Simon Callow appeared in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Amadeus and Shakespeare in Love, and has written substantial biographies of Orson Welles and Charles Laughton. He was among the first British actors to come out publicly, in 1984.
Elizabeth BerridgeAmadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.
Ben KingsleyThe film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-eight…
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