The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that John Cameron Mitchell will receive the 2015 Special Tony Award. John's return to 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is one for the history books. He not only wrote and co-created the role with Stephen Trask - before directing and starring in the film - but returned to Broadway to star as Hedwig this season after a series of rave performances by Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells and Michael C. Hall. This is a remarkable undertaking, and we are honored to recognize his outstanding success with this honor, Heather Hitchens, President of the American Theatre Wing, and Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, said. John Cameron Mitchell's New York stage appearances included Broadway's Big River, and the original casts of The Secret Garden Drama Desk nomination and Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway Larry Kramer's The Destiny of...
- 4/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Stage, screen and radio actress Billie Whitelaw was perhaps best known to international audiences for her role as Mrs. Baylock in 1976 horror film The Omen, but she had a versatile career at home in the UK where she was a muse to Samuel Beckett and won BAFTAs for her film and television work. Whitelaw died on Sunday at a London nursing home, her son told the BBC. She was 82. Among her many big-screen credits, which stretch back to 1953, are 1967’s Charlie Bubbles with Albert Finney; 1968’s The Twisted Nerve with Hayley Mills; Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972’s Frenzy; The Omen; 1988’s The Dressmaker with Joan Plowright and Pete Postlethwaite; Peter Medak’s classic biopic The Krays in 1990; and more recently, Edgar Wright’s 2007 Hot Fuzz with Simon Pegg.
Whitelaw was born in 1932 and made her radio acting debut at age 11, per the BBC.
Stage, screen and radio actress Billie Whitelaw was perhaps best known to international audiences for her role as Mrs. Baylock in 1976 horror film The Omen, but she had a versatile career at home in the UK where she was a muse to Samuel Beckett and won BAFTAs for her film and television work. Whitelaw died on Sunday at a London nursing home, her son told the BBC. She was 82. Among her many big-screen credits, which stretch back to 1953, are 1967’s Charlie Bubbles with Albert Finney; 1968’s The Twisted Nerve with Hayley Mills; Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972’s Frenzy; The Omen; 1988’s The Dressmaker with Joan Plowright and Pete Postlethwaite; Peter Medak’s classic biopic The Krays in 1990; and more recently, Edgar Wright’s 2007 Hot Fuzz with Simon Pegg.
Whitelaw was born in 1932 and made her radio acting debut at age 11, per the BBC.
- 12/23/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Billie Whitelaw in The Omen
Billie Whitelaw, star of stage and screen over a remarkable 65 years, has died at the age of 82. A hit with colleagues and audiences alike, she progressed from The Secret Garden and Dixon Of Dock Green to lend her talents to films including Frenzy, The Omen, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, The Krays, Quills and Hot Fuzz. She won two BAFTAs and was also much admired for her stage work, through which she became the muse of Samuel Beckett, and for her voice acting, which included extensive work for radio and fantasy film The Dark Crystal.
Whitelaw died in a London nursing home. She is survived by Matthew Muller, her son by actor and writer Robert Muller....
Billie Whitelaw, star of stage and screen over a remarkable 65 years, has died at the age of 82. A hit with colleagues and audiences alike, she progressed from The Secret Garden and Dixon Of Dock Green to lend her talents to films including Frenzy, The Omen, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, The Krays, Quills and Hot Fuzz. She won two BAFTAs and was also much admired for her stage work, through which she became the muse of Samuel Beckett, and for her voice acting, which included extensive work for radio and fantasy film The Dark Crystal.
Whitelaw died in a London nursing home. She is survived by Matthew Muller, her son by actor and writer Robert Muller....
- 12/21/2014
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A year after the final season of Showtime’s Dexter, Michael C. Hall is set to return to the small screen playing another complex antihero – though this one appears to be more into bank-robbing than bloodletting. The Emmy nominee is set to star in God Fearing Man, Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced drama which has been in development at Entertainment One since 2012.
British screenwriter Stephen R. Clark is penning the series, which will tell the stranger-than-fiction true story of Canadian minister Herbert Emerson Wilson, who eventually became one of the best safecrackers and most successful American bank robbers in the early 20th century. Hall is both starring as Wilson and executive-producing. Philip Hobbs, who worked with Kubrick for 15 years on projects including Full Metal Jacket, is also producing along with Philco Films’ Steve Lanning (The Secret Garden).
Said Michael Rosenberg, eOne’s executive vice president of U.S. scripted television:
“Kubrick...
British screenwriter Stephen R. Clark is penning the series, which will tell the stranger-than-fiction true story of Canadian minister Herbert Emerson Wilson, who eventually became one of the best safecrackers and most successful American bank robbers in the early 20th century. Hall is both starring as Wilson and executive-producing. Philip Hobbs, who worked with Kubrick for 15 years on projects including Full Metal Jacket, is also producing along with Philco Films’ Steve Lanning (The Secret Garden).
Said Michael Rosenberg, eOne’s executive vice president of U.S. scripted television:
“Kubrick...
- 8/12/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Two decades before Neil Patrick Harris dared to don a golden pair of go-go boots to portray the "internationally ignored song stylist" know as Hedwig Schmidt, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask were perfecting the act on the New York City drag scene. In the wake of Hedwig and the Angry Inch's latest theatrical incarnation — which just racked up eight Tony nominations — we caught up with several of the creative minds who have contributed to Hedwig's past, present, and future to create an (appropriately) oral history.
See Neil Patrick Harris...
See Neil Patrick Harris...
- 5/7/2014
- Rollingstone.com
According to TorontoFilm.Net, La/Toronto-based Entertainment One (eOne) has teamed with Steve Lanning and Philip Hobbs to develop and produce the television dramas "Downslope" and "God Fearing Man" from scripts by the late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
Based on a true story by historian Shelby Foote, Kubrick's "Downslope" is a Us Civil War-set drama following Confederate Army 'Colonel John S. Mosby' and his plot to settle the score after Union officer 'George Custer' captures and hangs several of his men.
Kubrick's "God Fearing Man" adapted for TV by Stephen R. Clarke, follows the true story of 'Herbert Emerson Wilson' who became one of the most successful safe-cracker and bank robber in America in the early 20th century.
Both projects will be produced by Entertainment One in association with Philco Films’ Steve Lanning ("The Secret Garden") and Philip Hobbs who worked with Kubrick on a number of projects including "Full Metal Jacket...
Based on a true story by historian Shelby Foote, Kubrick's "Downslope" is a Us Civil War-set drama following Confederate Army 'Colonel John S. Mosby' and his plot to settle the score after Union officer 'George Custer' captures and hangs several of his men.
Kubrick's "God Fearing Man" adapted for TV by Stephen R. Clarke, follows the true story of 'Herbert Emerson Wilson' who became one of the most successful safe-cracker and bank robber in America in the early 20th century.
Both projects will be produced by Entertainment One in association with Philco Films’ Steve Lanning ("The Secret Garden") and Philip Hobbs who worked with Kubrick on a number of projects including "Full Metal Jacket...
- 9/2/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
U.S. audiences will get to see some of the BBC's finest programs through a deal between Akimbo Systems and BBC Worldwide Americas that was announced today at the National Association of Television Program Executives convention in Las Vegas. The agreement includes comedies, documentaries, dramas and more, which will be delivered to televisions over the Internet via the Akimbo Service. Akimbo is scheduled to begin offering the BBC programming this year. Among the films included are The Secret Garden, Emmy winner Little Lord Fauntleroy and an adaptation of the best-selling children's book The Animals of Farthing Wood. The comedies that will be featured include the '70s series Porridge and 2001's Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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