Alan Ford
Acting
Biography
Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Guy Ritchie gangster movies Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and from appearing as separate characters in eight different episodes of The Bill. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: February 23, 1938
Place of Birth: Camberwell, London, England, UK
Known For
Dead End
A woman receives a menacing phone call from a stranger and is later plagued by a series of eerie circumstances after she parks her car in a local parking garage.
The Kemps: All True
Spandau Ballet global superstars Gary and Martin Kemp, their lives, and their careers.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
The Armando Iannucci Shows
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes focused on specific themes relating to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues. Recurring themes in the episodes are the superficiality of modern culture, our problems communicating with each other, the mundane nature of working life and feelings of personal inadequacy and social awkwardness. Several characters also make repeat appearances in the shows, including the East End thug, who solves every problem with threats of violence; Hugh, an old man who delivers surreal monologues about what things were like in the old days; and Iannucci's barber, who is full of nonsensical anecdotes.
Keen Eddie
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The soundtrack and incidental music for the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital. Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets scored the rest of the series.
Snatch
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
The Darling Buds of May
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge is a BBC Television series of six episodes, and a Christmas special in 1995. It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA, which was used as the show's title music. Steve Coogan played the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour. Knowing Me Knowing You was written by Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Patrick Marber, with contributions from the regular supporting cast of Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front and David Schneider, who played Alan's weekly guests. Steve Brown provided the show's music and arrangements, and also appeared as Glen Ponder, the man in charge of the house band. The show was a parody of a chat show. It featured a live audience whose laughter meant that viewers could not mistake the show for a real chat show. Alan went on to appear in two series of the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge, following his life after both his marriage and TV career come to an end.
Chaplin
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
The New Statesman
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Filmography
as Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog
as Mr. Pipkin
as Narrator
as The Chairman
as Self
as Voice Over
as Burt
as Matthew
as Paul Hamilton
as Alan the Fear Therapist
as Harry
as Ray Macguire
as Harry
as Max Korgen
as Carter
as Hansen
as Sibling
as Sol
as Rick - Priest
as Jefferies
as Brick Top Pullard (Snatch) (archive footage)
as Alan The East End Thug
as Jack Ely
as Brick Top
as Alan / Narrator
as Gaolor
as Terry Norton
as Geoff the Builder
as Warder
as First villain
as Danvers
as Phil
as Barman
as Prison Officer
as Police Inspector
as Tommy
as Norman Danvers
as Ron Martin
as Harold
as Mr Sangers
as Nobby Wilson
as Leaded Billy
as Peters
as Sammy Kline
as Taxi Driver
as Jack Arthur Bross
as Giles Sawney
as Prowler
as Mr. Chancer
as Mr. Chancer
as Jack
as Bennett
as Sgt.
as Clifford Harding
as Bill
as Taff
as Leaded Billy
as Ken
as Mr. Chancer
as Sgt.
as Fire Man (uncredited)