, who named her character in the TV series Harry Enfield and Chums, and the film Kevin and Perry Go Large, after him.

He is married to former Coronation Street actress, Angela Lonsdale, who played Emma Taylor, the wife of popular character Curly Watts. On 11 February 2010 it was announced that the couple were to separate.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Perry Fenwick at the Internet Movie Database
• EastEnders Cast
• Perry's EastEnders profile at What's on TV