Tracy Brabin has been Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire since 2016 after a by-election triggered by the murder of Jo Cox. She considers herself part of “the exciting influx of Labour MPs in the last year, most of whom have done other jobs”. Tracy’s other job was as an actor, coming to the Labour Party after a 20 year career; breaking through in the 1989 comedy-drama “A Bit of a Do”, becoming a regular in “Coronation Street”, “Emmerdale” and “Eastenders” and later writing for “Tracey Beaker”, “Heartbeat” and “Shameless”. Last month the results of her and fellow MP Gloria de Piero’s inquiry into access and diversity in the acting industry were published, evidencing what many have known for some time: “There is a class-shaped hole in the industry”. Backstage spoke to Tracy from the Houses of Parliament about the report, an important production of “Les Mis...
- 9/20/2017
- backstage.com
Stage and screen actor who excelled in playing authority figures and appeared in TV shows such as Brookside and Lovejoy
Malcolm Tierney, who has died aged 75 of pulmonary fibrosis, was a reliable and versatile supporting actor for 50 years, familiar to television audiences as the cigar-smoking, bullying villain Tommy McArdle in Brookside, nasty Charlie Gimbert in Lovejoy and smoothie Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe in David Nobbs's A Bit of a Do, a Yorkshire small-town comedy chronicle starring David Jason and Gwen Taylor.
Always serious and quietly spoken offstage, with glinting blue eyes and a steady, cruel gaze that served him well as authority figures on screen, Tierney was a working-class Mancunian who became a core member of the Workers' Revolutionary party in the 1970s. He never wavered in his socialist beliefs, even when the Wrp imploded ("That's all in my past now," he said), and always opposed restricted entry to the actors' union,...
Malcolm Tierney, who has died aged 75 of pulmonary fibrosis, was a reliable and versatile supporting actor for 50 years, familiar to television audiences as the cigar-smoking, bullying villain Tommy McArdle in Brookside, nasty Charlie Gimbert in Lovejoy and smoothie Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe in David Nobbs's A Bit of a Do, a Yorkshire small-town comedy chronicle starring David Jason and Gwen Taylor.
Always serious and quietly spoken offstage, with glinting blue eyes and a steady, cruel gaze that served him well as authority figures on screen, Tierney was a working-class Mancunian who became a core member of the Workers' Revolutionary party in the 1970s. He never wavered in his socialist beliefs, even when the Wrp imploded ("That's all in my past now," he said), and always opposed restricted entry to the actors' union,...
- 2/22/2014
- by Michael Coveney, Vanessa Redgrave
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor Malcolm Tierney has died, aged 75.
The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.
Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.
In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.
Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.
He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.
Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.
Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...
The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.
Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.
In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.
Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.
He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.
Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.
Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...
- 2/21/2014
- Digital Spy
Actor Malcolm Tierney has died, aged 75.
The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.
Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.
In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.
Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.
He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.
Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.
Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...
The British actor was known for his variety of roles in TV, film and theatre, including Braveheart and Lovejoy.
Tierney played Tommy McArdle in the Channel 4 soap Brookside from 1983 to 1987, and was also known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1970s.
In 2012, he starred as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.
Tierney was perhaps best known for playing Lovejoy's antique dealer rival Charlie Gimbert in the BBC drama.
He also had roles in Doctor Who's 'The Trial of a Time Lord' in 1986, and Star Wars in 1977.
Tierney also played the English sheriff who executes the wife of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995.
Further appearances included A Bit of a Do, the original House of Cards series and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Several actors have paid tribute to the late star, with...
- 2/21/2014
- Digital Spy
I.ve just finished watching the classic British television series .A Bit Of a Do. and it is every bit as good as people have said it is through the years. First shown in 1989, the series explores the relationships of two families thrown together by the wedding of their children. Part comedy, part drama, and all very human .Do. is an irresistible viewing experience. A Bit of A Do begins with the wedding of the daughter Jenny (Sarah-Jane Holm) from the snobbish middle class Rodenhurst family, to the son Paul (David Thewlis) of the up and coming working class Simcocks. This first .do. sets the stage for the rest of the series, in which love, lust, greed, sympathy,...
- 7/7/2010
- by June L.
- Monsters and Critics
DVD Playhouse—May 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Avatar (20th Century Fox) James Cameron beat his own title as box office champ, set with Titanic over a decade ago, with this eye-popping sci-fi epic about a paraplegic Marine name Sully (Sam Worthington), who takes the form of an “avatar,” or virtual being, to go undercover on the planet Pandora, attempting to infiltrate the native Na’vi to gather intelligence that will aid a joint corporate and military operation to rape the planet of its natural resources, destroying its indigenous population in the process. When Sully suddenly “goes native,” he locks horns with the company CEO (Giovanni Ribisi) and his gung-ho commanding officer (Stephen Lang, in a wonderful, scenery-chewing turn from a long-underrated actor). Thought of by many scholars and film buffs as a “game-changer” as much as the first Star Wars film was—and they may be right. While Cameron’s politically-correct...
By
Allen Gardner
Avatar (20th Century Fox) James Cameron beat his own title as box office champ, set with Titanic over a decade ago, with this eye-popping sci-fi epic about a paraplegic Marine name Sully (Sam Worthington), who takes the form of an “avatar,” or virtual being, to go undercover on the planet Pandora, attempting to infiltrate the native Na’vi to gather intelligence that will aid a joint corporate and military operation to rape the planet of its natural resources, destroying its indigenous population in the process. When Sully suddenly “goes native,” he locks horns with the company CEO (Giovanni Ribisi) and his gung-ho commanding officer (Stephen Lang, in a wonderful, scenery-chewing turn from a long-underrated actor). Thought of by many scholars and film buffs as a “game-changer” as much as the first Star Wars film was—and they may be right. While Cameron’s politically-correct...
- 5/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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