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KING’S SPEECH
Ein Film von Tom Hooper
Colin Firth
Geoffrey Rush
Helena Bonham Carter
118 Minuten
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KINOSTART: 17. Februar 2011

THE KING’S SPEECH
Synopsis
After the death of his father King George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous
abdication of King Edward VIII (Guy Pearce), Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from
a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of
England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his
wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, arranges for her
husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After a
rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form
an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and
Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a
radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle.
Based on the true story of King George VI, THE KING'S SPEECH follows the Royal
Monarch's quest to find his voice.
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THE KING’S SPEECH
About the Cast
COLIN FIRTH – Bertie
A classically trained British theatre actor, Colin Firth is a veteran of film, television and theater,
with an impressive body of work spanning over three decades. Firth won the BAFTA Award in
2010 for his performance in Tom Ford’s “A Single Man,” which also earned him nominations for
an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Firth received
international critical acclaim for his starring role as ‘George Falconer’ in “A Single Man,” based
on Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, including being honored with the Volpi Cup for Best
Actor at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and the Performance of the Year Award at the 2010
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as well as the London Critics Circle Film Award for
British Actor of the Year.
In 2009 Firth made an appearance in Robert Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol,” Disney’s 3D
motion-capture-animated version of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring Jim Carrey and
Gary Oldman. Firth was also seen starring in “Genova,” directed by Michael Winterbottom.
“Genova” is a subtle thriller revolving around two American girls and their British father who
move to Italy after their mother dies. The film screened at the 2008 Toronto International Film
Festival, the London Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival, where Winterbottom
was awarded Best Director.
In 2008, Firth was also seen in Universal Pictures’ global smash hit ABBA musical “Mamma
Mia!” The cast included Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard and Amanda
Seyfried. “Mamma Mia!” grossed over half a billion dollars around the world and has become
the highest grossing film of all time in the UK. The same year, Firth was seen in “Then She
Found Me,” written and directed by Helen Hunt. He was also seen in the Sony Pictures
Classics films “When Did You Last See Your Father?” and “Easy Virtue,” based on the Noel
Coward play and directed by Stephan Elliott.
In 2004, Firth starred in the Universal/Working Title hit “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”
Firth reprised his role as ‘Mark Darcy’ opposite Renee Zellweger and Hugh Grant in the film.
The same year Firth appeared in the Oscar-nominated film “Girl with a Pearl Earring” opposite
Scarlett Johanssen. Firth was nominated for a European Film Award for his performance in the
film.
In 2003, Firth appeared in the Universal hit “Love Actually,” written and directed by Richard
Curtis. At the time of its release, “Love Actually” broke box office records as the highest
grossing British romantic comedy opening of all time in the UK and Ireland, and was the largest
opening in the history of Working Title Films.
In 2002, Firth was seen starring opposite Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon and Judi Dench in
the Miramax Film, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Prior to that, Firth appeared in the
Academy Award nominated film "Shakespeare in Love," directed by John Madden. Firth
portrayed ‘Lord Wessex,’ the evil husband to ‘Violet De Lesseps,’ played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
In 1996, Firth appeared in the multi-Oscar nominated film, "The English Patient," opposite
Kristen Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes. His other film credits include the Atom Egoyan’s
“Where the Truth Lies,” Marc Evans’ thriller “Trauma,” “Nanny McPhee,” “What a Girl Wants,” "A
Thousand Acres," with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange, “Apartment Zero,” "My Life So Far,"
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Nick Hornby’s "Fever Pitch," "Circle of Friends," "Playmaker," and the title role in Milos Forman’s
“Valmont" opposite Annette Bening.
On the small screen, Firth is infamous for his breakout role in 1995, when he played “Mr. Darcy”
in the BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," for which he received a BAFTA nomination for
Best Actor and the National Television Award for Most Popular Actor. Firth’s latest television
appearance was in 2006 in the critically-acclaimed BBC television movie “Born Equal” directed
by Dominic Savage (“Out of Control”). In March 2004, Firth hosted NBC’s legendary series
“Saturday Night Live.” He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for Outstanding
Supporting Actor in the critically acclaimed HBO film "Conspiracy" and also received the Royal
Television Society Best Actor Award and a BAFTA nomination for his performance in
"Tumbledown." His other television credits include "Windmills on the Clyde: Making Donovan
Quick," "Donovan Quick," "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," "Deep Blue Sea," "Hostages," and
the mini-series "Nostromo." His London stage debut was in the West End production of Another
Country playing Benett. He was then chosen to play the character Judd in the 1984 film
adaptation opposite Rupert Everett.
Firth is an active supporter of Oxfam International, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty
and related injustice around the world. In 2008 he was named Philanthropist of the Year by The
Hollywood Reporter. In 2006, Firth was voted European Campaigner of the Year by the EU.
GEOFFREY RUSH – Lionel Logue
AFI, Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winner Geoffrey Rush is one of Australia’s most
respected actors. His career has spanned over 70 theatrical productions and more than 20
feature films.
After taking a degree in English at the University of Queensland, Geoffrey traveled to Paris in
1975 to study at the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime, Movement and Theatre. He was a
principal member of Jim Sharman’s pioneering Lighthouse ensemble in the early 1980s, where
he played leading roles in numerous classics.
In 1989, Geoffrey’s lead performance in Neil Armfield’s production of “The Diary of a Madman”
earned him the Sydney Critics’ Circle Award for Most Outstanding Performance, the Variety
Club Award and the Victorian Green Room Award. This highly acclaimed production toured
Moscow and St Petersburg before a triumphant return season at the Adelaide Festival. He has
had starring roles in Gogol’s “The Government Inspector,” Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” and
Mamet’s “Oleanna”, in which he co-starred with Cate Blanchett. In 1993 he received the
prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for his work in theatre.
Geoffrey’s Australian film credits include CANDY, LANTANA, SWIMMING UPSTREAM,
HARVIE KRUMPET, NEDKELLY, ON OUR SELECTION and CHILDREN OF THE
REVOLUTION. For his role as pianist David Helfgott in SHINE, he won an Oscar for Best
Actor, an Australian Film Institute Award, New York and Los Angeles Film Critics’ Awards, a
Broadcast Film Critics’ Award, a Film Critics’ Circle of Australia Award, a SAG Award, a Golden
Globe, and a BAFTA.
For his performance as Henslowe in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Geoffrey received a BAFTA
Award, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In Shekhar
Kapur’s ELIZABETH, for his role as Walsingham, he received a BAFTA nomination for Best
Supporting Actor.
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He was also nominated for Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar Best Actor Awards for his
performance as the Marquis de Sade in Philip Kaufman’s QUILLS.
