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Mar 10, 2024 · As Trenchard-Smith put it himself when speaking to Flashback Files, “I’m guilty as charged, I don’t make Shakespeare,” not that anybody wanted him to be tackling the Bard when his own approach had helped shape an entire era of local filmmaking.
Brian Medwin Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English-Australian filmmaker and author, known for his idiosyncratic and satirical low-budget genre films. His filmography covers action, science fiction, martial arts, dystopian fiction, comedy, war, family, thriller, romance and erotica, and his works tend to be cross-genre pieces.
I don’t make Shakespeare. But I was also pointing to the ruthless nature of government, how they would incarcerate the most desperate members of society. In this case in a prison of junk values, supplying them with drink and drugs, just to get them out of the way.
Brian Trenchard-Smith. Director: Stunt Rock. Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets, many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- England, UK
- William Camden
- Michael Drayton
- Thomas Greene
- John Hall
- James Cooke
- Sir Fulke Greville
- Edward Pudsey
- Queen Henrietta Maria
- Philip Henslowe
- Edward Alleyn
William Camden was the most eminent historian and antiquary of the Elizabethan age, and was deeply involved in the literary and intellectual world of his time. He knew Philip Sidney, was a valued friend of Michael Drayton, and is said to have been a teacher of Ben Jonson. His most famous work was Britannia, a history of England first published in L...
Another eyewitness is the poet and dramatist Michael Drayton, who was born and raised in Warwickshire, only about twenty-five miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. It is hard to imagine that Michael Drayton was unaware of Shakespeare. The two were almost exact contemporaries. They both wrote sonnets, and many critics have even found the influence of Shak...
Our third eyewitness connects Michael Drayton and William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon even more closely. In the 1603 edition of one of Drayton’s major poems, The Barons’ Wars, there appeared a commendatory sonnet — a Shakespearean sonnet — by one Thomas Greene. Also in 1603, the bookseller and printer William Leake published a poem by this s...
Our fourth eyewitness is that same Dr. John Hall who came to Stratford-upon-Avon from Bedfordshire in the early 1600s, and married Susanna Shakespeare in 1607. During his more than thirty years of practice in Warwickshire, Dr. Hall was considered one of the best physicians in the county, and was called often to the homes of noblemen throughout the ...
Our fifth eyewitness is Dr. James Cooke, a surgeon from Warwick who was responsible for the publication of John Hall’s casebook. Although he was about twenty years younger than Hall, Cooke was acquainted with him from the time they had both attended the Earl of Warwick and his family. In the 1640s a Parliamentary army was contending with the army o...
A sixth eyewitness is Sir Fulke Greville, later Lord Brooke, whose family had lived near Stratford for more than two hundred years, and who must have known the Shakespeare family. He was born in 1554 at Beauchamp Court, less than ten miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, in the vicinity of Snitterfield, the home of Richard Shakespeare, grandfather of Wil...
Another eyewitness who must have known William Shakespeare of Stratford was an obscure theatre-goer named Edward Pudsey who was perhaps only the second individual we know of to write out passages from a Shakespeare play. Very little is known about Edward Pudsey, except that he was born in Derbyshire in 1573 and died in 1613 at Tewkesbury, about 25 ...
Our eighth eyewitness is Henrietta Maria, the 15-year-old daughter of King Henry IV of France and Marie de Médicis, who, by arrangement, became the wife and Queen of Charles I soon after his coronation as King of England in 1625. The new American colony of Maryland, founded in 1632, was given its name in honor of Henrietta Maria. Both Charles and Q...
Our ninth eyewitness was a London businessman who decided to build a playhouse, and then became a successful theatrical entrepreneur. Philip Henslowe and his partner had operated the Rose Theatre for about four years before he began, in 1592, making entries in an old notebook about his theater and the companies that played in it, primarily the Admi...
Our last eyewitness is Edward Alleyn, the most distinguished actor on the Elizabethan stage. He was also a musician, a book and playbook collector, a philanthropist, and a playwright (Wraight 211–19). He was born about two years after William Shakespeare and came from the same class. His father was an innkeeper, and Alleyn was still in his teens wh...
His frequently repeated family drama for Lifetime, Long Lost Son starring Gabrielle Anwar, introduced future Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford to audiences in the title role." I knew from his first scene, he was going to be hot." In 2009, Trenchard-Smith shot Porky's - The College Years, a re-imagining of the famous 80's franchise of teen comedies.
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Oct 10, 2015 · Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Man From Hong Kong) Talks His Ill-Fated Trip to Meet Bruce Lee, and the Legacy of the Dragon A director whose documentary on the martial arts star was halted by his death, looks at Lee's remarkable life and achievements.
