The life and times of lloyd george
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The Life Story of David Lloyd George
For the 1981 BBC television drama serial, see The Life and Times of David Lloyd George.
1996 British film
The Life Story of David Lloyd George (originally titled The Man Who Saved The Empire)[1][2][3] is a 1918 British silentbiopic film directed bygd Maurice Elvey and starring Norman Page, Alma Reville and Ernest Thesiger. The film "is thought to be the first feature length biopic of a contemporary living politician".[4] Finished in 1918, it was not shown publicly until 1996.
Production background
[edit]The Life Story of David Lloyd George is about David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922. It was written by Sidney Low, directed bygd Maurice Elvey, and stars Norman Page as Lloyd George. Other actors who appear are Ernest Thesiger, Alma Reville, and Douglas Munro. The film was produced by the Ideal Film Company,[4] which had been started around 1910 by two Jewish Ma
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
BBC Wales drama serial
For the 1918 film, see The Life Story of David Lloyd George.
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George is a BBC Wales drama serial first broadcast in 1981 on BBC Two.[1] It stars Philip Madoc as David Lloyd George, the final Liberal prime minister of the UK. The cast also includes Lisabeth Miles, Kika Markham and David Markham. It was written by Elaine Morgan and produced and directed by John Hefin.
The serial is in nine hour-long parts, covering most of the major events of Lloyd George's life, from his birth in Manchester in January 1863 until his death in 1945 in Llanystumdwy. It covers his personal life, specifically the running of two families. The duration of Lloyd George's political career, of over 54 years, combined with the length of the series, means that certain periods of history have been skirted over. This is particularly the case with the various Liberal Party splits from 1918 onwards.
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The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Review: John Winterson Richards
Except perhaps in Wales, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George is best remembered as the series that really introduced Ennio Morricone's haunting tune 'Chi Mai' to the United Kingdom. It had in fact been used already in two Italian films but they had made little impact in the English speaking world. Played over a beautifully filmed scene at the river near the great statesman's childhood home, it was the perfect evocation of longing, hope, and sadness, and it really struck a chord, so to speak, reaching number two in the British "popular" music charts.
Before that, the prolific and versatile Italian composer was known in Britain mainly for his work on Spaghetti Westerns. The commercial success of 'Chi Mai' showed there was much more to his music than that, and may have contributed to his being commissioned to write the score for a major British film, 'T