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29 December 2008
Pascale found some video clips on You Tube...
- part one from the 2008 radio adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Dr. No with Toby Stephens as James Bond and Suchet as Dr. No. Choose the other 13 parts (14 in all) from the side panel on the right (Dr. No shows up rather late, around the 10th part, I think). My favourite part in the adaptation is – still – when Dr. Julius No explains the origin of his name: I took the Julius after my father and the No after my rejection of him...
- a clip from the TV film comedy Red Monarch from 1983 in which Suchet plays a skirt-chasing Beria, chief of the Secret Police.
- David Suchet and Patrick Stewart discuss Shakespeare’s Shylock with director John Barton in the series Playing Shakespeare
Thanks Pascale!
While watching Pascale's Shylock link another clip caught my attention - a scene from The Merchant of Venice with Suchet as Shylock in the learning series Great Scenes from Shakespeare Although the text doesn't mention the names of the actors, I'm 99.999999% sure it's Suchet just by listening to the voice.
16 December 2008
Suchet, who became patron of Wilton’s Music Hall in London last year, guides you through the Hall and its history in a new documentary airing on ITV1 18 December 19:30 (GMT)
"The Handsomest Room in Town
David Suchet investigates the history of Wilton's in Tower Hamlets, the world's last surviving grand music hall. He looks at its place in the birth of popular culture from its opening in the 1850s and the role it played as the headquarters for East End people who gathered to stop Oswald Mosley's fascists in the famous 1936 Battle of Cable Street. He also highlights the building's desperate need for restoration."
10 December 2008
Good news for the Australians…
According to World Screen the national broadcaster Australian ABC has bought new episodes of Poirot and Miss Marple. They don't say which episodes or when they will air - but as for Poirot I reckon it’s the latest four (Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, Cat Among the Pigeons, Third Girl, Appointment with Death) and as for Marple; well we know Geraldine McEwan quitted recently, so it must be the latest ones with Julia McKenzie, who has taken over after Ewan, since World Screen mentions her name - check with Imdb on which new episodes that can be.
Suchet receives a donation on behalf of RNLI...
At a reception at the Tower of London on December 1 Suchet collected a donation of £1000 from London’s “Yeoman Warders’ Club” on behalf of Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The donation is meant for the ongoing crew training at Tower Lifeboat Station in London.
The “Yeoman Warders’ Club”s members have been guardians of the Tower of London since 1485, and each year a good cause benefits
from the Club’s charity fund.
Act of God...
The distributor of the thriller Act of God hasn’t been able to enlighten me as for when and how the film will be released. I guess they don’t know, since they told me to keep an eye on their site. So that’s what I will do.
2 December 2008
The Independent brings a lovely diary-like interview with Suchet in connection to his Emmy Award…
Suchet wins an Emmy for Maxwell…
Congratulations!
Suchet won this year’s International Emmy Award as best actor for his portrayal of the charismatic media mogul Robert Maxwell.
© Associated Press
After having received the award Monday in New York Suchet joked backstage about believing he wouldn’t win, because the academy organizers had placed him so far away from the stage that it would take for ages to get up there, and they would surely like to get home before 7.30 in stead of 10 o'clock. When the winner is announced Suchet has to rush to the stage from his seat way back in the ceremony hall, while the presenter, the actress Judith Light, looks out for him for a very long time before she gets sight of him.
Video clips of all the winners here
Photos and an article here - thanks to Liz, site owner of the official Zoë Wanamaker site, for this link
27 October 2008
Pascale found some great behind-the-scenes photos from Death on the Nile, take a look here
- and a You Tube clip from James Joyce’s Ulysses with Suchet as Leopold Bloom. James Joyce’s Ulysses is a TV drama documentary from 1993. It blends scenes from the life and work of James Joyce (played by Brian Murray) with scenes from his most famous novel Ulysses (in which Leopold Bloom is the main character). Thanks Pascale!
New DVD release...
