Chris Darwin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Chris has been acting for stage and screen for over 50 years and has been fortunate enough to have worked with many influential directors and had three wonderful years with the Everyman theatre, in house and on tour. Some highlights of his stage career have been playing Snowy Malone in Boys from the Blackstuff, Did Trafford Tanzi in the West End and his work with the Vauxy Theatre. Chris’s screen highlights include Coronation street, Emmerdale, Lenny Henry show (2), Hollyoaks and Heartbeat.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Birthday: January 15, 1945
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Gender: Male
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Overview: Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-16
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Gaskin
Overview: Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Joggers
Overview: When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Dancin' Thru the Dark
Overview: Linda's out on her hen night, her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married, when both groups arrive at a club, to find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend—and the love of her life—Peter. Linda has to decide: Does she stay and settle down, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-02
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Liam
Overview: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-23
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Requiem Apache
Overview: Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, David Ross, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Schofield and Julie Walters. Raymond Murtagh's Requim Apache tells the story of Hamish, who was once one of the criminal underworld's best getaway drivers. Now a new father and retired to the Suffolk countryside, he has to watch the baby at home alone. However, Hamish's peaceful and idyllic new life is shattered when his past rears its ugly head once again, and the old gang comes over for a visit. They make him an offer he dare not refuse to take on one last bank job. However, with no babysitter available, he is forced to take the baby with him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-11
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Needle
Overview: Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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