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David Roberts

Writer
Actor, Casting Director, Script Editor, Script Reader, Screenwriter, Director.
Great Britain, South East

About Me:

Where I work: justme
Technical Skills: Driving Licence, Cooking.

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Casting Details:

Appearance

Skills

My Work and Credits:

The Shadow Formula - Trailer (2012)

About: Trailer for a noir stage play, filmed guerrilla in one day in West London.

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Sweet and Lowdown, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Jaws, The Fisher King, Gangs of New York, No Country For Old Men, Tideland, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Fight Club, Fargo, The Dark Knight, Robot & Frank, Mirror Mask, Pan's Labyrinth, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Gone Baby Gone, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I cried watching:

Lots of films including Toy Story 3 and Leon.

I left the cinema during:

Never yet but I came close during Body Shots.

Directors I love:

Terry Gilliam, The Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Ben Affleck, Clint Eastwood.

Actors I admire:

Colin Farrell, Mercedes Ruehl, Daniel Day Lewis, Ian Holm, Charlize Theron, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kirsten Dunce, Peter Dinklage, Harry Lloyd, Jerome Flynn, Charles Dance, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Terry Crews, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Tom Hardy, Frances McDormand, Brendan Fraser, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Simon Pegg, Cate Blanchett, Cristopher Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem.

Writers I Respect:

Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, etc, Sylvester Stallone, David Mamet, Scarlett Tomas, Ken Kesey

My desert island discs:

Spiro, Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Classical, Ben Folds, Radiohead, Pulp, Procol Harum, Django Reinhardt, The Imagined Village, Of Monsters and Men, Astor Piazzolla, Queen, The Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Tom Waits.

Books I have given my friends:

The End of Mr Y, The First World War, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Abarat, Perfume, No More Heroes.

My death row meal:

The entire menu from the Fat Duck

The best thing I own:

My own home, (if you ignore the mortgage)