British Actors Smörgåsbord

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  1. With an average per movie of approx $44 million in adjusted dollars in the US Helen doesn’t do well overall in Bruce’s stats chart but her acting stats are staggering. IMDB credits her with 123 acting awards and 124 nominations and ranks her No 23 on a list of its perceived 100 greatest actress of all time, above such Hollywood legends as Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia DeHavilland, Sophia Loren and Grace Kelly. Helen had an English mother but a Russian father [Vasily Petrovich Mironoff -isn’t Maurice Micklewhite a funny name?]. Helen’s net worth is $50 million.

    POSTERS that pleased me most in video entries 40-21 are (1) 2nd one for Nutcracker (2) Tempest (3) Raising Helen (4) Inkheart (5) raunchy 1st one for Age of Consent (6) very raunchy 2nd one for Comfort of Strangers (7)White Nights (8) foreign language one Red 2 (9) Woman of Gold (10) Pascali’s Island.

    POSTERS 1-20 of which the best for me are (1) Last Orders (2) Legend of the Guardians (3) The Cook etc (4) 2 for Fate of the Furious (5) Monster University (6) raunchy one for Cal (7) Trumbo (8) The Madness of King Joel (9) an entire brilliant set for Excalibur (10 ) and State of Play with Russell Crowe. In the quotes you gave me Sir Anthony Hopkins described Crowe as a “bad boy”. Bruce and I had worked that one out long ago!

    STILLS I most enjoyed over entire video (1) opening one of the young, sexy Helen (2) Hitchcock (3) 2 from 2010 (4) Red 1(5) Eye in the Sky (6) Madness of King Joel (7) a ravishing Helen in Excalibur (8) with Malcolm in O Lucky Man (9) 1st one for Long Good Friday and (10) as the woman who made Helen a Dame.

    Yours video is a fine and satisfying photoplay of a very distinct Brit actress which I regard as 98% rated. You and Bruce agree on 3 of Helen’s 6 best reviewed movies with Excalibur the one that has you furthest apart [5th in your estimation but ranked 19th by WH]

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    1. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info, trivia and comparison, much appreciated. Happy the posters and stills met with your approval.

      How does that South Pacific song go? “There is nothin’ like a daaaame….” I think we’ve had enough knights and lords on my video channel in the past few weeks (months?), it’s Dame Helen’s turn to hog the spotlight.

      She was a naughty young thing back in the late 60s and 70s, there were topless stills of her from the film Age of Consent, starring James Mason which I couldn’t use on my video. And I’m sure she had a ball starring in Caligula surrounded by naked young men and women.

      The success of the British TV series Prime Suspect during the 1990s raised her profile and Hollywood beckoned.

      Three Helen Mirren films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Madness of King George, O Lucky Man and The Queen. Two scored 9 – Excalibur and The Long Good Friday. 10 more scored 8 out of 10.

      The Queen topped the charts at IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Bruce’s critics chart too.

      Mirren on the Academy Awards – “It’s the creme-de-la-creme of bulls**t.”

      “You can’t ask people: “Did you cast me in this because I won an Oscar?” They’d always deny it: “No! No! We would have had you anyway!” Liars!”

      “Flesh sells. People don’t want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.”

      “We’re all idiots when we’re young. We don’t think we are, but we are. So we should be. I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making ‘Frenzy’ in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him – but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.”

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      1. HI STEVE

        Thanks for the feedback, background information and quotes.

        Yes she was a naughty young thing in her physical prime and I am sure that back then the likes of Sinatra would have referred to her as a dame in the traditional Hollywood sense [or a “broad”]whereas in recent decades she has been quite at home playing “establishment” figures such as Det Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, Col Powell of US military intelligence and of course Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King Joel

        My brother was fascinated by her when she appeared in Caligula so physically appealing did he find her.

