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Voice actor David Graham, best known for his role in the beloved animated show Peppa Pig, has died. He was 99 years old.

The news of Graham's death was announced on X by the official account made for Gerry Anderson, the late creator of Thunderbirds, a British animated series which featured Graham voicing several different characters. While no details were shared about Graham's passing, the post offered thoughts on the news that the voice actor had died.

"Were incredibly sad to confirm the passing of the legendary David Graham," the post said. "The voice [of] Parker, Gordon Tracy, Brains and so many more. David was always a wonderful friend to us here at Anderson Entertainment. We will miss you dearly, David. Our thoughts are with Davids friends and family."

Graham was also a popular voice actor with Doctor Who fans. He provided the voice of the Daleks, the well-known villains. His work...

In the fall of 1983, one could already make a plausible case for Martin Scorsese as one of the greatest living American filmmakers based on “Mean Streets,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “Taxi Driver,” “Italianamerican,” “The Last Waltz,” “Raging Bull,” and “The King of Comedy.” But as the holidays approached, Scorsese’s career was in trouble.

After establishing himself with a series of lean, mean masterpieces shot on tight schedules, the director’s productions had grown in a scale disproportionate to their financial success; “New York, New York,” “Raging Bull,” and “The King of Comedy” had all taken around a hundred days to shoot, and while all three are acknowledged as classics today, they received mixed reviews at the time and “Raging Bull” barely broke even at the box office — “New York, New York” and “The King of Comedy” were flat-out flops.

Scorsese spent most of 1983 preparing what was intended to...

Carl Davis, the composer known for his BAFTA-winning score for “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1981), died of a brain hemorrhage on Thursday. He was 86.

Davis’ family issued a statement on social media, writing: “We are so proud that Carl’s legacy will be his astonishing impact on music. A consummate all-round musician, he was the driving force behind the reinvention of the silent movie for this generation and he wrote scores for some of the most loved and remembered British television dramas.”

Born in New York, Davis co-authored revue “Diversions” (1959), which won an off-Broadway Emmy and featured at the 1961 Edinburgh Festival. Davis moved to the U.K. in 1961 and was commissioned by the BBC to compose music for “That Was the Week That Was.” Subsequent work included BBC’s anthology play series “The Wednesday Play” (1964-70) and “Play for Today” (1970-84).

Davis then composed for several iconic British television shows, including...

Gina Bellman is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in Leverage and Leverage: Redemption.

Gina Bellman Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Gina Bellman was born in 1966 (Gina Bellman: Age 57) in Auckland, New Zealand. Her parents emigrated to New Zealand from England in the 1950s but returned to England when Bellman was 11. Bellman went to school at Rosh Pinah Primary School and Jfs.

In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Bellman revealed how she got started with acting.

“Well for me it was more of a cultural thing,” she explained. “I was born and raised in New Zealand and when I came to the UK I had a different accent. So I started having lessons and my teacher was a really inspirational teacher. She used to give us little bits of plays to recite and I just got the bug really really young. Then when I was...

America is more Christian than a lot of the rest of the world realizes. It’s not just a right-wing thing, either — the King James Bible is as central to the language of the USA as our Constitution is, and the question of what church someone belongs to [1] is important in hard-to-describe ways across a lot of this country.

It shouldn’t be a surprise: most of the founding myths of the USA boil down to “Those People wouldn’t let us do our weird Christian sect the way we wanted to, so we got the hell out of there and started in a new land, where We could be the ones oppressing everyone else.” That got baked in early, and deeply. It’s not a Christian country, officially — because, when it was founded, trying to pick a flavor of Christianity would have torn the nascent country apart — but it...

“The Chi” star Jacob Latimore has signed on for romantic comedy “The Last Summer” opposite Kj Apa for Gulfstream Pictures.

Bill Bindley is directing. Principal photography is scheduled to begin May 7.

“The Last Summer” follows a group of young adults whose lives intersect in Chicago over the summer before they start college. The script was written by Bill Bindley and Scott Bindley with a polish by April Prosser.

