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In THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, Vaughan played "Mr. Freeman," the father of "Ernestina Freeman" (Lynsey Baxter) who agrees to her marriage to "Charles Smithson" (Jeremy Irons). Karel Reisz directed this combination modern love story and period piece. Carl Davis' score was released by DRG on an LP and later on CD.
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In the second filming of the W. Somerset Maugham novel THE RAZOR'S EDGE, Peter Vaughan played "MacKenzie," a coal miner who's life is saved by fellow miner "Larry Darrell" (Bill Murray). John Byrum directed this 1984 remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film. Jack Nitzsche's score was released on a Southern Cross LP in 1984 and a Preamble CD in 2001.
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BRAZIL was Peter Vaughan's second film for director Terry Gilliam. Vaughn played "Deputy Minister Helpmann" in this 1985 fantasy about bureaucracy run amok. Michael Kamen's score was most recently released by Milan in 2006.
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Dec 7, 2016 - 11:42 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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On the first day of the twentieth century, an infant is discovered in the coal room aboard a luxury liner, The Virginian. The worker, "Danny Boodmann" (played by Bill Nunn) who discovers the child, names him "1900" or more accurately "Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen-Hundred." Eight years later the boy loses his "father" in a ship accident but discovers an amazing ability to play the piano, and a legend is born. It is indeed THE LEGEND OF 1900, a fable by director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO) based on a dramatic monologue by Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco. The story is about a musical prodigy (Tim Roth) who spends his life aboard a ship, sailing back and forth between the U.S. and Europe, entertaining the passengers with his unique talent, but never sharing it with the rest of the world. Peter Vaughan plays "'Pops', the Shopkeeper." Ennio Morricone's score for the 1998 film was released by Sony Classical.
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Peter Vaughan played "Uncle Alfie," a cantankerous, wheelchair-bound senior, in the 2007 black comedy DEATH AT A FUNERAL. Frank Oz directed, his last feature to date. Oz once said that it was impossible to make Vaughan laugh on the set because he was so deeply into the crotchety character of Uncle Alfie. He was the only principal actor to refrain from "corpsing" throughout, thus there was no footage of Peter cracking up to use for the closing credit montage. Murray Gold's score has not had a release.
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Peter Vaughan was perhaps best known by American TV audiences for his final role--as "Jon Snow's" mentor, "Maester Aemon Targaryen"--on the HBO series "Game of Thrones." Vaughan started portraying the character in 2011 at age 86 and remained on the show for five years until his character died of old age in season five. He appeared in eleven episodes of the series.
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I always remember the first time I saw Peter Vaughan. It was the BBC's Sunday Classics serial version of Treasure Island, and he played Long John Silver. 1968? My mum thought he was a pale imitation compared to Robert Newton's famously eye-rolling performance in the Disney film (plus non-Disney semi-sequel and tv series). What he did of course was find his own, completely opposite, interpretation. Instead of "ha-harrrr Jim lad!", it was a gentle "ah well".
My own favourite performance of his was as Denethor in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Lord of the Rings. The character is the father of Boromir, who in the Peter Jackson films is played by Sean Bean, who just happens to be, of course, one the stars of Game of Thrones in which Peter also appears. And just as Michael Hordern's performance as Gandalf in the radio version spoiled me for Ian McKellen's in the films, so did Vaughan. He speaks a line (to Gandalf as it happens) where he uses the word 'thee' instead of 'you', and it sounds very Barnsley. Quite funny since he came from Shropshire and Staffordshire.
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There was a rumour a while back that the old British comic book character 'Grimly Feendish' was inspired by Peter. I never heard the truth of it.
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