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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Georgie was born in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, on April 20th 1956 and as a child had little interest in appearing in school plays. In fact she studied graphic design at Glasgow School of Art and moved to London in her mid-twenties to design book covers for the Thames and Hudson publishing house. Looking for other interests she joined Floodlight Council, an organization set up to bring out adult's artistic skills and then became part of the Questors Theatre Company in Ealing, West London. Here she met the late Alan Rickman - who, like Georgie, had a background in design before treading the boards - and he encouraged her to follow her acting ambitions. As a result she enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic drama school alongside Mark Strong and Jeremy Northam and on graduating had her first job at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Even then she felt, somewhat modestly, that she did not have the looks for a leading lady but ever since her television debut in 1988 she has been a reliable supporting player in virtually every type of show from sketch comedy to period drama, notably as doughty Sergeant Nokes in Heartbeat (1992), and as the liberal, kindly teacher Audrey in Waterloo Road (2006) which was filmed in her native Scotland. Indeed she may be said to be one of the first ladies of character acting and though her film roles have again always been in support of bigger names she has proved herself to be a scene-stealer par excellence, as one of the more enthusiastic Calendar Girls (2003), and as a lady experiencing the joys of pelvic massage in the Victorian-set comedy Hysteria (2011).- James Copeland was born on 1 May 1918 in Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Saint (1962), Doctor Who (1963) and Kidnapped (1963). He was married to Helen Goodlet Findlay. He died on 17 April 2002 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Born in Scotland, Jack Buchanan made his stage acting debut in Britain in 1912, and on Broadway in 1924. Though he made his film debut in 1917 during the silent film era, Buchanan is probably best remembered for The Band Wagon (1953), co-starring with Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell, Oscar Levant and Robert Gist.
Suffering from spinal arthritis, Buchanan died in London four years later.- Director
- Actor
- Script and Continuity Department
Kenny is an award winning television and film director. Recent work includes the feature film Dirt Road to Lafayette by James Kelman and 6 x 1 hr thriller Acceptable Risk by Ron Hutchinson for Saffron Pictures/RTE/Canada. Previous work includes: the BAFTA and RTS winning The Cops and Buried for Tony Garnett; Gas Attack, written by Rowan Joffe for Channel 4, which won the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Courchevel Film Festival and the Best Actor Award, shared by the three lead actresses at the Cherbourg Film Festival; Summer, for Sixteen Films which won BAFTAs for best direction, best film and best actor award for Robert Carlyle at the EIFF and best film in the Alice in the Cities section of the Rome International Film Festival; Yasmin, written by Simon Beaufoy, which won the Audience Award at Dinard and the Ecumenical Award at Locarno, and several best actor awards. Other work includes: the first two parts of Charlie, a 3 x 90 political drama for RTE, which was nominated for Best Drama at the Irish Film and Television Awards; The Ark, a single TV film for Red Planet/BBC1; Paddington, a TV film for BBC 1 about the Paddington rail crash; Magnificent 7 for BBC1, a single TV film about a family on the autism spectrum, which won the Signis Prix - Festival de Television Monte Carlo; Case Histories, Spooks, Paranoid and Being Human. Kenny also directed the short documentary, The Right to Life, which was part of a portmanteau feature entitled The Ten Commandments, inspired by the UN declaration of human rights. Theatre directing includes: A Place with the Pigs by Athol Fugard, which won a fringe first, and Joe Orton's Loot, and several new plays.- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Grammy Award winning producer Steve McLaughlin has produced, recorded and mixed the scores for more than a hundred and fifty major feature films, including the Die Hard series, the Lethal Weapon series, and the Academy Award nominated scores for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Michael Collins (1996) Steve began his career in film in 1987, when he was approached by composer Michael Kamen to work on the score for Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me (1987). Kamen and McLaughlin worked together for the next 15 years. In 1991 Steve produced, with Kamen and co-producer Chris Brooks, the classic score for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) The soundtrack album went on to sell over 3.5 million copies. 1995 saw Steve win a Grammy Award for his work on Tom Petty's Wildflowers album. Between 1995 - 1998 Steve received two Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards, and two Nominations, for Best Scoring Mixer. In 2001/2, Steve produced Badly Drawn Boy aka Badly Drawn Boy's critically acclaimed score for the Weitz Brothers' About a Boy (2002). Layer Cake (2004) led to a collaboration with director Matthew Vaughn and composer Ilan Eshkeri, through Stardust (2007) and Kick-Ass (2010) Recent work includes further collaboration with Eshkeri and director Ralph Fiennes, on Coriolanus (2011) and The Invisible Woman (2013).- Director
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Scottish-born David MacDonald got his training in the industry in the United States under celebrated producer and director Cecil B. DeMille, who hired him in 1929 as a production assistant. MacDonald returned to Britain in 1936 after his apprenticeship and directed a dozen of "quota quickies", films that were made quickly and cheaply to fulfill a British government requirement that a certain percentage of films shown in the United Kingdom had to be made by British companies.
He achieved some recognition when he made a series of comedies with Barry K. Barnes. During World War II MacDonald joined the Crown Film Unit and produced and directed a series of propaganda war documentaries, including the critically acclaimed Men of the Lightship (1941), and produced two award-winning documentaries by director Roy Boulting--Desert Victory (1943) and Burma Victory (1946).
His postwar career began well with the sharp thriller Snowbound (1948). Unfortunately, his next film, Christopher Columbus (1949), was not successful at the box office, and panned by critics as a leaden, talky and slow epic, an opinion that has considerably changed with the pass of time. MacDonald's career barely recovered from this production. He directed mostly "B" pictures and television episodes for the rest of his career, including thrillers and comedies, with the occasional "A" movie. He is definitely remembered for the notorious and campy sci-fi drama Devil Girl from Mars (1954), which became a cult film in latter years.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
John Logie Baird was born on 13 August 1888 in Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Moving Silhouette Images Broadcast (1924), The Televisor Broadcast (1926) and The First Television Picture with a Greyscale Image (1925). He was married to Margaret Albu. He died on 14 June 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.- Director
- Writer
- Casting Department
Aileen Ritchie was born in February 1963 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. She is a director and writer, known for American Women (2000), Comedy Lab (1998) and Drifting (1999).- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Neil Mitchell was born on 8 June 1965 in Helensburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Sputnik (1989), Rockopop (1988) and Car Share (2015).- Robert Foxx was born on 13 July 1972 in Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK. Robert is a writer, known for Wipeout HD (2008), Wipeout Pulse (2007) and WipEout Pure (2005).
- Elsie Park Gowan was born on 9 September 1905 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. Elsie Park was a writer, known for On Camera (1954). Elsie Park died on 23 January 1999 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- Visual Effects
Angus Laing was born on 23 October 1966 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. He is known for Hardwired (2009), The Thing Below (2004) and Pursued (2004).- Daniel McCoshan was born on 1 November 1920 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for On Such a Night (1956). He died on 21 January 2003 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK.
- Cinematographer
Emma Richards was born in 1975 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. She is a cinematographer, known for Around Alone (2002).- Phyllis Montefiore was born on 20 April 1909 in Helensburgh, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Somerset Maugham Hour (1960), The Saint (1962) and Crane (1963). She died on 5 November 1973 in Fulham, London, England, UK.