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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s),KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.
Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618, and the Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.
Actors: Derek Jacobi (actor), Ben Gibson (actor), Ben Gibson (producer), Ryûichi Sakamoto (composer), Tilda Swinton (actress), Daniel Craig (actor), Antony Cotton (actor), Adrian Scarborough (actor), Karl Johnson (actor), Robert Hoyland (actor), Daniel Goddard (editor), John Maybury (writer), John Maybury (director), Annie Symons (costume designer), Annie Symons (actress),
Plot: In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking and pill popping, and his satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less?
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, agony, alcohol, american-flag, amorality, applause, arrest, art, art-studioActors: Leo G. Carroll (actor), Bette Davis (actress), Henry Daniell (actor), Errol Flynn (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Vincent Price (actor), Henry Stephenson (actor), Ralph Forbes (actor), John Sutton (actor), Robert Warwick (actor), Olivia de Havilland (actress),
Plot: This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at Cadiz. Middle-aged Elizabeth, so attracted to the younger Devereux but fearful of his influence and popularity, sends him on a new mission: a doomed campaign to Ireland. When he and his troops return in defeat, Devereux demands to share the throne with the heir-less queen, and Elizabeth, at first, intends to marry. Ultimately sensing the marriage would prove disastrous for England, Elizabeth sets in motion a merciless plan to protect her people and preserve her throne.
Keywords: 1590s, 1600s, 16th-century, 17th-century, age-difference, ambition, aristocrat, arrow, axe, based-on-playActors: Florence La Badie (actress), Edwin Thanhouser (producer), Frederick Sullivan (director), Robert Vaughn (actor), Robert Whittier (actor), Lawrence Swinburne (actor),
Genres: Drama,