• The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes...
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  • The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work...
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    For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect...
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    Robert Downey Jr. (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    sobriety since 2003. Downey made his acting comeback in the 2003 film The Singing Detective, after Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond because completion...
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  • BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and...
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    Mrs. Tingle (both 1999), Wonder Boys, The Gift (both 2000), Abandon, Phone Booth (both 2002), The Singing Detective, Pieces of April (both 2003), First...
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    include The New Avengers (1976), ITV Playhouse (1977), The Eagle of the Ninth (1977), Sweeney 2 (1978), Comfort and Joy (1984), The Singing Detective (1986)...
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  • Waking the Dead, and the film The Singing Detective. He also directed some of the mini-series Wild Palms and appeared in the 2006 Iraq War documentary...
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  • a musician in the musical comedy film The Singing Detective (2003). As a film producer, Hawkey has worked on the drama film Higher Ground (2011), directed...
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  • Joanne Whalley (category English expatriate actresses in the United States)
    (BBC, 1985), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986). She has also appeared in both British...
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  • Flight Risk (film) (category Films shot in the Las Vegas Valley)
    granted the filmmakers approval to allow filming during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. D'Alessandro, Anthony; Ramos, Dino-Ray (December 14, 2020). "The Black...
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    various accolades. Producer The Singing Detective (2003) Paparazzi (2004) Stonehearst Asylum (2014) The Professor and the Madman (2019) Executive producer...
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    Alison Steadman (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    She received BAFTA TV Award nominations for the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective and in 2001 for the ITV drama series Fat Friends (2000–2005). Other...
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  • was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979...
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    in the television series Ally McBeal in 2000, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He was then cast in the 2003 films The Singing Detective...
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    David Thewlis (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    and Horses in 1985 and The Singing Detective in 1986, before being offered a more significant part in Alan Clarke's Road and in the ITV sitcom Valentine...
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    Drop Dead Diva and as Skip the Demon on Angel. He has appeared on such TV shows as ER, The X-Files, Mad Men and True Detective. Denman was married to Nikki...
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    Sandahl Bergman (category New Star of the Year (Actress) Golden Globe winners)
    when at the age of 52 she appeared as a dancer in the film version of The Singing Detective. Other appearances include a lunar base officer in the movie...
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    guu-JEE-noh; born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. After early roles in the films Troop Beverly Hills (1989), This Boy's Life (1993), Son in Law (film)...
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  • in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King. He also portrayed Billy Buzzle in the ITV sitcom Bless Me...
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    Christopher Nolan described The Curse as "an incredible show" and likened it to Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, and The Singing Detective as "genuinely [having]...
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    (another being The Singing Detective) to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst...
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    film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective (1986), he went on to direct...
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    Jim Carter (actor) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    (2001), The Singing Detective (1986), Minder (1994), Arabian Nights (2000), The Chest (1997), Red Riding (2009), A Very British Coup (1988), the Hornblower...
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    Bill Paterson (actor) (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    in Smiley's People (1982), The Singing Detective (1986), Traffik (1988). Paterson performed in Death and the Maiden at the Royal Court and Duke of York's...
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    Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performances in The Singing Detective (1987), Wives and Daughters (2000), Longitude (2001), and Perfect...
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    Ken Stott (category Alumni of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts)
    Shakespeare (King Lear, 1982), and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986). He also featured in an advert for the British COI's "Drinking And Driving Wrecks...
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    Rick McCallum (category American expatriates in the Czech Republic)
    executive producing the landmark BBC-TV series The Singing Detective; and in 1989 producing the Potter-directed TV series Blackeyes. During the 1980s, McCallum...
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    Imelda Staunton (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Chikatilo. She has had other television parts in The Singing Detective (1986), Midsomer Murders, and the sitcom Is It Legal? (1995–98), as well as A Bit...
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  • A Romance and in a minor role in The Singing Detective. In the popular Peckham-set comedy Desmond's he played the title character's eldest son (Michael)...
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