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Denis King est un Acteur et Son Britannique né le 25 juillet 1939
Denis Andrew King (born 25 July 1939, Hornchurch, Essex) is an English Ivor Novello award-winning composer, singer and actor. He began his musical career at the age of six as a banjolele-playing singer at children's matinees and by the age of thirteen, with his two older brothers, Mike and Tony, was a member of one of the most successful pop groups of the Fifties and Sixties, The King Brothers— considered by many to be Britain’s first Boy Band. Denis played the piano, Mike the guitar, Tony the double bass.
By the time King was thirteen The King Brothers were touring around the U.K. in what was known as Twice-Nightly Variety (the equivalent of America’s vaudeville), performing two shows a night in one town before moving on to the next the following week. For two years Denis attended a different school in a different town almost every week. Along with concerts and tours around Europe, The King Brothers did summer shows, television appearances, played the famous Windmill Theatre and in 1956 became the youngest Variety act to play the London Palladium. Within a year they were in the record charts. "A White Sport Coat" and “Standing On The Corner” were their biggest successes. They appeared with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Frankie Vaughan, Roy Castle, Shirley Bassey, Alma Cogan, Ronnie Corbett, Bruce Forsyth, Morecambe and Wise, as well as American stars Bobby Darin, Howard Keel, Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Sophie Tucker and Frank Sinatra.
With the disbanding of the group in 1970, Denis studied orchestration at the Guildhall School of Music in London and got his first break in television writing the music for The Adventures of Black Beauty (“Galloping Home”), which won the Ivor Novello Award. To date, he has created themes and incidental music for over two hundred television series including Within These Walls, Dick Turpin, Two's Company, Lovejoy, We'll Meet Again and Hannay as well as written over one hundred jingles for radio and television advertising. He has also worked on films, writing the scores to Simon, Simon (1970), Holiday on the Buses (1973), Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973), Sweeney! (1977), If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981) and Privates on Parade (1982).
As a musician he has performed with Dame Edna Everage, Albert Finney, Benny Green, Maureen Lipman in her successful stage show Re: Joyce, and with Dick Vosburgh in their comic revues BEAUTY AND THE BEARDS and SING SOMETHING SILLY and on the BBC Radio radio comedy series Hello, Cheeky! from 1973 to 1979, and appeared in the TV version produced by Yorkshire Television in 1976.
His debut as a theatrical composer was with the original 1977 Royal Shakespeare Theatre's production of Privates On Parade (book and lyrics by Peter Nichols) which won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Musical. Other theatre productions include A Saint She Ain't and The Un-American Songbook (with Dick Vosburgh); Stepping Out (play) - The Musical]] (with Richard Harris and Mary Stewart-David); BASHVILLE and VALENTINE’S DAY (with Benny Green); Worzel Gummidge starring Jon Pertwee and Lost Empires (with Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall); Wind In The Willows and Treasure Island (with Willis Hall); West Five Story (with Richard Harris); Baby On Board (with Mary Stewart-David) for the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, where it was directed by Alan Ayckbourn. King has written extensively with Ayckbourn and together they have created the musicals Whenever, Orvin - Champion Of Champions, and Awaking Beauty, which premiered in December 2008 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
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By the time King was thirteen The King Brothers were touring around the U.K. in what was known as Twice-Nightly Variety (the equivalent of America’s vaudeville), performing two shows a night in one town before moving on to the next the following week. For two years Denis attended a different school in a different town almost every week. Along with concerts and tours around Europe, The King Brothers did summer shows, television appearances, played the famous Windmill Theatre and in 1956 became the youngest Variety act to play the London Palladium. Within a year they were in the record charts. "A White Sport Coat" and “Standing On The Corner” were their biggest successes. They appeared with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Frankie Vaughan, Roy Castle, Shirley Bassey, Alma Cogan, Ronnie Corbett, Bruce Forsyth, Morecambe and Wise, as well as American stars Bobby Darin, Howard Keel, Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Sophie Tucker and Frank Sinatra.
With the disbanding of the group in 1970, Denis studied orchestration at the Guildhall School of Music in London and got his first break in television writing the music for The Adventures of Black Beauty (“Galloping Home”), which won the Ivor Novello Award. To date, he has created themes and incidental music for over two hundred television series including Within These Walls, Dick Turpin, Two's Company, Lovejoy, We'll Meet Again and Hannay as well as written over one hundred jingles for radio and television advertising. He has also worked on films, writing the scores to Simon, Simon (1970), Holiday on the Buses (1973), Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973), Sweeney! (1977), If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981) and Privates on Parade (1982).
As a musician he has performed with Dame Edna Everage, Albert Finney, Benny Green, Maureen Lipman in her successful stage show Re: Joyce, and with Dick Vosburgh in their comic revues BEAUTY AND THE BEARDS and SING SOMETHING SILLY and on the BBC Radio radio comedy series Hello, Cheeky! from 1973 to 1979, and appeared in the TV version produced by Yorkshire Television in 1976.
His debut as a theatrical composer was with the original 1977 Royal Shakespeare Theatre's production of Privates On Parade (book and lyrics by Peter Nichols) which won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Musical. Other theatre productions include A Saint She Ain't and The Un-American Songbook (with Dick Vosburgh); Stepping Out (play) - The Musical]] (with Richard Harris and Mary Stewart-David); BASHVILLE and VALENTINE’S DAY (with Benny Green); Worzel Gummidge starring Jon Pertwee and Lost Empires (with Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall); Wind In The Willows and Treasure Island (with Willis Hall); West Five Story (with Richard Harris); Baby On Board (with Mary Stewart-David) for the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, where it was directed by Alan Ayckbourn. King has written extensively with Ayckbourn and together they have created the musicals Whenever, Orvin - Champion Of Champions, and Awaking Beauty, which premiered in December 2008 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
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Sista dansen (1993)
, 1h53Réalisé par Colin Nutley
Origine Danemark
Genres Drame, Thriller
Thèmes Danse, Sport
Acteurs Helena Bergström, Reine Brynolfsson, Ewa Fröling, Peter Andersson, Rikard Wolff, Philip Jackson
Note51%
A Swedish woman is found dead in Blackpool. Was she murdered?
