Joseph Beattie
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Joseph Beattie is an English
actor
, known for portraying Malachi in the second season of Hex
and Henry Crawford
in Mansfield Park
.
in Hampstead
and later trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
. He is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre
.
(1994), and won a role in Velvet Goldmine
(1998) while still at Guildhall. He has also appeared in the direct-to-video
film Volcano: Nature Unleashed
(also called Volcano or The Volcano Disaster), as Antonio, and Brideshead Revisited
(2008), as Anthony Blanche.
On television, Beattie's first lead role was that of Flashman in the 2005 ITV
adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays
. His other television credits include Colditz, Malice Aforethought
, Hex
, Mansfield Park
and Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye. He played Eric Visnjic in the television pilot
Fast Track: No Limits, written by Lee Goldberg
.
Beattie's stage work includes a Covent Garden Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
, playing Puck
.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, known for portraying Malachi in the second season of Hex
Hex (TV series)
Hex is a British television programme developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel. The story is about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it...
and Henry Crawford
Henry Crawford
Henry Crawford is one of the main characters in Jane Austen's 1814 novel, Mansfield Park. He is depicted as a man who only attempts to amuse himself, and at the end is proven to be a reprobate.-First Arrival to Mansfield Park:...
in Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park (2007 TV drama)
Mansfield Park, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name, premiered on 18 March 2007 on the UK network ITV at 9 p.m., as part of their Jane Austen Season. It was filmed at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire, England. It made its TV debut in Canada on 23 December 2007 and in the...
.
Background
Beattie attended King Alfred SchoolKing Alfred School
The King Alfred School was founded in London, England, in 1898.The school was radical for its time in that it provided a secular education and that boys and girls were educated together.-Aim:...
in Hampstead
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...
and later trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England. Students can pursue courses in Music, Opera, Drama and Technical Theatre Arts.-History:...
. He is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre
National Youth Music Theatre
The National Youth Music Theatre or NYMT is a UK organisation for young people in the field of musical theatre, based in London. It runs acting auditions, workshops, and musical theatre productions...
.
Career
Beattie made his film debut in The Browning VersionThe Browning Version (1994 film)
The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. The film is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan, which was previously adapted for film under the same name in 1951.-Plot:...
(1994), and won a role in Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...
(1998) while still at Guildhall. He has also appeared in the direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...
film Volcano: Nature Unleashed
The Volcano Disaster (film)
The Volcano Disaster is a 2004 Bulgarian direct-to-video film by First Look Studios....
(also called Volcano or The Volcano Disaster), as Antonio, and Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited (film)
Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial.-Plot:Although he aspires to...
(2008), as Anthony Blanche.
On television, Beattie's first lead role was that of Flashman in the 2005 ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 film)
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 2005 television film adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name. It was released on January 1, 2005 and released on DVD 9 days later.-Plot:...
. His other television credits include Colditz, Malice Aforethought
Malice Aforethought
Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story",...
, Hex
Hex (TV series)
Hex is a British television programme developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel. The story is about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it...
, Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park (2007 TV drama)
Mansfield Park, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name, premiered on 18 March 2007 on the UK network ITV at 9 p.m., as part of their Jane Austen Season. It was filmed at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire, England. It made its TV debut in Canada on 23 December 2007 and in the...
and Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye. He played Eric Visnjic in the television pilot
Television pilot
A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...
Fast Track: No Limits, written by Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg
Lee Goldberg is an American author, screenwriter and producer, known for his work on several different TV crime series, including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, Martial Law, She-Wolf of London, SeaQuest, 1-800-Missing, The Glades and Monk...
.
Beattie's stage work includes a Covent Garden Festival production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, playing Puck
Puck (Shakespeare)
Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck. Puck is a clever and mischievous elf and personifies the trickster or the wise knave...
.
Television
| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Seesaw Seesaw (novel) Seesaw, is a 1996 novel by English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1996 by Heinemann and recommended in OUP's Good Fiction Guide.-Plot introduction:... |
Theo Price | Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| 2004 | Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999... |
Robert Pullman - The Heart of the Matter (2004) - Baptism of Fire (2004) - Under Pressure (2004) - Pastures New (2004) - Past Caring (2004) - Night Fever (2004) |
Medical drama Medical drama A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the... |
| 2005 | Tom Brown's Schooldays Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 film) Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 2005 television film adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name. It was released on January 1, 2005 and released on DVD 9 days later.-Plot:... |
Flashman Harry Paget Flashman Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser , but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes .... |
Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| Colditz | First Lieutenant Johnny Barnes | Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
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| Malice Aforethought Malice Aforethought Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves. It is an early and prominent example of the "inverted detective story",... |
Denny Bourne | Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
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| Vincent Vincent (TV series) Vincent is an ITV drama series. An initial series was made and aired in 2005 and starred Ray Winstone, in the title role, and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they need to keep tabs on. The four part series also... |
Ian Harper - Episode 1.2 (2005) |
Crime drama Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several... |
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| Egypt | Charles Irby - The Temple of the Sands (2005) |
Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
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| Hex Hex (TV series) Hex is a British television programme developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel. The story is about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it... |
Malachi | Supernatural Supernatural The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature... drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a... |
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| 2007 | Mansfield Park Mansfield Park (2007 TV drama) Mansfield Park, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name, premiered on 18 March 2007 on the UK network ITV at 9 p.m., as part of their Jane Austen Season. It was filmed at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire, England. It made its TV debut in Canada on 23 December 2007 and in the... |
Henry Crawford Henry Crawford Henry Crawford is one of the main characters in Jane Austen's 1814 novel, Mansfield Park. He is depicted as a man who only attempts to amuse himself, and at the end is proven to be a reprobate.-First Arrival to Mansfield Park:... |
Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
| 2008 | Fast Track: No Limits Fast Track: No Limits Fast Track: No Limits is a 2008 independent film directed by Axel Sand. The film was written and produced by Lee Goldberg who is known for his work on Diagnosis: Murder and Monk, and was as a co-production between Action Concept and the German television network ProSiebenSat1... |
Eric Visnjic | |
| 2009 | Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye | Vivian Dubois | Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to... |
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Browning Version The Browning Version (1994 film) The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. The film is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan, which was previously adapted for film under the same name in 1951.-Plot:... |
Wilson | |
| 1998 | Velvet Goldmine Velvet Goldmine Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy... |
Cooper | |
| 2005 | Blood on Benefits | Short film Short subject A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all... |
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| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited (film) Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously had been adapted in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial.-Plot:Although he aspires to... |
Anthony Blanche |