Flood, the disaster film from last year in which Suchet plays Deputy Prime Minister, is released on a UK 2-disc extended edition today. According to Lionsgate's latest newsletter it features 80 minutes of extra filming and 40 minutes of interviews with cast and crew. Get it on Amazon.co.uk
25 October 2008 updated 26 Oct
Trailer for Act of God…
David Suchet as Benjamin Cisco in Act of God
The Cinema? TV? DVD? film thriller we know so little about, other than Suchet is in it and it is listed on Imdb, is now completed according to its distributor High Point Media's webpage. They list it under their Film section (as distinct from their TV section), so one should think it will release in either cinemas or on DVD, or both. A previous press release on their site makes you think it might be for TV, though...
Run time: 75 min
Starring: David Suchet, Max Brown, Jenny Agutter, Adrian Dunbar
Screenplay: Sean Faughnan
Producer: Nick O’Hagan, James Young, Paris Leonti
Distributor: High Point Films opens in a new window
Plot - A taut thriller in which a heart surgeon and an ex detective are forced to pay a terrible price after choosing the life of one patient over another, and find themselves the targets of a very angry avenger
I’m trying to find out more - meanwhile enjoy the trailer on You Tube, it looks very promising!
13 October 2008
Suchet nominated as best actor...
Suchet has been nominated with an International Emmy Award for his leading role in Maxwell, the BBC TV drama about media mogul Robert Maxwell.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony held November 24 at Hilton Hotel in New York.
Congratulations and Good Luck to Suchet!
12 October 2008
The Chimes of Midnight...
Another radio play starring Suchet in BBC's drama and horror series Fear on Four on BBC7.
Last night’s episode The Chimes of Midnight (not to be confused with the Dr. Who radio episode by the same name) was broadcast at 6 pm and is available for the next seven days until October 18 on BBC’s iPlayer.
Suchet plays an Oxford professor lecturing about time. He also has an interest in antique clocks. Prepare yourself for a horrific ending when it’s revealed that time wouldn’t exist without mankind… literally speaking…
Thanks Diana!
9 October 2008 updated 13 Oct
Take a look at this, and this "Poirot in wolves clothing"…
Thanks Diana!
And a small update on Appointment with Death on DVD…
Andrea, my “Italian Connection”, got an answer from Amazon saying for sure that the episode was on Collection 7. The whole box set landed on my doorstep two days ago, and no question about it, the episode indeed i-s on.
3 October 2008 23.30
The Last Confession adapted for radio…
Well, what a surprise... so now we're only waiting for a film version...
For all of you out there who weren’t able to watch Suchet on stage last year in The Last Confession, here is your chance of hearing Cardinal Benelli uncover the mysterious circumstances around Pope John Paul I’s death in 1978.
So tune in on either BBC Radio 4 or the Listen Live link (upper to the right) tomorrow at 2:30 pm local time and spend an hour and a half listening to David Suchet as Benelli, Richard O’Callaghan as the Pope, Roger May as Monsignor Magee and a brand new cast as the rest minus one reviving the intriguing drama about rivalry and political maneuvres in the Vatican, a crisis of faith and a possibly murder. And remember, if you can’t make it tomorrow, you have 7 days of catching up with the adaptation on BBC’s Listen Again (look under Saturday play).
The Last Confession by Roger Crane, 4 October 2:30 pm on BBC Radio 4. Adapted and produced by Martin Jenkins and directed by David Blount
Cast
David Suchet……. Cardinal Giovanni Benelli
Keith Drinkel……. The Confessor
Richard O’Callaghan……. Cardinal Albino Luciani/Pope John Paul I
Nigel Anthony……. Cardinal Villot
Peter Marinker……. Bishop Marcinkus
Bernard Gallagher……. Pope Paul VI
Crawford Logan……. Cardinal Felici
Donald Sinden……. Cardinal Ottaviani
Andrew Branch……. Cardinal Suenens
Cyril Nri……. Cardinal Gantin
Paul Humpoletz……. Cardinal Lorscheider
Robert Pugh……. Dr. Buzzonetti & Cardinal Baggio
Roger May……. Monsignor Magee
Jean Trend……. Sister Vincenza
Ben Warwick……. Father Lorenzi
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