Other films include LES MISERBLES, MYSTERY MEN, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE
TAILOR OF PANAMA, THE BANGER SISTERS, FRIDA, INTOLERABLE CRUELTY, MUNICH,
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. He is the voice of Nigel in Pixar Animation’s hugely
successful animated feature FINDING NEMO, and the swashbuckling Barbossa in Jerry
Bruckheimer’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films directed by Gore Verbinski. These
blockbuster films have set box office records internationally.
Geoffrey’s portrayal of the title role in the HBO biopic THE LIFE AND DEATH O FPETER
SELLERS earned him a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award.
In 2007 he played the lead in Ionesco’s “Exit the King” at The Malthouse in Melbourne and
Belvoir Theatre in Sydney. He co-translated this play with long term theatrical collaborator and
director Neil Armfield. Rush made his Broadway debut in a re-staging of “Exit the King” under
Malthouse Theatre's touring moniker Malthouse Melbourne. This re-staging featured a new
American cast including Susan Sarandon as Queen Marguerite. The show opened on 26 March
2009 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. For his performance as King Berenger in the absurdist
comedy, Rush won the Outer Critics Circle Award, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk
Award, as well as the Distinguished Performance Award from the Drama League Award, and
was the winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
He is currently filming PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES and recently
completed filming Fred Schepisi's THE EYE OF THE STORM, from the Patrick White novel,
alongside Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – Elizabeth
British actress Helena Bonham Carter has lent her talents to a wide array of diverse feature
films such as David Fincher’s provocative Fight Club, Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, for which
she received a Golden Globe nomination and an Evening Standard Best Actress Award and the
dark comedy Novocaine, directed by David Atkins.
On the last day of filming her screen debut in Trevor Nunn’s Lady Jane, James Ivory offered her
the ingenue lead in A Room with a View. It was the first of a series of roles in E.M. Forster
adaptations that would bring her international acclaim and was followed by Charles Sturridge’s
Where Angels Fear to Tread and James Ivory’s Howard’s End for which she received a BAFTA
nomination. She played Ophelia in Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet, opposite Mel Gibson, and
portrayed Elizabeth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh. She
subsequently appeared as Woody Allen’s wife in Mighty Aphrodite.
For her performance in Ian Softley’s Wings of the Dove, Helena received a Best Actress
nomination for an Academy Award, as well as a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild
Award. She received a Canadian Genie Award for Best Actress for Mort Ransen’s Margaret’s
Museum and was also Emmy-nominated for her role in Steve Barron’s mini series Merlin.
Other feature film credits include Hans Canosa’s Conversations with Other Women for which
she received an Evening standard best actress award, Burton’s Big Fish in which she played
two roles, Jenny and The Witch, Planet of The Apes and Charlie and the chocolate factory.
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Michael Petroni’s Till Human Voices Wake Us and the HBO film Live from Baghdad, directed by
Mick Jackson, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Paul
Weiland’s Sixty Six, Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Heart of Me and McG’s Terminator Salvation. In
2005 Bonham Carter provided the voice for Lady Tottington in Nick Parker’s animated feature
film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and the voice of the Corpse Bride in Tim
Burton’s stop-motion animation feature Corpse Bride. This year Helena appeared as The Red
Queen in Tim Burton’s 3D Imax Experience Alice in Wonderland. She recently completed
filming on David Yates’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II reprising the role of
Bellatrix Lestrange. Both are due for release this Autumn. Bonham Carter’s television
appearances include Magnificent 7, inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, she plays a mother
with seven children, three normal daughters and four sons who are each in one form or another
autistic, Dancing Queen, Fatal Deception, A Dark Adapted Eye, Merlin and Henri VIII. Last year
she played Enid Blyton in the BBC drama Enid for which she received a BAFTA nomination. Her
stage credits include Woman in White, The Chalk Garden, House of Bernarda Alba and
Trelawny of the Wells.
GUY PEARCE – David
Born in England, his parents moved to Australia when Pearce was three years old.
Pearce has always been interested in performing, and he excelled at mimicking accents. He
starred in several plays when he was young, and graduated to television when he was cast in
the Australian soap opera “Neighbours” in 1985, playing the role of Mike Young for several
years. Pearce also found roles in other television series such as “Home and Away”(1988) and
“Snowy River: The McGregor Saga” (1993).
His major breakthrough into film came with his role as a drag queen in PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF
THE DESERT in 1994. Since then, he has appeared in many American productions including
LA CONFIDENTIAL, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE
TIME MACHINE and notably in Christopher Nolan's MOMENTO.
More recently he starred in the critically lauded THE PROPOSITION (2005), directed by John
Hillcoat who he worked with again on THE ROAD, he gained critical acclaim for his portrayal of
pop artist Andy Warhol in FACTORY GIRL, played Harry Houdini in Gillian Armstrong's DEATH
DEFYING ACTS and had a cameo appearance in Kathryn Bigelow's Academy Award winning
THE HURT LOCKER.
He recently completed filming the Roger Donaldson thriller THE HUNGRY RABBIT JUMPS,
alongside Nicolas Cage and most recently “Mildred Pierce” alongside Kate Winslet, directed by
Todd Haynes for HBO.
JENNIFER EHLE – Myrtle Logue
Two-time Tony Award-winning British-American actress of stage and screen, Ehle is probably
best known for her starring role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice
in which she starred alongside Colin Firth.
Ehle's first major role was in 1992 when Peter Hall cast her in the television adaptation of “The
Camomile Lawn”, a novel by Mary Wesley, in which she and her mother, Rosemary Harris,
played the same character at different ages. This story, produced by UK's Channel 4, was a five
part mini-series about lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present.
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Her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen's
classic “Pride and Prejudice” gained her a Best Actress BAFTA award. After a stint with the
RSC, she gained her first major feature film role in Bruce Beresford's PARADISE ROAD . She
was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in WILDE and other film roles include BEDROOMS
AND HALLWAYS, THE RIVER KING, MICHAEL CLAYTON and Istvan Szabo's SUNSHINE,
among others. She continued pursuing a career on stage, winning critical acclaim and a Best
Performance by a Leading Actress Tony for her 2000 Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's “The
Real Thing”. She returned to the stage in 2005 in “The Philadelphia Story” at the Old Vic
opposite Kevin Spacey. The following year she played Lady Macbeth in “Macbeth” as part of
Shakespeare in the Park in New York. She won her second Tony award for portraying three
characters in Stoppard's “The Coast of Utopia” triptych, which ran from October 2006 until May
2007.
Her most recent films include BEFORE THE RAINS directed by Santosh Sivan and PRIDE AND
GLORY, co-starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell.
