Ian Carmichael Wilson OBE (born 9 July 1936) better known as Richard Wilson, is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He appears in the BBC drama Merlin as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot.
Wilson was born in Greenock, Scotland. He studied science in Greenock, and did National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Singapore. He worked in a laboratory at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow as a research scientist before switching to acting at age 27. He trained at RADA and then appeared in repertory theatres in Edinburgh (Traverse Theatre), Glasgow and Manchester (Stables Theatre).
Wilson was awarded the OBE for services to drama as a director and actor in 1994. In April 1996, he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow for a term of three years.
Wilson has worked for the gay rights campaign group Stonewall and the Labour Party. He is one of the Patrons for Scottish Youth Theatre, Scotland's National Theatre "for and by" young people. Wilson is also a long-time supporter of the Sense charity and in 2007 hosted the Annual Sense Awards, honouring excellence in both deafblind people and those who work with them. He is also one of the Honorary Patrons of the London children's charity, Scene & Heard.
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A small town meets it's darkest hour when a troubled teenager seeks revenge after being bullied countless of times. The teenager walks into a grocery store packed with assault rifles and hand guns; firing and killing everyone in sight. Innocent people from children, parents, grandparents, all lying on the floor bleeding, fighting for their last breath because of a bullet that hit them . The film follows different families who lost a loved one on that horrific day, as they try to overcome what has happened to them. How long does it take to recover from unforeseeable loss which wasn't supposed to happen? They say that "Time heals all wounds".. In this case, time doesn't help. A series of investigations is held by the town sheriff and the FBI try to figure out who is to blame for all of this...because, maybe, pointing the finger at someone could help manage the pain. A film about losing someone, losing hope, losing faith, all because of a gun.
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Bart Corbin's wife Jenn dies in their home, apparently suicide, as the police believes. While he moves in with young sons Taylor and Trevor at brother Bobby's, her sister Heather starts a relentless campaign, without any clue, to make the police believe Bart must have murdered her and have an affair with practice secretary Dara. However PC data show Jenn was the one who has an Internet affair with a Chris, who turned out to be a lesbian's alias.
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, boy, brother-brother-relationship, false-identity, infidelity, title-directed-by-female
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Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?
Keywords: based-on-novel, black-comedy, blackmail, doctor, ethics, euthanasia, half-sister, hallucination, health-insurance, hospital
At Memorial Hospital no one ever dies... Until their insurance runs out.
Dr. Hofstader: Seeing patients is a waste of time.
Dr. Werner Ernst: If he's going to die, why should we proceed?::Dr. Butz: Where have you been all your life? It's called revenue!
[first lines]::Stella: [dropping clipboard] That's six's blood gases. I'm up to oxygen 60%.::Dr. Werner Ernst: Thank you.
Dr. Werner Ernst: It's important to say we did as much as we could.::Stella: Which is doctor-speak for we put this patient through hell before he died.
Dr. Butz: When I drink I only perform mundane tasks like, um, well, talking to you, for example.
Richard Wilson: Jeez, I wish they'd teach more about litigation in medical school.
Constance 'Connie' Potter: Doctor, I don't mean to be angry.::Dr. Werner Ernst: Forget about it, I don't mean to be inhumane.
Dr. Butz: It's these HMOs that have confused the issue. If the patient were part of an HMO then I could understand your dilemma. With those babies we get paid *not* to perform medical procedures. It's a little like when the government pays the farmers not to grow crops. But with insurance we get paid *to* perform medical procedures.
Dr. Werner Ernst: My question is, if you were comatose would you want to be kept a live for months by machines.::Dr. Butz: Hell no! When I go, I don't want to be tortured in some bed. I have this planned out, Warner. I'm gonna be sitting on my back porch, I'm gonna have a Cuban cigar in one hand, and a big glass 'o scotch in the other, and a belly full of barbecued ribs with a ton of sauce. That's why I don't have insurance.
Robert Payne: Before we prepare a case it is absolutely essential that we know the truth, so that we can teach our witnesses to articulate truth to our best advantage.
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Della meets up with an old friend, a child that she used to baby-sit and she and Perry are invited to meet the friend's new wife, Suzanne. Meanwhile, Suzanne rents out her house to four gentlemen who are having a meeting about a plan that could get them all rich - little realising that Suzanne is taping the whole conversation. Suzanne holds out for more money from her "client" before giving up the tape and is found murdered and the tape gone. As Perry, Della and Paul start to help the friend (who discovered the body and hence the prime suspect.) they discover that Suzanne used to be a Madam of a "certain kind of house", that the four "meeting" takes great pains to cover up their business and that Suzanne's past may have caught up with her...
Keywords: character-name-in-title, courtroom, detective, perry-mason, sequel
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Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.
Keywords: african-american, band, birthday-party, boarding-school, clowning, cornet, doctor, double-date, drunkenness, fame