Actor Charles Dance

samedi 23 juin 2012

Charles is Henry Somerset in To the ends of the earth in 2005(a cameo)

broadcast : BBC 2 in July 2005

"If you're seen to be playing cameos, you get offered cameos. If you are seen playing small parts, you get offered small parts; if you're playing leading men, you get offered leading roles.
He responds in his usual laconic way when asked what attracted him to the part of Sir Henry Somerset in to The Ends of the Earth.
"Apart from the money, do you mean?" he asks with a knowing smile. "Sir Henry is rather comic: a bit of a buffoon. He's described as being 'a wide man, ample girth' and I thought it would be interesting to play a fat man. The scripts are excellent and even though it's only a cameo, it's hopefully a telling one. I thought it was something I'd like to be part of."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/05_may/19/earth9.shtml

Charles, Sam Neil, Paul Harris on the set

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/

dimanche 17 juin 2012

Charles is Lord Stockbridge in Godsford Park in 2001

Raymond, Lord Stockbridge (Charles Dance) Lady Sylvia's brother-in-law; married to Louisa; he is a snob. Raymond was a hero during World War One, a fact Sylvia delights in telling the party in order to humiliate her husband WIlliam who did not fight. Raymond refuses to rise to Sylvia's bait, and downplays his past. He is deaf on one ear, and is only at the party for the shooting as he loves country sports.

He puts up with his wife's family despite suspicions that William and Louisa had at some point had an affair. Similarly, Raymond and Sylvia once had an affair but he refuses to respond to her advances as she only uses him to needle William.He's very fond of Scotland.

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/

mercredi 13 juin 2012

Charles on the set of Coup or Secret State (for Channel 4)

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/

Charles, Chris Mullin, Gina Mc Kee, Gabriel Byrne

Gabriel Byrne plays the pivotal role of politician Tom Dawkins, the reluctant hero at the heart of this contemporary conspiracy thriller, who finds himself thrust into the spotlight of front-line politics when he least expects to be, and who risks everything by taking on the might of the establishment.
A massive industrial accident on Teesside leaves several people dead and raises awkward questions about the safety procedures of the US petrochemical company involved. As a man who has a profound belief in transparency and open government, Dawkins (Byrne) will have to tackle vested interests, financial, media, and military, both domestic and international, in his pursuit to uncover the truth and get justice for the families affected by the disaster. Along the way, he will struggle to keep his party onside and the electorate behind him, as he also weathers damaging revelations about his personal life. And as the investigation into the Teesside disaster proceeds, Dawkins becomes aware of establishment's secret ties to the petrochemical company and comes to realise that there are bigger powers at play behind the scènes

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/

from Chris Mullin
I find myself sharing a car with Charles Dance and Gina McKee. Gina, it turns out, is the daughter of a Durham miner, who for a time lived in Sunderland, about a mile from where I live. We are　driven to a leafy part of Cheshire popular with Premier League footballers and delivered to a trailer encampment alongside a decaying walled garden.
We are shown into the green room, a schoolhouse. The actors, all old hands, know each other by sight, if not by name. Charles shakes hands with Lia Williams. Her face rings a bell, but he can't quite place her. "Have we worked together before?" "Yes," she replies. "In Birmingham. I was your wife." Today she is the head of MI5. Charles is the chief whip.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/05/secret-state-chris-mullin-vicar