DEREK JACOBI – Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, after graduating from Cambridge he joined
the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A live broadcast of She Stoops to Conquer gave him his
television debut. While at Birmingham he was invited by Laurence Olivier to join the newlyestablished
National Theatre. He played Laertes in the inaugural production of “Hamlet”
opposite Peter O'Toole in 1963 and in 1964 he played Cassius to Olivier's Othello and in 1965
the production was filmed. Over the next 30 years Derek had some very distinguished roles in
the theatre such as Touchstone in an all-male As You Like It opposite Anthony Hopkins as
Audrey (1967); the title role in Oedipus Rex (1972); Hamlet (1977) and again on a world tour
(1979); Kean (1990); Macbeth (1993-94); and Uncle Vanya (1996).
From 1972-8 Derek was with the Prospect Theatre where he enjoyed roles such as Buckingham
in Richard III, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night and leads in Ivanov, Pericles and A Month
In The Country. In 1980 Derek went to America making his New York stage debut in the shortlived
The Suicide.
In 1982 Derek joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where he played the title role in Peer
Gynt, Prospero in The Tempest, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing andCyrano in Cyrano de
Bergerac, both opposite Sinead Cusack. He was also in their 1984/85 tour of New York and
Washington as Benedick, for which he received a Tony Award, and Cyrano. A year later Derek
gave a tour-de-force portrayal of Alan Turing, a gay man who cracked the German Enigma code
during World War II, in Breaking The Code. This was one of Derek's favourite roles and he says
that the tragedy of Alan Turing was that he was a hero, but he was persecuted for his
homosexuality. In 1987 Derek played Byron in the RSC/English Chamber Theatre production of
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know with Isla Blair. In 1988 Derek directed Kenneth Branagh in
Hamlet with the Renaissance Theatre Company.
In April 2000 Derek returned to Broadway, playing Vanya in the Roundabout Theatre's
production of Uncle Vanya with Roger Rees, Brian Murray and Laura Linney. He returned to
the British stage in the autumn of 2000 in the Hugh Whitemore play God Only Knows. In 2004,
Jacobi starred in Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, an
acclaimed production which transferred to London in January 2005. He followed with the
eponymous role in A Voyage Round My Father at the Donmar Warehouse, which then
transferred to the West End. He played Malvolio in Michael Grandage's production of Twelfth
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Night for the Donmar Warehouse at Wyndham's Theatre for which he won Best Actor at the
Olivier Awards 2009.
Jacobi's notable television credits include: Man of Straw (BBC, 1972), The Strauss Family (ITV,
1972) and The Pallisers (BBC, 1974). His career-defining television role came in I, Claudius
(BBC, 1976), a 13-part serial based on Robert Graves' novels. The Imperial Rome saga was a
masterpiece of British television drama, held together by Jacobi's majestic portrayal of the
deranged, stuttering Emperor Claudius. Jacobi's superb underplaying won him the BAFTA for
Best Actor and garnered him the attention of an international audience.
Enhancing his reputation, Jacobi excelled in a variety of serious dramas: as Soviet spy Guy
Burgess in Philby, Burgess and Maclean; the title roles in two BBC Shakespeare productions,
Richard II and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; and as Hitler in Inside the Third. In 1985 he also
recreated his favourite stage role Cyrano de Bergerac (Channel 4) and appeared in populist
programmes: Minder, Tales of the Unexpected (ITV, 1979-88) and the last ever Morecambe and
Wise Show special (ITV, tx. 26/12/1983).
Other notable television credits include Mr Pye (Channel 4, 1986); an Emmy for Graham
Greene's The Tenth Man (1988); In My Defence (BBC, 1991), as Emile Zola; and the triumphant
transfer from stage to small screen, Breaking the Code (BBC, 1997). In 1994 Jacobi received a
knighthood and embarked on the acclaimed medieval dramas series Cadfael (ITV, 1994-98),
based on the Ellis Peters books. Jacobi's quiet and meticulous performance as the 12th
Century crime-solving monk struck a chord with television audiences.
His many other television appearances include the dramatisation of Jake Arnott's crime
novel The Long Firm (BBC, 2004), The Gathering Storm, Margot, Endgame and Morris, a Life
with Bells On.
In 2001 Jacobi won an Emmy by mocking his Shakespearean background in the US television
sitcom Frasier episode "The Show Must Go Off" in which he played the
world's worst Shakespearean actor: the hammy, loud, untalented Jackson Hedley.
Jacobi made his feature film debut as Cassio in Laurence Olivier's OTHELLO (1965) and
during the 1970's appeared in Laurence Olivier's THE THREE SISTERS (1970), Fred
Zinnemann's THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973), THE ODESSA FILE (d. Ronald Neame,
1974) and THE MEDUSA TOUCH (d. Jack Gold, 1978). He received the Evening Standard
Best Film Actor award for LITTLE DORRIT (d. Christine Edzard, 1988) and again for his
performance as painter Francis Bacon in LOVE IS THE DEVIL (D: John Maybury, 1998).
Having collaborated with Kenneth Branagh in the theatre, Jacobi's long-standing professional
relationship Branagh has produced three films: HENRY V (1989), DEAD AGAIN (1991) and
HAMLET (1996). Other feature credits include Otto Preminger's THE HUMAN FACTOR .
Jacobi's most recent feature credits include Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (2000), Robert
Altman's GOSFORD PARK (2001), REVENGERS TRAGEDY (D: Alex Cox, 2002), THE
GOLDEN COMPASS (D: Chris Weitz, 2007) and NANNY MCPHEE (D: Kirk Jones, 2005).
Jacobi's forthcoming feature credits include Clint Eastwood's HEREAFTER and Roland
Emmerich's ANONYMOUS.
Jacobi bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British.
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MICHAEL GAMBON - George V
Gambon started his career with the Edwards/MacLiammoir Gate Theatre, Dublin. In 1963, he
was one of the original members of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic under
Laurence Olivier, and appeared there in many plays before leaving to join Birmingham Rep
where he played Othello. Also in repertory, he played the title roles in “Macbeth,” “Coriolanus”
and “Othello” again, this time at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. IN the West End,
he played leads in Simon Gray's “Otherwise Engaged,” in the London premiere of three plays by
Alan Ayckbourn: “The Norman Conquests”, “Just Between Ourselves” and “Man of the
Moment”; “Alice's Boys,” (with Ralph Richardson); Harold Pinter's “Old Times”; the title role in
“Uncle Vanya” and “Veterans Day” with Jack Lemmon. With the Royal National Theatre, he
played leading roles in the premieres of Harold Pinter's “Betrayal” and “Mountain Language”,
Simon Gray's “Close of Play”, Christopher Hampton's “Tales from Hollywood,” three more lays
by Alan Ayckborn: “Sisterly Feelings,” “A Chorus of Disapproval” (for which he won an Olivier
Award), and “A Small Family Business” as well as “Hare's Skylight”. He also appeared there in
“Richard III,” “Othello,” “A View form the Bridge” (for which he won all the major drama award in
1987) and as the name parts in “The Life of Galileo” and “Volpone” (winning the 1995 Evening
Standard Best Actor Award). He lead Nicolas Hytner's production of “Cressida” at the Almeida
and Patrick Marber's production of “The Caretaker” and Stephen Daldry's “A Number” at the
Royal Court. More recently Gambon starred in “Endgame” with Lee Evans, directed by Matthew
Warchus and “Henry IV Parts I and II” at the National Theatre. Gambon also recently starred in
the Gate Theatre's productions of Samuel Beckett's “Eh Joe” as part of the Beckett Centenary
Festival, directed by Atom Egoyan and “Krapp's Last Tape,” directed by Michael Colgan as well
as in 2008 the Gate Theatre's production of Harold Pinter's “No Man's Land,” directed by Rupert
Goold and co-starring David Bradley and David Walliams.
