Daniel Mays — Actor (56)
Mojo [Performance] Douban
genre: theater playwright: Jez Butterworth
Set entirely within the seedy Atlantic club, Silver Johnny - a young and talented performer on the road to fame and fortune - is held back by his jealous and protective manager Ezra, owner of the nightclub and father to a psychotic unloved son, Baby. As Silver Johnny progresses up the ladder to stardom, local gangster/entrepreneur Sam Ross begins to take an interest, and the only way to remove opposition (Ezra) appears to be sawing him in half, kidnapping Silver Johnny and leaving the club's fate in a state of limbo.

Ezra is discovered the next morning by his second-in-command, the highly ambitious Mickey, who announces that Ross intends to take over the Atlantic Club, setting the stage for a major power struggle; "He's been fucking cut in half. He's in two bins..."

Terrified by the potential threat of extermination by Ross and his gang, associates of the now deceased Ezra, (Potts, Sweets, Skinny and Baby) begin to lose their nerve, and try to convince themselves it's Mickey's idea of a joke; "It's Mickey's joke, it's Mickey's morning joke!" When this turns out to be false, the Atlantic Club gang prepare for what could be their final night. With just an ancient cutlass and an old Derringer as defence, the group starts to argue amongst themselves and even considers joining Ross, or simply leaving.

As the day wears on, people begin to gather outside the club waiting for the doors to open, oblivious to the situation. Sweating it out inside, the small group of four have to break the tragic news of Ezra's grisly death to Baby, who takes the news in a dreamlike, distant manner. Uneasy about Baby's mental stability, the Atlantic gang begins to become restless - especially about their catering. Arguments break out over frivolous matters (Uncle Tommy), and the group finally settles to consider just what its rivals are doing at that very moment.

In the climax to the fast-paced story, Sweets checks downstairs to see if the coast is clear for the gang to have a little space, rather than being cooped up in a single room, and finds Silver Johnny hanging from the ceiling. In sheer panic, Sweets calls for help, and is joined by the others. Baby reveals that by saving Silver Johnny he killed Mr Ross and discovered that Micky had betrayed them all for a share in the business. Skinny arrives and insults Baby, who responds by shooting him in the head with the Derringer. Mickey, Potts and Sweets attempt to cover the wound and to calm Skinny down, while Baby wanders around aimlessly. Silver Johnny is lowered to the floor and, tragically, Skinny dies. Unable to save Skinny's life, Mickey's authority and status break down, and he kneels beside his friend's body.
The Caretaker 2016 London Old Vic版 [Performance] Douban
part of Performance: The Caretaker
language: 英语 english theater: The Old Vic, London director: Matthew Warchus
other title: 2016 London Old Vic版 playwright: Harold Pinter actor: Timothy Spall / George MacKay
Act I

A night in winter

[Scene 1]

Aston has invited Davies, a homeless man, into his apartment after rescuing him from a bar fight (7–9). Davies comments on the apartment and criticizes the fact that it is cluttered and badly kept. Aston attempts to find a pair of shoes for Davies but Davies rejects all the offers. Once he turns down a pair that doesn’t fit well enough and another that has the wrong colour laces. Early on, Davies reveals to Aston that his real name is not "Bernard Jenkins", his "assumed name", but really "Mac Davies" (19–20, 25). He claims that his papers validating this fact are in Sidcup and that he must and will return there to retrieve them just as soon as he has a good pair of shoes. Aston and Davies discuss where he will sleep and the problem of the "bucket" attached to the ceiling to catch dripping rain water from the leaky roof (20–21) and Davies "gets into bed" while "ASTON sits, poking his [electrical] plug (21).

[Scene 2]
The LIGHTS FADE OUT. Darkness.

