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Despite being quite familiar with the two sixties Doctor Who's, the first only existing as an audio recording (although one of the most enjoyable reconstructions using photos), it's his turn as the Lord of the Nazgul in BBC Radio's classic Lord of the Rings adaptation I know. Deliciously velvety evil is how I'd describe his voice on that occasion.
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Aug 16, 2022 - 11:51 AM
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Roger Moore’s contract to play James Bond had ended with the completion of MOONRAKER (1979), but he had agreed to return to the role one more time in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981). Two years later, the producers felt that at 55, Moore was too old to play Bond again. During casting for 1983’s OCTOPUSSY, James Brolin was almost given the role of James Bond, but at the last minute, Moore agreed to play Bond again. The production went with Moore because this film would be competing with NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983) starring the original and former James Bond actor and legend Sean Connery. The uncertainty in using an American actor in the role and having to introduce a new actor in going-up against Connery were the reasons for sticking with Moore.
The screenplay for the $25 million production was based on two of Ian Fleming’s last “Bond” adventures, published posthumously in 1966. Because they contained no “capers,” and only brief appearances by the protagonist, screenwriters George MacDonald Fraser, Michael G. Wilson, and Richard Maibaum had to create a new story from available source material. “Octopussy,” the short story, provided background for the title character, which was created for the picture, along with her all-female army; “Property of a Lady” inspired the auction sequence in which Bond is sent to Sotheby’s auction house to monitor the sale of a gold Fabergé egg. The auctioneer is played by Philip Voss.
John Glen directed his second consecutive Bond film. John Barry returned to scoring duties, with the film’s soundtrack being released by A&M Records. The most recent release was by Capitol/EMI in 2003. OCTOPUSSY grossed $187.5 million worldwide.
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Aug 17, 2022 - 11:07 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In CLOCKWISE, John Cleese plays “Brian Stimpson,” a Conservative-leaning headmaster in a public school near Birmingham, England. Organized and effective, he’s feared and admired by his pupils, and chastises those who are late, for lack of character. We first see him rehearsing his speech to the annual headmasters’ conference, which he’ll attend in Norwich at 5PM that day, but life gets in the way. He leaves his speech on the wrong train, missing the right one, and ends up cajoling a pupil (Alison Steadman) into giving him a lift. Stimpson’s wife and the girl’s family fear they are having an affair and give pursuit, as do the police when the master and pupil forget to pay for gasoline. Philip Voss had a small role as one of the headmasters at the conference.
Christopher Morahan directed this 1986 comedy, which has an unreleased score by George Fenton. The £4 million production barely broke even, with a £4.8 million worldwide gross.
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Aug 18, 2022 - 11:13 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL follows a group of long-time friends, all single, who watch and participate over a period of months as one by one those among them step up at last to the altar. Of them all, “Charles” (Hugh Grant) seems the most likely-- and at the same time the least likely-- to be next. Young, handsome, and charismatic, Charles has no problem developing a relationship (he's had a number, in fact, as we learn in one particularly hilarious scene), but sustaining one is seemingly beyond his grasp. Until, at the wedding of one of his friends, he meets “Carrie” (Andie MacDowell), an American, and she quickly enchants him. Philip Voss plays the father of “Laura” (Sara Crowe) at the first wedding.
Timothy Walker, Philip Voss, and Sara Crowe in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Mike Newell directed the 1994 comedy-drama. Only a few minutes of Richard Rodney Bennett’s score appeared on the London records song-track CD. The $4.4 million production was a smash hit, with a worldwide gross of $246 million.
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Aug 18, 2022 - 1:56 PM
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On the stage, Philip Voss did a stint at the London Shakespeare Workout, two roles for the Shared Experience Company (in Three Sisters and The Seagull), and played Serebryakov in a West End rendition of Anton Chekhov's The Wood Demon. At the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1990s, he played Menenius in Coriolanus, Sir Epicure Mammon in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and Prospero in The Tempest. Farewell, Philip
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He was great in VICIOUS.
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