Brassed Off is a 1996 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mark Herman and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor...
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Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Bower's theatre credits include: Andy in Brassed Off (Royal National Theatre), Heracles in Simon Armitage's adaptation of...
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and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing the 1996 film Brassed Off and the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Film critic Paul Wells...
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Grimethorpe Colliery Band (category British brass bands)
the Proms. Grimethorpe Band achieved fame after appearing in the film Brassed Off. The year after the band's formation saw it enter its first competition...
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Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical...
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Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000). Tompkinson was born in Stockton-on-Tees...
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Mavis Bramston Show and appeared in films such as Carry On Cruising, Brassed Off, and The Parent Trap. He co-narrated Noggin the Nog with Oliver Postgate...
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in the films Scum, Paul McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street, Brassed Off, Mike Bassett: England Manager, "Grow Your Own", and My Week with Marilyn...
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The Wolverhampton Grand's in-house production, the stage adaptation of Brassed Off. The play, in which he played band leader Danny, ran from 23 August to...
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landlord of the local pub in Jake's Progress, and was in the 1996 film Brassed Off as a ruthless and violent debt collector. He also had a very small part...
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was in The Royle Family as Joe Carroll. He also starred in the film Brassed Off, the television series All Creatures Great and Small, Chucklevision,...
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appearance in early 2024. Hill's feature film roles include Sandra in Brassed Off (1996), the witch Ditchwater Sal in the fantasy film Stardust (2007)...
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"Cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" (also "brass monkey weather") is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to...
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December 2022. BBC Two. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "BFI Screenonline: Brassed Off (1996)". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "Casualty:...
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Stalin (1992), The Madness of King George (1994), Richard III (1995), Brassed Off (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Little Vampire (2000), Ella Enchanted...
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Flugelhorn (category Brass instruments)
flugelhorns are mostly replaced by the Eā trumpet or cornet. The 1996 film Brassed Off features a flugelhorn performance of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez...
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the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working-class comedies Brassed Off (1996) and The Full Monty...
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the Flynns and Fat Friends. He also appeared as a union official in Brassed Off and as a school teacher in Rita, Sue and Bob Too. In 1978 he was a night...
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following years Roughley appeared in Minder, A Touch of Frost, the film Brassed Off, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Dinnerladies (a further collaboration...
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appearances in several other successful films, including Alien 3, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, Inception, James and the Giant...
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through the 1990s and 2000s, among them A Man of No Importance (1994), Brassed Off (1996), the Czech World War II fighter pilot drama Dark Blue World (2001)...
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and films, including Inspector Morse, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Brassed Off and My Uncle Silas. In 1992, Johnston appeared in the three-part award-winning...
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confronted rogue tradesmen.[citation needed] In 2004, Allwright hosted Brassed Off Britain, Scambusters and Fat Nation for the BBC. In 2007, he also presented...
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Film Music - for Mississippi Burning, The Last of the Mohicans, and Brassed Off. He has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards - Best Original...
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of women as enemies of a sort (at least Monty is less offensive than Brassed Off in that department). And refreshingly, its definition of male bonding...
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Full Monty, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Brassed Off, Eat the Peach and many others." Derek Elley of Variety called it "a...
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Retrieved 1 April 2011. "Own goal". YouTube. Retrieved 12 July 2007. "Brassed off". BBC. 26 April 2006. Retrieved 16 April 2008. "What it feels like to...
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the song was prominently featured near the beginning of the 1996 film, Brassed Off. In 2016, a campaign for Christmas Number One was launched for Terry...
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Queen's Nose (1995-2001, TV Series) as father of Melody / Harmony Parker Brassed Off (1996) as McKenzie, the colliery manager The Missing Postman (BBC Television...
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1954) is a British film producerĀ best known for A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, Fierce Creatures and his affiliation with the Monty Python troupe. Films...
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