Richard E. Grant – Official Website

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Welcome To The REG Temple

The REG Temple is the official website for actor, author and director Richard E. Grant.

Richard has appeared in over 80 films and television programs, such as Withnail And I, The Scarlet Pinmpernel, Jack & Sarah, L.A. Story, Dracula, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Gosford Park & The Iron Lady. In 2005 he directed his first major release, Wah-Wah.

This website is unique in that it has been run and maintained by volunteers and fans since 1998. For more information on its origins, please click here.


Celebrity Pub Quiz

November20

20th November, 2002

The NDCS (National Deaf Children’s Society) held its first ever Celebrity Pub Quiz at the Counting House, part of the Fullers chain in February 2002. A host of celebrities attended such as Emma Thompson & Jim Broadbent. The event was such a success we decided to run it again with Richard E Grant, Bob Hoskins & Jane Horrocks all participating. This time the event launched a nationwide fundraising pub quiz challenge, which began in November and saw 130 Fuller’s pubs participating. Both these events were featured in the national press and celebrity magazines.

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Exclusive Grant Chaise Report

November20

Before my recent trip abroad I received a report from Denise about the “Grant Chaise” which had been made in honour of Richard’s role in Withnail And I by the funiture company Wesley-Barrell. Denise had been “dutifully dispatched” on official business by the Temple to report on how the Grant Chaise measured up in the showroom and also to snap off a picture or three of it of it there.

Well it’s better to be late than never, they say, and so here is Denise’s report along with a few pics.

If anyone would like to have their memories refreshed about how the Grant Chaise all came about you can read the article and see the official press release from Wesley-Barrell here Enjoy!

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The Hound On Canadian Television

November19

News from the Holmes website: The Hound will be shown in the US on Masterpiece Theatre on January 19th. The DVD will be released (US coding) on January 21st. You can pre-order it at this weblink. You can also pre-order the video from a few other established US video stores but the “release dates” may vary.

Barbara B. alerted me to a couple of short reviews of the movie in the Toronto Globe and Mail as the film was telecast on Canadian TV last night. The first review states:

The Hound of the Baskervilles (CBC, 8 p.m.) is a new, slick adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery. It will be the BBC’s big Christmas Day show. It’s good and gory, but odd. For a start, Watson (Ian Hart) is far more compelling than Holmes (Richard Roxborough). The monster hound is sometimes convincing and sometimes not. Richard E. Grant has a whale of a time stealing the thing as the archeologist Stapleton. If you’ve never read the story or seen a movie version, keep an eye on the shifty butler. It’s a British thing.

Another review from the website states:

“This remake of the classic Sherlock Holmes tale grabs you by the throat in the opening scene and never lets go. The first thing we see is the body of Charles Baskerville, frozen in a death mask of fear (and doesn’t he look suspiciously like John Cleese in a corpse cameo?) and the 100-year-old mystery begins to unfold one more time. One small trifle: Henry Baskerville, who’s been abroad farming in Canada, is played by Matt Day, who flattens his accent into an American drawl rather than a Canadian twang. Also starring are Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge) as Sherlock Holmes, Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) as Dr. Watson, Richard E. Grant, John Nettles, Geraldine James and Neve McIntosh.”

Also on the subject of Sherlock Holmes, I was contacted recently by Gavin Collinson who writes for “Sherlock – The Crime Magazine”. Gavin kindly sent me two reviews that he’d written to put up on the Temple. The first is one for the aformentioned Hound Of The Baskerviles which you can read here and the second is a review of Sherlock (A Case Of Evil) whick you can read here. Gavin also informed me that The Hound Of The Baskervilles is, in fact, Richard’s THIRD foray into the world of Sherlock Holmes – Having filmed “Encounters: The Other Side (tx 29.8.92)” way back in 1992! Apparently in this film REG plays a man believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. I’ve asked Gavin for more information on this film so stay tuned.

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REG Remembers His Piano Teacher

November18

“And just in case she sounds like some kind of dragon, you might like to know that she also taught me how to light a fart and laugh till my lungs ached. Somewhat unusual for someone thirty years older than myself in my experience.”

Yes, it’s time for yet another REG Temple Exclusive Report. Things have been somewhat slow at The Temple over the past month and a half (due to my vacation), but now things are back on track! To read REG’s Report, click here.

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Anita & Me, Baskervilles Fashion & Overseas Sightings

November17

REG attended the gala screening of “Anita & Me” a week or so ago which played to a packed house at the Odeon West End. To see some pics of REG and Joan arriving at the event, click here. Thanks to SueW. for sourcing these.

Meanwhile Jolie has sent me a short article and photograph about “The Hound Of The Baskervilles” from the November 2002 issue of the UK Vogue magazine. You can see that here.

And finally Joan from the REGiment has her own “six degrees of separation” (well OK…..three degrees really) in terms of a REG sighting. It comes via Joan’s workmate Alex who’s just had a friend return from South Africa (where they saw Richard in a restaurant.) You can read about it at the bottom of the page here.

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