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Jason Durr (born 2 December 1967) is a British actor of theatre, television and film. Durr made his television debut as Alex Hartman in 1990 in the sci-fi drama Jupiter Moon in 1990 and went on to star as Mike Bradley in the Yorkshire-based police drama series Heartbeat from 1997 until 2003.
As a member of the Actors Studio playwriting project, he received a $1500.00 award from the Edward Albee Foundation in 1964. [9]As a writer, Washburn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) and a WGA Award for "Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen" for The Deer Hunter, along with Quinn Redeker, Louis A. Garfinkle and Michael Cimino.
Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire.After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Standard, as a trainee reporter.Later he joined the Farmers' Weekly, where he won a Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself.
This list details the filmmakers, actors, actresses, and others in British Cinema who were born or were longtime residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) who have been nominated for or have won an Academy Award. For those from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, see List of Irish Academy Award winners and nominees.
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The following list comprises films not produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfill at least three of the following criteria: The film is adapted from a British source material. The story is set, at least partially, in the United Kingdom.
Chasing the Deer (later re-titled Culloden 1746) is a 1994 British war film directed by Graham Holloway and starring Brian Blessed, Lewis Rae, Iain Cuthbertson, Fish and Mathew Zajac. It depicts the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion , in which Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland , trying to claim the British throne.
The lands historically belonged to Clan Macpherson.The 20th chief, Ewen Macpherson, leased Benalder and Ardverikie in 1844 to The 2nd Marquess of Abercorn, an Ulster-Scots peer, "one of the trend setters in the emerging interest in deer stalking in Scotland."