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Dr Who -Television
- BBC (2005) |
| Christopher
Eccleston brings the famous doctor back to life in his own
unique style. The series was first shown from March 2005 on
BBC1 at 7pm on Saturday nights (repeated on Sunday evenings
on BBC3). There are 13 episodes in series one, each lasting
45 minutes each. The series is available on dvd from May 16th
2005. |
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The Second Coming
- Television - ITV (2003) |
| What
if there was a Second Coming and the Son of God arrived on
Earth? What would you do? Are you ready for Judgement Day?
Christopher Eccleston plays Steve Baxter, a video shop worker
who is found wandering the Yorkshire Moors after 40 days and
40 nights, mumbling he is the Son of God. |
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28 Days Later
(2003) |
| In
this film from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland,
a powerful virus is unleashed on the British public following
a raid on a primate research facility by animal rights activists.
Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds,
the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous
rage. |
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Flesh and Blood
- Television - BBC (2002) |
| Christopher
Eccleston and Emma Cunniffe starred in Flesh and Blood, a
single drama for BBC2 written by Peter Bowker, which tells
the story of a father whose world is turned upside down when
he discovers the truth about his origins. |
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Revengers Tragedy
(2002) |
| Revenger's
Tragedy tells the story of a man whose wife is murdered on
their wedding day, and his desire to exact revenge on the
murderer. In a post-apocalyptic Liverpool of the future, Vindici
returns from a self-imposed exile to bring down those responsible
for his wife's murder. |
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Waiting For
The Whistle: The King and Us - BBC TV (2002) |
| The
date is April 1974, the last match of the season, Man United
v Man City. United are facing the unthinkable prospect of
relegation from the First Division. Anthony, is a Red and
he never misses a match. He and his wife Jenny, a Blue, are
expecting a baby, but it's not due for another two weeks.
Is it? Guest starring Denis Law. |
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I am Dina (2002) |
| Little
Dina is the cause of a tragic accident for which her father
will never forgive her. Isolated and unloved, she grows to
womanhood torn between morbid fantasy and an indomitable lust
for life. |
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24 Hour Party
People (2002) |
| Steve
Coogan is perfectly cast as Tony Wilson, struggling to hold
it together in a world of vice and angst-ridden geniuses,
in this brilliantly sustained portrait of the Manchester scene
from director Michael Winterbottom. It's an unccredited cameo
by Christopher Eccleston as a homeless man spouting the philosophies
of Boethius. |
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Sunday - Television
- Channel 4 (2002) |
| Written
by Jimmy McGovern, Sunday tells the story of an infamous day
in Derry in North of Ireland and how the events of that day.
Eccleston plays General Ford, the Commander of Land Forces
of the British Army in Northern Ireland. |
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Othello - Television
- ITV (2002) |
| In
order to demonstrate progress on race relations, John Othello
is made the first black commissioner of London's Metropolitan
Police force. But he is promoted over his former superior,
Ben Jago (played by Eccleston), who pretends to be pleased
at his old friend's success while secretly plotting his downfall. |
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The League Of
Gentlemen - Television - BBC (2002) |
| In
series 3, episode 6 - 'How The Elephant Got Its Trunk', Chris
plays the character Dougal Siepp, a cinema owner who only
showed films with cats in. Eccleston was a guest star in the
only one episode. |
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This Little
Piggy (2001) |
| On
a rainy night in Dublin, two cops, Kehoe and Walsh, investigate
the aftermath of a violent incident at a cab rank; a drunken
man has had his finger chopped of by the door of a taxi. The
suspect cabbie (Christopher Eccleston) has disappeared and
nobody can find the finger. It is only a short film lasting
12 minutes. |
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not available on video |
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Strumpet (2001) |
| In
Strumpet, Strayman (Christopher Eccleston), a spontaneous
poet, is landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist
another of life’s strays, he hooks up with Strumpet,
a shy homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music. |
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The Others (2001) |
| A
woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive
children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
Eccleston plays Charles Stewart who is Nicole Kidman's husband
in the film. He returns home shell-shocked and who was thought
to have been lost in the war. |
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The Invisible
Circus (2001) |
| A
teenage girl travels to Paris in the 1970's trying to find
out about her sister's suicide, and falls in love with her
dead sister's boyfriend. Eccleston stars with Cameron Diaz. |
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Linda Green
- Television - BBC (2001) |
| In
the first episode of Linda Green, Christopher Eccleston played
the characters of twins, Tom and Neil Sherry. Neil is bad
through and through, but is a charmer and hard to resist.
Tom, however, is sickly sweet and desperate to please. He’s
constantly overshadowed by his dangerous brother. |
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