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Peter Ackroyd CBE (born 5 October 1949, East Acton in west London) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
Ackroyd grew up on a council estate and was raised in a "strict" Roman Catholic household. He first knew that he was gay when he was seven. He was educated at St. Benedict's, Ealing and at Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a double first in English literature. In 1972, he was a Mellon Fellow at Yale University.
The result of his Yale fellowship was Notes for a New Culture, written when Ackroyd was only 22 and eventually published in 1976. The title, an echo of T. S. Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), was an early indication of Ackroyd's penchant for exploring and re-examining the works of other London-based writers.
Actors: Nate Clark (actor), Nate Clark (writer), Tom Fonss (actor), Chris Eckert (actor), Chris Eckert (writer), Allen Loeb (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Daniel Cordery (composer), Gregory Kelly (producer), Gregory Kelly (composer), Andrew Dickens (actor), Gregory Kelly (actor), Hayden Lowry (miscellaneous crew), Dean Arndt (actor), Alexander Bobir (actor), Ben Tregea (writer), Ben Tregea (editor), Karlie Maxfield (actor), Ben Tregea (director), Morgan Mackay (actor), Daniel Codery (actor),
Plot: A short action film about Sterns, a cop with a lot on his plate. He's just arrived at the house of a suspected gang who he believes are holding a young woman hostage. With backup still awhile away and the young woman's life in the balance, Sterns decides to take matters into his own hands.
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Nick Ewans (actor), Robbi Stevens (producer), Robbi Stevens (director), Robbi Stevens (writer), Robbi Stevens (actor), Robbi Stevens (writer), Daniel D. Moses (miscellaneous crew), Erim Metto (director), Daniel D. Moses (miscellaneous crew), Daniel D. Moses (actor), Daniel D. Moses (actor), Erim Metto (actor), Victoria Howell (writer), Selina Lee Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Selina Lee Edwards (actress),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Sally Kirkland (actress), Cody Westheimer (composer), John Savage (actor), Joey Diaz (actor), Christopher Kriesa (actor), Clint Howard (actor), Carey Scott (actor), Aloma Wright (actress), Tina Hirsch (editor), Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez (actor), Ali Costello (actress), Frank Alvarez (actor), Ryan Westheimer (writer), Ryan Westheimer (producer), Ryan Westheimer (producer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Mychael Danna (composer), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Danna (composer), Brendan Fletcher (actor), Jeremy Thomas (producer), Dana Dubé (miscellaneous crew), Terry Gilliam (director), Terry Gilliam (writer), Jeff Bridges (actor), Jodelle Ferland (actress), Jodelle Ferland (actress), Janet McTeer (actress), Jennifer Tilly (actress), Cherie Smid (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Simpson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but retarded brother Dickens.
Keywords: abandoned-house, abuse, aloneness, altar, alternate-reality, ant, apple-pie, applying-makeup, attic, avant-gardeActors: Michael Zen (editor), Michael J. Cox (actor), Michael J. Cox (actor), Jill Kelly (actress), Janine Lindemulder (actress), Kobe Tai (actress), Inari Vachs (actress), Toni Brooks (producer), Raven Touchstone (writer), Raven Touchstone (costume designer), Michael Zen (director), Jake Steed (actor), Jake Steed (actor), Tony Tedeschi (actor), Bobby Vitale (actor),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Elspeth Dudgeon (actress), Leslie Denison (actor), Colin Campbell (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), Lynne Roberts (actress), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Ottola Nesmith (actress), Tom Stevenson (actor), Heather Angel (actress), Molly Lamont (actress), Grayce Hampton (actress), John Larkin (director), Thomas Louden (actor), Lydia Bilbrook (actress), Denis Green (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Lee Phelps (actor), Arthur Shields (actor), Dickie Moore (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), Fritz Leiber (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), Don Dillaway (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Kent Smith (actor),
Plot: During WWII, adults are either off fighting or busy in the factories, so juvenile delinquency becomes a major problem back home. Danny Hauser, a wounded soldier, finds this out as he returns and three young boys are promptly placed in the care of him and his wife by the court after some hooliganism. How to keep them straight?
Keywords: ambulance, amusement-park, automobile-accident, birthday, card-game, child-care, dancing, defense-worker, delinquent, exploitationActors: Don Beddoe (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Eric Blore (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), William Forrest (actor), Roger Gray (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Shemp Howard (actor), Warren Hull (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), George McKay (actor), Luis Alberni (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery,Actors: Winifred Greenwood (actress), John Lancaster (actor), William Nicholas Selig (producer), Adrienne Kroell (actress), Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (actor), Mac Barnes (actor), Chauncy D. Herbert (director), Thomas Flynn (actor), Chris Lane (writer), Colin Reid (actor), Frank Owens (actor), Louise Reming (actress), Adeline Adair (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,If you won't come over, I won't come to your house.
If I won't come to you, I'll just live without you.
Turn this way and that, and twist like a snake.
If I want to see you, I would have to change.
Heaven wasn't in the sky, but I'll get there anyway.
If you won't come over, I won't come to your house.
If I won't come to you, I'll just live without you.
And try to remember when we could be friends,
When I used to follow everything you said.
Heaven wasn't in the sky, but I'll get there anyway.
Heaven wasn't in the sky, but I'll get there just the same.
When I try to please you, I can't see to stand.
And when you come in, you wreck everything.
I'll go somewhere far, where you never can.
I won't hear your voice, I won't feel your hands.
Heaven wasn't in the sky, but I'll get there anyway.