Latimore, who is 21, plays the role of a teenage father on Lena Waithe’s Showtime series “The Chi” and most recently co-starred in “Detroit.” He has credits on “The Maze Runner” and “Ride Along.” He will next be seen in “Krystal,” directed by William H. Macy.

“The Last Summer” is being financed by Gulfstream Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Mike Karz, Bill Bindley, and Wayne Rice will

produce.

“Jacob clearly stands out as one of the best performers of his generation.

Simone Kessell heads to Capetown next month to play the first Queen of Egypt in Biblical epic Of Kings and Prophets. It.s yet another exotic role for the New Zealand-born actress who is now based in Los Angeles with her husband of 11 years, director Gregor Jordan. In Roland Joffe.s The Lovers, which has just opened in a limited number of Us cinemas, she plays an English governess in colonial India. She.s just seen The Lovers (formerly known as Singularity), which had a tortuous path to the screen after the production was beset with financial problems. Her verdict? .It looks magnificent but it.s very hard to follow because whole chunks were cut from the film,. she tells If on the line from La. Most of her scenes were with Josh Hartnett, who has the dual roles of a 21st Century marine archaeologist and an 18th Century British colonialist.

On the same day that the first trailer for his Moses movie—Exodus: Gods and Kings, starring Christian Bale—debuted on the Internet, Ridley Scott has announced his intention to tackle another Biblical epic. As first reported in Variety, Scott, Exodus producer Peter Chernin, and 20th Century Fox are re-teaming for a movie about David, the boy who slew Goliath and grew up to be the exalted king of Israel.

Jonathan W. Stokes, who penned the script for the Benedict Cumberbatch project Blood Mountain, is writing a screenplay that will focus on David’s reign as king, following his early battle with the giant Philistine.

The Hollywood star appears as a ruthless Wall Street trader in Arbitrage, but he doesn't play him as a villain – that would be too easy

You were gorgeous then, I tell Richard Gere. He looks crossly over his glasses. "Were?" he says. Were – and are. "Thank you," he says, mollified. Two minutes into the interview and we're already unexpectedly into homoerotic territory. He looks back at a 40-year-old photograph of himself on my phone.

In the photo, it's June 1973 and Richard Gere is Danny Zuko, hair-slicked hottie bad boy of Grease, the role he played for six months at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane. It's decades before Gere started working that distinguished grey mane that serves him so well nowadays. It's a lifetime ago before that urban myth involving a gerbil and an emergency room. Long before he became the highest paid lover in Beverly Hills (in American Gigolo...

He could have had it all, yet he never quite lost it all either. The mysterious and rather annoying case of Richard Gere

I've been rolling my eyes at Richard Gere for 30 years, alternately alienated and charmed by his good looks and his shockingly evident narcissism and self-regard; his abidingly terrible taste in projects, and the fact that somehow, no matter how many movies like Intersection he makes (or like King David, or Mr Jones) sooner or later there will come an end to his lengthy career-drought and, like a flailing magician, he will somehow revive his good name and box office rep with a blockbuster comeback like Pretty Woman, or an intelligent movie like Internal Affairs. Or, Nicholas Jarecki's very watchable new thriller Arbitrage.

As Robert Miller, a 60-year-old investment-fund billionaire, Gere has it all: a full head of silver hair, a good name on Wall Street and...

Director Scott Derrickson ("The Day the Earth Stood Still") continues to develop a 'new take' on the biblical tale of "David and Goliath".

The new feature will be a period action movie made with contemporary sensibilities, singling out "300" as a reference point.

According to the Old Testament, the 'Israelites' were facing the 'Philistines' in the 'Valley of Elah'. The boy 'David', bringing food to his older brothers who were fighting with 'King Saul', hears the Philistine giant warrior 'Goliath' challenging the Israelites to send their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat.

David tells Saul he is prepared to face Goliath and Saul allows him to make the attempt. He is victorious, striking Goliath in the forehead with a stone from his sling, and the Philistines flee in terror.

In 1985, Richard Gere starred as the adult 'King David' in director Bruce Beresford's Paramount...

Oh, we’re off to see the Kardashians?

E! announced a slate of scripted dramas (yes, dramas, not reality shows) that the network has in development Sunday night, and one title in particular stands out: Dorothy.

