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Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban.The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish butler Bernard Lafferty later in her life.
Bernard Lafferty (14 April 1945 – 4 November 1996) was an Irish butler and heir to American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, Doris Duke.Duke hired Lafferty in 1987 and named him the executor of her $1.2 billion estate six months prior to her death in October 1993.
Bernard and Doris (2007), an HBO film starring Susan Sarandon as Duke, and Ralph Fiennes as the butler Lafferty. Rubirosa (2018), a Mexican web television series co-starring Katarina Čas as Doris Duke. As the Money Burns (2020–present), a history podcast reconstructing the Great Depression through the lives of heirs and heiresses. [76]
Doris Duke, the famous real-life billionairess, is seen going over her life as she prepares to die. Her life includes the early death of her loving father, being raised by a cold mother, two marriages and numerous affairs that still leave her hungry for love, a fascination with mystics and reincarnation, and a disastrous adoption late in life.
However, he is best known for writing the critically acclaimed [2] [3] 2007 film Bernard and Doris, which premiered on HBO on 9 February 2008 and was nominated for ten Emmy awards, [4] including Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries.
With the 2025 Academy Awards airing Sunday, March 2 (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT), we look back at the biggest Oscar snubs of all time.
French sales Other Angle (“A Little Something Extra”) has boarded “PH-1,” a tech-driven political thriller starring Mark Kassen, Abubakar Salim, Dina Shihabi, Vinessa Shaw and Jesse L. Martin.
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. [1] Aside from his acting career, Balaban has directed three feature films, in addition to numerous television episodes and films, and was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for Gosford Park (2001), in which he also appeared.