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Eric Colvin

Actor
Great Britain, East England

About Me:

Agent: Nic Knight Management
Website: EricColvin.co.uk
Where I work: justme
Technical Skills: I'm an actor and can devise, write (proof read flawlessly), drive, ride a bike - or horse - fall, punch, parry, stab, shoot, dance and sing (none too badly). I've also edited vid and sound, fiddled with FX, plotted and rigged lights, and will always help out wherever. I'm not precious; not a luvvie. I don't harp on about professionalism; there's no such thing - you're either devoted to the whole illusory craft, or you're a poseur. I get my hands dirty. But MOST OF ALL, I bring belief and inner life to scripts or impro so that the camera will capture reality. I'm tireless; I love the work.

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Agent:

Nic Knight Management

The Black and White Building, 74 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3AY
Tel: +44 (0) 208 527
Email:

Casting Details:

Status: Professional

Appearance

Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Blue
Ethnicity: White
Height: 172cm
Build: Medium
Playing Range: 40-50
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Union: Equity
Spotlight Link: http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/M55741.html
Other Info:

BADC Fight Certificate, Level 1 (painful memories).

Clean driver's license.

Skills

Native Accent: Oxford RP
UK Accents: Essex dialect, London, Brum, North Yorkshire, Glasgow, Edinburgh.
US Accents: Standard American, New York, West Coast, Southern States
International Accents: Canadian, French, German, Dublin, Derry, Belfast.

Locations:

Based In: Chelmsford, Essex. 35 mins from Liverpool St.
Country of Origin: UK (colonial forebears: West Indian; and Canadian - by way of Lebanon!)
Willing to work in: You cover expenses, I'll come to you wherever.

My Work and Credits:

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Genius (2017)

About: Episode 1 - directed Ron Howard (who produced the series).
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No Sweat (1996)
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The Payoff (1996)
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Janus (1997)
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Way Out (1997)
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The Black Monk (Chekov) (1998)
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Hobgoblin (2000)
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The Thirteenth Sign (2000)
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The Bracket (2001)
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Dust (2001)
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Dangerous Toys (2003)
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Come Outside (2003)
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Broken (2006)
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Eric's Montage (2003)

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

Third Man, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Shining, Taxi Driver, Godfather, Clangers, Noggin the Nog, the usual shit... Cidade de Deus, Downfall, Festen, Paradise Now, Moloch, Solntse (The Sun), Deer Hunter, Russian Ark, The Return, Lepa Sela Lepo Gore, Stalker, Pulp Fiction, Dusk till Dawn, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog, Spirit of the Beehive, Dead Man, La Mort en Direct (DeathWatch 1980), Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Night Dawn Day and Shaun of the Dead (...the list is endless)

I cried watching:

The Fast and The Furious (truly, painfully, shite)

I left the cinema during:

"AI": wrong screen (went there to see Amores Peros); twice would have been more than once too often; let's just say it takes a long time to end. That's gotta be the only time. I don't leave. There's always something to think on; I'm a patient man.

Directors I love:

Kubrik, Coppola, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Cronenberg, Tarkovsky, Wenders, Herzog, Haneke, Trier, Meirelles, Sokurov, Farhadi, Cohen Bros, bros Dardenne, even Spielberg (when he doesn't start with his self-indulgent, I-had-a-damaged-childhood schmalz), Meadows, Eriksson, Kingfisher, Acton, Mason, Sautkin.

Actors I admire:

De Niro, Pacino, Dreyfuss, Burton, Brando, Christie, Cotton, Streep, Caan, Depp, Pitt (I could go on); Si Nobbers, Dave Plows...

My desert island discs:

Joni Blue, JM Bless The Weather, JM Solid Air, Bob most, Dire Straits... Faure Requiem, Mozart Gran Partita, Sibelius 5th

Books I have given my friends:

The Long Emergency, Life Inc, Finn, Catch 22, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fight Club, Slaughterhouse 5, Shipping News, The Joke, Heart of Darkness, Karain a Memory, Of Mice and Men, Omeros, Sam Bangs & Moonshine, Where the Wild Things Are, Peter and the Wolf

My death row meal:

Horrible thought. I know the Oklahoma bomber opted for a litre of ice cream. Kinda sad, really. Death is not necessarily a terrible thing - particularly when it sustains life - but the taking of life for revenge is pathetically dehumanising for all involved. I admire Americans, so it puzzles me why so many go in for it.

The best thing I own:

Wisdom and compassion - these things are slow to accumulate, and simply can't be bought.