Movies with Mark Charnock
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Emmerdale: The Dingles - For Richer for Poorer
Genres: Drama
Starring: Sam Hall, Richard Sinnott, Mark Charnock, Steve Halliwell, Jane Cox, James Hooton, Eden Taylor-Draper
Directors: Tim O'Mara
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Feature-length spin-off from the long-running ITV soap. The film interweaves two parallel storylines: one in which the Dingle family wins millions in the lottery, and the other in which they remain poor and have to resort to selling their possessions at car boot sales and living on leftovers. But which reality will bring lasting happiness to the family?
Mystery!: Cadfael - Season Four
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Mark Charnock
Directors: Sebastian Graham Jones
Country: UK
Year: 1997
The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1150, during The Anarchy, the destructive contest for the crown of England between King Stephen and Empress Maud. Several true historical events are described or referred to in the books. For example, the translation of Saint Winifred to Shrewsbury Abbey is fictionalised in the first chronicle, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and One Corpse Too Many is inspired by the siege of Shrewsbury Castle by Stephen in 1138.
Mystery!: Cadfael - Season One
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Mark Charnock
Directors: Sebastian Graham Jones
Country: UK
Year: 1994
At and around the Shewsberry abbey, Brother Cadfael is a monk with a difference. Given a choice, he would enjoy just being a simple gardener and herbalist for his home. However too often, events force him to use his other talent as a master sleuth in response to mysterious crimes happening in his community. While he investigates these crimes, he often finds himself at odds with the contemporary attitudes of the times with his own ahead of his time beliefs.
Mystery!: Cadfael - Season Two
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Mark Charnock
Directors: Sebastian Graham Jones
Country: UK
Year: 1995
Brother Cadfael is the fictional main character in a series of historical murder mysteries written by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters". The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey, in western England, in the first half of the 12th century.As a character, Cadfael is an unusual monk, only entering the cloister in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life. He is a skillful observer of human nature, a talented herbalist, which skill he learned in the Holy Lands and while a prisone...
Mystery!: Cadfael - Season Three
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Mark Charnock
Directors: Sebastian Graham Jones
Country: UK
Year: 1996
In all, Pargeter wrote twenty Cadfael books between 1977 and 1994. Each draws upon the storyline, characters, and developments of previous books in the series. Pargeter apparently planned the 20th instalment as the final book of the series; Brother Cadfael's Penance brings together the loose story ends into a tidy conclusion. Pargeter herself died shortly after its publication, following a long illness. Many of the books were adapted into both radio episodes in which Glyn Houston and subsequently Philip Madoc played the monk, and a television series starring Derek Jacobi as Cadfael.