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Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy was born and still currently exists. He is best known for his voiceovers on LOVEFiLM's TV ads, making him part of an exclusive club which includes Ewan McGregor and Simon Pegg.
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Questions for Bill Nighy -
23 July 2009
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-From Love Actually and Valkyrie, to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Boat That Rocked, Bill Nighy is something of an acting legend. So, in anticipation of his latest release, G-Force – starring Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz and Nicolas Cage – LOVEFiL
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Valkyrie: Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard interview -
8 June 2009
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-We caught up with LOVEFiLM favourites Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard to talk about WWII drama and Tom Cruise vehicle, Valkyrie. Based on true events, it sees Nighy and Izzard play German Generals embroiled in a trap to kill Hitler. They gave us the lowdown on the
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Nighy opts out of sex scenes -
25 March 2009
-Actor Bill Nighy has never filmed a sex scene for a movie - because he is too embarrassed by his body to ever strip off on camera.-
-The 59-year-old star has enjoyed a long and varied career, beginning in theatre and going on to land high profile roles in movies in
Bill Nighy - what members say
Bill Nighy - filmography
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Astro Boy
(2010)
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron
Director: David Bowers
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Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma. Powered by positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in ..read more »
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61%
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Glorious 39
(2009)
Starring: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
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1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of ..read more »
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G-Force - BLU-RAY Version
(2009)
Starring: Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Nighy
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
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Two time Oscar-winning visual effects artist Hoyt Yeatman makes his feature directorial debut with this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced family film following a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world. Beginning in the Civil War -- ..read more »
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66%
from 11 members
Due for release on 30th November 2009
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The Boat That Rocked
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost
Director: Richard Curtis
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Writer-turned-director Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY, NOTTING HILL) directs a cast comprising the cream of British acting talent - which includes Bill Nighy (NOTES ON A SCANDAL, LOVE ACTUALLY), Rhys Ifans (NOTTING HILL, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS), Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) and ..read more »
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from 9,413 members
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Hot Fuzz - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Bailey
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
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77%
from 1,424 member
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Hot Fuzz - BLU-RAY Version
(2007)
Starring: Anne Reid, Steve Coogan, Nick Frost
Director: Edgar Wright
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Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
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76%
from 681 members
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Hot Fuzz
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Bailey
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
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73%
from 88,152 members
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Meerkat Manor - Series 3
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Bill Nighy
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This nature series follows the lives of a family of meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert. With complicated relationships and rivalries more akin to a soap opera, the show captures these endearing, but often brutal, creatures as they battle over territory, struggle for power, and squabble with ..read more »
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82%
from 39 members
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Underworld: Evolution
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran
Director: Len Wiseman
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The Underworld saga continues as hunted Vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) seeks out Marcus (Tony Curran), king of the Vampires, in the hope of bargaining for her life. Hybrid Michael (Scott Speedman) wants to join Selene in her quest but is unable to trust the werewolf raging uncontrolled inside him,..read more »
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64%
from 50,679 members
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Stormbreaker
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Alex Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent -- scuba diving, mountaineering, martial arts and so on. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his ..read more »
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60%
from 25,778 members
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Stormbreaker - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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Based on the first in the series of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novels, STORMBREAKER tells the story of a teenager who is enlisted by MI6 in order to save the world. This action-packed blockbuster features a star-making turn from Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider; a pint-sized super spy to rival James ..read more »
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51%
from 325 members
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The Constant Gardener
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose previous film, City of God, won awards all over the world and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars has crafted another highly entertaining yet important film. Beautifully shot in Kenya, Germany, Sudan, Manitoba, and London, The ..read more »
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70%
from 74,928 members
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def
Director: Garth Jennings
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The long-awaited film version of Douglas Adams' THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, based on his five-book series, is a funny, wacky, highly creative ride through a bizarre universe. Martin Freeman (Tim from THE OFFICE) stars as Arthur Dent, a British everyman suddenly thrust into intergalactic ..read more »
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54%
from 61,185 members
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Shaun Of The Dead - BLU-RAY Version
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ..read more »
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81%
from 378 members
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Shaun of the Dead - HD DVD Version
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Pub regular Shaun certainly needs a drink. He's fallen out with his Mum and his girlfriend's dumped him. Determined to get his sad life back on track, he decides to pull himself together only to be confronted with an unexpected obstacle, an unrelenting swarm of suburban living corpses. Who'd've ..read more »
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79%
from 831 members
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Shaun Of The Dead
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Director: Edgar Wright
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Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ..read more »
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71%
from 87,875 members
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He Knew He Was Right
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Geoffrey Palmer
Director: Tom Vaughan
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A tale of paranoia and obsession, HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT tells the tale of Louis Trevelyan, a man convince of his wife’s infidelity with a cad colonel. In an attempt to monopolise his wife’s attention, Trevelyan hires a shady private investigator to kidnap his son, leading to unimaginable consequences.
