Art That Made Us: To Kill a King
12:00 am - 01:00 am, Monday, April 27 on BBC Four (9)
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To Kill a King
The splintering that occurred under the Stuart kings, as political, religious and cultural divisions fuelled war across three kingdoms. Architect Amanda Levete climbs the Tulip Stairs in the Queen's House, Greenwich, and reassesses Inigo Jones' elegant and innovative design, while portrait artist Tai Shan Schierenberg encounters Van Dyck's monumental portrait of the Earl of Pembroke's family, and finds signs of the dysfunction and tensions which point to the civil war to come
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David Threlfall
(Narrator)
Michael Jackson
(Executive producer)
Denys Blakeway
(Executive producer)
Melanie Fall
(Series producer)
Russell Barnes
(Director)
Isabel Sutton
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
David Threlfall
(Narrator)
Born:
October 12, 1953
in
Manchester
Best Known For:
Playing foul-mouthed Frank Gallagher in Shameless.
Early-life:
Born in Manchester on October 12, 1953. He has a brother; their father was a plumber. David never wanted to be an actor, his first love was football, but thanks to a little encouragement from teachers, he trod the boards in a school production of The Crucible. After a short stint at art college in Sheffield, and a few months labouring, he became a student at Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama. His breakthrough role came in the gritty 1977 drama Scum.
Career:
Aside from a lean period at the back end of the 1990s, Threlfall has rarely been out of work. His small-screen work includes roles in Mike Leigh's Kiss of Death, a 1984 staging of King Lear (opposite Laurence Olivier), Conspiracy and The Queen's Sister. His most famous on-screen character is that of chain-smoking patriarch Frank Gallagher, a role he held in Channel 4 drama Shameless between 2004 and 2013. Other projects include The Russia House, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Housewife 49, Hot Fuzz, Nowhere Boy and The Ark. He was also made a surprisingly good Tommy Cooper in the ITV biopic Not Like That, Like This.
Quote:
On acting: 'I just like getting up and pretending. It's the game of pretending you're other people, that's the liberating thing.'
Trivia:
He supports Manchester City. He received an honorary doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013.
Michael Jackson
(Executive producer)
Denys Blakeway
(Executive producer)
Melanie Fall
(Series producer)
Russell Barnes
(Director)
Isabel Sutton
(Producer)