LIGHTS UP. Morning. (21) As Aston dresses for the day, Davies awakes with a start, and Aston informs Davies that he was kept up all night by Davies muttering in his sleep. Davies denies that he made any noise and blames the racket on the neighbors, revealing his fear of foreigners: "I tell you what, maybe it were them Blacks" (23). Aston informs Davies that he is going out but invites him to stay if he likes, indicating that he trusts him (23–24), something unexpected by Davies; for, as soon as Aston does leave the room (27), Davies begins rummaging through Aston's "stuff" (27–28) but he is interrupted when Mick, Aston’s brother, unexpectedly arrives, "moves upstage, silently," "slides across the room" and then suddenly "seizes Davies' "arm and forces it up his back," in response to which "DAVIES screams," and they engage in a minutely-choreographed struggle, which Mick wins (28–29), ending Act One with the "Curtain" line, "What's the game?" (29).
Act II

[Scene 1]
A few seconds later

Mick demands to know Davies' name, which the latter gives as "Jenkins" (30), interrogates him about how well he slept the night before (30), wonders whether or not Davies is actually "a foreigner"—to which Davies retorts that he "was" indeed (in Mick's phrase) "Born and bred in the British Isles" (33)—going on to accuse Davies of being "an old robber […] an old skate" who is "stinking the place out" (35), and spinning a verbal web full of banking jargon designed to confuse Davies, while stating, hyperbolically, that his brother Aston is "a number one decorator" (36), either an outright lie or self-deceptive wishful thinking on his part. Just as Mick reaches the climactic line of his diatribe geared to put the old tramp off balance—"Who do you bank with?" (36), Aston enters with a "bag" ostensibly for Davies, and the brothers debate how to fix the leaking roof and Davies interrupts to inject the more practical question: "What do you do . . . when that bucket's full?" (37) and Aston simply says, "Empty it" (37). The three battle over the "bag" that Aston has brought Davies, one of the most comic and often-cited Beckettian routines in the play (38–39). After Mick leaves, and Davies recognises him to be "a real joker, that lad" (40), they discuss Mick's work in "the building trade" and Davies ultimately discloses that the bag they have fought over and that he was so determined to hold on to "ain't my bag" at all (41). Aston offers Davies the job of Caretaker, (42–43), leading to Davies' various assorted animadversions about the dangers that he faces for "going under an assumed name" and possibly being found out by anyone who might "ring the bell called Caretaker" (44).

[Scene 2]

THE LIGHTS FADE TO BLACKOUT.
THEN UP TO DIM LIGHT THROUGH THE WINDOW.
A door bangs.
Sound of a key in the door of the room.
DAVIES enters, closes the door, and tries the light switch, on, off, on, off.

It appears to Davies that "the damn light's gone now," but, it becomes clear that Mick has sneaked back into the room in the dark and removed the bulb; he starts up "the electrolux" and scares Davies almost witless before claiming "I was just doing some spring cleaning" and returning the bulb to its socket (45). After a discussion with Davies about the place being his "responsibility" and his ambitions to fix it up, Mick also offers Davies the job of "caretaker" (46–50), but pushes his luck with Mick when he observes negative things about Aston, like the idea that he "doesn't like work" or is "a bit of a funny bloke" for "Not liking work" (Davies' camouflage of what he really is referring to), leading Mick to observe that Davies is "getting hypocritical" and "too glib" (50), and they turn to the absurd details of "a small financial agreement" relating to Davies' possibly doing "a bit of caretaking" or "looking after the place" for Mick (51), and then back to the inevitable call for "references" and the perpetually-necessary trip to Sidcup to get Davies' identity "papers" (51–52).

[Scene 3]
Morning

Davies wakes up and complains to Aston about how badly he slept. He blames various aspects of the apartment's set up. Aston suggests adjustments but Davies proves to be callous and inflexible. Aston tells the story of how he was checked into a mental hospital and given electric shock therapy, but when he tried to escape from the hospital he was shocked while standing, leaving him with permanent brain damage; he ends by saying, "I've often thought of going back and trying to find the man who did that to me. But I want to do something first. I want to build that shed out in the garden" (54–57). Critics regard Aston's monologue, the longest of the play, as the "climax" of the plot.[3] In dramaturgical terms, what follows is part of the plot's "falling action".
Act III

[Scene 1]
Two weeks later [… ]Afternoon.

Davies and Mick discuss the apartment. Mick relates "(ruminatively)" in great detail what he would do to redecorate it (60). When asked who "would live there," Mick's response "My brother and me" leads Davies to complain about Aston's inability to be social and just about every other aspect of Aston's behaviour (61–63). Though initially invited to be a "caretaker," first by Aston and then by Mick, he begins to ingratiate himself with Mick, who acts as if he were an unwitting accomplice in Davies' eventual conspiracy to take over and fix up the apartment without Aston's involvement (64) an outright betrayal of the brother who actually took him in and attempted to find his "belongings"; but just then Aston enters and gives Davies yet another pair of shoes which he grudgingly accepts, speaking of "going down to Sidcup" in order "to get" his "papers" again (65–66).

