Graham Faulkner

Acting

Graham Faulkner

Born

1947-09-26 (79)

Place of birth

London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Graham Faulkner is a former British actor. His first and best-known role was as Francis of Assisi in Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972). After that, he virtually retired from acting. He played a small number of very minor roles but has not been involved in film or television since 1984. He left acting to find stable employment in order to support his family and has worked for a private British bank.

Known for

Dalgliesh poster
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Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.

Dalgliesh

1983

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Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

Churchill's People

1974

Dickens of London poster
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A 13-episode miniseries from Yorkshire Television, about Charles Dickens, by now an internationally renowned novelist, during an 1869 tour of America, looking back over his life.

Dickens of London

1976

Brother Sun, Sister Moon poster
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In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972

Shroud for a Nightingale poster
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When a nursing student with a penchant for petty extortion is fatally poisoned during a routine procedure, Commander Dalgliesh and Inspector Massingham must find out

Shroud for a Nightingale

1984

Notorious Woman poster
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Notorious Woman is a 1974 BBC miniseries about the life of French novelist George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin), starring Rosemary Harris in the title role, and focusing on her scandalous life, career, and relationships, particularly with composer Frédéric Chopin. The seven-episode drama, written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by Waris Hussein, won a Primetime Emmy for Harris's performance and explored Sand's defiance of 19th-century conventions, including her male attire and public cigar smoking.

Notorious Woman

1974

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