His extensive work on TV includes the title role in the Dennis Potter series “The Singing
Detective” for which he won a BAFTA. His award-winning performance in BBC”s “Wives and
Daughters,” was followed by Charles Sturridges's “Longitude,” Stephen Poliakoff's “The Lost
Prince” and “Joe's Palace” followed by the “Cranford” for the BBC. He was most recently seen
as Mr Woodhouse in the BBC production of “Emma”.
Gambon's many film credits include Peter Greenaway's THE COOK, THE THIEF, THIS WIFE
AND HER LOVER, THE GAMBLER, Iain Softley's THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, DANCING AT
LUGHNASA, PLUNKETT AND MACLEANE, THE LAST SEPTEMBER, Tim Burton's SLEEPY
HOLLOW, Michael Mann's THE INSIDER, CHARLOTTE GRAY, Robert Altman's GOSFORD
PARK, John Frankenheimer's PATH TO WAR, Conor McPherson's THE ACTORS, Mike
Nichol's ANGELS IN AMERICA, SYLVIA, Wes Anderson's THE LIFE AQUATIC, Robert de
Niro's THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Michael Apted's AMAZING GRACE and Julian Jarrold's
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. He also starred as Dumbledore in HARRY POTTER AND THE
PRISONER OF AZKABAN, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, HARRY POTTER
AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE
and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS.
TIMOTHY SPALL – Winston Churchill
One of Britain’s best loved and most talented character actors, Timothy Spall has made a name
for himself dividing his time between larger ‘Hollywood’ projects and regular collaborations with
Mike Leigh. Timothy trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, theatre work follow with
the RSC and the National Theatre, however he came to wider British audience’s attention in
1980’s through his role as Barry in the British television series “Auf Weidersehen Pet” . It was in
1996 in his role as Maurice in Mike Leigh’s SECRETS AND LIES though, which brought
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Timothy critical acclaim, a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and a constant demand for his
acting services. His next role as Mr Venus in “Our Mutual Friend” also brought a BAFTA
nomination. Roles in Steven Poliakoff’s “Shooting the Past” and “Perfect Strangers”.
Timothy’s TV roles of note include Eddie in Jimmy McGovern’s award-winning ensemble series
“The Street” 2006), acting alongside his son Rafe in the Andrew Davies adaptation of E.M.
Forster’s “A Room with a View” (2007) and Fagin in the BBC’s “Oliver Twist”(2007).
His film roles include Kenneth Branagh’s HAMLET and LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, STILL
CRAZY, INTIMACY, ROCK STAR, LUCKY BREAK, VANILLA SKY, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY,
THE LAST SAMURAI, PIERREPOINT. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN,
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, HARRY POTTER AND THE
GOBLET OF FIRE, ENCHANTED and Tim Burton’s SWEENEY TODD. His performances for
Mike Leigh include LIFE IS SWEET, TOPSY TURVY and ALL OR NOTHING. Recent roles
include Peter Pettigrew in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE and HARRY
POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS, PARTS 1 AND 11, Arthur in HAMMER'S: WAKE
WOOD, Donaldson in DESERT FLOWER, Bogis in Julian Fellows' FROM TIME TO TIME and
in Tom Hooper's THE DAMNED UNITED. He provided the voice of Churchill in JACKBOOTS
ON WHITEHALL and the voice of Bayard in ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Timothy received an
OBE in 1999.
ANTHONY ANDREWS – Stanley Baldwin
Andrews is well-known from both stage and screen. His recent theatre credits include “The
Letter” at the Wyndham’s Theatre, Count Fosco in “The Woman in White” at the Palace Theatre
in London’s West End, Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady” at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane and as
Pastor Manders in Robin Phillip’s highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at the
Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.
Other theatre credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company – “Rome and Juliet”
and “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen
Poliakoff’s “Coming in to Land” with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, “Dragon Variations” at
the Duke of York’s Theatre, the much acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin
Chapman’s “One of Us” and the adaptation of “Vertigo”.
Andrew’s first television appearance was in “A Beast with two Backs” by Dennis Potter. His first
leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC’s “The Fortunes of Nigel” by Sir
Walter Scott. Subsequently he distinguished himself in various television classics playing
Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet” , Horner in “The Country Wife” and “French without Tears”. He
also starred in the series “The Pallisers”, “Upstairs Downstairs”, “The Duchess of Duke Street”
and “Danger UXB” in which he played bomb disposal hero Brian Ash which led directly to his
appearance as Sebastian Flyte in the classic “Brideshead Revisited” for which he won the
British Academy Award in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy
nomination for Best Actor
Other notable TV appearances include “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” for which
he was nominated for an ACE award in the USA, “Sparkling Cyanide” and ”Jewels” which
earned him a Golden Globe nomination as best actor in a mini series. Most recent TV
appearances include Mr. Murdstone in “David Copperfield”, Boy Dougdale in Nancy Mitford’s
“Love in a Cold Climate” and George VI in “Cambridge Spies” for the BBC.
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His films include OPERATION DAYBREAK , A WAR OF CHILDREN, IVANHOE, THE
SCARLET PIMPERNEL, QB VII, SUSPICION, UNDER THE VOLCANO directed by John
Houston, THE HOLCROFT COVENANT, HANNAH’S WAR, THE LIGHTHORSEMEN,
SECOND VICTORY, and MOTHERTIME. As a producer, he co-produced LOST IN SIBERIA,
filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and
HAUNTED produced by his own production company, Double ‘A’ Films.
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THE KING’S SPEECH
About the Filmmakers
TOM HOOPER – Director
Tom Hooper's most recent film THE DAMNED UNITED starred Michael Sheen as the legendary
English football manager Brian Clough. THE DAMNED UNITED was nominated by the South
Bank Show Awards for best British film and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. This Sony
Pictures/BBC Film, written by Peter Morgan, was based on the novel by David Peace.
Tom Hooper has had an unprecedented run of success at the Golden Globes, winning the
Golden Globe for best movie or mini-series made for television three years in a row (2007/8/9).
His starring actors and actresses have won Golden Globes for their performances three years
running.
