Keith Skinner

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keith Skinner (born 1949) is a British actor who worked in cinema and television. His career began when he starred as Bruno in the 1966 film Mademoiselle, and more notably perhaps in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet as Balthasar, Romeo's manservant and trusted friend. He appears at various stages in the film including galloping on horseback to tell Romeo (played by Leonard Whiting) of Juliet's "death" and accompanies Romeo back to Verona again on horseback towards the end of the film. Skinner starred in one episode of The Jazz Age in 1968, he played Harry Lampton in five episodes of the early seventies' TV series Man at the Top, as well as appearing in three episodes of Z Cars from 1969 to 1972. He went on to appear in an episode of Play for Today, one episode of Out of the Unknown in 1971, in two episodes of So it Goes in 1973, in two episodes of Beryl's Lot (1973-1976) and then in 1976 in the film The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella. In 1977, Skinner played the obsessed boy in the TV mini series Jesus of Nazareth. In 1980, he starred in John Loesser's musical Guys and Dolls. In 1985, Skinner appeared in an episode of Doctor Who. In 2001, Skinner worked on the film From Hell as an historical consultant. In 2004, Skinner gave up acting and is now a crime historian. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Skinner, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting

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Mademoiselle

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A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

The Slipper and the Rose

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Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the Prince to wed no matter what. When the Prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the Prince is determined to find and marry her.

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The Slipper and the Rose

Willoughby

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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

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Dramatically portraying the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the film reveals the conditions of virtual slavery which persisted throughout the Middle Ages, and the weaknesses of the feudal system; its oppressive tax structure, its cruelty and its social inequality

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Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

Richard II

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Is That Your Body, Boy

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Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.

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Is That Your Body, Boy

Miller

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Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

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When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

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Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

Rondel

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The Right Prospectus

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A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.

Taste of Evil

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Stephen Chambers, a new master of Warby Stones school for the 'ultra-intelligent boys', finds strange things happening to him. Reason tells him that they must be linked with the boys' Psychic Phenomena Club.

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Taste of Evil

Sinclair