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69%
from 476 members
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Underworld - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly
Director: Len Wiseman
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In UNDERWORLD, a dark and Gothic monster action movie, vampires and lycans--an ancient form of werewolf--are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs, the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave. Both teams are equipped with big guns, and ..read more »
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72%
from 1,154 member
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Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
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70%
from 268 members
Not available for rental
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Underworld
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly
Director: Len Wiseman
Certificate:
In UNDERWORLD, a dark and Gothic monster action movie, vampires and lycans--an ancient form of werewolf--are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestors' tombs, the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave. Both teams are equipped with big guns, and ..read more »
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65%
from 38,840 members
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I Capture The Castle
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Henry Thomas, Rose Byrne, Romola Garai
Director: Tim Fywell
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British period piece romance film fans should rejoice over I CAPTURE THE CASTLE, a film that earns its emotional payoffs, and manages to avoid the many clever and cloying traps that befall many of its brethren. Based on the novel by Dodie Smith, the tale surrounds an artistic family living in 1930s ..read more »
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62%
from 4,510 members
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Love Actually
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
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67%
from 76,589 members
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Lawless Heart
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Douglas Henshall
Director: Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger
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Three men who have led very different lives are reunited by the funeral of a mutual friend in this second feature film from writing-directing team Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger (BOYFRIENDS). Stuart's accidental death leads his brother-in-law, his boyfriend, and his best friend to reconsider some of ..read more »
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60%
from 788 members
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Blow Dry
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Paddy Breathnach
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The British Hairdressing Championship is coming to the small Yorkshire town of Keighley. The Mayor (Warren Clarke) is ecstatic--but initially the townspeople are underwhelmed. The exotic models and their even more exotic hairdressers arrive--among them reigning champion, Ray Robertson (Bill Nighy). ..read more »
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59%
from 1,316 member
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Lucky Break
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: James Nesbitt, Timothy Spall, Olivia Williams
Director: Peter Cattaneo
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Small time villains Jimmy and Rudy are caught doing a bank raid and are put in HM Prison Long Rudford. Whilst there they hatch an escape plan which involves them staging the prison governor's musical 'Nelson'. But events take a turn for the worst when Jimmy falls in love with his co-star, support ..read more »
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57%
from 633 members
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Guest House Paradiso
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Vincent Cassel
Director: Adrian Edmondson
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Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, co-creators and stars of BOTTOM, present this bawdy comedy starring themselves as Eddie and Richie Twat (pronounced Thwaite), the owners of the Guesthouse Paradiso, a foul, malodorous Hotel in a permanent state of disrepair and situated next to a nuclear power plant...read more »
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57%
from 3,371 members
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Still Crazy
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail
Director: Brian Gibson
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A satire of 70's era rock-and-roll about the reunion of Strange Fruit, a band that probably shouldn't have formed in the first place. Connolly (MRS. BROWN), Mike Leigh regular Spall, British chart-topper Nail, and the always-reliable Rea round out a talented ensemble cast in this distinctly ..read more »
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69%
from 1,653 member
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Hitler's SS
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: David Warner, Bill Nighy, Jose Ferrer
Director: Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard
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Brother against brother in this gripping saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich, portraying the rise of the Nazi regime through the experience of two ordinary brothers who find themselves on opposite sides during the second world war. Helmut the brilliant but opportunistic student, and Karl, ..read more »
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51%
from 95 members
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State of Play Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy
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Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before revelations of their ..read more »
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from 3,329 members
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The Girl In The Cafe
on DVD
Starring: Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald, Ken Stott
Director: David Yates
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When civil servant Lawrence meets a mysterious young lady in a cafe, his life is instantly transformed as he embarks upon a whirlwind romance. Taking her to a meeting of the G8 Summit, their love continues to blossom in the icy conditions of Reykjavik...
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61%
from 4,399 members
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Bill Nighy facts
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Nighy's one actually 14 February 2004
...I took a look at this film in the hazy afterglow of Bill Nighy's performance as the naked civil popster in Love Actually. I don't know how I missed it first time round, b...
A Classic 4 April 2004
A gem of a film 15 November 2004