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  2. For virtually quarter of a century before he played Hannibal Lecter Sir Anthony Hopkins had been consistently turning in fine performances and for example earned a BAFTA nomination for 1972’s War and Peace, secured a Golden Globe nomination for Magic in 1978, won an Emmy award for playing Hitler in 1981’s The Bunker, and also won an award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1987 for 84 Charing Cross Road

    Sir A’s net worth is said to be $160 million. Overall IMDB credits him with 50 acting awards and 63 nominations and ranks him 8th in its self-proclaimed “Ultimate” list of the 100 greatest actors of all time, above even Tracy and Olivier. The Top 10 in ranked order
    1/Jack Nicholson
    2/Marlon Brando
    3/Robert DeNiro
    4/Al Pacino
    5/Daniel Day-Lewis
    6/Dustin Hoffman
    7/Tom Hanks
    8/Sir Anthony Hopkins
    9/Paul Newman
    10/Denzel Washington
    SELECTED OTHERS IN RANKED ORDER
    11/Spencer Tracy
    12/Lord Olivier
    14/Sir Maurice Micklewhite
    32/Gregory Peck
    43/Cary Grant
    88/Chuck Heston
    89/Gene Kelly

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    1. SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS VIDEO. ENTRIES 50-26 Best POSTERS for me are (1) Transformers (2) Road to Wellville (3) Collide (4) The Wolf Man (5) Eight Bells Toll (6) Audrey Rose (7) foreign language one for Solace (8) Surviving Picasso**(9) Noah (10) 1st one for Red Dragon (11) both for Beowulf and (12) 1st one for Juggernaut

      **COINCIDENCE Sir Tony always spoke highly of Brando and at one stage Marlon was scheduled to play Picasso but the project fell through.

      ENTRIES 1-25. For my money the most pleasing POSTERS are (1) Hamlet (2) Mask of Zorro (3) 1st one for Titus (4) 1st one for The Bounty [I don’t think I have ever seen Tony’s Bligh/Gibson’s Christian (5) the World’s Fastest Indian (6) Thor Dark World (7) ALL for Thor Ragnarok (8) 2nd for Howard’s End (9) both for Elephant Man and (10) Lion in Winter

      My pick of the STILLS over the entire video is as follows (1) Transformers (2) with Robert Morely (3) The Rite (4) Red 2 (5) Magic (6) 2 for Hitchcock (7)Amistad (8) Thor (9) Nixon (10) The Bounty (11) in Alucard [in this still, with the beard Tony looks remarmakly like Brando’s Sir William Walker in 1969’s Quiemada] (12) The Elephant Man (13) Lion in Winter and (14) ever iconic as Dr Lecter.

      You and The Work Horse have almost a full house agreeing on 5 of Sir Tony’s 6 best reviewed movies. In his 6 Bruce goes for Thor Ragnarok whereas you prefer Shadowlands. I haven’t seen Ragnarok but Shadowlands is a respectable top 6 entry. I thought your video was one of your best and well worth 98.5%.

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      1. Good list Bob. Not thinking many people are going to have Anthony Hopkins ranked that high. So kudos to IMDb for listing him that high. He did not make my Top 50 in our book. He does get a few mentions in that book. Looks like Sir Anthony did a good job of investing his money…..that is a pretty hefty number when looking at his net worth. Good stuff.

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      2. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info trivia, star chart, always appreciated. Glad you liked the video, posters and stills.

        I was planning to make this a top 40 but there were too many interesting movies to leave out regardless of the ratings, so it morphed into a top 50.

        Is that list in your post voted for by IMDB members? It’s interesting that Robert De Niro’s 15 years worth of low grade comedies hasn’t affected his standing as a great actor.

        I watched The Bounty recently, along with the Clark Gable and Brando versions. The 1984 edition is the least impressive of the three but does contain Anthony Hopkins as an increasingly psychotic Bligh, screaming at Mel Gibson’s Christian for no good reason. Christian eventually flips too and we’ve seen how crazy Gibson can get from the Lethal Weapon series.

        In this version of The Bounty Bligh and Christian are friends before the voyage starts which is fairly accurate since they already knew each other historically. Plus there’s a happy ending for Bligh as he’s exonerated of any blame for the mutiny and commended for making that long voyage to an English port in a small open boat.

