Peter Chelsom

Peter Chelsom

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Peter Chelsom (born April 20, 1956) is a British actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and Hannah Montana: The Movie Chelsom was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, the son of antiques shop owners Kay and Reginald Chelsom. He studied at the Central School of Drama in London. He worked as an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as taking part in numerous film and television productions including A Woman of Substance which also included Jenny Seagrove and Deborah Kerr. While acting he developed a growing interest in writing and directing. From 1985-1998 he ran the television film course at Central School of Drama and later taught at both the Actor's Institute and Cornell University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Chelsom, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Peter Chelsom
  • Popularity: 0.3653
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1956-04-20
  • Place of Birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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Peter Chelsom Movies

  • 1980
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    The American Success Company

    The American Success Company

    4.93 1980 HD

    A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.

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  • 1979
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    School Play

    School Play

    1 1979 HD

    Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

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  • 1980
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    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    6 1980 HD

    Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."

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  • 1983
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    An Englishman Abroad

    An Englishman Abroad

    5.65 1983 HD

    Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

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  • 2017
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    The Space Between Us

    The Space Between Us

    7.049 2017 HD

    A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

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  • 1985
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    Star Quality

    Star Quality

    5 1985 HD

    Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.

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  • 1985
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    Christmas Present

    Christmas Present

    2 1985 HD

    A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor family.

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  • 1982
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    Intensive Care

    Intensive Care

    1 1982 HD

    When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.

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  • 2004
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    Shall We Dance?

    Shall We Dance?

    6.4 2004 HD

    A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

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  • 2001
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    Town & Country

    Town & Country

    4.38 2001 HD

    Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.

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  • 2001
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    Serendipity

    Serendipity

    6.951 2001 HD

    Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.

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  • 1998
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    The Mighty

    The Mighty

    7.229 1998 HD

    Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.

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  • 1995
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    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones

    6.5 1995 HD

    Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.

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  • 1995
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    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones

    6.5 1995 HD

    Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.

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  • 2021
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    Security

    Security

    5.521 2021 HD

    After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

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  • 2009
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    Hannah Montana: The Movie

    Hannah Montana: The Movie

    6.581 2009 HD

    When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet niblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for some ol' blue jeans on the family farm in Tennessee, and question if she can be both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana.

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  • 1991
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    Hear My Song

    Hear My Song

    5.8 1991 HD

    Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

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  • 1970
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    The Beauty of Sharks

    The Beauty of Sharks

    1 1970 HD

    Written by Rob Green with rewrites by Chelsom and Tinker Linsday, the pic, set in 1958, follows Mrs. Joy Hamilton, a recently widowed American socialite on the brink of ending her life when she sees the chance to avenge a famous millionairess, whose son she raised as her own. Believing the son to be dead, Mrs. Hamilton recruits a handsome gigolo to be the imposter in a dangerous confidence trick.

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  • 2014
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    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    6.689 2014 HD

    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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  • 2021
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    Security

    Security

    5.521 2021 HD

    After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

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  • 2024
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    A Sudden Case of Christmas

    A Sudden Case of Christmas

    5.695 2024 HD

    An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there’s not going to be a family Christmas this year, she insists on everyone making it out for Christmas in August. Claire, in collusion with her grandfather, plan activities that are designed to re-unite her parents.

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  • 2024
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    A Sudden Case of Christmas

    A Sudden Case of Christmas

    5.695 2024 HD

    An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there’s not going to be a family Christmas this year, she insists on everyone making it out for Christmas in August. Claire, in collusion with her grandfather, plan activities that are designed to re-unite her parents.

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  • 2019
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    Berlin, I Love You

    Berlin, I Love You

    4.8 2019 HD

    An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

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  • 2014
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    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    6.689 2014 HD

    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

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  • 1995
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    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones

    6.5 1995 HD

    Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.

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  • 2017
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    The Space Between Us

    The Space Between Us

    7.049 2017 HD

    A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

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  • 1991
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    Hear My Song

    Hear My Song

    5.8 1991 HD

    Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

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  • 1970
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    The Boy Who Knew Too Much

    The Boy Who Knew Too Much

    1 1970 HD

    From about the age of 2, Christian Haupt began an obsession with baseball, insisting on wearing a baseball uniform and talking about his experiences of being a pro ballplayer in the 1920s and ’30s, only to have his career cut short and dying soon after. The youth, who’s considered a baseball prodigy, convinced his family that in that former life he was Hall of Fame New York Yankees slugging first baseman Lou Gehrig.

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  • 1991
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    Hear My Song

    Hear My Song

    5.8 1991 HD

    Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

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  • 1987
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    Treacle

    Treacle

    1 1987 HD

    Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.

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  • 1987
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    Treacle

    Treacle

    1 1987 HD

    Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.

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  • 2021
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    Security

    Security

    5.521 2021 HD

    After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

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  • 1985
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    A Woman of Substance

    A Woman of Substance

    7.188 1985 HD

    The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to respected business woman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years, she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds.

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  • 2006
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    Psych

    Psych

    7.9 2006 HD

    Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

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  • 1974
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1974 HD

    A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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