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Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), better known as Suggs, is an English singer, actor, former radio DJ, television and radio personality, who is best known as the frontman of the band Madness.
McPherson was born in Hastings, the son of William Rutherford McPherson (1935–1975) and Edith Gower, who married in Paddington in 1960. As a child Suggs was brought up in Hastings by his mother, his father having left shortly before he was born. In a 2009 interview he was asked about what happened to his father:
As a child he moved around a lot. He spent three years of his childhood in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and had just started at a grammar school when he moved to North London. He then went to comprehensive school at Quintin Kynaston, Swiss Cottage, North London. On the official Madness website he says
Suggs got his nickname from randomly sticking a pin in an encyclopedia of jazz musicians (hitting Peter Suggs) while he was still in school, to avoid being labelled as the member of an ethnic minority owing to his Scottish name. To capitalize on the name he went as far as to create a myth around it, writing lines like "Suggs is our leader" on the walls and only answering to that name.
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Genres: Drama,Actors: Alan Naggar (actor), Jeff Wiesen (producer), Jeff Wiesen (director), Joseph Valdez (writer), Joseph Valdez (producer), Erica Lamkin (miscellaneous crew), Erica Lamkin (producer), Erica Lamkin (actress), Danny Reams (editor), Stephen Gibson (writer), John Cleveland (actor), John Cleveland (actor), Victoria Curtis (producer), John Cleveland (writer), Billyjack Jory (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: This film is the story of an up and coming boxer and his manager, who has also been taking care of him. When his manager discovers a secret he has been hiding, the boxer is forced to confront not only his manager, but his own choices in life.
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Plot: This film is the story of an up and coming boxer and his manager, who has also been taking care of him. When his manager discovers a secret he has been hiding, the boxer is forced to confront not only his manager, but his own choices in life.
Genres: Drama, Short, Sport,Actors: Suggs (actor), Darren Baba (actor), Darren Baba (producer), Bill Maloney (director), Bill Maloney (actor), Maria Maloney (editor), Maria Maloney (producer), Lilly Starr (actress),
Plot: When critically acclaimed maverick director Bill Maloney goes to New York to represent his nominated feature film at a NY film festival, he decides, because of his gritty working class roots, to bypass the festival glitz, in favor of shooting a documentary about the under privileged and homeless people of New York.
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Plot: Dexter King plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson. He falls in love with Kate, a pretty nurse he meets when he is receiving injections for hay fever. When Anderson fires him, he acquires the title role in a musical stage version of "The Elephant Man". Kate dumps him when she suspects he is having an affair with a fellow cast member, and he must win her back.
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Genres: Musical,