        6 Hopkins movies scored 10 out fo 10 from my sources, which also happens to be the top six movies on my chart –

        The Silence of the Lambs
        The Lion in Winter
        The Elephant Man
        The Remains of the Day
        Howards End
        Shadowlands

        Two more scored 9 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula and 84 Charing Cross Road. 8 more scored 8 out of 10.

        Lambs tops the charts at IMDB and Rottern Tomatoes and on Bruce’s UMR and critics charts too. Thor Ragnarok is his biggest grosser.

        Hopkins on Laurence Olivier – “He was a pretty colorful personality. He had tremendous drive, and ambition, and was a real force. A very nice guy and a titanic talent. His sort of talent has, in the eyes of cynics, become rather unfashionable. There are people who knock Olivier quite often, but not a single one of them could ever touch him in terms of talent. I thought he was an extraordinary man.”

        Hopkins on Brando – “He was fascinating to watch, he could do anything. It was the ‘screw you’ attitude. That takes tremendous courage or tremendous folly.”

        “I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.”

        “Over the years I worked with a couple of younger actors who reminded me of myself. I like bad boys. I worked with Russell Crowe in Australia before he became a star. Russell is a bad boy. I think he is terrific. Richard Burton was a bad boy, but he shook the rafters of the world. I think it is good to be bad – I was bad all my life. I still am.”

        “How do you play Hannibal Lecter? Well just don’t move. Scare people by being still.”

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        1. HI STEVE Thanks for your feedback on my Sir Tony posts and for the background information on the Hopkins/Gibson Bounty. I personally have not seen any explanation from IMDB as to how they arrive at the selections for their ranking lists and the orders of merit.

          They seem to update them periodically. The previous [ie pre 2012 one] had ole Mumbles No 1 and Nicholson No 2. However it is in a way fitting that those two great pals in real life should be jostling each other for the top spot.

          I’m sure though that those in the Top 10 of the 2012 list would appear on ANY list that named 100 actors with only the ranking placings and order varying.

          Interesting quotes from Sir Tony about fellow Greats Olivier and Brando. I think that Tony has a point when he compares Finney with Mumbles as I could have quite seen Marlon doing an American version of Albert’s Arthur Seaton from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

          I’ve said before on this site that I saw Sir Anthony given an interview in which he raved about Brando, saying something along the lines of “I watched The Young Lions recently and was magnetised by Brando and asked myself ‘Where do they come from these special people who seem to appear amongst us once or twice in one’s own lifetime as if from nowhere?’”

          One of those critics like The Master, who can see deeper things than mortals like you and me, insisted Mumbles’ influence on Tony was of such magnitude that “Without Brando there would have been no Anthony Hopkins.”

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          1. HI AGAIN STEVE Years ago I used to collect poetry like others collect stamps and as I’ve enjoyed your exclusively Great Brits video series I thought it would be appropriate to include in my final comments in the present series [which I think you said Sir Tony’s video concludes] an extract from one of my all-time favourite poems which of course was also put to song by Dame Vera Lynn.

            Just picture Theresa May, Michel Barnier and Jean Claude Juncker all joining hands and singing it!

            THERE’LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND
            There’ll always be an England,
            While there’s a country lane,
            Wherever there’s a cottage small
            Beside a field of grain.

            There’ll always be an England,
            While there’s a busy street,
            Wherever there’s a turning wheel
            A million marching feet.

            There’ll always be an England,
            And England shall be free,
            If England means as much to you
            As England means to me

  3. HI STEVE Having made his movie debut in 2001 Tom Hardy has been on the screen for 17 years now. To someone very young, especially a teenager, that’s a long time but relative to for example Christopher Plummer who’s been acting for 60 years to date Tom’s career has been short at this juncture.

    Accordingly I feel that Tom has done very well to accumulate the 16 acting awards and 77 nominations credited to him by IMDB and to have generated a reported personal net wealth of $30 million. I for one thought his dual portrayal of the Kray twins with their different kinds of personalities was mesmerising and it’s good to see that for once The Work Horse seems to agree with me.

