berkoff films

Films have transported me to many lands, but then I have usually been a passenger on someone else's carpet

Berkoff acts in films, television and advertisements to subsidise his theatre work. He is usually typecast as the villain. His performances in the roles are professional and enjoyable (Rambo) and where he is allowed to play other characters (Revolution) he excels. After Beverly Hills Cop Berkoff could have cultivated a lucrative career in films. But he had little interest in such films other than subsidising his theatre work. The cinema's loss is our gain.

Berkoff´s character Harry in his short story Agent (from Graft) says "most films had little space for such quixotic creatures as actors. Characters were now divided into two archetypes in the Hollywood lexicon; ´good guys´ or ´bad guys´...everything is reduced to primary colours...as Shakespeare's weapon was verse, the film's weapon was the gun. It would severely strain their imagination to make a film without one".

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		early films The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw I Was Monty's Double The Captain's Table The Devil's Disciple The Flesh and the Fiends Konga Prehistoric Women Vendetta for the Saint
		1970s Nicholas and Alexandra A Clockwork Orange The Passenger Barry Lyndon Joseph Andrews
		1980s Absolute Beginners Beverly Hills Cop McVicar Octopussy Outland Prisoner of Rio Rambo Revolution Transmutations Under the Cherry Moon
		1990 The Krays Intruders Fair Game Flynn Another 9 1/2 weeks Legionnaire
		early 2000s Rancid Aluminium Beginner's Luck Bokshu The Myth Steal/ Riders Nine Dead Gay Guys Shadow of the Sword / Headrush Charlie
		later 2000s Head in the clouds Brides Naked in London Headsman Forest of the Gods The Flying Scotsman The Half Life of Timofey Berezin The 10th Man
		lost films Blue Velvet Eyes Wide Shut Zeppelin
television
		early tv The Champions Dixon of Dock Green Softly Softly An Enemy of the State The Pistol Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word... Hamlet Murder in the Cathedral Corrigan Blake The Saint The Avengers Crime and Punishment
		1970-1980s Coming out of the Ice Beloved Enemy The Professionals UFO
		1990s War and Remembrance La Femme Nikita BrassEye Space Precinct Star Trek: Deep Space Nine A Season of Giants Sins
		early 2000s The Wickedest Man in the World Crime Doubles Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale Jonathan Creek Reggie Kray- The Last Word Atilla Randall and Hopkirk (deceased)
		later 2000s New Tricks Hotel Babylon Alive: Back to the Andes By the Pricking of my Thumbs It's a Boy Seven Wonders of the Industrial World Children of Dune Broken Morning
		filmed: Berkoff's plays on film Coriolanus Decadence East Greek, the opera Harry's Christmas Metamorphosis Salome Shakespeare's Villains Silent Night The Tell-Tale Heart The Trial West Stanley Kubrick: a Life in Pictures East End through the Ages Berkoff´s Macbeth Metamorphosis and the Judgement The Trial
		other N-Trance, The Mind of the Machine Cabaret Wittgenstein for beginners Sexus Killzone

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