Screen One: A Foreign Field


10:15 pm - 11:45 pm, Wednesday, May 13 on BBC Four (9)

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A Foreign Field
Season 5, Episode 1

Two British Second World War veterans travel to Normandy to visit the grave of a deceased friend and search for a French woman who brought joy into their lives. On their travels, they encounter a former American soldier who is also in the region to reminisce about his wartime days, but is being hindered by his bickering son and daughter-in-law. Comedy drama from 1993, with Alec Guinness and Leo McKern


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General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Alec Guinness (Actor) .. Amos
Leo McKern (Actor) .. Cyril
Geraldine Chaplin (Actor) .. Beverley
Lauren Bacall (Actor) .. Lisa
Jeanne Moreau (Actor) .. Angelique
John Randolph (Actor) .. Waldo
Edward Herrmann (Actor) .. Ralph
Martyn Auty (Producer)
Steve Lanning (Producer)
Roy Clarke (Writer)

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Alec Guinness (Actor) .. Amos
Leo McKern (Actor) .. Cyril
Geraldine Chaplin (Actor) .. Beverley
Born: July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California
Best Known For: Being Charlie Chaplin's daughter
Early-life: Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. She's the eldest of eight children from her father Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final marriage to Oona, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Geraldine was educated at boarding schools in Switzerland and made her screen debut aged eight in Limelight, directed by her dad. She originally wanted to be a ballerina, but eventually decided to concentrate on acting.
Career: Geraldine began her professional career with roles in European projects, such as Gran Parada and Dernier Soir. Her breakthrough came in David Lean's adaptation of Dr Zhivago in 1965. She appeared in her father's A Countess from Hong Kong two years later. She's rarely been out of work since, mixing mainstream movies and TV shows with arty European fare. Among her more famous projects are The Three Musketeers and its sequels, Nashville, The Mirror Crack'd, My Cousin Rachel, White Mischief, Jane Eyre and Dinotopia. She also played her own grandmother in biopic Chaplin.
Quote: 'I thought it'd be easy to get into the movies as Charlie Chaplin's daughter. And it was. Except I wasn't much good as an actress.'
Trivia: In 2006, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
Lauren Bacall (Actor) .. Lisa
Born: September 16, 1924 in New York
Best Known For: Her on and off-screen partnership with Humphrey Bogart.
Early-life: Born Betty Joan Perske in New York in 1924. She was brought up by her mother, a secretary, after her parents divorced when she was five. As a young girl, she had dreams of becoming a dancer, but switched to acting in her teens. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and took small parts in off-Broadway plays, but initially had more success as a model. Her big break came when she was signed up by director Howard Hawks, after his wife spotted her on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine. He changed her name and cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not in 1944.
Career: Bacall's film debut made her an instant star, although her second movie, Confidential Agent (1945), was less well received. The Big Sleep (1946) reteamed her with Bogart, and they went on to make two more films together. Her habit of turning down substandard roles earned her a reputation for being difficult, but she did go on to feature in Young Man with a Horn (1950), How To Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Written on the Wind (1956). Bacall's movie career waned during the following decades, but she found success on Broadway in the plays Cactus Flower and Applause. She received her first Academy Award nomination in 1996 for The Mirror Has Two Faces. She received an honorary Academy Award in 2010. She died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89.
Quote: 'I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it.'
Trivia: She wed Humphrey Bogart in 1945. They had two children together and the marriage lasted until his death in 1957. She was married to actor Jason Robards from 1961 to 1969. Their son, Sam, went on to become an actor.
Jeanne Moreau (Actor) .. Angelique
John Randolph (Actor) .. Waldo
Edward Herrmann (Actor) .. Ralph
Charles Sturridge (Director)
Martyn Auty (Producer)
Steve Lanning (Producer)
Roy Clarke (Writer)