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David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist. He has written seven novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Italy, Japan, and Ireland.
Mitchell was born in Southport in Lancashire (now Merseyside), England, and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire. He was educated at Hanley Castle High School and at the University of Kent, where he obtained a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature.
Mitchell lived in Sicily for a year, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife.
Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
Actors: Ben Fransham (actor), Luke Hawker (actor), Dean Knowsley (actor), Nick Swinglehurst (editor), Alex Galvin (producer), Alex Galvin (editor), Alex Galvin (miscellaneous crew), Alex Galvin (director), Geraldine Brophy (actress), Alex Galvin (writer), Alex Galvin (actor), Michelle Scullion (composer), Michael Stephens (producer), Raquel Sims (actress), Rachel Clentworth (actress),
Plot: In the near future police detective, Richard Manning, is investigating the most difficult case of his career - the seemingly impossible locked room murder of a wealthy property investor. The more Richard investigates, the more complex the case seems to become. He soon realizes his own future and survival depend on him solving everything - and quickly.
Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi,Actors: Tomas Adamec (actor), George Basten (actor), Alex Granger (actor), Rendy Scott (actor), Cley Ozzborn (actor), Korbin Bloom (actor), Timothy Nixon (actor), Sebastien Stiler (actor), Martin Corvin (actor), Larry Sims (actor), Michael Steel (producer), Richard O'Shea (writer), Richard O'Shea (director), Lady C. (actress), Jonathan Fox (producer),
Genres: Adult,Actors: David Jason (actor), Alison Steadman (actress), David Jason (producer), Jeff Pope (producer), Jeff Pope (writer), Miles Richardson (actor), Edmund Butt (composer), Brian Croucher (actor), David Reynolds (producer), David Reynolds (producer), David Drury (director), Simon Dutton (actor), Ben Hepworth (miscellaneous crew), Tudor George (costume designer), Shaun Evans (actor),
Plot: Retired docker Don and his wife Dora live cautiously within their means. Their daughter Joanne, a single parent, struggles to make ends meet but their property developer son David has a very high life style,mixing in circles far removed from his working class upbringing. However it is a lifestyle financed by credit and soon his world has crashed and burned. His wife takes a supermarket job and his son sells his computer games at school to raise cash as the trio move in with Don and Dora. But David persuades his father to mortgage his home and come up with fifty thousand pounds for a supposedly sound investment. It is no such thing and Don loses the lot. Aware at last that his son is a selfish wheeler dealer,cheating on his wife,Don ends up in hospital after suffering a coronary. Can the family pull together and teach David some humility in order to restore mutual trust?
Genres: Drama,Actors: Doris Roberts (actress), Hannah Cowley (actress), Andy Griffith (actor), Clint Howard (actor), Sherie Giehtbrock (miscellaneous crew), Rance Howard (actor), Rhett Giles (actor), Rae Sunshine Lee (actress), Liz Sheridan (actress), Rene Napoli (actor), Leigh Rose (actress), Jim Latham (composer), Bunny Levine (actress), Marla Sokoloff (actress), Thomas Crawford (actor),
Plot: David sells cars at his father's dealership and, from time to time, visits his grandpa, Joe, at a retirement home. David's a great salesman and he's successful attracting women, one after another. Joe, meanwhile, misses his deceased wife and is done with life. David gives Joe advice on how to get women's attention at the care center, and Joe gives David advice on how to find a lifelong companion. Each dismisses the other's words, then tries them out - David with Julie, a women he met playing football, and Joe with Edna and with Rose. Failures follow success. Can either figure out how to enjoy life and be themselves?
Keywords: candlelight, car-salesman, chess, companionship, dating, doorman, father-son-relationship, football-game, friendship, geriatricActors: Jason Kistler (actor), Steve Knight (director), Steve Knight (writer), Nikki Hunter (actress), Kathy Cunningham (actress), Grace Henderson (actress), Jim Nichols (actor), René Ketterer (actress), Stephanie Reid (actress), Lauren Anderson (actress), Guy Grubbs (actor), Holly Sloan (actress), Dawn Yingling (actress), Jeff Chandler (actor), Kristi Heintzman (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: David Jean Thomas (actor), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), Harold Cannon (actor), Jeff Rector (actor), Gabriella Hall (actress), Lobo Sebastian (actor), Larry Seymour (composer), Kevin Ula Christie (actor), Kevin Ula Christie (writer), Kevin Ula Christie (producer), Kevin Ula Christie (director), Carl Thibault (actor), Carl Thibault (writer), Carl Thibault (writer), Carl Thibault (producer),
Genres: Action,Actors: Robert M. Sertner (producer), Frank von Zerneck (producer), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (actor), Steven Hilliard Stern (director), Fred Karlin (composer), Thomas F. Duffy (actor), Gregory Prange (editor), Ted Wass (actor), Herb Mitchell (actor), Mike Hill (editor), Eb Lottimer (actor), Jill Jacobson (actress), Phoebe Cates (actress), Pamela Bellwood (actress), Pilar Del Rey (actress),
Plot: Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
Keywords: adultery, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, dropout, extramarital-affair, family-relationships, femme-fatale, infidelity, love-triangle, melodrama, sister-sister-relationshipActors: Gene Coogan (actor), Jimmy Horan (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Clark Howat (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Richard Chamberlain (actor), Henry Beckman (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), James Bell (actor), Bert Freed (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), James Gregory (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: George Kirby (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Roy Butler (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Edmund Gwenn (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Tom Dillon (actor), Tom Drake (actor), David Dunbar (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), James Finlayson (actor), James Logan (actor),
Plot: William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
Keywords: dog, dog-actor, lassie, title-spoken-by-character