Actor Charles Dance: 2019

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Actor Charles Dance: “I defy anyone to hear the words of young Alanoud in this film and feel comfortable that goods made in their country are being used to commit such horrors. And though we only tell Alanoud’s story, the heart-breaking truth is that we could have told a thousand more just like hers.

“Whatever else is going on in British politics right now, we cannot in good conscience let it deflect from our duty to prevent little children like Alanoud from having their lives literally blown apart by British manufacturing”.

https://mwatana.org/en/their-story-our-duty/

Yemen: Their Story, Our Duty

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With only four years of acting under her belt, Shalom Mong'ina Nyandiko, 14, has had roles in major series like Deep State 2 and The Widow.

What celebrity actors have you enjoyed working with so far and why?
I worked together with Game of Thrones' actor Charles Dance on The Widow. He was incredibly funny and down to earth. Also Dr Who's Alex Kingston, she has a great personality and humour.
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In the now traditional yearly special, Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2019 will see Jimmy Carr return to celebrate the dawn of another year.

He'll...be ably assisted by a panel of top celebrity teams and a series of superstar question setters including Mitchell Brook Primary School, Charles Dance and Jon Snow

Air dates for the specials will be confirmed in due course.
https://tellymix.co.uk/tv/422955-big-fat-quiz-of-the-year-2019-and-the-decade-confirmed

about The Inn At The Edge Of The World

Andrew Brown has joined Parkland Pictures as head of sales

Among the titles Brown is selling at AFM is Charles Dance’s The Inn At The Edge Of The World, a film which he, as executive producer, brought to Parkland Entertainment

The film, Dance’s second feature as a director, is being produced by Cairns alongside Lamia Nayeb-Hilaire. Dance’s 2004 debut feature Ladies In Lavender was a solid box-office hit, and is credited with launching a new wave of UK films targeting the so-called “grey pound”, the older demographic now seen as a key component of the cinemagoing audience in the UK.

Based on the award-winning book by Alice Thomas Ellis, The Inn At The Edge Of The World tells the story of five people who seek to escape Christmas and all its enforced jollity in London by retreating to an inn off the west coast of Scotland.

Brown, who has previous stints with Intandem and Manifest, took up his Parkland post in September. “The remit is to get bigger budget projects which can sell,” he told Screen.

“Charles Dance is the perfect director for The Inn At The Edge Of The World and he is opening his little black book to get some nice names in there,” he added of the production, which will shoot early next year.

Parkland Pictures is pitching the project to buyers at AFM and has at least one distributor already in place, Falcon Films in the Middle East. Sister company Parkland Entertainment is taking UK rights.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/andrew-brown-joins-parkland-pictures-as-head-of-sales/5144546.article

The making of And Then There Were None (2015)

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at Ted's Holiday Toast in Beverly Hills ....

Afi Fest The Crown premiere

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Chiswick artist Humphrey Bangham was commissioned to paint two portraits for the current series of The Crown. “I don’t know if they’re still in it or if they hit the cutting room floor” he says, but he was asked to paint Olivia Coleman as Her Majesty and Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten.

The third series was launched on Netflix last week. I’m up to episode five and can tell him his portrait of Mountbatten certainly made into the final cut, playing a small but significant part in the episode in which ‘Uncle Dickie’ is invited to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government.

He met them both on a shooting day when they were already in costume. I asked him what they were like to work with. Everyone says how lovely Olivia is. Charles has a reputation of being a tad imperious on set, and given the kind of role he plays, you can just imagine what being on the receiving end of a stern look from those steely blue eyes might be like. His stock in trade is a gimlet stare ranging anywhere from direct to withering.

“They were lovely” says Humphrey. “Olivia Coleman was an absolute delight. Everything everyone says about her is true. She’s giggly and lovely”. He met her at Wilton House, near Salisbury, home of the Earl and Countess of Pembroke, and spent half an hour with her taking photos. Charles Dance he met at Ham Polo Club, and once he managed to get him to stand still for five minutes he was “charming.”

Humphrey has been a professional artist and designer for over 30 years, having trained at Chelsea art college. He’s a dab hand at knocking out Van Dycks and Gainsboroughs for period dramas. His portrait of the Queen is in the style of the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni, who painted Her Majesty twice; the portrait on which Humphrey’s painting is based, Her Majesty in Robes of the British Empire, in 1969.

“The script is a closely guarded secret” says Humphrey, “but I did see Prince Philip (Matt Smith) had a line in which he walked past and said she looked like she was standing on the moon. How very Prince Philip.

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