
Bill Moores
Oyuncu · 1934 – 2015 · Old Swan, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Bill Moores was born on 16 October 1934 to George and Lillian Moore – but he became Moores after his father accidentally wrote an extra “S” on the birth certificate. He grew up in Old Swan and Huyton Quarry, and lived in Prescot until his death on Monday 13 April 2015 at the age of 80. He began his acting career in local am-dram, performing with the Rainhill Garrick Society and the Rainhill Amateur Operatic Society. On TV, he was best-known for a long stint as Cedric – perpetually drunk and always propping up the bar – in the Liverpool-set sitcom Watching (1987-1993). He also starred in Our Day Out (1977), The Spongers (1978), The Muscle Market (1981), Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), No Surrender (1987) and Riff-Raff (1991). Alongside his TV and theatre work, he was head of the Liverpool division of actors’ union Equity for several years. He was also a familiar face behind the counter at HLS Motor Factors on Warrington Road, Prescot, and KLS on Hall Lane. In his later years he toured retirement homes with an acting company.
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Film6.7KomediDramKen Loach kamerasını bu kez Thatcher İngiltere'sinin ekonomik uçurumlarına yöneltiyor. Yönetmenin filmde daha mizahi ve biraz daha gürültülü bir hal alan bakış açısı bu sefer kaybedecek hiçbir şeyleri olmayan işsiz güçsüzlerin dünyasını anlatıyor. Bill Jesse adlı sıradan bir inşaat işcisinin anılarından yola çıkan gerçek bir öykü.
Film6.9DramMüzikerence Davies’in otobiyografi serisinin ikincisi olan bu film, Davies’in 1940 ve 1950’ lerde Liverpool’da yaşamış işçi sınıfından olan kendi ailesini konu alan izlenimci bakış açısında sahip bir filmdir. ‘ Distant Voice ‘ un ilk kısmı, yetişkin kardeşler Eileen, Maisie, Tony ve annelerinin babalarının gülümseyen fotoğraflarından önce yas kıyafetleri içindeki görüntüleriyle açılır. Çok geçmeden, aile yine aynı tabloda poz verir, ama elbette daha mutlu bir sebeple; Eileen’in düğünü sebebiyle… Düğününde akrabaları şarkılar söylerken Eilleen, ölen babası için derin bir kedere kapılır ve gençliğindeki mutlu günleri gözünün önüne getirir. Tony ve Maisie’nin hatıraları ise daha sıkıntılı ve bulanıktır. Davies sahneleri, kilisede huşu içinde mumları yakan aile ile zalim adamın karısına vurup çocuklarına terör estirmesi şeklinde karıştırır ve karşılaştırır. ‘ Stiil Lives ‘ de iki yıl sonra filme alınmıştır. Burada ise artık kardeşler kendi hayatlarını kurmuştur.
Film7.0SuçDramDanny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
The Muscle Market
1981 · 2 votes
Film6.7KomediIt's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
No Surrender
1985 · 12 votes
Film7.8KomediDramWhen a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
Our Day Out
1977 · 6 votes
Film10.0DramTV MovieIn the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
The Spongers
1978 · 1 votes
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Dizi8.2KomediA young couple from Merseyside and their off again/on again relationship.
Watching
1987 · 8 votes
Dizi7.8DramAlan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and union leader, George Malone. As they struggle to make ends meet in a depressed economy, and to hold together their financially battered families, they are harrassed by the petty bureaucrats of the DHSS. But the lumbering investigational juggernaut is, both comically and tragically, guided by drivers with only a provisional license.
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982 · 19 votes