Patrick Malahide

Biography: Patrick Malahide

Born Patrick G. Duggan on March 24, 1945, Patrick Malahide grew up in the Thames Valley west of London in the village of Pangbourne, where Kenneth Grahame wrote about Mole, Toad, and Rat in the 1908 children's classic -The Wind in the Willows. Malahide's Irish immigrant parents each held down two jobs to send Patrick and their other two children to the best schools. Patrick attended St. Anne's Primary and then the Douai School of the Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, Berkshire. At both schools, Patrick received an excellent education and learned to mix with upper-class children and mimic the articulation and cadence of their speech. Thus, he was unwittingly preparing himself for film roles requiring an understanding of class-conscious societies and a mastery of accents. Such roles included his portrayal of Sir John Conroy in the 2001 TV miniseries Victoria and Albert, Captain Claude Howlett in the 1999 TV miniseries All the King's Men, and the Rev. Casaubon in the 1994 TV miniseries Middlemarch. After attending Edinburgh University, where he studied literature and psychology and performed with a dramatic society, he taught English at a boys' school in Wokingham. Soon, however, he abandoned the classroom for the stage, managing and directing at a small theater and acting in the plays of Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, Anton Chekhov, and Arthur Miller. After performing in London, he signed on with the ~Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, playing roles in the dramas of Shakespeare and other classic authors, accepted television roles, and earned critical acclaim in 1981 in a tour de force one-man show, +Judgement [writer's note: the British spelling of the word "judgment" is correct here], in which he tells the audience why he resorted to cannibalism to survive as a Russian officer in a Nazi prison. Then came worldwide recognition from productions such as The Killing Fields (1984), the TV miniseries The Singing Detective (1985), A Month in the Country (1987), the TV docudrama Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing (1990), A Man of No Importance (1994), U.S. Marshals (1998), and Billy Elliot (2000). ~ Mike Cummings, All Movie Guide less

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Elizabeth I (2006)
Cast: Jeremy Irons Helen Mirren Ian McDiarmid Hugh Dancy Tom Hooper
Tags: Historical Epic Epic
Length: 240min
Elizabeth I stars Helen Mirren as the famous monarch who often frightened her subjects with he ability to change emotions on a dime. In addition to facing a variety of political problems, the film charts some of the major relationships in her life....
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Cast: Michael Gambon Greta Scacchi Emma Thompson Matthew Goode Julian Jarrold
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Drama
Length: 134min
Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of love and the British class system has been given a polished screen adaptation in this film version from director Julian Jarrold. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) was raised in a middle-class household and though he's never...
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Amnesia (2004)
Cast: Anthony Head John Hannah Nicholas Laughland Anthony Calf Patrick Malahide
Tags: Psychological Thriller
Length: 146min
A detective in search of his missing wife comes into contact with a mysterious local who may hold the clues to her whereabouts in this omantic mystery starring John Hannah and Jemma Redgrave. When his wife goes missing, a tireless private eye is...
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All the King's Men (1999)
Cast: Maggie Smith Ian McDiarmid James Murray Julian Jarrold David Jason
Tags: War Drama Combat Films War
Length: 120min
Originally produced for the BBC and broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series Masterpiece Theatre, this drama tells the story of the Sandringham Company, one of the most unusual teams of fighting men to march on the battlefields of World War I;...
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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Cast: Timothy Dalton Ian McNeice Michael Lerner Jane Jenkins Howard W. Koch
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy Romance
Length: 105min
Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local...
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Murderous Intent (2006)
Cast: Toni Collette Richard Roxburgh Gregory Read Patrick Malahide Tom Sturridge
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 109min
A murder lifts the lid on some disturbing actions among the pupils at a well-respected school in this drama. Nigel (Tom Sturridge), a student at an exclusive British private school, has been found murdered, and police detective McKenzie (Richard...
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Fortress 2: Re-Entry (1999)
Cast: Pam Grier Christopher Lambert Geoff Murphy Willie Garson Patrick Malahide
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Science Fiction
Length: 92min
In this follow-up to Fortress, Stuart Gordon's 1993 sci-fi adventure drama, John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Beth Toussaint) are once again on the run in a totalitarian regime of the future, where a multi-national corporation...
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Two Deaths (1996)
Cast: Nicolas Roeg Michael Gambon Hans Zimmer Sonia Braga Rade Serbedzija
Tags: Erotic Drama Drama Erotic Thriller
Length: 103min
Amid the bloody tumult of Communist dictator Ceausescu in 1989 Romania, a hedonistic and morally sidetracked physician, Daniel Pavenic (Michael Gambon), attempts to hold his annual dinner for 12 of his closest friends. Only three such friends are...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Geena Davis Renny Harlin Brian Cox Michael De Luca
Tags: Action Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 120min
An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the...
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Heaven (1998)
Cast: Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Richard Schiff Martin Donovan Joanna Going
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 102min
Scott Reynolds directed this New Zealand thriller about a transsexual stripper. Architect Robert Marling (Martin Donovan) has mounting problems that include drinking, gambling, and alimony payments to his ex, Jennifer (Joanna Going), who's attempting...
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