"It's very rare I've been able to get into the 20th century. When I turn from 1899 to 1900 I jump for joy. I did in Rebecca, I got into the '30's then. I have done some modern stuff but I'm so thrilled I over-act like crazy. I've got pockets! I'm so used to wearing tights all the time that when I put my hands in my pockets I nearly fall over. I'm so unused to playing a modern guy. It all started because I was a classical actor, I was trained that way. When I left drama school, I wanted to do Shakespeare, I loved the words, I really fell in love with them, I loved the sound of them. So, most of my training was classical..." --Jeremy Brett, in an interview
Four pictures were extracted from Carrie Pratt's Jeremy Brett WebSite. Appreciation also to Jeff Greenwalt, creator of the Tribute to Jeremy Brett, for allowing me to use six of his digital-taken photos of My Fair Lady for this section. Thank yous to Flavio U. for allowing me to use one of his photos from his Audrey Hepburn - L'Ange des Enfants site and also to Louise who has personally scanned and relayed five photographs, including a rare one from "A Picture of Dorian Gray", all the way from Sweden; plus informing me of three other photographs extracted from Mirror Syndication International and one other from Corbis Pictures! Wonderful thank yous to Mia Stampe of Denmark for personally scanning three beautiful photographs from her references and also to Tess for contributing two rare images from his title rôle in Macbeth. Also grand thanks to Violet of Australia for sending five rare photographs from The Good Soldier! Yet most profound thanks to Midden who personally scanned and relayed nine images of directly from her references. Again more thank yous to Linda Pritchard are sending a wonderful photograph from The Three Musketeers!
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War & Peace (1956)
"I was whisked off from Manchester to Rome and lived in a fantasy world for six months. At the end of the film, there was talk to taking me to Hollywood to groom me into a star..."
The Wild & the Willing (1962)
US title: The Young & the Willing
The Very Edge (1963)
"I remember playing a sex maniac in a British film called The Very Edge back in 1963. I had yellow eyes and green skin. My appearance so shocked my father that he said to me, 'If you're going to do such terrible films, will you make sure they don't come to the village..?'"
"A Picture of Dorian Gray" (1963)
For his title role in this production, Jeremy won the Daily Mirror Award for Most Promising Actor. However the year that it was given is questionable, references say 1961, but the production was not filmed until 1963.
My Fair Lady (1964)
Jeremy won the Blue Ribbon Award for his rôle of Freddie Enysford-Hill in 1965.Scene: An Rainy Evening at Covent Garden
Scene: The Ascot Gavoette
Scene: "On the Street Where You Live", Wimpole Street
Scene: "Speak/Show Me!", Wimpole Street
Behind the scenes on Stage 7 of Warner Bros Hollywood Studios, MFL director, George Cukor, converses with Jeremy.
"Armchair Theatre: 'Something to Declare'" (1964)
"Mystery and Imagination: 'The Lost Stradivarius'" (1966)
"The Three Musketeers" (1966-1967)
With Brian Blessed as Porthos and Jeremy Young as Athos, Jeremy played D'Artagnan, but only for a limited number of episodes. He was incidentally succeeded by Joss Ackland (who later played the villianous Jephro Rucastle with Jeremy's Holmes in Copper Beeches) in the follow-up series.
"The Merry Widow" (1968)
"The Merchant of Venice" (1973)
"Country Matters: 'An Aspidistra in Babylon'" (1973)
"[Jeremy and I] become friends before we worked together," recalls Jeremy Paul, two-time awarding-winning scriptwriter. "Then I adapted an H.E. Bates story, "An Aspidistra in Babylon", for a Granada series called "Country Matters" and Jeremy played the lead -- a kind of young lieutenant [actually a captain named Blaine] in barracks at Dover who seduces the local girl and then abondons her. This was in the early 'seventies. Working on this production secured our friendship, I guess. Although he did quite a lot of work in America during the 'seventies, we did meet from time to time. Actually we met up in the States at one point..."This production first premiere in the US in PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 1979.
"Haunted: The Ferryman" (1974)
"Classic Theatre: 'The Rivals'" (1975)
Classic Theatre was created by Joan Wilson and this episode was aired on PBS. Reportably, this was the first time Joanie and Jeremy worked together. Later the two were married in 22 November 1976.
"Piccadilly Circus" (1976)
An anthology WGBH series produced by Joan Wilson, Jeremy wrote and presented introduction to 14 British comedies, dramas and variety specials. The series was not a success, yet Jeremy had his highlights. Anthony Slide wrote, "one critic likened Brett's commentary to an actor auditioning for Ophelia..."
"Supernatural: 'Mr. Nightingale'" (1977)
Created and [mostly] written by Robert Muller and produced by Peter Rogers, this eight-episoded BBC anthology was set in a Victorian institution called The Club of the Damned that admits only those who can recount geniune stories of personal supernatural experience(s). Jeremy's episode was of a doppelgänger; it is a mythical monster from German folklore that chooses an innocent person and lurks in the shadows, observing habits, appearances, expressions, and idiosyncracies. As time passes, the doppelgänger starts to look like that person, and act like that person, and eventually becomes that person, without anyone noticing. Creepy!!Jeremy's rôle as Mr Nightingale in "Supernatural" should not be mistaken for his later rôle as William Nightingale in NBC's "Florence Nightingale" of 1984.
"Rebecca" (1978)
"L'Isola del gabbiano" (1980)
The English title is "The Secret of Seagull Island". Despite the fact the majority of the film was spoken in English, it is an Italian production, hence the original Italian title.
"The Good Soldier" (1981)
"Macbeth" (1981)
"Deceptions" (1984)
Mad Dogs & Englishmen (1995)
"I was mad one to do it, but I wanted to show the world that I was still alive and I could do other things apart from Sherlock Holmes. I hope they don't release it..."US title: Shameless
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