[Scene 2]
That night

Davies brings up his plan when talking to Aston, whom he insults by throwing back in his face the details of his treatment in the mental institution (66–67), leading Aston, in a vast understatement, to respond: "I . . . I think it's about time you found somewhere else. I don't think we're hitting it off" (68). When finally threatened by Davies pointing a knife at him, Aston tells Davies to leave: "Get your stuff" (69). Davies, outraged, claims that Mick will take his side and kick Aston out instead and leaves in a fury, concluding (mistakenly): "Now I know who I can trust" (69).

[Scene 3]
Later

Davies reenters with Mick explaining the fight that occurred earlier and complaining still more bitterly about Mick's brother, Aston (70–71). Eventually, Mick takes Aston's side, beginning with the observation "You get a bit out of your depth sometimes, don't you?" (71). Mick forces Davies to disclose that his "real name" is Davies and his "assumed name" is "Jenkins" and, after Davies calls Aston "nutty", Mick appears to take offense at what he terms Davies' "impertinent thing to say," concludes, "I'm compelled to pay you off for your caretaking work. Here's half a dollar," and stresses his need to turn back to his own "business" affairs (74). When Aston comes back into the apartment, the brothers face each other," "They look at each other. Both are smiling, faintly" (75). Using the excuse of having returned for his "pipe" (given to him earlier through the generosity of Aston), Davies turns to beg Aston to let him stay (75–77). But Aston rebuffs each of Davies' rationalisations of his past complaints (75–76). The play ends with a "Long silence" as Aston, who "remains still, his back to him [Davies], at the window, apparently unrelenting as he gazes at his garden and makes no response at all to Davies' futile plea, which is sprinkled with many dots (". . .") of elliptical hesitations (77–78).
Shifty (2009) [Movie] Douban
Shifty
director: 伊兰·克里维 actor: 里兹·阿迈德 / 丹尼尔·梅斯
other title: 变化
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards.
The Firm (2009) [Movie] Douban
The Firm
director: 尼克·拉夫 actor: Paul Anderson / Calum McNab
other title: 足球流氓
Dom是一个年轻的足球爱好者,一次偶然的机会他卷入Bex的世界, 一个魅力无穷却又十分危险的足球流氓组织。由于嘴上功夫了得又有幽默感,Dom很快成为组织里的一分子。但是Bex和他的ICF在全国各地与其他对手的足球流氓组织关系不大好,很快暴力事件频发,事态开始失去控制。当Dom想抽身时才发现进门容易出门难。
Outcasts (2011) [TV] Douban
Outcasts
director: 安迪·戈达德 actor: Hermione Norris / 埃里克·马比斯
2040年,地球生态环境遭到严重毁坏。为了寻找新的宜居家园,一群又一群无畏的拓荒者乘坐星际飞船前往其他星系展开探索。在一颗名叫「卡柏菲亚」 的星球上,拓荒者建造了殖民城市「港湾堡」(Forthaven),并建立起由Tate总统(Liam Cunningham扮演)和幕僚Stella(Hermione Norris扮演)、Cass(Daniel Mays扮演)、Fleur(Amy Manson)领导的「新人类社会」。他们希望用「民主」的方式来延续人类文明,但事情显然没那么简单。Tate总统的家人来到卡柏菲亚后不久便出了意外,而他自己则隐藏着一个秘密。Stella是一个很优秀的科学家,她是第一批来到卡柏菲亚的拓荒者之一。她的丈夫和女儿留在地球上,盼望她早日归来。Gass是卡柏菲亚的安全官和保护者,Fleur是他的搭档。
本剧开始的时候,港湾堡已经失去了和母星地球的一切联系。然而一艘由神秘人Julius Berger(Eric Mabius扮演)驾驶的地球运输船突然出现在港湾堡的通讯范围内,重新燃起了拓荒者对地球的希望。随着运输船的临近,Tate总统开始变得焦躁不安。而这艘载着Stella的丈夫和女儿的飞船能否安全着陆,也成了一个未知之数。
与此同时,包括队长Mitchell(Jamie Bamber扮演)和队员Jack(Ashley Walters扮演)在内的探险队正在卡柏菲亚星球表面执行探索任务。他们要为港湾堡收集尽可能多的环境信息。他们会发现什么?这颗星球还有其他「主人」吗?
拓荒者由多种多样的人群组成,但他们都有一个共同点--他们远离了家乡、朋友和亲人,忘记了过去,获得了新生。他们努力工作,对未来充满理想,希望将卡柏菲亚打造成新的美好家园。然而他们能够逃避在地球上所犯的一切错误,却逃不掉人类与生俱来的欲望。他们很快发现,卡柏菲亚绝非一颗普通的星球。在卡柏菲亚高达的城墙之后,究竟隐藏着多少秘密?
比格斯夫人 (2012) [TV] Douban
Mrs Biggs
director: 保罗·惠廷顿 actor: Sheridan Smith / 丹尼尔·梅斯