    It sets matters in context when one considers that Christopher Plummer, again for instance and a wonderful actor, has an apparent net worth of ‘just’ $20 million to show for a career that has been more than 3 times the length of Hardy’s.

    Best POSTERS for my money are (1) both for Minotaur, one quite raunchy (2) Deserter (3) raunchy one for the Reckoning (4) both for Child 44 (5) both for Venom (6) foreign language one for Lawless (7) foreign language one for Black hawk Down (8) 2 for Dunkirk (9) All for Dark Knight Rises (10) Mad Max and (11) 1st for Inception.

    Pick of the STILLS for me were (1) This Means War (2) Venom (3) 2 with Sir Patrick (4) Lawless (5) The Drop (6) Tinker, Tailor (7) Stuart (8) Warrior (9) Dark Knight Rises and (10) 2 for Mad Max.

    You have given us a fine profile of Tom’s movie career to date and my notes add up to a 97.5% rating. You and Bruce agree on 5 of Hardy’s Top 6 best reviewed films with you leaving out of your 6 his Tinker Tailor and him omitting Warrior, your No 6 Tom’s opening quote might suggest that he could well agree with me about Statham! Certainly I think I would have taken on Jason before I would have tackled either of The Krays – or Ladd!

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    1. Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Tom Hardy video, appreciate the trivia and comparisons. Happy you enjoyed the picture gallery.

      According to wikipedia Tom was born in London but is of Irish descent.
      [Bob punches air]

      I first noticed him as Captain Picard’s evil clone in ‘Star Trek Nemesis’, when I saw him in ‘Bronson’ a few years later I was shocked at how good he was, a complete nutcase. Gary Oldman all over again! 🙂

      He was also effective as Leonardo DiCaprio’s nemesis in The Revenant, earning him his only Oscar nomination so far.

      He had good reviews for Warrior but I haven’t seen that one yet. I agree he was very good playing both the Kray twins though the film itself was not as good.

      Two of Hardy’s films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Dunkirk and The Revenant. No 9s but there are 8 scoring 8 out of 10.

      Inception tops IMDBs Tom Hardy chart and Dunkirk is no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes, both films directed by Christopher Nolan.

      “Gary Oldman is my hero, that’s it. When I went to drama school everybody used to quote him in all his films, you know State of Grace right through to Léon: The Professional or whatever. So to work with him, for him to look me in the eye, talk to me… acknowledge I exist! Cos I’m not star struck by people, but Gary just took the wind right out of me. I was shocked to actually be working with him. Then for him to actually like me, and to work three times with him – cos we did Lawless afterwards. This is a man that I’ve stolen everything that I’ve done from, like Bronson and Stuart: A Life Backwards. That’s me trying to emulate what Gary’s done, and to work with him makes me feel like I don’t have any characters of my own. [laughs] ”

      Tom on going to drama school with Michael Fassbender – “Yeah, Fassbender was two years above me at drama school and he was the guy. Everybody wanted to be like him. He was really, really good. He was a special student in the third year, and then he left and I didn’t see him again until we did Band of Brothers. I remember when we were there, he was doing the play “The Silver Tassie”, a character who lost his legs in World War I, and he was spending a lot of time in a wheelchair. We only had half an hour for lunch and Michael would spend forever getting through the line in his wheelchair, so we’d all be like “Come on, Michael! Just order your food, man!” And he’d spin around in his wheelchair and yell, “F**k off!”. It was always in the cards for Michael. I’m not surprised about him at all, because he was awesome. Me, I don’t know how I got here! I feel like I just came from delivering pizza and I got lucky.”

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      1. HI STEVE

        Thanks for the usual careful reply including this time two comprehensive quotes from Tom Hardy about Gary Oldman and Michael Fassbender.

        I have watched Michael quite a bit in the last while, first in a rerun of a TV Hercule Poirot episode from 2006 called After the Funeral, then in an arthouse showing of 2015’s Macbeth and recently in a thriller 2017’s The Snowman.

        Michael’s net worth is said to be identical to that of Tom Hardy, $30 million. And Michael’s wife, Alicia Vikander whom he married last year is reportedly in possession of a further $8 million net.

