Michael Kitchen — Actor (25)
Oliver Twist (1999) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oliver Twist
director: Renny Rye actor: Sam Smith / David Ross
other title: オリバー・ツイスト / 孤雛淚
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Alibi (2003) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Alibi
director: David Richards actor: Michael Kitchen / Sophie Okonedo
other title: 不在场证明
A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a public servant moonlighting as a waitress at a party thrown by Greg for he and his wife's wedding anniversary. Marcey sets about organizing the slightly neurotic Greg in his attempts to cover up the accident.
Mobile (2007) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Mobile
director: John Fay actor: 基思·艾伦 / 杰米·德雷文
Mobile is a 3-part British television drama series with an interweaving plot based around a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse-effect of mobile phone radiation to health. The series was screened by ITV in the United Kingdom, during March 2007. The cast includes Jamie Draven, Neil Fitzmaurice, Keith Allen, Sunetra Sarker, Samantha Bond, Brittany Ashworth and Julie Graham. It was written by John Fay.
Breaking Glass (1980) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Eggplant.place TMDB
Breaking Glass
other title: La rockera / 破碎的玻璃
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
The World Is Not Enough (1999) [Movie] Min reol
The World Is Not Enough
other title: Le monde ne suffit pas / James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.
No Man's Land [Performance] Douban
No Man's Land
8.4 (5 ratings) genre: theater playwright: Harold Pinter
other title: 无人之境 / 无人之地 director: Peter Hall / David Leveaux actor: John Gielgud / Ralph Richardson / Michael Kitchen / Terence Rigby / Paul Eddington
The first act opens with Hirst's offering a drink to Spooner: "As it is?" – that is, neat (UK) or straight (U.S.) – and Spooner's reply: "As it is, yes please, absolutely as it is" (15). During the first act, Spooner claims to be a fellow poet and to have known his more illustrious literary host and mutual acquaintances and relationships in the past. Toward the end of act one, Hirst's keepers (quasi-body guards) "vagabond cock" Foster and Briggs seek to fend off the self-insinuating Spooner, leading Hirst "out of the room (52) and away from him. The act ends with a "Blackout" – visually demonstrating Foster's taunt: "Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this. ... He turns the light out" (53).
During Act Two, in his increasingly inebriated state, Hirst may mistake or feign recognition of Spooner as an Oxbridge classmate from the 1930s, an apparently false impression which Spooner nevertheless encourages (68–78), leading both of them into a series of increasingly questionable reminiscences, which Hirst finally and abruptly undercuts: "This is outrageous! Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" going on to accuse Spooner of being an impostor: "You are clearly a lout. The Charles Wetherby I knew was a gentleman. I see a figure reduced. I am sorry for you. Where is the moral ardour that sustained you once? Gone down the hatch." – allusively and both wistfully and comically combining the clichés "Gone with the wind" and "Down the hatch," after which, Briggs "enters, pours whisky and soda, gives it to" Hirst, who "looks at it" and then says, "Down the hatch. Right down the hatch. (He drinks.)" (78). Hirst proclaims, "Let us change the subject. Pause. For the last time." (91), but immediately asks, "What have I said?" That leads the characters to debate what Hirst's phrase for the last time precisely "means" (91–94), leaving all of them, according to Spooner, "in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever icy and silent." Following the illustrative "Silence", Hirst utters the play's final words and provides its final action: "I'll drink to that" (95): "He drinks," paralleling the opening words of the first act ("As it comes?"), and the play ends, ambiguously, with a "SLOW FADE" of lights (95).
Inspector Morse: The Death of the Self (1992) [Movie] Douban
Inspector Morse: The Death of the Self
director: 柯林·格雷格 actor: 约翰·肖 / 凯文·沃特利
other title: 摩斯探长:意外死亡
Morse and Lewis find themselves in Vicenza, Italy looking into the death of May Lawrence who was killed while attending a psychotherapy clinic there. The clinic is run by Russell Clark, a convicted fraudster who is well known to Morse and the British authorities. Morse is particularly enjoying the trip, all the more so when he learns that one of the patients at the clinic is Nicole Burgess, a well-known opera singer. What Morse learns suggests fraud in the selling of counterfeit rare manuscripts but the culprits are anything but obvious. As well, the link to May Lawrence's death remains elusive.
No Man's Land (1978) [Movie] Douban TMDB
No Man's Land
director: Julian Aymes actor: 约翰·吉尔古德 / 拉尔夫·理查德森
other title: 无人之地
In this TV adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Gielgud) shows up at the home of a rich writer (Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past."
The Brontes of Haworth (1973) [Movie] Douban
The Brontes of Haworth
director: Marc Miller actor: 阿尔弗雷德·布尔克 / 维克莉·特纳
other title: 勃朗特家族 / 哈沃斯的勃朗特家族
The comfortable childhood shared by Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Bronte instills in them boundless creativity and a passion for learning. But their sheltered upbringing creates difficulties as each makes his or her way into the world.
The Buccaneers (1995) [TV] Douban
The Buccaneers
director: Philip Saville actor: Carla Gugino / Mira Sorvino
Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. Nan and Julius meet for the first time in a ruin, which is an indication of where their marriage is soon heading. After the nuptials, Julius seems more interested in clocks and stable boys than Nan's happiness, and all the girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.
李尔王 (1982) [Movie] Douban
King Lear
director: 乔纳森·米勒 actor: 约翰·斯拉普内尔 / Norman Rodway
other title: King Lear
李尔王(约翰·斯拉普内尔 John Shrapnel 饰)年事已高,他决定将广袤的国土分给自己的三个女儿科迪莉亚(吉莲·巴奇 Gillian Barge 饰)、格纳利尔(布兰达·布莱斯 Brenda Blethyn 饰)和里根(佩内洛普·威尔顿 Penelope Wilton 饰)。李尔王让三个女儿说出各自心中对父王的爱戴,格纳利尔和里根极尽花言巧语之所能,得到了李尔王的赞赏,小女儿科迪莉亚质朴而诚实,反而遭到了无情的驱逐。
失去了家园的科迪莉亚成为了法国的王后,而得到了父亲大片疆土的大女儿和二女儿则将李尔王赶出了家门。直到流落荒野无处可去,李尔王才明白自己犯了天大的错误,他一边责怪自己的愚昧,一边心痛科迪莉亚的遭遇。得知了李尔王的境遇,科迪莉亚组织了军队准备向老家进攻,不幸的是,军队遭遇惨败,科迪莉亚也遭到了逮捕。最终,科迪莉亚被处死,年迈的李尔王在痛苦中亦追随而去。