Rent Alan Plater at ITV (1988)
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5h 55min
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- Synopsis:
Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain's most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories, the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful 'Beiderbecke' trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. Plater excelled in the creation of credible, engagingly ordinary characters embroiled in drama and intrigue, with a dry humour, class consciousness and frequent acknowledgement of the north-south divide, his skilful dialogue has been described as combining 'The voice of 'Coronation Street' with the spirit of Chekhov'. The winner of three BAFTA Awards, he received a CBE in 2005 and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. This anthology celebrates the diversity of Alan Plater's work for ITV, with a collection of single plays and classic episodes featuring outstanding performances by Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, James Bolam, Alison Steadman, Michael Gambon, Dennis Waterman and Ray Brooks, among many others. - Actors:
- James Bolam, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman, Dennis Waterman, Ray Brooks, Les Dawson, Jane Lapotaire, Christine McKenna, Alan Parnaby, Edward Judd, Steven Grives, Sebastian Abineri, Gillian Davey, Rosalie Williams, Frank Mills, David Huscroft, Olive Pendleton, Berenice Barron
- Directors:
- Cyril Coke, Bill Hays, James Ormerod, Peter Smith, David Reynolds, Michael Ferguson, Peter Barber-Fleming, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Donald McWhinnie, Bill Turner, Tony Wharmby
- Producers:
- Leonard Lewis, Peter Willes, June Wyndham-Davies, Anne W. Gibbons, Deirdre Keir, Jeremy Godwin
- Writers:
- K.M. Peyton, Alan Plater, May Sinclair, Eric Colthart, Peter Hammond, Susan Pleat
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Dramas, TV Horror, TV Romance
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Kenneth Branagh, Remembering Michael Gambon