        Michael’s nationality is listed as German-Irish so I’m claiming him for mine as you have already laid claim to more than enough of the subjects of your recent videos!

        Anyway take care and have a good weekend.

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        1. Thanks Bob, I will include Michael Fassbender in the next round of Brit actors some time next year. Maybe Liam Neeson and Colin Farrell too, oh wait don’t tell me they have Irish ancestry too! 🙂

          A Welsh acting legend will be up later today. A top 50 and the last in this run of British actors, though I am tempted to add a couple of British actresses too.

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          1. Hey Steve….well…your Brit You Tube series….has helped this page get some views……so thank you for that….look forward to a Fassbender, Farrell and Neeson page. Colin has been our radar for awhile….maybe I will get it done before you. Good stuff as always.

        2. Hey Bob….sounds like Michael and Alicia can afford a nice Christmas. I have a Fassbender page already…and have thought about a Vikander page as well….especially since I have so Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winners done. Easily the worst total of the major Oscar winning pages we have. Good feedback.

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  4. HI STEVE

    My interpretation was that we had agreed that it would be useful if all exchanges about your Great Brit video series were centralised on this special page that was created for the series. Anyway thanks for your feedback on my Oldman posts and for the explanations and very interesting quotes.

    Obviously Gary made his greatest mark in high prestige productions such as Tinker Tailor, Count Alucard, Hannibal and Darkest Hour. However I also enjoyed him in the low key thriller 1988’s Criminal Law co-starring Kevin Bacon though IMDB gives it just 57% rating, it fares even worse with the Work Horse’s 45% and you don’t mention it all.

    Gary thinks that Churchill is the greatest Briton that ever lived! Is he serious – or has he never met Jason Statham?

    Take care.

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    1. Hi Bob, I was watching Statham yesterday in The Meg, he was out-acted by a prehistoric fish! [Bob grins] The Meg was trashed by critics everywhere but moviegoers ignored the snooty fools and it went on to gross over $500m worldwide. The question is would it still have succeeded with any ‘hunky’ actor in the lead, say Gerard Butler, or was the Stath a major draw (along with the CG beastie)?

      I know we agreed we would use this page for our Brit Vid season chit-chat but that’s because we reckoned Bruce wouldn’t have pages on most of these subjects. A Gary Oldman fan scanning Bruce’s Oldman page for stats and comments might have found our ramblings interesting. 🙂

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      1. Btw Criminal Law was on my list and scored 5.6 which would have put it near the bottom of my chart, let’s just say it came down to a choice between the poster for Criminal Law or The Unborn which featured that girls sexy posterior… 😉

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        1. Hey Bob and Steve and Steve and Bob….you guys can talk movies anywhere you want……your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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      3. HI STEVE

        Jaws has an adjusted worldwide gross of over $2 billion and the main action hero in that one was Roy Scheider who was not a leading box office star at that time

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  5. STEVE

    Wikipedia describes Gary Oldman as ”One of the greatest screen actors of his generation.” IMDB credits him with 58 acting awards and 74 nominations and ranks him 73rd in its “ultimate” list of the 100 Greatest Screen Actors of All Time. His net worth is currently said to be $50 million.

    Best POSTERS 42-21 (1) Raunchy one for The Unborn (2) Scarlet Letter (3) The Space Between Us (4) Child 44 (5) Robocop (6) foreign language one for Book of Eli (7) Christmas Carol (9) Romeo is Bleeding (10) The Hitman’s Bodyguard (11) The Firm and (12) 2nd one for Tinker, Tailor.

    Best POSTERS 1-20 in my opinion are (1) Kung Fu Panda 2 (2) Immortal Beloved (3) Sid and Nancy (4) Nil by Mouth (5) both ones for Darkest Hour (6) The 5th Element (7) both for Dawn of Planet of the Apes (8) JKF (9) all of the ones for Dark Knight & Dark Knight Rises (10) The Professional (11) Batman Begins, and (12) As before, almost without exception your entire run of posters and stills for the Harry Potter films are to my mind so good that they have held a special appeal for me though I am not a fan of the films or books themselves..

