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Rakoff awarded Sean Connery his first leading role, and gave Alan Rickman his first job when he was a drama student. [3] Other actors he worked with early in their careers include Michael Crawford , Jeremy Irons , and Michael Caine .
Starring Celia Johnson, Michael Hordern, Jacqueline Hill – & featuring, in his first professional role, a newcomer – Alan Rickman. “Alvin Rakoff’s direction, like the bard’s pen, runneth over with rich, textured imagery, creating television picture that could hang in a gallery ” Los Angeles Times.
- Working with Laurence Olivier in Voyage Round My Father
- Giving Sean Connery His Big Break
- Working with Peter Sellers
- Gving Alan Rickman and Simon Russell Beale Their First Breaks
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Alvin is perhaps best known for directing A Voyage Round My Father, John Mortimer’s story about his father, which he adapted for television in 1982, produced and directed by Alvin. Laurence Olivier played the father and Alan Bates the son; Elizabeth Sellers the mother and Jane Asher, Elizabeth. “It was one of the great joys of my life working with ...
When he arrived from Canada he was told the BBC wouldn’t consider employing a Canadian, but found a job within four days of his arrival. Going from script to script eventually they offered him a full time job. He directed the opening episode of Z Cars, a police soap which was to run from January 1962 until September 1978. He made a risky decision i...
Another of Alvin’s famous leading men was Peter Sellers, who played lonely, desperate businessman Benjamin Hoffman in the film Hoffman in 1970. He blackmails an attractive young woman (Sinead Cusack) into spending a week with him in his flat in London. He and Sellers got off to rocky start, Alvin told the audience, as writer Ernest Gebler had convi...
Alan Rickman was another actor to whom Alvin gave his first break. “He came into my office at the BBC. I knew straight away he was right, (for the part of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet) though I’d learned never to say yes or no straight away. I always slept on it”. Likewise he gave Simon Russell Beale his first break in A Dance to the Music of Timefor...
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Dec 4, 2021 · Rakoff landed his first reporting job at the Northern Daily News in Kirkland Lake, Ont., and moved on to other newspapers closer to home, including the Toronto Star. He did some writing for CBC in the early 1950s.
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Alvin Rakoff. Director: Say Hello to Yesterday. Alvin Rakoff has directed more than 100 television, film and stage productions. He is now in his 10th decade. And still active.
Alvin Rakoff also gave an unknown extra his first leading role: Sean Connery. He gave drama student Alan Rickman his first professional job. Other young talent nurtured includes Michael Crawford, Simon Russell Beale and Michael Caine.
Nov 3, 2020 · Alvin Rakoff, the filmmaker who gave Sean Connery his first leading role in 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' said the casting was actually his wife's idea.