Tom Hooper’s “John Adams”, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, won four Golden Globes
and thirteen Emmys - the most Emmys ever awarded to a programme in one year in US
television history. Based on the best selling Pulitzer prize winning biography by David
McCullough, “John Adams” tells the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of the
second president. Hooper directed all nine hours of the mini-series, executive produced by Tom
Hanks and Gary Goetzman for HBO.
Tom Hooper’s "Longford", about Lord Longford's relationship with the "Moors Murderer" Myra
Hindley, won Golden Globes for Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton and for best TV film. It was
written by Peter Morgan for HBO/Channel 4.
Hooper won the Emmy award for directing "Elizabeth I," starring Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons.
The HBO/Channel 4 miniseries won three Golden Globes and nine Emmy? Awards, including
Outstanding Miniseries and best actress for Helen Mirrren.
Hooper was nominated for a Best Director Emmy for helming the revival of ITV's "Prime
Suspect - The Last Witness," starring Helen Mirren. He directed Hilary Swank and Chiwetel
Ejiofor in the BAFTA-nominated film RED DUST. Hooper's TV work also includes "Daniel
Deronda," which won the Best Miniseries award at the 2003 Banff TV Festival, "Love in a Cold
Climate," for which Alan Bates was Bafta nominated, and the multi award-winning ITV comedy
drama "Cold Feet." For two years running Hooper directed the one hour specials that won
"Eastenders" the BAFTA for best soap.
He wrote, directed and produced the short film PAINTED FACES aged 18, which premiered at
the London Film Festival, was released theatrically and shown on Channel 4. At Oxford
University he directed theatre productions with contemporaries Kate Beckinsale and Emily
Mortimer, and directed his first TV commercials.
37 year old Hooper’s first film "Runaway Dog" was made aged 13 on a clockwork 16mm Bolex
camera using 100 foot of film.
IAIN CANNING – Producer
Iain Canning joined with producer Emile Sherman in 2008, setting up See-Saw Films in both the
UK and Australia. “The King’s Speech” is Canning’s first feature film as producer, having
previously Executive produced the multi-award winning films “Hunger” and “Control”.
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“Hunger”, Steve McQueen’s first feature about the final weeks of Irish republican Bobby Sands,
starring Michael Fassbender, won the Camera d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and the
BAFTA Carl Foreman Award. “Control”, the story of Ian Curtis the Joy Division singer, directed
by Anton Corbijn was also a Special Mention Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2007 and
the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award winner in the same year.
Canning combines producing with acquiring films for Australasian distribution company
Transmission Films.
Canning has a background in marketing, sales and acquisitions having worked for Becker
International, Dendy Films and for international sales company Renaissance Films as head of
development, acquisitions and production.
EMILE SHERMAN – Producer
Emile Sherman founded See-Saw Films with UK producer Iain Canning in 2008. Since inception
See-Saw has produced Jim Loach's Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson, Australian
box office hit comedy The Kings of Mykonos and Anton Corbjin's Linear.
Through his previous company, Sherman Pictures, Sherman produced films including the
Toronto International Film Festival FIPRESCI awarded film Disgrace starring John Malkovich
and based on Nobel Prize winning author J.M.Coetzee's novel; the Annie Award Best Film
nominated stop motion animation feature $9.99; and award-winning films Candy starring Heath
Ledger and Geoffrey Rush, and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence (as EP). Other films include
Peter Cattaneo's (The Full Monty) Opal Dream and, as EP, Australian box office hit Oyster
Farmer.
Soon after inception, See-Saw founded finance company Fulcrum Media Finance together with
Sharon Menzies and Barry Sechos. Fulcrum provides finance to cashflow the Australian
Producer Offset, the New Zealand Screen Production Incentive Fund (SPIF). Sherman is also a
director of leading Australasian distribution company Transmission Films, which has a joint
venture with Paramount Pictures.
GARETH UNWIN – Producer
With a background as an assistant director and a wide variety of features behind him, Gareth
has worked on British films including CLUB LE MONDE, TRINITY and SW9 as well as bigger
budgeted American films including NOMAD, SURVIVAL ISLAND and LAST BATTLE
DREAMER.
Gareth also produced the BAFTA nominated EXAM, directed by Stuart Hazeldine which was
selected for the Edinburgh, Sitges and Dinard film festivals and won the Spirit of Independence
award at this years Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Unwin is currently in production on "Projekt Chopin". Being made to coincide with the 200 year
anniversary of Chopin's birth, it is a mixture of 3-D live action and stop motion animation.
Gareth is also developing the Bedlam Productions film slate with a commitment to making
emotionally rewarding films that have a broad appeal.
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DAVID SEIDLER – Writer
A Londoner by birth, he developed a profound childhood stutter. As a result, George VI, the
stammering King who had to speak, became a boyhood hero, role model, and inspiration for this
film.
Commencing with writing dubbing scripts for “Godzilla The Monster” movies, and taking time out
to work as Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji, Seidler has sustained an extensive
career with twenty credits to his name including: “Tucker, The Man and His Dream” starring Jeff
Bridges, Joan Allen, and Martin Landau, directed by Francis Coppola; “Malice in Wonderland”,
Elizabeth Taylor’s return role after a long hiatus, co-starring Jane Alexander - and projects
developed for Bruce Willis, Jane Fonda, and Kirk and Michael Douglas.
Nominated for Writing Achievement by the Writers’ Guild of America three times: winning for
“Onassis, The Richest Man In The World” with Raul Julia, Anthony Quinn and Jane Seymour
(who won an Emmy for her portrayal of Maria Callas), nominated for “My Father, My Son” with
Keith Carradine and Karl Malden, and “By Dawn’s Early Light” with Richard Crenna.
He has also written three animated features, including “Quest for Camelot” (aka “The Magic
Sword”) and has lectured at universities in Milan, Rome, and the American Film Institute in Los
Angeles.
His stage version of “The King’s Speech” will open on Broadway in the Spring of 2011 with
Adrian Noble (formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company) directing.
DANNY COHEN – Director of Photography
Director Of Photography Danny Cohen has worked on a number of feature films and television
dramas with a variety of artists, including Paul Bettany, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Bill Nighy, Laura Linney and Ray Winstone, as well as an eclectic range of directors, including
Richard Curtis, Shane Meadows and Stephen Poliakoff.
Recent film and TV credits include Dominic Savage’s “Dive”, THIS IS ENGLAND and DEAD
MAN'S SHOES directed by Shane Meadows as well as most recently the C4 tv series, “This is
England '86”, directed by Meadows and Tom Harper. PIERREPOINT directed by Adrian
Shergold, Steven Poliakoff’s GLORIOUS 39 and “A Real Summer” and Richard Curtis’ THE
BOAT THAT ROCKED. Danny has twice been nominated for a BAFTA for Best Photography
and Lighting: Fiction/Entertainment; in 2007 for his work on “Longford” and 2008 for “Joe’s
Palace” and received a shared 2008 Emmy Nomination - Outstanding Cinematography For A
Miniseries Or A Movie for “John Adams” directed by Tom Hooper.