    Continued in Part 2

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    1. BEST STILLS 1-42 (1) Lost in Space (2) A Christmas Carol (3) with Harrison Ford, Gary showing us all how really limited Han was as an actor (4) Prick up Your Ears (5) as The Great Man himself (“Winnie”***) (6) the 5th Element [I thought Gary looked a bit liked Princess Leia in that still] (7) True Romance (8) two stunners of Alucard (9) as James Gordon but –

      (10) I was really startled by your opening still of the very young Gary as I personally had never seen him that young before in any presentation.

      “If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” [Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray]

      The Oldman video is one of your very best presentations in my opinion and worth 98.5% rating in my book. You and Bruce agree on 3 of Gary’s Top 6 best reviewed films. You have H Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2 in your Top 6 whereas Bruce has Prisoner of Azkaban and I couldn’t find Hallows Part 2 anywhere in Bruce’s Oldman stats table.

      ***ADDITIONAL TRIVIA I was serving with the Royal Air Force in the Middle East when Sir Winston died on 24 Jan 1965. The Duty Corporal for that day went into our bar room on the military complex to order it to be shut early for the night as a mark of respect for the Legendary Brit War leader. One of the servicemen drinking there who was “well oiled” was so angry at drinking for the evening being prematurely terminated that he threw the Duty Corporal through a plate glass door and ended up in jail.

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      1. Hey Bob….good breakdown on Steve’s Oldman video and Oldman’s career. Oldman appeared in 4 Potter movies….only one was a substantial role…The Prisoner of Azkaban. His part in Order of the Phoenix was bigger than a cameo….so those are the only two to make it to my Oldman page. So far WoC has not overrode my decision on that one…..at least…not yet…lol. Thanks for the feedback.

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        1. BRUCE Thanks for clarification of Potter omission. Steve is obviously the more generous soul these days. Maybe it’s the Christmas spirit

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      2. Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating, info and trivia, always appreciated.

        Glad you enjoyed the video, poster and stills.

        I included the TV movie – The Firm – which was made by the BBC, because it was an important step up for Gary Oldman. He received rave reviews for his intense portrayal of a football hooligan.

        He is only the 2nd actor to win a Best Actor Oscar for playing a British Prime Minister, the first was George Arliss for Disraeli. Meryl Streep of course won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Margaret Thatcher. I wonder who’ll be playing Theresa May in a few years time? [shudders]

        Gary Oldman was married 5 times, once to actress Uma Thurman.

        Five of his films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Prick Up your Ears, Nil by Mouth, Leon The Professional, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows p.2 and The Dark Knight.

        Three films scored 9 – JFK, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 12 more scored 8 out of 10.

        The Dark Knight tops both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes charts, and mine and Bruce’s too.

        Gary on JFK – “It was the most thrilling experience watching myself for the first time in JFK, because I couldn’t believe I was in it – Oliver Stone at the very height of his powers, the sheer energy of it all, his commitment. When I saw the finished product I had to pinch myself. I thought, Wow, I’m in this movie. This is terrific.”

        Gary on Air Force One – “That movie had some enjoyable moments. I remember the flight deck was on a sound stage and there was a big sign that said “No Drinking, No Smoking and No Eating On Set”. At one point I looked over and Harrison Ford was in the doorway beneath the sign with a burrito, a cigar and a cup of coffee, which I thought was hilarious. I could never get the image out of my head. Nowadays we would take out an iPhone and post something like that on Instagram.”

        Gary on Harry Potter – “I’ve done so much R-rated work, it’s nice to have a job you can show your kids.”

        Gary on Churchill – “I think you get to a point where it has to become creation rather than impersonation, you try and get the spirit of the essence of the man. You’ve not only got this sort of beloved Briton, this iconic figure who is arguably the greatest Briton who ever lived, but you’ve also got the gallery of other people. So you’ve got this image of Churchill, but is that contaminated or in any way influenced by Albert Finney as Churchill or Robert Hardy as Churchill?”

        Hmmm we should be posting this on the Gary Oldman page, more fitting.

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