New Chilling Tales - biography page

This page provides a basic "highlights" biography of the actors who featured in "Beware Of What You Wish For". Rather than list every production that they have appeared in (which would take many pages), there is a weblink to the right of each bio. If you would like to learn more about the extensive careers of "The Talent", just click the links to open up a new web page for each person. We would like to thank all the people involved in this production for their help, support and involvement.

	JANE MERROW Acclaimed actress, writer and producer and well-known for her frequent television appearances in cult TV favourites such as "The Avengers", "The Prisoner", "Mission Impossible" and many others, Jane has also appeared in serious drama on both television and film, including the blockbuster "The Lion In Winter" alongside Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn, for which she was a Golden Globe nominee. In 2009 she appeared in Shakespeare's "The Comedy Of Errors" with the Idaho Shakespeare Company in Boise, Idaho. With her production company Lara Media, Jane is the prime mover of the "New Chilling Tales" series and, at various times, will appear as producer, director, writer and actor.
	PATRICIA DOYLE Patricia is a theatre and ballet director, and American University Theatre lecturer, after a career as an actress at the RSC, namely in Peter Brook's world tour production of The Dream, and at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, West End and regional theatres in Britain and America. Her film and TV work includes Wuthering Heights and Rehearsal Director for the children in Anna and the King. She has worked extensively with Northern Ballet Theatre with Christopher Gable on Dracula, and with the present Artistic Director David Nixon. She directed Carmen and A Streetcar Named Desire for the company, both choreographed by Didy Veldman. Her work continued on Swan Lake, Wuthering Heights with music composed by Claude-Michel Schonberg, and Sleeping Beauty, and as co -director on Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night's Dream and a new version of Hamlet set in Occupied Paris to be revived next year. This is her first film as director.
	MALCOLM TIERNEY Malcolm is a English actor who has appeared in many film and television productions. Some of his more notable roles include the part of Tommy McArdle in "Brookside" between 1983 and 1987, Charlie Gimbert in "Lovejoy", Patrick Woolton in "House of Cards" and Chief Constable Raymond in "Dalziel and Pascoe". In science fiction, he appeared in "Star Wars" in 1977 and the 1986 Doctor Who serial "Terror of the Vervoids". He appeared with Mel Gibson in Braveheart. On stage, he appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974-5 and 2005. In 2007 he played Dr. Hugo Eckener in the docudrama "Hindenburg: The Untold Story", which was about the crash of the airship Hindenburg and the investigation after it.
	MARTIN JARVIS Another familiar TV face with too many credits to his name to list here in total. Martin played Jon in BBC's 1967 The Forsyte Saga, the lead in Nicholas Nickleby (1968), Uriah Heep in the 1974 BBC David Copperfield and starred in sitcom Rings On Their Fingers (1978-80). He also appeared in the BBC/ABC children's miniseries Bootleg. He has made several guest appearances in Doctor Who, his American TV shows include Numb3rs, Murder, She Wrote, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Stargate Atlantis. He was Sir Cosmo in the multi oscar-winning movie 'Titanic.' His 2009 TV series Taking the Flak (shot in Africa) is a best seller on DVD. Martin appeared in ITV's The Bill in 2008 and has voiced many characters in animated productions. He performs regularly in radio dramas and is well known for his readings of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories.
	LEON ANCLIFFE Leon recently completed a feature film, "The Special Relationship", playing British newspaper reporter, John Keating. Previous films include "Fish & Chips", a contemporary take on a Laurel and Hardy classic with Leon as Stan Laurel and helping devise many of the slapstick comedy sketches. Last year Leon wrote the screenplay and appeared in "Jamie" which was produced as a successful short film and is now in the process of beng developed into a full-length feature. Other film work includes an LFS production of "Saturday 3pm" and as the lead Actor in a Corporate DVD for MDA Media. In 2008 Leon was featured in the new 3-Mobile Skype Phone campaign associated with Google, Facebook and Friends Reunited. Prior to this he played Sid in a popular BBC sketch of "Rogue Traders" and appeared as a Stylist for an Orange Telecommunications Commercial.
	RICHARD STRIDE Theatre credits include Girls Night Out, Wind in the Willows, The Seagull, Equus, and lots of Shakespeare including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Othello. Last year he toured the UK with Importance of Being Ernest and recently appeared in Pride and Prejudice as Mr Bingley. Television credits include Absolutely Fabulous, A Rather English Marriage, Longitude, H.G. Wells. American TV includes Making Waves, Bad Girls, Footballers Wives, and Keen Eddie American TV. Richard has also appeared in many films including, First Knight, Gladiator, The Visitors, High Heels and Lowlifes, Motive, Bright Young Things, Shakespeare In Love, Killing Me Softly, Bereaved, Lost and Star Wars. Directing and producing credits include, Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Our Day Out. He has also worked as a film stunt coordinator and is currently producing a new feature film called A Pathless Destiny.
	CHRISTOPHER HOLT Chris is an actor, theatre director, theatre skills lecturer, voice teacher and corporate training facilitator. As an actor he has appeared in numerous West End productions including Les Miserables, Cats and The Lion King and worked with directors such as Trevor Nunn and Sam Mendes. Christopher's theatre directing career has taken him to Italy and Germany, directing the German Première of the AIDS musical elegies for angels, punks and raging queens and reinventing classic texts for tours of Italy. In the UK Christopher has devised and directed productions for Jackson's Lane and Oval House and was one of the directors of Shakespeare in the Square - a site-specific festival created by the National Youth Theatre. As a lecturer, voice coach and workshop leader, Christopher has worked for institutions such as London Metropolitan University, the National Youth Theatre, and the GRAEAE Theatre Company.
	SEAN MCGEE Sean is an independent film composer and musician and has been writing songs since he was seven years old, having inherited his first keyboard from his Nan. After a less than successful attempt at being a heavy metal vocalist, he took up the guitar and eventually joined a successful band called "Thirteenth Sign". Sean continued to write music in his trademark "atmospheric" style which came to the attention of Liam Winn and Simon Parr who were producing a film called "The Tower". They were enthusiastic about what they'd heard and Sean wrote and recorded the score for this film to great acclaim. This led to more and more film work, such as "Lost", "Table Seven" and, most importantly, "Generation Lost". He has scored many other film projects including, of course, "Beware Of What You Wish For", and his magical swirling compositions do much to enhance the mood of the film.