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British actor Sam Beazley, who played Professor Everard in 2007’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has died. Beazley passed away in his sleep June 12, according to London newspaper The Times. He was 101. Beazley began his acting career on the stage as a teenager in the early 1930s, appearing with John Gielgud in productions of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. After serving in World War II, Beazley owned an antique shop for several decades before returning to acting…...

British actor Sam Beazley, who played Professor Everard in 2007’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has died. Beazley passed away in his sleep June 12, according to London newspaper The Times. He was 101. Beazley began his acting career on the stage as a teenager in the early 1930s, appearing with John Gielgud in productions of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. After serving in World War II, Beazley owned an antique shop for several decades before returning to acting…...

Shakespeare On Film | Twin Peaks Weekender

You’re always spoilt for choice when it comes to Shakespeare in film form (there have been more than 1,000 adaptations and counting), but the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death has brought with it a global drive to celebrate our national hero – so even more reason to relive his celluloid legacy. And who better to lead the charge than Ian McKellen? He’s closely involved with the BFI’s commemoration, which kicks off this week, and will be discussing with director Richard Loncraine their 1930s-set take on Richard III (28 Apr) at NFT1, before conducting bus tours of the London locations (see website for details). There’s also the pick of adaptations from around the world and across time, including new restorations of Kurosawa’s Ran and Zeffirelli’s Romeo And Juliet (pictured), plus rarely seen silents – including 20-year-old John Gielgud as Romeo – with new scores.

My father, John Harris, who has died aged 87, had a 53-year career in films, working on movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Superman (1978) and The Running Man (1987).

He was born in Wimbledon, south-west London, the second son of a solicitor, and educated at King's College school, Wimbledon. From an early age he was fascinated by cameras and he asked for a Zeiss Ikon for his 14th birthday. In 1941, he started work in the camera department at Gainsborough Pictures at "the Bush", their studio in Lime Grove, west London, as a clapper boy and focus puller.

He served in the navy during the second world war, and was an official naval photographer at the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong in 1945. He became a freelance camera operator in 1949 when "the Bush" studio was taken over by the BBC and Gainsborough closed soon afterwards.

Early in his career,...

Washington- Hollywood classics from tales like Romeo and Juliet to the Wizard of Oz have remained virtually untouchable to the public, apart from the films that preserve them. What was once out of reach for devoted fans and collectors will become more tangible as actress Debbie Reynolds' 3,500-piece collection of famous costume and set items heads for the auction block. The first auction of 700 items is slated for Saturday at the Paley Center for the Media in Los Angeles. The auction house, Profiles in History, has estimated it will bring 4 to 6 million dollars. Later auctions are planned. Admirers of actor and director John Gielgud's 1936 Romeo and Juliet could walk away with a collection of costumes...

Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Jesse Eisenberg & Kristen Stewart star in Greg Mottola’s Adventureland (2009) Billie Bob Thornton is naughty in Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa: Unrated Director’s Cut (2003) French cult classic Betty Blue: Original Theatrical Release (1986) Val Kilmer stars in Blood Out (2011) John Travolta stars in Brian de Palma’s Blow Out: Criterion Collection (1981) D.A Pennebaker’s documentary Bob Dylan: Don’T Look Back (2010) Matt Damon & Heath Ledger star in terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm (2005) Ben Affleck stars in Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy (1997) Korean horror director Shin Jung-Won’s Chawz (2011) Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones star in Rob Marshall’s Chicago (2002) Kevin Smith’s Clerks: 15th Anniversary Edition (1994) Sylvester Stallone & Viggo Mortenson star in Daylight (1996) Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo pack (1963) Jeffrey Obrow’s The Dorm That Dripped Blood:...

Father of the Bride

After the legendary Elizabeth Taylor died last month, DVD sets of her films were inevitable, and Warner Home Video has scheduled the first one in its TCM Greatest Classic Films line. The DVD set TCM Greatest Classic Films: Legends — Elizabeth Taylor will be released on July 12.

The two-disc package will include four of Taylor’s best movies:

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Taylor as frustrated Southern belle wife Maggie the Cat and Paul Newman (The Hustler) as her disillusioned ex-athlete husband.

Father of the Bride (1950), in which Taylor is the bride and Spencer Tracy (State of the Union) is her harried father in this comic celebration of an American rite (and wrongs) of passage.

Butterfield 8 (1960), which won Taylor won her first Best Actress Academy Award, as she played a call girl whose life comes with a complete set of emotional baggage,...