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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club.
After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature.
He first came to public attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster.
As an actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones and appeared as rogue TV host Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V For Vendetta. He has also written and presented several documentary series including the 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 US states. Since 2003 he has been the host of the quiz show QI.
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
Actors: Les Dennis (actor), Laurence Saunders (actor), Ty Bankinson (actor), Steve Weston (actor), Steve Weston (writer), Steve Weston (producer), Richard J. Danum (actor), Gareth Bennett-Ryan (actor), Richard J. Danum (producer), Saul James (composer), Keith How (actor), Marc Baylis (actor), Paul Hurstfield (actor), Steve Dimarco (actor), Joseph Baker (writer),
Plot: Wounded tells the story of former soldier John Woods. When he returns from Afghanistan with horrific injuries he settles into a new life haunted by the accident that caused his injuries. On a chance moment John witnesses a neighbor abusing his young son. Without taking long to make a decision John finds himself on the run with the young lad. With the police and the boys family pursuing them they speed across the country with John trying to find a way out of this mess. The film concludes with a showdown on Clacton Pier and a concluding twist that helps John escape the nightmare.
Genres: Drama, Thriller, War,Actors: Tom McBeath (actor), Roman Podhora (actor), Colin Lawrence (actor), David Kaye (actor), Kevin McNulty (actor), Campbell Lane (actor), Steve Bacic (actor), Don S. Davis (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Roger R. Cross (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Malcolm Stewart (actor),
Plot: This film tells the story of Lt. Paula Coughlin when she was assigned as an Admiral's assistant at the annual US Navy convention called Tailhook. During that convention, which often had predominately male officers partying wildly, she was subjected to "The Guantlet" in which she was sexually man-handled and harassed relentlessly by the male officers attending. Abused and humiliated by this collective affront to her, she sought to bring charges on her attackers. However, she found that she must not only confront her attackers, but more importantly, the male military mentality and profound sexism that permitted this kind of outrage in the first place.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, navy, sexism, sexual-harassment, u.s.-navyActors: David Warner (actor), Jacqueline Giroux (producer), Louise Fletcher (actress), Andy Romano (actor), Peter Foldy (director), Peter Foldy (writer), Barbara Carrera (actress), Cain Devore (actor), William G. Schilling (actor), Jamie Luner (actress), Steve Bond (actor), Abraham Alvarez (actor), Stephen Traxler (producer), Barry Pearl (actor), Lawrence Appelbaum (producer),
Plot: A young man journeys to the estate of rich family in Santa Barbara, California, to visit his mother, who works there as a maid and whom he hasn't seen in many years. He winds up getting involved in adultery and a murder plot and uncovering some long-hidden secrets that no one in the family wants revealed.
Keywords: abusive-husband, affair, breasts, deceit, detective, erotica, extramarital-affair, face-slap, false-accusation, family-secretActors: Mary Walsh (actress), Don Haig (producer), Andy Jones (actor), Cathy Jones (actress), Ken Campbell (actor), Rick Mercer (actor), Maggie Thomas (miscellaneous crew), Géza Kovács (actor), Mary Lewis (actress), Brian Downey (actor), Val Teodori (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jones (director), Paul Pope (producer), Paul Pope (actor), Michael Jones (actor),
Plot: A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.
Keywords: conspiracy, independent-film, newfoundland-canadaActors: Gregory Dark (actor), William S. Taylor (actor), Terry David Mulligan (actor), Jeffrey Nordling (actor), Charles Millot (actor), Erwin Strahl (actor), Patrick Macnee (actor), Sacha Briquet (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Mike Marshall (actor), Mel Ferrer (actor), Ben Cross (actor), Paul L. Smith (actor), Andrew V. McLaglen (director), Gregory Dark (producer),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller,Actors: Mia Farrow (actress), James Villiers (actor), Julie Harris (costume designer), Carol Reed (director), Anne V. Coates (editor), Jack Watling (actor), Hal B. Wallis (producer), John Barry (composer), Annette Crosbie (actress), David Hutcheson (actor), Lucy Griffiths (actress), Neil McCarthy (actor), Gladys Henson (actress), James Cossins (actor), Michael Jayston (actor),
Plot: When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspects an affair and hires a detective (Topol). The wife notices she is being followed, and maintaining their distance she and the detective explore London for 10 days in a game of follow-the-leader without ever exchanging a word.
Keywords: accountant, based-on-play, exclamation-point-in-title, following-someone, jealousy, loneliness, macaroon, misunderstanding, orange, private-detectiveActors: Edward Rigby (actor), John Salew (actor), Robert Adair (actor), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Howard Douglas (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), Fred Griffiths (actor), Cameron Hall (actor), Leslie Perrins (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), David Horne (actor), Francis De Wolff (actor), John Singer (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: John Mills (actor), Roddy Hughes (actor), Bernard Miles (actor), Leslie Dwyer (actor), George Carney (actor), Leslie Howard (actor), Bernard Miles (actor), Ballard Berkeley (actor), Gerald Case (actor), John Boxer (actor), Michael Anderson (actor), Noel Coward (actor), Noel Coward (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), John Mills (actor),
Plot: This is the story of a British Naval ship, HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is the experienced Captain E.V. Kinross who trains his men not only to be loyal to him but to the country and most importantly, to themselves. They face challenges at sea and also at home. They lose some of their shipmates in action and some of their loved ones in the devastation that is the blitz. Throughout it all, the men of the Torrin serve valiantly and heroically.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, battleship, bomber, british-navy, captain, crew, destroyer, flashback, harbor, knittingActors: Hooper Atchley (actor), Walter Fenner (actor), Silver Tip Baker (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Chris Allen (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Champion (actor), Jim Corey (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Augie Gomez (actor),
Plot: Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.
Keywords: arrest, arson, auction, aunt, bus, cattle, chase, cowboy, eavesdropping, escapeActors: John Loder (actor), Olive Sloane (actress), Margaret Yarde (actress), Basil Dean (producer), J.B. Priestley (writer), Basil Dean (director), Frank Pettingell (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Maire O'Neill (actress), Richard Greene (actor), Ernest Irving (composer), Thorold Dickinson (editor), Gordon Wellesley (miscellaneous crew), Morris Harvey (actor), Muriel Pavlow (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,