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Albany is a common place name. It is derived from Alba (Gaelic for Scotland) and its Latinisation, Albania. In older English it is used to mean Scotland generally, and in particular the part of Scotland north of the Firth of Forth and Firth of Clyde.
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Roger Whittaker (born 22 March 1936) is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability. American audiences are most familiar with his 1970 hit "New World in the Morning" and his 1975 hit "The Last Farewell," the latter of which is his only single to hit the Billboard Hot 100 (it made the Top 20) and also hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Whittaker's parents, Edward and Viola, were originally from Staffordshire, England, where they owned and operated a grocery shop. His father had a motorcycle accident and the family moved to a farm near Thika, Kenya because of the warmer climate. His grandfather sang in various clubs and his father played the violin. Roger learned to play the guitar.
Whittaker was drafted into national service and spent two years in the Kenya Regiment. In 1956 he was demobilized and decided on a career in medicine. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Actors: Amar Adatia (actor), Eddie Saint-Jean (editor), Eddie Saint-Jean (producer), Eddie Saint-Jean (writer), Eddie Saint-Jean (director), Vauxhall Jermaine (actor), Jamie Langlands (actor), Daniel Braveboy (actor), Dee Grant (actress), Sandra Evans (actress), Cleveland D. Herbert (actor), Steve Laopodis (actor), Duane Hannibal (actor), Louise Templeton (actress), Emma Jane Sullivan (actress),
Plot: Dayton Givens is a middle-aged out of work documentary maker who decides to return to further education to study for the A level history he never got. His teacher asks him to produce a time capsule film project on every day of his life for a year. The project makes Dayton scrutinise his everyday life and the wider world with ever greater detail. He notices every element of development in a very strange year - historic events such as the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and the Royal Wedding but also the tightening of surveillance and monitoring in his local area in the countdown to the Olympics in East London.
Keywords: surveillanceActors: Jackie Sheppard (producer), Roger Alborough (actor), Daniel Sus (composer), Luke Walton (producer), Vicki Hackett (actress), Vicki Hackett (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress), Nigel Forde (writer), Jonathan Brown (producer), Jimi Lund (editor), Ivan Scoble (actor), Fred Denno (actor), Paul Burbridge (director), Jamie Higgins (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: David Gant (actor), Matt Lucas (actor), Dan van Husen (actor), Luke Goss (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Richard Bonehill (actor), Helene Oosthuizen (miscellaneous crew), Carn Burton (miscellaneous crew), Steven Elder (actor), David Higginson (producer), Kevin Howarth (actor), Elizabeth Healey (actress), Martin Poultney (miscellaneous crew), Jake Curran (actor), Stephanie Barker (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster, being aware and afraid of the danger Shade represents to mankind and trying to stop him.
Keywords: back-from-the-dead, bad-cops, banana, bathroom, bathtub, beach, broken-ankle, cgi, cigarette-smoking, female-agentActors: Graham McTavish (actor), Chris Gormlie (editor), Brian Blessed (actor), Bob Carruthers (producer), Paul Farrer (composer), Hildegard Neil (actress), Vanessa Tovell (producer), Gary Russell (producer), Robert Whelan (actor), Iain Stuart Robertson (actor), Peter Balderstone (actor), Phillipa Peak (actress), Gavin Bott (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Wells (actor), Jason Riddington (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Pierre Frag (actor), Marilyne Canto (actress), Michel Beaune (actor), Serge Franklin (composer), Etienne Chicot (actor), Caroline Cellier (actress), Etienne Draber (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Jean-Louis Foulquier (actor), Bernard Rosselli (actor), Saïd Amadis (actor), Gilda Albertoni (actress), Philippe Triboit (director), Michel Carliez (actor), David Gerson (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Leo McKern (actor), John Hurt (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Diana Rigg (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), David Threlfall (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor),
Plot: Lear is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who among them loves him most. While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia, refuses play along with this foolish charade. In a rage, Lear exiles her along with his one loyal aide who dares to stick up for her. This foolish move works to Lear's sorrow as his two remaining daughters cruelly and gradually strip him of his status and possessions until he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another lord is plotting his own ambitions while contributing to this tragic tale of ego and familial cruelty.
Keywords: abandonment, ambition, banishment, based-on-play, betrayal, blindness, brother-murders-brother, character-name-in-title, craziness, crueltyActors: Dmitri Shostakovich (composer), William Shakespeare (writer), Donatas Banionis (actor), Jüri Järvet (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Emmanuil Vitorgan (actor), Vladimir Yemelyanov (actor), Regimantas Adomaitis (actor), Aleksandr Vokach (actor), Grigori Kozintsev (writer), Grigori Kozintsev (director), Roman Gromadsky (actor), Oleg Dal (actor), Leonhard Merzin (actor),
Plot: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedyActors: Patrick Magee (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Cyril Cusack (actor), Mogens Skot-Hansen (producer), Paul Scofield (actor), Peter Brook (director), Peter Brook (writer), Jack MacGowran (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Kasper Schyberg (editor), Barry Stanton (actor),
Plot: The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "untatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.
Keywords: banishment, based-on-play, battle, betrayal, blindness, brother, castle, character-name-in-title, court-jester, curse