“比格斯夫人”是一个真实存在的人物,她是英国臭名昭著的火车大盗Ronald Biggs背后的女人。本剧将有五集,讲述这个女人的心路历程,从一个天真少女被迫变成一个恶棍的情妇;从专横的父亲手中逃脱,体会自由与母性的美好。《比格斯夫人》向我们深入地展现了二十世纪最恶名昭彰的犯罪之一,但更重要的是为观众揭示了一段跨越三十余年、流传全世界的爱情故事。
Against the Law (2017) [Movie] Douban
Against the Law
director: Fergus O'Brien actor: 马克·加蒂斯 / 查理·科里德-米尔斯
other title: 法律之外
Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Public Enemies) stars in BBC Two's powerful factual drama as Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover Eddie McNally (played by newcomer to television, Richard Gadd), under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial.
More than ten years before the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967, Peter Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu (Mark Edel-Hunt) and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed.
With his career in tatters and his private life painfully exposed, Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality impacted on the lives of men like him.
Daniel says: 「I'm incredibly proud to be part of a drama that tells such an important real-life story. Peter Wildeblood is a fascinating, complex, yet flawed character from a time when being a gay man in Britain was incredibly difficult - I can't wait to bring his tale to life for the BBC Two audience.」
Patrick Holland, Channel Editor, BBC Two, said: 「50 years ago, it was a crime to be a gay man in the UK. Against The Law is a stunning piece that melds drama and documentary testimony to tell the story of one man, and his wider generation, as they struggled to make society accept their sexuality as non-criminal. It is brilliant to have a film that brings the authorship of Brian Fillis, the vision of director Fergus O'Brien, and the outstanding talent of Daniel Mays and cast to this important subject」
The drama also features Mark Gatiss (Taboo, Sherlock) as Wildeblood's prison psychiatrist, Doctor Landers and Charlie Creed-Miles (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders) as Superintendent Jones.
Woven through this powerful drama is real-life testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their "condition". There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All of these accounts serve to amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past, a past still within the reach of living memory.
Half Broken Things (2007) [Movie] Douban
Half Broken Things
director: 蒂姆·费威尔 actor: 佩内洛普·威尔顿 / 丹尼尔·梅斯
other title: 半碎之物 / 一地破碎
看门人Jean打碎了一只茶壶,里面装的是其他房间的钥匙,于是她无视聘用合同上的各项规定,用了庄园主人的东西,穿了主人的衣服,喝了主人的红酒,摇身一变成了主人。
Michael和Steph两个素不相识的人,因为一次对视,读出对方神情中的绝望,便将彼此视为仅存的一线希望,两人相约逃亡,Steph逃离得名正言顺,而Michael正好顺水推舟,畏罪潜逃。中途经过Jean临时看管的庄园,Steph又恰好临盆,于是就这样三个人一起住在庄园里。Michael和Steph各自躲避的人是不会找到这里了,而Jean的孤独生活也终于有了陪伴,庄园里一切应有尽有,包括游泳池。Jean, Michael, Steph, Steph的宝宝Matthew,曾经毫不相干的人在一起,如同完满的一家。
一切看似美好,然而。。。。。。
Fisherman's Friends (2019) [Movie] Douban
Fisherman's Friends
director: 克里斯·福金 actor: 詹姆斯·鲍弗 / 大卫·海曼
other title: 渔民的朋友
基于真实故事改编,讲述了来自康沃尔的十位渔夫意外被环球唱片公司看中并签约,他们的首张海洋棚屋专辑最终获得了十大热门畅销专辑......
Dad's Army (2016) [Movie] Douban
Dad's Army
4.9 (7 ratings) director: 奥利弗·帕克 actor: 凯瑟琳·泽塔-琼斯 / 比尔·奈伊
other title: 老爸上战场 / 老爹上战场
《老爸上战场》的主角是一群居住在英国小镇上的老爷子,他们的身份本是银行职员、小店老板。随着二战愈演愈烈,满怀报国热情的爷爷们没资格参加正规军,却自发组成志愿军团保家卫国,与德国间谍斗智斗勇。这支非正规军引起了媒体的主意,泽塔·琼斯饰演的女记者也来到小镇报道他们的故事。
My Dinner with Hervé (2018) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
My Dinner with Hervé
director: 萨沙·杰瓦西 actor: 彼特·丁拉基 / 詹米·多南
other title: 我与赫夫共进晚餐 / 与艾维共进晚餐
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
