Gormenghast (/ˈɡɔːrmənɡɑːst/) is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying,...
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Gormenghast may refer to: Gormenghast (series), a trilogy of novels by Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (novel), second in the series Gormenghast (opera), an...
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Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It was produced...
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Gormenghast /ˈɡɔːmənˌɡɑːst/ is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th...
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fictional character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast Castle. He is a one-legged, hunchbacked...
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Mervyn Peake (category Gormenghast (series))
illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy...
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Titus Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
published in 1946. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. The other novels in the series are Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959); and a novella...
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Titus Alone (category Gormenghast (series))
published in 1959. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. The other works are Titus Groan and Gormenghast. With the trilogy, a fourth work, the novella...
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Titus Awakes (category Gormenghast (series))
write. It was to have been the fourth novel in the Gormenghast series, after Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Peake's own version of Titus Awakes...
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a few solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy. Gormenghast premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal in...
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all five simultaneously within fifty minutes. In 1969, Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights. He named pets...
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Steerpike (category Gormenghast (series))
Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an...
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Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast...
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roles. These included the role Flay in the BBC television miniseries Gormenghast (2000) based on Mervyn Peake's novels. He also appeared as Lucas de Beaumanoir...
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the sadistic Goth prince Chiron. He starred as Steerpike in the BBC's Gormenghast (2000); played a dedicated girls' football coach in Bend It Like Beckham...
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and Executive Producer on a television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. A long-time comics fan, Whithouse announced via Twitter in May...
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abridged version of his introduction to the Folio Society edition of the Gormenghast trilogy. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November...
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– voice Ted & Ralph Confirmed Bachelor 1999 Hunting Venus Peter 2000 Gormenghast Professor Perch The Strangerers Cadet Flynn Nine episodes 2001 Fun at...
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played Clarice, one of the dim-witted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast (2000), a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She played...
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Episode 4 – (Tanya) 1999 Jason and the Argonauts – (Atalanta) 2000 Gormenghast – (BBC) 2000 Monarch of the Glen (Marie-Helene) 2001 Take Me UK television...
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International – Culture Section. Peake, Mervyn (2011). The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (New ed.). London: Vintage. p. 753. ISBN 978-0-09-952854-8. Daniel...
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Baskervilles, and Fuchsia in the 2000 BBC and WGBH Boston production of Gormenghast, a miniseries based on the first two books of the trilogy by Mervyn Peake...
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Makepeace" in Martyn Read's The Folly "The Artist" in the adaptations of the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. Jones married actress Jennifer Heslewood in 1965...
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and Blue Black Permanent (1992). In 2000 she played Lady Gertrude in Gormenghast, while in 2001 she was in Love in a Cold Climate with Sir Alan Bates...
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(1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), The Avengers (1998), Gormenghast (2000), and five of the Harry Potter films in which she played Petunia...
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Parkinsonism in his later years). Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), author of the Gormenghast books, began his decline towards death which was initially attributed...
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Lady Fuchsia Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
Lady Fuchsia Groan is a fictional character in the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by English writer Mervyn Peake. The daughter of Sepulchrave, 76th...
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featured Windsor Davies (who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000), Bob Todd, Lynsey de Paul, and Gareth Hunt. In 1985, he played...
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Professor Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast, which was adapted from the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. In the 1994 romantic comedy...
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1999–2001 Gimme Gimme Gimme Tom Farrell TV series (19 episodes) 2000 Gormenghast Professor Fluke TV 2000–2001 Bette Oscar U.S. TV series (18 episodes)...
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