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Corrie: The Road to Coronation Street Coronation Street is the world's longest-running TV soap opera currently in production, having started in 1960 and still going strong. This drama look at the struggle to get the show started. It is directed by Charles Sturridge. Berkoff plays Sidney Bernstein, the head of Granada Television who has to be convinced the series is worth doing. Berkoff is good in the role.
The 10th Man Not Graham Greene's late novel about France under the occupation but a short ten minute Jewish comedy in the East End. Directed by newcomer Sam Leifer in 2006. Berkoff plays Red Jack Weinbaum. You can see the film here.
A police informant comes back to town after 18 years, and an old case is reopened. Berkoff is the guest star playing Ray Cook, a best selling author (his book is titled Hardest Geezer in Town) who talks in cockney rhyming slang. Is he the actual criminal? Berkoff does his standard working-class-henchman-made-good-through-crime role. Series 3 episode 6.
The BBC series about the problems in a five star hotel. Berkoff is to testify against gangsters so is kept in the hotel under guard by the police. A hit-man comes after him. The writer is Tony Basgallop. Series 1 episode 8. Predictable but fun.
Alive: Back to the Andes 2006
A Channel 5 documentary with Berkoff the voice narrator. The three part documentary recreates the journey of survivors after the Andes plane crash.
Part of an Agatha Christie Miss Marples series. Berkoff plays Freddie Eccles. The script is by Stewart Harcourt and the director is Peter Medak. Berkoff worked with Medak on The Krays previously. Geraldine McEwan plays Miss Marple and the cast also includes Claire Bloom and Charles Dance.
A cartoon film made by a Christian charity to tell the story of Jesus to schoolchildren. It was sent free to 26000 schools in Britain. The director is Julian Tewkesbury and screenplay is by Alexa Tewkesbury. The film is 30 minutes long and cost £200,000. The bible story is told by three birds (quails). Berkoff does the voice for King Herod. The advert says "Some quails only dream... others dare to believe".
Happy the Man 2003 Berkoff provides the voice-over. Any other information is welcome.
A dramatised documentary series, Berkoff appears in the episode about the Brooklyn Bridge as John A. Roeblinh, the architect and man behind the bridge. But just as building was about to start, he died, and his son continued the work. Berkoff used the knowledge he gained from doing the documentary to update his play Sit and Shiver, where one character talks of the building of the bridge.
Berkoff plays Stilgar in the six hour television mini-series based on Frank Herbert's Dune novels. Filming was in Prague. Directed by Greg Yaitanes.
Broken Morning 2003 A dramatised documentary with Ciarán Hinds as Albert Camus. Catherine McCormack, Freddie Jones and Struan Rodger appear alongside Berkoff playing the mayor. Directed by Jack Bond. |
New Tricks 2006
Hotel Babylon 2006
By the Pricking of my Thumbs 2006
It's a Boy 2005
Seven Wonders of the Industrial
World
2003
Children of Dune 2003