EVE STEWART – Production Designer
Eve Stewart has previously collaborated with director Tom Hooper on the Golden Globe and
Emmy award-winning “Elizabeth I”, as well as his feature film debut THE DAMNED UNITED,
however she is best known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh including VERA DRAKE, ALL
OR NOTHING, TOPSY-TURVY for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000
and CAREER GIRLS. She also art directed SECRETS AND LIES and NAKED for Mike Leigh in
1996 and 1993 respectively. Eve has extensive film credits as a Production Designer including
BECOMING JANE, THE GOOD NIGHT, Guy Ritchie’s REVOLVER, DE-LOVELY, WONDROUS
OBLIVION, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, GOODBYE CHARLIE BRIGHT (2001), THE HOLE (2001)
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and Nigel Cole’s hit comedy SAVING GRACE (2000). Her set designs can also be seen in
British teen comedy WILD CHILD and the 1980’s set IRA drama FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING
and most recently in Nick Love's THE FIRM.
JENNY BEAVAN – Costume Designer
Jenny Beavan studied theatre design at the Central School of Art & Design in London. During
the 1970s, Jenny designed sets and costumes for a variety of ballet, opera and theatre
companies throughout Europe – ranging from Covent Garden Opera, Nederlans Opera and
Dans Theater to the smallest fringe theatres in London. In 1976 she was introduced to Merchant
Ivory Productions, and started work with them – first as an assistant, and later as a costume
designer.
Beavan and John Bright of Cosprop, the London costume house, formed a design partnership
and worked on 12 films together, as well as both pursuing their individual careers. A ROOM
WITH A VIEW (which won Jenny and John the 1987 Oscar for costume design) and THE
REMAINS OF THE DAY were both made with Merchant Ivory. Jenny has been nominated many
times for awards (eight times for Academy Awards) and, as well as the Oscar, she has won two
BAFTA's for GOSFORD PARK and A ROOM WITH A VIEW and an Emmy for EMMA.
During the last five years Jenny has started to work in theatre again. She designed “Private
Lives” for Howard Davies, which was produced in London and on Broadway, as well as plays
produced at the National Theatre and in the West End.
On television she has worked with Richard Loncraine on “The Gathering Storm” and also the
popular series “Cranford”. Jenny has had the good fortune to work with some of the greatest
directors in cinema: James Ivory, Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Altman, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee and
Lasse Hallstrom on: HOWARD'S END, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI, GOSFORD PARK,
ALEXANDER, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, CASANOVA and most recently, Brian DePalma on
THE BLACK DAHLIA and Michael Apted on AMAZING GRACE. Her most recent collaboration
was for Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES.
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT – Composer
After composing the music for over 50 European films and being nominated for two Cesar
Awards, Alexandre Desplat, burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2003 with his evocative score to
THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING (starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth), which
earned him nominations from the Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards.
His reputation was solidified by his critically acclaimed score to Jonathan Glazer's film BIRTH
(starring Nicole Kidman) and Stephen Gaghan's film SYRIANA (Produced by Steven
Soderbergh, starring George Clooney and Matt Damon), which earned him yet another Golden
Globe nomination. THE QUEEN (directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren)
garnered him his first Academy Award nomination. In the same year he was also won a Golden
Globe Award for his score to THE PAINTED VEIL (starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts).
In 2007, he wrote the music for The GOLDEN COMPASS (directed by Chris Weitz and starring
Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig), which is the first movie based upon the beloved trilogy, HIS
DARK MATERIALS by Philip Pullman and LUST, CAUTION (for Academy Award winning
director Ang Lee).
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In 2008, Alexandre composed the score tor David Fincher's THE CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON (starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), which earned him his second
Academy Award Nomination and his fourth Golden Globe nomination. In the following year, he
composed the music for Nora Ephron's JULIE & JULIA (starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams),
CHERI (directed by Stephen Frears), COCO BEFORE CHANEL(starring Audrey Tautou), THE
PROPHET (directed by Jacques Audiard), which was the Official French Selection for the Oscar
category of Best Picture in a Foreign Language, TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (directed by
Chris Weitz), and THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX (directed by Wes Anderson), which brought
Alexandre his third Academy Award nomination. Recently released was Roman Polanski's
contemporary film noir motion picture THE GHOST WRITER (starring Ewan McGregor and
Pierce Brosnan). In 2010, Alexandre was selected as one of the nine luminaries to serve as a
juror for the 63 rd Cannes Film Festival.
Upcoming movies include THE TREE OF LIFE (directed by Terence Malick, starring Brad Pitt
and Sean Penn), THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP (directed by Richard Loncraine), TAMARA
DREWE (directed by Stephen Frears) and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
(PART 1) (directed by David Yates).
TARIQ ANWAR – Editor
Having spent 18 years at the BBC Tariq Anwar learnt his craft by cutting a huge array of
programmes for almost every department. From the News department, to Music and Arts, to
the History and Geographic channels Tariq worked on an extremely tight schedule, and the
lessons he learnt in terms of storytelling, structure and how to make fast decisions were
invaluable to his later work. Tariq has since cut a diverse selection of feature films and
television dramas and has won and been nominated for multiple awards. His recent feature film
work has included LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, THE OTHER MAN, REVOLTIONARY ROAD, THE
GOOD SHEPHERD, STAGE BEAUTY and SYLVIA as well as AMERICAN BEAUTY, for which
he was nominated for an Academy Award, an ACE award and won the BAFTA for Best Editor.
Other BAFTA wins include the television dramas “Oppenheimer” and “Caught on a Train”, and
nominations include “Summer’s Lease,” “Fortunes War,” the “Monocled Mutineer,” “Tender is
the Night” and THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE.
