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Scandal (1989 film)

Index Scandal (1989 film)

Scandal is a 1989 British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo Affair that rocked the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. [1]

63 relations: Alex Norton, Aloysius Gordon, Angel Heart, Bayswater, BBC, Bob Weinstein, Bridget Fonda, Britt Ekland, Carl Davis, Channel 4, Christine Keeler, Daniel Massey (actor), David Profumo, Deborah Grant, Docudrama, Dusty Springfield, Guarantee (filmmaking), Harold Macmillan, Harvey Weinstein, Iain Cuthbertson, Ian McKellen, Jean Alexander, Jeroen Krabbé, Joanne Whalley, Joe Boyd, John Hurt, John Profumo, Johnny Edgecombe, Johnny Shannon, Keith Allen (actor), Leon Herbert, Leslie Phillips, Lewis Morley, Mandy Rice-Davies, Marylebone, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, Michael Caton-Jones, Miniseries, Miramax, Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, Nik Powell, Nothing Has Been Proved, Paul Brooke, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Biskind, Peter Bradshaw, Peter Rachman, Profumo affair, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Ralph Brown, ..., Robert Maxwell, Roger Ebert, Roland Gift, Ronald Fraser (actor), Rotten Tomatoes, Stephen Ward, Stephen Woolley, Val Kilmer, Valerie Hobson, William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, X rating, Yevgeny Ivanov (spy), 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Expand index (13 more) »

Alex Norton

Alexander Hugh Norton (born 27 January 1950) is a Scottish television, film and voice actor.

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Aloysius Gordon

Aloysius "Lucky" Gordon (5 July 1931 – 15 March 2017) was a British-based Jamaican jazz singer who came to public attention during the Profumo Affair.

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Angel Heart

Angel Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir horror film based on William Hjortsberg's 1978 novel Falling Angel.

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Bayswater

Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bob Weinstein

Robert "Bob" Weinstein (born October 18, 1954) is an American film producer.

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Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is a retired American actress.

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Britt Ekland

Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer.

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Carl Davis

Carl Davis CBE (born October 28, 1936) is an American-born conductor and composer who has made his home in the United Kingdom since 1961.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Christine Keeler

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and topless showgirl.

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Daniel Massey (actor)

Daniel Raymond Massey (10 October 193325 March 1998) was an English actor and performer.

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David Profumo

David John Profumo, FRSL (born 20 October 1955), is an English novelist.

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Deborah Grant

Deborah Grant (born 22 February 1947) is an English actress.

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Docudrama

A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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Guarantee (filmmaking)

In filmmaking, a guarantee, or informally a "pay-or-play" contract, is a term in a contract of an actor, director, or other participant that guarantees remuneration if the participant is released from the contract without being responsible.

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Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.

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Harvey Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer.

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Iain Cuthbertson

Iain Cuthbertson (4 January 1930 – 4 September 2009) was a Scottish character actor.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Jean Alexander

Jean Mavis Hodgkinson (11 October 1926 – 14 October 2016), known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress.

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Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Aart Krabbé (born 5 December 1944) is a Dutch actor and film director who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1963 including Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), The Living Daylights (1987), ''The Fugitive'' (1993) and Transporter 3 (2008).

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Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974.

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Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd (born August 5, 1942) is an American record producer and writer.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years.

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John Profumo

John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, CBE (30 January 1915 – 9 March 2006), was a British politician whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961.

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Johnny Edgecombe

John Arthur Alexander "Johnny" Edgecombe (22 October 1932 – 26 September 2010) was a British jazz promoter, whose involvement with Christine Keeler inadvertently alerted authorities to the Profumo Affair.

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Johnny Shannon

Johnny Shannon (born 29 July 1932) is an English actor who appeared in numerous television and film productions over a 40-year period, often playing policemen or crooks in crime dramas..

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Keith Allen (actor)

Keith Howell Charles Allen (born 2 September 1953) is a British actor, comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, artist, author, and television presenter.

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Leon Herbert

Leon Herbert is a British actor, director, writer and producer.

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Leslie Phillips

Leslie Samuel Phillips, (born 20 April 1924) is an English actor who came to prominence in films in the 1950s, acting as a suave charmer with an exaggerated upper class accent, in the style of Terry-Thomas.

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Lewis Morley

Lewis Frederick Morley (16 June 1925 – 3 September 2013) was a photographer.

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Mandy Rice-Davies

Mandy Rice-Davies, formerly named Marylin R Davies, (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014) was a British model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (or, both appropriate for the Parish Church of St. Marylebone,,, or) is an affluent inner-city area of central London, England, located within the City of Westminster and part of the West End.

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Mervyn Griffith-Jones

John Mervyn Guthrie Griffith-Jones, CBE MC (1 July 1909 – 13 July 1979) was a British judge and former barrister.

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Michael Caton-Jones

Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957 in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish film director.

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Miniseries

A miniseries (or mini-series, also known as a serial in the UK) is a television program that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Nik Powell

Nik Powell (born 4 November 1950) is a British businessman and one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group with Richard Branson.

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Nothing Has Been Proved

"Nothing Has Been Proved" is a song and a single release by British singer Dusty Springfield, written and produced by Pet Shop Boys.

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Paul Brooke

Paul Brooke (born 22 November 1944) is a retired English actor of film, television and radio.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Peter Biskind

Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.

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Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw (born 19 June 1962) is an English writer and film critic.

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Peter Rachman

Perec "Peter" Rachman (1919 – 29 November 1962) was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Profumo affair

The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.

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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, (9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001), who held the title 2nd Viscount Hailsham from 1950 to 1963, was a British politician known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing.

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Ralph Brown

Ralph William John Brown (born 18 June 1957) is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies.

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Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991), born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, was a British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP).

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roland Gift

Roland Lee Gift (born 28 May 1961) is a British singer, songwriter and actor.

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Ronald Fraser (actor)

Ronald Fraser (11 April 1930 – 13 March 1997) was an English-born Scottish character actor, who appeared in numerous British plays, films and television shows from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Stephen Ward

Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.

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Stephen Woolley

Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956 in London) is an English film producer and director.

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Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.

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Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson, Baroness Profumo (Italy),(14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998), was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

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William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor

William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (13 August 1907 – 7 March 1966) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.

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X rating

In some countries, X is or has been a motion picture rating reserved for the most explicit films.

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Yevgeny Ivanov (spy)

Captain Yevgeny Mikhailovich Ivanov (Евгений Михайлович Иванов; 11 January 1926 – 17 January 1994), also known as Eugene Ivanov, was a naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London during the early 1960s, and was also engaged in espionage.

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1989 Cannes Film Festival

The 42nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1989.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal_(1989_film)

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