Chris Sanders Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Chris Sanders
Acting
Biography
Sander's career begins in the 1970s with main characters in series The Siege of Golden Hill (1975) and A Bunch of Fives (1977). During the first half of the 1980s, he only could work as a recurring character in another TV series, Angels (1982), and then work in a minor role in TV movie Monsignor Quixote, starring Alec Guinness. Sanders acted then in guest appearances for the rest of the 1980s, and in minor roles in movies like Dead Lucky and Bellman and True. Sanders worked on non-blockbuster movies, including TV Witchcraft, and making guest appearances in different TV series, of which is of notice Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean. In 1999, Sanders voiced Neimoidian lieutenant Daultay Dofine for The Phantom Menace; however, Dofine's character would be played by a different actor on-screen,Alan Ruscoe who also played Bib Fortuna and Plo Koon. On the same year, Sanders played another voice for Disney's TV movie Tarzan (also featuring Brian Blessed). For Tarzan, Sanders voiced a baby baboon. Since then, Sanders seems to have returned to his usual guest appearances for TV, as he did in Two Thousand Acres of Sky.
Filmography Movies
Acting
The Changeling
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Dead Lucky
Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax.
Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
In 1977 the Old Bailey saw the start of the first trial for blasphemy in this country for over half a century. Begun by Mary Whitehouse against the homosexual newspaper Gay News, it ended in a conviction, heavy fines and a suspended prison sentence for the editor. An appeal is pending. Was this prosecution an attack on free speech? Or was it a necessary defence of the principle that, even in a permissive society, some things must remain sacred? This dramatised documentary reconstructs the crucial moments of this historic trial, and explores the issues it raises. Peter France questions the people on both sides, including Mary Whitehouse and Denis Lemon, Editor, Gay News, about their actions and reactions during the case.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
Funny Farm
Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward.
Atlantis
Goff and Lytton have a dream – a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways. The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
Love and Death
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.