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Pandorum (2009)
, 1h48Réalisé par Christian Alvart
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Science-fiction, Thriller, Action, Aventure, Horreur
Thèmes L'espace, La mer, Film post-apocalyptique, Transport, Dans l'espace, Action sous-marine, Le futur, Space opera
Acteurs Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Antje Traue, Norman Reedus
Rôle ADR Supervisor
Note66%
Le lieutenant Payton et le caporal Bower, deux membres du vaisseau spatial Elysium, se réveillent après un long voyage en hyper-sommeil. Ils ne se rappellent ni leur identité, ni leur mission. Enfin, ils se souviennent qu'ils font partie d'un transport de 60 000 personnes dont la mission, après 123 ans de voyage, est de créer une colonie sur une autre planète habitable : Tanis.
Sista dansen (1993)
, 1h53Réalisé par Colin Nutley
Origine Danemark
Genres Drame, Thriller
Thèmes Danse, Sport
Acteurs Helena Bergström, Reine Brynolfsson, Ewa Fröling, Peter Andersson, Rikard Wolff, Philip Jackson
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note51%
A Swedish woman is found dead in Blackpool. Was she murdered?
The Worst Witch (1986)
, 1h10Réalisé par Robert Young
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Fantasy, Musical
Acteurs Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry, Sabina Franklyn, Su Elliott
Note67%
The film follows the plot of the 1974 book. The movie centers around Mildred Hubble, who is invariably the school's "Worst Witch." Mildred creates many mishaps, including the incidents of when Mildred turns herself invisible and transforms Ethel into a pig. The climax surrounds Miss Cackle's notorious twin evil sister, Agatha, plotting to take over the Academy. Ultimately Agatha is foiled by Mildred and Mildred establishes herself as the hero for the academy.
Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1984)
, 1h33Réalisé par Peter Medak
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Aventure
Thèmes La mer, Transport, Pirates
Acteurs Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa, Spike Milligan, Clive Revill, Peter Boyle, James Villiers
Note46%
Bumbling pirate crewman (Sellers) kills his captain after learning where he has hidden buried treasure. However as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he's murdered to help him find the treasure.
Privates on Parade (1983)
, 1h40Réalisé par Michael Blakemore
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Guerre, Comédie, Musical
Thèmes Bidasses, Sexualité, Homosexualité, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre, LGBT, LGBT
Acteurs John Cleese, David Bamber, Michael Elphick, Bruce Payne, John Standing, Nicola Pagett
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note48%
, 1h18Réalisé par Eric Sykes
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Eric Sykes, Robin Bailey, Norman Bird, Glyn Houston, Roy Kinnear, Marc Sinden
Note57%
A Boy Scout troop led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash. It later transpires that the money is just a smokescreen for a top-secret document that the gang's leader - actually a KGB officer - is trying to smuggle out of the country. Despite an escalation of security in which the police are eventually joined by the army, navy and air force, it is the scoutmaster's chaotic bungling that leads him to discover the money and flush out the ringleader. At the end it is revealed that the scoutmaster was in fact an undercover police officer and that his bungling was a ruse.
Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980)
, 28minutesRéalisé par Eric Sykes
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Bond-Owen
Note65%
A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite his lack of ability at the game, that he employs his constable to furtively disentangle his ball from the odd spots in which it usually comes to rest - while his opponent looks for help from a higher power...
Sweeney! (1977)
, 1h29Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action, Policier
Acteurs John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Ian Bannen, Lynda Bellingham, Barry Foster, Colin Welland
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note66%
The film followed the adventures of DI Regan and DS Carter as they became embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the government, Charles Baker (Ian Bannen), is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it. Baker is the rising star of the government, regarded as a future prime minister, and he is closely controlled by his urbane, manipulative American press secretary Elliot McQueen (Barry Foster).
Holiday on the Buses (1973)
, 1h25Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Reg Varney, Anna Karen, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note58%
Three of the company's buses are wrecked due to Stan's negligent bus driving, which means Stan (Reg Varney), Jack (Bob Grant) and Inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis) are sacked. Stan and Jack get a job as bus crew at a Pontins holiday camp in Prestatyn, North Wales, only to find that Blakey has also got a job at the camp, as security inspector. Stan invites the family to stay (using his staff discount) whilst he proceeds to chat up the guests and staff. Tight fisted Arthur refuses to pay the train fare, instead relying on his ever present motorcycle and sidecar to take the Butlers to the camp. They meet Stan on the road, who accidentally forces them into a kerb causing all the luggage to land in a river and all the family's clothes are ruined.
The Spy's Wife (1972)
Acteurs Dorothy Tutin, Ann Lynn, Tom Bell, Vladek Sheybal
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note59%
Simon Simon (1970)
, 32minutesRéalisé par Graham Stark
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Graham Stark, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Julia Foster, Ernie Wise, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Rôle Musicien
Note59%
Two handymen, (Graham Stark and John Junkin) cause chaos on a new crane while haphazardly trying to accomplish jobs for their ever more frustrated boss. This 'silent' comedy features a host of cameos from the likes of Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise and Tony Blackburn.