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Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Loosely based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemployed actors, Withnail and "I" (portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann , respectively) who share a flat in Camden Town in 1969.
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town. [1] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
English, German. Box office. $418,053. How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British black comedy fantasy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a Head in Advertising." In the film, an advertising executive has a nervous ...
FLASHBACKS: The boozy British comedy classic was produced by Beatle George Harrison and made stars out of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, but its initial cinema release went almost unnoticed.
Date premiered. 3 May 2024. Place premiered. Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Genre. Comedy. Setting. London, 1969. Withnail and I is a play by Bruce Robinson, based on the 1987 film of the same name also by Robinson.
Vivian MacKerrell was the son of Scottish accountant John Alexander McKerrell [sic - spelling] (1906-1994) and Janetta Mary (née Boyns, 1910-1987). The family were "well-off". [1] He had two brothers, Jock and David. [citation needed] The McKerrell parents retired to Bowmore, a town on the shores of the sea loch, Loch Indaal, on the Isle of ...
High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. [1] The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological ...
Full list. Website. www.richard-e-grant.com. Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; [2][3] 5 May 1957) is a Swaziland -born English actor [4][5][6] and presenter. [1] He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller 's drama film Can ...