Dan Leno
Born | December 20, 1860 |
Hometown | London, England |
Spouse | Sarah Lydia Reynolds (actress) (m 1884 - 1904) |
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Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn’t! Is the panto dame still a suitable cause for mirth?
- Fire the glitter cannons! Unleash the water pistols! The panto season is here. But how did the cross-dressing dame become so central to the tradition? And in an age of gender fluidity, should we still be laughing?
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The Limehouse Golem trailer: Bill Nighy hunts a serial killer in dark period thriller
Enjoy travelling back in time to the dark alleyways and teeming slums of Victorian London? Then new thriller The Limehouse Golem, based on Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, could be right up your (fetid, blood splattered) street. The film, directed by Juan Carlos Medina and scripted by Jane Goldman, tells the story of detective John Kildare (Bill Nighy), who must track down a brutal serial killer in the riverside Limehouse district of London in the late 19th century
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The Limehouse Golem trailer: Billy Nighy and Daniel Mays star in fabulously creepy horror
There are some other suspects, however, including music hall star Dan Leno, novelist George Gissing and the great political philosopher Karl Marx. The trailer gives a good sense of how screenwriter Jane Goldman (The Woman in Black, Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class) and director Juan Carlos Medina (Painless) have recreated the gothic Victoriana atmosphere of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, the 1994 novel by unofficial London laureate, Peter Ackroyd.
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The Limehouse Golem trailer goes on the hunt for a sinister Victorian killer
The Victorian murder mystery is a genre awash with potential thrills and chills, and The Limehouse Golem intends to take full advantage. Adapting Peter Ackroyd's novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, director Juan Carlos Medina is bringing to screen a crime film of epic Dickensian proportions, set around a series of gruesome murders in London's Limehouse district. Inspector Kildaire (Bill Nighy), however, is on the case, in a film which brings in fictionalised versions of historical characte
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