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(Above) Sally Faces Up by the late David Elliot Brown, performed in the Player Playwrights' Showcase 2005 at the Soho Theatre. The play is a two-hander; I'm Eddie the psychic tramp, and Sally, a runaway, is played by Hannah Kelly. | ||||||||||||||||||||
 | Stills advertising: Anthisan sting relief spray. Photographer Colin Thomas. | |||||||||||||||||||
 | Co-op TV commercial - for fresh garlic. The commercial accurately recreates a moment from the silent classic film Nosferatu; but in this case just as I'm about to bite her, the beautiful girl who has evidently been eating garlic breathes on me and I'm off! Photo by Daniel Parker who created my prosthetic makeup. | |||||||||||||||||||
 |  | For the folio of photographer Richard Bradbury. | ||||||||||||||||||
 |  |  | Publicity shot (far left) and two still-frames from the trail for the (as yet, unmade) feature,, Finn MacCool. I'm chief baddie, Goll MacMorna. | |||||||||||||||||
 | Internet advertising viral: Mini Cooper. Photographer Wolf Marloh, who also did my headshots on the Home page. | |||||||||||||||||||
 | Double page advert for VW. Caption reads: "John O'Reilly, Fleet Manager, Bristol, doesn't include Volkswagen on his list". That's a lot of pencils. | |||||||||||||||||||
 | Advert for DVLA's sale of number plates. Pictured with bodybuilder Simona Evans shortly before she killed me. Photographer Bill Prentice. | |||||||||||||||||||
 |  | Having successfully avoided various obstacles: a banana skin, a rake, a roller-skate and a bear-trap, I will get squashed by a falling 10 ton weight. How dangerous are the streets of Britain?! Britcom BBC promo to sell comedy shows in Europe (note Union Jack socks!) Location photo's kindly supplied by Bernard R. Bligh, resident of that street. | ||||||||||||||||||
 | For the folio of photographer Liam Kennedy, and used by his kind permission on the front of my poetry book Small Change. (See Poetry) | |||||||||||||||||||
(Below) Safe House by Eamon McDonnell, performed in the Player Playwrights' showcase 2006 at the Soho Theatre, London. Photographer Mandy Gasson. The play opens in a hospital - the safe house of the title, with Johnnie Otheringshaw an alcoholic down-and-out aged 49; then spins us back to him aged 19 and 10. Chris Prior plays Marvin, the doctor in charge (as he really is and sometimes through Johnnie's confused senses as a fellow alcoholic), and also Brian, Johnnie's violent, ex-soldier father. Sarah Turnbull is Ruth the nurse, and also Priscilla, Johnnie's girlfriend, then wife. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 | Slippage by Paul Hodgson, 2006 Paul Hodgson makes photographs inspired by paintings. This image derives from the combination of a painting of 1st World War generals and a documentary photo from the same period where a horse has collapsed in the street. Paul created his version of the street scene in a studio. I'm tending the horse (- a live creature named Imperator - one of the Lloyds Bank commercials' horses) while military persons look on. The building behind is the Foreign Office. This, as a huge wall-sized print, was one of a group of works by Paul commemorating the Battle of the Somme, on display at the Imperial War Museum, London. I don't regard myself as an animal lover especially and I was a little nervous at the prospect of working with something as large and unpredictable as a horse; but at the end of the day I felt euphoric from the extraordinary experience of being with this beautiful creature - and honoured too. | |||||||||||||||||||
 |  | I Don't Wanna Know music video, 1998 First there was The Beatles, then The Rutles, and then The Butlers - a spoof created for the music video for the song I Don't Wanna Know, by Julian Lennon. I play John - er, 'Ken'! The video presents a comedic potted history of the super group - and as a little kid who pretended to be a Beatle in primary school, this was one of the most fun jobs I've ever had - sheer bliss in fact! Below left, from the same video: suffering (or benefitting) from the effects of Lapsang Souchong Darjeeling - geddit?! I found myself next to Julian in makeup and rashly introduced myself with the greeting: Hello, I'm playing your dad. I can report that Mr Lennon was a completely lovely person and he didn't punch me. Later that afternoon the wardrobe lady, quite by chance, met Sean Lennon down the road at Portobello market and brought him along to the shoot. The day was made even more magical. | ||||||||||||||||||
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