6.8 (10 ratings) director: 安南德·图克尔 actor: 大卫·莫瑞瑟 / 马克·阿蒂
other title: 血色侦程:1983 / 血迷宫:1983
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Born to Kill (2017) [TV] Douban
Born to Kill
7.4 (7 ratings) director: 布鲁斯·古迪森 actor: 西蒙·巴布 / 哈里·卡佩霍尔
主要讲述跟着单身母亲生活的青少年Sam发现自己内心越来越抑制不住杀人的欲望。他一直以为自己的父亲死了,但其实他的父亲是个杀人犯,被关进了监狱。同时,Sam还在学校爱上了一个女孩,但这个女孩似乎也不那么简单...
Inside No. 9 (9号秘事 第七季) (2022) [TV] TMDB Douban
Inside No. 9 Season 7 part of TV Series: Inside No. 9
8.2 (179 ratings) actor: 史蒂夫·佩姆伯顿 / 里斯·谢尔史密斯
The two brand new series will promise more fantastically twisted tales from the brilliant minds of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
The announcement comes ahead of the series five finale this evening (Monday 9th March 2020) on BBC Two at 10pm.
Since Inside No. 9 first launched in 2014, over 30 episodes have now been broadcast including the incredibly ambitious live episode Dead Line. The latest series has again received plaudits from fans and critics alike.
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton said: “Little did we know when we started Inside No. 9 in 2014 that we would end up with as many episodes of it as Countryfile. We are delighted and exhausted in equal measure at the prospect of two more series-worth of tall tales and fearsome fables. However, we will endeavour to showcase the very best of what the BBC can do in every genre with 30 minutes of story-telling and some half-decent wigs. We might even try a Countryfile episode, no one would expect that…”
Shane Allen, Controller, Controller, BBC Comedy Commissioning says: “With over 30 distinctive and dazzling shows to date, their ability to master and nail every genre of story-telling with brevity, invention and flair is unparalleled. Oscars have been won for less than Reece and Steve manage to conjure up with each original concept for every single show. Quite simply they have the most fertile minds in British comedy and god knows what magic the next series will bring.”
Josh Cole, Head of Comedy, BBC Studios says: “Reece and Steve continue to make and break all the rules of comedy in ever more spectacular and horrifying fashion, and we are delighted that the BBC have given us the opportunity to make two more series. To paraphrase the show itself, not since the escaped cow has there been such excitement. Long live Inside No. 9!”
Series six and seven will stay true to show’s anthology format with each series containing six brand new half hour films, each set in a different location. The style and tone changing each week, combining a different mix of horror, thriller, drama and comedy - always aiming to surprise, delight, unnerve and amuse.
As ever, a host of talented actors will join Reece and Steve, with series five including actors such as Jenna Coleman, David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Fionn Whitehead, Maxine Peake and Phil Davis. Series five also included a surprise Psychoville cross-over episode, Death Be Not Proud, which saw the unexpected return of fan favourites David and Maureen Sowerbutts and Mr Jelly.
Inside No. 9 series six and seven have been commissioned by Shane Allen, Controller, BBC Comedy Commissioning and Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two. The commissioning editor for the BBC will be Gregor Sharp and they will be executive produced by Jon Plowman with Adam Tandy as producer.