Tim Plester

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Tim Plester
Plester in 2021
Born
Timothy Marc Plester

(1970-09-10) 10 September 1970 (age 53)
Oxfordshire, England
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Actor, playwright, filmmaker

Timothy Marc Plester (born 10 September 1970) is a British actor, playwright, and filmmaker, best known for the documentaries Way of the Morris and The Ballad of Shirley Collins - plus a multifarious number of cameo roles for film and TV.

Early life and education

Born and raised in

Birmingham University
.

Career

Plester's award-winning documentary

SXSW 2011[2] and received a limited theatrical release in UK cinemas before being released on DVD. Co-directed with Rob Curry and produced independently by Fifth Column Films,[3] the feature-length documentary includes contributions from Billy Bragg, Fairport Convention's Chris Leslie and members of The Adderbury Village Morris Men. It was selected by the UK Film Focus as one of the "Breakthrough" British films of 2011. Plester and Curry are also responsible for the short field-recorded documentary Here We’m Be Together (which premiered at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival). The Ballad of Shirley Collins, the duo's feature-length film about the iconic English folk-singer Shirley Collins, premiered at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival). Partly funded by a successful kickstarter campaign, the film also screened at the Rotterdam international film festival and CPH:DOX in Denmark. Southern Journey (Revisited), Plester and Curry's third feature-length documentary together, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2020 and was screened on Sky Arts in the autumn of 2021. Other work together includes Hillbilly Homilies, a profile piece on the Appalachain poet Maurice Manning, and The Battle Of Denham Ford, which won a Special Mention in the UK Competition at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021. The directing duo are currently working with the illustrator and land-rights campaigner Nick Hayes
on an adaptation of his best-selling book, 'The Book of Trespass'.

1-2-3-4 Plays, published in 2020 (cover design by Holly Wales)

Plester's writing credits for film include Ant Muzak (2002), a short film directed by Ben Gregor and starring

JFK-inspired beat poem Et In Motorcadia Ego! and the award-winning 15-second film Slapphappy[4], which premiered at the Belfast Film Festival
in 2008.

Winner of the 1992/93 'National Student Playwright Of The Year' award, Plester has writing credits for the theatre including: Dakota (

Edinburgh Festival
1995 and National Tour 1996); Mad Dog Killer Leper Fiend (Edinburgh Festival 1996 and London's Man In The Moon Theatre 1997); and Yellow Longhair (London's Oval House Theatre 2000). A collection of his stageplays 1-2-3-4 Plays was published in September 2020.

Plester's many and varied acting credits for TV and film include:

Black Walder Rivers in the HBO series Game of Thrones[5][6] and the homeless junkie Julian in After Life.[7]

In 2018, he played Roy Thomas Baker, Queen's producer, in the film Bohemian Rhapsody. In September 2019, he appeared in an episode of Doctors as Martin Taylor. In 2020, he appeared as Mark in the independent Icelandic feature film Backyard Village. Plester has also appeared in three episodes of Mackenzie's Crook's re-booted version of Worzel Gummidge for the BBC.

References

  1. ^ "An interview with Tim Plester, director of Way of the Morris". www.ameliasmagazine.com. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Way of the Morris". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Way of the Morris - directed by Tim Plester & Rob Curry". www.fifthcolumn.org.uk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  4. ^ "'15 Second Film Festival' - "The Cinema of Distraction" featuring 'The Mini Mogul' Cinema | Slaphappy".
  5. ^ "Meet the New Game of Thrones Characters of Season Three". vulture.com. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  6. ^ "North Four: INTERVIEW: Game of Thrones Actor and Filmmaker Tim Plester". www.northfour.co. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  7. ^ Sanusi, Victoria (8 March 2019). "After Life cast: who stars with Ricky Gervais in new Netflix series – and where else you've seen them". iNews. Retrieved 8 April 2019.

External links

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