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Mat Fraser (born 1962) is an English rock musician, actor and performance artist. Between 1980 and 1995 he was a drummer with several rock bands including Fear of Sex, The Reasonable Strollers, Joyride, The Grateful Dub, and Living in Texas, the latter of which had a number one single in Italy.[citation needed]
Fraser was born with phocomelia of both arms, due to his mother being prescribed thalidomide during her pregnancy. As a live artist he was a member of the performance art group The DHSS in the early 1990s. He was included in Manuel Vason's book "Exposures" and has performed at numerous internationally renowned venues. He received considerable critical acclaim for his one-man show "Seal Boy". In 1999 he worked with the Hydra Collective on an event known as "Wrong Bodies" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
As an actor Fraser has performed with the "Graeae Theatre Company", Europe's leading disabled theatre company. He is the creator and main performer in a new play called Thalidomide!! A Musical. He also co-hosts the BBC's Ouch! Podcast.
Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser (born 15 December 1983) is a New Zealand born award-winning folk-pop and Christian music artist. Her third studio album Flags has become the most successful album of her career, with the single "Something in the Water" reaching number one on the RIANZ singles chart in 2010.
Fraser is the eldest of the three children born to former All Black Bernie Fraser, who was born in Lautoka, Fiji, and his wife Lynda Fraser. She grew up in Naenae, Lower Hutt and attended Dyer Street School, Naenae Intermediate School and Naenae College.
Fraser took piano lessons between the ages of seven and seventeen. She started writing songs at age twelve and taught herself the acoustic guitar at fifteen. Despite her skills as a singer she has never taken singing lessons.
She performed at Parachute, an annual New Zealand music festival in 2000 – including a special guest performance in 2007.
She began writing for the Soul Purpose magazine at age fifteen, and was later made editor in 2002. She gave up her job as editor shortly after moving to Auckland in late 2002 in order to pursue her music career.
Actors: Roy Lee (producer), Stuart Matthews (actor), Guy East (producer), Helen McCrory (actress), Ned Dennehy (actor), Ian Watermeier (miscellaneous crew), Nigel Sinclair (producer), Adrian Rawlins (actor), Shane Salter (actor), Jen Lambert (miscellaneous crew), Matthew David McCarthy (actor), Aliza James (miscellaneous crew), Jake Edmonds (miscellaneous crew), Annie Symons (costume designer), Deryn Stafford (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Forbes KB (actor), Christopher Fosh (actor), Ricci Harnett (actor), Nicola Posener (actress), Gemma Deerfield (actress), Gemma Deerfield (producer), Frank Jakeman (actor), Sarah-Jane Sherwood (actress), Tom Bennett (actor), James Thornton (actor), Greg Harwood (composer), Grant Huggair (actor), Marcus Massey (actor), Lisa Shelley (actress), Jing Lusi (actress),
Plot: Carol Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambition and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments, Bailey becomes Self-Destructive. Resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love, Bailey enters a world where his friends are unable to follow. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise, things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey's life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fueled parties, Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Sean Murray (composer), Shawn K. Clement (composer), Mike Marvin (producer), Kimberly Eaton (miscellaneous crew), Ai Wan (actress), Paul Heiman (editor), William Burke (producer), Randy Spangler (miscellaneous crew), Naomi L. Selfman (writer), Nicole Visram (miscellaneous crew), Ray Raglin (actor), Ray Raglin (producer), Lisa Falcone (actress), Anne Woodard (costume designer), Lafayette Parish (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Liam Cunningham (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Gina McKee (actress), Ewen Bremner (actor), John Lunn (composer), Justin Krish (editor), Stuart McQuarrie (actor), Simon Donald (writer), Simon Donald (director), Alan J. Wands (producer), Simon Donald (writer), Sarah Booth (miscellaneous crew), Alison Campbell (miscellaneous crew), Lynda Myles (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Sean Penn (actor), Max Perlich (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Martin Hunter (editor), C.M. Talkington (actor), Matt Palmieri (director), Matt Palmieri (producer), Ulrika Akander (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Short,Actors: Len Lesser (actor), Campbell Scott (actor), Tony Miller (producer), Tony Miller (editor), Jerry Feifer (producer), Bernard White (actor), John Durbin (actor), Arne Olsen (actor), Ernie Anderson (actor), Troy Fromin (actor), Joe Mays (actor), Murielle Hamilton (composer), Julianne Dechaine (costume designer), Jim Hanson (producer), Dennis Ott (actor),
Plot: Two men on weekend outing assist country lass in trouble but find themselves in a stew. One is killed, one severely injured who recovers at the Campbell cabin. He learns the simplicity of country living and falls in love with daughter. She explains, mysteriously, that although she cares, this cannot be; the feud is coming', as it always does. Only after his own death, during the feud, does he realize that the Campbell and McDonald clans have been 50 years dead! He has, however, broken the cycle of the ongoing feud and now all, him included, may rest in peace.
Keywords: feud, independent-film, moonshineActors: Peter Capaldi (actor), Alex Norton (actor), David Puttnam (producer), John M. Jackson (actor), Peter Riegert (actor), Denis Lawson (actor), Pat Rambaut (miscellaneous crew), Burt Lancaster (actor), Michael Bradsell (editor), Mark Knopfler (composer), Susan d'Arcy (miscellaneous crew), Rikki Fulton (actor), Anne Rapp (miscellaneous crew), Fulton Mackay (actor), Jimmy Yuill (actor),
Plot: Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.
Keywords: accountant, affection, american-abroad, aurora-borealis, beach, beachcomber, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brandy, church, cometActors: Norman Bird (actor), Rosa von Praunheim (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Lionel Stander (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), James Payne (actor), Mia Farrow (actress), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Peter Cook (actor), Geoffrey Bayldon (actor), Laurence Harvey (actor), John Bird (actor), Tom Courtenay (actor), Laurence Harvey (director), Quincy Jones (composer),
Plot: Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Keywords: based-on-novel, double-agent, drug-addict, food-in-title, german-democratic-republic, photographer, porn-magazine, spy, west-berlin-west-germanyActors: Harold Goodwin (actor), Jack Davies (writer), Richard Wattis (actor), Ian Wilson (actor), Jon Pertwee (actor), John Harvey (actor), Michael Ward (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Reginald Beckwith (actor), David Lodge (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), James Needs (editor), Lance Comfort (director),
Plot: Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Actors: Edward J. Montagne (writer), Edward Montagne (director), Jack Lord (actor), Keith Andes (actor), Joanne Tree (actress), Herbert Holcombe (actor), Tom Ahearne (actor), Craig Kelly (actor), Harry Clark (actor), Joyce Selznick (writer), Edward Leven (producer), William Gibberson (actor), Mitchell Johnson (writer), Charles Martin (actor), Robert Noe (actor),
Plot: The New York-filmed production opens with a discourse on Communist infiltration into American colleges, and moves on to a series of dialogue exchanges in a night club, an apartment, a barber shop and some offices. A young physicist is being blackmailed, by a friend, into stealing a secret atomic energy plan.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, atomic-age, atomic-bomb, atomic-energy, atomic-power, b-movie, barber-shop, blackmail, cigarette-smoking