#david calder

[pierppasolini]

The Meatrack (1970) // dir. Richard Stockton

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Rivals (TV Series) S1.E5 'Episode #1.5' (2024) - David Calder

Every time I see David Calder in something, I always think about his sex scene in The King is Alive (2000) with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

[4framesofentertain]

PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER | 2006

[camyfilms]

RUSH 2013

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel. It's a wonderful way to live. It's the only way to drive.

[pommedepersephone]

The Ides of March have come!

Stoop, Romans, stoop,

And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood

Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:

Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,

And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,

Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'

[local-blog-for-local-people]

Inside No. 9

Series 4, Episode 3 - Once Removed

[smokygluvs]

David Calder

Another great British actor. What can I say - love him in everything.

[mywingsareonwheels]

The 1995 “Henry IV” tv film and why we all need it

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113549/

Here’s the IMDB link. But I’ll tell you about it here anyway. :-)

It was a combined version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV parts 1 and 2, conflating the two rebellions down to one. It worked perfectly script-wise, I note: bringing in all my favourite roles from part 2 (Doll, Pistol, Shallow) while the main plot was more focused on that of part 1.

It also brought in a bit of extra dialogue from Merry Wives of Windsor and, notably, it had an introductory scene in which Hal and Hotspur, as boys, were playing at swordfighting, and then overheard the scene in Richard II where Richard hands over his crown.

They had FUN with all the sun imagery.

ANYWAY. The cast. The fucking cast.

Ronald Pickup (voice of Aslan in the BBC Chronicles of Narnia) as Henry IV. Jonathan Firth as Hal. David Calder (who not enough people have heard of) as Falstaff. Elizabeth Spriggs as Mistress Quickly. Corin Redgrave as Worcester. Jane Horrocks as Doll Tearsheet. Rufus Sewell as Hotspur. JOSETTE FUCKING SIMON as Kate Percy. Paul Eddington (in his last ever role <3 ) as Justice Shallow. Toby Jones also turned up in a really tiny role!

And, in that introductory scene, ROGER ALLAM AS RICHARD II.

I can find a few photos on the internet of Pickup and Firth and Calder. I can’t find any of anyone else. Roger Allam fandom especially: if we can find them we need them. Because that was it, that was the moment, aged 17, when I fell in love with his acting. He was on for a tiny amount of time and he fricking owned it all. And up against Pickup who was no slouch. <3

Anyway. Does anyone have this? Because if so: please do things with it. It’s great. :D  (CW: I do note however that while Calder is great and gorgeously complex, it’s not the least fatphobic portrayal of Falstaff ever. :-/ I mean some of that is always a thing because it’s sadly in the plays, but if you want a portrayal that doesn’t lean *too* much in that direction, you want Anthony Sher for the RSC or indeed Roger Allam for the Globe, both available in film forms.)