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THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY and UK FILM COUNCIL PRESENT
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
MOMENTUM PICTURES
AEGIS FILM FUND
MOLINARE, LONDON
FILMNATION ENTERTAINMENT
A SEE-SAW FILMS / BEDLAM PRODUCTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
Directed by
TOM HOOPER
Produced by
IAIN CANNING
EMILE SHERMAN
GARETH UNWIN
Screenplay by
DAVID SEIDLER
Executive Producers
GEOFFREY RUSH
TIM SMITH
PAUL BRETT
MARK FOLIGNO
Executive Producers
HARVEY WEINSTEIN
BOB WEINSTEIN
Co-producers
PETER HESLOP
SIMON EGAN
COLIN FIRTH
GEOFFREY RUSH
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
GUY PEARCE
TIMOTHY SPALL
DEREK JACOBI
JENNIFER EHLE
ANTHONY ANDREWS
CLAIRE BLOOM
EVE BEST
and MICHAEL GAMBON
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Director of Photography
DANNY COHEN BSC
Composer
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
Film Editor
TARIQ ANWAR
Production Designer
EVE STEWART
Costume Designer
JENNY BEAVAN
Make-up and Hair Designer
FRANCES HANNON
Music Supervisor
MAGGIE RODFORD
Casting Director
NINA GOLD
King George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Archbishop Cosmo Lang
Equerry
Private Secretary
Chauffeur
BBC Radio Announcer
Robert Wood
BBC Technician
Dr Blandine-Bentham
Lionel Logue
Laurie Logue
Myrtle Logue
Valentine Logue
Anthony Logue
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Theatre Director
Willie
King George V
King Edward VIII
Lord Wigram
Nurse
Lord Dawson
Queen Mary
Duke of Kent
Duke of Goucester
Butler
Colin Firth
Helena Bonham Carter
Derek Jacobi
Robert Portal
Richard Dixon
Paul Trussell
Adrian Scarborough
Andrew Havill
Charles Armstrong
Roger Hammond
Geoffrey Rush
Calum Gittins
Jennifer Ehle
Dominic Applewhite
Ben Wimsett
Freya Wilson
Ramona Marquez
David Bamber
Jake Hathaway
Michael Gambon
Guy Pearce
Patrick Ryecart
Teresa Gallagher
Simon Chandler
Claire Bloom
Orlando Wells
Tim Downie
Dick Ward
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Wallis Simpson
Footman
Winston Churchill
Boy in Regent's Park
Stanley Baldwin
Steward
Neville Chamberlain
Eve Best
John Albasiny
Timothy Spall
Danny Emes
Anthony Andrews
John Warnaby
Roger Parrott
Co-Executive Producers
Associate Producer
Line Producer
Production Manager
First Assistant Director
Supervising Art Director
Production Sound Mixer
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production Coordinator
Director’s Assistant
Production Runner
Script Supervisor
Second Assistant Director
Third Assistant Director
Floor Runner
Crowd Assistant Director
Crowd Assistant Director (Yorkshire)
Production Accountant
First Assistant Accountant
Assistant Accountant
Dialect Coach
Casting Assistant
Choreographer
Logue Family Consultant
Historical Advisor
Military & Ceremonial Advisor
Military Advisor
Deepak Sikka
Lisbeth Savill
Phil Hope
Charles Dorfman
Peter Heslop
Erica Bensly
Martin Harrison
David Hindle
John Midgley
Fiona Garland
Jonathan Houston
Francesca Budd
Stefano Margaritelli
Cathy Doubleday
Chris Stoaling
Heidi Gower
Darren Price
Charlie Waller
Julie Heskin
Marilyn Goldsworthy
Peter Clark
Matthew Lawson
Neil Swain
Kharmel Cochrane
Scarlett Mackmin
Mark Logue
Hugo Vickers
Alastair Bruce
Edwin Field
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A Camera / Steadicam Operator
A Camera Focus Puller
A Camera Clapper Loader
B Camera Operator
B Camera Focus Puller
B Camera Clapper Loader
Video Playback Operator
Camera Trainee
A Camera Grip
B Camera Grip
Gaffer
Best Boy
Electricians
Electrical Rigger
Airstar Head Technician
Airstar Lead Technician
Sound Maintenance
Cable / 3 rd Persons
Art Director
Set Decorator
Production Buyer
Art Department Coordinator
Standby Art Director
Graphic Designer
Art Department Assistant
Storyboard Artist
Art Department Runners
Prop Master
Dressing Propman / Storeman
Dressing Propmen
Standby Propmen
Assistant Costume Designers
Costume Supervisor
Zac Nicholson
Peter Byrne
Abigail Catto
Danny Cohen
Leigh Gold
Max Glickman
Lizzie Kelly
Elliot Dupuy
Alex Mott
Simon Fogg
Paul McGeachan
Will Kendal
Tom Hyde
Sean Davis
Alan Fraser
Danny Griffiths
Guy Cope
Iain Young
Marc Woodcock
Mike Reardon
Charlotte Grey
Joe Carey
Leon McCarthy
Judy Farr
Corina Floyd
Julia Castle
Netty Chapman
Amy Merry
Camise Oldfield
Douglas Ingram
Rebecca Walker
Eva Onsrud
Emma Weaver
Bruce Bigg
Warren Stickley
Michael Fleming
Peter Hasler
Mitch Niclas
Andy Forrest
Alison Beard
Sally Turner
Marco Scotti
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Costume Standbys
Costume Assistant
Hair & Make-up Artists
Hair & Make-up Trainee
Location Managers
Assistant Location Managers
Unit Manager
Location Assistants
Location Scout
Construction Manager
Chargehand Carpenter
Carpenters
Supervising Painter
Scenic Painter
Painter
Stagehand
Construction Driver
Standby Carpenter
Standby Painter
Standby Rigger
Special Effects Supervisor
Special Effects Floor Supervisor
Special Effects Senior Technician
Public Relations
Unit Publicist
Stills Photographer
EPK
King George VI Stand-in
Lionel Logue Stand-in
Queen Elizabeth Stand-in
Utility Stand-in
Transport Captain
Driver to Mr Hooper
David Otzen
Katherine Greenacre
Jenna McGranaghan
Nana Fischer
Carmel Jackson
Christine Whitney
Paul Gooch
Clarice Gill
Jamie Lengyel
David Broder
Rebecca Davis
Tom Asquith
Dave Bell
Lindsey Powell
Paul Tomlinson
Camilla Stephenson
Alan Chesters
Jo Hawthorne
Leigh Chesters
Simon Robilliard
John Roberts
David Mears
George Roberts
Michael Webb
Billy Pidgley
David ‘Ned’ Kelly
Henry Gallagher
John Hanks
Mark Holt
Jamie Weguelin
Patrick O’Sullivan
DDA Public Relations Ltd
Emma Davie
Laurie Sparham
Special Treats
Roy Borrett
Steven Morphew
Helen Slaymaker
Richard Manlove
Simon Jones
David O’Donoghue
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Driver to Mr Firth
Driver to Mr Rush
Driver to Ms Bonham Carter
Driver to Mr Pearce
Unit Drivers
Minibus Drivers
Catering by
Proprietor
Catering Manager
Chef
Catering Assistants
Health & Safety Officers