Here’s the logline: “Inspired by the book Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz, a girl from Kansas City falls for a man and moves with him to the Emerald City to work at his Emerald Hotel. From writer Natalie Krinsky (Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy) and Warner Horizon Television.”

Huh!

E! also announced other titles in development like the Amy Devlin Mysteries (based...

Since she started dating Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz has shunned the limelight. Even now, she remains at a distance. In the first interview since their marriage, she tells Carole Cadwalladr about her new MI5 thriller, kissing Bill Nighy – and what it's like having spooks in the family

Oh, it was very different the last time the Observer interviewed Rachel Weisz. Last time around, back in 2005, Weisz had yet to be propelled into the Hollywood A-list. The Constant Gardener, the film for which she would win an Oscar, was just on the cusp of being released. And doing an interview with a journalist from the Observer involved a leisurely lunch at a fashionable Manhattan restaurant and then, as Sean O'Hagan, the interviewer, notes, "she will ring later to rave about a Tobias Wolff short story whose name escapes her while we speak".

Hmm. Yes, well. Let's just say, this time around there is no lunch.

Rachel Weisz proves she's still a yummy mummy after four decades - the British beauty turns 40 on Monday.

Starting her career in the drama department of Britain's posh Cambridge university, Weisz soon caught the eyes of casting directors around the world and has become one of the U.K. most glamorous exports.

From action queen to indie dream, Weisz has fought ancient enemies in The Mummy films, proved her comic timing in Fred Claus and provided an Oscar-winning turn in The Constant Gardner.

And as the actress moves into her forties, we have come up with 10 terrific facts to quench your thirst for Rachel.

- Weisz's film career could have started a lot earlier - she was offered a part in Richard Gere's movie King David in 1985 when she was just 14 - but her parents wouldn't let her do it.

- She gets her dark good looks from her mother's Italian ancestry.

- She's multi-talented: not only did she gain a degree from Cambridge - one of England's most revered universities - she is fluent in German.

- For all those who have struggled saying her last name, it's pronounced Vice.

- She has been linked to Bond star Daniel Craig after splitting from Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky last year. He is the father of her son, Henry.

- Weisz took over from supermodel Kate Moss as the face of Burberry in 2006.

- Gemma Arterton is Rachel's biggest fan - insisting she'd "love" a career like the actress.

- She was voted the woman most men want as their wife by British magazine Esquire.

- Sienna Miller missed out on Weisz's Oscar-winning role in The Constant Gardner in 2005 after a home dye disaster left her hair green at the audition.

- She was a radical feminist in her student days.

According to reports, Scott Derrickson ("The Day the Earth Stood Still") is interested in directing a 'new take' on the biblical tale of "David vs Goliath".

The new feature will be a period action movie made with contemporary sensibilities, singling out "300" as a reference point.

According to the Old Testament, the 'Israelites' were facing the 'Philistines' in the 'Valley of Elah'. The boy David, bringing food to his older brothers who were fighting with 'King Saul', hears the Philistine giant 'Goliath' challenging the Israelites to send their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat.

David tells Saul he is prepared to face Goliath and Saul allows him to make the attempt. He is victorious, striking Goliath in the forehead with a stone from his sling, and the Philistines flee in terror.

In 1985, Richard Gere starred as the adult 'King David' in director Bruce Beresford's Paramount...

Memorable roles in American Gigolo and An Officer And A Gentleman seem a long time ago

Allow me to favour you with a little movie list. Try to guess what they have in common and I'll meet you in paragraph two: No Mercy, Power, Miles From Home, Mr Jones, Final Analysis, Sommersby, Intersection, King David, Red Corner, The Jackal, Red Corner, The Mothman Prophecies, Unfaithful, Shall We Dance, Amelia.

I know, I know: it looks like the Razzie Winners' display at some bleak video store in the sixth circle of Hell, or perhaps the entire directorial oeuvre of Alan Smithee handily quarantined to prevent them from infecting the poor innocent DVDs on neighbouring shelves. But let me straighten you out: they all star one Richard Tiffany Gere, who can be seen this week in another of his patented misfires, Brooklyn's Finest.

Many times have I – while in my torrid cups or during the violent,...