Michael Bryant - Фильмы

Деннис майкл Брайант (5 Апреля 1928 – 25 April 2002) was a British stage and television actor. Bryant attended Battersea Grammar School and after service in the Merchant Navy and Army, he attended drama school and appeared in many productions on the London stage. He made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2'1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy. His guest star appearance as Wing Commander Марш, who feigns insanity in the 'Tweedledum' episode of the BBC drama series, Colditz (1972), is still widely remembered. Bryant was chosen by Orson Welles to play the lead role in The Deep, Welles's adaptation of the Charles Williams novel Dead Calm. The production frequently ran out of money, and following the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, Уэллс stopped production and announced the movie - which had been completed except for one special effects shot of a ship взрыв - would not be released. (The novel was finally adapted to film in 1989.) В 1969 Брайант took his love of the stage on a strange trip into the realm of cult фильмы, playing a clever male prostitute who outwits a delusional family of killers in the dark comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, an adaptation of a play by Maisie Mosco. Due to poor marketing and a lack of faith in the film by the distributor, фильм quickly санк into obscurity even before it could develop a cult following. One of Bryant's most memorable производительность was in the classic BBC television play The Stone Tape (1972), in which he plays the leader of a team of scientists who investigate sightings ghost in a brooding gothic mansion. Bryant also had a supporting role as a sadistic psychiatrist in the cult classic black comedy The Ruling Class, with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. He also appeared in Richard Attenborough's Ганди (1982) as a British diplomat. Having played Lenin in the film Nicholas and Alexandria, Брайант would later кавер the role in Роберт Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977). He had previously co-starred in Bolt's unsuccessful Gentle Джек. The 1977 production of a Bolt play though was significant for featuring the first role he performed at the National Theatre where he was a constant presence for a quarter of a century. Брайант, described by Michael Billington as "rock-solid company man", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965), in which he played Teddy, the returning академический. В 1980, Майкл Брайант won the London Drama Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and his other theatrical производительность were equally well thought of. Bryant вон Laurence Olivier Awards in 1988 and 1990 and was nominated twice more.