Unit Nurse
Tony Wadsworth
Lee Isgar
Harry Taylor
Danny Jarman
Debbie Bryant
Steve Pirolli
John Ayres
Mark Bellett
Premier Caterers Limited
Peter Titterell
Kevin Chamberlin
Dave Hayball
Christine Perrett
Will McCord
Jeremy Sellick
Mike Ryan
Barry May-Leybourne
John Dalton
Carrie Johnson
2 nd Unit Director of Photography Martin Kenzie
2 nd Unit First Assistant Director Guy Heeley
2 nd Unit Crowd Second Assistant Director Charlie Reed
2 nd Unit Third Assistant Directors Tom Brewster
Andy Mannion
Liam Lock
2 nd Unit Focus Pullers Shaun Cobley
David Cozens
Oliver Loncraine
Nathan Mann
Ben Wilson
2 nd Unit Clapper Loaders Dave Churchyard
Chloe Thomson
2 nd Unit Camera Trainee Will Morris
2 nd Unit Video Playback Operators Martyn Culpan
Guy McCormack
2 nd Unit Grips Jody Knight
Dean Morris
Gary Hutchings
2 nd Unit Sound Mixer Martin Seeley
2 nd Unit Sound Assistant Dash Mason-Malik
Post Production Supervisor
Post Production Coordinator
Delivery Paperwork Coordinator
Post Production Accountant
Emma Zee
Siobhan Boyes
Sarah Parfitt
Peter Eardley
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Sound Post Production by
Supervising Sound Editor
Assistant Sound Editor
Sound Effects Editors
Dialogue Editors
Assistant Dialogue Editor
Assistant Sound Editor
Foley Recordist & Editor
Foley Artists
Re-recording Mixer
ADR & Assistant Re-recording Mixer
Additional Re-recording Mixer
ADR (Australia)
ADR (London)
ADR (New York)
ADR (Hawaii)
Digital Intermediate by
Post Production Manager
Digital Intermediate Conform Editors
Colourist
On-line Editor
Digital Film Supervisor
Digital Film Technicians
Digital Film Consultant
Film Consultant
VFX Editor
VFX by
VFX Supervisor / Producer
VFX Line Producer
VFX Production Coordinator
Head of Production
On-set VFX Supervisor
Additional on-set VFX Supervision
2D Lead
Boom Post
Lee Walpole
Philip Clements
Catherine Hodgson
Jim Goddard
Andre Schmidt
Matt Skelding
Virginia Thorn
Philip Clements
Catherine Thomas
Peter Burgis
Andi Derrick
Paul Hamblin
Forbes Noonan
Martin Jensen
Sound Firm, Melbourne
Pepper, London
Sound One, NYC
Audio Images, Kauai
Molinare, London
Alan Pritt
Steve Knight
Gemma Townsend
Francois Kamffer
Jamie Welsh
Gareth Spensley
Connan McStay
Matt James
Tim Drewett
Mike Andrews
Soren Kloch
Len Brown
Tony Trompetto
Molinare, London
Tom Horton
Fawnda Denham
Duncan Holland
Sal Urmeji
Philip Attfield
Neil Cunningham
Nik Martin
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Senior 2D Artists
2D Artists
Matte Painters
Senior CG Artist
VFX Editor
VFX Data Ops
FOR PIXION
CG Supervisor
CG Artists
Match Mover
2D Supervisor
2D Lead
2D Artists
Music Composed and Conducted by
Piano Solo
Orchestra Leader / Violin Solos
Music Recorded and Mixed at
Score Recorded and Mixed by
Source Music Recorded and Mixed by
Assisted by
Simon Kilroe
Anthony Webb
Rick McMahon
Alasdair McNeil
John Hardwick
Marc Hutchings
Zissis Papatzikis
Terence Alvares
Joss Flores
Serdar Simga
Audrius Urbonavicius
Julian Johnson
Collette Nunes
Liam Tully
Viral Thakkar
Neha
Antra
Sohil Shaik
Ranadheer Reddy (Rana)
Sanjiv Naik
Sanket Gune
Pratik Kalbende
Abhijit
Sreekanth
Anil Rawat
Indresh Tiwari
Saarika Ali
Ashok Uchil
Arun Mendon
Abhiman Nimaan
Debashish Bora
Pratik Dubey
Ritu Chourasia
Alexandre Desplat
Dave Arch
Thomas Bowes
Abbey Road Studios, London
Pete Cobbin
Andrew Dudman
Sam Okell
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John Barrett
Score Orchestra Contractor
Assistant Orchestra Contractor
Supervising Music Editor
Music Editor
Music Orchestrated by
Score Music Preparation
Score Coordinator for Composer
Assistant Music Supervisor
SOURCE MUSIC
Conducted by
Music Performed by
Soloists
Leader
Music Librarian
Animal Handlers
Horse Handlers
Armourer
Camera Equipment
Lighting Equipment
Film Stock
Color by
Post Production Script
Location Facilities
Transport
Health & Safety
Medical Services (London)
Medical Services (Yorkshire)
Walkie Talkies
Script Clearances & Archive Research by
Legal Services
Banking Services
Auditor
Insurance Broker
Isobel Griffiths
Lucy Whalley
Gerard McCann
Peter Clarke
Jean-Pascal Beintus
Alexandre Desplat
Jill Streeter
Xavier Forcioli
Helen Yates
Terry Davies
The London Symphony Orchestra
Steve Osborne
Andrew Marriner
Carmine Lauri
Iryna Kiszko
Animals O’Kay Limited
Atkinson Action Horses
The Devil’s Horsemen
Bapty and Co
Take 2 Films Limited
Arri Lighting Rental Limited
FujiFilm Motion Picture Film Limited
Deluxe
Sapex Scripts
Movie Makers Facilities
Production Drivers Guild
Lays International
Media Coaches
Spacon
Eurosafety (DDA Fire) Limited
On Set Medical Limited
FD Training Limited
Wavevend Limited
Ruth Halliday of The Clearing House
Olswang
Coutts
Moses Nyache of RSM Tenon
Paul Cable of Media and Entertainment
Insurance Services Limited
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Completion Guarantor
International Sales Agent
FOR SEE-SAW FILMS LTD
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Production Executive (AUS)
Legal and Business Affairs
Accountant
FOR BEDLAM PRODUCTIONS LTD
Office Manager
Company Accountant
Production Assistant
ON BEHALF OF AEGIS FILM FUND
LIMITED
Commercial Manager
Office Executive
Production Accountant
Head of Administration
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Commercial Director
FOR THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
Senior Vice President, Production &
Development
Senior Vice President, Business Affairs &
Acquisitions
FOR MOMENTUM PICTURES
President
President of International Distribution
SVP of Acquisitions, Worldwide
Director of Legal & Business Affairs, Europe
FOR UK FILM COUNCIL
Head of Premiere Fund
Head of Business Affairs
Head of Production Finance
Head of Production
FOR MOLINARE, LONDON
Director
Film Executive
Film Finances
FilmNation Entertainment
Glen Basner
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Spyro Markesinis
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Vince Holden
Fiona Morham
Steve Milne
M J McMahon
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