Spencer Leigh
Birthday: 1963-01-01
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Biography: Born in Liverpool, Spencer Leigh is an actor who first came to prominence in the 1980s as Icky Higson in the Willy Russell series One Summer. Face Magazine called him one of the Brit Pack actors, alongside the likes of Tim Roth, Colin Firth and Gary Oldman, tipping him for international fame. However Leigh favoured arthouse overall, and worked almost exclusively with Derek Jarman in a series of the auteur's films from the mid '80s through to his death. Moving to the States Leigh commenced a secondary career directing TV commercials and resurfaced in 2012, taking the part of Nunzio in Hitchcock.
Movies
Aria
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
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The Garden
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, p...
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Depuis le Jour
Derek Jarman's interpretation of the aria 'Depuis le jour' from the final act of Gustave Charpentier...
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Caravaggio
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Carava...
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War Requiem
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him i...
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Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...
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Smart Money
Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the ...
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Hitchcock
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choi...
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The Last of England
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than p...
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Strapless
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger s...
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